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Taylor Swift Covers Bruce Springsteen And Bon Jovi During New Jersey Tour Stop
Fri Jul 22 2011 by Becky Bain
Taylor Swift knows there's more to New Jersey than a bunch of over-tanned, under-educated party monsters. While in the Garden State for a stop on her Speak Now tour, the "Wonderstruck"-scented singer performed an acoustic medley of songs from NJ-born artists Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi. (Earlier this week in Toronto, the country star performed tunes by Canadian pop acts, so this city-specific tribute appears to be turning into a regular part of Swift's show.) Watch below. More »
Japan Charity Album To Include U2, Rihanna, Justin Bieber & More
Tue Mar 22 2011 by Becky Bain
After the money raised with last year's charity singles for Haiti, it's not surprising that the music industry had the same idea to help the relief efforts in Japan. But instead of a star-studded charity single, we're getting a whole charity album. More »
Bon Jovi Named Highest Ticket Earner Of 2010
Wed Dec 29 2010 by Erika Brooks Adickman
$201.1 million—that's the number you'll need to beat if you want your concert ticket sales to overtake Bon Jovi's successful 2010 The Circle world tour. Not only did the first time Grammy awards performers top this year's list, they exceeded annual front runners AC/DC and U2 by over $41 million. Also among the year's highest earners was none other than Lady Gaga—the only female artist in the top 10—who pulled in $133.6 million with her dazzling Monster Ball tour. Think you know who rounded out the highest grossing ticket sales list, then jump below to see if you're right.
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Watch Susan Boyle And Leona Lewis In The Helping Haiti “Everybody Hurts” Video
Mon Feb 8 2010 by Robbie Daw
The Helping Haiti video for "Everybody Hurts" is pretty much standard charity single fare—clips of the stars singing interspersed with (often graphic) footage of victims of the disastrous earthquake that rocked Haiti last month.
Simon Cowell organized the project, and wrangled in the likes of Susan Boyle, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Kylie Minogue, Take That, Bon Jovi, Leona Lewis, Robbie Williams, JLS, James Blunt, Joe McElderry and Alexandra Burke to sing on the R.E.M. cover. The song was made available on UK iTunes Sunday, and shot to #1 there by the afternoon.
Catch the video after the jump. (Again, some of the images are graphic.) More »
Simon Cowell organized the project, and wrangled in the likes of Susan Boyle, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Kylie Minogue, Take That, Bon Jovi, Leona Lewis, Robbie Williams, JLS, James Blunt, Joe McElderry and Alexandra Burke to sing on the R.E.M. cover. The song was made available on UK iTunes Sunday, and shot to #1 there by the afternoon.
Catch the video after the jump. (Again, some of the images are graphic.) More »
Hear The All Star Helping Haiti Version Of “Everybody Hurts”
Tue Feb 2 2010 by Robbie Daw
BBC 1 Radio premiered the Simon Cowell-organized all star cover version of "Everybody Hurts"—billed as Helping Haiti—this morning. Among the singers who lent vocals to the track are Mariah Carey, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Miley Cyrus, Susan Boyle, Take That, Rod Stewart, Mika, Bon Jovi, James Blunt and Cheryl Cole, as well as X Factor alums Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, Joe McElderry and JLS.
The track itself, produced by Steve Robson, stays pretty faithful to R.E.M.'s original 1992 version. And, of course, the inner Anglophile in us is reveling in the fact that this marks the first time all five original members of Take That have appeared on a song together since Robbie Williams split from the seminal Brit boy band in 1995. (Though only Gary Barlow and Robbie appear to have prominent lines here.)
Hop below to hear the new Helping Haiti version of "Everybody Hurts." More »
The track itself, produced by Steve Robson, stays pretty faithful to R.E.M.'s original 1992 version. And, of course, the inner Anglophile in us is reveling in the fact that this marks the first time all five original members of Take That have appeared on a song together since Robbie Williams split from the seminal Brit boy band in 1995. (Though only Gary Barlow and Robbie appear to have prominent lines here.)
Hop below to hear the new Helping Haiti version of "Everybody Hurts." More »
Grammy Gives Power To The People With Bon Jovi
Tue Jan 12 2010 by Robbie Daw
According to this press release that landed in our in-box during the early a.m. hours, Bon Jovi's performance at the the 2010 Grammy telecast on January 31 will mark the Jersey band's first-ever time rocking out on the awards show. Crikey! How is that even possible?
And talk about trial by fire—Jon, Richie and, uh, those other two guys don't even get to choose which song they want to perform by themselves. No, no, Grammy producers are leaving that up to the public. How very People's Choice Awards! More »
And talk about trial by fire—Jon, Richie and, uh, those other two guys don't even get to choose which song they want to perform by themselves. No, no, Grammy producers are leaving that up to the public. How very People's Choice Awards! More »
Bon Jovi, Jay-Z And Alicia Keys Control The Charts
Wed Nov 18 2009 by Robbie Daw
Perhaps not surprisingly, Bon Jovi bumped Carrie Underwood down and rocked their way to the top of the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with The Circle in a week that is pretty much the calm before the high-profile release storm. But—yeeowch!—the 163,000 copies the New Jersey band moved over the seven days sales were tracked is quite a dip from the 292,000 their last set, Lost Highway, did. More »
Bon Jovi Put Their Noses To The Grindstone One More Time
Mon Nov 9 2009 by Maura
Our look at the closing lines of new music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to The Circle, the eleventh studio album by New Jersey arena-rock stalwarts Bon Jovi: More »
Jon Bon Jovi Finally Gets Respect As An Artist
Thu Oct 15 2009 by Maura
Clearly hoping that the power of one conglomerate-owned network will at least equal that of Oprah Winfrey, Jon Bon Jovi has signed an exclusive deal with NBC and its sister networks like Bravo to promote his band’s upcoming album, The Circle, which comes out on Nov. 10. And this frothy cross-promotion even has a lofty title! NBC Universal—which you may know as the television company that decided to decimate the scripted-television industry by thrusting Jay Leno into five days of prime time a week—has declared the wide-grinning singer its artist in residence. Take that, music critics who have long dismissed Bon Jovi and his namesake band’s big hooks and anthemic choruses! Dude is an artist—even James Lipton says so! More »
Bon Jovi’s New Single Has A Bit Of An Edge To It
Wed Aug 26 2009 by Maura
Raise your hand if you didn’t know that Jersey lifers Bon Jovi had a new single out and you live in the tri-state area. I know, right? It’s kind of amazing, given that any movement by the band would have sent tremors ’round the WWOR broadcast zone as recently as a few years back. “We Weren’t Born To Follow,” the first single from their forthcoming album The Circle, actually came out last week. The track, credited to Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, is pretty standard Bon Jovi fare with a few exceptions—first, there’s no guitar solo, and second, there’s a tremolo-ish guitar underneath the whole thing that sounds like it was lifted from U2’s “Where The Streets Have No Name.” Well, at least Jon still sings the word “born” exactly the way he did on the New Jersey-era classic “Born To Be My Baby,” so as to soothe any fans who might be confused! (Clip of that track after the jump.) More »
