Prince covered "Creep" at Coachella. Most folks know this. That said, it's been difficult finding reliable footage of the Purple One's take on the top of the Modern Rock 500, because Prince's NPG people are extremely thorough about removing the... CONTINUE READING PRINCE IS BEING A "CREEP," RADIOHEAD TELL HIM HE'S A LOSER»
Posted on May 30, 2008 (81 comments)
Tags: Prince | Radiohead
Swedish post-punks Love Is All affix their implacable stamp onto the Purple One's "Darling Nikki" here, shifting the P.O.V. to female, ramshackling and distorting the structure. The result? It sounds a lot like Love Is All doing "Darling Nikki," though... CONTINUE READING LOVE IS ALL COVER PRINCE, WATCH DUDE MASTURBATE WITH MAGAZINE»
Posted on May 21, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Love Is All | Prince
Sound issues plagued Prince's set from where we stood yesterday, and in any videos we found on YouTube, but hey ... last night was cool. In fact, Coachella was "the coolest place on earth" last night, according to his Purpleness.... CONTINUE READING PRINCE COVERS RADIOHEAD AT COACHELLA»
Posted on April 27, 2008 in Video (28 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Prince | Radiohead | The Beatles
By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy Well, this was the best Saturday we've had in awhile. We started the day with an afternoon set by SM & the Jicks. Malkmus, properly protected from the UV rays in his shades,... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS (STARRING STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, DEATH CAB, KRAFTWERK, PORTISHEAD & PRINCE)»
Posted on April 27, 2008 in Concert (13 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Death Cab For Cutie | Kraftwerk | Prince | Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks
Yes, the Purple One's been added as a Saturday (4/26) headliner, which means we might finally get to see that guitar phallus up close and in person! Unfortunately, he hasn't replaced Jack Johnson. That's all cool, though. When you consider... CONTINUE READING COACHELLA LANDS A PRINCE»
Posted on April 9, 2008 (13 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Prince
Our friends at Pitchfork -- if there's one thing they know, it's how to hate with style. Today the point-lovers set aside their trusty numeric conventions for an unranked and totally amusing list of the year in terrible album covers.... CONTINUE READING PITCHFORK'S WORST ALBUM COVERS OF 2007»
Posted on December 13, 2007 in Album Art (15 comments)
Tags: Biffy Clyro | Eagles | Prince
The capitalized "FU"'s important in Prince's new diss track, "PFUnk." Remember last week when the Purple one was suing fan sites for using his likeness? Well, those PFans banded together as "Prince Fans United," claiming First Amendment rights. Looks like... CONTINUE READING NEW PRINCE - "PFUNK"»
Posted on November 13, 2007 (4 comments)
Tags: Prince
Vanity Fair went and put together their Top 50 film soundtracks, releasing the top ten choices today -- the rest will be out next month in a one-time magazine, Movies Rock. No apostrophe, so we'll take them at their words... CONTINUE READING VANITY FAIR'S TOP TEN MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS OF ALL TIME»
Posted on October 24, 2007 in Shit List (104 comments)
Tags: Prince | Simon And Garfunkel
"Alright, this is gonna be weird," is all Jimmy can muster by way of introduction, which is really the most perfect opener possible to a performance stacking the talent in this post title. Also could've said "this is gonna be... CONTINUE READING JUSTICE DO THE "D.A.N.C.E." ON KIMMEL WITH SOME HELP FROM RICK JAMES, MICHAEL JACKSON, STEVIE WONDER, PRINCE, & ROD STEWART»
Posted on October 10, 2007 in Video (21 comments)
Tags: Justice | Michael Jackson | Prince | Rick James | Rod Stewart | Stevie Wonder
Really interesting to see how the Purple One has reclaimed his legend over the past few years; punchline worthy as ever, but that's only for his eccentricity -- these days it's like every live move he makes is massive headline... CONTINUE READING PRINCE TRIPLE HITS MINNEAPOLIS»
Posted on July 9, 2007 in Video (7 comments)
Tags: Prince
British publications know how to woo us cheap music fans, don't they? Take for example a recent issue of the genre-coining rag New Musical Express, who recently gave away a 13-track compilation with their Muse-cover issue. Of course the disc... CONTINUE READING NEW MUSE - "MAN OF MYSTERY"»
Posted on July 2, 2007 (2 comments)
Tags: Muse | Prince
This just made our day. Years after spinning "Nothing Compares 2 U" into a name-making classic, Sinead O'Connor dishes the details on her fiery meeting with the Artist. Via MSNBC:"At the time he had a lot of female proteges and... CONTINUE READING NOTHING COMPARES 2 SPITTING ON PRINCE»
Posted on June 7, 2007 in Where's The Beef? (16 comments)
Tags: Prince | Sinead O'Connor
