Pop Stars Celebrate Super Bowl With Queen Classic

Jimmy and the Roots teamed up with Carrie Underwood, Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Blake Shelton, Usher, Meghan Trainor, One Direction and Christina Aguilera for the 1977 classic that is a favorite of sports teams around the globe.

Featured on Queen's 6th album, "News Of The World", "We Are The Champions" peaked at No 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 on its way to selling 4 million copies in the States alone; the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009.

Watch the performance here.

Pearl Jam and Soundgarden Rock Mad Season Tribute

The show at Benaroya Hall saw Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready play three songs with the Symphony - under the direction of conductor Ludovic Morlot.

Commissioned by the Symphony, the songs included French composer Yann Robin's "Ashes", a piece inspired by Nirvana; "Beyond Much Difference" by Angelique Poteat and inspired by Pearl Jam; and, "Waking The Horizon", a piece conceived by McCready.

The Pearl Jam guitarist and the Symphony were then joined in the second half of the evening by bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Barrett Martin, Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell and Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Matt Cameron for a tribute to Mad Season, the 1990s Seattle supergroup made up of members from Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees.

The Sonic Evolution performance also included covers of two songs by Seattle supergroup Temple Of The Dog, "Call Me A Dog" and "Reach Down."

Mad Season released one album, "Above", in 1995 before going on permanent hiatus the following year due to the conflicting schedules of the group's members; Alice In Chains vocalist Layne Staley later died of a drug overdose in 2002.

Watch video from the performance here.

Director Warned Kurt Cobain's Mother Before Watching Film

Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck director Brett Morgen says he warned Kurt's mother Wendy O'Connor about some of the scenes in the film , including Cobain discussing his drug use and intimate footage of him and his wife Courtney Love.

Morgen tells Rolling Stone: "When I showed Wendy the film for the first time, I told her there were things that no mother should see. And it was very difficult and painful for me to show her some of the stuff in the third act of the film.

"I know that she would prefer that not be in the movie, and I don't blame her. Even seeing him having intimate relations with Courtney - I don't think Kurt would have wanted Wendy to see that.

"But we weren't trying to bring him down. We were trying to look him in the eye. I didn't want to humiliate him. I don't think there has ever been, or will ever be, another movie about an icon that's this raw or intimate." Read more here.

Joe Bonamassa Previews Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf Tribute

It was recorded in Colorado last year when he played in front of the biggest audience of his career to date. He began the show by saying: "They always try to write off the blues - well, we've proven tonight that at least 9,000 people like the blues."

Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks will be released on multiple formats on March 24, with Blu-ray and DVD editions featuring over 90 minutes of bonus features, including behind-the-scenes video, photo gallery and more.

Watch the preview here.

Uli Jon Roth Sometimes Glad Fans Film Gigs

And while he understands that it could be a distraction, he won't insist fans keep their mobile phones in their pockets while he's on stage. Roth tells Rockeyez: "It could be annoying but I don't allow myself to be annoyed. Usually when they are standing in front of the guitar, that is all they hear and it sounds ridiculous.

"Sometimes it's actually welcome because sometimes we're on stage and then I think, 'Wow that was really good.' You play a song and it's a really good improv and I think, 'I wish I had recorded that.' And then I see a guy with a cellphone and I say, 'Oh yeah, someone did record it.'

"Yesterday that was exactly the case. We played in Seattle and we jammed for quite a long time and it was the best we ever did. I was hoping someone was there with a cellphone and recorded it." Read more here.

No Sin Evades His Gaze Release 'Filth' Video

Filth is the follow-up single to the title track. Speaking about the video, the band say: "While the Age Of Sedation video had quite a large, epic scope to fit the theme, we wanted Filth to be more fast-paced and somewhat chaotic.

"We had the idea of having the camera actually been pushed and thrown into the following shot to give the visuals quite a fluid and aggressive look. We're all incredibly stoked with the results!" Watch the video here.

Megadeth's David Ellefson Announces Peavey ReValver Artist Bundle

Peavey has also leveraged its ground-breaking ACT(Audio Cloning Technology) process to capture instrument models of the bass guitars most associated with Ellefson.

To round out the bundle, Ellefson has personally created a bank of presets that recreate the sought-after signature sounds from throughout his career. "When Peavey approached me about introducing bass amp models to ReValver and developing a signature bundle," says Ellefson, "the thing that excited me the most was the opportunity to model my whole rig from the instrument, to the amp, to the cab."

"While I've always been aware of the depth at which Peavey models amplifiers, I think their ACT technology, which they use to model instruments, is pretty amazing."

"The results I've heard in the modeling process are really exciting. I hope this bundle will help players find their sound like I did. But mostly, I hope it makes them excited about playing." Read more and watch the promo video here.

Singled Out: You Win Again Gravity's Skyline

'Skyline' is the focus of the new EP, Let Go Lightly, and was the obvious choice for the first single. Amongst the other two tracks on the record, it ties together and concludes the theme of deciding between a life of secure conformity and uncertain creativity, and the arguments that can then ensue inside a person's head. This also ties in with the EP artwork and the video, where we wanted to create a mini-story to support this theme, but also help the song stand out without the need of the other two tracks to help explain it.

The video begins by introducing our main character, standing on bridge, clearly struggling internally with something, and outwardly struggling to create and sell his own music. He's living on the edge of poverty and is very quickly confronted by the dangers that come with that life. The second character enters during the middle section of the song; a confident, arrogant businessman, secure in his career and opinions. He refuses the work that our artist has put forward and from then on acts as a point of frustration, appearing obnoxious in his successful position and contrasting with the main character. This drives the artist into a rage and appears to give him the impetus he needs to send him back to the bridge we saw him at to begin with, where instead of meeting his own end, he finds someone familiar already there with similar intentions...

The idea behind this is that you can never tell much about someone from how they look, and that in our experience, it's not always the people that seem obviously downtrodden that are actually miserable. People are complex, and so on a simple level this purely reinforces the whole 'book/cover' motto, although it does also show that at least some of the best artists can face the most difficulty being recognised.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself as you watch the video here and learn more about the group right here!

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