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noah | August 7, 2009 4:00 pm
noah | August 7, 2009 4:00 pm

stappThe best sentence I’ve read all day week: “Surrounded by candles, Stapp strummed an acoustic guitar, with an annotated Bible open on the table in front of him, next to a closed copy of The Art of War.” Especially when I think of it in the context of this headline: “Creed’s Stapp Talks Breakup, Make-Up and Shaved Head.” Oh, Rolling Stone, thank you for giving me something to giggle uncontrollably about after a too-long workweek. [RS] More »


noah | June 11, 2009 9:30 am
noah | June 11, 2009 9:30 am

creedYou know what’s worse than watching your favorite team squander a lead against their chief division rival, then lose to that team in extra innings? Having your team’s last hope in the bottom of the eleventh come out to a Creed song… before he grounds out to end the game. It’s like, maybe if you had better at-bat music, you’d get a little more psyched up to start a rally there, Brian Schneider. [MLB.com] More »


The Pyro Is To Distract People From All Those Other Creed Songs People Don’t Want To Hear

noah | May 21, 2009 3:45 pm
noah | May 21, 2009 3:45 pm

creed“While preparing to record, Creed has also been focusing on its tour, with a repertoire that will include ‘all the Creed songs people want to hear’ as well as the new material, plus plenty of pyrotechnics.” [Billboard; HT Candice Jones] More »



The Creed Reunion: Well, You Knew It Was Going To Happen Eventually

noah | April 27, 2009 12:45 pm
noah | April 27, 2009 12:45 pm

creedToday’s sorta-unsurprising sign of an impending apocalypse: Bombastic post-grunge outfit Creed is getting back together for a new album and a two-month tour that kicks off in August; frontman Scott Stapp, who is probably right now enjoying his best day of, oh, the past five years or so, is saying that the jaunt won’t be a cash-in, but a “renewing and a rebirth.” (I knew there was something behind all that Twitter activity!) Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was the member of the band who initially had the idea for this reliving of past glories! More »


Lady GaGa Takes Slow and Steady Route to the Top

Chris Molanphy | April 3, 2009 4:00 am
Chris Molanphy | April 3, 2009 4:00 am

Lady GaGa Scores Hot 100 Milestone,” a Billboard headline trumpeted yesterday upon the release of the new Hot 100.

What could this milestone be? you might ask yourself. Biggest self-aggrandizer since 50 Cent to reach the top slot? Most similar-sounding pair of hits since Rick Astley? Most successful pantsless act?

As it happens, GaGa’s achievement has to do with her Billboard batting average: two chart hits, two No. 1’s. This week, “Poker Face” follows January’s smash “Just Dance” into the top slot. She’s the first act to step up to the plate, swing just twice, and hit two homers since Christina Aguilera’s first pair of hits, “Genie in a Bottle” and “What a Girl Wants,” topped the Hot 100 in 1999–2000.

That’s nice for the Lady and all, but it masks a more notable achievement: her slowness in achieving those hits. The amount of time “Dance” and “Poker” took to reach No. 1 is literally unprecedented in recent chart history.

In a sea of hits that explode up the charts based on faddish bursts of iTunes sales, GaGa’s chart pattern is contrary to everything going on in pop music promotion right now, recalling the more languid runs by songs in the ’70s through the mid-’90s. It’s almost enough to make an old-school chart geek like me root for her. More »


Scott Stapp Still A Creed Follower

noah | March 27, 2009 1:00 am
noah | March 27, 2009 1:00 am

As a way of getting in touch with his fans, greasy yarler Scott Stapp has started up a Twitter, which so far has one update (“im in the studio tracking new music!!”) and 116 followers. But it’s who Stapp is following on the microblogging service that is notable—especially after all the scuttlebutt regarding a reunion of his former band last year.

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No. 27: Artists From The ’90s Line Up To Cash In Now, Honey

noah | December 23, 2008 1:00 am
noah | December 23, 2008 1:00 am

Perhaps realizing that breaking new artists in the music-stuffed, nostalgia-mired world of now was impossible, many a band that made their mark on the world back in the 1990s got back on their collective horses and rode the wave of “remember when?” this year, from Stone Temple Pilots to My Bloody Valentine to Ben Folds Five to even Ned’s Atomic Dustbin. As you might expect, results were mixed overall, although they were probably better than those that would be realized by any new endeavors by the parties involved.

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The Creed Reunion Is Almost A Go!

mariasci | December 1, 2008 4:00 am
mariasci | December 1, 2008 4:00 am


Scott Stapp! Scott Stapp! The name like music to the ears of any red-blooded American. And now, it looks like that Creed reunion is actually going to happen!

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The Scariest Piece Of Music News You Will Hear All Halloween (And Maybe All Year)

noah | October 31, 2008 12:45 pm
noah | October 31, 2008 12:45 pm

Billboard finally got wind of the rumor that Alter Bridge lead singer Myles Kennedy would be filling in for Robert Plant on the “half of Led Zeppelin plus the dead drummer’s son” tour that’ll bill itself as a Led Zep reunion to overly credulous classic rock fans next year, with anonymous “sources” feeding their reporters the same bits of speculation that Dee Snider was more than willing to blab about a few weeks ago. But buried at the very end of the piece is another reunion-related revelation that should chill your bones:

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Give Thanks: Creed Is Never Getting Back Together (So Long As Alter Bridge Is Making Money)

jharv | November 21, 2007 5:30 am
jharv | November 21, 2007 5:30 am

stapppppp.jpgAs we are forcedprepare to join our loved ones and reaffirm the positive things that have happened to us in 2007, take comfort in the fact that former Creed and current Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti is as irritated by Scott Stapp as the rest of world, meaning no future Creed product. Also, Stapp’s one of those creepy exes who can’t stop sending “hey, what’s up?” text messages long after the relationship’s over.

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