Bon Jovi topped the U.S. album charts for the first time since 1988 on Wednesday, while rock duo the White Stripes scored a personal best with a No. 2 debut for their latest release. Bon Jovi’s “Lost Highway” sold 292,000 copies in the week ended June 24, the rock troupe’s biggest one-week sum since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991. The Island/Mercury Nashville set is Bon Jovi’s third No. 1 album, joining 1988’s “New Jersey” and 1987’s “Slippery When Wet.” Sales were fueled in part by the group’s new country fanbase, wrangled in with the Grammy-winning 2006 hit… Read more »
Recently, Maureen Callahan wrote a piece for the New York Post about Crush Management, the NYC cadre that shepherds the careers of Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, the Academy Is … , Boys Like Girls and Armor for Sleep (or, as Callahan puts it, “basically any band that a 13-year-old girl with a blog and a Hot Topic habit obsesses over”). Aside from providing readers with some genuinely bananas quotes from songwriter/ rock-and-roll vampire Butch Walker about credibility (especially considering this is on his résumé), the article is excellent primarily because it floats the hypothesis that the artists… Read more »
McFly’s latest double a-side “Baby Come Back/Transylvania” has put an end to Beyonce and Shakira’s three-week run at the top of the Official UK Top 40, while landing the young pop-rock act their seventh No. 1 single. The track debuts ahead of “Beautiful Liar” which drops to two, while Akon’s “Don’t Matter” jumps up eight spots to three. Gym Class Heroes’ “Cupid’s Chokehold” is at four while Scootch’s Eurovision flop “Flying The Flag” charts at five. The pop trio were ranked 22nd out of 24 at Saturday’s event in Finland. In the rest of this week’s top ten, Linkin Park… Read more »
Season 3, Episode 9. Originally aired April 5, 2007 on idobi Radio. Music from Linkin Park, Butch Walker, The Academy Is…, Paramore, Mickey Avalon, Hawthorne Heights, A Permanent Holiday, Augustana, and Eddie Vedder.
Many acts avoid reading reviews of their albums for fear one sour critic will reduce their noble efforts to rubble. Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden is not one of those artists. “I read all the reviews,” he says. “I remember the first review I ever read about our band was ‘They’ll be gone tomorrow; they’ll be gone quicker than they came.’” Seven years and more than 9 million albums later, pop punkers Good Charlotte are not only still standing, but proudly proclaiming a return three years after the release of 2004’s “The Chronicles of Life & Death.” “Ben said something a… Read more »
My Chemical Romance is planning to parade itself around the world for the rest of the year. The group is currently on the first North American leg of its tour behind thw 2006 concept album “The Black Parade” and plans to hit the U.K. and Europe and probably the rest of the world before the year ends. MCR is also rumored to be part of Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution tour, which begins in August. “The rest of the year is just going to be us out on the road and trying to get to as many places as we can… Read more »
Sometimes, being a fish out of water offers a more comprehensive view of the outside world. For the past two years, the Used’s frontman, Bert McCracken, has been living in Los Angeles, and while he hasn’t exactly been enamored with the city of artifice and entertainment, he has found the environment creatively inspiring. “I’ve had a good look at how people think in comparison to almost the whole rest of the world and it’s so ridiculous, it’s given me tons of song ideas,” the Utah native said. “I don’t even feel like a fish out of water here, I feel… Read more »
With the decade fast approaching it’s musical climax, 2006 proved to be a big winner for an industry hit by piracy. The live music scene proved to be the biggest release for most acts, with top grossing tours for some of the world’s biggest bands, and an explosion in music festivals across the globe. Firstly, let’s recap on albums were still waiting on from last year; OutKast’s first studio album since 2004’s “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below” (which was one of the year’s biggest releases) is rumoured now for the spring, and Guns N’ Roses failed to deliver on their promise of… Read more »
Season 2, Episode 5. Canadians don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in November… Originally Aired November 23, 2006 on idobi Radio. Music from Something Corporate, Portugal The Man, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, We Are Scientists, Linkin Park, Doughboys, Statistics, Copeland, Motley Crue, and Lost In Los Angeles.
Season 2, Episode 2. Pat is a 70s porn star, Seb seduces ladies with mix tapes, and making prank phone calls… Originally Aired November 2, 2006 on idobi Radio. Music from Goldfinger, The Used, Hot Hot Heat, Gratitude, Jay-Z & Linkin Park, Butch Walker, Transplants, Bowling for Soup, The Killers, and Jason Bajada. url=”http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/idobi.com/podcasts/moth/ManOfTheHour_s02e02.m4a” title=”Episode s02e02″ artist=”Man Of The Hour” image=”https://i.ido.bi/assets/show/2015/10/MOTH.jpg” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” ]
