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Coheed and Cambria's Creator Character Returns for "Very Melodic" Fifth Concept Album
The last time Coheed and Cambria played Madison Square Garden, they shared a bill with Linkin Park. And the crowd was, well, sedated in comparison to what the band has encountered on their new tour — with Slipknot. The kids in the audience on this tour wear Jason masks. They death growl at each other […]
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Coheed and Cambria Run Through Four Albums For NYC Residency
In a buzzing, Jack Daniels-stocked dressing room on the final night of Coheed and Cambria's sold-out "Neverender" series at Terminal 5 Saturday, frontman Claudio Sanchez was celebrating. And with good reason. He just got offstage with the Allman Brothers Band's Warren Haynes for a smashing, surprise encore of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and […]
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All-American Rejects Title New LP "When the World Comes Down"
"If the world ended, I'd want to be listening to our record," says a confident Tyson Ritter, the All-American Rejects frontman on the band's follow-up to 2005's double-platinum Move Along. AAR spoke exclusively to Rock Daily about their new record (entitled When the World Comes Down after its first single), Barack Obama, and the wackiest […]
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Jesse McCartney Plans "Idol" Tunes, Tour, TV Projects
Jesse McCartney co-wrote one of the most successful pop songs of the year (Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love"), so you can't blame his summer tourmate, American Idol season six winner Jordin Sparks, for wanting a piece of the action. "Write something for me, write something for me!" Sparks told McCartney backstage at one of their sold-out […]
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Miley Cyrus Headlines Biggest Concert in Today Show History
"I heard some of you have been here since Tuesday!" Miley Cyrus announced candidly to the Today crowd this morning. "I didn't even start practicing yet then!" The 15-year old was referring to the hundreds — if not thousands — who spent the last three days camping out in New York City's Rockefeller Center to […]
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Bon Jovi Pack in Hits and Hardcore Fans at Free Central Park Show
"This is the Great Lawn in the greatest park, in the greatest city in the universe," Jon Bon Jovi marveled before performing what easily could have been one of the biggest concerts New York City's Central Park has ever seen. Over 67,500 free tickets were distributed to the 50,000-capacity space — a solid chunk going […]
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Does Your TiVo Know Who's Getting Booted From "American Idol"?
Simon Cowell isn't the only one predicting who's going home on American Idol. TiVo executives revealed today that based on audience measurement tools, they too can determine which contestants will be eliminated by tapping into the recording habits of 20,000 anonymous Idol viewers. TiVo has found that performers who are most often fast-forwarded through will […]
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Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda: "We Broke Personal Boundaries"
After a year-long tour that spanned over 100 cities worldwide, Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda sat down to unwind with RollingStone.com backstage at one of the final dates of their tour at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino. RS: This is pretty different from most of the shows you've done on the tour. The Hard […]
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Jay-Z Joins Linkin Park On Stage for Encore Jam
After headlining a show at the Apple Store, Linkin Park broke out the big guns for their encore at last night's sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden. After a brief psych-out where the band announced "Goodnight, New York," Jay-Z stormed the stage to throw down with his collaborators from 2004's Collision Course EP. They performed […]
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Coheed and Cambria In-the-Studio Video Reveals Creative Process, Alcohol Preferences
The next Coheed and Cambria album with a lengthy title, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow, drops Tuesday, but the folks at Camp Coheed have sent Rock Daily readers a little advance treat. Check out exclusive footage from the band's in-studio recording of "Mother Superior" here for a behind-the-scenes […]
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