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Pukkelpop Cancels Festival with 5 Dead, 140 Injured

Today, organizers of Pukkelpop in Belgium announced that the rest of the three day festival for this year will be canceled following the stage collapse that occurred on Thursday. On the festival website a post said, all of us with Pukkelpop are in deep mourning. All the friends and families of the victims have all [...]

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Two Jeff Buckley Films? Reeve Carney Tabbed to Play Buckley

Two Jeff Buckley Films? Reeve Carney Tabbed to Play Buckley

Yet another actor is entering the fray over the Jeff Buckley Biopic battle. According to several reports, Reeve Carney, who portrays the superhero in Broadway’s infamous “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” production, has been cast in the role of Jeff Buckley, the ill-fated singer. Carney, who also played Prince Ferdinand in Julie Taymor’s directed “The [...]

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Stage Collapse at Indiana State Fair Kills 5

On Saturday night, less than one month after there were accidents at a Flaming Lips as well as Cheap Trick concert, a stage at Indiana State fair collapsed. Five people were killed and dozens were injured. Earlier, the Indiana State Police had reported three deaths. The number could change again with the injuries still being [...]

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Warrant Singer Jani Lane Dies at 47

Warrant Singer Jani Lane Dies at 47

Former Warrant lead singer Jani Lane was found dead on Thursday night in Los Angeles. The icon of 80′s metal rock was only 47 years old. The fire department found Lane and pronounced him dead. They responded to a call right before 5:30 p.m. at the Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills. The cause of [...]

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MTV Celebrates 30th Birthday

MTV aired their first broadcast thirty years ago today. On August 1, 1981 they launched by stating, ladies and gentlemen, let’s rock and roll. The world was introduced to Music Television by John Lack with footage from the Apollo 11 launch shown. It was a brand new way to experience music videos and music. The [...]

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Live Streams of Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Coming to YouTube

YouTube will be live streaming Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza as part of the video site’s continued push to deliver musical festivals onto the digital screen. On Friday, YouTube, which is owned by Google Inc., will announce that it will be presenting online coverage for the two festivals, which are among the largest of the [...]

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ScoreBig Looks to Become the Priceline of Ticket Sales

There are websites that will let you name your own prices for rounds of golf, rental cars and hotel rooms, but how about live entertainment events? The website ScoreBig.com can help get large discounts on all the latest sporting events, concerts and latest shows. There is also an invite code right now that can used [...]

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Rilo Kiley Calls it Quits

Rilo Kiley Calls it Quits

Four years after the last album from the American indie rock band Rilo Kiley made it into the top 40 in both the UK and US, the band finally is breaking up. According to Blake Sennett, the band’s guitarist, the group was driven apart by greed, disloyalty and deception. Rilo Kiley up until now has [...]

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Martin Scorsese Brings George Harrison Documentary to HBO

“Living in the Material World,” the new documentary about George Harrison, will be making its premiere this fall on HBO according to a posting on Harrison’s official website at georgeharrison.com. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese and will air on October 5 and October 6 in two parts. On October 10, the documentary is [...]

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ISPs to Become Internet Policemen for Illegal Downloads

Americans who are caught illegally downloading games, movies and music may soon be faced with slow or no internet service. The top internet providers in the nation, including Comcast, Cablevision, AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon, have reached an agreement over a new system where users that are suspected of infringing digital copyrights will be issued [...]

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