Archive for February, 2009

The Big 3

February 24th, 2009 Posted by J Frazzetta
coachella

When I win PowerBall, the first thing I’m going to do is buy tickets to Coachella, Bonnaroo, and Lollapalooza. Oh, I’ll put the rest of the cash in the bank, but I would devote that summer to checking out these festivals. Talk about a dream come true.

First we have Coachella, April 17-19 in Indio, California. Three days of music in the California...

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21st Century Breakdown

February 18th, 2009 Posted by Gumer Liston
GreendayIt's been five years since the American rock trio Greenday gave us a big hit with American Idiot. You may be wondering what they're up to now. Well, the band is cooking up a new album which will hit the stores in May. The new album, which is the band's eighth studio album, includes 16 tracks that are split into three acts : Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, and Horseshoes and Handgrenades. What can we expect from this new album which is produced by Butch Vig at the very same studio where American Idiot, DookieWarning, and Insomniac were recorded?  Billboard's Jonathan Cohen, who...

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Ten (plus 8) Years in the Making

February 10th, 2009 Posted by J Frazzetta

I’m usually not a fan of remastered or reissued albums. Give me the bumps, hiss and feedback. However, after hearing about Pearl Jam’s reissuing of Ten, their 1991 debut, I may have to reconsider:

The standard edition sounds like you...

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Sticky and Sweet Again This Summer

February 3rd, 2009 Posted by Gumer Liston
Sticky and Sweet The "Queen of Pop" will resume her Sticky and Sweet tour this summer; around 25 shows are being scheduled for the United Kingdom and much of Europe. In support of her eleventh studio album, Hard Candy, the Sticky & Sweet Tour has been seen in  the Americas and Europe. This tour already has become the "top-grossing tour ever by a female or solo artist". The scheduled summer tour is expected to add much to the already whooping $280 million grossed by the show. The final leg of the tour will kick off on the 4th of July at the O2 Arena...

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