Taylor Momsen wants you to know she was a bad-girl rocker while upstart Miley Cyrus was still singing nursery songs on “Hannah Montana.” She burns up Maxim magazine with some naughty bathroom play. Talk about a potty mouth. Of course, Taylor and Miley are the same age, and Taylor also played a young ingenue on "Gossip Girls."...
Joan Jett, rocked Santos House last night in New York City as part of her promotional tour for her 10th studio album Unvarnished. Her new music is raw as it was four decades ago when she shattered the glass ceiling for women in rock ‘n roll. Jett, 55, was immortalized in film by Kristen Stewart in 2010′s “The Runaways,” which highlighted her ground-breaking career with the band....
As soon as the new Paul McCartney single, “New,” broke, I listened to it straight away. At 71, McCartney is pushing it more than ever: world tours, videos, re-mastered early works; rather amazing I’d say. As big as The Beatles became, they are just a chapter in his long storied career. The new song is miraculously more ’70s and ’80s than anything else–think “Penny Lane” or “My Brave Face.” “We can do as we want; we can live as we choose” is the one lyric that will jump out at you, and rather charming at that. ...
Avril Lavigne wants you to know rock and roll isn’t dead and she’s rock’s “mother fu*king queen” in the new video for her comeback rock song. She’s in full rebellion, including a little girl-on-girl action with Danica McKellar. ‘Memba her? McKellar starred as the too-cute Winnie Cooper in the ABC sitcom “Wonder Years,” from 1988 through 1993. So, yeah, you could say Avril is dating herself a little bit....
Avril Lavigne hopes her new single “Rock N Roll” is the key to her comeback. That’s because it’s a throwback to 2002 when she stormed the charts with her debut album, Let Go. She was a badass then, can she still strike the pose today?...
David Bowie has created another new hell in his latest video for his song “Valentine’s Day.” He’s all alone in an abandoned building strumming his guitar, the image of a crazed loner driven mad by his anger and determined to exact revenge....
The Moody Blues, at the height of their popularity and creativity, put on a concert that totally entranced their audience on a hot August night off the coast of England on the Isle of Wight. This is the legendary much talked-about 79-minute, 11-song performance that launched Classical Rock....
Paul McCartney nearly touched off a riot at the screening of his new, re-edited rockumentary “Rockshow” in London last month, and now the concert film is out on DVD and Blu-ray. It documents his epic “Wings over the World” tour in the United States....
John Mayer’s serial dating habits have eclipsed his music in the two years he’s struggled with voice issues. But he’s back in the studio and a candid look at him working showcases his musical genius....
Ke$ha parties non-stop (what else is new?) in her latest video for “Crazy Kids,” the third single off her album Warrior. This time she’s back in the ‘hood for a house party. Black Eyed Pea will.i.am drops by for a chorus....
Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir is the lead singer and songwriter for the group.
The Icelandic-band Of Monsters and Men lays claim to song of the year so far with...
Alvin Lee, who was a guitar virtuoso by the age of 13 and rode the British invasion during the 1960s with the band Ten Years After, has died from complications arising from surgery. He was 68. Lee may not have been as popular as contemporaries like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, but his skill on the guitar ranks him among the era’s guitar gods....
Jimi Hendrix lives, or at least his music does. The guitar god, who died at 27 in 1970 will posthumously release a new album, People, Hell and Angels, this week, made up from songs he recorded more than 40 years ago with Stephen Stills, Traffic’s Dave Mason, Chris Wood and Steve Winwood, drummer Buddy Miles, saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood and bassist Billy Cox....
Goul rocker Marilyn Manson is known for sick antics on stage, but his sudden collapse during a Canada show was the real thing. Even so, it took everyone, including his own band a minute or so to figure out he was in real distress....
