Ben Harper's Shocking Divorce Filing From Laura Dern After Attending Wedding Together
Posted on Oct 10, 2010 @ 08:44PM - 18 comments
Ben Harper has filed for divorce from Laura Dern, RadarOnline.com has confirmed. The singer/songwriter/musician filed on Friday, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Johnny Depp: Free The West Memphis Three
Posted on Aug 29, 2010 @ 03:52PM - 4 comments
Johnny Depp, along with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines, held a music and poetry session Saturday to help raise money to pay legal fees for the West Memphis Three, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The Conan O' Brien Tonight Show Era Begins Tonight
Posted on Jun 01, 2009 @ 02:30PM - Add a comment
Joining a very exclusive show biz fraternity, Conan O'Brien takes the helm as the fifth-ever host of the Tonight Show Monday, following in the footsteps of Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.
O'Brien -- who Jay Leno featured as his last official guest -- kicks off his reign with A-list funnyman Will Ferrell and 90s grunge pioneers Pearl Jam.
He told the Toronto Star of some sage advice he received from one of his esteemed predecessors.
"Basically, all anyone who knows anything about these shows can tell you is that you've got to do it your way. That's actually the oldest advice I've ever had – I got it from Johnny Carson, years ago, when I first met him. He basically told me, 'Just be yourself,'" he said. "These shows are such an extension of the host. I think the reason Jay's show worked so well is that he did it his way. And Johnny Carson did it his way, which was quite different from Jack Paar, who did it his way, which was really different from Steve Allen, who did it his way."
(Photo: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC)
Caught On Tape! Pearl Jam Bass Player Mugged
Posted on May 15, 2009 @ 08:46AM - Add a comment
Jeff Ament, the bassist for 90s grunge rock pioneers Pearl Jam, was mugged last month outside Southern Tracks, a north Atlanta studio where the band was recording, police said Thursday.
DeKalb County Police said the muggers, clad in black, emerged out of nearby woods in the area and ambushed the musician and another man after the pair arrived to the studio. The muggers smashed the Jeep's windows and pillaged a blackberry and two computers before robbing the men of another $3,000 in cash.
“Grunge is Dead”
Posted on Apr 23, 2009 @ 02:19PM - Add a comment
It was 15 years ago this month that Kurt Cobain took his own life in his greenhouse in Seattle, joining the 27 Club with the likes of Jim, Jimi, Janis, and Brian before him. And appropriately there’s a new book to mark the occasion—Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (ECW)—that offers up another look at the Seattle scene, this time strung together in the words of those who lived it, like successful rock history tomes Please Kill Me and Andrew Loog Oldham’s Stoned before it.
Author Greg Prato talked to 130 people who were there when—there being Seattle, of course, and when being in the ‘90s when grunge ruled the music world—including, most impressively, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, along with members of Soundgarden and Alice In Chainsand the founders of seminal Seattle record label Sub Pop. Going further behind the music, the book includes interviews with the women in the rock stars’ lives—Kurt Cobain’s pre-Courtney girlfriend Tracy Marander (and the inspiration for “About A Girl”), Susan Silver, Chris Cornell’s ex-wife and –manager, and the mother of late Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley, who speaks about her deceased son’s drug problem.
