E! Online - Mar 14, 2006
An absent Sex Pistols. A backstabbing Blondie. And a kinder, gentler Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. Crazy, but that s how it went Monday night at New York s Waldorf Astoria Hotel as those seminal...
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Singer/songwriter Fiona Apple and Montreal rock band Arcade Fire are among the finalists for the inaugural New Pantheon Awards, which continue the mission of the defunct Shortlist Prize in recognizing...
More »E! Online - Nov 22, 2005
The Cars are ready to shake it up again. But the new model will bear only a passing resemblance to the original vintage. Two of the main players from the seminal new wave band, guitarist Elliot...
More »Reuters - Jul 12, 2005
Not much has been heard musically from Ric Ocasek since the release of his 1997 solo album, Troublizing, as his main focus has been on producing such bands as Guided By Voices and Weezer. But with...
More »USRN - Apr 6, 2001
(4/6/01, 3 p.m. ET) -- Weezer s third album is due on May 15, but the title for the album has not been revealed until now. The lack of information regarding the title may be due to the fact that the album...
More »USRN - Apr 21, 1999
(4/21/99, 1 p.m. PDT) - Longtime lo-fi indie rock faves Guided By Voices have hooked up with onetime Cars frontman Ric Ocasek for Do The Collapse, the Dayton, Ohio band s debut for the TVT label, which...
More »USRN - May 28, 1998
(5/28/98) - Ric Ocasek, the former leader of the Cars who now enjoys a successful career as a record producer and solo artist, and his actress/ model wife, Paulina Porizkova, welcomed their second child...
More »USRN - Dec 3, 1997
(12/4/97) - Ric Ocasek, who steered the Cars to success and is now in solo drive, says he prefers to keep his eyes on the future, not on the rearview mirror. Whilehe has no regrets about disbanding...
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