Cage The Elephant
West Chester, PA — Note: The Note is a music venue. The Note is giving bands a great place to perform in the most difficult of economic times. Not only that, they also offer an “all ages” concert experience. More often than not when an up-and-coming band goes on the road, they [...]
The Mistaken
About THe Mistaken A great photographer friend, Ed Simmons suggested the following band might be fun to work with: In the words of one Mistaken fan: ‘you aren’t writing about milkshakes…’ The Mistaken deal with lonely satellites, bunker-dwelling control-freaks, articulate terrorists and George Zapata, among others. Is it a thankless job? We think not. The Mistaken were enlisted as [...]
Purusa Not From the USA?
This journey began in 2001 when at 17 years old, Stuart and Callum formed the band. During this year they played small local shows and school concerts, gaining valuable experience. The duo quickly formed a fantastic musical understanding of one another and shared the same goals and ambitions. Through the years they wrote a full [...]
BRUCE ROCKS BONNAROO
“Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band came to Bonnaroo, and Bonnaroo will never be the same. Before the throng, the band played a set of classic songs, and broke out “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” and “Growin’ Up” in the request slot midway through the show.” — brucespringsteen.net Bruce played a three hour set [...]
Lemonheads Sue GM
The frontman for the band The Lemonheads, Evan Dando, is sueing GM and their ad agency Asche & Spencer Music, Inc. Dando claims GM violated his copyrights by using the song “It’s a Shame About Ray” in a 2008 advertising campaign. “The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band, formed in 1986 by singer/guitarist Evan [...]
68% Of Households Play Video Games
Sixty- Eight Percent of U.S Households Play Computer or Video Games Los Angeles – Sixty-eight percent of American households play computer or video games, according to new research from the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which represents U.S. computer and video game publishers. The number of households playing games increased three percent over 2008, illustrating the expanding [...]
Beatles Re-unite For Rock Band
WORLD PREMIERE OF THE BEATLES: ROCK BAND Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, along with Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison Come Together for World Premiere of “The Beatles: Rock Band” Unique Experiential Journey Through The Beatles’ Career to Feature Introduction of Three-Part Vocal Harmonies, 45 Songs On-Disc and Reveal of First Downloadable Album, Abbey Road “All You Need [...]
Time Warner Announces Divorce From AOL
Time Warner Inc. Announces Plan to Separate AOL May 28, 2009 NEW YORK – Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized management to proceed with plans for the complete legal and structural separation of AOL from Time Warner. Following the proposed transaction, AOL would be an independent, publicly traded company. Time Warner [...]
RIAA Wants To Tax Radio Music
NAB URGES CONGRESS TO OPPOSE RECORD LABEL BAILOUT – 50 State Broadcaster Associations also express opposition – WASHINGTON, DC — NAB President and CEO David Rehr urged lawmakers to oppose legislation introduced that would force America’s hometown radio stations to pay a new “performance fee” to the recording industry for music aired free on the radio. The legislation, [...]
Photo Gallery of the W Hotel, Hollywood and Vine, CA
Photography By Ed Simmons Comments
Queen On American Idol
Queen is said to be considering “American Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert as their new frontman. Brian May and Roger Taylor of Quenn performed We Are The Champions with Adam Lambert and Kris Allen just prior to the announcement of the winner of American Idol. The Idol contestants began the song then it was revealed that the [...]
Alchemystic Photography: W Hotel, Hollywood, CA
Photography By Ed Simmons Alchemist Photography Artist’s Statement Alchemist Art Show
Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA — Five bands perform to a sold-out crowd. Hey Monday, Cobra Starship, Metro Station, All Time Low and Fall Out Boy Radio stations 102.1 and 104.5 put on a concert at Festival Pier, Penns Landing, Philadelphia, PA. They said, “Rain Or Shine”. Maybe they should have said, “Rain And Shine”. At [...]
Alchemist Photography
Artist Statement All of these photographs are unique, one of a kind silver prints. The process begins with a finished photograph (all darkroom manipulations, burning, dodging etc. complete). Next, they are moved through many solutions. In the end, they achieve tonalities that are expressive of my emotional response to the subjects I am compelled [...]
Lollapalooza 2009 Lineup
Lollapalooza 2009: August 7-9, 2009 Aug. at Chicago’s Grant Park.: Tickets On Sale Now Passes are $205 LINE UP * Depeche Mode * Tool * The Killers * Jane’s Addiction * Beastie Boys * Kings of Leon [...]
Fall Out Boy And Cobra Starship
Fall Out Boy with Metro Station, Cobra Starship, All Time Low and Hey Monday will play a Radio 104.5 and Q102 concert at Festival Pier Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia on May 1, 2009. Cobra Starship is best known for the catchy hit “Bring It On” from the cult film “Snakes on a Plane.” They have [...]
Phil Spector Convicted Of Murder
LOS ANGELES — One of the most influential music producers and engineers, Phil Spector, was found guilty of second-degree murder. In his first trial, the jurors could not reach a verdict. The second trial ended with a guilty verdict and now Phil faces 18 years to life when he is sentenced in May. Phil [...]
