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• Watch Lady Gaga, Beyoncé's "Telephone"• Conan O'Brien Announces Bonnaroo, Tour• Pearl Jam Plot May Tour Dates• Corgan on Mayer's Career-Destruction• Idol to Tackle Rolling Stones Songs• Pink Floyd Halt Single-Song Downloads• Strokes Confirm Lollapalooza Slot• News Ticker: Beck, Rock Band 3• Actor Corey Haim Dead at 38• Kate Nash Talks My Best Friend Is [...]
Lady Gaga and Beyonce Unleash Orgy of Sex, Violence, Product Placement in "Telephone" Video
Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's anxiously awaited video for their The Fame Monster collaboration "Telephone" has arrived as a nine-minute-and-thirty-second mash-up of lesbian prison porn, campy sexploitation flicks and insidery winks at the two divas' public personas. If Quentin Tarantino and Russ Meyer remade Thelma & Louise as an orgy of product placement with fiercely choreographed [...]
Tour Tracker: Elton John, Diana Ross and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Photo: Venema/WireImage While Billy Joel takes the next few months off, Elton John soldiers on with a new round of April dates. Plus, Diana Ross announces her "More Today Than Yesterday" greatest-hits tour and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony reveal a fresh trek in support of their upcoming reunion album Uni5: The World's Enemy. Full details for all [...]
Pearl Jam Announce May U.S. Tour Capped By Two MSG Gigs
Photo: Dyson/WireImageMissed Pearl Jam live during the band's run of Backspacer tour dates last year? Eddie Vedder and company are giving you another chance to see their legendary live show in action with a month-long slate of U.S. shows that kick off in May. The trek launches at New Orleans' Jazz Festival on May 1st [...]
"American Idol" Set to Tackle Songs By the Rolling Stones
Photo: AFP/GettyTwo years ago American Idol celebrated the music of the Fab Four, and next week the show's Top 12 will pick up that rockin' tradition by belting out songs by "the Greatest Rock & Roll Band in the World," the Rolling Stones. Host Ryan Seacrest made the announcement of next week's musical theme on [...]
Billy Corgan on John Mayer: "He's Trying to Destroy His Career"
Photo: Bedder/WireImage (Mayer), Mayer/WireImage(Corgan)After reading John Mayer's controversial recent interviews, Billy Corgan is convinced Mayer is trying to self-destruct. "He's trying to destroy his career," Corgan told Rolling Stone's Brian Hiatt in an interview outtake from RS‘ revealing new Corgan feature in the new issue, on sale now. "Rather than take a year off or [...]
Conan O'Brien Joins Bonnaroo, Announces "Legally Prohibited" Tour
Photo: Brown/GettyNBC may have stripped Conan O'Brien of his Tonight Show and contractually barred him from temporarily appearing on television, but the red-headed host has found another way to get in front of his legion of fans: Bonnaroo. O'Brien posted on his newborn Twitter page today to reveal he's hitting the road. "Hey [...]
The Strokes Confirm Lollapalooza Slot, Report In on Next Album
Photo: Bedder/Getty With the Strokes in the studio hard at work on their long-awaited follow-up to First Impressions of Earth, frontman Julian Casablancas has reiterated drummer Fab Moretti's prediction about when the album will be released, telling the Chicago Tribune, "I think it'll be out in September." Casablancas added, "I've written a lot of melodies [...]
Pink Floyd Win Battle to Halt Single-Song Download Sales
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Pink Floyd have won their lawsuit over single-song downloads against EMI, effectively halting the digital sale of the band's individual tracks. As Rolling Stone reported yesterday, under the terms of a 1999 contract that predated iTunes and other digital-music retailers, the band mandated its songs could not be offered outside the [...]
News Ticker: Beck, "Rock Band 3," Phil Collins, Kings of Leon
Photo: GettyBeck's next Record Club project will feature St. Vincent, the Liars and Os Mutantes, Pitchfork reports, though it's unclear which classic album they've tackled.If you've already mastered Rock Band 2, there's good news on the horizon: Rock Band 3 will be out in time for the 2010 holidays. A statement on the game's Facebook [...]
