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Pearl Jam, Kid Rock, Aerosmith Members Join Hendrix Tour
Original at CKTB
• Thu, Oct 9
Canada - Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Aerosmith axeman Brad Whitford and Kid Rock guitar player Kenny Olson have all signed on for guest appearances on the ...
Poorly run X-Fest doomed from start
Original at UNLV The Rebel Yell
• Thu, Oct 9
NV - These bastard sons of Cowboy Troy and Kid Rock would have been more suited to perform down the street with the country groups that perform free concerts ...
Celeb-a-razzi: Taking the temperature of pop culture this week
Original at DetNews.com
• Wed, Oct 8
MI - Kid Rock: Released one year ago this week, his "Rock N' Roll Jesus" album is still sitting pretty in Billboard's Top 10. To celebrate, Waffle House is ...
Is Manny a New York Kind of Guy?
Original at Mets Geek
• Wed, Oct 8
- Sabathia is the free agent equivalent of Pam Anderson after she just got done with Kid Rock and Tommy Lee: damaged goods. His body frame is not one that ...
Chart notes: TI unseats Metallica
Original at AZ Central.com
• Wed, Oct 8
Hollywood Industry AZ - And Kid Rock celebrates a full year on the chart while holding on to No. 7 with 56000 in sales for his comeback hit Rock N Roll Jesus. ... TI Debuts On Top Of The Billboard Charts 411mania.com Rapper TI, Jennifer Hudson lead US album chart Reuters
Kid Rock Make His Albums Available As Downloads
Original at AngryApe
• Wed, Oct 8
UK - The news contrasts with recent comments made by the 'All Summer Long' star, who said after selling a million albums, he was not "feeling the blow" of not ...
Up Close & Personal On The HHH Red Carpet
Original at Vh1
• Tue, Oct 7
Last night you got to see all the show-stopping, floor-shaking Hip Hop Honors performances we’ve been talking about. (If you missed it, check the show out here.) So far, we’ve filled you in on the after-party, but check out the up close and personal shots we got of your favorite stars on the re...
NFL To Feature Kid Rock’s ‘New Orleans’ Track
Original at Kid Rock
• Mon, Oct 6
By KR Admin Kid Rock’s song ‘New Orleans’ from the multi-platinum Rock and Roll Jesus album will be featured on tonight’s Monday Night Football broadcast on ESPN. Pitting the Minnesota Vikings versus the New Orleans Saints. Please tune in. Kid Rock’s song ‘New Orleans’ from the multi-platinum Rock a...
Kid Rock on VH1 - Hip Hop Honors Tonight
Original at Kid Rock
• Mon, Oct 6
By KR Admin Thursday 10/9 @ 7a, 9a Check out Kid Rock’s Hip Hop news piece airing all day on Vh1. Air Times below. And don’t forget to catch KR tonight @ 10/9c on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors as he takes part in a very special tribute to the legend, Too Short! Tuesday 10/7 @ 7a Wednesday 10/8 @ 7a, 9a Thursday 10/9 @ 7a,...
Kid Rock shows his love for the Motor City
Original at Times and Transcript
• Mon, Oct 6
Canada - Rock On is on his platinum-selling CD Rock 'N Roll Jesus. Twenty years after he died, Roy Orbison still can touch people with his piercing tenor. ...
National Guard taps star power
Original at Stateline.org
• Sun, Oct 5
DC - Rock stars Kid Rock and 3 Doors Down have teamed up with race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. in ads featuring them as the newest boosters of the state ...
Kid Rock, Longtime Holdout, Goes Digital With Rhapsody
Original at New York Times
• Thu, Oct 2
United States - His song “All Summer Long,” a reminiscence of teenage romance that samples Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” and Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London,” ...
Kid Rock "Warrior" Music Video Playing In Theaters All Across The ...
Original at All Headline News
• Thu, Oct 2
- Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Musician Kid Rock brings out his patriotic spirit in a new music video for the National Guard entitled "Warrior," which is being ...
On the Charts: Demi Lovato & Kings of Leon Debut High, Metallica Rule
Original at Rolling Stone
• Wed, Oct 1
• 2 related articles
By Daniel Kreps Last Week’s Heroes: While Death Magnetic continues to be heroic, everything else was upended by the big debuts. Nelly’s Brass Knuckles suffered the largest fall, dropping from three to 19 in its second week. Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus dropped out of the top five, and after 16 weeks in the up...
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Kid Rock rocks the Dodge
Original at AZ Central.com
• Mon, Sep 29
AZ - It's no surprise that Palin is a fan and reportedly knows all the words to "All Summer Long." The Kid Rock show Sunday night at the Dodge Theatre begins as ...
