Blog Posts by Tiffany Lee

  • Folk-rock musician Robert Francis seems to have lived an entire lifetime already. His latest release Strangers in the First Place is a slow burn fanned to flames with vibrant melodies and lovelorn lyrics that are achingly preoccupied with the past, despite his relatively short 24 years on earth. Lucky for us, Francis acknowledges the virtues of doing right by yourself and putting the music first to make a fulfilling career saying, "I don't want to die early--anymore."

    Son of a classical music producer father and a mother hailing for Mexico whose family brought Ranchero music into the home, the singer/songwriter had a wide breadth of exposure within just his family unit. His siblings even included a hari krishna brother and two sisters who played in various rock bands. Starting guitar at seven, the Los Angeles native immediately took to the instrument and never let go. In his teens he became the only student to Red Hot Chili Peppers' former guitarist John Frusciante.  Francis then

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  • Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”: Song of Summer 2012?

    Although plenty of people would wish it so, you'd be hard-pressed to avoid the unbelievably catchy pop phenomenon that is Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." With a danceable rhythm, lyrics that will sear themselves into your brain, and backing from superstar Justin Bieber (and his powerful friends), it looks like the international chart-topper is positioned to be the song of summer 2012... Maybe?

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  • Garbage has returned! The 90s-defining alternative rock band has made a triumphant reunion seven years since their last album to release their fifth record, "Not Your Kind Of People." Yahoo! Music's resident rocker Dave DiMartino sat down with the band in a studio in San Fernando Valley, CA to chat the past, present and future of Garbage, plus we've got an exclusive live performance! It may have been a while, but the bands raging guitars, quaking drums and Shirley Manson's snarling vocals are as dark, sexy and electrifying as ever.

    Watch Garbage talk about creating music in the digital revolution, dealing with labels and why they waited so long to make their fifth record:

    During the seven years between albums, the Garbage members pursued their own projects since going on an indefinite hiatus in 2005. Manson recorded an unreleased solo album and even delved into acting, landing a recurring role on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Drummer and producer Butch Vig worked on

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  • [Photos: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images; Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BMI]Pop singer Kelly Clarkson is reaping both the rewards and downfalls of no longer being "just me, myself and I." The 30-year-old singer, who rarely ever talks about her private life, opened up to Zap2It that her current boyfriend Brandon Blackstock is "ruining [her] creativity" when it came to songwriting! But it isn't a lack of inspiration that's plaguing the "Duets" star. Clarkson said, "I'm trying to write a tough song and I can't; it's coming out all butterflies and rainbows. It's killing me."

    Looks like her fans won't be expecting another single ladies anthem anytime soon—but instead they can maybe expect a slimmer, toner Clarkson!

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  • PHILM: Live From TRI Studios, Videos Coming Soon!

    Missed our live stream of PHILM's performance at TRI Studios? Watch videos of our favorite moments and the show in its entirety!

    If you're looking for the standard demonic vocals and titanium-shredding guitars that made Slayer a metal mainstay, keep on walking. But if you're looking for a band with a unique sound to please both music snobs and life-long metal heads, LA-based PHILM delivers. Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo brought together bassist Pancho Tomaselli of War and singer/guitarist Gerry Nestler of Civil Defiance to form a genre-spanning power trio. The band integrates metal with elements of heavy 60s rock and modern psych topped off with endlessly impressive riffs and eye-gouging drums to create a sound Lombardo describes as "rhythmic emotion."

    "The band's sound is channeled through the many different influences of drum and bass, expressionism, and underground, that ranges via ancient and indigenous to street," said Nestler. Given the background of each band member, their

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  • Lady Gaga’s Meat Dress Comeback In Tokyo!

