Archive for January, 2011

The Foo Fighters have begun readying a documentary to be released later in 2011. Spitfire Pictures and Academy Award winner James Moll are slated to produce the documentary, which will “chronicle the entire history of the Foo Fighters from the cassette demos Dave Grohl recorded during his tenure as Nirvana’s drummer through their ascent to [...]

Wilco has left their old label, ‘Nonesuch’, after releasing four albums with the company. Now the band has decided to move forward on its own, starting their own label, called ‘dBpm Records’. The label will release all future Wilco recordings, as well as other releases, and will be run by the band’s manager Tony Margherita. [...]

Pearl Jam is continuing to celebrate the band’s 20th year in style, by announcing more special events for fans. Besides the recent live album that was just released, Live On Ten Legs, the band has just revealed that there are some special releases and a documentary in the works.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, bassist [...]

A woman from Canada has earned the first degree in Beatles Studies from the Liverpool Hope University. A former Miss Canada finalist, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy was one of the first 12 students to sign up for the course when it was first held in 2009.

Says the woman on her achievement,
“I am so proud. The course was [...]

As they’ve done now the past couple years, music blog Stereogum has posted a video of bands who have broken up in the past year. This video is always one of my favorites to check out, as any band break ups are always the soap opera drama of the industry.
You can check the out video [...]

This month’s upcoming Rolling Stone has a quick interview with Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, covering many of the recent activities he’s been up to, as well as his thoughts on a reunion with his beloved band. Seemingly, it’s not happening any time soon…
Plant recently told the magazine, that not only does he not have [...]

The Foo Fighters have started a contest to see who will shoot the videos for the band’s upcoming album due this spring. The contest, titled “This Video Sucks” simply asks fans to submit reels of their previous work, and then awards only 11 aspiring directors the chance to shoot videos for each song on [...]

Vitamin String Quartet’s latest release is an inventive interpretation of A Thousand Suns, the most recent album from nu-metal act, Linkin Park. Here are ten things you should know about the band:
1. Linkin Park was formed by high school friends Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon in 1996 in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura [...]

To keep their music coming all year round, The Flaming Lips will be releasing a new song for free during every month of the New Year. Much like Kayne West’s GOOD FRIDAYS last year, where a new song was released each Friday for a number of months, the Lips will be making new tunes to [...]

Right on the heels of Vitamin String Quartet’s latest release, “VSQ Performs Weezer’s Pinkerton,” frontman Rivers Cuomo has made a public video in which he covers a classic Beach Boys song. From what looks to be his own private studio, the famed singer is seen playing piano and singing the classic tune “God Only Knows.”
While [...]