Kerrang! The Album '08
Original at IndieLondon
• Sun, Sep 28
By Rob Kid Rock’s All Summer Long will be an obvious favourite, as will Nickelback’s Rock Star, while Linkin Park demonstrate their rockier side with Given Up and My Chemical Romance crop up with their mini-epic Welcome To The Black Parade – the song that really put them on the map.
Kerrang! The Album '08 is go!Original at Kerrang!
• Fri, Sep 19
The Album '08 - a 42 track compilation of the most essential and hardest rocking tracks of 2008 - hits stores on Monday. "Green Day, Nickelback, My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park are the biggest bands of the decade," states Kerrang! editor Paul Brannigan. "Kid Rock has scored the soundtra...
Kid Hack
Original at jukeofurl (WordPress)
• Sun, Sep 14
By jukeofurl But Kid Rock sucks. He can't sing, play guitar or write beyond what any inebriated inbred could do. Must have something though, after all, he married Pamela Anderson twice. She's very selective, based on penis size. Tat sleeves are a bonus. He does look like kind of a big prick to me.
Dave on Demand: The television week in review
Original at Kentucky.com
• Fri, Sep 12
I hear that Lil Wayne, Kid Rock and Kanye West all delivered good performances on the "MTV Video Music Awards" this week. Things got really bizarre when MTV brought out its master of ceremonies, British bad-boy comedian Russell Brand. He looked like he had leaped out of the hairdresser's ch...
Kid Rock Tells It Like It Is
Original at Idolator
• Mon, Aug 25
By Kate Richardson As evidenced by his latest album, Rock N Roll Jesus, it's clear he's not having a problem sustaining his success at retail. Still in the Top 10 of the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, the title has sold more than 1.6 million copies and is currently selling more than 100,000 copies per week after...
PROTIPS: Kid Rock editionOriginal at MOG
• Mon, Aug 25
By TheBenson of MOG Last October, Kid Rock topped the charts with his first release in 4 years, modestly titled Rock N' Roll Jesus. The self-proclaimed music deity instantly hit #1 with the album on the Billboard 200 chart. The current single, "All Summer Long," swooped into the Billboard Hot 100, eventuall...
ARTIST OF THE WEEK: KID ROCK
Original at Kid Rock
• Mon, Aug 11
By KR Admin Take a step back and really look at Kid Rock. He’s collaborated with Lil Jon, The Allman Brothers, Run DMC and Sheryl Crow. He’s appeared on the Vans Warped Tour, on the cover of Rolling Stone (twice!), in court for punching a strip club DJ and on Larry King Live. See? Kid Rock has done absolutely...
"Singing Sweet Home Alabama watching Lon Chaney doing the Werewolves of London All Summer Long"Original at bigstarlet (WordPress)
• Fri, Aug 8
By bigstarlet For all you kids who are too young to recognize the references, here are videos of the two songs Kid Rock sampled/paid tribute to: And, as an extra bonus, out of the why-can't-they-always-be-like-this department, the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir covering Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Opinion: They Tried To Make Me Listen To Rehab, I Said, "No, No, No"Original at Idolator
• Thu, Jul 31
By Al Shipley In 2000, a band from Georgia named Rehab was one of the many rap-rock acts flooding the music industry in the wake of Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit. That October, they released their major-label debut Southern Discomfort and scored a minor hit with the simply awful "It Don't Matter," which reach...
Why 2008 Is The Year Of The Comeback
Original at Edison Media Research
• Tue, Jul 22
So pulling off a second comeback, with "All Summer Long," would seem like an almost Cher-like feat for the real-life Robert James Ritchie. It's undoubtedly impressive - but it's happening alongside some other unusual career arcs this summer: Buckcherry: An act that had been out-of-bus...
Can't Touch This Werewolf: Kid Rock Brings Back The Sales-Free Chart Hit
Original at Idolator
• Fri, Jul 11
By Chris Molanphy But I could also be talking about Kid Rock's "All Summer Long," a mashup of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" and Lynyrd Skynrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" that debuts on the Hot 100 this week at No. 80 despite his lack of interest in releasing it digitally.
Opinion: Another night, another show
Original at amthenfm (WordPress)
• Wed, May 21
By evandad He was all over the musical map, not to mention at the turntables, behind the drums and on guitar, for a sweaty, swaggering show that seamlessly mashed honky-tonk, rap, Southern rock, Motown, gospel, country, metal, soul and just about anything else he and his 10-piece motley-looking T...
