New in the Idolator tips inbox: A press release with the title “Scott Stapp Returns to the Top of the Billboard Album Charts With Creed’s Full Circle Debuting At No. 2.” Huh? More »
Creed continued its promotional jaunt for its just-out album Full Circle today with a stop at Live With Regis And Kelly; the band performed its new single “Rain,” and, uh, well. Let’s just say that for a once-pummeled band that’s inching toward a full-on “hey, they weren’t that bad” critical reappraisal, frontman Scott Stapp sure did sound like he’d ingested some Magical Stay Out Of Tune With The Rest Of The Band beans right before going onstage. Clip after the jump. More »
Monday on Idolator: “On the comeback trail and underappreciated? Well. Expect a Slate piece on how [Creed has] always been underrated any day now!” Wednesday on Slate: “It’s time to give Scott Stapp’s nu-grunge foursome another listen. Seriously.” I can’t tell if I’m a clairvoyant genius, or if someone in the Slate editorial matrix decided to just take the bait. Either way, I guess it’s officially time to Let The Healing Begin. Get ready for some critical darling to do a drugged-up cover of “Higher” as a blog-baiting MP3! [Slate] More »
It’s often fun to play the contrarian in arts journalism, to champion the artist who might have been lost to the discount bin or the unfair corporate machination. So it was probably inevitable—hey, tickets to their concerts are going for less than a dollar with service charges—that someone would try to paint recently reunited post-grungers Creed in a sympathetic light. But would you have put money on the possibility that said rehab project would result in a full-page feature in the New York Times‘ Sunday Arts section? More »
A venue in Alabama is asking its (no doubt confused) local populace right now if it would like to attend this Friday’s show by Scott Stapp and his merry band of post-grungers for the low price of three-quarters of a dollar. And yes, that’s with the Ticketmaster surcharges. (Although you’ll have to plunk down an extra $2.50 if you want the convenience of printing your ticket at home.) More »
The folks at industry rag Hits have a handy chart of the albums coming out in the last months of the year, which, who knows, may be the last one in which a chart like this is even necessary! But even though we’re a long way from the days of 50 Cent and Kanye West squaring off on the anniversary of 9/11, it’s still sort of fun to see what CDs will be landing at America’s retailers on the same day. After the jump, five of the best battles that could arise from the coming release-date schedule. (Marketing departments, get your beef stew recipes ready!) More »
Scott Stapp’s pipes are so powerful, they can even inspire friendships in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metro area to shatter… via text message. [Texts From Last Night; HT @brandon / Pic via The 412] More »
I don’t know about you, but the dog days of August are making me long for some levity. And what better way to bring in some hilarity than to think about the late Boots Randolph’s delightful “Yakety Sax,” a.k.a. “that Benny Hill Show song,” a.k.a. the best way to make any YouTube clip hilarious? Noted “Yakety Sax” enthusiast Jess Harvell and I put together a pair of lists related to the song—namely, a top 10 countdown of artists who need to cover the song soon, and a counterpoint list of 10 artists who should never get within a 25-mile radius of its implied hilarity, for fear of ruining it for all time. The countdowns after the jump. More »
ARTIST: Creed
TITLE: “Overcome”
WEB DEBUT: Aug. 18, 2009 More »