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Lil Wayne And Coldplay Take Off The Gloves

Weezy had his week and those Brits in the funny military thrift outfits had their chance, but next week's chart will be the true test of what style reigns supreme: slightly insane rapping or newly avant-garde sensitive balladry. Either act could end up on top based on current projections, although Coldplay's projections have Viva La Vida holding a 240,000-225,000 advantage over Tha Carter III. The Camp Rock soundtrack will have to constrain its youthful excitement in third place, just short of 200,000 projected sales, while debuts from Motley Crue (100,000 or so) and Three 6 Mafia (around 75k) look to place fourth and fifth. The rest of the top 10 will likely have the unsinkable NOW 28, Usher, Shinedown, Piles, Disturbed, and Rihanna sulking around the bottom, wondering what Weezy has that they don't. [HITS Daily Double]

5:00 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Dan Gibson
284 views, 2 comments

Latest by Lax Danja House: I can't believe Motley Crue can still command 100,000 unit sales in one week. I mean, I love them and all, but how many women in their mid-late 30s can there be in America? more »

corporate rock still sells

No, Really, Don't Call It A Comeback: Candlebox Returns, And Other Has-Beens Aren't Far Behind

Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here's "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al "GovernmentNames" Shipley examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he takes a look at a couple of old reliables who have re-entered the rock charts. More »

3:00 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Al Shipley
859 views, 11 comments

the last word

Mötley Crüe Causes Critics To Kickstart Their Memories

From time to time, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. This time around, we look at the writeups for Mötley Crüe's ninth album, Saints Of Los Angeles, which hits stores today. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
912 views, 15 comments

get that wentz kid on the project, he gets things done

Motley Crue To MTV: Let Our Movie Go

""MTV has become bogged down in its own way. It's a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip. We signed with them because we believed they were right, but they haven't come to the table. We need to find the right partner. They are not the right partner." That's the reason Nikki Sixx gives for the world not being able to plunk down $10 to watch a film adaptation of his band's runaway literary smash The Dirt. When the project was announced in 2006, MTV Films and Paramount were very excited to bring the true (or true-ish) tales of Sunset Strip life to the big screen—yet, two years later, nothing has happened. What on earth, MTV? Are you really going to demand that people actually go and purchase a book and then read it in order to learn about Ozzy Osbourne snorting a line of ants, or the disgusting shenanigans that befell Crue groupies in the '80s? Think of the children, MTV. The children. [Billboard]

5:30 PM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Dan Gibson
203 views, 1 comment

Latest by loudersoft: So the VH-1 Behind The Music wasn't the whole story? The world needs Neil Strauss to settle the score here. more »

kickstart my sales

Shocker: Motley Crue, Video Games Share An Audience

iTunes and Amazon haven't been great to the new Motley Crue single, but the gamers who Crue fans would have previously beat up after school are keeping the band alive. According to the band's management, "Saints of Los Angeles" has sold as a download five times more frequently via the video game Rock Band than traditional digital storefronts like iTunes or Amazon. Before you ask, the track was sold 47,000 times on the Xbox 360 platform alone, so any assumption that the total number of sales was six would be factually incorrect. [I4U News]

11:30 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Dan Gibson
76 views, 1 comment

Latest by Captain Wrong: Like I said on your sister site, I'd guess the reason for this is people buying the Rock Band version strictly as more content to play in the game (and the fact that's it's 50% what a normal Rock Band more »

rule of sevens

Seven Videos That Got Away From Me During Blogging Hours

It's the last day of the month, a time for desk-clearing and "to do" list-finalizing and, in the case of April 2008, celebrating that a pretty horrible 30-day stretch is near its end. With that in mind, I'm going to use the last posting day of each month for "Rule Of Sevens," in which I put together a couple of seven-item, mostly-commentary-free lists—from aborted post topics to my current best-of-the-year rundowns—for your reading pleasure. In the first installment, please enjoy these seven videos that I really wanted to post on various days during April, but didn't, for reasons ranging from "I got distracted and watched it five times in a row instead" to "All I can really say about this song is 'it's awesome and you should listen to it now.'" More »

12:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Maura Johnston
674 views, 11 comments