As you may know, the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince is digging into London town this summer for 21 shows, charging £31.21 for tickets in extended celebration of his record 3121. All 140,000 tickets sold... CONTINUE READING PRINCE MEETS HIS CRUSH»
Posted on May 11, 2007 (26 comments)
Tags: Prince
One of the many highlights of Prince's phalically delicious halftime show was also its most confuzzing: Prince using precious medley time to cover Foo Fighters? Granted, it was excellent, but it surprised the best of you -- and the Foo... CONTINUE READING PRINCE SHOCKED FOO WITH "BEST OF YOU"»
Posted on February 9, 2007 (20 comments)
Tags: Foo Fighters | Prince | Rush
Prince's Super Bowl performance was so exuberant, you may have forgot to be offended! Via the AP:Prince's acclaimed performance included a guitar solo during the "Purple Rain" segment of his medley in which his shadow was projected onto a large,... CONTINUE READING A PRINCELY PHALLUS»
Posted on February 7, 2007 (22 comments)
Tags: Prince
Prince is 48. That's fun to think about while you watch YouTubes of the Purple One performing in the rain over and over and over today. Screw his physical ailments, Prince was four times as hip as any Super Bowl... CONTINUE READING BEST SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW EVER»
Posted on February 5, 2007 (46 comments)
Tags: Billy Joel | Prince
Hey sports fans, don't expect too much stage-sweeping pelvic activity from the Purple One on Sunday. This report filed by ESPN, going above and beyond and giving us the health condition of the halftime entertainment:Reports surfaced about a year ago... CONTINUE READING SUPER BOWL INJURY REPORT: PRINCE MAY BE HALF AS HIP»
Posted on February 2, 2007 in MP3 (18 comments)
Tags: Common | Kanye West | Prince
The threshold to overexposure was crossed by about, oh, 9AM this morning for the Dreamgirls breakout star when we tried (in vain) to avoid a morning show with her image plastered all over it. And now that she's a bona... CONTINUE READING EVER HEAR OF JENNIFER HUDSON?»
Posted on January 16, 2007 (7 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Jennifer Hudson | Justin Timberlake | Prince
For gangsta lovers! 50 Cent is from the hood, so he knows all about protection. ABC News reports:The heavily diversified rapper 50 Cent is coming out with a line of condoms. "The kids become immune when you constantly beat them... CONTINUE READING WANKSTA RUBBERS»
Posted on January 10, 2007 (10 comments)
Tags: 50 Cent | Prince
The music mavens at the venerable Time magazine have compiled their list of the "ALL-TIME 100" albums -- unranked and broken down by decade. We're not sure what's better: that only five albums of the past five years are among... CONTINUE READING TIME'S ALL-TIME 100 ALBUMS»
Posted on November 14, 2006 in Shit List (74 comments)
Tags: A Tribe Called Quest | AC/DC | Aretha Franklin | Bob Dylan | Bob Marley | Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys | Courtney Love | David Bowie | Elvis Presley | Eminem | Fleetwood Mac | Frank Sinatra | Garth Brooks | Hole | James Brown | Jimi Hendrix | Johnny Cash | Joni Mitchell | Kanye West | Led Zeppelin | Little Richard | Lucinda Williams | Madonna | Metallica | Michael Jackson | Miles Davis | Neil Young | Nirvana | Oasis | Otis Redding | Outkast | Paul Simon | PJ Harvey | Prince | R.E.M. | Radiohead | Ray Charles | Robert Johnson | Sly & The Family Stone | Talking Heads | The Beatles | The Clash | The Eagles | The Sex Pistols | The Stone Roses | The Velvet Underground | The Who | U2 | Van Morrison | Willie Nelson
Spoiler alert. Here's what topped the Flav network's 936-hour, totally rad talking head countdown, premiering Monday at 9PM EST.5. "When Doves Cry" – Prince 4. "Billie Jean" – Michael Jackson 3. "Hungry Like The Wolf" – Duran Duran 2. "Pour... CONTINUE READING VH1'S 100 GREATEST SONGS OF THE '80S»
Posted on October 26, 2006 (109 comments)
Tags: Michael Jackson | Prince
The Artist Formerly Known As Relevant has a new tune streaming exclusively at AOL. It's a fun, little funk song with some kick-ass brass. Nothing earth-shattering, but we should note it's for the soundtrack to Happy Feet, an animated children's... CONTINUE READING NEW PRINCE - "SONG OF THE HEART"»
Posted on October 3, 2006 (11 comments)
Tags: Prince
Stereogum reader (and good friend) Colleen joined less than two hundred members of the New Power Generation Fan Club to see the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Prince in the wee hours of Saturday morning. The... CONTINUE READING PRINCE @ BUTTER, NYC 6/17/06»
Posted on June 18, 2006 in Concert (15 comments)
Tags: Beyoncé | Jay-Z | Prince
Last night's Steve Martin intro was priceless, but I was really surprised how much I like this new Prince song, "Fury." Watch below, and if you've got MP3 send our way. Later in the show Fred Armisen did his own... SNL'">CONTINUE READING PRINCE BRINGS "FURY" TO SNL»
Posted on February 5, 2006 in MP3, Video (60 comments)
Tags: Prince | Saturday Night Live
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