Album sales Still down (15 percent) Track sales Still down (13 percent) Mid-year record-business sales numbers gloomy And record-label revenues according to the Recording Industry Association of America have dropped by $23 billion since 2001 But there’s good news! Artists’ royalty payments have dropped by only $134 million during the past 13 years At least […]
In a loose lengthy and at times emotional press conference this morning in Nashville Garth Brooks confirmed his expected comeback announcing a new album and world tour While the bulk of the information shared was kept intentionally vague Brooks said he has partnered with Sony Music’s RCA Records to distribute…
In March 1990 the Grateful Dead teamed up with jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis for a concert at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum where they jammed together for most of the set One standout from that set is the group’s funky 14-minute take on “Estimated Prophet” the lead track on the Dead’s…
“Who are you going to blame the star of the game or the no-name girl in the freshman class?” Canadian singing sensation Kira Isabella sings in “Quarterback” a song about a young girl who loses her virginity – and her dignity – at the hands of a football player who…
Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has credited Iggy Pop and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee with helping him stay sober in a new interview with Kerrang! (via NME) Years of heavy drinking caught up with Whibley earlier this year when his liver and kidneys collapsed leaving him hospitalized for a…
The Kinks are refuting a new BBC Radio 2 documentary that once again alleges the long-debunked myth that Jimmy Page played on their 1964 hit “You Really Got Me” Find Out Where the Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’ Ranks on Our List of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time “BBC tells…
U2 formed in Dublin as teenagers in 1976 Between 1980 and 1985 they released four albums (Boy October War and The Unforgettable Fire) On July 13th 1985 seemingly every major rock act on Earth played the Live Aid concert for African famine relief hosted primarily in Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium and London’s Wembley…
Long before he rebranded himself as a chart-topping country singer Darius Rucker built his reputation as “Hootie” the baritone-voiced frontman of Hootie & the Blowfish The group specialized in pop songs disguised as bar-band tunes — or was it the other way around? — with Rucker at the forefront singing…
Alex Ebert frontman for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros hasn’t stopped moving — even though the band is on a brief break from its summer tour the first without singer Jade Castrinos Between relocating to New Orleans and scoring a new film by director JC Chandor the songwriter is…
“Beautiful Son” is the great forgotten Hole single It was released when Courtney Love’s band was best known for the unholy squall of Pretty on the Inside (At that point Love herself was probably best known for having married Kurt Cobain) “Beautiful Son” anticipated the gut-punch power of Hole’s Live…
