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53 days ago
MSN Music's blog is moving! Here's the new address: http://music.msn.com/reverb-blog/ Percy Thrillington will still be thrilling us, as well as the amazing Mark C. Brown. Join the discussion! - MSN Music
103 days ago
This story has gotten a lot of play in the past couple of days, but that doesn't make it any less incredible. Or credible, actually. Bob Dylan, wandering around a New Jersey suburb wearing sweats and carrying no ID, almost gets arrested for vagrancy by cops who don't recognize him, or believe he is who he says he is. Is it funny? Is it sad? It's very clearly both. But the opportunities it offers for ironically quoting Dylan songs—from "Just a Lonesome Hobo" to "Like a Rolling Stone"—remains peerless. From Rollingstone.com: Last month, police in Long Branch, New Jersey, responded to a call about a suspicious person peering into houses that were for sale during a rainstorm. Turns out, the potential perp was no criminal — it was Bob Dylan. The ensuing incident demonstrated anyone can be the victim of mistaken identity, and that Jersey cops need to brush up on their rock history. Twenty-four-year-old police officer Kristie Buble approached Dylan, who “felt ...
111 days ago
You just can't please some people. Those people are named Morrissey, who has recently gone public to urge his fans not to buy the two EMI box sets of his solo singles and b-sides, nor, while they're at it, the Rhino box set of Smiths CDs or the Warner Brothers Smiths vinyl box. As expressed in a statement on his website, his reasons are simple: "Morrissey does not approve such releases and would ask people not to bother buying them. Morrissey receives no royalty payments from EMI for any back catalogue, and has not received a royalty from EMI since 1992... Morrissey last received a royalty payment from Warners ten years ago, and, once again, he would ask people not to bother buying the reissued LPs or CDs." They still just haven't earned it yet, baby.
114 days ago
If you were a kid in the '80s (they were a decade a few years back, just play along), you learned how to be young by watching the films John Hughes, who died yesterday of a heart attack at 59, wrote and/or directed. For good and ill, Sixteen Candles , The Breakfast Club , Pretty in Pink , Ferris Bueller's Day Off , and Some Kind of Wonderful were the code that told you who you most likely were, how to be him or her, and, most importantly, what he or she listened to. Their key ingredients were Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and music. Here are a few of the songs Hughes favored in those films. With gratitude, sir. Rest in peace, JH.
115 days ago
No one here is trying to make light of the fact that one of America's beloved entertainers has suffered an injury from falling off the stage during a concert. HOWEVER, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith fell off the stage at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota (you remember, that's where Nickelback shot their live DVD, duh), which would be newsworthy even if he hadn't been rushed to the hospital with head, neck, and shoulder injuries in a helicopter. But friends, this all happened while Tyler was "dancing around" as a lark after the sound went out during—could it have been any other song?— "Love in an Elevator" (as in, "livin' it up while I'm going down"). Sometimes life just does the hard work for you. Expect news about Tyler's relationship with pain pills very soon. HuffPo has the scoop: RAPID CITY, S.D. — Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler, known for dancing with microphone stands adorned with scarves, was airlifted to a hospital early ...
