Contest: Chicken Soup For The Soul: The Story Behind The Song
Posted: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:48:10 GMT Category: Books

Woodstock.com brings you the opportunity to win the book Chicken Soup For The Soul: The Story Behind The Song, where artists reveal the inspiration, influence, and background, and when and why they wrote their most famous songs. Read the Woodstock.com Chicken Soup For The Soul Blog Series. Buy the book here Winners of the contest will be notified via e-mail Please enter your email below. Please ...

John Lennon: The Life Book Contest
Posted: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:42:00 GMT Category: Books

This contest is now over. Winners will be notified shortly. Thanks! Woodstock.com brings you the opportunity to  win the book John Lennon: The Life, which takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into a near-secular saint. Read the Woodstock.com interview with the book's author, Philip Norman. Take ...

Live music news and notes - 12/16/09
Posted: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:11:52 GMT Category: Music News

- Next year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival will take place Friday though Sunday, April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA. A pre-sale and layaway plan is available for those interested in planning their travel even before the line-up is announced. Concert-goers will be offered expanded camping options, including car, RV and traditional tent camping. For more info, visit www.coachella.com. - Old ...

Mariah Carey announces Angels Advocate Tour
Posted: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:50:06 GMT Category: Music News

Mariah Carey has announced her first major tour itinerary in more than three years. Following a New Year's Eve kick-off at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the Angels Advocate Tour begins on January 2 in Atlantic City, NJ, and wraps on February 27 in Las Vegas, NV. Tickets for the majority of the tour will go on sale December 19. The Angels Advocate Tour is the first major tour by Carey since ...

Win 2 Tickets to Badfish at Nokia Theatre NYC on 12/19/009
Posted: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:50:36 GMT Category: Contests

This contest is now over. Thank you for registering. We will be picking a winner shortly. Stay tuned. Please read the rules. Buy tickets for this show here....

Live music news and notes - 12/10/09
Posted: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:47:34 GMT Category: Music News

- Alicia Keys’ recent World AIDS Day benefit concert, One Night. One Voice. One Life at a Time., will air on Fuse as a one-hour broadcast special next Tuesday, December 15. Keys' new album, The Element Of Freedom, arrives in stores the same day. During the concert, which was held last Tuesday, December 1 at the Nokia Theater in New York City, Keys was joined on-stage by Jay-Z for their hit single ...

Experience Hendrix Tour Launches in March
Posted: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:37:03 GMT Category: Music News

JIMI'S MUSIC PERFORMED IN CONCERT BY ALL-STAR LINE-UP Experience Hendrix, the fourth edition of the biennial concert tour that features an all-star line up of music greats paying homage to the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix gets underway in early March of next year with special performances across the country. Featured artists who will be performing music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix ...

John Lennon biographer Philip Norman talks with Woodstock.com
Posted: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:53:52 GMT Category: Featured

  Today is the anniversary of one of the saddest days in music history. It was on this date in 1980 that John Lennon was murdered outside in New York City home in the Dakota building. He had just returned to the music scene, with the release of Double Fantasy, after several years as a house husband. Woodstock.com recently spoke to Philip Norman, author of John Lennon: The Life. John Lennon takes ...

Live music news and notes - 12/8/09
Posted: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:32:29 GMT Category: Music News

- Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and his assistant both seriously injured their ribs in a bus accident that took place early Sunday morning, as the band was on tour in the northeast. According to band webmaster Karl Koch, a tour bus carrying Cuomo, his wife and daughter and two assistants lost control after hitting a patch of black ice on I-90 outside of Albany, NY. The bus went off the highway and ...

Before Woodstock there was the Miami Pop Festival
Posted: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:10:00 GMT Category: Featured

Between Monterey Pop, in the summer of (love) 1967, and Woodstock, in August 1969, was the Miami Pop Festival. Woodstock producer Michael Lang helped put together this unique festival featuring Jimi Hendrix in May 1968, over a year before making history with the Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Woodstock.com had a chance to speak with Ken Davidoff, the photographer for the event. You can visit www.themiamipopfestival.com ...