Archive for October 6th, 2009
Tour Tracker: Anvil, Raphael Saadiq and Low Anthem
October 6th, 2009
Canadian heavy metallers and documentary stars Anvil embark on their first U.S. tour in over a decade on the heels of today’s DVD release of Anvil! The Story of Anvil. Plus, Raphael Saadiq recruits Janelle Monae and Anjulie for his autumn trek and Breaking band Low Anthem continue to support Oh My God, Charles Darwin. Full dates for all three jaunts, below.
Anvil
Jan. 7 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
Jan. 8 – Toronto, ON ...
New Reviews: Built to Spill, Gossip, Tokio Hotel and More
October 6th, 2009
This week Built to Spill, the pride of Boise, Idaho, release their latest disc There Is No Enemy, the group’s first album since 2006’s You In Reverse. Fifteen years into their career, There is No Enemy proves frontman Doug Martsch is still an expert at building “a crystal palace of refracting guitar tones and textures,” Will Hermes writes in his three-and-a-half-star review. “What’s on Martsch’s mind? What you’d expect from a dude spending lots of ...
Backstage With Blink-182: Watch Tom DeLonge Live From His Dressing Room
October 6th, 2009
Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge knows every good interview starts at a urinal, so that’s precisely where he begins his tour of his dressing room backstage at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The trio — DeLonge, singer/bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker — hit up the city’s legendary venue this weekend with Fall Out Boy and gave the latter’s bassist Pete Wentz a haircut he’ll always remember. “This is the death of the emo swoosh,” Wentz ...
Kings of Leon, MGMT, Dead Weather Vie For mtvU Woodies
October 6th, 2009
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Kings of Leon, MGMT, Drake, Silversun Pickups and Asher Roth will compete for the coveted Woodie of the Year award at the 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards, a ceremony celebrating the artists that rocked campuses across the country the past two semesters. Voting for categories ranging from Breaking Woodie to Left Field Woodie to Best Video Woodie is up now over at the mtvU site. The ceremony itself will take place December 4th at New ...
Peter Hook Admits He Used to Forge Ian Curtis’ Signature
October 6th, 2009
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Many artists and athletes worry whether their signature has been forged on pieces of memorabilia. But Joy Division fans should be the ones doing the worrying now that New Order bassist Peter Hook has admitted to Clash Music that he used to sell Joy Division merchandise bearing a forged autograph by deceased lead singer Ian Curtis. Hook says he did the faking himself, partially for the money but also “as a joke.” Hook finally ...
Guns n’ Roses “Vigorously Contest” Claims “Chinese Democracy” Stole a Sample
October 6th, 2009
Guns n’ Roses manager Irving Azoff has formally responded to claims the band illegally borrowed music from two songs by German electro artist Ulrich Schnauss on Chinese Democracy’s “Riad N’ the Bedouins.” As Rolling Stone reported yesterday, the Independiente and Domino labels announced they were suing the band for $1 million in damages, alleging the ambient noise at the top of the Gn’R track was created by Ulrich and used without permission. Today, Azoff said ...
Watch Miranda Lambert Handle a Gun at Her RS Photo Shoot
October 6th, 2009
Miranda Lambert made her name singing about “gunpowder and lead” and covers Fred Eaglesmith’s “Time to Get a Gun” on her new album Revolution, so she didn’t mind swinging a pink-handled revolver around on the set of her Rolling Stone photo shoot (her close-up story appears in our new issue, on stands now).
Click above to go behind the session in Nashville and hear Lambert talk about which five albums she’d love to hear during the ...
Video Premiere: Dead Man’s Bones’ Haunting “Dead Hearts”
October 6th, 2009
Dead Man’s Bones’ self-titled debut album is out today, and Rolling Stone is pleased to premiere the band’s mesmerizing new video for “Dead Hearts.” The duo, featuring actor Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields, directed the short film themselves, with a huge assist by production designer Jed Hathaway, who works on the stop-motion Adult Swim show Robot Chicken. While the tense, haunting “Dead Hearts” is slower and more deliberate than some of the album’s tracks, the ...
Usher Opens Up About Divorce With New Song “Papers”
October 6th, 2009
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Usher’s new song “Papers,” from his upcoming album titled Monster or Raymond vs. Raymond depending on the source, was posted on the R&B singer’s official Website yesterday. Seemingly a near play-by-play account of the singer’s short-lived marriage and divorce from Tamika Foster, the track could be the most personal in Usher’s career, and that’s coming from an artist who had an album called Confessions five years ago.
Check out photos of Usher, onstage and ...
FCC Chairman Uses Springsteen Titles to Explain Internet Policy
October 6th, 2009
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Bruce Springsteen was so inspired by President Barack Obama during the 2008 election that he went out on the campaign trail to support the Democratic candidate. Returning the favor, Julius Genachowski, the man hired by Obama to oversee the Federal Communications Commission, was inspired by Springsteen when delivering the FCC’s stance on their Internet policy, using song titles from throughout the E Streeter’s career to make his point in the most rocking way possible, ...