Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 26, 2009…Former Wilco member Jay Bennett was found dead in his Illinois home over the weekend.Could American Idol loser Adam Lambert be the new frontman for Queen? It looks like Brian May wouldn’t rule it out… Kelly Rowland has moved…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 22, 2009… Jay-Z bought out his Def Jam contract for a reported $5 million. Since he’s got the spare cash layin’ around: Jay, I could use some cash… The Arctic Monkeys used Black Sabbath as inspiration for its new album…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 21, 2009… If ruining a movie you grew up loving by remaking it isn’t bad enough, Miley Cyrus wants to play the role of Ariel More, the petulant and rebellious preacher’s daughter, in Footloose. Michael Jackson has pushed back the…
The second album from Fort Worth’s 100 Damned Guns starts off right where you would expect, with a honky-tonk love song about lost love, which is the sound that fits the band best. Indeed, Musica de Tormento continues the band’s mixture of honky-tonk-meets-bluegrass rave-ups and your standard, classic-sounding, heartstring-pulling songs…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 19, 2009… According to Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek, his singer Pete Doherty will definitely reunite with his first band The Libertines… at some point. Makes sense since they have already partially reunited once this year. T.I. has received prison credit…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 18, 2009… You know what sucks about reading? Words. So to that end, the good folks from the 33 1/3 music book series will let you download the newest installment focusing on the Beastie Boys classic Paul’s Boutique for free!…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, May 18, 2009… Coldplay knows that most of us without millions of dollars and superstar wives have it bad because of this recession thing. So, to help out the people who want to see them live, but can’t, the band is giving away…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 15, 2009… Martin Scorsesse is set to direct a feature film biopic of a music legend: Frank Sinatra, baby. Kajagoogoo are reuniting for the first time in 25 years. Something tells me it’s not to promote a greatest hit collection…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 14, 2009… Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and another employee of the band were attacked outside of a recording studio in Atlanta. I guess this ruins their chances of ever recording in Detroit. When Kanye blogs, people listen. After railing…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 13, 2009… When you go to a karaoke bar to belt out drunken tunes, most people don’t expect to get one upped by Rick Astley. The Flaming Lips will release a double album follow-up to At War With The Mystics…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 12, 2009… NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams can now add indie music video blogger to his resume. Seems some, uh, very private images of Rihanna have leaked onto the Internet. They’re just “alleged” to be Rihanna at this point, but…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Booking residencies on late night talk shows has become quite the fad this year. But I think Eminem needs to figure out what a residency actually means. Like Prince did with Jay Leno, Eminem will perform for three nights…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 8, 2009… Time to practice your hammer-ons and roll-offs–Guitar Hero: Van Halen will hit shelves some time in the second half of this year. Band in-fighting and prima donna attitudes not included. Jane’s Addiction may be jumping on board the…
Old Crow Medicine Show, Justin Townes EarleGranada TheaterMay 6, 2009 Better than: Drinkin’ your corn liquor and lettin’ cocaine be. From the time the crowd started arriving at the Granada it was apparent that Old Crow Medicine Show was the place to be: If it wasn’t apparent by the crowd…
Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, May 7, 2009…The script for the Nick Cave-penned sequel to Gladiator has been unearthed. Nick Cave may need to quit his day job with the Bad Seeds and start writing movies.You can check out the possibly new track from the Beastie…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 6, 2009…Radiohead’s manager told the band they needed to split up when the band stalled out in the studio during the recording of In Rainbows. Former Wilco drummer, Jay Bennett, is suing current Wilco leader, Jeff Tweedy, for at least…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, May 5, 2009… Happy Cinco de Mayo!Someone who is crazier than Britney Spears interrupted her show by jumping on stage with her. Sugar Ray are releasing their first record in six years titled Music For Cougars. A very contemporary title for…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, May 4, 2009…After six years of marriage Nas and Kelis have decided to call it quits. The couple is splitting up… even though she’s seven months pregnant.Jimmy Buffett is now a business partner with the Miami Dolphins. I just hope Bill…
Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 1, 2009…Brandon Flowers doesn’t understand why American audiences don’t embrace his band like British audiences. Maybe it’s because the English love the chip on his shoulder more than Americans?.Looks like it might be time for Michael Jackson to lay off…
Method Man wants everyone to know that Wu-Tang Clan has not split up. Wilco have released details of their new album. The album will be called… wait for it… Wilco (The Album) featuring “Wilco (The Song)”. Good to see that Tweedy has a sense of humor. Are you ready for…
In 2000, the movie O Brother Where Art Thou? set events in motion that were unprecedented at the time: All of a sudden, there was a revival of old-timey string band music. People, it seemed, just couldn’t get enough of mountain music and traditional folk songs from Appalachia. Four years…
Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009…Are you tired of your husband or boyfriend always wanting to have sex with you? Well your prayers have been answered: Courtney Love is opening a lingerie store.Pearl Jam aren’t selling out, they’re buying in. The band is allowing…
