Daily entertainment news covering Replacements en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/08/28/replacements_drummer_found_dead Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:43:13 EST Entertainment News 96693@http://www.starpulse.com/news Former The Replacements drummer Steve Foley has died from an accidental prescription drug overdose. He was 49.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/11/20/pavement_top_greatest_indie_rock_albums_ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:37:59 EST Entertainment News 68447@http://www.starpulse.com/news Cult rockers Pavement have topped a list naming the greatest indie-rock albums of all time The quintet's 1993 release Slanted And Enchanted beat out competition from Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and Let It Be by The Replacements to top magazine Blender's music poll.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/13/week_in_video_game_news_rock_band_snags_ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:42:59 EST Entertainment News 59797@http://www.starpulse.com/news News from the virtual world: -MONSTERS OF ROCK: The most intriguing face-off in the video-game industry this fall is between Electronic Arts' ''Rock Band'' and Activision's ''Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.''

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/09/12/up_and_coming_music_zerobridge Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:19:01 EST Entertainment News 59678@http://www.starpulse.com/news New York, NY - It's not often you hear about a band like zerobridge. Lead singer/guitarist and songwriter Mubashir "Din" Mohi-ud-Din and drummer Mohsin "Mo" Mohi-ud-Din are two brothers whose parents are from the disputed territory of Kashmir,

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/05/01/tom_waits_tops_underappreciated_list Tue, 01 May 2007 09:00:44 EST Entertainment News 40215@http://www.starpulse.com/news Tom Waits has been named America's "Most Underappreciated Artist" in a new Internet poll. The gravel-voiced singer/songwriter beat The Replacements and rock veterans Cheap Trick in the Rolling Stone online list. The top 10 are:

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/12/31/2006_year_in_music_pt_2 Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:00:00 EST Entertainment News 24637@http://www.starpulse.com/news ...In April, Billy Corgan announced that Smashing Pumpkins will reunite and begin recording a new album... Rihanna released her sophomore disc, Unfaithful, featuring the single S.O.S., which includes a sample of Soft Cell's Tainted Love... and Cee-Lo and DangerMouse's collaboration, Gnarls Barkley took the U.S. by storm, as their hit single Crazy stormed the charts and took off as one of 2006's most popular tunes.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/10/06/pete_yorn_headlines_the_south_in_support Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:41:40 EST Entertainment News 17987@http://www.starpulse.com/news For Nightcrawler, his first new studio album in three years, rocker Pete Yorn explores, and brings full circle, the day-for-life metaphor (morning-day-night) which began with his RIAA gold-certified debut album, musicforthemorningafter, in 2001 and continued through 2003's Day I Forgot. "This new record is not so much for the night," says Pete, "but for a later period in my life. The perspective I have comes from having lived more and experienced more."

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/09/19/ex_replacements_paul_westerberg_releases Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:42:28 EST Entertainment News 16395@http://www.starpulse.com/news Paul Westerberg's legendary status in rock 'n' roll history is more than secure. As leader of Minneapolis post-punk/pre-grunge icons The Replacements, Westerberg was the creative force behind one of the -- if not the -- most influential rock bands of the 1980s, creating a template that would later be adapted by such diverse rockers as Nirvana and Ryan Adams, among numerous others.

Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/04/02/replacements_reunite Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:26:00 EST Entertainment News 5125@http://www.starpulse.com/news The two surviving original members of cult 1980s act The Replacements have reunited to record two new songs for a greatest hits album. Frontman Paul Westerberg, bass player Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars recently reconvened after years of squabbling to record new tunes in their native Minnesota.

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