Iron Butterfly Bassist Lee Dorman Dead at 70
December 22nd, 2012 No comments »
Lee Dorman bassist for Iron Butterfly died on Friday at the age of 70 the Associated Press reports According to a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department Dorman was found dead in a vehicle on Friday morning and may have been on his way to a doctor's appointment Dorman was...
Beres Hammond Strikes Reggae Gold at 57
December 22nd, 2012 No comments »
Beres Hammond has never been one of reggae’s most recognizable artists internationally but in the singer’s native Jamaica he enjoys an iconic status just a few notches below that of Bob Marley A specialist in intimate love songs often told from the viewpoint of the blue-collar "common" man Hammond has...
Tate Stevens on Winning ‘The X Factor’ Season Two: ‘It’s Still Very Surreal’
December 21st, 2012 No comments »
Last night country singer Tate Stevens was crowned the Season Two winner of The X Factor walking away with a $5 million recording contract and a Pepsi-produced video that will premiere on the Grammys in February The Belton Missouri native who was a member of mentor LA Reid's Over 25s...
Ravi Shankar Honored in Memorial Service
December 21st, 2012 No comments »
About 700 people gathered yesterday in Encinitas California to say goodbye to world music pioneer and sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar Reuters reports Shankar's daughters Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar and Olivia Harrison the wife of late Beatles guitarist George Harrison were among those at the public memorial service "He completely...
Jackson Browne, Bob Weir Top All-Star ‘Jam-a-Thon’ Benefit in L.A.
December 21st, 2012 No comments »
Jackson Browne called Jonathan Wilson "the jam king" and last night Browne was one of several major artists to join the Los Angeles folk-rocker at the Troubadour for a "goodwill jam-a-thon" Taking turns onstage were the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir ELO's Jeff Lynne and fellow Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont...
Scissor Sisters Frontman Will Guest on New Queens of the Stone Age Album
December 21st, 2012 No comments »
Earlier this week Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears tweeted about doing "something insanely cool with some fierce Queens" and followed it up with a picture of him with Queens of the Stone Age Shears also tweeted about singing together with QOTSA frontman Josh Homme and according to Antiquietcom Shears...
Lil Reese Keeps Fans Waiting in New York
December 21st, 2012 No comments »
"If I could rap I'd perform the songs for y'all I swear!" rising Houston DJ OG Chase B bantered with the fatigued crowd well past midnight at New York City's Santos Party House on Thursday night The scattered audience had braved tight security and on-and-off rain to end up waiting...
Green Day Roll Tape in ‘X-Kid’
December 21st, 2012 No comments »
Kids these days with their streaming services and YouTube videos and iTunes downloads Green Day apparently miss a simpler more analog time judging by their new video for "X-Kid" a song from the band's trilogy-closing album ¡Tré! There's not a lot to look at the band presses play on a tape and lets it...
Ke$ha Clarifies Being ‘Forced’ to Sing ‘Die Young’
December 21st, 2012 No comments »
After Ke$ha tweeted this week that she was "forced" to sing some of the lyrics in her song "Die Young" the singer says she chose the wrong word Some radio stations pulled the song following the Sandy Hook school shooting last week in Newtown Connecticut Listen Ke$ha's Top Party Starters "After such...
Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’ Tops One Billion YouTube Views
December 21st, 2012 No comments »
Psy's "Gangnam Style" has already become YouTube's most watched video but this morning the smash hit hit one billion views making it the first video on the Internet to reach the marker according to Billboard The K-Pop smash hit has tallied up 65 million views a day far surpassing the...