Latest by StuntKockSteeev: "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" was always one of my favorite Crue songs. While I agree with Molanphy that it got unfairly overshadowed by "Without You", that song has it's moments as well. I remember buying more »

videodrone

New Motley Crue Single Is Not A Ballad, And God Bless

The men get older, but the leather-clad honeys just change their hair. We can debate just how corny it is when all their Cruefest openers join in at the end (wow, a context where Josh Todd and Jacoby Shaddix seem young!), but after that ballad passed on by Simple Plan, it's nice to see that Motley Crue is working in the vein of Dr. Feelgood again. Mick Mars even gets a brief guitar solo! I don't get the slow-motion shots of Nikki getting splashed with water (some kind of in-joke?), but the pig-riding woman swinging a chain makes perfect sense. [YouTube]

9:30 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Anthony Miccio
463 views, 10 comments

Latest by AcidReign: Mick is soloing better than the 1980s, but it's still muddy as shit. The engineer AND the producer? Crue should sue 'em! more »

truthmongerer

Will Motley Crue Be Live Nation's Next Conquest?

Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmongerer, I'll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox.

THE RUMOR: Motley Crue's "big announcement" today will break the news that the Sunset Strip lifers have signed with touring megaglomerate Live Nation, and that its first tour under the deal will be the traveling hard-rock circus Cruefest, also featuring Buckcherry, Papa Roach, and Sixx A.M.

TRUTH THRESHOLD: 80%.

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11:00 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,213 views, 10 comments

the boy with the arab strap is wearing a motley crue t-shirt

Motley Crue's Summer Tour May Be A Bit More Twee Than Anyone Could Expect

Motley Crue's management company, Tenth Street Entertainment, has shot down reports that the band's "big announcement" this week would be about a Cruefest featuring Motley, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, and Drowning Pool. In a statement to Blabbermouth, the management company provided a list of artists whose names might be dropped during the April 15 press conference that's making this "colossal announcement": More »

8:50 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,265 views, 6 comments

aww, nuts

Motley Crue's "Colossal" Announcement May Be Just As Much Of A Letdown As We Thought

It would seem that next month's big Motley Crue announcement, which was teased in this space earlier this week, may in fact involve touring, with the band taking the ball that's been dropped by the flailing Ozzfest and launching the first annual Cruefest, an innovatively named tour that will have Nikki, Vince, Tommy, and Mick as headliners. Whether or not there will also be announcements involving a long-rumored deal between the band and concert promoter Live Nation is unclear, but I really hope that something else will be announced at this press conference, because the lineup of supporting acts looks pretty grim: More »

8:50 AM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Maura Johnston
6,992 views, 3 comments

Latest by cruekid: You call a massive tour a letdown? I'm a huge fan, and I'd be excited if that's all it was. The Crue, Buckcherry, Sixx: AM, etc. Yeah, I could do without Papa Roach and Trapt, but who cares! What do more »

educated guesses

Motley Crue's "Colossal" Announcement: What Could It Be?

With all four members apparently still chummy enough to begin the "shameless promotional gimmicks" leg of prepping forthcoming album The Dirt, Motley Crue is now teasing what remains of its fanbase with a "colossal announcement" at an April 15 press conference in the City of Angels, including a contest designed to make you a part of this momentous communiqué, provided you've managed to get your taxes squared away and otherwise cleared your schedule by then. And don't get airsick or mind reporting for free. More »

9:00 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Jess Harvell
1,180 views, 11 comments

Latest by Jay-C: Three Words: Cirque Du Soleil... more »

words?

Title Of Motley Crue's New Album May Be Indicative Of Band's Current Level Of Creativity

In between bouts of arguing over whether or not to sign with Live Nation, Motley Crue has apparently been recording songs for a new album, its first studio venture since 2000's New Tattoo and the first full-length to have the original Vince/Nikki/Mick/Tommy lineup on board since Generation Swine. (Which came out 11 years ago!) In what may be an effort to remind the world that they are still bad-ass mofos despite Tommy Lee's reality-tv misadventures and Mick Mars' fraility, the album will be called The Dirt, which those of you who enjoy salacious rock-star biographies may remember as the title of the sex-and-drug-filled Crue biography that came out in 2001. Nikki Sixx has said that two of the song titles are "A Scar On Hollywood Boulevard" and "The Saints Of Los Angeles"; reports that the album also features a between-song interlude called "Do You Know Where That Breakfast Burrito Has Been?" are unconfirmed at present. [Blabbermouth]

8:45 AM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,744 views, 10 comments

Latest by Michaelangelo Matos: hahahaha "current level" more »

deals?

