Archive for July 23rd, 2009
Big Waves, Cage Fights, Free Falls and More Sports on the Edge
July 23rd, 2009
Photo: Esther Lin/Strikeforce courtesy of SHOWTIME SportsIn our latest issue, Rolling Stone dives headlong into summer sports, introducing you to 10 of the world’s most fearless athletes. Sports on the Edge captures big air king Bob Burnquist, MMA champion George “Rush” St-Pierre, surf champ Maya Gabeira and more. You can see all 10 of those athletes in action in our photo gallery, plus meet five more stars who never met a bone they were afraid ...
Tour Tracker: Monsters of Folk, Phoenix and Plain White T’s
July 23rd, 2009
Monsters of Folk, the indie rock supergroup featuring Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, M.Ward and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James (or “Yim Yames” as he’s calling himself these days) embark on their first tour together in five years. Plus, French electro-pop band Phoenix come to the States in support of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and the Plain White T’s hit the road with Snow Patrol. Full dates for this triad of treks, after the ...
Hype Monitor: Mayer Hawthorne, Box Elders, Speech Debelle
July 23rd, 2009
The Band: Mayer Hawthorne
The Buzz: After years of behind-the-scenes work as a hip-hop producer, along with manning turntables under the alias DJ Haircut, Hawthorne emerges with a jaw-dropping collection of classic soul, with a pillowy falsetto that would have impressed Curtis Mayfield.
Listen If: Your torrent tracker is automatically set to track down Smokey & the Miracles outtakes
Key Track: The Four Tops-aping “Love is Alright,” where Hawthorne opts out of the high notes in favor the ...
See Art Brut Unplug “Emily Kane,” “The Passenger,” More At Rolling Stone
July 23rd, 2009
British rockers Art Brut, fronted by the hilarious Eddie Argos, stopped by Rolling Stone recently to share some acoustic versions of songs off their new album Art Brut Vs. Satan. Above is Argos’s ode to a woman named “Emily Kane,” a tale of unrequited love complete with a nod to the Smiths’ classic “There Is a Light and It Never Goes Out.”
For their third album, the band recruited the Pixies’ Frank Black to serve as ...
Watch Juliette Lewis Tear Through “Terra Incognita” Tracks At Rolling Stone
July 23rd, 2009
Actress-singer Juliette Lewis recently sat down in the Rolling Stone studios, or a “little square room” as she jokingly called it, to perform two acoustic renditions of tracks off her latest album, Terra Incognita. The LP, which was produced by the Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, is due out September 1st. In the video above, Lewis, guitarist Chris Watson and percussionist Finnegan perform an intimate take of Terra’s closer track “Suicide Dive Bombers.”
As Rock Daily previously ...
Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Cannibal Corpse Whip Mayhem Fest Into Frenzy at St. Louis Stop
July 23rd, 2009
Photo: Chris Tuite for RollingStone.com“What is the name of this place?” demands Nergal, frontman of Polish blackened death metal band Behemoth, as he walks onstage. “St. Louis,” Rolling Stone informs him. “What’s up, St. Louis?” Nergal asks the crowd. We’re curious what would have happened had we said “Baltimore.”
Behemoth was but one of many bands on the second incarnation of the Rockstar Mayhem Fest, the tour that has stepped in to fill the void of ...
Jane’s Addiction Cancels Australian Tour After Stephen Perkins Gets Elbow Infection
July 23rd, 2009
Photo: Truscello/WireImageThe reunited Jane’s Addiction have canceled all their upcoming Australia tour dates as drummer Stephen Perkins requires treatment for an elbow infection, the band revealed in a press release. After experiencing swelling in his elbow following the Jane’s European tour, Perkins has been admitted to Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital for the next few days so doctors can observe and diagnose the drummer while also administering antibiotic treatment. Perkins is expected to make a full ...
Exclusive: Eddie Van Halen Recovering After Hand Surgery
July 23rd, 2009
Photo: Cohen/WireImageEddie Van Halen is said to be on the mend after undergoing surgery to treat increasing pain in his left hand.
“During the last leg of our tour, I started developing pain in my thumb and my pinky. I didn’t think much of it at the time,” the guitarist says. “It got progressively worse to the point that about three months ago I wasn’t able to play at all. My pinky and my thumb were ...
Levon Helm Gets Back To House Party Roots With “Midnight Ramble” Barn Parties
July 23rd, 2009
Over 40 years since his earthy wail graced The Band’s classic-beyond-classic “The Weight”—and 11 years since cancer and radiation treatments reduced it to a whisper—singer/drummer Levon Helm is busy making music as powerful as ever. In the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Austin Scaggs hung out in Helm’s kitchen just outside of Woodstock, New York. Since 2004, he’s been holding the Midnight Ramble, a relaxed jam held nearly every Saturday in his barn, usually ...
News Ticker: Black Sabbath, Sky Saxon of The Seeds, Sunset Strip Music Festival and Perez Hilton
July 23rd, 2009
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty
Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi—who’s currently in a legal battle with Ozzy Osbourne over the rights to the band’s name—has signed a deal to allow Next Films to use Black Sabbath as the name of a horror movie franchise, The Hollywood Reporter reports, adding that Iommi will score the film. Ironically, before the band’s name was trademarked, Ozzy and the boys took their moniker from the 1963 Mario Bava horror film Black Sabbath.
The ...