Today's Tune: WKRP In Cincinnati Opening And Closing Themes

Happy Birthday Howard Hesseman! The American television and film actor, best known for his work on comedy television series programmes in the 1970s and 1980s, turned 70 years old today.

Hesseman's most memorable character is from one of the best American sitcoms of all time, WKRP In Cincinnati (1978 – 1982), in which he played a DJ named Dr. Johnny Fever. Our 'Today's Tune' installment for today includes both "WKRP In Cincinnati Main Theme", the opening theme (Performed by Steve Carlisle), and "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits" (Performed by Jim Ellis), which is obviously the closing theme. As an added bonus (Yippie!), this video includes the entire episode called "Hoodlum Rock" (1978).

WKRP In Cincinnati (Season 1 / Episode 4) - "Hoodlum Rock"

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: February 25 - 26, 2010

Last Update - February 27, 2010 at 5:33 AM EST

Here is the 'Reading And Viewing List' for February 25 through February 26, 2010. This batch is packing some substance, so read on.


February 26, 2010

United States routs Finland, 6-1, to reach Olympic men's hockey gold medal game
By Associated Press at The Washington Post

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The torment began almost immediately.

The shot by Ryan Malone of the United States into an open net left Finland goalie Miikka Kiprusoff staring at the ceiling and shaking his head...

Boudreau puts Caps through grueling practice
By Mark Giannotto at Capitals Insider

Capitals forward Mike Knuble had trouble remembering a practice this year that featured as much skating as Bruce Boudreau put his players through this morning at Kettler Capitals Iceplex.

Boudreau had steadily been ramping up the conditioning since the Capitals' non-Olympic players returned to the ice Wednesday after a 10-day break, but this workout was clearly the toughest...

Dani Sordo Q&A
Posted at WRC.com

First of all, Rally Sweden. Were you happy or disappointed with your fourth place in the opening round of the season?
“It’s obvious that I’d have preferred to finish on the podium, but fourth place is a fairly normal one for me in a winter rally. What I do remember is that I had a very good first day. I’d prepared really well for this event and I was able to match Seb’s and Mikko’s pace right away on these very fast stages...

A Real Medal-Winning Hockey Mom
By Hockey Mom at Musings Of A Hockey Mom

Despite last night's disappointing loss to Team Canada, Team USA's Women's Hockey Team has much to be proud of! They fought hard to the end and represented the red, white and blue gloriously throughout these games. Hockey Mom has a special place in her heart for Team USA's Jenny Potter - who not only earned two hat tricks in these games, but is a "true" hockey mom in every sense of the word,...

Batman Beats Superman In Comic Auction, 'Detective Comics' #27 Sells For $1.075 Million
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

Chalk one up for The Dark Knight in the eternal debate over whether Batman could beat Superman. Just a few days after Superman's debut in "Action Comics" #1 set a new record at the auction block with a winning bid of $1 million, Batman upped the ante with a $1,075,000 sale of "Detective Comics" #27, featuring the character's first appearance...

Countdown to Rally Mexico
Posted at WRC.com


After a freezing start on the snowy roads of Sweden, the FIA World Rally Championship heads to the heat and dust of Rally Mexico for round two - the only WRC event on the American continent this year.

Based in the city of Leon, 400km north-west of Mexico City, the rally made its debut on the WRC calendar in 2004 and returns after a year's absence in 2009. Always a popular event with the fanatical Mexican rally fans, this year's edition comes with extra cause for celebration as the country marks the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the 200th anniversary of its independence...

Ozzy Vs. Iommi: Carry On Suing
By mdome at Classic Rock

Ozzy Osbourne’s lawsuit against Tony Iommi over the use of the Black Sabbath name is to carry on.

Ozzy is suing Iommi for a 50 percent share in the name, after the guitarist is alleged to have tried to take sole ownership by filing it with the US Patent And Trademark Office last year...

Male Numbness
By Kameron at I May Have Been Born Yesterday
But I Stayed Up All Night

A few days ago, a woman I know in the Real World asked about my entry on the Marriage Strike.

She was specifically interested in how I wrote that I might be classified as part of the marriage strike because I hadn't even tried to get a date in a long time. She asked how long it'd been since I tried to get a date. I told her...

Tom Petty Gets His Mojo Working
By mdome at Classic Rock

There’s a new Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers album on the way.

It’s to be titled Mojo and should be released in the spring, to coincide with a US tour. This will be the first album from the band since The Last DJ eight years ago.

For further info, go to http://www.tompetty.com/

Original AC/DC Singer To Tour UK
By mdome at Classic Rock

Original AC/DC vocalist Dave Evans has lined up a series of British shows for this spring...

February 25, 2010

Rolling Stones Unearth 10 New Tracks For 'Exile' Reissue
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

The Rolling Stones, who have long resisted releasing archival material, will include 10 previously unheard songs in an upcoming reissue of "Exile on Main Street," the group's representatives said on Thursday...

A meltdown of Chernobyl proportions (update)
By tj at Alex Ovetjkin

As you probably know the Russian President has cancelled his visit to Vancouver for closing ceremony. And you guess it right, it's related to a hockey meltdown of team Russia vs. Canada.

Yes, it goes back to 1972 and it's all about the national pride and the way how Canadians humiliated the Russians, beat them up and broke Kharlamov's ankle. This would be remembered a thousand years from now. It's not that the Russians didn't deliver the same blows to Canadians, in 1981 Canada Cup they won 8:1 with Canada having such stars as Gretzky, Lafleur, Bossy, Perreault, Ray Bourque and Robinson. For Russians the game that will be remembered the most will be the win over Canada. You can lose to Finns, Swedes, Americans, Czechs, but the one that will hurt for a long time will be the loss to Canada...

Cam Janssen gets five games (updated)
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider

The NHL delivered another stern message regarding head shots this afternoon when it suspended St. Louis enforcer Cam Janssen five games, without pay, for elbowing Matt Bradley in the face on Feb. 13.

Janssen's punishment, according to the league, was for "a late hit to the head delivered to an unsuspecting forward." The Blues winger was assessed a five-minute major for interference and a game misconduct after nailing Bradley with a forearm/elbow to the face as the Washington winger looked around to follow a pass he had just made...

