Chart-topping musical group O-Town will set out on an impressive nationwide summer tour in support of their Platinum selling debut album O-Town. The tour launches in Los Angeles, CA on July 6th and rounds out in September in Boston, MA. Following the success of their #1 selling single “Liquid Dreams”, O-Town are enjoying the success of their second smash single “All or Nothing” which is among the top three most requested songs on Top 40 radio. Concurrently, the stunning “All or Nothing” video directed by Marcus Raboy has been a top five request on MTV’s Total Request Live for over… Read more »
The number of people listening to streaming audio over the Internet has continued to increase despite the decisions made by some traditional AM and FM stations to pull their programs off the Internet. That’s the word from MeasureCast, which reports that its Internet Radio Index for the final full week in April increased 2.4 percent-from 132 to 135-demonstrating that listeners are not abandoning Internet radio. MeasureCast’s weekly index tracks the total number of hours streamed by on-line broadcasters, and is a representation of the trend in Total Time Spent Listening across a spectrum of stations. Internet-only stations have been receiving… Read more »
July 24 will be ground zero for Slipknot’s as-yet-untitled second album, according to a Roadrunner Records spokesperson. The follow-up to their eponymous 1999 debut was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Ross Robinson. Next week production will move cross-country to New York, where Andy Wallace will start mixing new songs “People Equal Shit,” “The Heretic Anthem,” “Disaster Piece” and just-announced “New Abortion” among other album tracks, with the help of two unnamed band members. The nine masked Iowans, who’ll take to the main stage of this year’s Ozzfest, might also be simultaneously making the club rounds this summer. A tour… Read more »
Rock superstars U2 launched their first U.S. tour in nearly four years in classic form in Florida Saturday night, treating 20,000 devoted, delirious fans to a crowd-pleasing mix of old and new songs delivered with their legendary energy free of the extravagances of their most recent tours. The Irish rockers hit the stage of the National Car Rental Center arena at Sunrise, near Miami, with the house lights still on and launched into a swinging “Elevation” for their new album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind”. For the next two hours they put on a performance in which the songs,… Read more »
Pop veterans Steely Dan had a surprising run Wednesday night at the 43rd annual Grammy Awards, taking home three awards for “Two Against Nature” and the single “Cousin Dupree.” Steely Dan’s first album of new material in two decades earned album of the year trophy, besting Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP” and albums by Paul Simon, Radiohead and Beck. Released by the Warner-distributed Giant, it also earned prizes for pop vocal album and for best engineered album. U2, whose “Beautiful Day” single was released at the very end of the eligibility period of Oct. 1999 to Sept. 30, 2000, walked… Read more »
The Yahoo! Outloud Tour is set to kick off this coming Wednesday, February 21 in Austin, Texas. The tour will launch with an EXCLUSIVE video chat with tour headliners Weezer LIVE from Austin, TX on Tuesday, February 20, 9 PM ET on the official Yahoo! Outloud Web site (http://outloud.yahoo.com). The Yahoo! Outloud Tour has proved to be a successful collaboration between Yahoo!, Weezer, Ticketmaster, and venue promoters illustrating the power of the Internet as an effective entertainment marketing tool. An unprecedented 90 percent of tickets for the 20-city tour sold out exclusively online, including shows in New York, Chicago, Los… Read more »
‘N Sync are ready to tear up a few more hearts with a new studio album and major tour. Justin Timberlake says that he, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone and Lance Bass are busy in the studio laying down tracks for the as-of-yet-untitled third album (due in June), and they can’t wait to get out and perform again. The group will hit the road on May 12th, starting with a performance in Miami to an already sold-out audience. “I didn’t think it was going to be this crazy,” Timberlake says. “Something keeps happening every time we put an album… Read more »
This week I have long time friend and manager Joe Buscema, I got to tour along side him when he was managing and tour managing band “Cherry Pools” He’s also been responsible for bands like: Late Night Drive Home, Set It Off, Bearings, Like Pacific, and more! We talk about how he got his start and where his career is going.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Mod Sun, Set it Off, Alexisonfire, and more.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from A Day to Remember, Billy Talent, Set It Off, and more.