Kid Rock plays mix 'n' match on current tour - Appleton Post Crescent
Original at Appleton Post Crescent
• Wed, May 14
Kid Rock plays mix 'n' match on current tour USA - Set lists have been fluid during the tour, which features each of the guests in their own mini-sets, joined by Rock and his expanded Twisted Brown Trucker ...
Opinion: The Flobots Make Modern Rock Radio Safe For Rappin' Whitey AgainOriginal at Idolator
• Thu, May 1
By Al Shipley Otherwise, the history of rapping on rock radio is lily white. The Beastie Boys became mainstays of alternative radio in the early '90s, just as they were becoming irrelevant to hip hop audiences. Eminem scraped the lower reaches of the Modern Rock top 20 with three of his biggest hits. Funky...
Joe Levy Makes His Entrance At "Blender"
Original at Idolator
• Fri, Apr 11
By Anono-Critic Madonna, Mariah Carey, Kid Rock, John Mayer, Keith Richards, and Alicia Keys are all artists that can reasonably expect to be treated with deference in Rolling Stone whenever it is advantageous for them to consent to interviews and photo shoots. Each of these artists can expect to be cove...
Kid Rock brings it all together at Sovereign Center
Original at Kid Rock
• Sun, Mar 23
By KR Admin The Kid spent most of his time there, exhorting the crowd to make some noise and wave their hands, his hair flapping out of the back of his hat as he jumped around to hits such as “Cowboy,” “Bawitdaba” and “Devil Without a Cause.” Rock’s Twisted Brown Trucker Band has grown in the last few years...
Who’s the Man Behind the ‘Kid’?
Original at Kid Rock
• Thu, Mar 13
By KR Admin But who is this fellow named Kid Rock? Amid it all, Rock’s music career hums right along. His latest album, “Rock ‘N’ Roll Jesus,” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart in October. The first single, “So Hott,” hit big on mainstream rock stations. Just like Kid Rock himself.
Opinion: [1998] Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause (m4a Download)
Original at razgriz-aces (Blogspot)
• Sun, Feb 24
By riefky w. el huraibi Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine @ allmusic.com I don't suspect that even Kid Rock believed he had an album as good as Devil Without a Cause in him. Nobody else believed it, that's for sure. But he didn't just find the perfect extention of his Beastie and Diamond Dave infatuations here, he cam...
Kid Rock offers high-rollin,’ lowdown, old-style revue at Scottrade Center
Original at Kid Rock
• Mon, Feb 18
By KR Admin Able frontman Rock and his Twisted Brown Trucker Band, accompanied by a DJ and two female backup singers, got the party started with “Rock N Roll Jesus,” the title track to his new CD. Rock seemed to think he lived up to the title and didn’t mind courting just a teensy bit of controversy, exten...
Kid Rock revives the basics of rock … but he’s still got some rap in his repertoire
Original at Kid Rock
• Thu, Feb 14
By KR Admin You wouldn’t expect to see Toby Keith or Kenny Chesney on BET or MTV or Paul Wall or the Beastie Boys on CMT. But Kid Rock glides easily among all three scenes: He has played live with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Metallica and Phish. He recorded a country duet with Sheryl Crow (“Picture”) that was nominate...
Skip the candy and go straight for the show with Kid Rock
Original at Kid Rock
• Thu, Feb 14
By KR Admin Rock’s latest single “Amen” is an acoustic open letter to listeners about America’s ills and the need to “open up your mind and start to live.” It rests at number-14 this week on Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and is poised to crossover to the country music format with continu...
Keely Smith Paired Up with Kid Rock at Grammys
Original at www.gabbybabble.com
• Sun, Feb 10
By gdaysunshine Monday, February 11, 2008 Keely Smith Paired Up with Kid Rock at Grammys photo courtesy of PR Photos/www.prphotos.com Keely Smith who won the first Grammy or at least one of the first awarded was at the 50th Grammys to present an award with Kid Rock. WTF??? This is how they treat a legend? She lo...
Opinion: Rock Radio Playlists Remain Paralyzed In 2008 [Corporate Rock Still Sells]Original at Idolator
• Thu, Jan 10
By Al Shipley Since many people find it hard to tell the great from the godawful when it comes to 21st-century mainstream rock, welcome to "Corporate Rock Still Sells," where Al Shipley (a.k.a. Idolator commenter GovernmentNames) examines what's good, bad, and ugly in the world of Billboard's rock cha...