Mike Green on watching the Olympics from home:
'My time will come'
By Mark Giannotto at Capitals Insider

Capitals defenseman Mike Green always imagined watching Wednesday's epic Canada-Russia Olympic hockey game from ice level, a red and white jersey on, and his name stitched to the back. But because he was one of the odd men out when the roster for the Canadian Olympic team was announced last month, Green took in his home country's 7-3 triumph over Russia on Wednesday in front of a fireplace while sitting in a La-Z-Boy at the home of goalie Jose Theodore...

Blues Legend B.B. King Keeps On Rolling With 2010 Tour Dates
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

LiveDaily is reporting that with a winter tour alongside Buddy Guy recently wrapped, B.B. King has mapped a round of solo dates that rounds out the winter and runs into late 2010...

Ovechkin after loss: "We Tried, and Did Everything We Could"
Posted by tuvanhillbilly at Japers' Rink

Photo by Reuters Pictures

Thanks to Dmitry Chesnokov for alerting us via his twitters (you are following him, right?) to this piece on the Sovetsky Sport website on the press conference that Alex Ovechkin gave to the Russian press following the crushing defeat by Canada today.

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After the game Alexander Ovechkin answered some questions from reporters, and among them was Sovetsky Sport correspondent Pavel Lysenkov...

Mike Milbury not a fan of Russia's 'Eurotrash game'
By Sean Leahy at Puck Daddy

Mike Milbury and controversy are real good friends. Sometimes he's found using shoes in various ways; or inciting Washington Capitals fans by calling them the "Crapitals"; or mixing it up with bloggers outside of an elevator. To the hockey community, Milbury is that crazy uncle who embarrasses everyone around him whenever he opens his mouth...

Alex Ovechkin, Russia go out with a thud
By Slava Malamud of Russia's Sport-Express at Heavy Medal

The dominating performance of Team Canada in Wednesday night's quarterfinal against Russia provided perhaps one of the most anticlimactic moments of the Games. Not only did the expected Dream Final not manifest itself, even the Dream Quarterfinal turned out to be lopsided...

PiL To Tour North America In 2010

John Lydon (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd) and Public Image Ltd are scheduled to tour North America this Spring. Currently, the tour officially starts in San Francisco, California, USA on April 17th. However, PiL will be in Indio, CA on the 16th for a special performance at the opening of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. The festival performance will be the band's first show in the United States in 18 years.

See the full press release here at the Public Image Ltd web site. Meanwhile, here's the announcement from John Lydon's (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) site:


We are pleased to announce that PiL will begin a North American tour – their first in 18 years – at San Francisco, Regency Center, Grand Ballroom on Saturday April 17th 2010. The day following their appearance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Read the full press release at PiLOfficial.Com, and see our shows page for more info and links etc.

Tickets for the San Francisco show go on sale this Sunday, February, 28th via Ticketmaster.com. The other dates will go on sale the following weekend (March 5/6).

DATE CITY VENUE
Fri 4/16 Indio, CA Empire Polo Field/Coachella
Sat 4/17 San Francisco, CA Grand Ballroom @ Regency Center
Tue 4/20 Seattle, WA Showbox at The Market
Wed 4/21 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Fri 4/23 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
Sat 4/24 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
Mon 4/26 Kansas City, MO Midland Theatre
Sun 5/2 Chicago, IL House of Blues
Tue 5/4 Boston, MA Royale Boston
Wed 5/5 Boston, MA Royale Boston
Fri 5/7 Toronto, ON Kool Haus
Sat 5/8 Montreal, QC Theatre L’Olympia de Montreal
Tue 5/11 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live!
Wed 5/12 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Fri 5/14 Pittsburgh, PA Club Zoo
Sat 5/15 Atlantic City, NJ The Borgata Music Box
Tue 5/18 New York, NY Terminal 5

For further information, see: www.pilofficial.com

Nazareth Remasters On The Way

According to the following announcement, which showed up on the official Nazareth web site a couple days ago, all of the Scottish rock band's back catalogue will be re-released in improved remastered form. Some will be out by April 2010, with more shortly thereafter, via Salvo Music.


Nazareth Remasters

Salvo Records are set to reissue all of the Nazareth albums, the albums will be Remastered with extra bonus tracks relating to the album concerned, plus new sleeve notes. The first to be released will be a new 2 cd 'The Anthology' collection, then Nazareth and Exercises in one single package, followed by Razamanaz.

Loud 'n' Proud, Rampant and Hair of the Dog, are also now availiable.

In April the original Greatest hits will be released with eight exrta tracks, plus Close Enough for Rock and Roll and Playin' the Game. These two albums will be released as one CD with added bonus tracks and new sleeve notes.

June will see Expect No Mercy and No Mean City. More details on these soon.

Tony Iommi And Ian Gillan Send Gifts Of Music To Armenian Music School

Photo of Tony Iommi and Ian Gillan included with music gifts story.

World famous musicians Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell) and Ian Gillan (Deep Purple, Ian Gillan Band) visited a music school in Gyumri, Armenia in October of 2009. They saw the conditions under which the N 6 Music School has been operating since their former building was destroyed during a 1988 earthquake. Since then, classes have been hosted in temporary shelters. Recently, Iommi and Gillan had musical instruments and supplies shipped to the school as gifts in order to ease some of their financial burden, while they're still trying to get back to a normal situation. The following news entry about these events was posted to Tony Iommi's web site on Tuesday, February 23, 2010.


Tony Iommi and Ian Gillan Give Musical Gifts
to Armenian Music School

World famous rock musicians Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) and Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell) sent musical instruments as a gift to the N6 musical school in Gyumri.

Professional musical instruments from Fender Musical Instruments Corporation were supplied to Yerevan: 4 acoustic guitars of the Japanese Takamine Company and a Blackhawk drum kit of the Gretsch Drums Company. The musicians also gave Paiste сcymbals and Vic Firth drumsticks, presented by John Henrys Ltd.

On October 1, 2009, Ian Gillan and Toni Iommi visited the N 6 music school in Gyumri within the framework of Armenia Grateful 2 Rock project, realized by Mediamax and Australian “Do Something” organization. The director of the school, Harutyun Asatryan, spoke with the rock stars informing them that the pupils would love to have new musical instruments to practice with. The N 6 music school in Gyumri was destroyed during 1988 earthquake and is still hosted in temporary shelters.