Vince Neil And Nikki Sixx Shooting Each Other Looks That Kill

Yesterday Robin Leach's Las Vegas gossip blog reported that Motley Crue had signed a $100 million deal with Live Nation that would span three albums and three world tours. Leach claimed to have gotten the scoop from Vince Neil, who was throwing a birthday party at Koi in Las Vegas and who was all smiles, saying that Motley's first world tour under the deal would kick off in July and that by the time the deal was up, the band would be celebrating its 37th anniversary. But then Nikki Sixx fired back via an e-mailed press release from his publicist, saying that Vince was, once again, just talking crazy talk! More »

12:15 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,321 views, 37 comments

Latest by boredwithitall: Another band that needs to hang it up. Sad watching a bunch of heroin addicts all flabby in spandex twitching around the stage, trying to recapture the magic they never had. more »

keeping it real

Rockers Still Fretting Over Being Called "Sellouts," Even As They Have Advertisers Nervous

So long as rockers old and new are worried about the public's perception, no one's going to go broke writing trend pieces about "selling out." This New York Times article looking at the marketing moves of former GNR bassist (and "business school graduate"...who knew?) Duff McKagan is another case in point, as musicians and biz folks alike are trotted out to defend their shilling and make their aging audience comfortable when "rockers are eagerly plastering their names everywhere." In fact, rockers are now so comfy with "plastering their names everywhere" that advertisers are starting to get nervous that audiences are ignoring the stuff those names being used to sell. More »

2:35 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By jharv
593 views, 1 comment

Latest by Chris Molanphy: 'Course that really doesn't take into account where listeners fit in. But we're barely a secondary market these days. Because you're all thieves! Why, you're on the internets right now! Why should we trust you infernal kids?! more »

yay, journalism!

"Time" Lets Hard Rock Fanboy Fawn Over His Idols

Apparently some Time story got killed at the last minute, because this barely copyedited piece on the recent resurgence of hard-rock bands that can only be described as "odd" for a lot of reasons somehow made it to the magazine's site. Not only is Don Dokken referred to as "Dan" in the story's second sentence (ouch!), and not only does Vince Neil's assertion that Motley Crue is in its heyday right now go unquestioned, and not only was the Rocklahoma festival—which, if anything, was the moment that hard rock could have been claimed as ruling the roost during the just-completed summer concert season—completely ignored (as was the fact that many of these touring bands were full of reshuffled hired guns), the numbers that were presented as evidence of writer/CNN Headline News personality Kris Osborn's "rock is back!" thesis were subject to some curious inflation: More »

1:45 PM on Mon Oct 8 2007
By mjohnston
619 views, 10 comments

Latest by scarletvirtue: Yeah, that piece was a trainwreck. All I can think is that if you're a "real fan", at least get the damn names right! In the meantime, I looked at the article and photos and just thought of how tragic so more »

quit playing games with our hearts

Tommy Lee Is Not Leaving Motley Crue (Maybe)

Make up your damn mind! Five days after the "Kid Pebble" dick-measuring contest and one day after it was announced Mr. Lee would be leaving Motley Crue (this time...forever!), Tommy's biggest publicity week in eons closes out with him claiming that he doesn't really wanna break up with his common-law wives of almost three decades after all: More »

10:35 AM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By jharv
408 views, 5 comments

broken dreams

The Day The Blogger Cried: Tommy Lee Is A Crueman No Longer

File this under: Stuff I'm going to presume against hope is just a vicious Internet rumor because my ailing heart just couldn't take it. But yes, Tommy Lee has apparently departed Motley Crue amidst lawsuits against the band's former manager and claims that reality TV has rendered Lee even more of a lovable dolt than he was before. According to a press release from the band, said former manager, Carl Stubner, was playing fast and loose with the band's money, even going so far as to hawk the band's tickets at inflated rates that went right into his own pocket. But moreover, they claim that Stubner's stewardship of Lee's career has sullied the good name of the Crue itself: More »

10:02 AM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By jharv
562 views, 3 comments

Latest by AcidReign: You can actually scalp Motley Crue tickets for higher than face value? Who knew? more »

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