Facebook is the hot new social networking platform (of 2007), so it makes sense that Live Nation, which has been aggressively expanding its data-mining efforts online, would try and get in on some of the site’s poke-filled action. But is the company’s Facebook application really going to make non-employees of the company embrace the Live Nation “brand” and post on their friends’ walls that they think hot-pink Web sites that are overly frame-laden are the best way to get totally pumped for that upcoming $100-a-seat show at the local arena?
A Long Island house owned by 50 Cent burned down this morning, and six people went to the hospital as a result of the blaze, according to Newsday. More »
A Long Island house owned by 50 Cent burned down this morning, and six people went to the hospital as a result of the blaze, according to Newsday. More »
After lots of delays, Courtney Love is seemingly ready to start rehearsing for the recording of her new album and its subsequent tour. But she needs a bass player, and so she’s turned her MySpace blog into her own personal Craigslist because the dude she wanted originally, who, uh, worked with Plant/Page, is currently on tour with Goldfrapp. Are you that man? I ask if you’re that man because she doesn’t want a chick bass player for reasons that she’s keeping secret. (I’m hoping that it has something to do with the way the “chick bassist” went from trope to joke during the last decade’s alt-rock boom of 10 years ago, but I fully expect to be disappointed.) If you feel like applying, the ad–complete with suggested musical influences–is after the jump!
Well, the polls have closed, and we have our nominees for Idolator’s suggested “vintage video” for airing on F’NMTV, Pete Wentz’s attempt to bring music videos back to MTV’s prime-time programming hours. We did get a few suggestions, some of which could have been, well, a little better. (No offense intended to the suggestee, but really, “Cantaloop”?)
Another track from the reissue of Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad has leaked, and the fact that it’s titled “Disturbia” makes me think that it was actually recorded for the 2007 Rear Window ripoff starring Shia LeBoeuf, but replaced at the last minute on the soundtrack by Afroman’s “Because I Got… More »
Another track from the reissue of Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad has leaked, and the fact that it’s titled “Disturbia” makes me think that it was actually recorded for the 2007 Rear Window ripoff starring Shia LeBoeuf, but replaced at the last minute on the soundtrack by Afroman’s “Because I Got… More »
I hope you weren’t planning on seeing both Alison Krauss and Death Cab For Cutie at Bonnaroo in two weeks, because the festival’s just-released schedule just won’t allow it. More »
The director of Weezer’s “remember that thing on YouTube? wasn’t that funny?” video for “Pork & Beans” speaks about his, ahem, “inspiration” for the clip: “When I heard ‘Pork and Beans,’ I loved its non-conformist message and felt like it was a natural anthem for the self-expression that’s been… More »
Like it or not–and barring appeals–Chicago Sun-Times pop music critic Jim DeRogatis will likely be forced to testify in the R. Kelly case. Apparently, when you turn over a tape of apparent child pornography to police, the person accused of creating said video might have a few questions for you. More »