“We express huge gratitude to the great musicians for their attention towards Armenian children, who study music in difficult conditions. Almost 5 months have passed from the time of Gillan and Iommi’s visit to Armenia, but this present is evidences that their sincere wish to help the Armenian school has not become weaker to any extent. I want to also sincerely thank the managers of the musicians Ralph Baker and Phil Banfield, who directly dealt with acquisition of the instruments”, Mediamax Director Ara Tadevosyan stated.

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: February 22 - 24, 2010

Last Update - February 25, 2010 at 6:18 AM EST

To catch up with the first half of this week, visit the items linked to in the 'Reading And Viewing List' below, for February 22 through February 24, 2010.


February 24, 2010

Ray Davies Rerecording Kinks Songs With Bruce Springsteen,
Bon Jovi and More
By Steve Baltin at Spinner

While Kinks frontman Ray Davies joins millions of British Invasion fans in waiting on his brother and guitarist Dave Davies to decide if he wants to reunite the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, the singer-songwriter is continuing to find new ways to re-examine his legendary band's catalog...

Chimera leaves practice early
By Tarik El-Bashir at Capitals Insider

Here's a quick update from today's afternoon practice session at KCI:

*Matt Bradley practiced fully and afterward pronounced himself healed up and ready to go, despite getting his "bell rung" for the second time in two months. He also said Cam Janssen apologized to him after the game in St. Louis for the hit...

Parise lifts U.S. past Switzerland and into hockey semifinals
By Tracee Hamilton at The Washington Post

...The Americans took a 2-0 quarterfinal victory over Switzerland on two third-period goals -- one an empty-netter -- by Zach Parise. They will play Finland on Friday in the semifinals...

AEROSMITH Announcing Plans This Week, Says Drummer
Posted at BLABBERMOUTH.NET

As reported last week, the feud between singer Steven Tyler and the other members of AEROSMITH seems to have cooled down, with the band's participation in several European summer festivals announced last week. Drummer Joey Kramer confirmed to The Pulse of Radio that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers are back on solid ground: "Well, nothing's been officially announced yet," he said. "We did definitely have a meeting, and things in AERO-land are very copacetic at the moment, and we are gonna announce this week what our plans are gonna be."...

State health programme to run in tandem with Rally Mexico
Posted at WRC.com

Rural communities along the route of the forthcoming Rally Mexico are set to benefit from a rally themed health initiative known as the Rally de la Salud or 'Health Rally'.

A result of collaboration between rally organisers, the Department of Health of the State of Guanajuato and other local health authorities, the programme aims to improve the overall health of the communities where the rally is held by providing mobile medical units where people can receive dental care, cervical screening, medical checkups and eye tests...

February 23, 2010

Ovechkin: We must be united like fingers in the fist
Pavel Lysenkov interview and more - posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

..."Why are you standing here? Ovechkin just got in!" a joyful exclamation of a passerby pulled me out of whatever I was doing and I slid down the stairs from the second floor of the "Russia House". "The master! The master has arrived!," or something like this, that was the public reaction of the crowd.

Yes, Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin granted the "Russian House" a visit.

Those hour and a half of his evening were lined in a tight schedule, in the course of which the most valuable NHL player and Jagr's destroyer was supposed to give a dozen interviews to various TV companies in the world...

Video: Boudreau, Leonsis on Washington Post Live
Posted by Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider

Washington Post Live's Ivan Carter talks to the Caps' head coach about practice, the Stanley Cup and who will win Olympic gold.

Ivan also sat down with Capitals owner Ted Leonsis. Here's a clip:

Who Makes Whom Good in Washington?
Posted by tuvanhillbilly at Japers' Rink

Tip of the hat to the Rink's Sverige insider Ice Warrior for finding and translating this great article from the Swedish Expressen website. In this interview, Nicklas Backstrom's former coach Leif Boork reveals that he knew all along that Nicky was destined for great things, and perhaps is the power behind the throne in Washington?...

2010 Olympics Hockey - It's "Showtime"....
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan

So for both the men's and women's hockey teams and brackets it's really showtime now.

On the Woman's side we are down to the two medal games - Canad vs USA for the Gold and Finland vs. Sweden for the Bronze. These will be two really good games between two evenly matched sets of opponents so they should be a blast to watch. I'm calling them as follows:...

Wal-Mart Buys VUDU
By Ted Leonsis at Ted's Take

VUDU is a digital movie streaming and downloading service. Consumers more and more want to watch films on their computers or on their HD televisions sets in their own living rooms. TV’s and PC’s are merging and blurring. When Wal-Mart enters the market it has certainly gone main stream...

Superman Breaks The Bank As 'Action Comics' #1 Sells
For $1 Million
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

It's a bird — it's a plane — it's Superman flying off with a $1 million price tag attached to his red-and-blue spandex!

According to The Guardian, a 1938 edition of "Action Comics" #1 was sold yesterday for the massive price of $1 million, officially becoming the most expensive comic book purchase of all time. Previous copies of "Action Comics" #1 have sold in the ballpark of $300,000 to $450,000...

Roger Daltrey Wants To Form Blues Supergroup With Jimmy Page
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Roger Daltrey wants to start a super-group with Jimmy Page.

The Who singer is keen to form a new band with the Led Zeppelin guitarist and go back to the blues roots he established before he started writing songs with bandmate Pete Townshend...

Loeb says no to Le Mans
Posted at WRC.com

Sebastien Loeb has turned down the chance to drive a Peugeot 908 for the factory team at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours because of the amount of time he would have to dedicate to the project.

Due to start on 12 June, this year's Le Mans is the first since 2006 not to clash with a round of the WRC, prompting speculation that sportscar racing fan Loeb would join Peugeot's squad, run by Citroen Racing boss Olivier Quesnel...

Grohl And Hawkins: Foo Fighters’ Future
By mdome at Classic Rock

Lots to come on The Foo Fighters’ drummer and his own project, Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders, but for now this is what he has to say about the future of the Foos:

“It’s gonna be a very busy year for both myself and Dave [Grohl]. I have my band – and he’s busy with Them Crooked Vultures. But we will find time to sit down and start planning the next album from The Foo Fighters. The aim is to get a really solid basis for it.”...

