Weekend Rock Question: What's the Best Rock Biopic?

The James Brown biopic Get On Up hits theaters this weekend and so far the critics have been fairly kind The Mick Jagger-produced movie has a respectable 79 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and even though it's going to get creamed by Guardians of the Galaxy it's still likely...

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Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock Strips Down Ratking's 'Canal' in Remix

Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock has remixed a song by another rap trio from New York Ratking stripping back the dense production on the song "Canal" from their recently released So It Goes to highlight MCs Wiki and Hak's rhymes Where the original version of "Canal" was lush with swirling strings keyboard...

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Slipknot Stream 'The Negative One,' Their First New Song in Six Years

Masked metal group Slipknot have posted the speedy new song "The Negative One" streaming on their website which ostensibly offers a preview of what fans can expect on their upcoming fifth LP their first since 2008's All Hope Is Gone Over a slithery guitar riff and chunky rhythm vocalist Corey...

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SiriusXM to Broadcast Lollapalooza Performances

SiriusXM will broadcast an eclectic line-up of performances from this year's Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago with the station's Alt Nation rebranded as the Lollapalooza Channel Lorde Kings of Leon Arctic Monkeys Interpol Childish Gambino Fitz & the Tantrums Grouplove Chvrches Jenny Lewis and Bleachers will be among the featured artists...

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Keith Urban 'Horrified' By Fan's Alleged Rape at Recent Show

When Keith Urban uploaded a video to YouTube and Twitter last Saturday night following a particularly rowdy concert in Mansfield Massachusetts he couldn't have realized the gravity of his words Keith Urban The Rolling Stone Country Interview "Gosh up on the lawn tonight that was nutso" he said in the clip which...

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Deadmau5 and Rob Ford Talk EDM, Potholes, Coffee

Deadmau5 is the outspoken outlaw of EDM; Rob Ford is the controversial mayor of Toronto best known for his battles with drug addiction and being a mainstay punchline for late-night TV hosts In a certain way it makes sense for these two Canadians to team up as they do in...

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Meet G.R.L.: An Ambitious Girl Group for the 21st Century

GRL started out in 2011 as a relaunch of the Pussycat Dolls but after three years of personnel changes and guest appearances has evolved into a girl group for the 21st century — all that's missing are the Spice Girls-style nicknames Its five members include one from England (Lauren...

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Meet G.R.L.: An Ambitious Girl Group for the 21st Century

GRL started out in 2011 as a relaunch of the Pussycat Dolls but after three years of personnel changes and guest appearances has evolved into a girl group for the 21st century — all that's missing are the Spice Girls-style nicknames Its five members include one from England (Lauren...

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Katy Perry: I Want to Join the Illuminati!

The Illuminati! To paraphrase Nigel Tufnel no one knows who they are or what they're doing – probably because the world isn't actually controlled by a shadowy occult super-team of pop stars politicians and whatnot But if you believe your average YouTube commenter (and who doesn't) practically everything a singer...

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Talking Heads on 'Stop Making Sense': 'We Didn't Want Any Bulls--t'

"We didn't want any of the bullshit" former Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz says about Stop Making Sense the band's influential 1984 concert film "We didn't want the clichés We didn't want close-ups of people's fingers while they're doing a guitar solo We wanted the camera to linger so you...

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Johnny Cash Property May Soon Be Home to Rehab Center

The 45-acre property north of Nashville that was home to country legends Johnny and June Carter Cash for more than three decades could become the site of a "high end" residential facility geared toward assisting women who suffer from eating disorders The property in Hendersonville Tennessee which consists of four...

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'David Bowie Is' Doc Headed to Theaters, Exhibition to Open in Chicago

A documentary about the touring art exhibition David Bowie Is which premiered at London's Victoria and Albert Museum last year will run in more than 100 movie theaters in the United States on September 23rd That same day the exhibition itself – which consists of photos costumes and other items...

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Haley Reinhart Is an Alien Goddess In 'Show Me Your Moves'

Haley Reinhart returns! The sassy rocker chick of American Idol Season 10 has tapped into her devoted fanbase and "Reinharted" her way back into the music scene using Indiegogo to fund her new video "Show Me Your Moves" And Yahoo Music's Reality Rocks is thrilled to premiere the eye-popping super-funky...

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Hayley Williams on Paramore Reboot: 'I Absolutely Feel Vindicated'

Four years ago when Paramore lost founding members Zac and Josh Farro in a bitter public split singer Hayley Williams was sure the band was over "I thought 'Well maybe it's like the end of Stand by Me'" says Williams 25 "Not everything lasts forever I'll find something else that...

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Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch to Be Sold

Michael Jackson's opulent 2700-acre estate Neverland Ranch will be hitting the market in the near future Forbes reports that the Los Olivos California property is being sold by the real estate investment firm Colony Capital which owns equity in Neverland after an agreement with Jackson that took effect in 2008...

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Jamie Lynn Spears on Her Country Journey: 'It's My Story'

When the younger sister of one of the biggest pop stars in music history makes a record in Nashville she's bound to cause a lot of head scratching But Jamie Lynn Spears explains it like this When she puts her songwriting pen to paper country comes out 10 New Country Artists...

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Semi Precious Weapons Strip Down for Yahoo Music

New York City glam-rockers Semi Precious Weapons have some very high-profile fans — Lady Gaga Katy Perry and Kesha among them — but in many ways they're still a cult group Thankfully their diehard fans (famous or otherwise) have sustained them during a four-year recording hiatus (the unfortunate result of...

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See Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson Fly a Plane in a Music Fest Dogfight

A day before his band Iron Maiden performed at England's Sonisphere festival this year vocalist Bruce Dickinson took to the air in a World War I–era fighter plane to put on a 12-minute dogfight over metal fans' heads He put on the show with the Great War Display Team of...

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19 Worst Things About Woodstock '99

Woodstock '99 was supposed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "peace love and happiness" Instead the Rome New York festival earned the infamous distinction of "the day the Nineties died" There were tons of contributing factors that made the fest the anti-Woodstock Organizers trying to wring every last dollar from...

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Chance the Rapper Covers 'Arthur' Theme Song With Wyclef Jean

Nineties nostalgia has hit a new high mark Rising MC Chance the Rapper known for his penchant for the absurd has released a boisterous ebullient cover of the theme song to the PBS children's show Arthur Find Out Where Chance the Rapper's 'Acid Rap' Ranked on Our List of 2013's 10...

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