Archive | February, 2016

Watch Madonna Perform 'Take a Bow' in Concert for First Time

Madonna dove deep into her extensive catalog to perform her 1994 hit “Take a Bow” live for the first time in Taipei, Taiwan Thursday. As PopCrush points out, Madonna did sing the Number One single off Bedtime Stories at the 1995 American Music Awards, but has left it off set lists for her own shows. A fan-shot video captured… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

In Defense of the CD

I expected David Bowie’s death to make me nostalgic, but not this way. Like many people, I spent the days after his passing relistening to Bowie records I hadn’t played in years. One night, it felt time to revisit Low, his 1977 plunge into Berlin weirdness. I plugged in my swanky… Source: RollingStone Link: In […]

Deftones Unleash Dynamic New Song 'Prayers/Triangles'

Deftones debuted a powerful, rousing new track, “Prayers/Triangles,” off their upcoming album Gore, on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show Thursday. “Prayers/Triangles” moves deftly between the elegant and brutal, with swimming guitars guiding a near-psychedelic verse that gives way to an elegiac, but monstrous chorus. Frontman Chino Moreno unleashes a stirring vocal performance… Source: RollingStone Link: Deftones […]

Tom DeLonge Announces Alien-Inspired Book, 'Sekret Machines,' Music

Former Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge will launch a new cross-media series, Sekret Machines, that spans fiction and nonfiction books and new music this spring. The singer will kick things off with a 704-page hardcover novel, Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows, which he co-wrote with author A.J. Hartley (the Darwen Arkwright series)… Source: RollingStone Link: Tom DeLonge […]

Hear Red Hot Chili Peppers' Lost, Navarro-Era 'Circle of the Noose'

“Circle of the Noose,” a previously unreleased, five-minute song from the sessions to follow up Red Hot Chili Peppers’ One Hot Minute, has made its way online. The laidback, jammy, Led Zeppelin-y track, which YouTube user RHCPtv 5 uploaded, finds Anthony Kiedis singing tableaus depicting dragonflies, laughing dogs and storms,… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Red […]

Billy Corgan Plots Road Trip Documentary About America

Billy Corgan is embarking on a cross-country road trip to film a documentary about America and potentially dredge up material for a new album. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman outlined the project in a note on his website, People and Their Cars, which will wind its way from Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to… Source: RollingStone Link: Billy […]

Flashback: John Entwistle Returns To Woodstock in 1999

By any measure, Woodstock ’99 was a disaster. Held on a former Air Force base in Rome, New York, during a broiling-hot weekend in July, the festival forced fans to shell out $4.00 for bottles of water, with precious little shade for the 200,000 people that flocked to the event… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: John […]

Lucinda Williams Talks Meeting Dylan, Southern Identity, Shopping Online

Lucinda Williams releases her excellent 12th LP, The Ghosts of Highway 20, on February 5th. The great singer-songwriter recently spoke to Rolling Stone about her musical and literary idols, and why singing is better than working at Walmart. You live in Los Angeles, but you grew up in Louisiana and Mississippi. What’s the… Source: RollingStone Link: Lucinda […]