Alex Ovechkin breaks the silence
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

Ovi's interview at Sochi house...

February 22, 2010

Russian media complains too
By tj at Alex Ovetjkin

There's a big discussion over at Japer's Rink about another journalist getting angry at Ovechkin not responding to the media:...

Personally I have a feeling the team Russia's coaching staff or the majority of players dictated to others not to talk to the media. I can remind you about the first day of team Russia training:
On the way to the locker room reserve goalkeeper Vasily Koshechkin even muttered through his mask about the media, "Everybody's wating for one guy!" It took Ovechkin about an hour to make his way to the locker room while he was talking to the media...

Bruce Willis Says M. Night Shyamalan 'Still Thinking' About 'Unbreakable 2'
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

Confession time, folks: There are a few of us around Splash Page HQ who are big fans of M. Night Shyamalan's dark superhero tale "Unbreakable" — so we can't help bringing up the possibility of a sequel every time we talk to the filmmaker or one of the film's cast. Back in June 2009, Shyamalan told us that he still had plans for a sequel, so when we caught up with actor Bruce Willis during this weekend's "Cop Out" junket, we had to get his take on whether we'll ever see "Unbreakable 2."...

'Heroes' Creator Discusses Series' Decline, Says Network Forbids Killing Certain Characters
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Despite a widely embraced first season, NBC's "Heroes" has steadily declined both in ratings and critical approval to the point that it now faces cancellation. What exactly happened to cause such a fall? To answer that question, there's no one better to ask than Tim Kring, the show's creator...

A Miracle Acknowledged by Today’s American Hockey Stars
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

Up in Hershey this past weekend our blogger colleague Eric McErlain of Off Wing Opinion joined us in a patriotic questioning of the Hershey Bears’ John Carlson. Carlson of course etched his name in American hockey lore last month, sudden-death silencing Canadians in Saskatoon and delivering the American Under-20 team gold. With the arrival of the 30th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice we wanted to know if that seminal moment in American sports history had any relevance for today’s generation of American hockey stars...

Rally Sweden nightmare still a mystery, says Solberg
Posted at WRC.com

Former World Rally Champion Petter Solberg is still trying to discover why his 2010 title campaign got of to such a poor start on the opening round in Sweden.

Equipped with the latest customer spec C4 World Rally Car from Citroen, great things had been expected of Solberg who won Rally Sweden in 2005. But the Norwegian's chances of repeating that success got off to a terrible start when he spun and lost his front bumper on the rally opening Super Special...

Dio Release Box Set
By mdome at Classic Rock

Dio are now offering fans the chance to buy the Tournado box set, which was originally to be made available for the band’s cancelled European tour last year. Limited to just 1500 copies, each will feature:...

*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: North Americans can buy it, but according to RonnieJamesDio.com ...

Please note on the Tournado Box Set offer... 2/21/2010 2:00:52 PM

We test drove the Tournado Box Set, and in doing so, realized that the DVD is formatted in PAL format, and as such, will not play on US DVD players.

We apologize to the US and Japanese fans for this oversight, but these box sets were made for the European tour which was cancelled, and we did not realize that they would [not] play in the US until we actually tried to play it.

Taylor Hawkins Gets His Coat
By mdome at Classic Rock

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins is to release a new album on April 20.It’s the second album by Taylor Hawkins & Coattail Riders, titled Red Light Fever. And there’s a stellar list of guests on it. These include the Queen pair of Brian May (guitar) and Roger Taylor (drums), Cars guitarist Elliot Easton, plus a certain Dave Grohl...

It’s heli-cam week on wrc.com
Posted at WRC.com

Some of the most amazing television footage of Rally Sweden came from above, courtesy of the 'Abu Dhabi Eye in the Sky' helicopter camera.

All this week we're going to feature the very best clips from the Abu Dhabi Eye on wrc.com...

Abbey Road Taken Off The Market
By mdome at Classic Rock

EMI Records have taken Abbey Road Studios off the market. As Classic Rock reported last week, the label had plans to sell off the famous studio in an effort to raise funds. However this decision has now been reversed...

Week One In The Booksposted
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

With Team Sweden defeating Team Finland last night/early this morning (depending on your time zone), the preliminary round of men’s ice hockey at the Vancouver Olympics came to a close. And what a way to end it – the “hit heard ‘round Vancouver”… the upset… and the technical marvel that was Team Sweden in the Sweden-Finland contest – made this every bit the “Spectacular Sunday” of ice hockey that hockey fans were hoping for...

Maybe . . . Just Maybe . . . NBC Wishes It Had Run Hockey
Last Night
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

...it was bizarre to see NBC (Nothing But Curling) run a 30-minute, spectacularly well produced feature on it, hosted by Al Michaels, less than two hours before Team USA faced off against Canada in the most highly anticipated international hockey game in years, only to jettison the broadcast of the game to its hinterland cable partner, MSNBC. Just bizarre.

It was also bizarre to see NBC News treat last night’s game as a mega-event a mere 30 minutes before puck-drop. The game and its fevered anticipation led the very top of the 7:00 NBC Evening News. And on the home page for NBC’s Olympics coverage yesterday afternoon, this headline: “It’s hockey night in Vancouver.” Just bizarre...

Dangle's Angle: 2010 Olympic Men's Hockey - USA 5, Canada 3
Posted by Dangle at Nike Training YouTube Channel

Alice Cooper To Be Busy Touring In 2010 With 'Theatre Of Death' & 'Gruesome Twosome' Tours

The last few annoucements posted to Alice Cooper's web site seem to indicate that the theatrical, horror-fantasy rock performer will be very busy touring in 2010. See bits of those warnings below. Click on the links to read more.


Gruesome Twosome Promo Vid!
Posted Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Listen up, SICK THINGS. We've got something to boost your EXCITEMENT! A video has been posted on The Official Alice Cooper You Tube channel to promote the new GRUESOME TWOSOME tour. Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie come together for the first time, in one LEGENDARY SPECTACLE! You don't wanna miss this!!!


