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Heavy New QOTSA Album Looks at Life After Death

Associated Press | Jun 05, 2013

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When Josh Homme sat down to write the music that would become Queens of the Stone Age's long-awaited new album, he found he had nothing to say. Worse, he was vaguely embarrassed by everything he'd done before. The mind has its dark places and Homme found himself stuck in some if its blacker recesses after dying briefly on the operating table during leg surgery in 2010. "One of the things it did for me was it made music seem almost stupid to me, silly," Homme said. "For a guy who's always worshipped music - that's been my religion - to all the sudden feel foolish about playing music and to feel it was overblown, dramati... more

Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on Scalping, Summer Tours

Associated Press | May 28, 2013

NEW YORK - Kid Rock is a scalper. The 42-year-old Grammy winner, who is launching a summer tour where most tickets are priced at $20, said he's holding about 1,000 tickets from each show and reselling them on ticketsnow.com - owned by Ticketmaster - to make up for the cheaper regular price he's offering. "I'm in the scalping business, but you know what? We told everyone. A lot of artists have been doing this for years behind fans' backs, taking all these backdoor deals," he said. "We look at StubHub and other places and see what they're selling them for and we just undercut them." Kid Rock's "$20 Best Night Ever Tour" kicks off June 28 ... more

Toby Keith Says Oklahoma Hometown is 'Resilient'

Associated Press | May 22, 2013

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Tornadoes are a part of life in Moore, Oklahoma, something country star Toby Keith was reminded of when a deadly, devastating one leveled parts of his hometown on Monday. "It's happened so many times through my life, I've been in so many," Keith said in a phone interview Tuesday. "During my life, probably on average every four or five years, you probably have one that's devastating. ... It affects you, somebody you know, every time." This time it affected his sister, Tonni. Keith flew out of the Moore area at about noon Monday and said the gathering clouds on the western horizon gave him a bad feeling. After he ar... more

Founding Member of The Doors Dies at 74

Associated Press | May 22, 2013

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complimented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74. Manzarek died Monday in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, said publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald. Robinson-Fitzgerald said his manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed Manzarek died after being stricken by bile duct cancer. The Doors' original lineup, which also included drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robbie Krieger, was only together for a few years. But the band has retained a large and obsessive following dec... more

Astronaut Exits Space Station With Music Video

Associated Press | May 14, 2013

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." It's believed to be the first music video made in space, according to NASA. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's personalized rendition of "Space Oddity" was posted on YouTube on Sunday, one day before his departure from the orbiting lab. He's wrapping up a five-month mission that began last December. He returned aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule, along with American Thomas Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko, late Monday to Ka... more

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