Archive for August 12th, 2009

On the Charts: Sugarland’s Weak Week is Enough for Number One

August 12th, 2009
Photo: Legato/FilmMagic The Big News: Country duo Sugarland’s Live on the Inside set a new sales record on its way to the Number One spot on the Top 200, but it was a dubious honor. Live on the Inside sold 75,000 copies in its first week, making it the lowest-selling debut album ever to rule the charts. The previous low was set earlier this year when Chrisette Michele’s Epiphany moved 83,000 copies in May. Live ...

Pearl Jam Break Out New Songs, Rarities, Ronnie Wood in London

August 12th, 2009
Photo: Dyson/WireImage Last night in London Pearl Jam broke out rarities, brand new songs and even the Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood. Playing in the legendary Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Eddie Vedder and Co. kicked off the evening with “Sometimes” from No Code before briefly visiting Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive,” which served as a segue into “Corduroy.” The band then introduced “The Fixer,” the first single from their upcoming Backspacer, to the 2,000 stoked fans packed ...

Them Crooked Vultures Preview “Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I” Online

August 12th, 2009
Fourteen seconds of muscular rock: that’s what new supergroup Them Crooked Vultures are offering up online to give everyone who missed their live debut at Chicago’s Metro on August 9th a taste of their forthcoming album. Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones posted a brief clip of the studio version of “Nobody Loves Me And Neither Do I” on their official YouTube page ...

Jackson Investigation Continues as Tribute LP, Concert Shape Up

August 12th, 2009
Photo:Mazur/WireImage Officials investigating the death of Michael Jackson executed a search warrant on a Las Vegas pharmacy that authorities believe supplied Jackson’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray with the powerful anesthetic Propofol. CNN reports that documents were seized from the Allied Pharmacy on Flamingo Road in Las Vegas as investigators continue to gather more “evidence of manslaughter” against Murray. As Rock Daily previously reported, Murray’s Houston medical offices and Las Vegas home were also raided. Look back ...

News Ticker: Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Jennifer Hudson, From the Capitol Vaults

August 12th, 2009
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Janis Joplin has been announced as the subject of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s American Music Masters series in November. Joplin will be the subject of November 14th tribute concert in Cleveland, as well as a a special exhibit at the city’s Rock Hall’s museum and a full-day retrospective at Case Western Reserve University. (Check out photos of Joplin and more ’60s icons shot by RS‘ Baron Wolman.) Neil Young will ...