Alice & Rob Zombie: Gruesome Twosome Tour! Additional Presales + VIP!
Posted Monday, February 22, 2010

It's a bill that fans of horror and hard rock could only dream of until now: For the first time ever, the "Gruesome Twosome" — ALICE COOPER and ROB ZOMBIE — will play an exclusive limited run of North American tour dates beginning April 26 at the MTS Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

To top it all off, the AliceCooper.com Store will be selling PRESALE TICKETS, VIP PACKAGES & VIP PACKAGE UPGRADES to the seven shows listed above, beginning TOMORROW (Tuesday, February 23). For full details, including start times, check out the tour page!


First Presale and VIP Packages of 2010!
Posted Thursday, February 11, 2010

HE'S BAAAAAAAAACK!!

Ready or not, here he comes! The Master of Theatre Rock is bringing the Theatre of Death tour back on the road in 2010 with the first North American shows taking place at the Island Resort & Casino in Harris, MI, on July 9 and 10!

Of course, as all you SICK THINGS already know, more THEATRE OF DEATH can only mean one thing...more killer PRESALES, VIP PACKAGES and VIP PACKAGE UPGRADES!! We have those going ON SALE TOMORROW (Friday, February 12) starting at 11 am EST, only in the AliceCooper.com Store!

The Ultimate VIP package includes:

* One ticket per person
* After-show meet & greet with Alice Cooper
* One photo with Alice...

[etc., etc., etc.]

...And this is just a taste of what Alice has up his sleeve for 2010! DO NOT FORGET to keep checking the AliceCooper.com Tour page for more shows as they are confirmed!

The Theatre Of Death 2010...

...they keep killing him...and he keeps coming back...and back, and BACK!

Today's Tune: "Arizona" By Scorpions

Flag of Arizona - Became a state (48th) February 14, 1912.

Okay, it's really late in the day to be posting a 'Today's Tune', so we'll make this one "short 'n sweet" as they say. Since the state of Arizona was first organized as a United States territory on this day in 1863, I offer the 1982 Scorpions song titled appropriately, "Arizona".

Scorpions - "Arizona" (Recorded in 1981 / Released in 1982)

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: February 20 - 21, 2010

Last Update - February 23, 2010 at 2:50 AM EST

Here's the 'Reading And Viewing List' for February 20 through February 21, 2010. Just peruse the snippits to decide where you want to visit, and click on the title links to get there.


February 21, 2010

U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team Defeats Canada, 5-3,
at Olympic Winter Games
Posted at USA Hockey

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Ryan Miller (East Lansing, Mich./Buffalo Sabres/Michigan State Univ.) turned aside 42 shots as the U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team knocked off Canada, 5-3, here tonight in Team USA's final preliminary-round game of the XXI Olympic Winter Games. With the victory, the U.S. clinched first place in its group with a perfect 3-0-0-0 record and secured a berth in the tournament's quarterfinal round...

Ovi rocks Jagr to spark Russia past Czechs Sunday
John Dellapina at NHL.com / NHL All-Access Vancouver

VANCOUVER – Jaromir Jagr was dancing and the Russians were beginning to wonder.

Their vaunted attack had yet to explode in a sixth-straight period against top-tier competition. And, truth be told, they were fortunate to be leading by a goal.

Then Alex Ovechkin announced his presence. With authority...

Gonchar: What can you say? It's Ovechkin!
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

Team Russia got 7 points and the first place in their group, Czechs has 6. Russia will play the winner of Swiss and Belarus pair in the quarterfinals. Whew...

The Hit
Posted by Bald Pollack at Japers' Rink



NHL Olympic Break Post 1: GMGM's Moves and Salary Cap Planning
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan at Mark's Musings

...As this season has continued, many of us Caps fans have watched with keen interest and wondered what Caps General manager George McPhee will do to retain and improve this high flying team's talent pool. The moves so far appear to have been a mix of well thought and deliberate as well as opportunistic re-signings...

Meet the "Sovetsky Express" Press
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

From Pavel Lysenkov's blog (blog.sovsport.ru/users/lysenkov/post121273528/):

This is a very interesting story. We left Team Russia's training and wanted to go to the coveted Greek restaurant, but it only opens at 16:00 (4 pm). There is another half an hour. We walk in the park and see the Canadians who are playing street hockey. Instantly we got an idea to organize an international match Russia - Canada. The Russian journalists immediately knock together a team dubbed "The Soviet Express" (although we also had the idea to call it "Sports-Sports"). Here's the roster: Slava Malamud (in the goals), Kirill Belyakov (defense),...

No Monsters’ Ball at Giant Center
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

The Hershey Bears found themselves in an exceptionally unusual position before Saturday night’s game against Lake Erie: confronting the possibility of an actual losing streak. On Friday night the Bears traveled to Adirondack and lost a 2-0 lead, succumbing to the Phantoms 5-3. Hershey, however, doesn’t lose a lot. The Bears last lost consecutive games just before Thanksgiving, and one of those came in a shootout. The team’s last consecutive losses in regulation play occurred October 23rd and 24th — around the time of the World Series...

February 20, 2010

Chris Drury is on this team because he is Chris Drury
Craig Custance / Sporting News interview with Brian Burke
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

...There was some debate about Chris Drury being on this team, but he has played well. Does that validate that selection?
I'm not interested in being redeemed or validated. We either got the right group and we are going to have success or we didn't and we're not. As far as Chris Drury, like I said at the time, Chris Drury is on this team because he is Chris Drury. That's all you need to say about Chris Drury. He's a winner and he's a leader. We can count on him to do the right thing in every situation on the ice; we can count on him to help the younger players. I'm just thrilled that he is here and, so far, he has played well...

Mauled by Bears
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

The Hershey Bears tied an AHL record last night with their 19th straight home victory, a 4-1 win over the Lake Erie Monsters...

Ovechkin set to play with Malkin
By Dan Rosen at NHL.com / NHL All-Access Vancouver

VANCOUVER -- After practicing hard for the full hour over at the Brittania Centre, Alex Ovechkin walked off the ice sporting his usual gap-toothed smile. The superstar left wing was in good spirits less than 24 hours before Russia's pivotal game against the Czechs on Sunday.

It appears that Ovechkin will have a new center for Sunday's game. He was skating on a line with Evgeni Malkin and Alexander Semin while Pavel Datsyuk, who was centering Ovechkin and Semin, was between Ilya Kovalchuk and Maxim Afinogenov.

