Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland — Happy In Galoshes

Anyone who fondly remembers "Barbarella" from Weiland's 12 Bar Blues solo debut is probably still holding on to the hope that he has it in him to release some decent music. Across the first three tracks of Happy In Galoshes, that sort of person has a lot to be excited about. The most notable improvement over Weiland's previous recordings...
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I Read The News Today... For May 18, 2011

Next major trend: orchestras playing indie rock. Case in point: The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra. Watch them do The Black Keys' "Tighten Up" and MGMT's "Time To Pretend." Not only are Devo playing North By Northeast this year, with a free show at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square on June 18, but they'll head out to the 'burbs...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 8, 2010

The Flaming Lips will host their fourth annual March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons Halloween parade in Oklahoma City on Oct. 23. Yes, if you take acid and attend, you will probably freak out. —Warner Music CanadaJames Burns, the 29-year-old Seattle man who's trying to get Weezer to break up for $10 million, has apparently been getting death threats...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 13, 2010

Broken Social Scene and Superchunk will play Toronto's Sound Academy on Dec. 9. —Collective ConcertsGang Of Four's first album in 15 years, Content, is out Jan. 25. Oh, and it comes with vials of the band members' blood. Biohazard, much? —Yep Roc tUnE-yArDs (fucking hell, I hate typing that out so much) has remixed the...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 7, 2010

Stone Temple Pilots have announced two western Canadian dates to take place in Vancouver and Calgary on Nov. 4 and 6, respectively. —Live Nation Luke Doucet's scheduled a Canadian tour to take place this November in support of his recently released Steel City Trawler album. He'll have Sunparlour Players and The Beauties with him on...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 30, 2010

Kanye West and Jay-Z are working on a collaborative album that's reportedly called Watch The Throne. It remains to be seen whether Kanye will interrupt Hova's rhymes about being the greatest rapper of all time. Twitter Axl Rose is really pissed off at the organizers of this past weekend's Reading and Leeds festivals in England. They...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 27, 2010

Everybody Dance Now: Songs From Hamilton Volume 5, a compilation featuring some songs by Hamilton, Ont. artists like Young Rival, Caribou, Arkells, Junior Boys and others, will be released in late September to coincide with the C+C Music Festival at this year's Hamilton Supercrawl. —Facebook The Meligrove Band will release a new album...
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The Cult's Ian Astbury Calls Eddie Vedder, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl "Fakes"

Cult lead singer Ian Astbury spent five years pretending to be Jim Morrison (you could actually argue he's spent almost all of his career doing that) as a member of The Doors Of The 21st Century. That's the previous moniker of the reunited Doors featuring original members Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, who've since renamed themselves to...
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I Read The News Today... For May 13, 2010

Bye bye, LimeWire: A U.S. federal judge ruled today (May 13) that the popular file-sharing service has infringed the copyrights of the four major music labels. New York Times It's surprising to no one (even if you have no gaydar whatsoever), but Lady Sovereign has finally come out of the closet. —Diva Special Ops have postponed their upcoming...
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Scott Weiland — "Tangle With Your Mind"

Scott Weiland's adorable new video for "Happy" In Galoshes' "Tangle With Your Mind" was based on Michel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep. But more importantly... WTF? This song's vaguely country?
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Scott Weiland Has Seizure On Airplane

Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland reportedly had a "mild seizure" while flying from Los Angeles to Miami on Saturday. Weiland, who was travelling with the Scott Weiland Band to perform in Miami at the launch of his Weiland clothing line, needed oxygen administered to him by the flight's medical staff, who were alerted to his...
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Scott Weiland Heading To Vancouver

Stone Temple Pilots and former Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland will tour western North America in May in support of his sophomore solo release, Happy In Galoshes. The fashionable frontman has a Vancouver date on his solo itinerary and will hook back up with his Stone Temple Pilots bandmates for a July 11 performance supported by Our Lady...
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Scott Weiland: Fashion Designer

Scott Weiland knows "heroin chic" (or at least heroin), and now we'll see if his sense of style can translate into a successful fashion line. The solo artist, former Velvet Revolver frontman and past and current Stone Temple Pilots singer's Weiland For English Laundry clothes will hit stores this month at prices ranging from $40 to $120...
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Weiland or Slash: Who's more stylish?

Slash Supports Gay Marriage

Although Axl Rose might have sung derisively about "faggots" on Guns N' Roses' "One In A Million," his former guitarist has just released a video that supports same-sex marriage. Slash (real name Saul Hudson) and his wife Perla Hudson appear in a new video in which they voice their distaste for Proposition 8, which recently...
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STP To Release New Material?

Stone Temple Pilots have recorded new material, but they don't know whether they'll be able to release it because two of their members are being sued by their former record label. Atlantic Records filed a lawsuit earlier this year against frontman Scott Weiland and drummer Eric Kretz. The lawsuit says the pair are still under contract with the...
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Scott Weiland Is Happy In Galoshes

Scott Weiland is set to drop his second solo album, Happy In Galoshes, 10 years after the release of his debut solo disc. The album hits stores on Nov. 25 through New West Records. It was co-produced by the artist and Doug Grean (Velvet Revolver, Sheryl Crow), while a few tracks were recorded by Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies). Happy In Galoshes...
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Pumping: Scott Weiland — Happy In Galoshes

Scott Weiland is a loser. And if you like him, you're a loser, too. P.S. That cover of Bowie's "Fame" is brutal.
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Scott Weiland To Spend Eight Days Staring At Prison Walls

April hasn't been kind to Scott Weiland. Although a high note came when he and his reunited Stone Temple Pilots bandmates announced a North American summer tour, Weiland (real name Scott Richard Kline) was booted from his gig as Velvet Revolver's singer, which led to a feud with Velvet Revolver guitarist and former Guns 'N Roses axe man Slash....
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Velvet Revolver Search The Net For Next Singer

Are you itching to fill Scott Weiland's shoes after his recent departure from Velvet Revolver and take his place next to former members of Guns 'N Roses and Wasted Youth? If so, you'll get your chance in the next few months when the band hold an online audition for their next singer. Velvet Revolver are still singer-less after Weiland was fired...
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Scott Weiland Is Now Officially Out Of Velvet Revolver

Things seem to have gotten a little heated in Velvet Revolver land over the last week, to the extent that the band fired singer Scott Weiland on Tuesday. At a March 20 show in Glasgow, Scotland, Weiland announced that Velvet Revolver's current tour would be their last. This launched a spurt of online poop-hurling between Weiland and drummer...
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