Slash promises that Velvet Revolver will record a third album, with or (please please please) without Weiland. “We don’t know how or when but the core four guys will continue,” he was quoted as saying. It’s a heartwarming response to the bitchfits his estranged compatriot has been issuing to the world, as there’s no reason The Band Formerly Known As Guns N’ Roses should back a grating, obnoxious hack who can’t get his pipes around anything on Appetite For Destruction except “It’s So Easy,” making him more of a rock dodo than a rock dinosaur. But now that The Big Empty might be out of the picture, which grating, obnoxious hack (with more vocal range) should replace him?
Indie blues dudes the Black Keys are tentatively down with the idea of doing a collabo with Naugahyde-y, septuagenarian-beloved crooner Rod Stewart after the sixtysomething made eyes at them during a recent interview. More »
Happy 63rd birthday, Rod Stewart. You’re going through an odd era as far as your status among critics goes, with appreciation for the Faces on the rise, while nearly everything that followed only seeming to chase trends and, in the words of Rolling Stone, “become a bilious self-parody.” While one would be justified in questioning a tribute to you, considering your later work–including the seemingly endless tribute to the “American Songbook,” which was wildly popular with my mother-in-law and sold incredibly well for being a sign of the apocalypse–everyone, no matter how severe their aesthetic crimes, deserves recognition on their birthday. So here’s ours…
The inevitable onset of elderly insanity is usually pretty depressing, though in its early, hobby-centric stages it can be the stuff of cheeky entertainment features. The Guardian reports that Rod Stewart is a “model-rail freak.” It’s Rod Stewart, so at first you think, “Model-rail freak? Some sort of rail or pole for fashion models? What?” No, no, no. Miniature railroads.
The rocker poses with a 30-foot reassurance of his manhood in London yesterday. The two were married shortly thereafter. More »
You’ve probably heard that Rod Stewart has married yet another model 25 years younger than him. Granted, this is not exactly shocking news, but we thought we’d take this opportunity to see what a few of the 62-year-old singer’s prior relationships with leggy fashion icons a quarter-century his junior have meant to, you know, his art.
– Diddy decides to bring Making The Band back to its roots, announces search for potential boy-band members. Our suggestion: A repertoire consisting entirely of O-Town covers. SOHH] – Unions in the UK are asking the government to investigate the “torture” of piped-in Christmas music. More »
It’s a good thing the Idolator flophouse doubles as our “office,” because if we had to face this one-two punch every morning, our will to work, and to exist, would be slowly, but surely, sapped away. More »
-Rod Stewart’s Still The Same will likely debut in the top slot on this week’s album charts, which can only be good news for big-haired Hot Rod impersonators everywhere. More »
– David Bowie will voice a character on SpongeBob SquarePants this season. No word on whether he will lead the characters in any sort of dance. [metro.co.uk, via NeverNews] – Rod Stewart’s vow: He won’t retire until he’s transformed every song ever written into a huge pile of treacly mush. More »