Ovechkin stopped to chat with NHL.com about that and more...

Russia's new top line: Ovechkin, Malkin and Semin
By Sport-Express' Slava Malamud at Heavy Medal

Get ready for the Dream Line!

Saturday afternoon's Team Russia practice featured a switch-around in the top two lines, with Pavel Datsyuk moving to pivot Ilya Kovalchuk and Maxim Afinogenov. This means that Evgeni Malkin will take his place on the top line, setting up the long-anticipated partnership between the Penguins superstar and the Capitals' dynamic duo of Alexander Semin and Alex Ovechkin...

Niceness As A Competitive Weapon
By Ted Leonsis at Ted's Take

We are NOT ugly Americans. We can and would be great hosts to an Olympic games here in the United States. Click this link for an article that makes me say, “Huh?!”...

USOC won't bid for 2020 Games
By Amy Shipley at Heavy Medal

..."The cold and hard reality is Chicago spent approximately $80 million on its bid," Blackmun said. "It's going to be difficult to get U.S. cities to continue to invest to that level unless they think they have a realistic chance of winning. The IOC sent us a message, loud and clear, that they don't want the Games to be in the United States."...

Hear New Scorpions Song
By mdome at Classic Rock

A new Scorpions track has just been aired by online Greek radio station Rockmachine.gr – and it’s now on You Tube.The song is The Good Die Young, with former Nightwish singer Tarja Turuen guesting. It’s from the album Sting In The Tail, due out on March 19...
*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: Clasic Rock linked to a video that has been removed. Maybe the one below will stay long enough for you to enjoy.

Scorpions (with Tarja Turuen?) - "The Good Die Young"

Alex Ovechkin switches skates, Russia retools power play
By Sport-Express' Slava Malamud at Heavy Medal

Say goodbye to the Wild Sheep Skates! Maybe...

Alex Ovechkin, whose painted blades have been the talk of the Olympic hockey tournament, said after the Friday morning practice that due to some unspecified damage to one of them, he will go back to his old gear. Too bad. The new skates featured an image of a rabid sheep with a missing tooth...

Alice Cooper On Broadway
By mdome at Classic Rock

Alice Cooper is currently developing a Broadway show – and it may be based around the classic Welcome To My Nightmare album...

Happy Birthday Glen Hanlon!
A good former hockey coach and a great guy, hope you're doing well.

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: February 18 - 19, 2010

Last Update - February 21, 2010 at 6:06 AM EST

This 'Reading And Viewing List' covers Thursday, February 18 through Friday, February 19, 2010. It's just a small sampling of what became available over the course of those two days.


February 19, 2010

New Media Convergence on the Farm
By The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

This weekend OFB embarks on a roadtrip we’ve sought since our start — to Hershey, but hauling along with us a hearty contingent of D.C. hockey bloggers. We’ve long wanted to take our new media party up to Chocolatetown for a weekend and see if we could just blow the lid off the terrific puck party up there, and given who’s joining us this weekend, when the Bears will host Lake Erie Saturday night and Albany on Sunday, we like our chances...

Marvel Superheroes And 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'
Team Up This Weekend
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

Several artists and designers from Marvel Entertainment are scheduled to appear Sunday night on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition...

No Role For General Ross In 'Iron Man 2' Or 'Thor',
Says William Hurt
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

One of the most memorable moments of director Louis Leterrier's "Incredible Hulk" movie was Robert Downey Jr.'s brief cameo as Tony Stark during a scene with William Hurt's Gen. Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross. And while Stark's line about "putting a team together" suggested a carefully worded reference to the "Avengers" movie, Hurt recently revealed that the entire scene was improvised with Downey...

What did we learn in Sweden? Allow The WRC Guru to explain
Posted at WRC.com


So, after a four month break the 2010 World Rally Championship is finally up and running, and as the snow dust settles after a sensational Rally Sweden, it looks like the year ahead will be cracker.

Of course it's not easy to draw too many long-term conclusions after a rally as specialised as Sweden, but the performances of the top drivers on ice have given us some useful indications about how the season might pan out...

Senator Mellencamp? It Could Happen
By mdome at Classic Rock

A Facebook campaign has been launched to persuade John Mellencamp to for the US Senate...

Is This The End For The Who?
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Who guitarist Pete Townshend could be forced into retirement if he can’t find a successful treatment for his tinnitus.

The band recently put in a half-time performance at the Super Bowl – but Townshend says they’re “finished” unless a new treatment for his ear problems does the trick...

Alex Ovechkin (Russia) lays big hit on Zdeno Chara (Slovakia)
during February 18, 2010 Olympic game. Photo by Shaun Best / Reuters.

Olympic hockey: Slovakia surprises Ovechkin, Russia
By Sport-Express' Slava Malamud at Heavy Medal

..."Ovechkin, Semin and Datsyuk are obviously the best players in the world," Chara said after the game. "It's challenging to play against those guys. But I loved [Ovehckin's hit]. We always battle hard. I was tired and was trying to get the puck out of our zone. I knew he was going to hit me, but I lost my balance and he put me down on the ice. That's what the best players do. We are good friends off the ice but on the ice we compete and go after each other."...

February 18, 2010

Post Rally Sweden Q&A: Mikko Hirvonen
Posted at WRC.com

A fortnight ago Ford team-leader Mikko Hirvonen promised a new, more aggressive approach for the 2010 WRC season. And after the opening round in Sweden his new attitude seems to be working pretty well, thank you.

Of course it must be nice to start the season with a win - although for Mikko it's a feeling he'd never experienced before - but to be so quick that the six times world champion Sebastien Loeb gives up before the end? That was something new for everybody...

Nine Thought on the Marriage Strike
By Kameron at I May Have Been Born Yesterday
But I Stayed Up All Night

...II. The Marriage Strike

From what I can determine, the term “marriage strike” was coined in 2002 by columnists Glenn Sacks and Diana Thompson “The US marriage rate has dipped 40% over the past four decades,” they wrote,”to its lowest point ever. There are many plausible explanations for this trend, but one of the least mentioned is that American men, in the face of a family court system which is hopelessly stacked against them, have subconsciously launched a 'marriage strike.'”...

