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Stephen Gately’s Cause of Death
Posted in Music Bands on the October 14, 2009
According to the Mirror, Stephen Gately died from complications of drinking in excess. The Boyzone singer was discovered dead by his partner Andy Cowles in his Majorca apartment kneeling against the sofa with his face buried in the pillow. It is being said that he died in his sleep when he choked on his own vomit after drinking at a club until 6AM. Stephen will be greatly missed. His band mate, Ronan Keating talked about his friend saying “I’m devastated. I can’t believe it’s real. We’ve lost a best friend and a brother. Stephen was loved by every one of us. He was one of the most caring, compassionate and gentle people I’ve known.”
Drama in Aerosmith Land
Posted in Aerosmith, Music, Music Bands on the October 13, 2009
It seems that Aerosmith’s recording and touring break aren’t just because of lead singer Steven Tyler’s injuries from a recent stage accident. His ego can also be blamed. According to the band’s guitarist Joe Perry, Steven has not spoken to the rest of the band since the accident in August. If he does have to communicate, he does it through his new management team. Steven and Joe haven’t even written a song together for the past 10 years! For a band that’s been together for over 40 years, that’s just cold. Joe is staying optimistic that the band will be back on its feet though saying “I think we need more time to get everybody healthy and the whole thing, and see if Steven wants to be part of the band again.”
Coldplay in the Clear of Plagiarism
Posted in Coldplay, Music, Music Bands, Singer on the September 21, 2009
Earlier this year, the guys of the band Coldplay found themselves in a sticky situation when guitarist Joe Satriani accused singer Chris Martin and the rest of the band of plagiarizing his song and creating ‘Viva La Vida’. Just this past week, the victory was sweet and perhaps costly for the UK band as a judge announced that the lawsuit has been dismissed upon stipulation which suggests that they settle the matter out of court. I can only imagine what a pretty penny it cost to have that guy keep quiet about everything. I bet that Joe is probably getting a huge cut off of the song’s profits.
The Reason for the Oasis Split
Posted in Music, Music Bands, Oasis on the September 3, 2009
The sudden departure of Noel Gallagher from Oasis last weekend has left fans wondering just what happened between the two brothers in the band. Noel and Liam Gallagher have always been known for their volatile relationship, but a recent comment from the latter regarding Noel’s daughter, Anais, was reportedly the last straw. Liam allegedly suggested that Noel wasn’t the real father of the 9-year old kid. An insider close to the situation said “It was a dumb thing to say. They had a big fight when he made the gag. Noel went for him. He was in a blind fury. And he still hasn’t calmed down.” Noel considered the comment as unforgivable, which led to his abrupt departure from the band last Friday.
Pussycat Dolls Break Up
Posted in Music Bands, Pussycat Dolls, Rumor on the August 7, 2009
According to one member of the Pussycat Dolls, their gig as a band is already up. Ashley Roberts broke down in front of fans recently as she tearfully fled from her London hotel. The singer was quoted as telling the people outside the hotel “This is the last time we’ll be in the UK as a band. We’ve broken up. We’re sorry.” There have been rumors going around for a while now that the group will be seeing their end soon due to their fighting. However, the group’s spokesperson adamantly refuted the breakup and was quoted saying “The girls are still together.”
Green Day Premieres Video for New Single “21 Guns”
Posted in Green Day, Music Bands, Song, Teen Choice Awards, Top List, Video, album on the June 22, 2009
Green Day has just premiered the video for their new single, “21 Guns,” exclusively on MySpace Music. The video was helmed by noted director Marc Webb, who has lensed clips for such artists as My Chemical Romance, Weezer, and All-American Rejects, and is making his feature film directorial debut in July with (500) Days of Summer.
“21 Guns” is the second single from the band’s latest album 21st Century Breakdown, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, as well as on the Rock, Active Rock, and Alternative charts, fueled by the Alternative radio No. 1 single “Know Your Enemy.” 21st Century Breakdown, which Rolling Stone has called “a rock opera in which the rock always comes first,” also topped the charts in 24 countries including the UK, Canada, and Japan.
Over the past month, Green Day has continued to work with MySpace Music for the promotion of 21st Century Breakdown. During the week of the album’s release, they played an exclusive concert in New York City which was filmed for the site’s premiere online concert program, The List. The performance can now be seen on The List’s official MySpace profile.
This year’s show will take place at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 9th, and air the next day, Monday, August 10th, on FOX at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Fans can vote for Green Day at http://www.teenchoiceawards.com/.
Green Day, which is singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool, are preparing to launch their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years. The tour runs from July 3rd through August 25th. Please visit http://www.greenday.com/ for more details.
