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AC/DC today ended weeks of rumors and speculation by confirming that they will distribute their new album Black Ice exclusively through mega-retailer WalMart. The Brendan O’Brien produced CD will be released on October 20 and be available through WalMart and Sams Club, as well as on AC/DC’s website ... read more |
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Wow, it's 8/8/8. Let’s hope that’s not anything like 666, right? On that note, welcome to this week’s edition of the Friday Flash. We've got news on the Police, The Clash, Weezer, Wolfmother, and all of your top concert bets for the weekend. Show em' if ya' know em' ... read more |
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Count The Police as the latest band to go “exclusive.” The Police will offer it’s upcoming live release Certifiable on October 7 as a 2 DVD/2 CD set, a single disc Blu-ray/2 CD combo, and in a triple vinyl configuration with an MP3 download, all exclusively through mega-retailer Best Buy
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Stepping away from your mom and Sting’s crotch, three cheers for the end of Stewart Copeland’s career in The Police. Now Oysterhead can reunite; they were better anyway ... read more |
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Instead of major stadiums, this year’s event will take place on various U.S. college campuses and promises that each Democratic and Republican schmuck, I mean, nominee chosen by then will speak on the issue of going green since organizers feel it has been absent from presidential debates. But so has all hope. I don’t see any concerts being put together for that ... read more |
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To help celebrate the mass reissuing of Elvis Costello’s back catalog on remastered CDs, the “Allison” singer will release his first album in four years on vinyl–only vinyl. The disc, dubbed Momofuku, will be available on April 22nd, complete with a special download code which will allow buyers to download the album onto their computers ... read more |
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People suck. They can barely figure out how to get through life without dying, let alone select winners for anything. That indisputable fact was on shameful display tonight, as the writer-less People’s Choice Awards crowned some musical winners. Former N’Sync crooner Justin Timberlake sexied his way to two-and-a-half awards, the half coming by way of his guest spot on Timbaland’s “Give It To Me”, which won Favorite Hip-Hop Song ... read more |
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2007 was the year of the reunion. Long-awaited reunions, mediocre reunions, Anarchistic reunions, even one-hit wonder reunions. Band members veered apart, splintered off into solo mediocrity and than Kriss Krossed back, traipsing across the country with their original drummers. Apparently, even at fifty, getting serviced by nineteen year olds with repressed daddy issues in a Cleveland motel room is better per diem than a hundred bucks and a novelty ‘World’s Best Employee’ mug from the assistant manager at Costco ... read more |
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a hell of a week. Santa (1) came and visited my household, dolling out Christmas cheer and accidentally leaving one of his Lipitors next to an empty plate of chocolate chunk cookies on my kitchen table. My beloved Chicago Blackhawks have won four straight, and I couldn’t be in a better mood. Now, it’s time to tarnish those good vibes by digging up all the heinous stories of Rock N Roll excess from the last week ... read more |
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Pollstar’s annual top tour grossing figures were just released, and the Police walloped the competition with their vicious three-piece nightstick of song. The trio collected over one hundred thirty million hard earned dollars, while Kenny Chesney, their closest rival, finished with seventy-one million. ... read more |
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