Women’s Team USA Hockey Impressive at Olympics
By Chasta Piatakovas at Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies

Those that once believed that women can’t play hockey have been proven incredibly wrong by Team USA: Jenny Potter has registered two hat tricks so far in the tournament; former Olympian-turned-Olympics commentator Cammi Granato equated a goal in the game...

Capitals Season Ticket Holders Brace for Increased Prices
By Chasta Piatakovas at Love the Game, Don't Like Puck Bunnies

The 2010-11 season ticket renewal packets have begun to arrive in the in-boxes and mailboxes for Washington Capitals season ticket holders. Naturally success on the ice has equated into higher ticket prices, but the steep ticket prices have caused for some extreme sticker shock...

Wanted: More Patriots in Pucks
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

Like a good many other American hockey fans, I’ve been underwhelmed by NBC’s hockey coverage during this first week of the Winter Olympic Games. Bumped off the big channel for ice dancing was the first indignity. Then last night, after a particularly long and trying day at work, I sat down to watch Nick Backstrom and his Swedish teammates take on Germany, over on MSNBC, just wanting a game and a bottle of beer or two to salvage my hump day, and right as a 0-0, potential upset intrigue was setting in deep in period one, off went hockey at the stroke of 8:00 and on went . . . Keith Olberman...

Video Premiere : Jimi Hendrix "Valleys Of Neptune"
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Here's the video, via Spinner.com for Jimi Hendrix's Valleys of Neptune,' the title track of the upcoming album of the same name, due March 9, of studio tracks Hendrix recorded in 1969...

Where's The Promotion, NBC
By Mike Chen at From The Rink

While I've been far from glued to NBC's non-hockey Olympic coverage, I've caught my fair share of it and I've seen a sampling of the fluff pieces the network puts together in between events -- you know, the heartwarming tales of some athlete's home town or a mini-documentary on polar bears. (Seriously -- NBC actually popped up a graphic overlay that said "POLAR BEARS...in 5 minutes" during a broadcast. I like polar bears too, but come on.) However, I haven't seen too much about the Olympic hockey tournament other than some programming notes and shots of Wayne Gretzky from the opening ceremony...

...Seriously, it's not like a two-minute package highlighting how Ovechkin has taken D.C. by storm would take a lot of effort to put together -- and it's not like it'd be terribly out of place showcasing an Olympic athlete in an Olympic event. Heck, it might even make more sense than polar bears -- and I LIKE polar bears!...

John Paul Jones: There Are No Decent Band Names Any More
By gbarton at Classic Rock

The Led Zeppelin/Them Crooked Vultures bassist reckons MySpace has ruined everything.

Talking to The Wall Street Journal, Jones complained:

“Every other name is taken. Think of a great band name and Google it, and you’ll find a French-Canadian jam band with a MySpace page.”...

A Lesson in Supply and Demand
By OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki) at On Frozen Blog

...Yes, the Caps’ current ticket prices—particularly for my seats in the front row of the upper deck—are not only significantly discounted from face value, but quite a bargain by league standards. According to The New York Times, 20 NHL teams charged more, on average, for tickets than the Capitals did in 2009-10...

Entries published for Rally Mexico
Posted at WRC.com


The organisers of Rally Mexico have published the seeded entry list for this year's event, round two of the World Championship season, which starts on 4 March.

The WRC event rotation system meant Mexico was absent from last year's calendar, but it returns in 2010 amid a year long fiesta to mark the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution and the 200th anniversary of its independence...

Russia practices, Swedes and Czechs open with wins
By Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider

Yesterday's game action: Nicklas Backstrom had an assist in defending champ Sweden's 3-0 victory over Germany, and Tomas Fleischmann's Czech's took a 3-1 win over Slovakia...

Olympic hockey: Catching up with Tomas Fleischmann
By Sport-Express' Slava Malamud at Heavy Medal

For Caps fans, Olympic hockey is not all Russians, of course. Two other Washingtonians are playing at the Games as well, and both had their first taste of the sport's premier stage Wednesday.

I was able to catch up with Tomas Fleischmann after his Czechs defeated arch-rival Slovakia in a beautiful, open game that featured lots of scoring chances and a brilliant performance by a certain former Cap, whose first and last names both start with a J...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: February 15 - 17, 2010

Last Update - February 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM EST

If you want to know what was going on in the first half of the week, use the links in this 'Reading And Viewing List' for February 15 through February 17, 2010 to visit interesting places and find out.


February 17, 2010

Bryzgalov: Salt Lake City games were much better organized
By tj at Alex Ovetjkin

The team Russia's Ilya Bryzgalov harshly criticized the organizers of Vancouver Olympic Games, reports Sovietsky Sport journalist Sergei Pryakhin.

"I am awfully disappointed with the organizers of Vancouver Olympic games. Let's start with the fact that you can't write your name anywhere, neither on the helmet or on the glove. I am surprised that they did allow it on your jersey. I'm not advertizing for anything!"...

Glenn Hughes On Black Country - "There Will Be Proper Touring"
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Glenn Hughes recently had a lengthy conversation with Tony Conley of the Rock Guitar Daily online blog to talk about Black Country, his new band formed with drummer Jason Bonham,(Led Zeppelin, U.F.O., Foreigner) hard rockin' bluesman Joe Bonamassa and keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater)...

Mexico road position will lose us time, admits Hirvonen
Posted at WRC.com

The winner of the opening round of the 2010 World Rally Championship, Mikko Hirvonen, has admitted he will have a difficult time replicating his success on the second round of the series, Rally Mexico, which starts on 4 March.

As championship leader, the BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team driver will start Rally Mexico first in Friday's running order, and will face the worst of the event's notoriously loose gravel stage surface...

Anthony Hopkins On 'Thor' Role: 'I Don't Just Play A Father,
I Play The God-Father'
By Blair Marnell at MTV's Splash Page

Last month, director Kenneth Branagh’s highly anticipated “Thor” adaptation finally began principle photography. And while Marvel Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada has already claimed that "Thor" will "redefine the superhero genre", Anthony Hopkins found a more personal connection in the film's depiction of the family relationship between Odin, and his sons Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston)...

