• Dee Snider: Celine Dion Christmas Song Paid for Current Home

    One of Celine Dion's best-known holiday songs was written by Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. Surprised? Dion was, too. Apparently, she did not know Snider penned "The Magic of Christmas Day" until after cutting it for her 1998 album "These Are Special Times." "I heard that she found out years later," Snider told Ultimate Classic Rock, via NME. "And was very confused." How did this Christmas gem emerge from one of rock's most metal dudes? Snider said his wife requested it during "the height of [his] metal headedness." The tune he wrote was well out of his vocal range and ended up in the hands of Dion's camp. "The first thing I said was, 'Does she know who wrote it?'" Snider asked engineer Ric Wake. "He said, 'I didn't tell her yet.' And I said, 'Do not tell her Satan wrote a Christmas song!' He said, 'Seriously?' I said, 'Seriously, dude. Just put it on the frigging album.'"

  • Jonah Hill Covers Drake at VICE Anniversary, Lil Wayne, Scarlett Johansson and Nicki Minaj Perform [WATCH]

    Celebrities and musicians alike helped VICE celebrate its 20th anniversary last night (December 5) at a music festival in Brooklyn. The house band was led by Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontman Nick Zinner. Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne and Andrew W.K. all performed, but the highlights came when two of Hollywood's finest busted out some karaoke. Scarlett Johansson performed New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" while Jonah Hill took on Drake's "Marvins Room,"

  • Skrillex Plays 'My Heart Will Go On' at Mad Decent Boat Party [WATCH]

    Diplo's Mad Decent Boat Party just returned to harbor, and now fans and revelers are able to get back to the comfort of their homes and Internet connections and upload the videos to the World Wide Web for everyone to see. A video of note that has picked up traction is one featuring Sonny Moore, known to most as Skrillex, playing Celine Dion's famed and Grammy-award-winning song "My Heart Will Go On" on a piano before his back-to-back-to-back set with Flosstradamus and DJ Snake via "Dancing Astronaut." Skrillex was a part of the post-hardcore band From First to Last in his youth before he found electronic music and began his rise to dominate it. He was the lead singer in the band, but he is also a skilled guitarist, something we see in his recent "Let's Build a Spaceship" documentary with Red Bull.

  • 9 Artists Who Canceled Tours Due To Illness

    Today, EDM superstar Avicii announced that he would be canceling all of his upcoming performances due to health issues, relating to surgery he received earlier this year to remove his gallbladder and appendix. Though canceling performances is an enormously difficult decision for huge pop stars, this sort of thing happens pretty often. Here are nine more artists who have canceled performances and even tours due to illness.

  • Contrary to Popular Belief, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert Did Not Turn Down $1 Million for a Vegas Show

    When Celine Dion had to step down for her Vegas residency until March to be with her husband of 20 years, René Angélil, as he battles cancer, Caesars Palace went on the hunt for an interim replacement. The rumor mill fixated on one of their favorite couples - Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert - and insisted that though Caesars offered the two a cool million to perform together for one weekend -- and they turned it down!

  • Céline Dion Cancels Tour, Las Vegas Residency To Care For Sick Husband

    People reports that Céline Dion has postponed all of her upcoming performances in order to care for her ailing husband. The "My Heart Will Go On" singer has been forced to postpone her residency at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, as well as cancel the entirety of her Asian tour, due to her husband René Angélil's battle with cancer.

  • Celebrity Doppelgangers: Musicians And Their Actor Look-A-Likes, Featuring Skrillex, Madonna, Kesha, Jenny Lewis, And More

    With music biopics popping up all the time, and controversies surrounding which actors will play which musicians, we decided to compile a list of musicians and their actor doppelgängers. We think their resemblances are pretty uncanny. See who looks like Bono, Skrillex, Beck, Shakira, Jenny Lewis, Dave Matthews, Alicia Keys, and more in our side-by-side photo comparisons below.

  • 12 Days of Christmas: 3 Best Versions of 'O Holy Night'

    "O Holy Night" is one of the oldest Christmas carols, originally penned by French songwriter Adolphe Adam in 1847, based on a French poem. The song has since been altered, and today's best known version was written by minister John Sullivan Dwight. Full of huge vocal swells and big musical moments, every rendition of the song is special. But whose comes out on top?

  • 12 Days of Christmas: 12 Best Versions of 'The Christmas Song'

    First, we're going to kick things off with the 12 best cover versions of the most covered Christmas song of all time, fittingly titled: "The Christmas Song." Originally recorded by Nat King Cole in 1946, the track was already redone by Cole again in '53. Since then, it has been recorded countless times and remains a holiday standard to this day. But who has done it the most justice?
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