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:: Boundary-pushing pop auteur Björk looks like a cosmic Pointer Sister on the cover of her new album, Biophilia. [Pink Is The New Blog]
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:: AC/DC release their own wine collection - please drink responsibly while driving the Highway to Hell. [Pop Dust]
:: "Witches' Brew" songstress Katy B shows why she we nominated her as one of 2011's leading ladies of pop with a killer Live Lounge set. [Music & Lyrics]
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Posts Tagged ‘AC/DC’
Robyn Gets Mashed Up With AC/DC And Salt-N-Pepa
Fri Jul 9 2010 by Becky Bain
Every track from Robyn's Idolator-approved Body Talk Pt. 1 is outrageously catchy on its own, but when you mash up another song with the Swede's dance-pop tunes, your aural enjoyment gets amplified to the extreme! Check out some rockin' Robyn mash-ups below, including "Dancing On My Own" mixed with AC/DC's "Shook Me All Night Long", as well as "Fembot" combined with Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It." More »
‘Glee’ Uses The Power Of Madonna To Take Over The Chart
Wed Apr 28 2010 by Robbie Daw
A ray of light has ripped through the Billboard Top 200 Albums, as Glee's soundtrack to last week's The Power Of Madonna episode debuts at #1 following sales of 98,000. This bumps last week's chart champ Justin Bieber down to #3 with My World 2.0. Sorry, Bieb—but this is what happens when you leave the country.
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It Is Time To Usher In A New Era Of Jock Jams
Thu May 28 2009 by Maura
Now that the Carolina Hurricanes have been eliminated from the NHL playoffs, Merge Records impresario Mac McCaughan has moved on from chronicling the ‘Canes’ efforts to talking about the music that arenas employ to get fans in prime freak-out mode. In 2006, he brought some albums put out by his label down to the Hurricane home base, RBC Center, in hopes of breaking through what he called its “particularly stultifying mix of Top 40 / Classic rock / Emo (? i don’t know what to call some of the songs on there) / Sports Disco,” and it worked, at least a bit; “Punch Me Harder” got played during the 2006 NHL Finals, which–coincidence?–the Hurricanes won. Anyway, McCaughan has provided his own suggested playlist for hockey arenas to the local paper, and man, is it so much better than the nu-metal and snipped bits of Eurodance that I’m used to at my sporting events. A few selections: More »
The PMRC’s “Filthy Fifteen” Sure Looks Cute In 2009
Wed May 27 2009 by Maura
Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry is being reissued, the latest example of getting every piece of pop music every made back out there before the recorded-music industry goes tits-up, and the press release about the new version touts the fact that “We’re Not Gonna Take It” was a member of the Filthy Fifteen. That was a list of songs put together in 1985 by the Parents’ Music Resource Council, the group of moms who were pretty much the driving force behind the now-ubiquitous “Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics” stickers on albums deemed too hot for young ears; they put together a playlist of songs that in their mind glorified sex, drugs, and violence in such a way that one had to conclude that The Pop Music Was Killing Our Kids. Given that “We’re Not Gonna Take It” seems positively benign right now, I decided to remind myself of the list’s other contents. The artists whose songs were cited fall into two categories for the most part: Heavy metal bands and people who worked with Prince, including the man himself. All 15–complete with some filthy-in-85, safe-for-work now clips–after the jump! More »
Tue May 19 2009 by Maura
Friday night’s AC/DC show in Munich resulted in more than 100 noise complaints being processed to local police, with some coming from people as far as 12 miles away. You know what would have been great? If just for that night, the hotline for that particular complaint line would have been switched from the old boring menu to “press one for the walls shaking,” “press two for the earth quaking,” “press three if your mind’s aching.” Although I guess things would get a little too phone-sexy if you wanted to pick the “making it” option… [thelocal.de; HT NME] More »
The Next Crop Of 33 1/3 Books Will Not Be As Classic Rock-Leaning As You Might Have Feared
Sat May 9 2009 by Maura
The 33 1/3 book series, in which one album is given a book-length treatment by a writer, has finally narrowed its latest shortlist down to 11 titles. The list of approved albums–and the authors who will be taking the albums on–for the 2010-2011 roster of books after the jump: More »
How To Spot A Fake Scalped Ticket: Commas, Fonts, And Bad URLs
Wed Feb 11 2009 by Maura
Back in November, designer and blogger Andrew Hearst wanted to see AC/DC at Madison Square Garden. The only problem? The show was sold out. So he and a friend took a flier on a pair of $60 seats from a possibly disreputable gentleman standing outside the arena, and in exchange for their money, they were given two tickets in the style of the one above this paragraph. Study the ticket closely, and then see if you can guess what happened next:
Billy Joel Lets His Long Island Roots Shine Through
Mon Jan 19 2009 by Maura
It probably shouldn’t be too surprising that Billy Joel took some time out of a recent show to pay tribute to AC/DC—after all, the two artists have been sharing playlist space on the Long Island rock-radio bastion WBAB for some time—but, well, I was shocked by the headline “Billy Joel covers AC/DC” when I scrolled past it earlier this afternoon. After the jump, video of this semi-momentous event. (I should note here that Joel’s roadie took the vocal duties while he played rhythm guitar, and according to Blabbermouth this is actually the second time this happened in his long live-music career—the first time, in 2002, the Piano Man was joined by Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams.) Is this cover the result of some synergistic impulses between members of the Sony Music family, or is this little air-kiss to hard rock an oblique sign that a reissue of the Attila album is coming soon?
Will AC/DC Play In Peoria? (No, Really)
Mon Jan 12 2009 by Maura
A radio station in Peoria, Ill., staged a rally… More »
