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Rivers Cuomo Pitches New App to Weezer Fans “Tired of Spotify”: Weezify
Rivers Cuomo has sallied forth into the streaming wars. As Spotify sputters after its spat with Neil Young, losing $4 billion in market value in the last week, Cuomo is capitalizing to pitch a streaming app of his own, Weezify. “Tired of Spotify?” he wrote on Twitter on Sunday, January 30th. “Come on over to Weezify.” Available on Apple and through the Google Play store, the app is described as a “Spotify-like player for all of Rivers Cuomo’s demos (1975-2017). Close to 3500 demos. Follow curated playlists. Create playlists of your favorites.” Cuomo added, “I made this app myself. It took me all of 2021 to make. I hope you enjoy it.” Advertisement Related Video 3,500 demos is quite a bit more than the 2,000 demos Cuomo began selling in 2020. That sale included recordings from 1975 to 2015,...
Black Keys Announce 32-Date North American Dropout Boogie Tour
The Black Keys announced the dates for an extensive North American tour slated to kick off on July 9 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The Live Nation-produced “Dropout Boogie” tour — the band’s first live dates since their 2019 “Let’s Rock” outing — will feature support from Band of Horses on all the dates, as well as runs with Ceramic Animal (July 9-30), Early James (Aug. 24-Sept. 9) and the Velveteers (Oct. 2-18) on select dates. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The Akron, Ohio duo of singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney released their Grammy-nominated throwback blues album, Delta Kream, last year, featuring 11 Mississippi hill country songs by the likes of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. An exclusive fan clu...
Bono and The Edge Perform Unplugged ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ With Updated Lyrics
U2 singer Bono and guitarist The Edge posted an unplugged, emotional version of their iconic 1983 song “Sunday Bloody Sunday” over the weekend. In the four-minute clip, the two rock icons stand side-by-side in a spare recording studio as they harmonize on the chorus to the song from their War album that chronicled the Jan. 30, 1972 incident in which British soldiers shot unarmed civilian protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland; 26 people were shot by the soldiers, with 14 killed. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In an update to the powerful track’s lyrics, Bono tweaked the song’s final verse with the lines, “Here at the murder scene/ The virus of fiction, reality TV/ Why so many mothers cry/ Religion is the enemy of the Holy Spirit guide/ And the ...
Box Office: Peter Jackson’s ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ Concert Doc Plays to Near-Sellout Crowds
On Jan. 30, 1969, The Beatles staged their final live performance on the rooftop of their Apple Corps headquarters in London’s Savile Row. In commemoration of the iconic event, Disney and Imax on Sunday (Jan. 3o) unveiled a special theatrical version of Peter Jackson’s documentary The Beatles: Get Back that played to near-sellout crowds in nearly 70 Imax theaters across North America and at the BFI Imax theater in London. Sunday’s debut of the 60-minute film — which features the roughly 45-minute concert in its entirety — was accompanied by a live Q&A with Jackson and BBC broadcaster, author and musician Matt Everitt that was beamed into cinemas. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Jackson used footage from his eight-hour Beatles documenta...
New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert Announces He’s Cancer-Free
New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert has announced that he’s cancer free. “Half a liver, a gallbladder, & one adrenal gland later, I am officially cancer free. All my tests and scans came back clear!” Gilbert wrote on Instagram. “My endocrinologist, surgeon, & oncologist [teamed] up and [took] down my Pheochromocytoma more swiftly & efficiently than the Avengers could defeat Thanos in Infinity War.” Last month, Gilbert announced that he had spent two weeks in the hospital after his wife found him unconscious on December 5th. An endocrinologist diagnosed him with Pheochromocytoma, a rare type of neuroendocrine tumor that attacks the adrenal glands and causes drastic hormone imbalances. Related Video While Pheochromocytoma is usually benign, Gilbert said his had spread to his l...
Our Lady Peace on Reuniting with Futurist Ray Kurzweil, Working with TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Our Lady Peace leader Raine Maida catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about Spiritual Machines 2, the sequel to their 2000 album of the same name. Related Video The Canadian songwriter first takes us back to the original and how they linked up with futurist Ray Kurzweil, who also guests on both Spiritual Machine releases. Maida discusses all of the predictions Kurzweil made that have come true, and Our Lady Peace’s plans to have him appear in their upcoming live shows holographically. Advertisement Maida then dives into how the new songs speak directly to the tracks from 20 years ago, the new predictions for the future, his ...
