Barenaked Ladies lead-singer Steven Page was arrested Friday on a cocaine felony near Syracuse, New York. If convicted, he faces up to 15-years in prison. The arrest comes shortly after the band released a kids CD named Snack Time. If it was heroin, I’d have been able to make a “Smack Time” joke.  Better luck next [...] Read Full Story

The painted bass drum skin that appeared on the cover of The Beatles‘ seminal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album has sold at auction for one million dollars. The drum skin used on the cover of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album has sold for £541,250 ($1.07m) at auction in London - almost four times the [...] Read Full Story

Aging rocker David Lee Roth wants you to know that he’s just fine with nuts.  He loves nuts. He can take a lot of nuts. Roth’s disclosure was in response to an earlier report that eating a couple of nuts sent Roth speeding to a Canadian hospital, a trip during which he was pulled over by [...] Read Full Story

Reports paint pretentious music maker and dad Sting as irate after learning that troubled rocker Pete Doherty shacked up in daughter Coco’s tent at the Glastonbury Music Festival. An onlooker told Britain’s Mail Online website: “I was standing next to Coco’s tent after Pete had played his set, and one of her friends went to check [...] Read Full Story

photo credit: eyeliam Britian’s “The Sun” newspaper is reporting that hip-hop star Kanye West is headed to anger management classes in an attempt to get control over his outbursts and “frequent mood swings.” The outspoken hip-hop star has made several public outbursts in the past - and his representatives are allegedly eager to resolve the [...] Read Full Story

An interesting Review: Elvis Presley - His Hand In Mine has been posted at Blogcritics. Here’s an excerpt, click the link for the full text. Essential Elvis: Chapter 8. Elvis Presley released his first full gospel album on November 10, 1960. He had previously released the four song EP, Peace In The Valley, whose tracks also [...] Read Full Story

An interesting review of Review: Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back has been posted at Blogcritics. Here’s an excerpt, click the link for the full text. Essential Elvis: Chapter 6. Elvis Presley was discharged from the army on March 5, 1960 and all was right with the musical world again. Elvis immediately returned to the studio [...] Read Full Story

An interesting review of Build - Build has been posted at Blogcritics. Here’s an excerpt, click the link for the full text. This release could change the way you think about contemporary composition. Back sometime in the 1970s an ensemble known as The Penguin Cafe Orchestra achieved a level of popularity previously unknown for a [...] Read Full Story

I hold in my hand my official “Things I Never Want to See” list, and right there adjacent to “Another Episode of Grey’s Anatomy” is “A Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape.”  Yet, somehow, a Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape is being released anyway. Vivid Entertainment is reportedly planning to release a sex tape featuring guitar God, Jimi Hendrix. [...] Read Full Story

American Idol cast-off Carly Smithson may have sealed her own fate in choosing to perform Superstar from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, a song choice suggested by Webber himself. Carly had originally chosen to perform All I Ask of You from Webber’s Phantom of The Opera, but was talked out of the choice [...] Read Full Story