• Fall Out Boy and Meghan Trainor Set January Mark with New Albums on Billboard 200, while Taylor Swift Stays Comfortable

    Fall Out Boy and a slew of other new albums broke the dam and brought forth a flood of debuts back onto the Billboard 200 after the holiday sales lull. That band's American Beauty/American Psycho premiered at no. 1 with 218,000 equivalent albums sold, and its 192,000 actual album sales teamed with Meghan Trainor's debut last week for the first pair of albums released during January to top 150,000 apiece since 2010. American Beauty marked a significant uptick in sales from the band's 2013 album Save Rock and Roll.

  • Marilyn Manson Talks Blues Influence for 'The Pale Emperor,' Billy Corgan and Collaborator Tyler Bates in New Interview

    Marilyn Manson sat down with Billboard recently to discuss his upcoming release, 'The Pale Emperor.' The shock-rocker revealed that blues played a role on the album, which is the follow-up to 2012's 'Born Villain.' He also took some time to talk about the mini reunion he had with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and his collaboration with film composer, Tyler Bates, who co-produced the singer's ninth studio effort.

  • Stream Marilyn Manson's New Album 'The Pale Emperor' via SoundCloud a Week Before It Drops [LISTEN]

    Marilyn Manson is gearing up to drop his ninth studio album, The Pale Emperor, on Jan. 20. The shock rocker has made the record available to stream on SoundCloud, giving anxious fans everywhere an early taste of the new material. The effort is a step in a new direction, musically, for Manson, who incorporated aspects of blues and dance-floor funk into the tunes, keeping it on the dark side with his signature industrial-metal blend.

  • Marilyn Manson Shares New Song 'Cupid Carries A Gun' From Upcoming Album 'The Pale Emperor' [LISTEN]

    Shock rocker Marilyn Manson has shared a new track titled "Cupid Carries A Gun" from his upcoming studio album The Pale Emperor, which you can check out below. According to Blabbermouth, the track originally appeared on the television series Salem back in April 2014, but has just now been made available for streaming on Youtube and Spotify. As can be expected from Manson (and from a song that appeared on a show about witch trials), it's a pretty gothic, doomy track with some industrial elements, though it's not nearly as heavy as the songs Manson wrote during his '90s heydey.

  • 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."

  • Song Questions with Song Answers: Rod Stewart and Shakira, Lil Jon and Hall & Oates, and More

    Acts like One Direction and Taylor Swift have created armies of super-creepy, devoted fans. We're not talking about the typical Directioner...we're talking about the stalkers and X-rated fan fiction writers. Fortunately this isn't the '60s, where fans could apparently infiltrate the music industry and send messages to their idols. The best example is Elvis Presley, specifically his hit "Are You Lonely Tonight?," which according to Billboard generated at least four songs titled "Yes, I'm Lonely Tonight" and one "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" as "answers" to his question. Odds are these songs were more about profits than untamed hormones, but we love the idea of response tracks.

  • Slipknot, Linkin Park and Judas Priest Named as Headliners for Rock on The Range 2015

    We in the Greater Columbus area have come to expect the lineups of Rock on The Range, one of the nation's biggest rock festivals, to come out during February, but "Christmas came early" and now we know what to expect when the ninth version of the show rolls in next May: Slipknot, Judas Priest and Linkin Park will serve as the respective headliners.

  • Marilyn Manson Shares Details for Upcoming 'The Pale Emperor' Album [TRACKLIST]

    Shock rocker Marilyn Manson announced that his upcoming album will be titled The Pale Emperor and will hit retailers Jan. 20. The album will be the "Coma White" singer's first collection of new material since 2012's "Born Villain." Manson and Co. shared the album's insanely dark lead single, "Third Day of a Seven Day Binge," which will be one of 10 tracks on the record — see below — last month. According to "Rolling Stone," the iTunes version of the album will come with three additional tracks: "Day 3," "Fated, Faithful, Fatal" and "Fall of the House of Death." Fans can preorder the standard edition on Manson's website or the deluxe edition on iTunes now.

  • Die Antwoord Share 'Ugly Boy' Video with Marilyn Manson, Flea, Jack Black [WATCH]

    South African hip-hop duo Die Antwoord has shared the music video for their song "Ugly Boy," which you can check out below. The video, directed by Die Antwoord member Ninja, features a couple cameo appearances from other musicians — who are apparently "ugly boys" — including Marilyn Manson and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Other cameo appearances in the video include actor Jack Black and models Cara Delevingne and Dita Von Teese. Electronic artist Aphex Twin, whose song "Ageipolis" is sampled in the track, has been rumored by some sites as appearing in the video, though "Pitchfork" notes that he does not actually appear. As can be expected of the famously weird Die Antwoord, the music video for "Ugly Boy" is pretty weird stuff, with plenty of blood, violence and other unsettling/offensive images, including a guy in blackface wearing a sweatshirt that reads, "Hi, My Name is God."
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