Vegas File (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Tonight there is an alternative to Love for Beatles fans in Vegas. The creators never performed the “Sgt. Pepper’s” album live when it was released over 40 years ago. But tonight at Texas Station a group led by Todd Rundgren (with Lou Gramm, Christopher Cross, Bo Bice and Denny Laine) will re-create the Beatles classic. The Buffet spoke by phone with producer, songwriter and musician’s musician Todd...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Ah, the fourth quarter. It isn’t as much of an event as it used to be, but even as the music industry crumbles to dust before our very eyes, artists and labels continue to focus on the last few months of the year for the biggest glut of high-profile releases on the calendar, and 2008 [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
OWEN WILSON is set to join best pal WOODY HARRELSON by becoming a resident of Hawaii. The laidback movie star has reportedly made an offer on a home on Maui after spending ...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
OWEN WILSON is set to join best pal WOODY HARRELSON by becoming a resident of Hawaii. The laidback movie star has reportedly made an offer on a home on Maui after spending a week with Harrelson and his family on the island paradise. Harrelson has lived the eco-friendly life in a completely solar-powered, sustainable community on Maui [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Culture: There's an elite band of musicians who just have to do their own thing - even if it's career suicide
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
I used to adore Pee-wee’s Playhouse as a child. But when Adult Swim began showing old episodes of it on the Cartoon Network a couple of years ago, I was kind of stunned. How insane was this show?! They bounced around from random topic to random topic with all kinds of inanimate [...]
123beta (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Entertaining myself while trying to endure the DNC... We Gotta Get You A Woman: Todd Rundgren. Classic. Tags: Todd Rundgren , YouTube , Classics , Ignoring the DNC , Music , Utopia
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
The Pernice Brothers dropped their Sub Pop debut Overcome By Happiness - a Todd Rundgren-esque shift to popsterism away from the alt-country ways of The Scud Mountain Boys - a little over ten years ago. I stumbled across this chamber-pop classic the other day and after listening to it for the first time in almost nine years ago, I was reminded of how much the glow of their major and minor chords made...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Tricky, “Knowle West Boy” (Domino): The king of moody British trip-hop returns with an album that veers between woozy autobiography and dark, stabbing rock (Sept. 9). George Clinton and the Gangstas of Love, “Radio Friendly” (Shanachie): The funk godfather covers R. & B. standards with a large group of collaborators . . .
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Multi-faceted and celebrated recording artist/producer Todd Rundgren is set to release his first full-length record of original studio material in 4 years, entitled Arena on September 30th via newly launched music venture Hi Fi Recordings.[...] Read more!
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
AMERICAN singer-songwriter star Martha Wainwright is the latest star to sign up to play a gig at a new venue in the Capital.
Strat-O-Blogster Guitar Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Here's Todd at a 7/26/08 Rochester NY gig doing his classic hit "Couldn't I Just Tell Ya", and also promoting the new album entitled "ARENA", scheduled for Sept. 30 release. Rundgren's band features Jesse Gress- guitar, Prairie Prince (The Tubes)- drums, Matt Bolton- Keyboards and Rachel Hayden- Bass. Hot band! Rachel Hayden is daughter of jazz bass virtuoso Charlie Hayden, and also a triplet with...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
in post The Weekend Mixtape from Some Velvet Blog .
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
DVD Video Review: The mix album as movie. A sixties throwback with a 21st century sheen. Anthony Nield takes a look at the Region 2 release of Daft Punk's Electroma.
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The Beatles album that was ranked the best of all time by Rolling Stone in 2003 will be performed at Seven Springs Mountain Resort by a diverse group of artists who all share a love for the band.
