Blog Posts by J. Michael Brown

To celebrate the release of their new studio album World Gone Crazy, the Doobie Brothers broadcasted a live, fan interactive, video conference concert. See photos and video from the September 27 performance below!

For more information on the event, visit http://www.doobiebros.com/.

Returning for the album are founding members, vocalists and principle songwriters Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons, longtime members John McFee on guitar, Mike Hossack on drums and producer Ted Templeman (the producer behind the band's biggest hits through 1980 and other classics by Van Halen, Eric Clapton, Carly Simon and others).  Tracks on the album include an all-new recording of the Doobies' first track on their debut album, "Nobody," "I Know We Won" featuring Willie Nelson and "Don't Say Goodbye" featuring former Doobie Brothers member Michael McDonald.

For more info on the Doobies, visit http://www.doobiebros.com/.

To order World Gone Crazy, click here.

2010 Telephantasm

Chris Cornell and Soundgarden have reunited after 14 years and have released a career spanning compilation, Telephantasm. The album includes the previously unreleased track "Black Rain" remixed from 1991's Badmotorfinger sessions with new vocals from Cornell. The album is bundled with 1 million copies of the new Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock video game and released as two different deluxe combinations on September 28. Check out their new video for "Black Rain" (directed by Metalocalypse creator Brendan Small) and the rest of their career-spanning videos.

2001 Audioslave

Zack de la Rocha left Rage Against The Machine in 2000 and Chris Cornell joined the group in 2001 under the new name Audioslave by 2002. The band released three very successful albums before dissolving due to irreconcilable differences in 2007 as Rage Against The Machine reunited for that year's Coachella music festival.

1999 Chris Cornell's Solo Career

After Soundgarden broke up in 1997, Cornell slowly

2010 Winner: Lady Gaga "Bad Romance"

The MTV Video Music Awards were on September 12 and we're celebrating the show's 16th year by taking a look at each year's winner for Video of the Year. See this year's winning video, "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga (which won 6 additional awards: Best Pop Video, Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography, Best Direction and Best Editing), as well as the rest of the year's nominees--most of which also took home a Moonman in other categories.

Nominees for Video of the Year: Eminem "Not Afraid" (Best Hip-Hop Video, Best Male Video), Lady Gaga f/ Beyonce "Bad Romance" (Best Collaboration), 30 Seconds to Mars "Kings and Queens" (Best Rock Video), Florence and the Machine "Dog Days Are Over" (Best Art Direction), and B.o.B. f/ Hayley Williams "Airplanes." 

2009 Winner: Beyonce "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"

In 2009, Beyonce won Video of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)," beating out Eminem's "We Made You," Lady GaGa's "Poker

2010 Red Velvet Car

Classic hard rockers Heart are back with an all new album releasing August 31. Red Velvet Car contains mostly acoustic songs, but also includes a couple of hard rock tracks like "WTF."

2007 Dreamboat Annie Live

Ann and Nancy Wilson recorded a live performance of tracks from their first album, Dreamboat Annie, in Los Angeles in 2007 and released a live CD and DVD later that year. The live performance also includes covers of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Who.

2004 Jupiter's Darling

Heart's most recent album of all new material was 2004's Jupiter's Darling. The album enlists the help of Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell on "Fallen Ones," and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready on "I'm Fine," "Down the Nile" and "Led to One."

2003 Alive In Seattle

Recorded on the last stop of Heart's tour in 2002, Alive in Seattle includes performances of the band's biggest hits and covers of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" and "The Battle of Evermore."

1997 Hiatus

Heart went on hiatus by the late

2010 Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

The legendary American rock era composer and former Beach Boy, Brian Wilson releases his newest album on August 17, paying tribute to the legendary American Jazz era composer, George Gershwin. Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin includes covers of the songwriter's classics "Summertime," "I Got Rhythm" and "Rhapsody In Blue,"--one of Wilson's earliest musical memories as a child. At the request of the Gershwin estate, Wilson also completed two unfinished Gershwin piano compositions for the album.

2008 That Lucky Old Sun

Wilson was commissioned by London's Southbank Centre to help kick off the venue's 2007 season and prepared That Lucky Old Sun, a concept album based on the American vocal standard and included the participation of his SMiLE band, as well as long-time collaborator Van Dyke Parks. That Lucky Old Sun premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in September 2007 and was released as a studio album the following year. The second disc of the Lucky

2010 Euphoria

Spanish pop singer Enrique Iglesias is back with his ninth studio album, Euphoria, released on July 6. This album marks the first time the singer has released a truly bilingual album (previous albums only included Spanish versions of English songs). The album features Akon, Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls, Juan Luis Guerra on "Cuando Me Enamoro" and Pitbull on "I Like It." See all of his videos including his two newest in this career-spanning retrospective.

2007 Insomniac

The fourth English-language album from Iglesias surfaced in 2007, Insomniac, including the single "Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)" and "Push" featuring Lil Wayne.

2003 7 and Quizas

The English album simply titled 7 released in 2003 hot on the heels of the Spanish-language ballad album Quizas released in 2002.

2001 Escape

Escape released in October of 2001 and included the defining singles "Escape" and "Hero."  

1999 Enrique

The self-titled, English-language debut, Enrique, released in 1999 was his

2010 Further

Genre-bending electronic duo The Chemical Brothers released their newest album titled Further on June 22. This album marks the first time since their debut to feature no guest vocalists. See their latest video for "Swoon" to kick off this career-spanning video retrospective.

2008 Brotherhood

The Chemical Brothers' second compilation titled Brotherhood released in July of 2008 featuring tracks spanning their entire career.  The album also includes two new tracks, "Midnight Madness" and "Keep My Composure" featuring Naeem Juwan of Spank Rock.

2007 We Are The Night

We Are The Night released in June of 2007 and features a slew of artists from a wide array of genres including rapper Fatlip on "The Salmon Dance," as well as the Klaxons, Willy Mason and Midlake on others.

2005 Push The Button

2005's Push The Button includes guest vocalists Q-Tip on "Galvanize," returning guest Tim Burgess of the Charlatans UK on "The Boxer" and Kele Okereke of Bloc Party on "Believe."

2003 Singles