• Oscar Best Original Song Shortlist: Coldplay, Lorde, Lana Del Rey Included

    The Golden Globes listed five nominations for Best Original Song earlier this week, and the Academy Awards have now followed suit with a "short list" of 79 songs up for the same title. The Globe will be decided on the night of Jan. 11, but the Oscars don't take place until Feb. 22, so there's still a full month before that lengthy selection of songs gets pared down to five.

  • Jack White Tops Vinyl Sales for 2014; Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, Beck and Black Keys Also Hit 12" Format Hard

    Stop us if you've heard this one before (actually, don't): Vinyl sales are hot. The trend continued in the United States during 2014 as The Wall Street Journal reports that sales for the format were up 49 percent from 2013-a huge, huge increase-translating to roughly 8 million vinyl records sold during 2014. No one with an ear to the music industry will be surprised to know that Jack White, one of the format's biggest promoters, is at the top of individual vinyl sellers as his Lazaretto sold nearly 76,000 copies.

  • Marilyn Manson Explains Involvement in Lana Del Rey Rape Vid

    Last month, a mysterious video by horror director Eli Roth titled "Sturmgruppe 2013 Reel" surfaced online and featured scenes of Lana Del Rey being raped intercut with images of Marilyn Manson. Though Manson's representatives immediately denied that the shock-rock singer had anything to do with the video, Manson himself has now come forward and explained how the disturbing video came to fruition. "It was not meant to be a Marilyn Manson video," Manson told "NME." "The editor of the company that put it out was somebody who's edited my videos. That video was something that was done with a camera that Eli, who's my friend, and I both wanted to test out, so I let him test it out. "[W]hat they filmed was put in context seemingly as if it were a Marilyn Manson video," he continued, "and that was in no way the intention." Although the video that leaked online was not meant to be a Marilyn Manson video, Manson did want to make a music video with Roth and Del Rey, though it proved too difficult to organize. "Eli and I wanted to do a music video with her," Manson explained, "but she was being such a problem, for me personally, although I still respect her, I'm friends with her. I just left, I was tired, I was not willing to make that part of the video. Eli and I originally had intentions of making a video with her, but that is not the intention that is represented in that film clip because that is not what I filmed, not for my video."

  • Lana Del Rey, Courtney Love Heading Out on Endless Summer Tour in May [SCHEDULE]

    Lana Del Rey will hit the road in May for the Endless Summer Tour in support of her newest album "Ultraviolence," which came out in June. Courtney Love will join the "Born to Die" singer for the first half of the jaunt, with another opener slated to take over at the May 28 gig in Indiana — to be announced. Love is putting together a new solo record that is expected in 2015, "Consequence of Sound" reported. Rey's "Ultraviolence" made it to No. 1 on the "Billboard" 200 chart as well as the Top Tastemaker Albums list. The album, produced by The Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, includes singles like "Shades of Cool," "West Coast" and the title track. It was met with generally positive reviews. Love dropped new songs "You Know My Name" and "Wedding Day" earlier this year. In 2013, the Hole frontwoman promised a new album before the new year. That never happened.

  • Lana Del Rey Wrote 2 Songs for Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes'

    2014 has been a huge year for Lana Del Rey, appearing on the cover of "Rolling Stone" and scoring her first No. 1 album, and next month she will be capping off her stellar year with the premiere of Tim Burton's latest film "Big Eyes," which features two new songs from the "Ultraviolence" singer. "Tim showed her the film and she fell in love with it," screenwriter and producer Larry Karaszewski told "The Hollywood Reporter." "Women in particular seem to get the movie, and Lana really got the movie." Big Eyes tells the true story of American painter Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) whose work was credited to her husband Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) during the 1950s and '60s. Del Rey contributed two songs to the film: "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly," both of which are written from the perspective of Margaret Keane.

  • Eminem Says He'll "Punch Lana Del Rey Right In The Face Twice Like Ray Rice" In New 'Shady CXVPHER' [WATCH]

    In support of his upcoming double-disc Shady XV album, Eminem released the Shady CXVPHER which features rappers from across the country including Crooked I from Long Beach, California; Joe Budden from Jersey City, New Jersey; Yelawolf from Gasden, Alabama; Joell Ortiz from Brooklyn, New York; Royce Da 5'9" from Detroit, Michigan; and of course Eminem repping the Motor City as well. Slim proved himself the rap god once again during his seven-minute freestyle, and the line that has everyone talking is one in which he threatens to punch Lana Del Rey in the face. He also makes reference to Ray Rice, the NFL player currently suspended after footage emerged of him assaulting his fiancée.

  • Lana Del Rey Plays Gig in Hollywood Cemetery [PHOTOS]

    Lana Del Rey's two-night stand at Hollywood Forever Cemetery reached its conclusion late Saturday night, and the singer has apparently overcome the on-stage woes that plagued her during a rush to stardom in 2012. The "Ultraviolence" singer's most well-known quote is, "I wish I was dead already," so the cemetery was obviously a strong setting for her morbid tunes.

  • Lana Del Rey To Perform Concerts At Hollywood Forever Cemetery

    Lana Del Rey has always had a morbid streak in her, from naming her debut album Born To Die to claiming that she wishes she “was dead already,” so it was only a matter of time before the 29-year-old singer-songwriter performed a concert in a cemetery. Billboard reports that Del Rey will be performing two shows at the legendary Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles on Oct. 17 and 18. Tickets go on sale at noon on Sept. 27 through the Hollywood Forever website.
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