Posts Tagged ‘the beatles’

Check out Rare Color Photos of the Beatles’ First U.S. Tour

A set of 65 rare color photographs from the Beatles‘ 1964 tour of the United States will be auctioned off on March 22, commemorating the 50 year anniversary of the group’s first album, Please Please Me.... Read more »

Happy New Year! 40 Pictures of Famous Musicians Drinking Champagne

From Pigeons & Planes to everyone reading this: HAPPY 2013! Thanks for making 2012 tolerable, and good luck in the new year. This next block of 365 days should be great. Cheers!... Read more »

New Nirvana and Paul McCartney Collaboration to be Used in Dave Grohl’s Film

With them being legends as one of the only things that Nirvana and Paul McCartney have in common, a lot of us were baffled over the whole Nirvana/Paul McCartney performance for the 12-12-12 Hurricane Sandy benefit... Read more »

The 15 Albums That Have Sold One Million Copies in Their First Week

This week, Billboard reported that Taylor Swift‘s RedĀ sold 1.21 million copies in its first week, giving it the best first-week album sales since Eminem’s The Eminem Show in 2002. Red also joined the shortlist of albums... Read more »

The 25 Best Songs Under 2 Minutes

In all forms of art and expression, sometimes less is more. There’s an art to getting right to the point, chopping off all the extra and presenting an idea as succinctly as possible. In music, this... Read more »

Video: Watch The Rolling Stones Sing Beatles Songs Backstage in 1965

Here’s another clip from yet another documentary on The Rolling Stones. The producers of Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965, which looks into the band’s stop in Ireland in September 1965, have released an interesting... Read more »

15 Hilarious Fake Music-Related Facebook Accounts

If you take it upon yourself to start a fake Facebook page about someone who you have no affiliation with, you’re probably a weirdo. Here are 15 examples of that. Click through to see Drake with... Read more »

The 10 Albums That Have Sold 10 Million Copies in the U.S. Since the Year 2000

Once upon a time, selling ten million records seemed an attainable feat for a superstar artist. For sure, diamond certification is a rarity: according to Soundscan’s official tally, only 107 albums have ever crossed the ten... Read more »

15 Reasons Why Being A Rock Star Is The Best Job

When you’re a rock star, the thing that we call “real life” doesn’t really exist. While the rest of us are sitting around on Facebook uploading pictures of ourselves planking and trying to Google “planking” to... Read more »

The Meaning Behind Band Names

When famous rock bands are interviewed, at some point they’re asked the question, “How did you come up with your name?” It seems like a pretty standard inquiry, but some time in the past it became... Read more »

Hear Jay-Z Mashed Up With Passion Pit and The Beatles

When two Jay-Z mash-ups come in from two different sources on the same day, I take that as a sign that we need to post some Jay-Z mash-ups. At first I thought about separating these two... Read more »

Video: Jhameel Covers The Beatles’ “Blackbird”

Call it blog redemption. I’m so sorry that we posted that Beatles dubstep remix. That was terrible of us. Blame SOPA. But here we have a respectful Beatles cover that maybe, in a small way, could... Read more »

The Beatles Get Remixed In Dubstep

It is a dark, dark day. Not only is there a massive internet blackout in protest of SOPA, but dubstep continues to spread like some kind of misunderstood disease. Instead of the weak, poor, and undereducated,... Read more »

Video: The Flaming Lips Cover The Beatles’ “I Am The Walrus”

While the rest of us visited with family, bought gifts for each other, and enjoyed some time off the daily grind of whatever it is that our lives entail, The Flaming Lips apparently took a lot... Read more »

Video: St. Vincent Covers The Beatles

This is from a couple of years ago, but since St. Vincent has become one of my latest obsessions, I was digging through some old footage and came across this. With nothing but her electric guitar... Read more »