The Rocket Summer will be performing Calendar Days and Hello, Good Friend in their entirety at six special shows this December. Dates and venues are being announced daily on the band’s Facebook page, with the first show confirmed for December 1st at The Social in Orlando, FL.
Burbank, Ca – On the heels of selling out the U.K.’s Milton Keynes Stadium, Grammy Award-winning trio Green Day will perform three stadiums this summer/fall as part of an extensive North American tour. The band is scheduled to perform on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning, top-rated late-night comedy-variety series, “Saturday Night Live,” this Saturday, April 9th, with guest host Cameron Diaz. Dates for the tour are still to be announced, but the stadium shows and on-sale dates are as follows: Sep 1, 2005 – E. Rutherford, NJ – Giants Stadium Sep 24, 2005 – San Francisco, CA – SBC Park Oct 8,… Read more »
Simple Plan are rolling on the Warped Tour right now and collecting random bits of gossip for us along the way. Our latest installment comes courtesy of lead guitarist Jeff Stinco: It’s 9 a.m. and I wake up to the sound of David screaming in his sleep. Once again, he’s having a nightmare and sounds like he’s getting stabbed by the devil himself. I walk to the front of the bus to take a peek outside and I see an army of men and women already running around everywhere and putting together their tents and stages for today’s show. It… Read more »
Kurt Cobain regretted using heroin to ease the pain of a stomach ailment but could not bring himself to stop, and talked of shooting himself, according to excerpts from the late Nirvana star’s diaries. The writings, printed in Newsweek this week, are from the upcoming book “Journals,” which contains letters and diary entries from the 1980s until 1994, when Cobain shot himself to death at age 27 in his Seattle home. While some of the entries are rambling or humorous, they reveal a man tortured by drug addiction and illness. “… I decided to use heroine (sic) on a daily… Read more »
First, there was “Survivor.” Then came “Fear Factor.” Now, reality television watchers can follow the daily activities of rock musician Ozzy Osbourne and his family on MTV in “The Osbournes.” “What you see on the show is absolutely us,” Osbourne says in the Feb. 23 issue of TV Guide. “None of it’s been doctored or manufactured. It’s real. It’s the Ozzy Osbourne “Real World.” In one episode, his 17-year-old daughter has a birthday party and he spends the evening wagging his finger at her friends, yelling “Don’t smoke!” and trying to be heard over thumping techno music. “What is this?”… Read more »
Carson Daly returns to radio to be syndicated on radio stations nationwide, beginning Monday, April 2. Carson Daly, host and executive producer of MTV’s highest rated show, Total Request Live, will return to radio on Premiere Radio Networks on Monday, April 2nd. Carson Daly Most Requested will be a one-hour daily program featuring requested music from listeners. Daly began his career as an intern at KCMJ-Palm Springs and subsequently was promoted to producer of the station’s morning show. After Daly put in time for stations in four different cities, he landed one of the most coveted positions in radio –… Read more »
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest comments.
— Today we talk about Grayscale joining The Summer Set on tour, Henry Cavill being replaced as Superman, and Trevor Noah hosting the Grammys. — Grayscale Joins The Summer Set The Summer Set has made 2023 a little sweeter, they’re heading on tour next spring. As if we weren’t incredibly excited before, Grayscale announced they’ll be supporting. The Blossom Tour is kicking off on April 6th in San Francisco and will cover 17 cities before ending in Nashville on May 2nd. While that would be enough for our little music-loving hearts, Grayscale will also be headlining their own tour leading… Read more »
As we gear up for the holidays there’s another season dusting off its winter coat and getting ready. That’s right, we’re talking about AWARD SEASON! This morning, the Recording Academy announced the full list of nominees for the 2021 GRAMMY Awards and gave us a glimpse of what to expect. We’re so excited to see some incredibly deserving artists on the list of nominees. Of course, Taylor Swift is nominated in a billion categories (alright it’s more like five) and Billie Eilish is close behind with three nominations, but I’m personally so excited to see Yebba, HAIM, Jacob Collier, and… Read more »
Smug people hurt smug people—especially in the politics game.
