Rock
Billie Joe Armstrong Says Trump Is ‘Holding Half of the Country Hostage’
Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong lashed out at one-term President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the election, saying his denial is holding “half of the country hostage.” Speaking to NME, Armstrong joked that it feels like “there hasn’t been a dull moment for the last four years,” as he noted that it’s been “kind of crazy” in the U.S. lately due to the November presidential election and out-of-control COVID-19 pandemic. And while Trump appears to be digging in his heels as he launches more last-ditch legal efforts to call into question his defeat at the hands of President-elect Joe Biden, Armstrong said he believes it’s “inevitable” that the former Celebrity Apprentice star leave the White House at some point. ...
AC/DC’s ‘Power Up’ Charges In at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
AC/DC’s Power Up debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, giving the legendary rock band its third chart-topping set. The new studio effort was released via Columbia Records on Nov. 13 and starts with 117,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 19, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. AC/DC previously hit No. 1 with 2008’s Black Ice and 1981’s For Those About to Rock (We Salute You). All told, Power Up is AC/DC’s 26th charting album, and 10th top 10. Also in the top 10, Future and Lil Uzi Vert’s first collaborative album, Pluto x Baby Pluto, debuts at No. 2, Chris Stapleton’s Starting Over enters at No. 3, Queen’s Greatest Hits reaches the top 10 for the first time and the prolific YoungBoy Never Broke Again clocks his fourth top 10 of 2020 wit...
10 Hardest Rock Band Songs to Play
I remember taking drum lessons when I was 10 years old. I desperately wanted to learn how to play the drums, but I had a difficult time wrapping my head around certain theoretical concepts. This wasn’t the component I was even interested in. When I received an iPod Nano as… Please click the link below to read the full article. 10 Hardest Rock Band Songs to Play Grant Sharples You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Bob Dylan Papers, Including Unpublished Lyrics, Sell for $495K at Auction
A long-lost trove of Bob Dylan documents including the singer-songwriter’s musings about anti-Semitism and unpublished song lyrics has sold at auction for a total of $495,000. Boston-based R.R. Auction said Friday (Nov. 20) the collection privately held by the late American blues artist Tony Glover, a longtime Dylan friend and confidante, was sold as individual lots Thursday, with a majority of the key pieces going to a bidder whose identity was not made public. The collection included transcripts of Glover’s 1971 interviews with Dylan and letters the pair exchanged. The interviews reveal that Dylan had anti-Semitism on his mind when he changed his name from Robert Zimmerman, and that he wrote “Lay Lady Lay” for Barbra Streisand. {“nid”:”9410660″,”type”:...
Radiohead Speaks Out on ‘Negligence’ in Deadly 2012 Stage Collapse
Radiohead has given their thoughts on engineer Domenic Cugliari, who was responsible designing the Toronto Downsview Park stage that collapsed in June 2012, killing drum tech Scott Johnson. The band noted that on Instagram on Friday (Nov. 20) that earlier this week, the Discipline Committee of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) conducted a hearing to investigate the engineer. {“nid”:”9459335″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”20 Years Ago, Radiohead's 'Kid A' Changed The Way Albums Were Marketed”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/columns\/rock\/9459335\/radiohead-kid-a-album-strategy\/”,”media”:{“width”:1548,”height”:1024,”extensio...
LP Unveils Haunting New Video For ‘How Low Can You Go’: Watch
Singer/songwriter LP has released her latest single “How Low Can You Go” today (Nov. 19). The sultry new song features the same hitmaking team responsible for “Lost on You,” which hit No. 1 in 18 countries and surpassed 1 billion streams globally. The co-writing team consists of LP and her longtime collaborators Mike Del Rio and Nate Campany. To write and record the exciting new track, the trio headed to Hotel El Ganzo in San José del Cabo, México, and also worked on it at LP’s Hotel Havana studio, in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles. The result is a swagger-filled reflection on late-night adventures, self-exploration and love. {“nid”:”9412232″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”LP Announces Global Livestrea...
