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Kanye West Angers Soundgarden (And His Own Fans) At Australia’s Big Day Out
Mon Jan 23 2012 by Becky Bain
Wherever Kanye West goes, controversy follows — even Down Under. Yeezy managed to incurr the wrath of two parties while performing at Big Day Out festival on Australia's Gold Coast — that of his own fans, and that of Soundgarden, who had the misfortune of attempting to play during Kanye's extremely loud soundcheck. More »
Madonna ‘W.E.’ Track “Masterpiece” Snubbed By Oscar For Best Song
Tue Dec 20 2011 by Robbie Daw
A long list of contenders up for nomination for the Best Song category at the upcoming Academy Awards in 2012 is doing the rounds, and while some of the tunes that have already been nominated for Golden Globes are present — “Hello Hello” by Elton John and Lady Gaga, “The Living Proof” by Mary J. Blige, "The Keeper" by Chris Cornell, etc. — it appears as if there was no love for Madonna's “Masterpiece”, from her directorial effort W.E.
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Golden Globe Nominations: Madonna, Elton John & Mary J. Blige Songs Receive Nods
Thu Dec 15 2011 by Robbie Daw
The 2012 Golden Globe nominations are out, and Madonna's upcoming directorial effort W.E. (hitting US theaters on February 3) got some Foreign Press Association love in two categories — Best Original Song (for Madge's ballad "Masterpiece", which she co-wrote with Julie Frost and Jimmy Harry) and Best Original Score (Abel Korzeniowski). Other song nominees include Mary J. Blige's The Help contribution "The Living Proof" and Elton John's "Hello Hello" from the animated film Gnomeo & Juliet.
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Chris Cornell Gets Back Together With His Old Band (No, The Other One)
Wed Oct 7 2009 by Maura
Last night in Los Angeles, Chris Cornell appeared with Pearl Jam at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, where they all ran through “Hunger Strike” from the Cornell-plus-Pearl Jam-minus-Vedder Andrew Wood tribute project Temple Of The Dog. It sounded pretty decent (especially given that those big notes at the end are hard to sing), and before you go and snipe “man, if only they’d done ‘Reach Down’ ” may I give you some news about who was in the crowd? Here is a hint: They know Chris pretty well! More »
Chris Cornell Is Going To Prove His Worth To You In 63 Tracks
Mon May 18 2009 by Maura
Continuing his efforts to prove to fans that the club and the rock show can, indeed, coexist, Chris Cornell has released a mixtape in conjunction with DJ Skee based on his new solo album Scream. In addition to the Fray’s American Idol-enshrined cover of “Heartless” and a version of “Outshined” credited to Audioslave, the 63 tracks include a selection from that Jay-Z/Linkin Park album, a mashup of the “Lollipops” wielded by Lil Wayne and Framing Hanley, “Kids” so as to fulfill the required-in-2009 MGMT quotient, songs from a few bands that played Bamboozle, and a remix of Nirvana’s “Love Buzz” cover. There is also something called “Trent Reznor Speaks,” which I am going to guess is some sort of meta-Twitter dis. (The zipped version is 219 megabytes, so it’s taking a while to leech from the Internet.) Full track listing after the jump. More »
Chris Cornell Watches The Seasons Roll On By
Mon May 4 2009 by Maura
Chris Cornell is apparently releasing a more traditionally “rock” version of “Long Gone” as the third single from his Timbaland-assisted solo album, Scream; the new version of the track is the bed for the above video. In its initial incarnation, “Long Gone” was a five-plus-minute OneRepublicy ballad about lost love; the new mix speeds up the proceedings a bit and turns down the Timbaland beats and loops in favor of a smoothly gliding bass line and lots of riffs. It’s a smoother version of the track, to be sure, but the proceedings are a bit more lively, and anything that can allow a song to sidestep comparisons to OneFreakin’Republic should be seen as at least a modest improvement. More »
