Tag: Holiday

New Year’s Eve Was Live and Wild

Posted by Kat – January 3, 2010

One of the best and most thrilling parts of ringing in the New Year is the multitude of major bands front-lining and performing at venues all over the world. After all, we all love to party, and the best way to do that is with the hottest voices and musicians all over. So, 2010 was rung in wonderfully, but I’m sure you’re wondering by who. Well, Billboard had their own Fox live show, on top of the normal line-ups by all sorts of networks, so let’s take a look.

Allison Iraheta was one of the best acts of the night with her stunning performance and her kick-ass and take names later attitude. She was part of the Billboard performance on Fox, but she certainly wasn’t the only performances out there making people rock.  During Dick Clark’s New Year’s Bash done every year, the Black Eyed Peas made one of their best performances with “Imma Be” off of their album, The E.N.D., and had people rocking and rolling while they waited for the ball to drop.

Also, not to let her newfound confidence and “General badassery” go by the wayside, Rihanna was a frontliner on NBC’s New Years Eve celebration hosted by Carson Daly. Wearing a white coat and a black stylish top hat, she was rocking along and bringing in the New Year with everyone else, performing “Hard”.

Jennifer Lopez looking fantastically hot in a black outfit that seemed a unique combination of nude bodysuit and sheer black, showing that she was more than prepared to make a celebration happen. Green Day was another front-liner for the night, but one of their best performances was knowing that they made their way to the end of the night, ushering in the New Year with “21 Guns,” the perfect wind-down to a fantastic night.

Vic Chestnutt’s Death Gives A Case of the Christmas Blahs

Posted by Kat – December 29, 2009

So, talk about sad news on Christmas Day. Vic Chesnutt, a singer and songwriter who was known for his incredibly sad and very poignant numbers, passed away on Christmas Day at age 45. The worst bit of the news? It seems that he tried to commit suicide. Sadly, the label that represented Chesnutt, Constellation Records, expressed how sad they were to see this happen, and expressed how they felt he had a very strong character and grace.

In fact, this particular artist has left behind friends and fellow collaborators who are just as stunend as anyone else. When it became known that Chesnutt wasn’t doing well on Wednesday, Kristin Hersh, one of his fellow collabs and a good friend, the former singer of the Throwing Muses, had been telling everyone through Twitter about it. In fact, it was Hersh’s Tweets that alerted most everyone that it was a suicide attempt.

For Hersh and many others, they had hoped it would not be an actual successful attempt, but rather that he would pull through with minor, if any, brain damage. He had left a note to inform Hersh, but it seemed that even Chesnutt was sure this would not be an attempt.

Vic Chesnutt was discovered by Michael Stipe, lead singer for R.E.M. back in the 1980s, and had been in a wheelchair since he was 18 from a car accident. He had produced fifteen albums total, and two of them had been this year, but it seemed that for whatever reason, Chesnutt is gone. No details have been released on what his note said, or what his reasons were, and it’s possible no one may ever know.  For any of Chesnutt’s friends and family, though, there will be no solace for now, and the music industry has lost an amazing songwriter and performer.