Epic Records New Album Format
Instead of frowning on technology and the Internet, Epic Records has decided to embrace it with a new format for albums. The latest trial is with the band The Fray. Sony, owner of Epic, has launched a new iTunes “pass” for $17.00. The pass allows the user to gain access to songs, [...]
Combat Vet Gives Voice to Military Musicians
By Sara Moore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON – Music is considered by many to be a universal language, and for some military veterans, it is the only language that allows them to describe their experiences in combat and their struggles afterward. Military musicians normally would struggle to have their voices heard in the cutthroat music industry, but [...]
The RIAA: A Wolf In Wolf’s Clothing
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) claims to have the artists / musicians best interest at heart. However, over the years they have proved that this is not the case. The RIAA has launched countless lawsuits against almost anybody and their grandmother… literally: The Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union and Public Citizen oppose [...]
Witness Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel has been a long time supporter of witness.org. The Witness program is about human rights. One of their main thrusts has been to empower people that witness human rights violations. A primary means to this end is to provide individuals with cameras so that they can document injustices. For instance, one [...]
Coldplay Left In The Cold?
by RomBox.com If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it make a sound? This old teaser of a question comes to mind with the allegations of plagiarism against Coldplay. Before they became a number one selling artist, would anyone accuse them of stealing a song? Now, [...]
Lollapalooza Lineup 2009
Lollapalooza 2009 will be held in Austin and Chicago. The lineup will include: Kings Of Leon, Jane’s Addiction, Depeche Mode and the Beastie Boys. The full lineup is ecpected to be announced in April.
Spinal Tap: Turn It Up To 11
The members of the 1984 rockumentary/mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap have announced a new tour. The band members are are Michael McKean (as David St. Hubbins), Christopher Guest (as Nigel Tufnel) and Harry Shearer (as Derek Smalls). The tour is called “Unwigged & Unplugged.” Ironicly, the artists never made any money from the [...]
30 Seconds To Mars Vs. EMI
30 Seconds to Mars is still in an intense legal battle with EMI records. Jared Leto recently put out this news release: Still fighting the good fight here in the City of Angels. Working nonstop in the laboratory, experimenting with any and everything. So many exciting things happening we wish we could share them with everyone all the [...]
Two More Virgin Megastores Closing
In August of 2007, Related Co. and Vornado (two real estate companies) acquired the Virgin Entertainment Group North America. These closing will reduce the number of Virgin Megastores from 11 to 3. The two latest closings are slated for Union Square, New York City and Market Street, San Francisco. [...]
Iggy & The Stooges on the Death of Ron Asheton
Ronald Frank Asheton July 17, 1948 - January 6, 2009 We are shocked and shaken by the news of Ron’s death. He was a great friend, brother, musician, trooper. Irreplaceable. He will be missed. For all that knew him behind the façade of Mr Cool & Quirky, he was a kind-hearted, genuine, warm person who always believed [...]
Progressive Nation 2009 - North American Summer Tour!
DREAM THEATER’S “PROGRESSIVE NATION 2009″ TO TOUR NORTH AMERICA IN JULY/AUG WITH SPECIAL GUESTS ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA, PAIN OF SALVATION AND BEARDFISH New York progressive metal veterans DREAM THEATER will take their PROGRESSIVE NATION tour back on the road for its second incarnation with a run through America and Canada in July/Aug 2009. In addition to a [...]
Ticketmaster Settles Springsteen Probe
New Jersey — Ticketmaster has agreed to change its business practices after a suit was filed by the New Jersey Attorney General. Springsteen had said, “We were informed that Ticketmaster was redirecting your log-in requests for tickets at face value, to their secondary site TicketsNow, which specializes in up-selling tickets at above face value. They did [...]
Oscars Best Soundtrack
Slumdog Composer A.R. Rahman Takes Home 2 Oscars A.R. Rahman is from India. Only twice before has an Indian won an Oscar. Rahman won two in one night for best original soundtrack and best original song. Both are from the movie “Slumdog Millionaire.” “I was excited and terrified,” he said. “The last time [...]
Can’t Beat The Beatles
A new addition of the video game Rock Band will feature the music of the Beatles. This is interesting in several ways. First of all, that the Beatles could get everyone to agree to the legal issues is amazing. Did Yoko Ono, Apple Records, Sony and Michael Jackson all have to agree? [...]
Nine Inch Nails to Tour With Reunited Jane’s Addiction
by Trent Reznor Towards the beginning of my career in Nine Inch Nails, our biggest break came in the form of an invitation to perform a series of shows with Jane’s Addiction. These performances essentially created and defined the term “alternative” rock in the US, created an ongoing festival franchise that is still thriving (Lollapalooza), set [...]
Tinted Windows
Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, Hanson’s Taylor Hanson and the bassist from Fountains Of Wayne Adam Schlesinger have formed a new band called Tinted Windows. The group has recorded a full length album and will perform at Billboard’s South by Southwest showcase on March 20 in Austin, Texas.