Wolfgang Van Halen’s Tribute to Late Dad Eddie Set to Rock on Billboard Charts
The legacy of the late rock god Eddie Van Halen will be felt on Billboard’s charts next week, as “Distance,” a tribute song to him by his 29-year-old son Wolfgang Van Halen, is set to impact a number of tallies. Billed as by Mammoth WVH, “Distance” was released on Nov. 16 and has sold 9,000 downloads in the U.S. through Nov. 17, according to initial sales reports to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The track could debut in the top five of the Rock Digital Song Sales chart (dated Nov. 28) and also bow on the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart (which blends sales, streams and airplay). Eddie Van Halen died on Oct. 6 of cancer at age 65. Proceeds from “Distance” will be donated to The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, which Wolfgang tweeted was his father’s favorite charity. The song was...
10 Defining Jimi Hendrix Live Moments
The term “legend” gets tossed around too liberally. So does the qualifier “iconic.” That’s not the case with Jimi Hendrix. The Seattle-born guitarist and the impact he had on both popular music and culture as a whole in such a brief time are the thing of legend. It’s a legend… Please click the link below to read the full article. 10 Defining Jimi Hendrix Live Moments Matt Melis and Jordan Blum You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Phoebe Bridgers & Maggie Rogers’ ‘Iris’ Cover Sells 28,000 in Paid Downloads in One Day of Availability
It started with a Twitter guarantee — acclaimed indie singer/songwriter Phoebe Bridgers promising to cover the Goo Goo Dolls’ minivan rock classic “Iris” if Donald Trump lost the presidential election. It was taken to the next level with a response by fellow alternative star and critics’ darling Maggie Rogers, who responded by asking if Bridgers could use some backup harmonies on her rendition. And now, it’s set to be one of the week’s best-selling songs. Bridgers and Rogers’ “Iris” cover — credited to “Phoebe & Maggie,” and sold as a pay-what-you-want one-day exclusive on Bandcamp — sold 28,000 copies this Friday (Nov. 13) in the U.S., according to initial reports to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. (Bandcamp o...
Post Malone Was Almost Featured on Fleet Foxes’ New Album
Post Malone is no stranger to genre-bending collaborations, teaming up with everyone from Ty Dolla $ign and 21 Savage to Ozzy Osbourne and Justin Bieber for chart topping hits. But the singer almost dipped his toes into the indie rock pool recently. In an interview on RADIO.COM’s New Arrivals, Fleet Foxes singer Robin Pecknold revealed that the band almost collaborated with Post on their recent album, Shore. “He came by the studio for one day while we were working in L.A. and listened to stuff and was super supportive,” he said. “We didn’t get together in time because I wanted to get the album out quickly, but I did ask him to be on it. He was down, but we just didn’t end up having time.” {“nid”:”8529933″,”type”:”post”,”title”:...
10 Bands You Probably Discovered by Playing Guitar Hero
Crate Digging is a recurring feature in which we take a deep dive into a genre and turn up several albums or bands that all music fans should know about. As classic gaming series Guitar Hero turns 15 this week, we look at 10 bands a generation of fans likely learned about through gaming rather than crate digging. In the mid-to-late 2000s, the Guitar Hero series was the party game to own. Initially a partnership between publisher/hardware manufacturer RedOctane and developer Harmonix, the brand built upon the latter’s prior music-based projects — such as Frequency, Karaoke Revolution, and Amplitude — and other genre titans like Dance Dance Revolution, GuitarFreaks, Gitaroo Man, and PaRappa the Rapper. Essentially, players had to match button combinations and rhythmic cues to the arrangement...
Racism on the Road: The Oral History of Black Artists Touring in the Segregated South
“We were happy, we were singing, we were joyful, we were away from home for the first time, youngsters on a magical show,” recalls Martha Reeves, lead singer of the girl group Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, who toured through the South as part of Motown’s pioneering tours in the early ’60s. “But being met with the hatred, it was alarming — especially when the bus was shot at.” Below, Billboard presents an oral history of Black touring artists in the ’50s and ’60s, including interviews with Rock and Roll Hall of Famers and one-hit wonders, stars from the Motown and Stax soul labels, and veterans of the Motown Revue and Dick Clark’s Caravan of Stars. All remain shocked and angry at the racism they experienced, mostly in the South, but a...
