Loading ...So Ryan Adams has sort of responded to Courtney Love’s accusation that his album Rock N Roll was recorded with $868,000 of Francis Bean Cobain’s money, posting a “personal statement of clarity” on his Web site that talks about how he’s working hard to become a better person, how he regrets his past mistakes, etc., etc. (There’s also a peace card linked in the source code of the page, but it’s not visible.) At the very end of the statement, he pretty much takes Courtney head-on, saying that he never meant anyone any harm intentionally, especially anyone who goes airing dirty laundry about him online; sure, he doesn’t name any names, but the descriptions “possibly reality-challenged,” “unreliable” and “outlandish” make the target of his ire pretty obvious. Full statement after the jump
Archive for July, 2008
Ryan Adams Takes On “The Possibly Reality-Challenged” Using The Power Of Hypertext
Billboard group editorial director Tamara Conniff is leaving the magazine to take a position with Front Line Management, which is run by music industry heavyweight Irving Azoff and which counts the Eagles and New Kids On The Block on its roster. More »
Billboard group editorial director Tamara Conniff is leaving the magazine to take a position with Front Line Management, which is run by music industry heavyweight Irving Azoff and which counts the Eagles and New Kids On The Block on its roster. More »
What do those much-buzzed-about Millennials want out of terrestrial radio? According to USC professor Jerry Del Colliano, they want freeform song selection and fewer, “better” advertisements with live reads by the DJs. So, in other words, they want to listen to college radio. More »
What do those much-buzzed-about Millennials want out of terrestrial radio? According to USC professor Jerry Del Colliano, they want freeform song selection and fewer, “better” advertisements with live reads by the DJs. So, in other words, they want to listen to college radio. More »
Electric Six In Cheap, Goofy Video Shocker
Most of the Electric Six’s music falls into the category of over-the-top satire, but all of their videos are full-on low budget camp. Actually, it’s hard to imagine that there was any budget at all for the above clip for “Formula 409,” the lead single from their forthcoming album Flashy. More »
They Tried To Make Me Listen To Rehab, I Said, “No, No, No”
Many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock. To help figure out which is which, here’s “Corporate Rock Still Sells,” where Al “GovernmentNames” Shipley examines what’s good, bad, and ugly in the world of rock and roll. This time around, he looks at an eight-years-in-the-making hit by an act that was once seen as a rap-rock also-ran, as well as a few other developments on the rock radio charts.
Ne-Yo Makes A Bid To Become The Newest Kid On The Block
A snippet of a collaboration between New Kids On The Block and Ne-Yo has made its way out to the Internet, and from what I can tell, it’s pretty much a Ne-Yo leftover that happens to have a five-man chorus of backing vocalists. (Although is that Donnie Wahlberg rapping at the beginning of the clip?) Woe the beast known as the slow news day, for this is what it brings you: Songs that you wouldn’t even care enough about to flip the station over while stuck on a traffic and accident-choked highway. Clip after the jump.