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Metallica VS Metallica
Posted in Fashion, Metallica, Music Bands, Usher on the October 11, 2008
Nothing in life is free, unless you’re famous. But even freebies can put you in trouble as Metallica’s bass player is finding out. The band’s bassist, Robert Trujillo, is in the middle of a serious legal battle. He had an existing promotional deal with Fernandes Guitars in North Hollywood. For being able to use his likeness in advertising, the company was giving Robert a pile of custom basses. However, Metallica has its own promo deal with ESP Guitars and now that Robert is part of the band, their lawyers have slapped Fernandes with a cease and desist letter demanding that they no longer use Robert or Metallica’s name or likeness.
Jonas Brothers Do a Lot of Good
Posted in Jonas Brothers, Music Bands on the August 10, 2008
The Jonas Brothers partnered up with Bayer Diabetes Care is a press conference at the W Hotel in New York City on Wednesday to encourage young people to proactively manage their diabetes. The youngest of the group, 15-year old Nick has this condition. The Jonas Brothers continue to be a popularity juggernaut with fans doing all sorts of crazy things just to get a piece of them. And who would be surprised? With how popular they are in the music scene, their good looks and not to mention, their good hearts, the boys are pretty much the most eligible young bachelors around.
Burning Up Verizon - The Jonas Brothers
Posted in Jonas Brothers, Music Bands, Ringtones, Video on the July 15, 2008
The Jonas Brothers are burning up with Verizon Wireless as customers who download the band of brothers’ songs, purchase ringtones or ring back tones from their V Cast-capable phones will be entered to win a pair of mobile tickets to see them in concert. Kevin said “We are totally excited to kick off our ’Burning Up’ tour with Verizon Wireless. We look forward to connecting with our fans in cool, new ways through their mobile phones and, of course, in person at our shows very soon.” Verizon Wireless customers can also use V Cast Video to view 10 exclusive episodes of ‘Band in a Bus’ which follow the band at work and play.
Coldplay Gets Delayed
Posted in Coldplay, Concert, Music Bands, Tickets Sale, World Tour on the June 15, 2008
Reports are saying that Coldplay has been forced to postpone the start of their North American tour by 2 weeks due to some so-called production delays. The tour will now kick off in LA on July 14th. The band’s tour was supposed to wrap up in Chicago on August 4th but will instead come to an end that same day in Boston. Tickets for the thrown out dates will be valid for the new ones and refunds are also available at points of purchase. There’s an updated itinerary posted on Coldplay’s website. The band’s previously announced free shows in London on June 16, Barcelona on June 17 and New York on June 23 will go on as planned.
Girls Talk Aloud
Posted in Girls Aloud, Lily Allen, Music, Music Bands, Performance on the June 7, 2008
According to the British media, BBC has offered girl group Girls Aloud their very own 8 part chat show which is said to be called ‘An Audience with Girls Aloud’. The deal they made is reportedly worth $1 million. A source revealed that “The girls are yet to sign, but they have all agreed to it. They would each be paid £20,000 ($40,000) per show. The band is going strong and they all want to commit to it 100 per cent.†BBC has been making singers into talk show hosts recently. Let’s just hope that the girls don’t turn out like Lily Allen. But then again, they’re much more likable than Lily anyway.
A Model’s Gene Jacket
Posted in Gene Jacket, Music Bands, Music Festivals, Singers on the May 19, 2008
Supermodel/pop star cartoon character Jem might have been reincarnated in Agyness Deyn. A British music magazine, NME, is reporting that the model loved collaborating with the band Five O’Clock Heroes so much that she has formed her own band called Gene Jacket. Agyness said “We’ve got three or four songs, we wrote a really cool song at Coachella actually, which was exciting. It’s called ‘Hotel’. Well we originally wrote and recorded it in Japan, then added bits at the festival. It sounds like The Vaselines, maybe like Animal Collective. Just sounds, experimenting with stuff.†Her solo stuff sounded quite good so I’m expecting to hear some good stuff from her band too.
Tokio Hotel “Ready, Set, Go!†LIVE on MTV
Posted in MTV, Music Bands, Performance, Tokio Hotel, Video on the May 17, 2008
Tokio Hotel not only rocked a performance of “Ready, Set, Go!†LIVE on MTV’s TRL but they also reached the coveted number one spot on the countdown! Fans lined the streets and packed the studio to catch the band’s first ever TV appearance in the U.S. and now you can see it here.
