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11/18/2009
Bob Dylan is celebrating the season with his first music video in a decade. The iconic singer-songwriter has filmed a clip for "Must Be Santa," one of the songs from his new holiday album "Christmas in the Heart;" in the video Dylan is seen wearing a long gray wig and Santa Claus hat while dancing at a party. The video can be seen on Dylan's YouTube channel, www.Youtube.com/user/BobDylanTV. All proceeds from "Christmas in the Heart" are being donated to Feeding America in the U.S. as well as the United Nations World Food Programme and the U.K.'s Crisis charities worldwide.
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11/18/2009
Former attorneys for Rod Stewart have something to say to the veteran rocker. They lawyers have hit Stewart with a $3.3 million-plus lawsuit for alleged unpaid bills, claiming that the singer still owes them for three separate jobs. Details of that work have not been revealed, and Stewart has not yet responded to the complaint. Stewart is currently promoting "Soulbook," his new album of R&B covers.
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11/16/2009
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is readying a 2010 release for his 16th solo album, reportedly titled "Y Not" and scheduled for January 12th -- although Starr's representatives are not confirming that information. A number of high-profile guests have been part of the recording sessions, including Paul McCartney, Eurythmics' Dave Stewart and All-Starr Band alumni Joe Walsh, Billy Squier, Edgar Winter and Gary Wright. Onetime ELO leader and Traveling Wilburys member Jeff Lynne is also rumored to be part of the proceedings. There's no word yet on whether Starr will tour to promote the album.
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11/16/2009
Tickets for U2's June 30th concert at Spartans Stadium in East Lansing will
go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, November 23rd, at Ticket Master locations and via
www.livenation.com. Michigan State
University's Breslin Center box office will also sell tickets but for only one
day, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on the 23rd. General admission field tickets will be priced
at $55, while a selection of grandstand seats will be $30. U2, meanwhile, was
recently fined $53,000 for disturbing the piece in Dublin, Ireland, while there
to play a concert in July. The Dublin City Council cited a dozen violations of
noise ordinances during the three shows, as well as the non-stop 44-hour
teardown of its massive stage. The band's not crying poverty, though; it took in
a reported $30 million from the concerts.
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11/13/2009
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry rang The Insider this week to tell him that
Steven Tyler's surprise guest appearance onstage with the Joe Perry Project this
week in New York City "really didn't change anything in my mind" about the
status of their band. "(Tyler) never said he was leaving the band," Perry said,
referring to a week's worth of back-and-forth during which Tyler told Britain's
Classic Rock magazine he planned to focus on "brand Tyler," while Perry
countered that the rest of Aerosmith was "positively looking for a new singer to
work with." Perry defined the situation during our chat: "(Tyler) said he wanted
two years off to do his other projects. Aerosmith wants to work. The band's been
playing together for 40 years. It's a really powerful rock band, and I don't
want to see it just go to waste and I don't think any of the other guys do,
either. We're gonna work and we're gonna do something -- I'm not exactly sure
what yet, but the band's too good to let it sit around. We're not going to wait
for Steven." Asked if he, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer would work
with another singer while ...
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11/13/2009
The Who's return to the U.S. may be a big one in 2010. Sports Illustrated is reporting that the group will join a long line of classic rockers -- including the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band -- in playing the Super Bowl halftime show, this year taking place February 7th in Miami. Neither the Who nor the National Football League are confirming the report, however, with the league saying that ""When we have something to announce, we'll announce it." Until that time, Pete Townshend is continuing to work on a new musical called "Floss," parts of which will be included on a Who studio album slated for 2010. Roger Daltrey, meanwhile, is on a solo tour of North America. The Who last visited these shores in 2008, including a tour-opening show at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
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11/11/2009
Rumors of Aerosmith's demise -- at least with Steven Tyler -- may turn out
to be greatly exaggerated. Tyler joined guitarist Joe Perry and his band on
stage Tuesday night (November 10th) at Irving Plaza in New York City for an
encore version of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way;" prior to the song Tyler told the
crowd that "I am not leaving Aerosmith" and told Perry "you are a man of many
colors, but I am the mother******* rainbow!" A clip of the performance can be
seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC7EK68tdEY&feature=channel.
Earlier in the day the Hollywood Reporter said that Tyler would be making
some kind of formal announcement that he's not leaving the band. Perry
apparently interpreted Tyler's comments to Britain's Classic Rock magazine that
the singer's next project was "definitely going to be something Steven Tyler" to
be a tacit announcement that he's leaving the band. In a Twitter posting
Tuesday, Perry said that Tyler "is doing his own thing and said so in the press.
That's all I know." He also wrote that "Aerosmith is definitely not breaking up.
Aerosmith is positively looking for a new singer to work with. You just can't
take 40 years of experience and throw ...
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11/9/2009
Aerosmith's future appears to be in question after guitarist Joe Perry
announced that frontman Steven Tyler has quit the band. Starting a U.S. tour in
support of his new solo album, "Have Guitar, Will Travel," Perry told the Las
Vegas Sun that "Steven quit as far as I can tell. I don't know any more than
you do about it. I got off the plane two nights ago. I saw online that Steven
said that he was going to leave the band. I don't know for how long,
indefinitely or whatever. Other than that, I don't know."
Tyler recently told
Britain's Classic Rock magazine that his next project was "definitely going to
be something Steven Tyler: working on the brand of myself -- Brand Tyler." Perry
said that he "has had no contact" with Tyler or the other band members since the
group played in Abu Dhabi last month; he indicated that he and the other members
of Aerosmith would meet soon to discuss the situation. "As far as replacing
Steve," Perry said, "it's not just about that, it's also four guys that play
extremely well together, and I'm not going to see that go to waste. I really
don't ...
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11/9/2009
Film director Robert Zemeckis says he'd like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr
to voice their own characters in his upcoming 3D remake of the Beatles' "Yellow
Submarine." But Zemeckis recently told MTV.com that "We haven't gotten the word
yet on the two surviving Beatles, whether they're interested in doing it or
not." None of the four Beatles voiced their own characters in the original 1968
film, but the group did appear "live" at the end of the movie. Zemeckis is
working with Walt Disney Pictures and the Beatles' Apple Corps on the project,
which does not have a release date yet. He will be using the same 16 Beatles
songs that appeared in the original version.
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11/6/2009
The Beatles have studiously avoided selling their catalog via download, and
now they're battling a rogue Internet company that's doing just that. A Los
Angeles Federal District Court judge has ordered BlueBeat, which put the
Beatles' music up on its site earlier this week and was selling some songs for
as little as 25 cents, to remove all material by the Fab Four and other EMI
artists. BlueBeat owner Hank Risan contended that the songs on the site had been
re-recorded, using a new technology called "psycho-acoustic simulation," making
them exempt from copyright, but the judge ruled that Risan could not support
that claim. Another hearing is scheduled for November 20th, which may result in
penalties for BlueBeat.
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