Archive for June 12th, 2012
The Secret of Swedish House Mafia’s Success
June 12th, 2012
"Where is all the cocaine? Have you hidden it?" The three capifamiglia of Swedish House Mafia – Steve Angello Sebastian Ingrosso and Axwell (aka Axel Christofer Hedfors) – are in a suite at the W Hotel where the breeze from Miami Beach comes in through a door leading to...
Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix Estates Working on Holograms
June 12th, 2012
The estates of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix may stage future holographic live performances Billboard reports "We're trying to get to a point where 3-D characters will walk around" Jeff Jampol who manages both artists' estates told Billboard "Hopefully 'Jim Morrison' will be able to walk right...
Q&A: Men Without Hats’ Ivan Doroschuk on New Album, Meeting Carly Rae Jepsen and the Return of New Wave
June 12th, 2012
Men Without Hats are best known for their 1983 smash "The Safety Dance" followed four years later in the Top 20 with "Pop Goes the World" But this "one-hit wonder with two hits" as songwriter/frontman Ivan Doroschuk describes his Canadian New Wave band is off to a new start After...
Dave Matthews Band’s Boyd Tinsley Debuts Indie Movie in New York
June 12th, 2012
Filmmakers rarely score a movie before they have a script but the idea made perfect sense to Dave Matthews Band's Boyd Tinsley who spent part of the band's year-long hiatus producing Faces in the Mirror an experimental indie film that screened for 75 fans on Monday night at New...
Inside Glenn Danzig’s Photographer Beef at Bonnaroo
June 12th, 2012
Security had to physically hold Glenn Danzig back from attacking photographers at Bonnaroo on Saturday The muscle-bound metal legend's inner Axl Rose got the best of him eight songs into an early-evening Danzig Legacy set at the Manchester Tennessee music festival The Danzig singer who is to...
Ariel Pink Explores the California Sound With ‘Mature Themes’
June 12th, 2012
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti acknowledge that they reached "a new place" commercially speaking with their 2012 LP Before Today but they also say that the recording sessions were miserable bogged down by time constraints and artistic frustration Fortunately the process of recording their upcoming album fared differently "This one was...
Usher Performs in London
June 12th, 2012
Yesterday fans could live stream Usher's performance at London's Hammersmith Apollo on YouTube as part of the American Express Unstaged music series The entire concert – which was directed by Hamish Hamilton and found the singer interacting with fans who were live-tweeting during the concert – is available to watch...
Q&A: Neil Peart On Rush’s New LP and Being a ‘Bleeding Heart Libertarian’
June 12th, 2012
Rush drummer Neil Peart doesn't do a lot of interviews He's been Rush's main lyricist since joining the group in 1974 but during the past four decades he's been content to let Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson do most of the speaking for the band But the group is releasing...
The Killers Open Up About Their ‘Difficult Fourth Record’
June 12th, 2012
Coming up in Las Vegas the Killers learned a trick or two from the casinos like not having any clocks on their studio walls They have spent the past year here working weekdays noon to midnight on their upcoming LP Battle Born and it's still not done "It's living up...
NME Apologizes to Morrissey in Libel Flap
June 12th, 2012
In a statement released today NME apologized to Morrissey for a 2007 article that the singer claims unfairly portrayed him as racist "We wish to make clear that we do not believe that he is a racist" the statement read "We didn’t think we were saying he was and we apologise...