Kiss release shoes!

Not content with just selling Kiss branded cycling shorts, Frisbees and red wine, the band have added Vans Sk8-Hi shoes to their online shop. The shoes feature all four members (two faces per shoe), as seen on the cover art of four albums they released in September 1978. According to Vans, the shoes are constructed with black canvas and suede uppers. For more information on getting fancy Gene Simmons and crew looking sultry all over your lower extremities, see the Vans website.

Publicado: 2008-10-07 Proveedor: Kerrang!

Gadget Envy: Ion Drum Rocker

What It Is: A super-deluxe drum kit for Rock Band that also doubles as an actual electronic drum kit. Who It’s For: People who have conquered the “Expert” level on Rock Band and are ready to back up Robert Palmer. Why It’s Worthy: The Ion Drum Rocker is the Rock Band drum kit taken to the Nth degree. The pads are quieter than any other fake drum kit on the market, and the construction is solid. Best of all is the pedal for the bass drum, which has some actual weight to it and can take a beating. When you’re done playing along with “Aqualung,” switch over to the real drums and lay down your own beats (as long as you have a friend who has a keytar). Our Only Complaint: The Ion Drum Rocker comes with two cymbals out of the box, but there’s room for a third, and to get the full hi-hat/ride/crash layout, you’ll have to cough up extra bones. Also, the plug-in to operate them as real drums doubles the price. Cost/Where to Get It: $299.99, currently compatible only with the XBox 360. Add-ons — including the Alesis drum module, bonus cymbals and a specially designed “drum throne” — cost extra. Available at the official Drum Rocker site.

Publicado: 2008-10-02 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Gadget Envy

Rhys-meyers Dreams Of Musical Life

Irish movie star JONATHAN RHYS-MEYERS regrets not taking his musical career more seriously - because he would have liked to have formed a band with hi

Publicado: 2007-11-13 Proveedor: Contact Music

Nadine speaks out about Girls Aloud split rumours

Nadine has just posted this message from LA on the official Girls Aloud website...   Hi guys, i hope you all enjoyed watching the BRITs last night. It's a shame we didnt win Best British Band, but we're big fans of Arctic Monkeys so we're happy it was them. Any indie band that covers Love Machine is alright by us. Haha.... I just wanted to let you all know how frustrating it is losing your passport. I lost it somewhere over here and wasn't able to make it back for last night's show. That's the only reason I wasn't there! Hello? I'd love to have spent the night with my girls and watch Amy, Kylie and Rihanna perform. Anyway I'll be back soon and you can catch us all performing on Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway on 1 March. See you all there. Love Nadine xxx   So what do you think?

Publicado: 2008-09-23 Proveedor: Heat

Single Minded: New Tracks From ‘High School Musical 2,’ Junior Senior, Eisley, Davey Havok’s Blaqk Audio and Lori McKenna

Cast of High School Musical 2, “What Time Is It?” [MySpaceTV] In spite of hard-learned lessons throughout the late Nineties, the answer to this question is apparently not “4:30.” Just give in and play this already. You know you’re wondering what it sounds like. Junior Senior, “Can I Get Get” [Junior Senior MySpace] Remember “Rapture”? Junior Senior are really, really hoping the answer to that question is “No.” Eisley, “Come Clean” [Eisley MySpace] Texas band turns the “Dust in the Wind” chord progression into a lithe and lovely late-summer ballad. C, G and A Minor send a letter of heartfelt thanks. Blaqk Audio, “Semiotic Love” [Blaqk Audio MySpace] Davey Havok from AFI fuses Hi-NRG and Darkwave, which should thrill the oft-neglected gym rat/ponyboy demographic. Lori McKenna, “Witness to Your Life” [Rhapsody] McKenna’s got a tough voice and a bottomless supply of big, winning hooks. Also, she said if High School Musical 2 sells more records than she does this week, she’s going to retire. Then she threw a TV.

Publicado: 2007-08-15 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

In the Studio: Al Green

While visiting his record company in 2005, Roots drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson picked up Loretta Lynn’s 2004 Van Lear Rose album, the singer’s late-career collaboration with Jack White. “I couldn’t stop listening to it,” says Thompson. “I thought, ‘Why can’t that happen on the black side of music?’” He first attempted to work with reclusive soul singer Bill Withers, but an executive at Blue Note Records asked Thompson if he’d be interested in producing Al Green, who was looking to work with a member of the hip-hop community. (Listen to two new Greens tracks, plus watch a behind-the-scenes video about the making of this LP here.) The pair’s first meeting, in 2005 at New York’s Electric Lady Studios, resulted in an epic evening that formed the core of the glorious Lay It Down (out May 27th). “Every time anybody did something else, I turned around and wrote another song,” says Green. “We ended up with eight songs in that one night. I hadn’t had an experience like that, ever!” The band, built around the rhythm section of Thompson and bassist Adam Blackstone and featuring the Dap-King Horns (best known for their work with Amy Winehouse), reconvened seven or eight times to complete the album. The final results — featuring duets with Corinne Bailey Rae, John Legend and Anthony Hamilton — sound looser, funkier and more emotional than anything Green has released in decades. Green’s last two albums (2003’s I Can’t Stop and 2005’s Everything’s OK) reunited him with producer Willie Mitchell, who led all of his classic sessions for Hi Records in the Seventies. Thompson describes those records as “solid but sonically frustrating,” and says that he had a different ambition for Lay It Down. Noting that new albums from legendary artists tend to go either the standards-filled “Tony Bennett rou

Publicado: 2008-04-21 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, In the Studio

Foo Fighters Promise “Big Noise” and “Biggest Songs” on Tour With Jimmy Eat World, Against Me!

When Foo Fighters take the stage at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida, tomorrow night to kick off their latest trek across North America, they will be embracing their inner stadium rockers to the max. “We’re proud to be an arena rock band,” says drummer and group cheerleader Taylor Hawkins. “We enjoy doing the bigass shows—making big noise with big toys.” They’ll take that big approach on their first domestic tour since the release of the critially and commercially successful new album Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace last fall. One of the few post-grunge bands to still be standing, Hawkins knows exactly why Foo Fighters remain relevant and will stand tall in the annals of rock history. “It’s all about Dave and how great a frontman he is,” Hawkins explains. “When we played Live Earth last year, Dave turned that stadium into a fucking club. All the great frontmen were like that. That’s what Freddie Mercury did every night.” Hawkins says the set list will focus on their latest record but the band won’t shy away from their biggest hits. “We pander to our audience, there’s no question. We’re not going to pull a Radiohead and not play our biggest songs. Luckily, I like playing ‘Everlong’ and ‘Monkey Wrench.’ ” The Foos aren’t going it alone. In fact, the tour has mutated into a post-modern “Monsters of Rock” tour, featuring some of the biggest bands in the country. Jimmy Eat World, Against Me!, Serj Tankian and about-to-break-huge Hi-Fi Hand Grenades will all join the Foos at various points on the run. “We played together at a radio festival in the fall,” says Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel. “My bandmates were hanging out in the Foos’ dressing room saying, ‘Come on, take us on tour!’ We didn’t think it would actually happen, but here we are.” On the prospect of playing arenas for the first time, Gabel says not to expect any bells and whistles. “We don’t have enough money or know-how to add pyro o

Publicado: 2008-01-15 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, On Tour

Rock List: Twenty-Five Favorite Album Covers

On Friday, we lamented the disappearance of striking cover art and asked you, the music fan, what your favorite album covers are. The result is a list of our collective twenty-five favorite record covers — but rather than tell you what they are, we’re showing you what they are. Check out the gallery of winners right here, and because there were so many passionate feelings about this rather personal topic, check after the jump for some RS staffers’ lists of favorites (they’re all subject to change, too). Evan Serpick King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King Led Zeppelin - I Can - Tago Mago The Clash - London Calling Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Melissa Maerz Beck - Mellow Gold Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - No More Workhouse Blues Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You? Swamp Dogg - Rat On! Ice T - Gangsta Rap Kevin O’ Donnell Miles Davis - Bitches Brew Sonic Youth – Goo The Roots - Things Fall Apart Steely Dan – Aja My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Andy Greene Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson Pink Floyd - Animals Ramones - Ramones The Who - Who’s Next Bob Dylan - Bringing It Back Home Caryn Ganz The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Sonic Youth - Goo The B-52’s, The B-52’s The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking Daniel Kreps Pink Floyd - Animals The Beta Band - Champion Versions Jean-Claude Vannier - L’Enfant Assassin Des Mouches Nirvana - Incesticide Can - Monster Movie Jennifer Hsu New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies? Kraftwerk - TransEurope Express? The Beatles - The White Album Elvis Costello - The Year’s Model? R.E.M. - Murmur Nicole Frehsee The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed The Band - Music From The Big Pink Bruce Springsteen - The River The Beatles - Revolver Velvet Underground & Nico - Velvet Underground & Nico

Publicado: 2007-10-23 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock Lists

Chihuahua Army Craps Gold For Disney [Monday Morning Box Office]

