Archive for January 14th, 2011
The Week in Music: Ice Cream Tattoos, Grateful Dead Videos Games and More
January 14th, 2011
The second week of 2011 will not be remembered as a momentous time in the history of popular music but some cool things definitely went down After all it's not every week that a major rap star gets an ice cream cone tattooed on his face It was a big week...
Listen: New Gregg Allman Album ‘Low Country Blues’
January 14th, 2011
Click to listen to Gregg Allman's Low Country Blues Low Country Blues Gregg Allman's first album in 14 years is a collection of blues classics recorded by the Allman Brothers Band frontman with producer T Bone Burnett Rolling Stone's David Fricke praised the record for its "austere consciously antique production"...
Dire Straits’ ‘Money for Nothing’ Banned in Canada
January 14th, 2011
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that "Money for Nothing" a Dire Straits hit from 1985 is too offensive for Canadian airwaves The song is being singled out for the repeated use of an anti-gay slur — "that little faggot" — in its second verse This hasn't stopped some Canadian...
‘Glee’ Reality Show Confirmed, and Creator Ryan Murphy Will Be Involved
January 14th, 2011
Glee creator Ryan Murphy will be involved in a series of Glee reality specials that will air on the Oxygen network Details of the reality show have not been revealed but it will likely involve young singers competing for a role on the scripted series Photos Meet the Special Guests Singing...
Aretha Franklin: I Never Had Pancreatic Cancer
January 14th, 2011
Aretha Franklin is on the mend and she's setting the record straight about her December health scare Sort of Though the Queen of Soul declines to get into the specifics of the problem she wants to make one thing clear "I don’t know where 'pancreatic cancer' came from" the...
‘Jersey Shore’ Recap: A Threesome Averted, and a Twosome That Should Have Been
January 14th, 2011
History was almost made last night on Jersey Shore We're speaking of course about Vinny and the Situation’s near-three-way Having found only one willing lady to accompany them home Vinny and the Sitch giggled as they shook hands and warned each other to “stay on your side” Then on the...
Donnie Wahlberg Opens Up About New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys Tour
January 14th, 2011
Donnie Wahlberg is a busy man He's deep in the midst of the meticulous planning for the massive New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys summer tour but he's also got a full-time job portraying Detective Daniel Reagan on the CBS police drama Blue Bloods "We just filmed a dinner scene...
Listen: Stevie Nicks Remakes Old Song For New Single
January 14th, 2011
"Secret Love" a song that Stevie Nicks originally demoed in the late '70s has been remade for her In Your Dreams her first album in a decade Whereas the original version of the tune — which has been bootlegged for years by fans — had a stark simple arrangement the...
Missy Elliott Returns on New Timbaland Track
January 14th, 2011
A brand-new Missy Elliott track has surfaced online as part of Timbaland Thursdays a new series of free tracks in the mold of Kanye West's GOOD Fridays initiative The song can be found on Timbaland's official site (also listen below) "Take Ur Clothes Off" a throwback to Missy and Timbaland's classic...
Digest: Neko Case Raffles Off Vintage Car; Michael Stipe Recounts Traumatic Camping Trip
January 14th, 2011
Neko Case Raffles Off Vintage CarNeko Case is giving away the 1967 Mercury Cougar that she posed on top of in the artwork for her 2009 album Middle Cyclone in a raffle to benefit 826 National an organization that offers tutoring and writing workshops for students in eight major cities...