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2012 New Music Guide: Major Releases
Posted in Music on January 28, 2012
2012 isn’t just about a presidential election, the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar, and the Olympics in London. There’s also a deluge of new records coming down the pike across the style spectrum. From rising talents to living legends, and from rock to rap to country, it’s shaping up to be … read more »
COMING SOON TO THE BIG SCREEN
Posted in Music on October 24, 2011
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas Release: November 4, 2011 Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris Pot-smoking pals Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) team up once again for another wild adventure with this Mandate Pictures production. Todd Strauss-Schulson directs from a script by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden … read more »
Summer’s Top 30: The Season’s Best Music
Posted in Music on August 18, 2011
Take a spin through 30 musical moments — half of them modern favorites and half time-tested classics — that belong on every summer playlist. When these tunes are playing, the sun is always shining. MODERNS “Summer Love” by Justin Timberlake Pro-tip No. 1 if you want to make a song that gets played every … read more »
Music sales up, thanks to Lady Gaga and Adele
Posted in Music on July 15, 2011
After a decade of declining sales, Adele and Lady Gaga have led the record industry to the first increase in overall record sales since 2004. According to data released by Nielsen SoundScan, total album sales have gone up by 1 percent in the first half of 2011 in comparison to the same period last year. … read more »
ROCKED ON BROADWAY: HITS AND MISSES
Posted in Music on June 21, 2011
Oh, the pitfalls of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” It’s the biggest Broadway production in history, with music by the biggest band in the world — and it keeps falling on its face, sometimes literally. Name a problem, “Spider-Man” has faced it. Cost overruns? Check. Plot holes? Yep. “Artistic differences”? Plenty. Bad press? Tons. Official … read more »
U2 dethrone the Rolling Stones with highest-grossing tour of all time
Posted in Music on April 13, 2011
U2‘s 360° tour, the most expensive touring production in rock history, has passed the Rolling Stones‘ A Bigger Bang tour as the highest-grossing rock tour of all time. Following U2′s sold-out show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, Live Nation says the ”in-the-round” stadium tour will dethrone the Stones, who grossed $558 million on A Bigger Bang between 2005 … read more »
Elle talks to the Ladies who make sweet music
Posted in Music on April 13, 2011
Let’s face it; there are lots of women who are changing the face of music right now. From Adele to Aretha Franklin to Willow Smith, ELLE talks to these leading ladies all about the music biz in their Women in Music issue. Jennifer Hudson on performing in gay clubs when she was younger: “In high … read more »
NEW ALBUMS FROM R.E.M. and Avril Lavigne
Posted in Music on March 21, 2011
R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills recently told Rolling Stone he thinks “Collapse Into Now” is their “best record since ‘Out of Time.’” The band’s 15th full-length doesn’t have blockbuster written all over it like that 1991 masterpiece, but it’s definitely high-caliber. Produced by Garret “Jacknife” Lee (U2, Bloc Party), who also oversaw 2008′s “Accelerate,” this is … read more »
2011 ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HALL OF FAME: SNUBS
Posted in Entertainment, Music on March 21, 2011
Fans are passionate by nature, so each year’s unveiling of the Hall of Fame’s newest recruits assures an equal and opposite reaction from champions for other influential artists. Here’s one critic’s pantheon of rock stalwarts as yet ignored by the Hall monitors. Cheap Trick With all due respect to the committee, what does a band … read more »
Artists Grammy Forgot
Posted in Music on March 2, 2011
For every favorite son (Quincy Jones) or daughter (Alison Krauss) with a shelf full of statuettes, there’s at least one major artist that felt shortchanged or shut out by Grammy voters come awards night. Here’s a pantheon of commercial and critical heavyweights that have eluded the embrace of Recording Academy voters. Led Zeppelin: Fountainhead for … read more »
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