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Lights Out Asia plays through darkness with 'sleep rock'

Band name: Lights Out Asia

Published: 2009-02-12 Provider: Journal Sentinel Online

Guns n’ Roses to Tour Southeast Asia? Korea Concert Announced

Photo: Natkin/WireImage Almost a year after the release of Chinese Democracy, Guns n’ Roses seem to finally be planning some concerts. Yet another date on the band’s rumored tour of Southeast Asia has hit the Web: according to AllAccess.co.kr Website, there’s a December 13th show at Seoul, Korea’s Olympic Park Gymnastics Stadium. Our Korean is a bit shaky, but it appears tickets for the concert go on sale October 6th. The official Guns n’ Roses Website still doesn’t show any mention of tour date

Published: 2009-09-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Guns N' Roses, On Tour, Rock News

Springsteen Plays “Santa,” NIN’s Reznor Says Farewell at Bonnaroo

At last year’s Bonnaroo, rapper M.I.A. made headlines when she claimed that she was performing her last show ever. Here we go again: during his late-night set on Which Stage for Bonnaroo Day Three, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor announced that he was performing his last show ever in the United States. (Reznor and his band are headed to Europe and Asia for a 33-date tour that wraps on August 12th.) Reznor suggested that his decision was from too much touring, but he did allude that he would contin

Published: 2009-06-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Bonnaroo

U.K., Indonesia Battle It Out For “Strangest Album of the Year”

The United Kingdom has an interesting way of supporting their troops: million-pound record contracts. The British army regiment/band the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards have signed a deal with Universal Music to share their drums-and-bagpiping ways with the entire world. Their album, produced by Backstreet Boys vet Jon Cohen, will feature bagpipin’ covers of Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart songs, as well as the usual patriotic fare. The “band” will donate its royalties to military charities. Making the above story only slightly less bizarre is the news from Jakarta, where Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has released his debut album, voter-baiting-titled My Longing For You. Yudhoyono, which probably rhymes with “Bono,” found inspiration during a trip to Australia to attend a summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping in September. If an APEC conference doesn’t get your artistic juices flowing, we don’t know what will. “I took time in my busy schedule to express my feelings as an ordinary human being,” Yudhoyono said of his ten-track album of love songs and religious ballads. Releasing an album won’t guarantee re-election, however: Yudhoyono’s likely 2009 presidential opponent, Wiranto, has released his own album of love ballads, which could only result in a croon-off for the Indonesian presidency in two years.

Published: 2007-10-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Smoking Section: Justin Timberlake’s Upcoming Plans, My Chemical Romance and More

Bury the rag deep in your face: The FutureSex/LoveSounds era is about to come to a close. At the end of November, after eighteen months of sold-out gigs, Justin Timberlake is taking a break. “It’s like, I’m over myself,” he tells the Smoking Section. “I’m sure a lot of other people are too.” JT is looking forward to puffing on the sweet Mary Jane and hitting the slopes. In ‘08, he plans to work as the hands-on CEO of his fledgling label, Tennman Records. “After I get all the hotboxing and snowboarding out of the way,” he says, “I’ve got four artists to be in the studio with.” That would be Internet sensation Esmee Denters, a rap group from Memphis called Free Sol, R&B singer Brenda Radney and his old pal, songwriter Matt Morris. Says JT, “Until I get that urge to make my own record, this is what’s exciting to me.” *** My Chemical Romance’s October 7th gig at the Palacio de Los Deportes, in Mexico City, was a milestone for the band. For the last time, the quintet engaged in the macabre processional known as the Black Parade — based, of course, on their album of the same name. Luckily, they caught the perform ance on tape. “To finally see it executed on film is going to be really amazing,” singer Gerard Way tells the S.S. After dates in Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia, the band will take a nice little break, which couldn’t come at a better time for the singer, who got married in a backstage ceremony in September — during the Projekt Revolution Tour — to Lyn Z, the bassist from Mindless Self Indulgence. “Married life is fuckin’ amazing,” says Way. “Especially being in a relationship that I only thought could be a fictional thing. It’s like knowing that there’s always somebody out there, and that’s something I’ve never known.” Aw! *** In the past fortnight, the S.S. got a heavy dose of re

Published: 2007-10-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Smoking Section

Subways auction goodies for charity

The Subways are auctioning their drum kit online for charity. Working with Action Aid, the band (joining forces with pop acts The Tings Tings and Duffy) are selling their kit to raise money and awareness for the Bollocks To Poverty campaign. All the funds raised by the ‘Bollocks to Poverty’ auction will go directly to ActionAid’s work in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Anella Wickenden, ActionAid youth manager, says: “We’ve had an amazing response from some of Britain’s hottest bands and artists. Now it’s a chance for fans to snap up memorabilia, knowing that the money they bid will help change the lives of some of the world’s poorest people.” Just a small amount can make a huge difference, so the more money raised by the auction, the better. £10 can provide five families in Liberia with enough seeds and tools to rebuild their livelihoods. £60 can provide a child in Malawi with life saving antiretroviral treatments for HIV for two months. £133 can enable 20 teenagers set up a community radio station in their favela (slum) in Brazil. £400 can provide enough medicines and materials for one community health centre in Cambodia. £1,000 can provide education for five ex-child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Check out the auction online now, HERE.

Published: 2008-09-23 Provider: Kerrang!

