Archive for August 3rd, 2009
Tour Tracker: Roger Daltrey, Brendan Benson and Shonen Knife
August 3rd, 2009
The Who’s Roger Daltrey hits the road solo on the “Use It or Lose It” tour, Brendan Benson sets out without his Raconteurs bandmates and Japan’s Shonen Knife plot out a North American trek in support of their new album Super Group (named in honor of our Rock List, perhaps?). Full dates for all three treks are after the jump.
Roger Daltrey
Oct. 10 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
Oct. 12 - Seattle, WA @ The ...
Jill Sobule Slams Katy Perry Over Borrowing Title “I Kissed a Girl”
August 3rd, 2009
Photo:Bank/WireImage(Sobule), Levey/WireImage(Perry)
It’s taken over a year, but alternative-era rocker Jill Sobule has finally admitted she’s angry about Katy Perry’s use of the song title “I Kissed A Girl.” You’d think that the past 12 months would have tempered some of Sobule’s anger toward Perry, but judging by Sobule’s comments to The Rumpus (via The Daily Swarm), her bottled displeasure has been finally unleashed, with Sobule going as far as calling Perry a “fucking little ...
Readers’ Rock List: Supergroups
August 3rd, 2009
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty The readers named Eric Clapton “King of the Supergroups” in our Weekend Rock List, as the guitar god appeared in three of the bands listed in our Supergroups Rock List, including the readers’ Number One pick, Cream. The “Sunshine of Your Love” trio beat out side projects founded by Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine members, Guns n’ Roses and Stone Temple Pilots members and Phish and Primus rockers. Check out ...
Jay-Z Celebrates Live Instruments on “Blueprint 3 ” Album Cover
August 3rd, 2009
Jay-Z posted the above image — a cornucopia of white-painted instruments — on his official Website today, which implies he’ll be using the graphic as the cover of his eagerly anticipated The Blueprint 3. The cover echoes BP3’s aesthetic, Jay’s reliance on live instruments — he brought a 10-piece band with him for his All Points West performance — as opposed to studio trickery, which Jigga officially declared “D.O.A” with his first BP3 single. As ...
Kiss Keep Merchandising Mania Alive With Special Edition M&M’s
August 3rd, 2009
Photo: KISSOnline.com
Blabbermouth has the lowdown on a piece of Kiss merchandising that’s actually tasty, rather than tasteless: Kiss M&M’s. The limited-edition chocolates are due in October, in time for Halloween — which the band will spend rocking New Orleans’ Voodoo Festival, as Rock Daily reported. Plus, the band’s new disc, which Paul Stanley promised “rocks big time!” should be ready pretty soon, according to our calculations.
So where do the M&M’s rank in the pantheon ...
Cee-Lo and Goodie Mob To Reunite For September Concert in Atlanta
August 3rd, 2009
Photo: Diamond/WireImage
Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo Green and his former rap group Goodie Mob will reunite for one night only on September 19th for a concert at their native Atlanta’s Masquerade, the group revealed today. “The Goodie Mob Reunion is something we have collectively talked about doing for a long time. The people have called for it, and with the state of the union the way it is, the time is right,” Cee-Lo said in a ...
Mariah Carey’s “Memoirs” to Include Mini-Magazine and Advertisements
August 3rd, 2009
Photo: Devaney/WireImage
It has come to this: Island Def Jam revealed that Mariah Carey’s new album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel will feature a 34-page booklet devoted to the diva and produced by Elle magazine, Brand Week reports. It will be stocked with articles like “VIP Access to Her Sexy Love Life” and ads for Elizabeth Arden and the Bahamas Board of Tourism, among others.
The integration of advertisements is the latest move by record companies ...
My Chemical Romance Team With O’Brien for “Best Record Yet”
August 3rd, 2009
Photo: Winter/Getty Confirming what Gerard Way told Rolling Stone at Comic Con, My Chemical Romance announced today that they are currently recording their follow-up to 2006’s The Black Parade in Los Angeles with producer Brendan O’Brien, who recently worked with Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith and Pearl Jam (on their upcoming Backspacer).
“At this point, the best way to describe the new album is My Chemical Romance being the purest, most distilled version of itself,” Way said ...
Lil Wayne Delivers Thriller of a Set, Drake Skips Young Money’s NY Gig
August 3rd, 2009
Photo: Shearer/WireImage
It was only the fifth night of Young Money Presents: America’s Most Wanted Music Festival but Young Jeezy already felt like an old hand as he pulled into the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater in a black Escalade. “I live on the road so I’m immune to it. But this is the biggest tour of the summer, you can feel the energy,” he told Rolling Stone, a cluster of groupies waiting willingly by the ...
One Killed, 15 Injured After Storm Causes Stage Collapse at Country Music Festival
August 3rd, 2009
One woman was killed and at least 15 were injured August 1st when a stage collapsed following a powerful storm at Alberta, Canada’s Big Valley Jamboree, a popular country music festival. Two people remained in critical condition as of yesterday, CNN reports. The stage collapse occurred at around 6pm local time in front of a crowd of 15,000.
A country singer named Billy Currington was on stage when the storm hit and he suffered a ...