    [Photo: Courtesy of Lady Gaga]Who can forget the piece of prime cut couture that Lady Gaga unveiled at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards? Well, turns out the concept hasn't been put out to pasture just yet. Lady Gaga tweeted a photo of herself, taken by infamous fashion photographer Terry Richardson, performing in a similarly themed, but shorter and tighter meat dress at her Born This Way Ball show on May 10 in Tokyo, Japan. To garnish it off, the superstar performed her song "Americano" while flanked by pretty fake-looking, albeit shudder-inducing animal carcasses.

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  • Tom Gabel Of Punk Band Against Me! Comes Out As A Woman

    [Photo: Rachel Murray/Getty Images For No Room For Rockstars]

    Tom Gabel, popular punk rocker and lead of the band Against Me!, has announced plans to live as a woman.

    Gabel, 31, grew up with gender dysmorphia, a condition in which one feels trapped in the wrong gender's body.

    Gabel, who is considering gender reassignment surgery, has started taking female hormones and has undergone electrolysis.

    "I'm going to have embarrassing moments, and that won't be fun," the musician says in the June issue of Rolling Stone (which hits newsstands Friday).

    "But that's part of what talking to you is about — is hoping people will understand, and hoping they'll be fairly kind."

    [Related: Gaslight Anthem, GLAAD Support Tom Gabel Coming Out as Transgender]

    The rocker will go by the name Laura Jane Grace (Gabel has a "Grace" tattoo) and will remain married to wife Heather. The two have a daughter, 2.

    "For me, the most terrifying thing about this was how she would accept the news," Gabel says about Heather. "But she's been super-amazing and understanding."

    News on

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  • What could be more anticipated: The triumphant return of seminal grunge band Soundgarden or the upcoming multi-hero'd "Avengers" movie? Well, for buffs of both music and movies, there's no need to make an executive decision. The super and the sonic have clashed in Soundgarden's "Live to Rise" video.

    [Related: 'Marvel's The Avengers' on Yahoo! Movies]

    The video combines the simplicity of an intimate band performance with some seriously action-packed scenes from the movie that's hitting theaters May 4. With a ridiculously A-List lineup of stars, including Robert Downy Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo and Chris Evans to name just a few, it's no wonder Soundgarden re-emerged 15 years after their last original recording to write a song just for the Joss Whedon-directed film. With New York City getting destroyed by robots, mutants, aliens, sexy ladies and what have you (can you tell I don't know much about the Marvel world?), Soundgarden's hard-rocking riffs and

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  • Courtney Loses Kurt Again: Love Gave Up Rights To Cobain’s Image For Cash

    [Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images]Courtney Love is running out of fingers to count her losses on. The Hole singer and erratic tweeter has reportedly lost all publicity rights to her late husband Kurt Cobain's image. According to The Fix, sealed documents state that her 19-year-old daughter Frances Bean Cobain (whom Love lost custody of in 2009) now holds any rights to Kurt's name, likeness and appearance. Unless Love can pay back $2.75 million loaned out from Frances' trust fund, she's out for good.

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  • Snoop Dogg [Photo: Debi Del Grande]

    The massive music cram session that was the Coachella Music Festival 2012 is officially over and we've survived! Seeing the festival out, headliners Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre gave a phenomenal performance, despite it being identical to the one they did the weekend prior, superstar guests and all. While it's completely normal to repeat sets and even on-stage chatter for the multiple shows on a tour, there was something about the new fangled-ness of a two-weekend Coachella that had fans expecting something different the second time around. Nevertheless, watching Snoop and Dre perform their classics like "Nuthin' but a G Thang," "Gin and Juice" and "California Love," (which one would expect the Tupac hologram to appear for) was an unmatchable experience. But an unexpected disappointment occurred when the tilted glass contraption lowered and the much-awaited Tupac hologram rose up on stage. For some odd reason, the crowd seemed underwhelmed by the appearance, cheering surprisingly little considering the hype surrounding the resurrection last weekend. In fact, after hologram Tupac dissipated into the afterlife, Dre had some difficulty getting the crowd to give it up for Tupac, having to call out three times for the audience to make some noise with little success.

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