Guns N’ Roses’ surprise performance at Thursday’s 19th annual MTV Video Music Awards was easily the night’s highlight presentation, even though P. Diddy, Eminem and Justin Timberlake had more pizzazz and Bruce Springsteen and Sheryl Crow had more heart. Click here for the complete 2002 MTV VMA Winners List. The group – which included longtime GN’R keyboardist Dizzy Reed and a batch of new faces like ex-Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson, ex-Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck and guitarist Buckethead – kicked off its medley with “Welcome to the Jungle,” the song that had thunderingly announced GN’R back on their first… Read more »
Bruce Springsteen kept a firm grip on the top spot on the album charts for the second straight week, despite a 55% slide in sales. “Rising” (Columbia), Springsteen’s first disc of new material since 1995, sold just under 239,000 units, according to numbers released Wednesday by Nielsen SoundScan. The Jersey-born rock legend recently launched a U.S. tour to support the release, backed for the first time in a decade by the E Street Band. The Boss was followed in the rankings by a trio of Universal Music Group hip-hop stars. Nelly rebounded one spot to second with “Nellyville” (Universal), selling… Read more »
Following the release of her latest EP, Headsplit, which Maggie Lindemann dropped earlier this year at the start of International Women’s Month, the dark pop songstress has issued a captivating cover of Paramore’s 2008 single “Decode.” The song, which premiered in October 2008 on Stephenie Meyer’s website, served as the lead original track for the inaugural Twilight film adaptation. Sharing the “Decode” cover on her social platforms, Lindemann writes, “you asked, so you shall receive my decode cover out on youtube now iloveyouuu @paramore” In her cover of “Decode,” Lindemann’s delivery is both powerful and poignant, capturing a similar emotional… Read more »
Today WILLOW and Electric Lady Studios have partnered to bring us WILLOW’s brand new five-track EP, WILLOW: Live At Electric Studios. The release features reimagined versions of several hits from her most recent album, <COPINGMECHANISM>, including “curious/furious“, “<maybe> It’s my fault“, “ur a <stranger>“, “hover like a GODDESS“, and “Bag Lady/Spilt“, a mashup of Erkah Badu‘s hit single and WILLOW’s own emotional ballad. On covering Erkah Badu, she shared: “For me, Erykah Badu has been a symbol of grace and pure artistic expression for as long as I can remember, to be able to combine our musical vibes and create… Read more »
Today we talk about the When We Were Young Festival, the life of Gaspard Ulliel, and John Mayer’s newest product in honor of Bob Saget. When We Were Young Is The Craziest Thing We’ve Ever Seen Our emo hearts are soaring and ready to embrace the potential that might come with the When We Were Young Festival. It seems like they’ve gathered as many 2000s emo bands as they could and they are giving them to us over the course of 12 hours in Vegas on October 22nd. The headliners are Paramore and My Chemical Romance, which would be enough… Read more »
