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Before we close up shop for the holiday weekend we’d like to leave you with a Christmas stocking stuffed with new dates for The Charlie Daniels Band, Pat Green, Saliva and Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, and links to stories about the hottest-selling items of the year, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Gregg Allman, YouTube and jellyfish lamps.All of us at Polls […]

Quirky singer/songwriter Bjork is adding another profession to her resume – venture capitalist.The New York Times reports the singer has invested 100 million Icelandic kronur (about $816,330) in a fund started by Audur Capital, a venture capital firm in Reykjavik, that’s named, appropriately, Bjork.484927The goal of the fund, which is seeking additional […]

Jazz pianist and singer Page Cavanaugh, whose popular trio in the 1940s and 1950s played in motion pictures and on Frank Sinatra's radio show, has died at 86.Cavanaugh died of kidney failure Dec. 19 at a nursing home in San Fernando Valley, said Phil Mallory, his bass player of 18 years.The Page Cavanaugh Trio was one of Southern California's most […]

Despite our best efforts, we seem to have been overtaken by the holiday spirit. So we’re going to do something a little different today to mark the occasion.Although we’re posting the TV schedule as usual, we’re not going to recommend you watch any of it. Not one second.Instead, turn off the tube and talk to your family. Call up an old friend and catch […]

• Looking Back at Ron Asheton’s Legacy of Loud • Stooges Guitarist Ron Asheton Dies at 60 • Iggy Pop Remembers Stooges’ Ron Asheton • The Stooges’ Key Tracks: Playlist • How to Save Rock & Roll: Nine Pros Weigh In • Dr. Dre, 50 Cent Join Eminem on “Bottle” • Staind’s Aaron Lew […]

Photo: Natkin/Wireimage Rolling Stone’s Andy Greene takes a heartfelt look back at the life and career of Ron Asheton, a musician who started out as a suburban Detroit kid with a fascination with rock & roll and Nazi Germany and wound up pioneering the enduring punk-rock guitar sound that influenced legions of bands. • The Stooges’ Ron […]

Christian Hoard breaks down Taylor Swift’s death grip on the chart’s Number One spot and Guns n’ Roses denial that the band will be touring in 2009 (our sources say otherwise!). Plus a glance back at the biggest rock news stories of 2008 and two of Rolling Stone’s favorite exclusive live sessions: Deerhunter on a [...]

Photo: Miller/Getty Artist To Watch Low Vs. Diamond embark on a co-headlining jaunt with Strokes side project Nickel Eye, Missy Higgins makes spring plans and Michael Franti & Spearhead extend their “Hey World” tour. All the dates for all three jaunts await after the jump. Low Vs. Diamond January 15 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Bell House January [ […]

Photograph by Kevin Estrada for Rolling Stone You might not know it, but the two guys pictured above have already changed the way you consume music. Ali and Hadi Partovi are the founders of iLike.com, the top music application on Facebook. By harnessing the power of one of the largest online social networks, the pair have [...]

EW has a new movie still of Beyonce from her upcoming movie ‘Obsessed’ which is due out on April 24. The director of the film, Steve Shill, said that he did some research for the film saying “We did look at girl fights on YouTube. There’s a lot of hair pulling, shouting, and rolling around [...]

With the economy going down the drain, the holiday season is a bad time to screw someone out of money. Apparently, Timbaland just doesn’t care. The musician had his Miami mansion decorated for the holidays with lots of flowers and lights from The White Tulip Florist. He still owes them thousands of dollars on his [...]

It seems that there clearly more to Britney Spears visit to India to meet ace Indian choreographer Sandip Soparrkar than just learning a few dancing steps because on new Year’s Eve the pop diva introduced Sandip to her family and is taking their relationship quite seriously it seems. If current gossip reports are to be believed [...]

John Mayer wasn’t able tospend the holidays with his girlfriend Jennifer Aniston. Instead, the singer spread some holiday cheer at the 95.5 WPLJ-FM’s 17th Annual Holiday Concert at Blythedale Children’s Hospital last week in Valhalla, New York. He liked doing charity more than getting some loving from Jen. The 31-year old musician joined Matchbox Twen […]

For $40,000, you can hear a wasted John Lennon sing about sucking nipples. There was a recent auction at the auction house Bonham’s which sold Lennon’s outtake of the 1973 song ‘Just Because’ to the highest bidder. According to the NY Post, on the track, you hear the former Beatle slue “I wanna take all [...]