Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor Unhappy

Nine Inch Nails (NIN) frontman Trent Reznor doesn’t seem all that happy these days. While browsing through the venerable NME’s website, I noticed that he’s unhappy that rapper Saul Williams’ album “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust”, which Reznor produced, didn’t do so well under a pay-what-you-like model similar to Radiohead’s In Rainbows. […]

Lots of New Music in 2008

As with most any new year, expect lots of new music to be released. Billboard (via Yahoo! News) provide a month-by-month breakdown for just the first quarter of 2008. Here’s a short form of that list:

Jan: Willie Nelson, Sarah Brightman, Motel.

Feb: Lil Wayne, Nas, Ja Rule, Nicole Scherzinger, Sheryl Crow, Lenny Kravitz, Anthony Hamilton, Jack […]

New R.E.M. Album, Accelerate, Due April 1st

Is this an early April Fool’s joke? Billboard magazine reports that R.E.M. will have a new album out on Warner Bros on April 1st. But anyone familiar the mostly energetic yet easy-going sound of the band since its earliest albums from around 1983 - with maybe the exception of the songs “Losing My Religion” and […]

Celebrity Pregnancy Wave Source Revealed: Janet Jackson’s Babymaking Music

After many hours of groundbreaking research, I’ve figured it out. The reason so many celebrities have been pregnant the past year or so is not due to Jack Nicholson’s sexual escapades (he who claimed he might have fathered 9,000 kids) but to Janet Jackson’s baby-making songs (including those on her upcoming album). Jackson claims fans […]

7 Ways to Improve Music Sales

Do you download any or all of your music from the Internet, or do you buy CDs? Or maybe both? Why do you prefer one format over the other?
While music sales were reportedly down this past holiday season, it might not be just due to downloading. Research shows that many music fans prefer CDs […]

Who’ll Be the Hot Entertainers in 2008?

The L.A. Times recently published their 8 faces to watch in 2008 article, highlighting various young performers (music, acting). The list of names are as follows:

Ben Barnes, who plays Prince Caspian in the upcoming The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) movie sequel to The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, as well as The […]

Shock Rockstar Marilyn Manson Divorces

Twisted shock rock entertainer Marilyn Manson - who is either much-loved or much-reviled, depending on whom you ask - just got divorced. It seems not so long ago that he was with Rose McGowan (Grindhouse, The Black Dahlia, Charmed (TV)), but Manson married burlesque performer Dita Von Teese a bit over two years ago. Von […]