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Bon Jovi: The New Arcade Fire?

The free tickets for Bon Jovi's show in New York's Central Park this Saturday are all gone, but scalpers have rushed in to fill the void, with reports saying that resale prices are now ranging from 99 cents to $1,500. (The tickets are allegedly marked "not for resale," but you can't stop people who think they were born to be Jon's baby to pay for the privilege of seeing him.) The top-tier tickets noted by the Associated Press are seemingly gone from eBay—the highest bid right now is a comparably paltry $75/blanket space—while Craigslist's prices seem a little bit more sane, with some people even offering straight-up trades for other shows... and Yankees games. More »

1:00 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
452 views, 2 comments

Latest by Maura Johnston: @Chris Molanphy: You don't want to make a memory? more »

what about love, indeed?

Desmond Child: A Loving Tribute

In a long-overdue bit of acknowledgement, Desmond Child—the man behind many of the finest in '80s power ballads, as well as disco Kiss and Ricky Martin—will enter the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame on Thursday, along with relatively minor songwriting figures as John Sebastian, Loretta Lynn, and Albert Hammond. Child tells the Miami Herald, "It was funny because I had been nominated twice before but I hadn't made it, and I spoke to the heads of it and they said, 'Well, we always thought you were too young to get it, but then we recently looked at your bio and realized you are old. You just looked young.'' As most of his big-name collaborators are out touring this summer, Desmond Child has been forced "by default" to reunite his late '70s combo Rouge for the ceremony. While it would be insane to try and list all of his greatest achievements ("Kiss The Rain"? "Born To Be My Baby"? "Shake Your Bon Bon"?), we've compiled a list of every ASCAP-registered song of his that features the word "love" in the title. Can you guess how many there are? More »

5:30 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
604 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: That's a lot of cheese! Classic Post! more »

interactivity

Irish Bon Jovi Fan Gets Her New Jersey-Bred Rock Stars Mixed Up

If you're not a fan of Bon Jovi's second-tier hit "In These Arms," you can skip forward to about the 2:30 mark to watch as an Irish fan tries to have her own "Dancing With The Dark" moment with lead singer Jon Bon Jovi. The twist, of course, is that the "happy ending" involves her being dragged away by security. (At least she tried slipping him some tongue before being forcibly restrained, right? Talk about moxie!) [YouTube]

10:30 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Maura Johnston
217 views, 4 comments

Latest by blueeyeddevil: The suprising part is that the girl is reasonably attractive. Possibly a Welshie on vacation? more »

lay your hands on me, vh1

DUI Daddy Richie Sambora To Do Rock Of Love?

Richie Sambora should be visiting Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab, but it looks like he'll be hitting up a dozen floozies for the love and support that Heather Locklear and Denise Richards couldn't provide instead. Yes, that's right: The Bon Jovi guitarist will allegedly replace Bret Michaels for season three of Rock Of Love. The bandanna-wearing Poison frontman claims that he's really found love with season two winner Ambre Lake, which means that his schedule is clear for him to turn his attentions to Look What The Cat Dragged In, a sitcom on MyNetwork TV about a party-hearty rocker who moves in with his uptight lawyer brother in Beverly Hills, played by Alan Ruck. Well, at least I'm hoping that happens. More »

9:30 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,589 views, Comment

the stars seem out of reach

Richie Sambora Courageously Tours After DUI Arrest, Wakes Up Bon Jovi Fans

There is so much wrong with what went down at the Bon Jovi concert in Denver last night. First: Richie Sambora is out on tour less than a week after he was arrested for driving drunk with his daughter in the back seat. Rehab can wait, I guess. Second: Richie got a standing ovation after thanking his fans for their support. Um, yeah. Go you, Richie. Third: The repeated references to standing in this account would imply that people spend most of their time at a Bon Jovi concert sitting down. What's up with that?! More »

4:00 PM on Tue Apr 1 2008
By Anthony Miccio
690 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: That's nothing. When I got my DUI there was a ticker-tape parade. more »

house organs

CMT Blog Thinks CMT Music Award Nominations Are Just Dandy

After noting that the just-announced CMT Music Award nominees include rockers (or "rockers") Robert Plant, Bon Jovi, Huey Lewis, and the Eagles, the CMT blog says this is nothing to get worked up about. Really, Huey Lewis is just nominated for songwriting because Garth Brooks covered him (!). And Plant, of course, is there because of his duet with Alison Krauss. As for the other two? Well...

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11:30 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Dick Malone
259 views, 3 comments

seeing a million faces dept.