Rock Daily’s New Year’s Eve Rock Guide: All the Essential U.S. Shows, Plus TV Specials
Original at Rolling Stone
• Fri, Dec 28
By Rolling Stone Atlantic City Elvis Costello & The Samples @ House of Blues Boston Soulive @ Paradise Rock Club Detroit Cherry Poppin’ Daddies @ MGM Grand Detroit Casino Miami R. Kelly, Keyshia Cole, J. Holiday @ American Airlines Arena New Orleans Buddy Guy @ House of Blues Television:
Foo Fighters Performing At Spike's VGAs [Rock Band]
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Dec 5
By Mike Fahey IN SPECIAL PERFORMANCE FOR ALL-NEW "ROCK BAND" VIDEO GAME Spike TV is available in 96.1 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks. A unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), MTV Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms.
Kid Rock Announces 2008 Rock and Roll Revival Tour Dates
Original at Rolling Stone
• Mon, Dec 3
By Daniel Kreps Kid Rock is bringing the gospel of Rock N Roll Jesus on the road for 2008, filling the first three months of the new year with new tour dates. The Rock and Roll Revival Tour will find Tommy Lee’s nemesis and his entourage playing arena shows at all points throughout the Midwest and the South wit...
Kanye West Pops Up In Kid Sister Clip; Plus R. Kelly, Akon, Hillary Clinton, Chamillionaire, Ashley Tisdale & More, In For The Record
Original at MTV
• Mon, Dec 3
and Metallica on the same bill? Call it too good to be true, but that's what an e-mail published in industry commentator Bob Lefsetz's newsletter is reporting, Billboard.com reports. Speculation over potential Zep reunion gigs has been rampant amid the reunited band's planned December...
Kid Rock Goes From Waffle House Scraps To Flame Wars [War Of The Words]
Original at Idolator
• Fri, Nov 9
By Maura Johnston
Opinion: "Rolling Stone" Has A Curious Definition Of "Hot" [Rock-critically Correct]
Original at Idolator
• Tue, Oct 16
By Anono-Critic Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles--or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the...
Opinion: Kid Rock performs with Lynyrd Skynyrd band at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in New York
Original at msnbcmedia1.msn
• Mon, Sep 17
Click below to hear clips from Kid Rock’s latest album, ‘Live Trucker’ ‘Bawitdaba’ ‘Picture’ ‘Only God Knows Why’ ‘Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp’ ARTS EXTRA | March 24, 2006SXSW: Music and Film’s Rockin’ Love AffairQ&A: Kid Rock on Sex, Rock and Videotape The Scorecard: hottest movie...
VMAs Wrap-Up: Kanye’s Tantrum, Kid Rock’s Punch, Timberlake’s Pleas
Original at Rolling Stone
• Mon, Sep 10
By Elizabeth Goodman This year’s official MTV VMAs broadcast may have been baffling and disorganized (check out Rob Sheffield’s live blog for a moment-by-moment analysis of the suck) but it turns out that’s just because all the crazy shit was happening backstage and/or elsewhere. Here’s a brief run-down of...
Kid Rock’s Rock and Roll Jesus: Exclusive Sneak Peek
Original at Rolling Stone
• Thu, Jul 12
By Christian Hoard This Monday, Rolling Stone ventured to a thirty-acre estate in Clarkston, MI, to spend some quality time with Kid Rock. The badass born Robert Ritchie gave us the grand tour of his house and studio — giant go-cart track, swimming pool, signed Johnny Cash photo and the spot where James Hetfi...
Smashing good time at Hard Rock - Biloxi Sun Herald
Original at Biloxi Sun Herald
• Mon, Jul 9
Smashing good time at Hard Rock USA - By MARY PEREZ Kid Rock and the Twisted Brown Trucker Band play Saturday at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Biloxi. The sun was hot but it was pretty cool ...
Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
Original at Music Download
• Wed, Jun 6
By PK 1. Bawitdaba 2. Cowboy 3. Devil Without A Cause 4. I Am The Bullgod 5. Roving Gangster (Rollin') 6. Wasting Time 7. Welcome 2 The Party (Ode 2 The Old School) 8. I Got One For Ya 9. Somebody's Gotta Feel This 10. Fist Of Rage ...
Kid Rock And Jeremy Piven Hold Malibu Inn Patrons Hostage To Drunken, Amateur Rock
Original at Defamer
• Tue, Sep 5
By Defamer A Defamer reader looking for some stripped down, hard-rock entertainment at the Malibu Inn Saturday night instead got the inept musical stylings of a celebrity clusterfuck: a band composed entirely of rock star progeny conceived during a series of Jack n' Coke-enhanced blackouts in t...