What do Rita Coolidge, Sheena Easton, and Chris Cornell have in common (aside from jockeying for position in a future "Where Are They Now" segment on E!, that is)? That's right, they all sang the title song in a James Bond movie. They also are conspicuously absent from this list of the best Bond theme songs of all time.
5. "A View to A Kill" - Duran Duran
Using Day-Glo opening titles and a song by these New Romantic stalwarts might seem like a weak attempt to draw in the coveted youth audi
Critics may have found the 22nd James Bond caper, Quantum of Solace, "grim and downcast" (The New York Times), but audiences didn't seem to mind, turning out in sufficient numbers for Quantum to set a new 007 opening-weekend record of more than $70.4 million (domestic). But never mind the movie - true Bond-philes know the most important action happens before the suave superspy ever appears onscreen: the trademark opening montages that usually suggest both softcore porn and postmodern dance,
Chris Cornell
Scream
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The good news? This oft-delayed collaboration between Chris Cornell and overpriced hip-hop producer Timbaland isn't quite the creative debacle snarkster trainspotters have prophesied. The bad news? Scream doesn't even approach Cornell's best moments fronting Soundgarden or that mental triple CD-R set of Timbaland deep cuts you've got stuck on repeat.
More laughably awkward than this marquee ex-grunge idol embracing hip-hop's most egregious parl
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Timbaland, who produced Chris Cornell's new album Scream, has been making the promotional rounds telling the media he thinks it could make Cornell "the first rock star in the club." Judging by Cornell's prodigious set at Warehouse Live Sunday night - onstage around 10:15 p.m., off sometime around 1 a.m., no break - he could easily be the first (and last) rock star in the bomb shelter.
Scream has so far garnered mixed to malicious reviews - Aftermath hasn't hea
29-95's Joe Mathlete introduces the world to "crunkcore" artist Broken-NCYDE.
Prima Donna meltdown or not, Jenny Lewis still has talent. If only she had manners. We Wore Masks screens her "See Fernando" video.
Southern rap is still alive. Thankfully, Cocaine Blunts knows this, giving us H.A.W.K. and Z-Ro's "Diggin' the South."
Houstonist remembers Dave Rask.
​Rocks Off is about as excited about Sunday's AC/DC show as we were for the Black Ice ballbreakers' show 11 months ago, but for a much different reason. Last time it was because we hadn't seen AC/DC since 1996 at Austin's Frank Erwin Center; this time it's because we're itching to see the band behind our pick for hard-rock album of the year, Everyday Demons. It's not AC/DC, rather openers The Answer.
Formed in Belfast in 2000, the Answer is fueled by the denim-and-diamonds riffs of guitarist P