Presidential Candidates Hope To Convince Jon Bon Jovi That He Was Made To Be Their Man

I don't know about you, but when I think of the phrases "Jon Bon Jovi" and "politicians" my mind flashes back to the controversy over Jon's eponymous band's video for the 1989 song "Living In Sin," which ruffled a ton of feathers back in the day because it showed a chick taking communion and engaging in premarital sex. Oh, the family values-obsessed wonks who came out of the woodwork for that one! But none of them, as far as I can recall, were among the politicians who the New York Times outed today as courting the New Jerseyan's endorsement for the 2008 Presidential race, because good ol' JBJ has apparently become, as the Times tells it, "New Jersey's very own Bono": More »

12:40 PM on Wed Dec 26 2007
By mjohnston
668 views, 4 comments

Latest by mike a: this is like when people wanted springsteen to run for governor. and like when there was a movement to make "born to run" the most unintentionally ironic state song in american history. fellow new jerseyans: they're just pop more »

one week you're in, the next you're out

Jon Bon Jovi's "Project Runway" Appearance: So Much For That Country Crossover

Sales of his band's "back to country" album have flagged, so Jon Bon Jovi is going back to what he was doing in between his duet with the Sugarland chick and the fourth time he recorded an unplugged version of "Wanted Dead Or Alive": Fashion. Or something like it! The former Versace model is the "surprise" guest on tonight's Project Runway, and he'll be judging the contestants' abilities to make him an outfit of some sort. More »

1:20 PM on Wed Nov 21 2007
By mjohnston
2,005 views, 5 comments

Latest by CarsmileSteve: i'm going to be singing wanted: bastard well dead or alive all day now, aren't i? thanks guys! more »

videodrone

Jon Bon Jovi And LeAnn Rimes: The (Hopefully) Burning Bed

"Can you see this Jon Bon Jovi/LeAnn Rimes video?" Maura just asked. "I want to know if Jon and LeAnn are making out in it." More »

1:25 PM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By jharv
989 views, 1 comment

samples

Jon Bon Jovi's Support For Arena Football Extends To Sample-Clearance World

Meet Reggie Stephens, who also goes by the name Famouz; a former player for the New York Giants and the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats, Famouz became, er, sorta famous today for being the first person to legally sample a Bon Jovi song on a hip-hop track. (Yes, we're pretty shocked that it took this long, too.) More »

3:30 PM on Wed Jul 18 2007
By mjohnston
3,302 views, 5 comments

polls

Which Album Will Land At The Top Of The Heap?

Normally, we reserve our Tuesday-morning Billboard 200 quarterbacking for sales-total predictions, but this week's race for No. 1 has three Nashville-born albums vying for the pole position. In one corner there's Lost Highway, Bon Jovi's attempt to remind people that they are, in fact, steel horse-riding cowboys; in another, there's 5th Gear, the latest album from country lifer Brad Paisley; and finally, there's the White Stripes' Icky Thump, which was recorded at Nashville's Blackbird Studios, although of the three, we're betting that it's the least likely to get love from the country-radio cabal: More »

10:00 AM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By mjohnston
408 views, 12 comments

Latest by Ned Raggett: Would that it were so. If I can find the quote you can judge but if he were being tongue-in-cheek or the like on it then that man has such a dry sense of humor you can hear crackling more »

ticket sales

Bon Jovi Hoping To Sell A Bundle Of Its New Album

In an effort to bump up the first-week SoundScans of its forthcoming country crossover album Lost Highway, Bon Jovi is bundling free copies of its forthcoming album, Lost Highway, with tickets to its "open-ended" run of shows at a new venue in Newark, N.J.: More »

1:45 PM on Fri Jun 8 2007
By mjohnston
803 views, 2 comments

interviews

Jon Bon Jovi Is Not Having A Nice Day

Has Bon Jovi's attempt at a country crossover resulted in eternally grinning frontman Jon Bon Jovi getting testy? Because this Guardian interview gets tense really quickly: More »

4:35 PM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By mjohnston
2,068 views, 9 comments

liner notes

Liner Notes: Billy Corgan's Aeroplane Still Flying High, For Now

- The Smashing Pumpkins' first reunion-tour stop in North America will be at Toronto's Virgin Festival, where Billy Corgan is expected to fire and replace the rhythm section in time for the first encore. [Billboard]
- Bon Jovi's next album, tentatively titled Something Something Football And Pride, will be released in June. [Billboard]
- Antony & The Johnsons singer Anthony Hegarty has issued a plea to his fans, asking them to refrain from posting recordings of his concerts. Done and done! [NME]

2:02 PM on Mon Mar 19 2007
By Brian Raftery
282 views, 1 comment

Latest by drjimmy11: ten years from now Billy Corgan will be teasing the public with a never-to-be-released opus entitled "Saudi Arabian Religious Freedom" or some such thing. He really has that Axl male-diva thing down. Shame he never made an album 1/100th as good more »