Breaking Artist: Black Tide April 30, 2008
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsFronted by a 15-year-old singer-guitarist who’s flunked seventh grade three times, Black Tide are a quartet of headbanging Miami prodigies who like to rock like it’s 1989. Find out more about the band, which will be playing this summer’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, over at the Breaking blog.
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Tour Tracker: New Kids on the Block, Bloc Party and Donita Sparks
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsThe reunited NKOTB hope to bring the right stuff to their East Coast concerts, Bloc Party schedule a couple raves and L7’s Donita Sparks pimps her new band the Stellar Moments in June. Full tour dates are after the jump. New Kids on the BlockMay 17 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Izod CenterMay 18 - […]
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Inside the New Issue: The Dark, Funky Origins of the Roots
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsIn the current issue of Rolling Stone, Austin Scaggs explores the back stories of Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, the core of hip-hop band the Roots. In the piece, the two visionaries discuss their musical inspirations, growing up in Philadelphia and their troubled early lives, including the heartbreaking stories about Trotter’s parents, […]
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Video: Behind the Scenes at ?The Hills? Cover Shoot
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsWant to know what went down at the first photo shoot that brought together Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag after their very public falling out? Click above for all the behind-the-scenes footage from the Rolling Stone cover shoot starring the women of The Hills. • Cover Story Excerpt: The Hills• Photo Gallery: Behind the Scenes […]
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?The Hills? Universe: Who?s Who on TV?s Hottest Show
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsThe current issue of Rolling Stone takes a close-up look at the stars of MTV’s The Hills, who have turned a beautifully strange reality show into an entire alternate world full of characters and relationships. If you can’t remember which cast member was arrested for shoplifting, why Justin Bobby got his name or how a […]
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Top Stories: April 30, 2008
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No Tags• Photo Gallery: Roger Waters’ Pig’s Journey • On the Charts: Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis• News Ticker: Albert Hofmann, Glen Campbell • Radiohead News: TV Special, Video• News Ticker: Roger Waters, KazaaTop stories from the last three days:• Complete Coachella Coverage• New Music Report: Madonna’s Hard Candy• Nine Inch Nails Crack Down on Scalpers• The […]
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Hooves Footwear To Street June 1
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsProducer extraordinaire Nick Raskulinecz (Death Angel, Trivium, Marilyn Manson, Danzig) has started a new shoe company called Hooves Footwear.
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Radiohead Ready VH1 Special, New Video, U.S. Tour
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsWith Radiohead less than a week away from embarking on the first leg of the U.S. tour, there’s plenty going on in their world. This Saturday, VH1 will air the band’s complete live performance of In Rainbows and other songs from Nigel Godrich’s basement studio in the special Radiohead_In Rainbows_From the Basement, airing on the […]
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News Ticker: Roger Waters? Pig, Kazaa, Agyness Deyn
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsAt least part of Roger Waters’ escaped Coachella pig appears to have been found by a couple who spotted “a glob of vinyl” in their driveway and almost threw it away before reading about the missing balloon.A federal judge in Arizona denied the motion filed by major record labels against Kazaa users, saying the labels […]
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News Ticker: Albert Hofmann, 4AD, Glen Campbell, Perez Hilton
Posted by Chee Shan in : Latest Guitar News , add a comment Tag:No TagsAlbert Hofmann, the chemist who discovered LSD, died of a heart attack yesterday in his native Switzerland. He was 102. While researching a fungus that grew on rice, Hofmman synthesized the compound into lysergic acid diethylamide, which eventually helped influence every piece of music written in 1967.Record labels Too Pure and Beggars Banquet will close […]
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