The Beatles’ ‘Get Back’ Rooftop Performance Is Now Streaming
More than 50 years after The Beatles called it a day, the Fab Four’s legendary final concert arrives for streaming. The audio of that iconic 1969 rooftop concert dropped at the stroke of midnight, and is the companion to Get Back, Peter Jackson’s marathon Beatles documentary which dropped in three parts from last November on Disney+. The Get Back – Rooftop Performance is a time capsule of the British band’s last set atop Apple Corps headquarters in central London, and includes “Don’t Let Me Down,” “Dig a Pony,” and several cuts of “Get Back,” complete with the sounds of John, Paul, George and Ringo noddling, chatting and taking instructions between songs. Though The Beatles officially broke up in 1970, seemingly at the peak of their musical powers, their long-suffering fans have had a feas...
Spotify Sides with Joe Rogan Over Neil Young, Removes His Music
Spotify has begun the process of removing Neil Young’s music from its catalog. The move was done at the singer-songwriter’s request, who cited his disgust over the proliferation of “fake information about vaccines” on the streaming platform. Young specifically took issue with Spotify’s promotion of the Joe Rogan Experience, which has become a breeding ground for false COVID information. “I want all my music off their platform. They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” Young wrote in an open letter sent to his management and record label on Monday. In a statement acknowledging Young’s request, a Spotify representative said, “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom...
Foo Fighters Break Record for Most Top 10s in History of Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart
Foo Fighters rewrite a longstanding record on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart dated Jan. 29 as “Love Dies Young” lifts from No. 11 to No. 9. “Young” becomes the band’s 29th top 10, granting the Dave Grohl-fronted band sole possession of the most top 10s in the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart’s 40-plus-year history. Previously, Foo Fighters were tied with Tom Petty, solo and with the Heartbreakers, with 28 top 10s apiece. Most Top 10s, Mainstream Rock Airplay29, Foo Fighters28, Tom Petty (solo and with the Heartbreakers)27, Shinedown26, Five Finger Death Punch26, Godsmack26, Van Halen24, Aerosmith24, Metallica24, Seether Foo Fighters first hit the Mainstream Rock Airplay top 10 in their first chart appearance, when “This Is a Call” reached No. 6 in August 1995. Of the Foos’ 29 top 1...
Meat Loaf’s Widow Remembers the Rocker as a ‘Hugger’ and a ‘Kind Man’
Meat Loaf‘s wife has recounted the happy life — and daily hugs — she shared with the late rocker. Speaking exclusively with People, Deborah Aday spoke of the “Bat Out of Hell” singer’s good nature, and the “gut-wrenching” experience that was his passing last Thursday (Jan. 20), at the age of 74. “Some of my fondest memories will always be about how we so often laughed, and how we brought out the silliness and playfulness in each other,” she tells the celebrity news title. “Michael was a hugger – such a physically affectionate and kind man, and I’m grateful that he brought out those traits in me.” The couple married in 2007, and “there wasn’t a day that went by that we didn’t tell the other how much we loved them. Not a day that we didn’t hug each other,” Aday reminisces. Explore Explore Me...
‘Stop Right There!’ Ellen Foley Recalls Epic Duet With Meat Loaf on ‘Paradise By the Dashboard Light”
“Stop Right There!” Three words of warning — and three words that Ellen Foley credits with launching her career in music. It was Foley who belted out the words to Meat Loaf about halfway through their eight-and-a-half minute duet “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” the epic seduction song on his mega-selling 1977 Bat Out of Hell album. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Foley is now looking back on the singular experience of making the memorable song as she recalls Meat Loaf and a “beautiful, feisty, joyful friendship” that began in her early 20s. Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, died on Thursday at 74. He was the most unlikely of rock superstars, Foley says. “I mean, that’s the wild thing,” she said in an interview Friday, when asked to explain the source of his fame...
Meat Loaf Cried When ‘I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)’ Hit No. 1, His Daughter Recalls
It wasn’t until 1993, years after the late ’70s release of his breakthrough, massively successful album Bat Out of Hell, that Meat Loaf actually had the first Hot 100 No. 1 song of his career with the epic “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” leading the album Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. That moment brought tears to the late singer’s eyes, his daughter Amanda Aday remembers. Explore Explore Meat Loaf See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Aday spoke to People about her dad, born Marvin Lee Aday, after he passed away at age 74 on Jan. 20. “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, and his Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell album went to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. I...
