‘Music’ Articles
U2 Manager Joins Band On Stage for the First Time (Video)
By John Romano(YBH) - Last night at the U2 concert at Angels Stadium in Anaheim a bit of history was made. U2's longtime manager, and the band's proclaimed "fifth member", Paul McGuiness joined the band on stage for the first time during a live concert.During the show u2's lead singer, Bono, mentioned that Thursday was the manager's [...]
Band Shuts Down Los Angeles Freeway and Butchers English Language
(YBH) - People angered by the band the Imperial Stars' stunt yesterday, shutting down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles, should read their bio. They'll start to feel a bit of sympathy for these would-be musical wild men.The band hails from Orange County, but their grammatically-challenged purple prose would be right at home in a Nigerian [...]
RIP – KEITH ELAM
From URDead2MeEXPIRED: 04/19/10 – Keith Elam, 47, grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts. For many in Roxbury, at the time, you had two career choices. You could join a gang – or you could dream about becoming a star and getting out of the hood.For Elam it was different. His dad was a Boston judge. His mom was a major force in the [...]
RIP – ALEX CHILTON
From Urdead2meEXPIRED: 03/17/10 – Alex Chilton, 59, was making preparations to play the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas when he had a heart attack and died in his home of New Orleans.Maybe you don’t know his name. You might not even know his recent music. He sort of became a cult status performer over the last [...]
A Rockin’ Spring Has Sprung
Tis' a busy time for the indie music fan, with the SXSW pilgrimage underway, the Record Store Day exclusives shopping list shaping up, Coachella warm-up shows are popping up across the west, and a release calendar which answers the question of whether or not some of the big debuts of recent years were mere flukes, or if the blogosphere [...]
RIP – T-BONE WOLK
FROM URDEAD2MEEXPIRED: 02/27/10 – Tom “T-Bone” Wolk, 60, didn’t choose to be a musician. It chose him. Wolk was the guy with “the hat” playing bass guitar with Hall & Oates in all those videos on MTV in the early 80’s. Admit it. You remember.Like many guys Wolk’s age, he got the urge to play rock and roll watching [...]
Everything Old Is Old Again, But Updated
It seems that rock music has a 20-25 year latency period after initial popularity before it is revived by the next generation and resold as homage-to or under-influence-of the originals. Sadly for me, when I was in my late teens, crap from the late 60s was being regurgitated, so I had to endure bad psychedelia and classic rock rip-offs in massive [...]
Rock Band Video Game Opens Up Music Submissions
LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) - Platforming off XBox 360, Playstations and even Wii, Rock Band, the mega-successful video game, has sold 4 million units and generated more than $600 million in revenue. When released in 2007, Harmonix CEO and Rock Band co-creator Alex Rigopulos said the game "takes the core premise of Guitar Hero and expands it [...]