Salman Ahmad, lead singer of Pakistani band Junoon, talks Sufism, jihad and peace

His band is called Junoon. In Urdu, that means "obsessive passion" -- the kind that drives Pakistani rock star Salman Ahmad, often called the Bono of South Asia. The word "junoon" comes from the root "majnun," which means "totally crazy," going by Ahmad's translation. In "The Arabian Nights," he says, Majnun is a character who falls madly in love with Laila, the inspiration behind the "Layla" in Eric Clapton's song about crazy passion.

Published: 2010-03-14 Provider: Washington Post

The Killers Cancel Shows In Asia

The Killers have suddenly canceled their tour dates in Asia due to "unforseen circumstances." The band released the following statement on their site. It reads: The Killers have been forced to cancel their appearances in Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo and Seoul due to unforeseen circumstances. The band deeply apologizes to their fans and hope to [...]

Published: 2010-01-23 Provider: PerezHilton Keywords: Music Minute

Uh, Where's The Chick Who Won The Best Trannie Contest"The Search For The Next Pussycat Doll"?

So the Pussycat Dolls aren't using the girl with something extra who won the right to join their band of pre-ops . Seriously, I've seen them live and even from the back of the house - you could tell there was tucking and hormone treatments in full effect. PCD held a concert in Atlanta last night, and diva-in-training Asia was not in the scantily clad lineup. As TMZ first reported last week, sources say Asia, who won CW's "The Search for the Next Doll," isn't "the best match" for the grou

Published: 2007-05-03 Provider: A Socialite's Life

People Still Buying Metallica CDs; Not So Much Bobby Brown

CNN published an interesting article examining which classic albums are still selling well these days, and while my 1993 prediction in that "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" would go on to become the highest selling item in the history of human commerce isn't looking so good, the list is about as high-schooler-just-discovering-music-and-spending-summer-job-money-ey as you'd expect it to be. AC/DC's "Back In Black" sold a phenominal 440,000 copies in 2006, setting the pace on a list of top sellers that includes Metallica's Black Album, Guns N' Roses' "Appetite For Destruction," Bon Jovi's "Cross Roads" (greatest hits), and pretty much every Michael Jackson record. The part that absolutely shocked me, though, was this heartstopping revelation: Not everything maintains long-term success. Asia's self-titled 1982 album was the biggest seller of 1982, but only sold 5,000 copies last year. Whitney Houston's 1985 debut, also self-titled, was 1986's top album, but now sells about 7,000 discs a year. The same trajectory has befallen past mega-hits like Ace of Base's "The Sign," Bobby Brown's "Don't Be Cruel" and the Spice Girls' "Spice." Though one of the best selling artists of all time, Mariah Carey's self-titled debut sold a measly 5,000 copies last year. The Backstreet Boys' "Millennium" managed only 9,000 sales. Are you actually telling me that Asia isn't the most timeless band in contemporary music history? Well there is one thing album sales can't measure, CNN, and that's greatness. And Asia sells a billion trillion copies of that every time someone listens to one of their albums. So which albums are going to still be selling in the six figures two decades from now? Radiohead? Coldplay? Justin Timberlake? The Arctrick Monkeys, or whatever that one band was called? Asia, receiving renewed appreciation after a sea monster really does attack the world? Wyld Stallyns??

Published: 2007-07-17 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment

Tokio Hotel Guitarist Overdoses On Viagra

Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom Kaulitz says he couldn't see straight for two days after taking too much Viagra. Tom, 20, (pictured left, with twin brother Bill who is the band's lead singer) was offered the blue pill during a concert tour of Asia. "I first asked the seller 'Do I look like someone who needs help with that?'" Tom told the German newspaper Bild. "He said 'no'--but that I should nevertheless try it out. I popped one in." "I popped a few more pills, probably too many," he said. "The n

Published: 2010-05-15 Provider: Huffington Post

Update: Christina Aguilera poses for Marie Claire, talks pregnancy

Update: Additional photos and quotations added. Originally posted November 28th: Mom-to-be Christina Aguilera, 26, shows off her burgeoning belly in the latest issue of Marie Claire. Inside, the songstress, due with a son in early January, discusses becoming pregnant, touring in her first trimester, keeping quiet with her good news, and her public persona. Click below for the photo and interview highlights. Worker bees -- please be aware that while tasteful, Christina is nude in the photos. On getting pregnant during a tour stop in Washington, DC in early April:We were planning on starting to try after the tour [ended in August]. And so, I had gone off the Pill to prepare my body, because I didn't know how much time it would take. You've heard it takes some time –- except with Power Egg and Super Sperm here. That's what my makeup artist on tour calls it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, can you believe it just happened?'On finding out she was expecting:By the time I was supposed to get my period, I was like, 'It's not coming' -- and it's never late. And there were emotions coming up that I've never felt before -- I was already starting to get emotional. So I did a test. When the double lines came, my jaw dropped; I started shaking. I couldn't help but smile, and I started to tear up.After peeing on a few more sticks, and visiting a doctor to confirm, she called Jordan in New York -- he was elated. On finishing the last months of her tour while in her first trimester:I was paranoid. There are so many things that could go wrong –- somebody could slip, somebody could fall, I could fall. There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show. [I wore a heart monitor.] I didn't want to make the audience uncomfortable, like, 'Pregnant lady onstage! Is she going to be okay?' But I had to announce it to my band and my dancers, because I wanted to make sure they had my back. When we got to Asia, at one point no one could find a few of the dancers -- they were off t

Published: 2007-12-03 Provider: Celebrity Baby Blog Keywords: News, Pregnancy Photos, Quotable quotes