Sorry Madonna but Mariah Carey still remains no. 1 on the Billboard this week…
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003796535
How is Mariah so powerful in the music industry today? Disgraceful!
This has got to be dissapointing for Madonna fans, “Hard Candy” won’t reach no. 1 at all because Mariah will hog it up the next few weeks.
Kev
Madonna’s intimate concert at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC is tonight! Fans were already lining up yesterday, bringing camping gear and everything.
Read the story and see photos of this crazy day here…
http://newsroom.mtv.com/2008/04/29/madonna-fans-already-lining-up-scaring-us-a-little/
Was it really that cold in New York City yesterday? I know it was rainy and windy yesterday but it wasn’t that freezing.
While I’m sure the concert maybe live on the web, expect heavy traffic so it might be hard to get on the website to watch.
It’ll be broadcastesd live on MSN tonight at 10:00 p.m.:
I’ll do my best to tune in.
Kev
Scott Weiland revealed that Slash and Axl Rose almost reunited in 2004 in support of the Guns N’ Roses greatest hits album. After all this public feuding with Slash and talking trash about the guitarist which caused Weiland to get fired from Velvet Revolver, Weiland immediately got a change of heart and says Slash should reunite with Guns N’ Roses.
NME.com reports:
http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/36312
It’s good to see that Weiland still has respect for Slash even though Slash hates Scott.
But enjoy jail though Mr. Weiland.
Kev
Here’s the official video for Scarlett Johansson’s single “Falling Down” from “Anywhere I Lay My Head”, an album full of Tom Waits covers.
Check it out:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/–59655778
Listeners have been trashing her vocals in a negative way in this song and I wanted to write in for her defense. I enjoy the vocals. It’s unique. Do every female singer have to sing perfect like Mariah Carey or Celine Dion?
Not everyone have to be a profesional vocalist. People don’t have to be the greatest singer in the world to have a passion of what you do. Vocals aren’t important in my opinion. I’m more about melody, the lyrics, and the song itself. I don’t care about the singing and that’s the truth.
I think Scarlett did a great job with “Falling Down” and I’m itching to hear more of her stuff. People just don’t understand the unique quality in her music. I would think that the people who didn’t like her singing in these songs don’t understand the music of Tom Waits.
Tom Waits vocals were never all that perfect and he sounds weird when he sings, Scarlett is supposed to have that same personality. Not everybody have to be a Mariah Carey or Celine Dion. Because truth be told none of those perfect singers can’t really sing for real anyway.
I respect what Scarlett is doing here and I look forward to her album when it comes out in May. She’s not a bad vocalist. My understanding is when people are trashing an artists singing, they are grabbing the listeners attention whether you like the artist or not.
Again, not everybody have to be good vocalist if you look at guys like Neil Young, Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Billy Corgan, etc. Singers who don’t even have a powerful vocal range, they just sing for the enjoyment ’cause they enjoy doing it.
I’m not great at singing vocals to my own songs but I do it anyway ’cause I enjoy doing it.
Kev
First Paris Hilton, then Kim Kardashian, then Pamela Anderson, then Marilyn Monroe, and now Jimi Hendrix has a sex tape? What the fuck?
Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring the guitar god Jimi Hendrix. Vivid Entertainment claims they have a sex tape that was shot 40 years ago in a hotel room which has a man in it that looks exactly like Hendrix, it could be really him or not. The company said they consulted with experts to authenticate the footage to prove it really is him. The footage is 11 minutes long and shows Hendrix or the Hendrix wannabe in the room having sex with two women.
Author of the Hendrix biography “Room Full of Mirrors” has seen the film and doubts it’s him.
The Associated Press reports:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzhHh2hle8-MWSjHXr2furgNyczAD90BNRCG0
Who knew that rock stars could have a sex tape?
If the guy in the video really is Hendrix, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Hendrix banged a lot of women back in his days.
Kev
When David Bowie and the Somalian catwalk queen Iman first met, it took her a while to fall in love with rock star David Bowie. She wasn’t sure if she should get romantically involved with a famous rock star because she was never that type of woman. She was a huge fan of David’s music though, she would go to a lot of his concerts. David immediately fell in love with her the moment he layed eyes upon her.
According to research the couple married in 1992. They have a daughter together and they move back and forth to New York City to London.
More on it here:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=254066808&p=z54x675y4
Iman seems like a cool down to earth woman. I like how she didn’t marry him for the money and didn’t marry him because he’s David Bowie, they married each other because they truly loved each other and that’s great.
Kev
Guitar God Yngwie Malmsteen will hit the cover on Guitar World magazine for the July issue.
The next issue of Guitar World will be all about learning how to play fast and learn how to shred.
See more here:
http://www.guitarworld.com/guitar_world_on_sale_now
The magazine will feature lessons by other guitar gods such as Joe Satriani, John Petrucci and other players teaching you how to play fast.
Playing fast guitar is one of my biggest goals in my own guitar playing. I’m learning and making my way up there but could be better at it. I’m still learning how to have a good ear in improvising and all that. This next issue for Guitar World will be good information for my own guitar playing as well.
I want to be jamming with other guitarists and musicians, it’s why I’m learning my chops and trying to get better, become a more profesional player. Playing lead guitar and kick ass riffs is what I’m all about.
Kev
Here is an interesting David Bowie tidbit I stumbled across on the web. David Bowie’s longtime wife Iman (pictured on the right above) revealed to the media that he doesn’t like his daughters taste in music. His daughter listens to mainstream pop music that you hear in the top 40 radio today. Whenever David’s daughter listen to that stuff in the house, he leaves the room. David can’t stand today’s music just like everyone else. Iman says that David failed to teach his daughter of what music she should and shouldn’t be listening to. David says she wants her to be listening to underground and unpopular music.
More on it here:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=253952436&p=z53953y4z
Now you see why David is no longer a mainstream music artist anymore like he was in the 70’s and 80’s.
He’s another one of them artists that dropped off major labels years ago and continues to release albums independently. I just think he doesn’t want to be part of the mainstream pop era.
It’s been 5 years since David hasn’t been in the studio to record a new album, his latest studio album is titled “Reality” which was released back in 2003. Bowie is another one of those artists that likes to take long breaks in between albums so hopefully he’ll go back into the studio soon.
Kev
Roger Waters the former Pink Floyd frontman and founder of the band brought Coachella 2008 with a close, he played an incredibly tight set by playing the “Dark Side of the Moon” album in it’s full entirety. He also played all the hits from the legendary album/soundtrack “The Wall”. He also played one other song not off those two albums called “Pigs”, from their 1977 album “Animals”.
Roger Waters gave presidential candidate Barack Obama an endorsement by sending an inflatable pig in the air toward the end of the song. Under the pig was writing “Obama” with a checked ballot box alongside.
As the song came to a close, flames and fireworks burst into the air on stage, Roger says through the mic “That’s my pig”.
The Associated Press reports:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiAP2ZVSjIIs0FiGooXf8TcelvBwD90AO9SG0
Coachella sounds like a great show this year, hope they release this event in a DVD set soon.
Kev
The boys in the Verve are back and here are they are performing their hit “Bittersweet Symphony” at Friday night’s Coachella fest…
Kev
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