Blog Posts by Craig Rosen

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If you ever wanted to walk on by -- or even step on -- the Backstreet Boys, you're in luck. The iconic '90s boy band got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday morning in front of hundreds of screaming fans. The star, the Walk of Fame's 2,495th, is located on the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard, near the Live Nation building.

Hollywood insiders know that these honors don't come out of the blue -- they're usually tied into some sort of milestone, upcoming album, tour or film. Sure enough our boys from the backstreets celebrated their 20th anniversary on Saturday with a special fan celebration in Hollywood where they previewed some songs from a new album, due later this year, as well as a trailer for a documentary about the band, that's due in 2014. Next month, the group will launch its latest world tour in China.

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Divnyls' singer Chrissy Amphlett died Sunday from complications of breast cancer and multiple sclerosis. She was 53.

Some rock fans know her best from her band's sexy 1991 top 5 hit "I Touch Myself." Here are five things about Chrissy you might not have known.

[Related: Divinyls Singer Christina Amphlett Dies at Age 53]

1. She played Russell Crowe's mother in the musical Blood Brothers, staged in Australia in 1988. Crowe tweeted out his respects to his one-time co-star, writing, "Dear Chrissie [sic], The last time I saw you was in the Botanic Gardens, loving live and reciting verse. That's how I'll remember you, your boy, R."

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Poor Ms. Lauryn Hill can't seem to catch a break. Earlier this week we discovered that the one-time Fugees singer had sent a letter to asking the court for probation when she's sentenced on tax evasion on April 22, so she continue to work and can eventually pay back Uncle Sam. Now comes word from TMZ that Hill is being sued for eviction.

Since 2009, she's been renting a mansion in South Orange, New Jersey, but she reportedly stopped paying her rent in March, prompting her landlord to file for eviction. Either Lauryn comes up with the money for rent, or she'll be out of the street. She last performed on Feb. 2, 2013, when she headlined the Ragga Muffin festival in Rotorua, New Zealand.

(Kevin Mazur, Getty Images)Britain's Stone Roses may be best known for their 1989 modern rock hit "I Wanna Be Adored," but apparently during the first weekend of this year's Coachella Music Festival, they weren't adored quite enough.

The turnout for the band's headlining set last Friday night (April 12) was noticeably thinner than the crowds that turned out for the weekend's other headliners. In fact, fellow reunited '90s Brit-rockers Blur pulled a larger and more enthusiastic crowd. With that the case, the bands have swapped spots for this Friday's fest (April 19), leading some to assume that the Stone Roses had been demoted from the headlining spot.

[Photos: Coachella Staple: The Surprise Guest]

However, Paul Tollet, president of Coachella promoter Goldenvoice, told Rolling Stone that's not the case. It was also planned to have the two acts switch spots over the two weekends all along.

"When the [lineup] poster came out, when we announced the show, each weekend's poster was different," Tollet said. "The first

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Rock 'n' roll rebels don't always have to rage against their parents. Sometimes they can embrace them. Take the story of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club singer/bassist Robert Levon Been for example.

On Thursday at Slim's in San Francisco and Friday at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, Been will stand in for his late father, Michael Been, fronting The Call, the Santa Cruz, Calif. band known for the '80s hits "The Walls Came Down" and "Let the Day Begin."

On August 19, 2010, the elder Been died tragically of a heart attack at the age of 60 at the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt, Belgium, while working as a soundman for BRMC. And now his son will pay his father the ultimate tribute by joining The Call's surviving members to play a few shows and record a live album/DVD.

(Steve Granitz, WireImage)Possibly more than any other rock star on the planet, Jack White is pushing for the resurgence of vinyl. Just last year, White's solo debut, Blunderbuss, became the best-selling vinyl LP of 2012 by knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road from the top spot with sales of 34,000 copies. Now Jack, who is serving as ambassador of this year's Record Store Day, wants fans to become part of the vinyl revolution by inviting them to his Third Man Record Record Store in Nashville to record themselves on vinyl in his new Third Man Record Booth. It will debut on Saturday, as part of the Record Store Day celebration.

"Certain beautiful experiences can only happen in the environment of a record store and I just thought that nothing could drive that point home more than a one-of-a-kind machine that lets you not only record your own vinyl record, but send it to anyone, anywhere in the world to share a song, poem, or private message with," Jack says in a message posted on the Third Man website.

If you're jonesin' for some new Coldplay, you're in luck. The band has a new release available from Apple, but you won't find it in the iTunes store. Rather, you'll have to turn to the iBookstore, because it's not an album, but a comic book series that bears the same name of the band's six-million-selling 2011 album, Mylo Xyloto.

And if you're a huge fan of Coldplay, or even a casual observer, you even luckier, because the first issue is the iBookstore's Book of the Week, so it's available for free at itunes.com/ColdplayComics. The other books in the series will be released monthly, through July.

If you're more into physical releases than digital, Coldplay has an option for you. The band will celebrate Record Store Day in the U.K. on April 20 with Issue One of the comic book paired with a special seven-inch picture disc of "Hurts Like Heaven" and "Us Against The World (Live)." If you're not in the U.K., you'll still have an opportunity to buy the special limited-edition package a week later through Coldplay.com and selected independent record stores.

(Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images)Sir Elton John recently previewed his new album, The Diving Board, for an elite crowd of record executives, industry insiders and journalists. The album is due in September. As a result of the merger of Universal and EMI, Elton now records for Capitol, the label home of The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

Yet Elton has turned to yet another legend, Bob Dylan, for inspiration. "I wanted at 66 years of age to make records that I think befits a person of my age," Elton said during a Q&A session following the album playback, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Like Modern Times by Bob Dylan. When I heard that record I went, 'My God, this record could have been made any time in the last 50 years!' It's brilliant and I want to try to make records as good as that. And [Dylan] is the person that we look up to. He's the person that we aspire to be as artists because he's always changing, he's always mercurial, he's always like a chameleon. And his quality control is pretty damn good."