Archive for 'Rock and Roll News'
New Ticker: Alicia Keys, Smashing Pumpkins, Bono
15 February 2008
Alicia Keys won four NAACP Image Awards at last night’s ceremony, including Outstanding Female Artist. Chris Brown was named Outstanding Male Artist.
A Smashing Pumpkins track will make its debut on a CD of bands comprised of Guitar Center employees. “SuperChrist,” a leftover from 2007’s Zeitgeist, will have a video debut February 27th […]
Peter Travers Video Review: ?Diary of the Dead? and ?Jumper?
14 February 2008This week, Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers takes a hard look at the sci-fi action thriller Jumper and George Romero’s latest socially-conscious zombie-thon Diary of the Dead. For the full video review of this week’s biggest new movies at the multiplex, click here. Plus: Read Travers’ reviews of Diary of the Dead here and […]
Tour Tracker: The Police, Kanye West and My Chemical Romance Don Their Traveling Shoes
14 February 2008The Police announce their last run of shows before calling it quits, Kanye West’s “Glow In The Dark” tour beefs up its itinerary and My Chemical Romance announce cities and dates (but no venues) for their Spring jaunt.
The Police
May 1 - Ottawa, Ontario @ Scotiabank Place
May 3 - Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena
May 4 - […]
?More Than a Feeling? Writer Says Mike Huckabee Has Caused Him ?Damage?
14 February 2008For the past few months, presidential candidate and amateur bassist Mike Huckabee has been performing Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” at campaign events — sometimes even with onetime Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau. But now there’s a problem: Boston mastermind Tom Scholz, who wrote and played every guitar part on “More Than a Feeling,” is an […]
Interview Panic at the Disco at RollingStone.com!
14 February 2008If you could ask Panic at the Disco one thing, what would it be? Want to know what their favorite coffee shop is in Las Vegas? Curious about a particular lyric? Figure it out and let us know, because we’ll be talking to the spunky theatrical punk band next week, and we want questions from […]
Greg Dulli?s Valentine?s Day Playlist
14 February 2008Greg Dulli first made a name for himself crafting low-fi rock and soul songs about hustlers and heartbreak for Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers. Dulli is currently one half of a new project called the Gutter Twins (the other half being former Screaming Trees frontman and frequent Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Mark Lanegan). […]
Ringo Starr Weaves a Dream Of All-Stars For His Summer Tour
14 February 2008Ringo Starr may have finally managed to top himself: Joining the onetime Beatle this summer for his tenth All Starr Band tour are Colin Hay (Men at Work), Edgar Winter, Hamish Stuart (Average White Band), Billy Squier and the Dream Weaver himself, Gary Wright. For those not familiar with the All Starr band tours, since […]
News Ticker: Eminem, Chris Rock, Yoko Ono
14 February 2008Eninem’s five-year copyright battle with a Belgian violinist over his song “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” is stuck in international litigation, as conflicting copyright laws in the U.S. and Belgium are preventing the case from reaching a conclusion.
Before tickets go on sale this Saturday morning, Bonnaroo has added one more act to their line-up: Comedian Chris […]
The Jonas Brothers at the Center of Disney/EMI Fight
14 February 2008Having already lost Radiohead and possibly the Rolling Stones, EMI is now in danger of losing the global distribution rights to up-and-coming ‘tween band the Jonas Brothers after their label Disney expressed concerns about EMI’s ability to market the album given the record giant’s recent restructuring of their staff (EMI was purchased by private equity […]
Smoking Section: Ellen Page, Adam Green, Jazz & Heritage Festival
14 February 2008Since actress Ellen Page — you know, Juno — dragged the Moldy Peaches out of obscurity and steered her flick’s soundtrack to the Number One spot, we thought we’d probe her musical tastes. “This is going to show how young I am” — twenty — “but the first intense experience I had was when I […]
?American Idol? Cuts Top Fifty Down to Twenty-Four Finalists
14 February 2008American Idol began with a bizarre plug for Hayden Christensen’s new movie Jumpers that involved Ryan Seacrest, a mountaintop and a can of Coke and ended with twenty-six broken-hearted hopefuls lamenting they’d “have to get a job now.” Which means twenty-four contestants are going to the finals, dawg! In an excruciatingly drawn-out hour, Simon, Paula […]
Kanye, R.E.M. Air New Videos Featuring Lingerie, Sex Shops
14 February 2008A pair of big-ticket music videos premiered yesterday on the interweb. First up, Kanye West’s video for Graduation’s “Flashing Lights.” The ultra-slick Spike Jonze-directed video is half Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! and half Victoria’s Secret catalogue. The main shot is a woman in lingerie walking in slow motion for two and a half minutes. She […]
Ask a Rock Star: Sheryl Crow
14 February 2008We reached out to the readers of RollingStone.com to find out what they wanted to ask Sheryl Crow, and you delivered. Click above to see your questions answered by the country-rock songstress, including what songs got her through cancer treatment and insight on her new album Detours. Be sure to stay tuned to RollingStone.com for […]
News Ticker: Madonna, Freddie Mercury, Clear Channel
14 February 2008
Madonna’s directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday. She said “moments of struggle” early in her career helped her identify with those themes in the movie.
