Easy Music Guides

<!– –> <!– –> Making an album has never been easy for Radiohead. “We think too much,” frontman Thom Yorke once told Rolling Stone. But 2007′s In Rainbows may have been their toughest. “It was very difficult in a way we had never experienced before,” says the band’s longtime producer, Nigel Godrich. “The material was [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Jack White released Blunderbuss, his first album as a solo artist, this week to great acclaim and commercial success. Having great success as a solo artist after becoming a star with a band is never a given: the bargain bins overflow with unwanted LPs by That Guy Who Used to Be [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> WINNER OF THE WEEK: Nicki Minaj. Despite mixed reviews and a disturbing, but still somehow great performance during the Grammys, the pink-haired dervish tops the Billboard charts this week with her not-a-sequel album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Minaj sold 253,000 copies, better than industry expectations, but not what you’d expect for [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> WINNER OF THE WEEK: Nicki Minaj. Despite mixed reviews and a disturbing, but still somehow great performance during the Grammys, the pink-haired dervish tops the Billboard charts this week with her not-a-sequel album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Minaj sold 253,000 copies, better than industry expectations, but not what you’d expect for [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> It’s never just been about the headliners at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In fact, many of the 100,000-plus fans who bought tickets to this year’s two consecutive Coachella weekends (April 13th-15th and 20th-22nd) signed up before the lineup was even announced. Most knew that the biggest names would [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Click to listen to Bassnectar’s album ‘Vava Voom’ The night before Bassnectar talks to Rolling Stone, he’s played for 10,000 fans at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, delivering, by all accounts, one of the highlight sets of the weekend. “Every time I walked past the stage, it felt like this [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Baseball season is finally in full swing – but the crack of the bat, umpires calling strikes and vendors hawking hot dogs, popcorn and beer aren’t the only sounds one hears at the old ballpark. With the new baseball season comes a new concert season, and in 2012, several Major League [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> The latest effort from Florida hard rockers Shinedown debuted in the top five on the charts yesterday, landing at Number Four on Billboard and Number Two on iTunes alongside Madonna, Lionel Richie and Adele. The success of Amaryllis is nothing new for the Florida hard rockers, who have sold over 10 million albums to a [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Just hours before the opening ceremony of his new Rock Brews chain, Gene Simmons caused a minor stir on Twitter during a Fox and Friends interview in which he endorsed Mitt Romney for president, claiming that “America is a business and should be run by a businessman.”  Such a blatantly capitalist [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Electronic dance music star Paul van Dyk has told Billboard that Madonna’s drug reference in her appearance at the Ultra Music Festival last weekend is “the biggest mistake of her career.” The pop star made a surprise cameo at the event to introduce headliner Avicii, asking the audience “How many people [...]

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