Click here to listen   We are on Twitter! Get your Rock History Book headlines on our Twitter page! Click Here. Top Stories   Paula Abdul Is Finally Leaving Idol? It’s Not a Done Deal Yet August 13, 2009 – I wonder if Paula Abdul is really leaving American Idol. Since the beginning I have continually turned down the volume on Paul Abdul’s spaghetti-stringed gobble-dee-goop on American Idol. More Them Crooked Vultures Could Be Real-Deal Super-group thanks to Foo-Zeppelin Horsepower August 13, 2009 – The term super-group has become so overused that you’re already rolling your eyes just reading this, right? A great super-group has to be greater than the sum of its parts. More Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Wants to Burn Your CD’s August 12, 2009 – Hide your CD collection. Thom Yorke of Radiohead wants to burn the whole lot. The singer says he’s had it with CD’s, never liked them, never will. More Bill Champlin Leaves Chicago August 12, 2009 – It’s been a long run for Bill Champlin and Chicago. In fact the singer has been with the band since 1981, that’s 28 years but now it’s over. More Steely Dan Performing Some Songs for the First Time on All-Requests-Tour August 11, 2009 – You got to love the current touring trend of performing classic albums in their entirety. Now Steely Dan has gone one better by surprising fans with one of three albums, "Aja," "Gaucho" or "The Royal Scam," which meant Donald Fagen and Walter Becker had to re-learn lots of tunes from their catalogue. More Brian Johnson Ponders Retirement from AC/DC August 10, 2009 – Unlike being a postman, rockers have problems retiring. We simply won’t let them. If Tom Petty moved in next door, now matter how old he got, I’d be drinking beer in his garage waiting for him to pull out the old guitar. I think we get confused on that fact that the music lives forever, they don’t. More Collective Soul Set to Release “Rabbit” Album On August 25 August 9, 2009 – It’s not very often that our entire staff get excited about a new album, after all were a cantankerous bunch, but Collective Soul is it for us. More Get More Music News About Us Volunteer with Us Check out Our Sister site below Join our Facebook Group and get on our mailing list. Here   Custom Search
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Wants to Burn Your CD’s August 12, 2009 – Hide your CD collection. Thom Yorke of Radiohead wants to burn the whole lot. The singer says he’s had it with CD’s, never liked them, never will. Yorke says they have nothing to do with the future of the music business. In fact he sees the prospect where only online distribution is the way. "Me and Stanley (Donwood, the artist behind Radiohead's album artwork) always hated CDs. Just a f**king nightmare,” says Yorke. He adds, "There's a process of natural selection going on right now. The music business was waiting to die in its current form about 20 years ago. But then, hallelujah, the CD turned up and kept it going for a bit. But basically, it was dead." "If you forget about the money issue for just a minute – if it's possible to do that, because it's people's livelihoods we're talking about – and you look at it in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different." – by Kari Graham Radiohead Liken the Studio Process to Playing with Lego May 19, 2009 – Colin Greenwood of Radiohead has a great imagination. The bassist says the band is back in the studio working on a follow up to 2007’s “In Rainbows” and the whole experience brings back memories of Lego block. "We're at the stage where we've got the big Lego box out and we've tipped it out on the floor and we're looking at all the bits and thinking, what next?" Greenwood said the band is just playing around right now but album number 8 will have a really big sound, "We just went in last week. It was really good. It was really noisy and chaotic and really fun.” Radiohead’s longtime producer Nigel Godrich is back with the band and though things are going well in the studio Greenwood says Radiohead are not even close to deciding on a release date, "We've got lots of ideas but we don't decide what we're going to do until we've finished the thing. It's all up in the air, but it was up in the air last time." The innovative band pulled a controversial trick with their “Pay What You Want” release of “In Rainbows” on the web. Some believed it set a bad precedent since the digital download was offered at whatever price the fans dictated, some paid full price, others nothing at all. It was a bold “loss leader” move after their contract with EMI/Capitol expired in 2003. Greenwood hints that the band may perform some of the new material at Reading and Leeds Festival shows coming up in August. Radiohead have often taste-tested new tunes in concert long before their release date. – By John Beaudin         Randy Meisner Former Eagles member Randy Meisner tells the truth about his old band //See more Let us Make Sure Everyone Who Visits this Site Knows Who You Are! - Advertise with us. We build the Banners for free and we'll spread you on every page of this site. Contact us now. Retro Review: Linda Ronstadt - The Very Best of -Sept. 24, 2002 - In high school my best buddy John Scott could never understand how I, a rocker, preferred Barbra Streisand over Linda Ronstadt. //See more Retro Review: Bruce Hornsby - Spirit Trail- Oct. 16, 1998 - No one could ever accuse Hornsby of not paying attention. Every lyric on 'Spirit Trail,' his sixth album, describes his unquenchable thirst to understand what were all doing here. //See more