“Made In Heaven: The Freddie Mercury Collection,” a line of jewelery inspired by the late Queen frontman, has been launched by designer Udi Behr. […]
Britney Spears: The Iconic Awards-Show Performances
13 February 2008When Britney Spears bombed at the 2007 VMAs with a lackluster lip-synched “Gimme More,” the poor performance was so disappointing because awards-show stages were once the place where Spears defined herself so memorably (and successfully). Click here to check out more than a dozen of her performances at the Grammys, Billboard Music Awards and more […]
Breaking Artist: Crystal Castles
13 February 2008Since forming in 2004, Alice Glass and Ethan Kath of Crystal Castles have taken their 21st-century noise-dance experiments and honed them into bursts of raw, glitchy energy that blow minds and dancing feet. For more about Toronto’s latest great musical export, click here.
[Photo: Ren Rex]
RollingStone.com Looks Back at Hip-Hop?s Biggest Year
13 February 20081988 was arguably hip-hop’s biggest year, featuring a stack of seminal releases from some of the game’s most important MCs that helped mutate rap (and all of pop music) into something entirely new. For the complete guide to all the best ‘88 albums from the likes of Public Enemy, Run-DMC, N.W.A and others, click here.
Fricke?s Picks: School of Seven Bells
13 February 2008Class Act
Opening for Blonde Redhead and the Raveonettes at a recent New York show, School of Seven Bells, founded by ex-Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis and featuring twin-sister singers Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, slipped easily between epochs — medieval polyphony, laptop sorcery, the rhythmic turmoil of Public Image Ltd.’s 1981 album, Flowers of Romance — […]
News Ticker: Radiohead/Amplive, RIAA, Fat Boy Slim, the Eagles
13 February 2008Amplive’s remixed version of Radiohead’s In Rainbows has finally gotten the green light from the Oxford quintet after the band initially denied its release. Rainy Dayz is available for free download here.
Oklahoma State University has surrendered the names of eleven students who illegally downloaded music to the RIAA in compliance with a court order issued […]
Top 10: The Best in TV, the Web, Books and Beyond
13 February 2008Be Kind Rewind, The Whitest Kids U Know and a guide to cursing in sixty-nine languages are among the highlights of the new version of the Rolling Stone Top 10. For the complete list of everything Rolling Stone’s editors are currently obsessed with, click here.
[Photo: Courtesy New Line Cinema]
Moby Makes DJ Mix of Upcoming Album Available for Free
13 February 2008Moby’s new album Last Night doesn’t come out until April 1st (no fooling!), but he’s providing a taste of the new project via a free DJ mix. The diminutive dance maven has teamed up with online music site RCRD LBL to serve up a gratis download of an eight minute dance mash-up of highlights from […]
The Idol Countdown: Five Essential Moments From Last Night?s ?American Idol?
13 February 2008After eight weeks of miserable audition episodes filled with sobbing contestants and sappy judges, American Idol got mean last night as 164 hopefuls hit L.A. for Hollywood Week. The rules had changed: singers performed three times and were allowed to play instruments, though the ability to strum or drum whilst singing didn’t prove an asset […]
How Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie Got Together: Album Preview
13 February 2008Last year Scarlett Johansson and TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek took a road trip from Los Angeles to Lafayette, Louisiana with a unique mission: to record an entire album of Tom Waits covers. Actress Johansson, who has been singing since she was little but doesn’t consider herself a songwriter, was offered a record deal […]
On the Charts: Jack Johnson Rides Wave to Big Debut, Top Spot
13 February 2008The Big News: Jack Johnson! Johnson’s new album Sleep Through the Static easily had the biggest-selling debut of 2008, moving 374,619 copies to cruise to the top spot on the Billboard charts. Johnson more than quadrupled the sales of the number two album, Sheryl Crow’s Detours. Last week’s top album, Alicia Keys’ As I Am, […]
The Police Plot One More U.S. Tour, Then Retirement
13 February 2008The Police reunion tour will make one more trip through North America this summer before the band calls it quits again. As opposed to last year, the group will stick to amphitheaters and arenas without any any stadium or festival stops during the thirty-odd date trek in May and July (with a fifteen date run […]
