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Lady Gaga Spanks the Planet: She's a Free Bitch, Baby
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If the second straight Summer of Gaga proves anything, it's that pop stars really are the new rock stars. Lady Gaga is spending the summer doing all the things you expect rock stars to do — make a scene in airports, deliver controversial public statements, make Jerry Seinfeld cry, give church people gallstone attacks, curate a riot on the Today show, star in arty videos designed to get banned from channels that don't even play videos. Nobody but La Gagz provides us with day-to-day outrage and fury, as she drives her ever-expanding Monster Ball Tour through the heartland, sounding even ...
Lindsay Lohan's Jailhouse Rock: She's the Epitome of Public Enemy
Lindsay's in jail, Michael isn't? There's your trouble, America. That's everything wrong with this country in one orange-jumpsuited package. The Man has failed us, locking up the wrong Lohan, while the rest of us serve an even harsher sentence by being deprived of Lindsay's presence for 90 days. Or 23 days, or however long this I Know Who Killed the American Justice System travesty continues. How are you protesting? Rocking your own jumpsuit? (Hey, how did this baggie get in the pocket? Not mine, your honor!) Splashing Long Island Ice Teas on your SCRAM bracelet? Wearing a "My Name Is… ...
MTV to Lady Gaga: You and Me Could Write a Bad Romance
I think Snooki said it best: "I feel like a pilgrim from the [bleeeep!]-in' Twenties!" Snooki was referring to the task of washing clothes in the sink (oh yeah right Sammi, like those short-shorts have never had "Ron Ron juice" spilled on them before), but she could have been referring to the ancient tradition of watching music on MTV. As Snooki would say, "Who does that anymore?" So yesterday's Video Music Award nominations have an bittersweet flavor. During the VMA show, there will be brief snippets of all these videos — but then we'll never see them on MTV again. ...
Aerosmith's Blowout with J. Geils Band at Fenway Park
Aerosmith and J. Geils have both been dubbed “the bad boys from Boston,” not a city especially prized for its badness. But Saturday they delivered the ultimate Boston experience, as Aerosmith played center field at Fenway Park with the rarely reunited J. Geils Band — after a Jumbotron intro from Denis Leary. The only thing missing was a Ric Ocasek cameo. How hardcore was this crowd? The six guys ahead of me in the beer line were wearing matching Magic Dick wigs, in a tribute to the J. Geils Band’s harmonica player, who still sports the hardest-rocking Jewfro in the ...
U2, Damien Rice Perform in New Irish Music Documentary
U2, Damien Rice and the Swell Season's Glen Hansard will appear in the second installment of the documentary series Music of Ireland —Welcome Home and Welcome to America , which Bono's Elevation Group will present this fall on PBS stations. The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan, Sinead O'Connor and the Virgin Prunes' Gavin Friday will join the other artists in giving exclusive performances and interviews. Part one of the series, which aired in February, traced Irish music from the early 1900s up through the mid-'80s. Part two will focus on the impact contemporary Irish music, from rock toRiverdance, on America now. "Irish music has that sadness in it, even at its most peppy," Bono says in the documentary. "It's very moving, that bitter sweetness." You'll be able to buy the Music of Ireland soundtracks and DVDs starting August 31st, only at Barnes & Noble.
Soundgarden Bassist Denies He Was Homeless
Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd has admittedly had a rough stretch -- including a bad break-up with his fiancée and an addiction to drugs and alcohol -- since the band broke up over a decade ago. Spin recently suggested that a "broke" Shepherd was essentially homeless prior to Soundgarden's recent reunion. Shepherd, though, her refuted that claim on the official Soundgarden site, saying his words were "sensationalized."
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"It makes me feel embarrassed for the truly homeless people to be associated at all in any way with the likes of me. I seem to have been lucky, as most of you, in never having to survive day to day (on the streets) anyway," Shepherd wrote. "I say what I mean with someone else's alphabet, so it is no wonder to me that my blathering can be so easily 'shined up' or misinterpreted to whatever purpose, especially to a stranger who has no idea of my horrible humor, or my delusional ideas … Sure I've been couch surfing but that's a far cry from the plight of many many millions of good people worldwide."
Soundgarden Rock Lollapalooza Warm-Up Show in Chicago
Shepherd described his other difficulties to Spin this way: "Soundgarden broke up; my other band, Hater, broke up; my fiancée broke up with me; and then I broke three ribs. I got addicted to pain pills, drank a ton, and wound up OD'ing on morphine. I was laid out in my house for five days, and no one knew it. It was a fucking horrible time -- this total rock & roll cliché."
Katy Perry On Track to Grab No. 1 From Eminem
Photos: Katy Perry strips down for RS
The five singles from Perry's Teenage Dream — "California Gurls," "Teenage Dream," "Circle the Drain," "Not Like the Movies" and "E.T." — have already sold a combined 4.5 million digital downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "California Gurls" led the Hot 100 chart for six weeks earlier this summer. Perry's last album, 2008's One of the Guys, peaked at Number Nine after selling 47,000 copies in its first week.
Kanye West, Eminem Unleash New Videos
Two hip-hop titans unleashed new videos on MTV last night: Eminem and Rihanna debuted their "Love the Way You Lie" clip and Kanye West finally unveiled his much-anticipated "moving painting" for "Power."
In the 90-second-long "Power," the brainchild of Kanye and video artist Marco Brambilla, West — in his 15-pound Horus necklace — is placed in the center of a School of Athens-inspired tableaux surrounded by women in flowing robes who move slowly with the beat of the song. It's not your conventional music video; While artists like Lady Gaga are turning their songs into short films, this "moving painting," as Kanye calls it, only spans one of the "Power" verses in its minute-and-a-half — half the runtime of the making-of video that circulated on the web prior to "Power" clip's debut. Over the course of the "moving painting," two figures with swords are seen leaping towards Kanye, and at the moment of impact, the clip comes to a sudden halt. Thematically, the "Power" video latches on to the lyric "No one man should have all that power." "It's a moment of transition for him," director Brambilla recently told the New York Times . "It's like the end of an empire. It's him becoming mortal again… He's like a fallen idol."
Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" featuring Rihanna has spent five consecutive weeks atop the Digital Singles chart. Megan Fox and Lost's Dominic Monaghan star in the video as a couple in a passionate but rocky love affair that ties into the video's theme of domestic abuse. Rihanna's appearance on the song is especially striking, given her personal experience with abuse with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. "It's the story of them getting to know each other, and it's the story of their tumultuous relationship, and it was the story of the breakdown of their relationship," Monaghan told MTV about his character's relationship in the video, which also makes references to Eminem's tumultuous experience with his ex-wife Kim. "Ultimately, what I think he's trying to say in the song ... is that he should have walked away a little bit quicker than he did and not let it get as messy as it did."
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