NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- RCA Music Group today announced it will release a full stream of Alicia Keys' upcoming album, “The Element of Freedom,” exclusively to the artist’s fans on Facebook (www.facebook.com/aliciakeys). Full Article at Freshnews.com
One of the harsher truths about life overseas for United States military personnel is that they rarely have all they need. It isn’t just about enough weapons and ammo, bulletproof vests, Humvees or other equipment to help them thrive in combat. Full Article at Newsvine
Boston's premiere a cappella group Five O'Clock Shadow stopped by for a show Friday evening at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. Full Article at The Daily Campus
Dave Grohl's new band features Queens of the Stone Age and Led Zep friends Them Crooked Vultures has Zeppelin's riffs and Queens' time signatures Why the band name? Full Article at CNN
Note: Them Crooked Vultures is Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss) on vocals/guitar, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin) on bass and Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) on drums. Full Article at New Music Nation
Blur guitarist Graham Coxon hated the kings of grunge Nirvana. He even blamed the band from Seattle for almost wrecking Blur’s career, calling their music “awful”. Full Article at Kent News
If Neil Diamond had had his druthers, “Sweet Caroline” would never have been born 40 years ago. Full Article at Lawrence Journal World
In the long tradition of rock mockery, the bass player and the drummer are almost always the whipping boys. Full Article at Times Online
ITALY (FIFA RANK 4) Best World Cup: Winners 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006 The world champions will be happy with their group, perhaps the kindest to have been granted to all the seeded teams. Full Article at Times Online
THE stage at the Roxy Theater was a blur of tattoos, platinum hair and black leather pants. Two rock stars, Dave Navarro of Jane's Addiction and Matt Sorum of Guns N' Roses, watched the show from the V.I.P. section. Full Article at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette