Is the new version of INXS already hitting the skids? Hard to say, but the band has parted ways with its US label, Epic. The band’s album Switch has sold 375,000 units in the US. Not quite a shitload, but decently somewhat respectable, I suppose. Still, it’s hard to imagine the band going on as long as the original incarnation did. Times have changed, and any band that is “created” with the help of a phone-in audience is…well, more prefab than The Monkees ever thought about being. Certainly everyone knows that these newer kids just want the single to download and not the entire album. The labels know it, the TV execs know it…but do the bands know it?
Month: September 2006 (Page 4 of 7)
Hoo boy, who needs some money? Perhaps Doug Fieger of The Knack does. After all, he’s now suing Run-DMC for their sampling of “My Sharona” in their 1986 hit “It’s Tricky.” And not a moment too soon, either. After all, that song has only been around since 1986. So why the delay? Apparently Fieger and co-writer/bandmate Breton Averre had never heard the song until just last year. Whaaaaaa?
Compiling a Deep Cuts list for David Bowie might seem like a daunting task. The man’s had so many albums and so many great non-single album tracks that it’s undoubtedly impossible to create a list which every fan will agree with. Just look at the number of official compilations Bowie’s already issued and you’ll begin to get the picture (for my money, the best single disc collection remains Rykodisc’s Changesbowie which collects most of Bowie’s hit singles starting with “Space Oddity” and ending with “Blue Jean”). There’s just so much to work with in the man’s catalogue that it can be perplexing, even for record companies to put together something for the fans.
At any rate, please enjoy exploring through the Deep Cuts of David Bowie. If you’re a new fan, or are familiar with most everything the man has released, you’ll undoubtedly find something worthy of discussion.
You know you wanna hit this guy.
Well the results are finally in. Rolling Stone’s Dark Side of the Moonman results, that is. Readers were polled to pick the worst video around, as well as a slew of other bad clips in a slew of other categories. It’s nice to see James Blunt getting maximum mileage out of one of the worst songs of all time. Why can’t he get laryngitis like the Simpson sisters?
He looks like Taco for the new generation.
I haven’t kept up with it at all, because frankly I could care less. But there’s that whole slew of rock fans out there who do care, so I present to you Mr. Lukas Rossi, the winner of “Rock Star: Supernova.”
You remember Taco, right? The guy who had “Puttin’ On The Ritz” back in the ’80s? Well, Rossi looks just like him, only with a dash of fake goth.
“I’m just surprised anyone cares about a little punk from Toronto,” said Rossi. Well, yeah, there’s that. And then there’s the entire shelf life of something like this all around. Suffice it to say that there may still be a few people listening when the next “Rock Star” is found.
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