Guns n’ RosesChinese Democracy Interscopeby David Fricke Let’s get right to it: The first Guns n’ Roses album of new, original songs since the first Bush administration is a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record. In other words, it sounds a lot like the Guns n’ Roses you know. At times, it’s...
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By Ann PowersNovember 23, 2008 in print edition F-1When Axl Rose announced in December 2006 that the new Guns N Roses album, Chinese Democracy, would be issued the following March the last false ending to a drama nearly as long-lasting as the Vietnam War and culminating today, as the hordes rush to exclusive retailer...
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Welcome back to the jungle. Finally. After well over a decade – and a reported $13 – 14 million – in the making, Chinese Democracy is really here. While it’d be pretty impossible for anything to live up to that kind of buildup, Guns N’ Roses comes back with a bang. Aside from those...
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By Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone 10/30/08 In the world according to AC/DC, sex, money, politics and other trappings of adulthood are a sick joke but rock is sacred. No one this side of Chuck Berry has written so many great rock & roll songs about rock & roll, and no band short of the...
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AC/DC welcomes those about to rock at showBy Matt Manochio, USA TODAY10/29/08Location: Wachovia Arena, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.Attendance: A sold-out crowd of 8,000 The event: Veteran Aussie rockers AC/DC launched the North American leg of their world tour Tuesday night in support of the band’s first studio album in eight years, Black Ice. First in line:...
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By ROB WALKERPublished: October 9, 2008 This past July, the Federal Trade Commission handed over to Congress its 120-page report on the subject of marketing food to children and adolescents. Among other things, it confirmed what you’ve already been noticing in grocery stores for years: the proliferation of kid-friendly characters who have leapt from...
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SongVest plans to auction portions of the rightsto 18 songs recorded by Garth Brooks, Aerosmith,Cher and others. Above, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyleron stage in July 2007.
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Back in the day, the back of a milk carton would likely be graced with the image of a missing person, but someday it could showcase, say, Missing Persons. New York-based MilkMedia has developed the Milk Rocks! program, a school initiative that intends to up the cool factor of moo juice by associating it...
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After a 28-year layoff, The Eagles on Tuesday will releaseLong Road Out of Eden, a double disc on which they sound as if they’d never been away. You can buy it through Wal-Mart or EaglesBand.com, and that’s the only way you’ll hear it – the band is taking a break from touring. Co-founder Don...
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