Hard times got you down? Well don't expect the weekend's box office numbers to cheer you up any: 1. Beverly Hills Chihuahua - $29 million Since we first glimpsed its trailer—a jaw-dropping depiction of 45,000 CGI chihuahuas line-kicking to a song about burrito condiments on the steps of a Mayan ruin—we've made little secret of our obsession with this movie. Sadly, a painful ingrown toenail prevented us (yes—all three of us; when one is hurts, the others feel it just as deeply) from actually paying to see it. Enough did, however, to earn Disney its highest-ever October opening. They were mostly struggling American families, looking in this canine rags-to-riches story for a distraction from their growing financial woes, like Little Orphan Annie did during the Great Depression. Unfortunately, the plan largely backfired, as all hungry audiences could see in place of the film's adorable Mexican lapdogs were delicious, charcoal-broiled rotisserie chihuahuas floating across the screen. 2. Eagle Eye - $17.7 million Meanwhile, this hi-tech thriller starring Shia LaBeouf (in his last pinkie-nail-intact role) continued to draw them in, in which he and Katie Holmes's MI3 stand-in play two strangers taunted mercilessly by That Lady Who Offers Voicemail Options. 3. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - $12 million We had high hopes based on the cleverly culled clips used in the commercial, but came away extremely disappointed, as just about everything in this movie—from the queer band members cast by obviously straight dudes, to the CW-caliber dialogue, to the most disgusting sequence we've ever endured involving a wad of chewing gum—came off as just plain wrong, with the exception of Michael Cera, who somehow emerged unscathed. 4. Nights in Rodanthe - $7.355 million While we're not ones for Hallmark porn, we're confident that Richard Gere has achieved in Rodanthe yet another heart-shaped turd to toss onto his ever-growing shmalzography pile. 9. An American Carol - $3.810 millio

Publicado: 2008-10-06 Proveedor: Defamer Etiquetas: monday morning box office, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Top

The Band That Uses Vampires To Its Advantage

Eric Elbogen may not look like a rock star -- onstage the 30-year- old is reminiscent of the kind of guy who liked to groove on the dance floor of a 1980s bar mitzvah party. But the mastermind behind Say Hi to Your Mom -- who recently moved from Brooklyn to Seattle and is touring as part of a...

Publicado: 2007-03-29 Proveedor: Washington Post

Mariah Carey's Dog Has Had Enough

Mariah Carey is demented. Imagine being her pet? Before the insta-wedding chaos, Mariah was at the premiere of her new flick Tennessee, and sporting a pink Hello Kitty Band-Aid on her hand. It turns out that her beloved pooch Jack turned on her ass and chomped down. You try being dressed in a unicorn costume! "People keep shaking my hand really hard, like 'hi' and I'm like 'get off my freaking dog bite!'" she said to the press. "So anyways, if I'm wearing a band-aid, I thought it might as well be a cute one. Everyone's making it a whole dramatic moment about the band-aid. Golly. Really! It's a band-aid." Did she actually say "golly?" The film's producer quickly stepped in to assure the press that Mariah didn't put Jack in the oven for his betrayal. "Jack is very important to her. She's very loving with him. If you don't have kids, animals are extra important to you," said executive producer Sarah Siegel Magnuss. Flash forward six months from now to Nick Cannon with Jack in a backpack rappelling down the wall of Mariah's high-rise at 2 AM. He's wearing a pink Prince Charming costume and sobbing, not caring if he falls 25 stories because it still means he escaped from Mariah's insane stunted youth fairy tale kingdom. Photos: Bauer-Griffin Online

Publicado: 2008-05-07 Proveedor: A Socialite's Life

The Hills: 'Going To Semi-Formal With Him Does Not Make Him Your Boyfriend' [Words Of Wisdom]

newVideoPlayer("hills6_defamer.flv", 463, 387,""); Hey, where's Kristin Cavallari? And Jason Wahler? And that one chick with the huge cans? Oh, hi there! In case you hadn't noticed, Molly is out sick today, which leaves your Uncle Grambo the pleasure of being your host for this week's installment of "The Hills: Words Of Wisdom." Truth be told, I have never seen an episode of the show, which leaves me relatively unprepared to contextualize the goings-on of this band of famepires. While I harbor no doubts that a fair number of Defamer readers actually enjoy The Hills (regardless of whether you like it as a show or as a cultural phenomenon), I'm guessing (hoping?) that most of you are not watching this to catch up on the plot summary. Rather, you're watching it for the same reason that I do, which is because it enables us to wallow around in the schadenfreude like a pig rolls around in mud on a hot summer's day. So, with that, please enjoy this week's episode (crafted lovingly, as always, by Molly McAleer). [MTV] WATCH VIDEO

Publicado: 2008-04-30 Proveedor: Defamer Etiquetas: Clips, Heidi Montag, lauren conrad, the hills, words of wisdom