King of Pop: a Once in a Lifetime Auction Featuring
Julien’s Auctions announced they will be auctioning Michael Jackson memorabilia with part of the proceeds going to charity. Items for sale will include his American Music Award for “Thriller,” a velvet cape given to him by his children for Father’s Day and a pair of 1981 rhinestone-trimmed socks. The auction takes place April 22nd – [...]
Facebook Does About Face On Privacy
After an angry crowd of Facebook users protested the changes to Facebook’s privacy policy, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, posted clarification and a new policy. In the prior wording, it appeared Facebook was saying they owned all the users’ content for forever. Now, they make it clear that a user owns [...]
Pioneer Electronics to Cut 10,000 Jobs
The Japanese electronics maker is facing an annual loss of $1.4 billion. After cutting 5,900 jobs last year, they plan to cut an additional 10,000 jobs. Once a leader in the making of flat screen TVs, they announced their decision to pull out of that market. “Since the US financial crisis and ensuing global downturn, [...]
Blink 182 Is Back Together!
There have been many rumors about Blink 182. After frontman, Tom DeLonge, left to form Angels & Airwaves and drummer, Travis Barker, was in a serious plane crash, many thought the band would never play together again. However, they have announced on their website that they are back: “Hi. We’re Blink 182. This [...]
Attorney General Investigating Ticket Sales for Springsteen Concert
STATEMENT FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW JERSEY’S OFFICE Division of Consumer Affairs NEWARK - The Office of the Attorney General and the Division of Consumer Affairs are investigating Monday’s sale of Bruce Springsteen concerts tickets after consumers complained about problems they encountered during attempted online purchases. “Consumers are questioning what transpired and if they had an equal [...]
Bruce Springsteen Says No Bossing To Ticketmaster
Though happy to have won a Grammy, Bruce Springsteen is not happy with the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation. He wrote on his website: Last Monday, we were informed that Ticketmaster was redirecting your log-in requests for tickets at face value, to their secondary site TicketsNow, which specializes in up-selling tickets at above face [...]
Dump AOL? Time Warner Struggles
TIME WARNER INC. REPORTS RESULTS FOR 2008 FULL YEAR AND FOURTH QUARTER NEW YORK, February 4, 2009 – Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) today reported financial results for its full year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2008. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes said: “We’re making progress at Time Warner toward our goals of becoming a [...]
The Walt Disney Company Earnings Suffer
by widgette.com Disney disappointed Wall Street with a 14% drop in profits. Though they did still turn a profit, it was not as large as had been predicted. The company was hit hard by the collapse of Lehman brothers and had to write-off $91 million in bad debt. BURBANK, Calif. – The Walt Disney Company [...]Comments
Comedian Willie Asbury @ Caesars Paradise Stream Resort
by RomBox.com for the Rock n’ Roll Romper Room Mt. Pocono, PA — Caesars Paradise Stream Resort is located in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. The resort is located in a picturesque position close to the major ski attractions. The modern facility is clean, attractive and well staffed. Not only does [...]
Music: The Paul Green School of Rock Gets the Beat
Written by RomBox.com for the Rock n’ Roll Romper Room The Beatles The White Album Ft. Washington, PA — The students of Paul Green’s School of Rock put on a concert of the Beatles’ White Album. Think about that? What an endeavour! Most musicians would not even consider it possible. To start with, the album [...]
Album Review: The Offspring Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace
by RomBox.com for the Rock n’ Roll Romper Room The Offspring Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace The Rise And Fall, Rage And Disgrace album was released in 2008 by the Offspring. In June, they announced it would debut on-line. The release of the CD came later in the year. It is the bands eighth [...]
CKX: Owner of Elvis and American Idol Director Resigns
CKX, Inc. Announces Director Change Company to fill vacancy within regulatory timeframe NEW YORK, Jan 23, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — On January 15, 2009, CKX, Inc. (NASDAQ: CKXE) disclosed that John D. Miller, one of the Company’s independent directors, had resigned from the Company’s Board of Directors, effective January 12, 2009. Mr. Miller had served as a [...]
KingArthur.com Artist and Musician Becomes Best Selling Author
KingArthur.com Records recording star The Rev. LeRoy Montana has made it to the best seller’s list with the Cyrstal Oracle. The Crystal Oracle is a tool for getting information you might not have thought of before, or maybe it expands your point of view, or gives you a completely new undertanding. It’s a self-help device, [...]
Partnership For Free Music Video Downloads
GlisteningFlicks.com announced an exclusive partnership with Google.com for distribution of video content. GlisteningFlicks.com houses one of the largest privately owned music video collections. Google.com own YouTube, one of the most visited video websites. The collaboration will result in a one-of-a-kind multimedia experience. The video feed features a customized viewer preloaded with videos [...]
Post-American Record Labels In Trouble: Sony Sees Shortfall
BACKGROUND Sony kind-of bought American culture. A few years back they purchased BMG. Who was BMG? Well, they were an American company that bought-up a bunch of then famous American record labels, like EPIC and Columbia Records. Way back before all of this merger activity… the independent labels brought forth some great music. A large [...]