A few months ago Radiohead released their latest album as a “name-your-price” download to much success, and followed with a regular CD release, despite giving their album away for free, it still hit number one. Now, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has released a brand new 36 track instrumental collection titled Ghosts Volumes I-IV. …
Variety reports that Live Nation Inc, the nations largest live event and venue management company, is reporting a net loss of $18.4 million, citing lower revenue due to fewer big-ticket artists staged tours. Is this a bad thing? Personally, I think as we were reporting earlier on the lack of teens buying CDs, the only …
Put your helmet on and sit down because this may blow your mind: Maxim magazine is not the place to go for journalistic integrity. The magazine has come under fire from The Black Crowes and their management for issuing a review of the band’s upcoming album, ‘Warpaint.’ The problem? Maxim magazine gave a mediocre rating …
The fact that this was even an idea being kicked around was a surprise to me, but not only is there apparently an upcoming biopic on Layne Staley titled, ‘Get Born Again’, but according to the film’s MySpace page, it has found its star. Lathan McKay (Who? Exactly.) has been tagged to portray troubled singer …
There’s something about Coachella that makes bands want to get back together. Last year Rage Against the Machine regrouped at the desert festival after 7 years of being apart. This year British group Portishead will continue the trend and rejoin on stage for the first time in 3 years, after a brief return at a …
The Stone Temple Pilots out-of-left-field reunion tour seems to be picking up steam and has recently posted a few additional dates, with more slated to come. May 17 – Columbus, OH – Crew Stadium May 18 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center May 23 – Indianapolis, IN – Indianapolis Motor Speedway May 31 – …
The LA Times also discovered, water is wet, and that Arrested Development is never, ever coming back to television. In a recent survey of almost 5,000 Teenagers, 48% of them had bought no CDs in the year 2007. It was recently announced that iTunes has become the No. 2 Music seller in the country, with …
Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton has a deal in the works with Warner Bros. Records that would provide him with his own imprint. Amidst blogs of the latest Hollywood trash, Perez often features and posts MP3’s or videos of an artist he recommends. Recent studies have found a correlation between a band’s blog buzz and an …
The debut album from the new band Ashes Divide, the newest project from Billy Howerdel, developed after the seemingly permanent hiatus of A Perfect Circle, will have to wait a few more weeks to be released. Originally set to hit stores on March 18th, the album Keep Telling Myself It’s Alright is now being released …
English band Morcheeba, released their sixth studio album on February 4th titled ‘Deep Dive.’ This is the band’s second studio album without singer Skye Edwards, a voice that became synonymous with the band thanks to their first four albums. 2005’s ‘The Antidote’ met with mixed reaction from fans because of Edwards’s missing vocals (she was …