USA USA USA
By Ted Leonsis at Ted's Take

My wife and I attended the USA vs. Russia woman’s hockey game yesterday. It was a blow out win for America 13 to 0. And it could have been 20 to 0. We played that well. There was no female equivalent for Alex Ovechkin on the Russian squad...

Olympic Men's Hockey - Day Two
By Hockey Mom at Musings Of A Hockey Mom

...If you were watching the Canada/Norway game, you had yet another opportunity to see NBC hockey analyst (or babbling talking head) Mike Milbury, dismiss the dazzling skill, leadership and star power of Alex Ovechkin for the umpteenth time. But this time, recently retired and outspoken NHL fan favorite Jeremy Roenick, came to the Great8's defense...

No surprises in Olympic hockey openers: USA, Canada, Russia
win easily
By Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider

Here's today's Olympic-inspired roundup of links:

*Alex Ovechkin scored twice to lead Russia to an easy 8-2 victory over Latvia. Postgame notes, quotes and other hockey odds and ends can be found on on Heavy Medal, our Olympics blog...

Vancouver: Varlamov Critiques the Food, Semin Goes for a Joyride
By tuvanhillbilly at Japers' Rink

Sport-Express reporter Igor Rabiner caught up with some members of Team Russia yesterday and got some insight into the living conditions for the players. I hope Malkin's mom hurries up and gets there so they can have some decent food to eat. Those guys aren't going to win Gold on a belly full of Big Macs...

February 16, 2010

U.S. tops Switzerland in hockey, 3-1
By Barry Svrluga at Heavy Medal

The American men's hockey team opened the Olympics with about as strong a performance as could be expected, a 3-1 victory over Switzerland that featured a splendid performance from goaltender Ryan Miller -- the U.S.'s best hope to lead a medal run -- and an inspired performance from David Backes...

Glenn Hughes: ‘Black Country Is A Big Rock Statement’
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Talking to Dave Lewis of www.tightbutloose.co.uk, the bassist/vocalist says of his alliance with guitarist Joe Bonamassa, keyboard player Derek Sherinian and drummer Jason Bonham...

Russian documentary about Ovechkin
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

I believe this is part of documentary (2 of 4) about Russian hockey players because it is called "Millionaires on ice"...

'Raikkonen effect' rockets WRC figures to record highs
Posted at WRC.com

The start of the 2010 World Rally Championship season and the arrival of superstar driver Kimi Raikkonen have generated unprecedented online interest in the series around the globe.

Raikkonen's decision to turn his back on the F1 circuit in favour of a WRC season with Citroen has been one of the biggest stories of the year so far in his home country of Finland...

Abbey Road For Sale
By mdome at Classic Rock

Abbey Road Studios has been put up for sale...

Iron Maiden Finish New Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

Iron Maiden have finished recording their new album...

We'd welcome Gronholm back, says Ford team boss
Posted at WRC.com

The boss of Ford's WRC squad, Malcolm Wilson, believes his former team-leader Marcus Gronholm still has the pace that netted him two World Rally Championships and would welcome the Finn back to the team if he wanted to tackle more events...

A Simple Reminder for Jacques Rogge and the IOC
By Eric McErlain at Off Wing Opinion

The opening round of the men's side of the Olympic ice hockey tournament begins tomorrow, but the functionaries at the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the same folks who caved under pressure from China when it came to censoring Internet access in Beijing two years ago, just couldn't leave well enough alone when it came to U.S. goalie Jonathan Quick's helmet...

February 15, 2010

Rink Side Radio tonight from 9:30-10:30 featuring special guest Julie Chu!
By Joe Fortunato at From The Rink

Hey guys. Got an update for you all here. Rink Side Radio is on the air tonight from 9:30-10:30 because we are having on a major guest at 9:45. Julie Chu, co-captain of the USA women's hockey team...

Aerosmith To Play Download With Steven Tyler!
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Aerosmith have been added to the bill of Download 2010. What’s more, that’s Aerosmith with Steven Tyler!...

Contract Banter: One Swedish Superstar Getting a Big Raise
By CollegePucker at On Frozen Blog

With the NHL’s Olympic roster freeze in effect and the trade market on everyone’s minds, struggling and contract-strapped teams are likely to try and dump salary and expensive contracts off to contending teams chasing the Stanley Cup. The Washington Capitals are buyers as opposed to sellers, a likely perennial contender and close-to-the-cap-ceiling team...

Start Living
By Lobese (Monica Lo) at Lobese

Happy Year of the Golden Tiger!
It's my year and I've got a new mantra.
Stop bitching. Start Living...

Clapton & Beck Getting Higher At The O2
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Last night, February 14, two of the most legendary guitarists in rock history -namely Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck -shared the stage at the O2 in London, England...

Pavel talks with Ovechkin after team's skate (update)
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

Immediately after the team Russia's training the Sovietsky Sport correspondent Pavel Lysenkov talked with Alexander Ovechkin...

Heavy Metal Britannia Is Coming!
By mdome at Classic Rock

Nigel Planer, who was rhythm guitarist Den Dennis in Bad News, is to narrate Heavy Metal Britannia, a 90-minute documentary on the history of metal to be screened on March 5 by BBC 4.

Planer, of course, also famously played the character Neil in The Young Ones...

Accept Title New Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

Accept are to call their new album Blood Of The Nations...

Ovechkin, Caps arrive in Vancouver for Olympics
By Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider

Welcome to the Olympic edition of the Morning Roundup, a collection of links dedicated to the five Caps players (and some others) representing their countries at the Vancouver Games...

Revealed: First Time Angus Wore School Uniform On Stage
By mdome at Classic Rock

The Daily Telegraph in Australia has just published a photo of the first time Angus Young ever wore his trademark school uniform on stage...

The Knack Frontman Dies
By mdome at Classic Rock

Doug Fieger, frontman with The Knack, died on Sunday (February 14) from cancer at the age of 57...

Give Raikkonen time, urges Citroen boss
Posted at WRC.com

Citroen racing boss Olivier Quesnel has praised the efforts of his latest driver signing, Kimi Raikkonen, on Rally Sweden, but has warned the WRC community not to expect too much too soon.

Raikkonen, the 2007 Formula One world champion, completed his first ever World Rally Championship event at the weekend, reaching the finish in 30th place, 37 minutes behind the leaders, in his Citroen C4 WRC...