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Jonas Brothers on DWTS
Posted in Dancing With the Stars, Jonas Brothers, Music Bands, Music Review, Myspace on the March 30, 2008
The Jonas Brothers took the stage of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ on Tuesday to perform their hit song ‘When You Look Me in the Eyes’ and a cover of the 80s hit ‘Take on Me’. 20-year old Kevin, 18-year old Joe and 15-year old Nick took the time to post a bulletin on MySpace before the show. They said that they were dedicating their performance to a good friend who passed away unexpectedly on Monday night. The band of brothers left the dedication saying “We are dedicating our performance of ‘When You Look Me in the Eyes’ in honor of Stephanie. We will see you in ETERNITY!â€
Velvet Revolver Comes to an End
Posted in Concert, Music, Music Bands, Velvet Revolver on the March 27, 2008
This may be the beginning of the end for Velvet Revolver as the band’s front man Scott Weiland and drummer Matt Sorum don’t seem to be getting along well lately. At a show in Glasgow, UK last Thursday night, Weiland shocked the crowd and his band mates by announcing that they were “watching something special… the last tour by Velvet Revolver.” According to reports, the rest of the band was in disbelief. Sorum then unleashed some heated comments on his blog about not getting along with Weiland and Weiland not knowing how good he has it. Weiland then issued a statement to Blabbermouth mainly putting down Sorum’s accomplishments as compared to his.
Jonas Brothers Rock
Posted in Jonas Brothers, Live Music, Music Bands, Photos on the March 24, 2008
The Jonas Brothers rocked the audience when they performed live on ‘The Early Show’ at the Hard Rock Café in Times Square, New York on Friday. The band of brothers did the thing that they do best on the CBS special in front of a national audience. If you weren’t able to catch that, catch them when they perform on the results show of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ on Tuesday. And if you’re still not able to catch that, there is the current tour that they’re on and there’s also another tour lined up for this summer. Lots of Jonas to go around!
Jonas Brothers Rock the Future
Posted in Jonas Brothers, Music Bands, Performance, Record Label, Rock on the February 21, 2008
20-year old Kevin, 18-year old Joe and 15-year old Nick, collectively known as the Jonas Brothers, performed at the Chevy Rocks the Future event at the Buena Vista Lot at The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California on Tuesday. Chevy introduced its lineup of gas-friendly and gas-free vehicles as well as new green technology at the event.
Those Jonas boys just love being nice. Nick said “Being eco-friendly is important to us. We worked with our record label to come up with the first-ever CD-VU+ format, a 100-percent recyclable package.” I never even knew such a thing existed in the music industry.
New Jonas
Posted in Album Release, Concert, Jonas Brothers, Music Bands, Pop Music on the January 10, 2008
Good news for all the teenyboppers of the world. The Jonas Brothers are releasing a new album this year. Their latest effort is set to be released this summer, specifically on July 8th. Their record is once again being produced by John Fields who supervised the sound boards for the brothers’ platinum self-titled debut album.
If you’re wondering just how they’ve been recording their album when they’re on a big tour with Miley ‘Hannah Montana’ Cyrus, the boys have actually been recording on their tour bus. I predict that they will totally eclipse Miley once their new album is out.
Leona Lewis is Still on Top
Posted in Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Debut Album, Girls Aloud, Hip-Hop, Jodie Aysha, Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey, Music Bands, Music Chart, Music People, Music Review, New Single, R&B, Rap Music, Rock, Shayne Ward, Singers, Soulja Boy, Take That, Timbaland on the December 11, 2007
Leona Lewis’ ‘Bleeding Love’ continues to reign over the UK singles’ charts. The list was announced on Sunday and it marks the seventh week that Leona has been on top. The X-Factor winner’s debut CD ‘Spirit’ is also at the top spot of the albums’ chart and it’s been there for the last four weeks.
But ‘Bleeding Love’ is facing some stiff competition this holiday season. The rest of the singles chart, in order, is made up of T2 featuring Jodie Aysha with ‘Heartbroken’, Girls Aloud with ‘Call the Shots’, Timbaland with ‘Apologize’, Take That with ‘Rule the World’, Alicia Keys with ‘No One’, Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse with ‘Valerie’, Mariah Carey with ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’, Shayne Ward with ‘Breathless’ and Soulja Boy with ‘Crank That (Soulja Boy)’.
Nicole Kills the Pussycat Dolls
Posted in Album Release, Music, Music Bands, Music People, Music Review, Nicole Scherzinger, Pussycat Dolls, Singers, Solo on the December 5, 2007
Nicole Scherzinger is about to come out with her solo album. Actually, it was supposed to come out long ago but it just wasn’t cutting it so they had to push back the release.
Either way, the other girls in the Pussycat Dolls must hate her right now. It’s not so much about her going solo but more because of what she said in an interview about working on a new PCD album. She sounded less than enthusiastic when she said “For me, I’m excited to do my stuff, because sometimes less is more. Right now I’m going to focus strictly on ‘Her Name Is Nicole’, but when the time is right, we have some PCD fans out there so we’ll maybe do another Pussycat Dolls album.”Kill!