Live Nation Gets Its Nickelback
Inescapable Canadian nu-heshers Nickelback have signed a long-rumored 360 deal with Live Nation, which gives the concert-promotion behemoth the rights to produce and profit from the band’s tours,...
View ArticleRock Stars Will Soon Buy Malt-O-Meal Just Like The Rest Of Us
With all the endless chatter surrounding the record industry’s slow-motion apocalypse–downloading, business models, livestock, etc.–it’s refreshing to read someone who makes a salient point. Tim...
View ArticleNickelback Plug In, Make A Prom Anthem
ARTIST: Nickelback TITLE: “Gotta Be Somebody” WEB DEBUT: Sept. 29, 2008…
View ArticleWhatever He Likes: T.I. Holds Chart Penthouse, Takes Reservation for Next Week
In a sleepy week for Billboard‘s Hot 100, Atlanta rap king T.I. maintains his grip on the No. 1 spot, his fifth nonconsecutive week there, with “Whatever You Like.” The “jump ball” I expected to break...
View ArticleA Strapped America Goes To The 99-Cent Store, And New Singles Storm The Top 40
In a week where it seems the global financial crisis is inescapable, America decides that a buck is a nice price to spend on music, and the Top 40 of Billboard‘s Hot 100 sees a wave of new best-selling...
View ArticleNickelback Figures Out How To Get Some Strip-Club Love
The new Nickelback single, which contains…
View Article“Flyover Rock” Is The Future Of Music
“It’s weird to me that the glorification of ignorance is finally (maybe) about to fail in U.S. politics, but it’s still a good look in blue-state coastal elitist music journalism,” Marc Hogan writes,...
View ArticleNickelback Try To Bring Back The Times When People Actually Paid For Albums
ARTIST: Nickelback TITLE: Dark Horse WEB DEBUT: Nov. 10, 2008 RELEASE DATE: Nov. 18, 2008…
View ArticleNickelback: Are These Reviews Even Going To Matter In The Long Run?
Our look at the closing lines of reactions to the week’s biggest new music continues with an overview of reviews of Nickelback’s Dark Horse, which arrives in stores tomorrow:…
View ArticleOne More List Before We Go: The Top 12 Idolator Posts Of 2008
As you may have gathered, I’m raring to close the book on 2008, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t run down some of the site’s highlights during what was a pretty dreary year overall. After the jump, behold...
View ArticleThe Juno Award Nominations Provide A Stark Reminder Of Nickelback’s CanCon...
Nominations for the Juno Awards—the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ equivalent to the Grammys—were announced today, and the big winner was the Vancouver band of heshers Nickelback, who...
View ArticleNickelback: Your Slightly Terrifying Face Of Canadian Rock
Canadian heshers Nickelback took home Album Of The Year, Group Of The Year, and the Juno Fan Choice Award at last night’s Juno Awards, which reward the best that Canadian music has to offer. (Gene...
View ArticleCanadians Very Impressed By Nickelback’s Ability To Destroy Historic Structures
Is the clip for Nickelback’s “Gotta Be Somebody” a good video, or merely a testament to the fact that adding a dash of the Killers’ synthy pomp to the Canadian band’s grunge-lite formula is the last,...
View ArticleRihanna’s ‘Talk That Talk’ To Be Trumped On Album Chart By Nickelback?
Hits Daily Double have published their sales predictions for this week’s album releases, and when next week’s album chart rolls around, it looks like Rihanna be talking a lot of expletive-filled talk....
View ArticleMichael Buble Has Early ‘Christmas’ On Album Chart, Holds Back Rihanna
The dust has now settled on the race for the peak position on this week’s Top 200 chart, and it’s not either of the new offerings from Nickelback or Rihanna at #1 — it’s Michael Buble, with his holiday...
View ArticleAvril Lavigne Engaged To Nickelback Frontman Chad Kroeger
Avril Lavigne is ready to rock down the aisle again. After a six-month courtship that was kept so quiet we had no idea they were even dating, Lavigne is engaged to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger,...
View ArticleAvril Lavigne Shows Off Gigantic Engagement Ring On Cover Of ‘Hello’
Avril Lavigne’s surprise engagement to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger has already inspired countless jokey tweets and unintentionally hilarious heartfelt fanmade videos congratulating the couple....
View ArticleAvril Lavigne & Chad Kroeger Get Their Own Music Mashup, Naturally
The masses have already mashed up engaged Canadian sweethearts Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger’s names. Now, like icing on the proverbial (wedding) cake, there’s the inevitable musical mashup of their...
View ArticleAvril Lavigne Talks All-Out Wedding On ‘Chelsea Lately’, Coaxing Chad Kroeger...
Avril Lavigne may be putting on the front of being young at heart with new single “Here’s To Never Growing Up,” but in real life the rowdy Canadian pop singer is about to embark on the very grown-up...
View ArticleOne Direction Are “Creating Hits” In The Studio With Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger
Well, this is different. Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson of One Direction have been recording tracks with Nickelback frontman/Avril Lavigne’s husband Chad Kroeger. Could the boy band be headed in a...
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