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Flaming Lips Concert Canceled After Storm Hits Tulsa, Oklahoma

Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips became the latest band to face off with the elements during a concert in their native Oklahoma on Saturday after high winds and rain caused stage structural problems. Just weeks a...


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Jack Johnson Concert Scrapped Due To Storm Winds

Jack Johnson

A French festival concert due to feature singer/songwriter Jack Johnson as a headliner has been canceled at the last minute due to strong winds. The "Better Together" hitmaker was in Provence for ...


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Cheap Trick Survives Stage Collapse In Canada (See Video)

Cheap Trick

Veteran rockers Cheap Trick narrowly escaped serious injury after the main stage at a Canadian music festival collapsed during the band's set. The group was performing at the Bluesfest in Ottawa...


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Rush To Be Honored As Living Legends In London

Rush

Rockers Rush are to be honored with the Living Legend award at Classic Rock magazine's Marshall Roll Of Honour Awards in November. The Canadian trio will jet to London to pick up the accolade at t...


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Should These Bands Or Artist Be Considered For The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame?

Journey-band-03.jpg

Not all musicians can be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. However, it brings to mind some music acts worthy of consideration in the future. Let us know which yet to be named bands or...


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Celebrity Birthdays, December 22

Ralph Fiennes

Happy Birthday to: "Harry Potter" baddie Ralph Fiennes (1962) Bee Gees twins Robin and Maurice (d. 2003) Gibb (1949) Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen (1946) Journalist Diane Sawyer (1...


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Taylor Swift Featured In 'Band Hero'; New Songs Announced

Taylor Swift, Band Hero, Band Hero Song List

Video game players and music fans alike can now get closer to Band Hero's in-game playable character Taylor Swift than ever before, as they can perform as the music icon to her fan-favorite chart-t...


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Celebrity Birthdays, June 12

Adriana Lima

Happy Birthday To Lillix guitarist Tasha-Ray Evin (1984), Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima (1981), "Clerks II" star Jason Mewes (1974), actress Paula Marshall (1965), They Might Be Giants singer J...


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Celebrity Birthdays, December 22

Rick Nielsen

Happy Birthday to "The Reader" star Ralph Fiennes (1962), Bee Gees twins Robin and Maurice (d. 2003) Gibb (1949), Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen (1946), journalist Diane Sawyer (1945), hall-of-...


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'Rock Band 2' Setlist Revealed, See The Entire List

Rock Band 2

Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game company, and MTV Games, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks, along with marketing and distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc., today revealed at the...


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The Most Underrated And Overrated Breakup Songs

Eagles

Of all the different types of songs, none is more essential than the Breakup Song. Sure, love songs are nice and dance songs are fun, but when you're feeling blue, a good breakup song is nearly a p...


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Celebrity Birthdays, June 12

Adriana Lima

Happy Birthday To Lillix guitarist Tasha-Ray Evin (1984), Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima (1981), "Clerks II" star Jason Mewes (1974), late Blues Traveler bassist Bobby Sheehan (1968; d. 1999), a...


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Flurry Of New Heart Re-Releases Continue To Hit The Street

Heart

The next two months will have a whole lot of Heart — the superstar rock band, that is — with three releases of classic and recent music coinciding with the group's three-month, 40-plus date nationw...


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Everclear's Favorite Covers Collected For "The Vegas Years," Out April 15; Win It!

Everclear

Never shy about their influences and the music they grew up on, multi-platinum rockers Everclear have long been known for saluting the band's roots by recording and performing a dynamic and eclecti...


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Journey Set To Launch Summer Tour With Heart And Cheap Trick

Journey

Three legendary rock bands are teaming up for what is sure to be the tour of the summer. Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick are heading out on the concert trail starting July 9 in Denver, CO through O...


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Top Ten 80's Movie Soundtracks

80s soundtrack king Kenny Loggins

Starpulse recently ran a 'Top Ten 80s Albums' list, in which the inclusion of the Top Gun soundtrack inspired me to come up with a list of the "Top Ten 80s Movie Soundtracks." After doing a little...


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Celebrity Birthdays, December 22

Rick Nielsen

Happy Birthday to "The Constant Gardener" actor Ralph Fiennes (1962), Bee Gees twins Robin and Maurice (d. 2003) Gibb (1949), Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen (1946), journalist Diane Sawyer (194...


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Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen Plans Hotel

Rick Nielsen

Colorful Cheap Trick rocker Rick Nielsen is set to become the latest celebrity hotelier after announcing plans to open a hotel/restaurant in his adopted Rockford, Illinois. The Surrender hitm...


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EA Games To Release 'Skate,' The Ultimate Boarding Game, In September

Skate

Skate is the closest thing to skateboarding without actually putting your feet on a board. With innovative controls that take advantage of the dual analog sticks, the power of the next gen hardware...


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Celebrity Birthdays, June 12

Jason Mewes

Happy Birthday To Lillix guitarist Tasha-Ray Evin (1984), Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima (1981), "Clerks II" star Jason Mewes (1974), late Blues Traveler bassist Bobby Sheehan (1968; d. 1999), a...


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Fascinating Facts

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley was so determined to keep herself to herself while filming the third Pirates of The Caribbean movie she threw her BlackBerry mobile communications device into the ocean. Cheap ...


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Tom Waits Tops 'Underappreciated' List

Tom Waits

Tom Waits has been named America's "Most Underappreciated Artist" in a new Internet poll. The gravel-voiced singer/songwriter beat The Replacements and rock veterans Cheap Trick in the Rolling Sto...


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Cake To Release 'B-Sides And Rarities' This Spring; Live Disc Due In Fall

Cake

Cake formed in Sacramento, California in 1991. The band quickly became a hot item in the downtown club and cafe scene, then went on to gain a steady following in San Francisco's Bay Area. Lead sing...


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Cheap Trick To Play In Sgt. Pepper Anniversary

Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick has signed on to be the house band for a 40th anniversary celebration of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Cheap Trick will back a string of star vocalists who w...


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John Lennon's Legacy Continues

John Lennon

More than a quarter of a century after his untimely death, John Lennon's legacy lives on through the work of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus, which begins its tenth anniversary of touring the ...


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2006: Year In Music (Pt. 2)

Billy Corgan

...In April, Billy Corgan announced that Smashing Pumpkins will reunite and begin recording a new album... Rihanna released her sophomore disc, Unfaithful, featuring the single S.O.S., which includ...


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Celebrity Birthdays, December 22

Rick Nielsen

Happy Birthday to "The Constant Gardener" actor Ralph Fiennes (1962), Bee Gees twins Robin and Maurice (d. 2003) Gibb (1949), Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen (1946), journalist Diane Sawyer (194...


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Aerosmith, Cheap Trick & Others Collaborate on Monday Night Football Theme Song

Cheap Trick

Aerosmith star Joe Perry, Cheap Trick star Rick Nielsen and members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band have formed a supergroup with country maverick Hank Williams Jr. to pay tribute to American ...


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Danielle Evin Delivers A Fantastic Self-Titled Debut June 27; Listen To Three Tracks From It Right Here

Danielle Evin

Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Danielle Evin is set to release her self-titled debut album on the newly formed independent label, LateralView Records (distributed by Red/Sony BMG) on June ...


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Celebrity Birthdays, June 12

Jason Mewes

Happy Birthday To Lillix guitarist Tasha-Ray Evin (1984), Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima (1981), "Clerks II" star Jason Mewes (1974), late Blues Traveler bassist Bobby Sheehan (1968; d. 1999), a...


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