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Courtney Love Blasts The Muppets’ Nirvana Cover
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Alternative, Covers, Rock,
Courtney Love has accused The Muppets of "raping" the memory of Kurt Cobain.
The Hole singer feels the puppet group was disrespectful to her former husband - who committed suicide in 1994 - with their cover of his song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in their recent comedy film.
She told website TMZ she thought the version of the Nirvana track, performed in the style of a barbershop quartet, was "raping" Kurt's legacy.
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Taylor Swift Named Music’s Top Earner of 2011
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Concerts / Tours, Alternative, Country, Hip-Hop & Rap, Pop, Rock,
Taylor Swift was the world's highest earning music star on 2011, making $35.7 million.
The "Mine" hitmaker grossed $88 million in the US - which amounted to a personal fortune of $29.8 million - from her Speak Now Tour as well as touring across Asia and Europe, selling over 1.8 million albums and a further 7.8 single track downloads, and gaining income from song writing royalties.
Irish rockers U2 follow closely behind the 22-year-old beauty on the 2012 Billboard Money Makers List, with a fortune of $32.1 million, mainly drawn from their huge 360 Degrees shows, the highest-earning tour of 2011. The "Sweetest Thing" band grossed more than $293 million from 44 concerts throughout the three-year tour, which was watched by nearly three million people, and saw them beat a record set by The Rolling Stones for highest grossing tour ever, taking $763 million in total.
Kenny Chesney, Lady Gaga and hip-hop star Lil Wayne also made up the top five.
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The Killers Learning to be in a Band Again
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The Killers have "taken time to figure out" how to be in a band again.
The "Somebody Told Me" rockers are working on their fourth album after taking a break through much of 2010 and 2011 and bassist Mark Stoermer admits it's taken a little while to get back into the groove: "We started doing it in pieces last May, but it's taken time to figure out what it means to be in a band again, cos we took so much time off. It might be out before summer, but there's no guarantees."
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Lana Del Rey Reveals Herself Through Lyrics
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Gossip, Rumors, Alternative, Pop, New Releases,
Lana Del Rey thinks people "know" her through her lyrics.
The "Blue Jeans" star said thinks fans can relate to the realism of her gloomy lyrics and respect her for not compromising with her tracks.
"I think the people who sort of feel like they know me from my lyrics, and I think that they feel what I write about is what really went down and how I really feel about it. I think maybe what people who like me like about me is the fact that I really believe in myself and what I do and I never compromise with anything that I do in my life - not lyrically, not in reality. I never say anything just to rhyme over sugary pop songs. I really care about documenting my life in a musical fashion. So, I think, people that like me are actually artists," she told Los Angeles-based radio station KROQ.
Lana has proved a controversial figure since her debut single "Video Games," but added the version of her which people are debating is far from her actual personality. "The internet right now is creating their own person for themselves to play with. And that's their prerogative. I wrote every word on my album. There isn't nothing that I didn't write. And I really have done everything that I said I did do. I think the kids know that. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up."
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Quote of the Day: Chris Martin on ‘Mylo Xyloto’
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Artist News, Alternative, Rock,
"It's just something that we thought looked really good but everywhere we go around the world people pronounce it in the most crazy ways and we're beginning to regret it now."
- Coldplay's Chris Martin admits that the band might not have made the best choice when naming their latest album, Mylo Xyloto.
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Sinead O’Connor’s Sex Songs
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Alternative, Pop, Rock,
Sinead O'Connor's new album is "all down to the c**k."
The singer - who released her new LP How About I Be Me (And You Be You?) earlier this week - hopes people who are listening to it are taken on a journey, but admits essentially it boils down to one thing, sex: "I always liked the idea that you listened to my records like reading the diaries of someone recovering from very severe abuse. A journey documented musically, and the whole point of the journey is to get happy. There's no point taking the journey if, at the end of it, you're going to be f**king miserable. But it's all down to the c**k, obviously. As it always is."
Sinead has previously made public pleas for sex and she admits she did so to cause trouble: "It was amusing, because we're still a very repressed country about sexuality. It was hilarious, reactions and reactions, six weeks of complete f**king mayhem which was just the best six weeks I've ever had in my life!"
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Foo Fighters Feel Bad About Metal Grammy Win
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Awards, Performances, Alternative, Rock,
Foo Fighters feel "bad" for winning the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Grammy.
The rockers picked up the trophy for their track "White Limo" - one of the five awards they took home on Sunday - and whilst singer Dave Grohl had admitted it was the one he most wanted, he feel sorry for metal act Dream Theater, as their track was heavier.
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The Black Keys Accuse Nickelback of Killing Rock
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Alternative, Blues, Rock,
The Black Keys think "Rock 'n' roll is dying" because of Nickelback. The blues rockers blame the fact a radio friendly commercial group like the "Rockstar" group have become so big, putting other bands off from trying to be authentic.
"Rock 'n' roll is dying because people became O.K. with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world. So they became O.K. with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be s**t - therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world. F**k that! Rock 'n' roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don't like to see it f***ing ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous s**t. When people start lumping us into that kind of s**t, it's like, 'F**k you,' honestly," drummer Patrick Carney told Rolling Stone.
The duo - completed by singer and guitarist Dan Auerbach - have always tried to remain true to their roots since they formed in 2001, and previously admitted initially turning down large amounts of money to use their songs in TV adverts, as they didn't want to be seen as "selling out."
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The Killers’ Cowboy Christmas Track
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Release Dates, Upcoming Releases, Alternative, Rock,
The Killers' new Christmas song is inspired by "cowboy poetry." The Las Vegas rockers released their fifth festive track today and say that "The Cowboy's Christmas Ball" has a Western theme after frontman Brandon Flowers sought ideas from his reading material.
"Brandon had a book of cowboy poetry and we took one of those and put music to it. It's got this 1800s parlance, Western style. It's pretty upbeat and very down-home sounding - and overall pretty cool," said drummer Ronnie Vannucci.
As well as their Christmas single, The Killers are also recording the follow-up to 2008's album Day and Age, and Ronnie is pleased with the work they have done so far: "It's going really well. We've got a lot of stuff to choose from so now it's just getting it right - we're taking our time and making sure we're doing a good job."
Proceeds from "The Cowboy's Christmas Ball" will be donated to Project Red, the charity founded by U2's Bono, which aims to raise awareness and funds to help eradicate AIDS in Africa.
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Snow Patrol Wants to Work With Gaga
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Collaborations, Alternative, Pop, Rock,
Snow Patrol wants to collaborate with Lady Gaga because she is "much smarter than your average pop star."
The "Called out in the Dark" group has a lot of respect for the "Bad Romance" hitmaker and would love to get her into the studio to add something different to one of their songs. "I think she's pretty incredible. To get her to guest vocal would be a coup. I love watching her and reading her interviews. She knows exactly what she's doing, she seems so much smarter than your average pop star and is really talented. I've seen those early videos of her playing New York gigs, she's just an amazing keyboard player, great musician, great writer, she's the whole deal, drummer Jonny Quinn said.
The only thing which would make the band hesitant to work with Gaga, however, is the fact that Coldplay recorded the track "Princess of China" with Rihanna, and the group is worried people would think they were "copying" them.
Among their other rock star friends, Snow Patrol count funk band Red Hot Chili Peppers, but they're not sure if trying to marry their very different styles would have great results: "We know the Chili Peppers they're really good guys, I know Chad the drummer quite well but I don't know if us collaborating with them would work out," Jonny said.
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