In just over five years, Taylor Hanson has gone from MMMBop to MMMBoy. The middle child of the three musical Hanson brothers became the proud papa to Jordan Ezra Hanson on October 31, according to the band’s manager. Hanson’s wife, Natalie Anne Bryant, 18, gave birth to the 6 lb., 13 oz. baby at approximately 7:19 a.m. “We are so excited to start a family,” 19-year-old Taylor said in a statement. “Having Ezra is the best thing we’ve ever done. Life and art are all about these moments.” Jordan Ezra arrived five months after the couple got married. Hanson the… Read more »
A gun-toting musician forced a southern Brazilian radio station to play his debut album for more than an hour on Wednesday after apparently having no luck opening the doors of show business, the man’s father said. Marcus Vinicius dos Santos, 27, the vocalist for the rock group ACC – a Portuguese acronym for “Beyond the Gray Sky” – stormed disc jockey Marcio Paz’s booth at Atlantida FM in the city of Porto Alegre and forced him to play his album “Phases of Life.” “He is a quiet boy,” his father, Getulio dos Santos, told Reuters. “I’m surprised by what happened.”… Read more »
Performing at Saturday’s taping of the MTV Movie Awards was “one of the worst feelings ever” for Kelly Osbourne, but stage fright won’t slow down her burgeoning music career. The pink-haired, 17-year-old starlet of “The Osbournes” revealed backstage after her live singing debut that she is scheduled to spend July and August in a New York studio recording a full-length album. Ozzy’s daughter said she’ll work with producer Rick Wake, whose résumé includes music by Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion, but she offered few other details. “I can not divulge my secrets,” Osbourne said seductively, before changing tones.… Read more »
The first family of metal turned reality TV darlings the Osbournes hit midtown Manhattan to unveil a new album Wednesday and conjured up the requisite amount of vulgarity and bickering. Between f-bombs and friendly put-downs, patriarch Ozzy (greeting the press via satellite from London), matriarch Sharon, daughter Kelly and son Jack introduced The Osbourne Family Album, a collection of tracks handpicked – and in some cases recorded – by the family. The compilation, due June 11, runs through more mood changes than your average Osbournes holiday dinner, slamming tracks from System of a Down, the Kinks and Ozzy himself against… Read more »
Jimi Hendrix, Rod Stewart, and ZZ Top are all on the soundtrack for the new skateboarding film Dogtown And Z-Boys, which opens April 26 in limited release. Echoing the documentary’s subject-the groundbreaking Zephyr Skating Team that emerged in the Santa Monica/Venice, California, area in the early ’70s-the 10-track album combines hits and favorite album tracks from artists that were popular at the time. Among the best-known selections are Stewart’s “Maggie May,” Joe Walsh’s “Rocky Mountain Way,” ZZ Top’s “La Grange,” and the James Gang’s “Funk #49.” Also on the album are Ted Nugent’s “Motor City Madhouse,” Alice Cooper’s “Generation Landslide,”… Read more »
Even if you don’t know a lick of guitar and couldn’t tell a power chord from a power bar, you can still play with Korn. Five Korn figurines are set to hit store shelves in mid-May, according to a spokesperson for entertainment brand management company the Stronghold Group. Each collectible stands approximately six inches tall and is modeled after caricatures popular in Hong Kong, with overly long arms, huge fists and feet, and scowling facial expressions. Each figure comes equipped with accessories – sunglasses and an H.R. Giger-designed mic stand for Jonathan Davis, drumsticks for David Silveria and a baseball… Read more »
Once again, Todd McFarlane has immortalized one of the most beloved personalities of heavy metal as a detailed action figure. This time, however, it’s not a living musician he’s paying tribute to, but a character from beyond the grave. Yes, shriveled-faced, sneering Eddie – the Iron Maiden mascot – has been preserved in plastic. “With us as individuals, we’re not really interested in being made into action figures, because we’ve got Eddie,” Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson explained Tuesday. “We’ve got plenty of incarnations of Eddie to go on with for ages.” The first Eddie doll was modeled after the claw-bearing,… Read more »
Real talk—Quentin Tarantino has been Single-White-Female-ing Bruce Lee with his films since at least Kill Bill: Vol. 1.
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week’s topic is Rock Against Racism.
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