Archive for August 21st, 2009
Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily
August 21st, 2009
The Beatles hit our cover as RS re-investigated the Fab Four’s split. We unearthed audio from John Lennon’s 1970 interview and looked back at the band’s soon-to-be remastered catalog — check our Beatles hub for the story behind the cover and photos, plus grab news on a Yellow Submarine remake and The Beatles: Rock Band track list.
In the world of new music, Bon Jovi chatted about their return to rock with The Circle, Jay-Z’s ...
Dallas Austin on Michael Jackson’s Lesser-Known Work: His Paintings
August 21st, 2009
Photo: Diamond/Getty
Michael Jackson: The Remix Suite will be available digitally on September 1st, a month before the album — featuring reworked versions of the King of Pop’s songs by the Neptunes, Stargate and more — hits stores on October 27th. Producer Dallas Austin tells Rolling Stone he recently finished up work on his contribution to the LP, “I Wanna Be Where You Are,” and the experience was priceless: “To hear some of his vocals that ...
Tour Tracker: Basement Jaxx, CMJ Festival and Fun Fun Fun Festival
August 21st, 2009
Photo: Alban/WireImage Basement Jaxx embark on a rare DJ tour in support of their upcoming album Scars. Plus, the CMJ Festival in New York announces its initial slate of artists while Yeasayer and Atlas Sound join a roster that includes the Jesus Lizard and GZA at Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest. Full Jaxx dates and the current festival lineups, after the jump.
Basement Jaxx
Oct. 30 – San Francisco, CA @ Mighty
Oct. 31 – Los Angeles, ...
Jason Mraz Goes Acoustic for “Butterfly,” Talks Record-Busting Hit “I’m Yours”
August 21st, 2009
Jason Mraz set a Billboard Hot 100 record this week with his hit single “I’m Yours” (which he calls his “happy little hippie song”), but confesses he can’t explain the song’s success: “I don’t know what’s behind it — if I knew, I would write more of it!”
Adds Mraz, “The song is about generosity — giving yourself or your time to someone else. What moves me about seeing the world take to ‘I’m Yours’ ...
Flashback: Ramones’ “Spider-Man” Fever – 10 Years Before U2
August 21st, 2009
Since U2’s Bono and the Edge divulged more insight into the music for their Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway show, this week’s Flashback takes us to 1995 with one of the first bands to take on Spider-Man musically, the Ramones. Up top is the cartoon music video for the Ramones’ version of the Spider-Man theme from the Saturday Morning Cartoons’ Greatest Hits collection, one of the strangest comps from the 1990s thanks to Sublime’s ...
Red Hot Chili Peppers Feel “Major Enthusiasm” Heading Into Studio
August 21st, 2009
Photo: Phillips/WireImageWhile the Red Hot Chili Peppers slumbered, the band’s members have been keeping busy these last couple of years, what with drummer Chad Smith joining all-star group Chickenfoot, frontman Anthony Kiedis developing a series for HBO and bassist Flea enrolling at USC to study music theory. But things are about to change in Pepperland. Smith recently told Billboard the band would reconvene in the studio this fall, and Keidis and Flea confirm to Rolling ...
Weekend Rock List: The Beatles
August 21st, 2009
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty
With the Fab Four on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone and the remastered catalog and a Rock Band on the way, this week’s Rock List examines the inevitable: The Beatles. In the past, Rock Lists have asked readers to tell us their favorite Beatles’ solo songs, McCartney tracks and the best Beatles covers, but this week we’re asking the readers to us their favorite songs by the Beatles ...
Michael Jackson’s Funeral Pushed to September 3rd
August 21st, 2009
Photo: Ralston/AFP/Getty
Michael Jackson’s burial at Glendale, California’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park has been pushed back to September 3rd, the Jackson family announced in a statement today. The family originally planned for Jackson to be laid to rest on August 29th, the day that would have marked Michael’s 51st birthday. As Rock Daily previously reported, the funeral will take place at Forest Lawn’s the Great Mausoleum for family members and close friends.
Michael’s father Joe Jackson ...
Breeders’ Bassist Josephine Wiggs Rejoins Band for Handful of Gigs
August 21st, 2009
Photo: Kravitz/FilmMagic
The Breeders are only a few dates away from the end of a summer tour supporting their Fate to Fatal EP, and the last few gigs are promising to be epic: the band’s bassist, Mando Lopez, was forced to jet home to be with his pregnant wife, so the band’s former bassist Josephine Wiggs is stepping in to lend a hand.
The band’s publicist confirms that when Lopez’s wife went into labor Wednesday — when ...
Backstage With Kris Allen and Adam Lambert: On the Road With American Idols Live
August 21st, 2009
Photograph by C. Taylor Crothers for Rolling Stone
In just a few weeks, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert and Alison Iraheta will jam in final sessions for their fall debuts. But before the American Idol Season Eight greats hit the studio, they’re still rocking fans on the American Idols Live tour. Rolling Stone brought you a report from the show’s opening night and onstage photos — and in our new issue, Nicole Frehsée goes backstage for ...