Blog Profile / BeatCrave
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| Filed Under: | Entertainment / Music | |
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| Archived Since: | January 13, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
News Roundup: Kanye West Premieres ‘New Slaves,’ FYF Fest 2013 Lineup Announced, and More
Kanye West is going the extra mile to make sure that his forthcoming album has a special release. Tonight the rapper debuted a brand new song, and he did so by projecting his face on 66 different buildings around the world. We’ve got a video of that below. Also FYF Fest revealed its lineup. The [...]
Henry Rollins Is Done With Performing Live Music
Anyone who is a fan of Henry Rollins’ various incarnations as a performer—be it the musclebound singer of a former incarnation of Black Flag, or fronting his own Rollins Band; the actor; the funny, angry and politically-driven spoken word artist; the host/curator of his own wildly eclectic radio show—has likely the noticed that the man [...]
Nine Inch Nails’ Bassist Quits The Band
Nine Inch Nails just got a little smaller. Bassist Eric Avery, who joined the band earlier this year, has quit the band. This news comes two months before the start of Nine Inch Nails’ 2013-2014 world tour. The musician, who is best known as a founding member of Jane’s Addiction, wrote on Facebook that he was [...]
Local Natives Announce World Tour, Release New Track
The Local Natives have announced a massive seven-month tour across the world. This will be in support of their sophomore album, Hummingbird, which the band released this past January. The tour will kick off in Australia this week, then they’ll head to North America in June, and Europe in July. They’ll come back to the [...]
Americans Hate Justin Bieber And Chris Brown, According To New Music Poll
Poor Justin Bieber has been having something of a rough patch these days. Despite his rabid and fervent army of Beliebers, he’s been getting into more and more skirmishes with the paparazzi, and is-get this, you guys—coming off just a little bit like a spoiled, out of touch, and entitled rich kid. And it seems [...]
News Roundup: Yeah Yeah Yeahs Premiere ‘Mosquito’ Video, Courtney Love Announces Solo Tour, and More
The star of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ latest music video is a blood-thirsty mosquito that feeds on little children. It’s beautiful, disgusting and totally worth watching. We have the clip for you below. Also, Courtney Love announced a brief U.S. tour, but don’t get your hopes up Hole fans because she’s going solo. We also have [...]
Andy Kaufman To Release First Comedy Album (19 Years After His Death)
It’s somehow all rather fitting that Andy Kaufman—prankster, cult figure, and performance artist—would release his first comedy album a whopping 19 years after his cancer-related death in 1984. After all, the anti-comedian often toyed prankishly with his public image, and often spoke of faking his own death, so it makes an oddball kind of sense [...]
VOTD: Gary Oldman Plays A Priest In David Bowie’s ‘The Next Day’ Video
Prostitutes and Catholic priests are the subjects of David Bowie latest music video. The singer once again loaded up his video with famous faces – Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard take the lead in “The Next Day,” the title track from Bowie’s recently released album. The video opens with a beggar and a priest, played by Oldman. He’s seen [...]
Austin City Limits 2013 Lineup Includes Atoms For Peace, The Cure, and More
Atoms For Peace, The Cure, Muse, Kings of Leon and Depeche Mode are all headliners at this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival. The Texas-based festival is following the Coachella-format, meaning it’ll happen over two weekends for the very first time since its inception 12 years ago. The impressive lineup also includes bands line Phoenix, [...]
The National Expands Their 2013 North American And European Tour
Everyone’s favorite literate and melancholy rockers, The National, have a new album coming out on May 21st (Trouble Will Find Me). As such they’re making a live trek through the United States and Europe with hipster kids the Dirty Projectors. But, just in case those weren’t close enough to where you live, the band has [...]
News Roundup: Kanye West Confuses The Internet With Cryptic Tweet, Gaslamp Killer Releases New Mix and More
One of two historical things will happen on June 18th. Either Kim Kardashian will explode and have her baby once and for all, or Kanye West will release his followup to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The rapper dropped a huge hint on Twitter, and we have more details on that below. Also, the awesome [...]
Neutral Milk Hotel Reunion To Include 2014 International Tour
Earlier this week, we reported to you that beloved 1990s band Neutral Milk Hotel was finally reuniting (they last performed together in October 1998) for the inevitable reunion tour that seems to hook all broken-up bands eventually (c’mon, The Smiths, get it together now). Unfortunately, the announced reunion dates consisted of two shows in the [...]
Tyler, The Creator’s Latest Mountain Dew Ad Pulled Off The Air After ‘Racist’ Charges
Tyler, the Creator is stirring up some controversy with his latest Mountain Dew ad. The commercial has come under fire for its racial stereotypes and depiction of violence against women. PepsiCo immediately responded to the criticism by apologizing for the ad and taking it off the air. The 60-second commercial brings back the Tyler-voiced “Felicia [...]
Fleetwood Mac Delivers Promise, Releases First New Music In 10 Years
Veteran rockers Fleetwood Mac delivered on their promise. Earlier this month they promised fans that they would be releasing new music, and lo and behold, they’ve done it. The band revealed a four-track EP titled Extended Play on Tuesday morning, making this the first time in a decade that Fleetwood Mac releases new music. During a Philadelphia [...]
Neutral Milk Hotel Is Coming Together For The Inevitable Reunion Tour
Joining the increasing ranks of many, many, many, many, many bands who reunite for a tour years after they originally broke up, Neutral Milk Hotel is finally regrouping, much to the joy of emotive twenty- and thirty-somethings throughout the world. The band released some classic 1990s albums—On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the [...]
News Roundup: Thom Yorke Bashes EDM Music, Black Sabbath Announces Tour, and More
This week, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke bluntly expressed his opinion about DJ culture, EDM music and mainstream singers like Bruno Mars. (He also has a few things to say about Argo.) Also, Black Sabbath has added more tour dates to their North American itinerary. All that and more below. Thom Yorke Bashes EDM Music: Every now [...]
Bob Dylan, Wilco, And My Morning Jacket To Front Festival Tour
Music fans and middle-aged dads across the country, here’s something to get excited about: the launch of the AmericanaramA Festival of Music, which will spend the summer launching in Florida, traveling across North America, and ending up in California. And what is the AmericanaramA, you ask? Why, it’s a rock tour fronted by Bob Dylan, [...]
News Roundup: Daft Punk Release ‘Get Lucky,’ Liam Gallagher Announces New Album, and More
Daft Punk finally released a new single last night, titled “Get Lucky.” The tune, which is now available on iTunes and Amazon, features vocals by the ageless Pharrell Williams. Fell free to listen to the four-minute track below. In other news, Liam Gallagher announced that his post-Oasis band Beady Eye will release a sophomore album [...]
Dropkick Murphys Raise $65,000 For Boston Bombing Victims In Just 15 Hours
Take a moment tip your hat (or, rather, open your wallets) to the Dropkick Murphys (a.k.a., the band with that one song from The Departed)—the Boston-based Celtic punk band has created and released a new T-shirt in the wake of the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, with the profits going to those affected by the attack. [...]
Trailer for The Stone Roses Documentary ‘Made of Stone’ Released
Even though everyone (or just about everyone) in America doesn’t appear to know who the The Stone Roses are, they’re an iconic band in their home country – the U.K. Their reunion meant a lot to the British, especially to documentary filmmaker Shane Meadows (This Is England), who decided to make the four-piece band the [...]