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  • Black Sabbath Vocalist Dio Dies

    Ronnie Dio performing in 2008
    Ronnie Dio plays IronFest in 2008

    Metal vocalist Ronnie Dio, best known for his role as Black Sabbath’s lead vocalist, died t0day according to a posting from his wife.

    Wendy Dio’s message read:

    Today my heart is broken, Ronnie passed away at 7:45am 16th May. Many, many friends and family were able to say their private good-byes before he peacefully passed away…

    Please give us a few days of privacy to deal with this terrible loss.

    Dio repeated the post on Facebook, where she said people could leave their condolences by liking the page.  After just 12 hours, nearly a quarter-million people had done so.

    Besides Sabbath (where he is credited with popularizing the devil horn gesture), Ronnie sang in the band Dio and a relationship with Jack Black led to his appearance in Tenacious D – The Pick of Destiny.

    Ronnie Dio later formed Heaven & Hell with former Black Sabbath members, including Tommy Iommi, touring through multiple countries in 2008.

    Wendy Dio announced last Thanksgiving that her husband had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.  Despite treatment at The Mayo Clinic, Dio was dead less than six months later at the age of 67.

    Photo by Shadowgate via CC2

  • Big in the U.K.: Scouting For Girls “This Ain’t a Love Song”

    Last month, the band Scouting for Girls scored a number one hit in their native Great Britain with a song called “This Ain’t a Love Song”, the lead single from their just-released (just not released here) sophomore album Everybody Wants To Be On TV. Though the London-based trio has an apparent knack for amiable alterna-pop, drawing easy comparisons to Keane for their pretty pianos-guitars-and-strings arrangments while demonstrating an understated Brit wit and a refreshingly unironic affection for retro pop culture on songs like their delightful 2008 hit single “I Wish I Was James Bond”, they’ve nevertheless been shut out of the American market for the time being – a sad state of affairs considering the general irresistitiblity of “This Ain’t a Love Song”. The video for the song takes place in an airport, an accidentally well-timed theme given that the video came out in the immediate wake of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption when, for a time, large populations were virtually living in European airports awaiting departures.

  • American Idol Season 9 – Who Makes The Top 3?

    Last night was a pitiful show for the top four contestants. Jamie Foxx was dying to give away his ARTIST shirts, but they all looked like CONTESTANTS, except for Crystal Bowersox. I know, I know, the duets were good, but those don’t really count. They don’t even get graded on those.

    And what’s with Simon telling Crystal that she’s back in the running? Hasn’t she been the wire-to-wire leader all season long?

    Do you remember that old Sesame Street song that went, “One of these things is not like the other?” Someone needs to sing that song to Casey James. Talk about overstaying your welcome.

    My favorite American Idol winner ever, Fantasia is on stage singing Bittersweet. They shouldn’t have let her on the stage. She sings with more emotion in her fake eyelashes than any current season 9 contestant sings with in their entire body.

    It’s time to dim the lights. Ryno has the parents sitting to his left and the contestants on center stage.

    In the “Somebody Up There Likes Me” category, Casey James is in the top three. I feel so badly for Big Mike. In no universe is Casey James a better singer than Mike, and he’s going further in the competition. Well, Daughtry was kicked out several years ago this week too.

    Speaking of Daughtry (how’d you like that segue?), they’re on stage now performing September. I think this performance is foreshadowing for Big Mike’s exit after this show is over.

    Daughtry has the worst goatee I’ve ever seen in my life. He’s bald and has his beard growing from where his sideburns would be all the way to the other side of his face. Then, he has the normal goatee running over and on the side of his lips, but it’s not as thick. He must’ve been bored and figured that he’s so famous now, he can wear his facial hair in any ridiculous manner and people would think it’s a fashion statement.

    Back to dimming the lights, Lee is safe. I’m telling you, Big Mike is a big goner.

    Bon Jovi is on stage and if I ever have to feather my hair like that to look cool, someone just please shoot me. That’s not to say dude’s not cool, because he’s one of the few guys going today who can feather his hair and get away with it, but if I were him, I’d go Daughtry style and shave it all off. Be a maverick Jon!

    Lee tried to explain why it’s good to be safe and bad to not be safe and he almost swallowed his own face by talking so fast.

    And the person who is in the top three is Crystal Bowersox. My man, Big Mike is going home and he’s going to have to leave right now.

    But they told me
    A man should be faithful
    And walk when not able
    And fight till the end
    But I’m only human