Archive for January 20th, 2012
Courtney Love Wins Eviction Challenge
January 20th, 2012
Courtney Love will not be evicted from her West Village townhouse after all Following oral arguments in New York City Housing Court last Friday Judge Jean T Schneider issued her decision Tuesday dismissing a petition filed against Love in November by her landlord Donna Lyon seeking money for rent and...
Zakk Wylde Roasted by Corey Taylor and Sharon Osbourne
January 20th, 2012
Guitar World magazine honored guitarist Zakk Wylde last night in Anaheim California with its first ever Rock & Roll Roast Before Wylde took the throne of honor and was skewered by the likes of Corey Taylor Duff McKagan Anthrax's Scott Ian wrestler/Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho and others his friends warned...
Week in Review: Revisiting David Bowie’s Ascent to Stardom as Ziggy Stardust
January 20th, 2012
In the latest issue of Rolling Stone Mikal Gilmore looks back on David Bowie's incredible rise to superstardom as Ziggy Stardust and his subsequent career as rock's greatest changeling In an excerpt from the story Gilmore details how a conflict with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page had the singer heading off...
Swizz Beatz Was Not Megaupload CEO
January 20th, 2012
In the latest twist in the Megaupload file-sharing saga hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz was apparently not the company's CEO as has been widely reported Ira Rothken an attorney for the company says that to his knowledge Swizz "was never involved in any meaningful way He was negotiating to become the...
Weekend Rock Question: Which Singer Has the Most Unique Voice?
January 20th, 2012
When NBC's hit singing competition The Voice returns for its second season on February 5th immediately after the Super Bowl the show will kick off with its distinct blind auditions This process allows the judges – Cee Lo Adam Levine Christina Aguilera and Blake Shelton – to listen to prospective contestants without getting...
Musicians Mourn Etta James
January 20th, 2012
Etta James had been ill for months before she passed away earlier today but that didn't diminish the impact of her death on her fellow musicians Here's a roundup of some tweets from a variety of singers rappers musicians and music industry luminaries mourning the loss of one of the...
Grateful Dead Exhibit Coming to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
January 20th, 2012
A massive new exhibit chronicling the Grateful Dead's 30-year odyssey is coming to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Grateful Dead The Long Strange Trip opens at the Cleveland museum on April 12th two days before the Rock Hall's annual induction ceremony The Mickey Hart Band will...
French DJ Laurent Garnier Planning New Single, New Album
January 20th, 2012
French DJ/producer Laurent Garnier is in the US this week and that he's here at all could be considered news “I’ve done quite rare visits for the last 10 years in America” he tells Rolling Stone It wasn’t intentional the electronic music great says Remember the age of freedom fries...
Megadeth Bassist Wants to Be a Lutheran Pastor
January 20th, 2012
Megadeth's best-selling album is Countdown to Destruction but in the meantime at least one of the band's members is making the most of life on earth According to the St Louis Post-Dispatch bassist Dave Ellefson is an online student in the Specific Ministry Program at Concordia Seminary "Most people want to...
Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle Discusses the ‘Satan Record’
January 20th, 2012
John Darnielle hasn't gone soft and he wanted his audience to know it During the Mountain Goats' tour kickoff show at Antone's in Austin on Thursday night the singer reassured the packed and slowly roasting crowd that even though he recently became a parent they won't hear overly sentimental "doting...