Iron Maiden scored the best Billboard 200 performance of their career, and their best sales week since Nielsen Music began measuring in 1991, as the heavy metal group’s 16th studio album The Book of Souls debuted at Number Four with 75,000 total copies sold. Iron Maiden’s 2010 LP The Final Frontier also… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]
September 13th marked the 19th anniversary of the death of Tupac Shakur, and to commemorate the rapper, Kendrick Lamar, one of the “offspring of the legacy” Shakur left behind, penned a touching tribute on 2Pac’s official site. “I was 8 yrs old when I first saw you. I couldn’t describe how I… Source: RollingStone Link: Kendrick […]
RZA continues to flip between producing beats and directing films as the Wu-Tang Clan mastermind has been recruited to helm an upcoming action-thriller titled Breakout. The movie, RZA’s third time behind the camera, is set to begin production in early 2016, Variety reports. Breakout’s plot finds a young photographer that is falsely charged… Source: RollingStone Link: RZA […]
Kelly Clarkson was forced to withdraw from the remainder of her U.S. tour due to voice strain. “So bummed that I have to cancel some of my tour dates. This kills me, but doctors are saying I need to rest my voice,” Clarkson wrote in a series of tweets Saturday. “I can’t wait… Source: RollingStone Link: Kelly Clarkson […]
“What an ultimate collection of misfits and weirdos,” Bl’ast! vocalist Clifford Dinsmore said early on during the almost-three-hour debut show by Teenage Time Killers, the loose collective of punk and heavy-metal icons headed by Corrosion of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin and My Ruin guitarist Mick Murphy, and named after a… Source: RollingStone Link: Punk-Metal Supergroup […]
Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift and Stevie Wonder were among the winners at the 2015 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Saturday night in Los Angeles, with Dave Grohl and company taking home a pair of awards for their HBO docuseries Sonic Highways and Swift scoring her first Emmy. Sonic Highways won two of its four… Source: RollingStone Link: Foo […]
American conductor Marin Alsop brought the 120th season of the Proms, the world's biggest and longest running music festival, to a close in London on Saturday, with an acknowledgement of the power of music to help overcome inequality. "It's clear inequality is one of the greatest challenges facing us today," said Alsop, who returned to […]
Jimmy Fallon capped off a Donald Trump-filled episode of The Tonight Show Friday with Pharrell Williams showcasing his latest single “Freedom.” The “unprecedented” performance marked a first for the late-night show as Williams and company delivered the song from atop The Tonight Show marquee outside 30 Rock and right next to New… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Pharrell […]
October 9th marks what would have been John Lennon’s 75th birthday, and his widow Yoko Ono will commemorate the late Beatle by organizing the world’s largest human peace sign at New York’s Central Park. Ono’s Imagine Peace revealed the record-breaking undertaking Thursday during a stop on the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, where… Source: RollingStone Link: Yoko Ono […]
There were no fireworks or kabuki makeup, no lightning bolts or platform heels, but Paul Stanley of Kiss found some genuine emotional power in a set of classic Sixties and Seventies R&B Friday night at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles. It was the first public performance of Paul Stanley’s Soul Station, and… Source: RollingStone Link: Kiss' Paul […]