Archive for October 14th, 2009
Tour Tracker: David Archuleta, Owl City and Brett Dennen
October 14th, 2009
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American Idol Season Seven runner-up David Archuleta plans a holiday run, Owl City take flight into 2010 and Brett Dennen hits the road with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump.
David Archuleta
Nov. 24, 25 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Abravanel Hall
Nov. 27 – Ann Arbor, MI @ Hill Auditorium
Nov. 29 – Santa Rosa, CA @ Wells Fargo Performing Arts Center
Nov. 28 – Bakersfield, CA @ ...
Starbucks “Very Disappointed” By Carly Simon’s Lawsuit
October 14th, 2009
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Yesterday news broke that Carly Simon filed a lawsuit against Starbucks claiming the coffee giant failed to market her last album, This Kind of Love, properly. Today Starbucks’ vice president of brand content Chris Bruzzo responded to Simon’s legal action, telling Rolling Stone that the company went out of its way to cater to Simon’s requests.
“We offered Carly Simon CDs in every store that we offered Paul McCartney CDs,” Bruzzo tells RS, citing the ...
Chairlift and Passion Pit Swap Remixes: Hear the Tracks
October 14th, 2009
Passion Pit and Chairlift met backstage at the catering tent at Bonnaroo and developed a fast friendship after hanging out at a secret garden party in England. “I actually played drums on ‘Bruises’ that night,” recalls Passion Pit’s drummer Nate Donmoyer. Now the two bands have turned their mutual admiration into music: Passion Pit remixed Chairlift’s chipper “Bruises,” and Chairlift took a hack at Passion Pit’s squiggly “To Kingdom Come.” Hear the results below and ...
Leona Lewis Reportedly Punched by Man at London Book Signing
October 14th, 2009
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Leona Lewis was reportedly punched in the side of the head during a book signing today in London, Yahoo! U.K. reports. Lewis was at Piccadilly Circus to sign copies of her autobiography Dreams when, 90 minutes in, “a guy came up and punched her to the side of the head,” Lewis’ spokesperson said. Initial reports indicated Lewis was slapped, but her spokesperson, who witnessed the attack, said the altercation was more severe than that. ...
New Music Report: Built to Spill
October 14th, 2009
Christian Hoard returns to host his “Christian Rock” segment of the New Music Report this week. His pick: Built to Spill’s latest album, There Is No Enemy. The long-running Idaho band led by Doug Martsch refused to be interviewed on camera when Hoard was covering All Tomorrow’s Parties for RS last year, and Martsch strikes Hoard as a shy, a small-town guy who likes to shoot hoops and hang with his kids when he’s not ...
John Mayer Takes Fans On a Tour of His Life in “Who Says” Video
October 14th, 2009
John Mayer’s video for “Who Says,” the first single off his upcoming Battle Studies gives fans a visual diary of one night in the life of John Mayer. As the lyrics suggest, Mayer spends “a long night in New York City,” noodling around on an acoustic guitar, going out clubbing and dining at restaurants so that cool that cigarette smoking is actually permitted; seemingly one of those hazy, drunken nights where Facebook photos provide the ...
Britney Spears’ Risque “3 ” to Debut Atop Hot 100
October 14th, 2009
Britney Spears‘ “3″ quickly silenced any concerns that the song was too controversial to be a hit, becoming the first track since 2006 to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100. An ode to threesomes off Spears’ November 24th The Singles Collection, “3″ becomes the first song since Taylor Hicks’ American Idol coronation song “Do I Make You Proud” in 2006 to debut at Number One on the Hot 100. In addition to topping the Hot ...
Breaking: Dead Man’s Bones
October 14th, 2009
Who: Dead Man’s Bones finds Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling and his friend Zach Shields spinning fireside ghost stories into mesmerizing “Monster Mash” sing-alongs with the help of L.A.’s Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir.
Sounds like: The Arcade Fire, Tom Waits and the cast of Sesame Street performing a Kurt Weill musical. Gosling and Shields wanted to collaborate with kids from the start and cite the Langley Schools Music Project’s Innocence and Despair and Nancy Dupree’s Ghetto ...
Kings of Leon’s “Live at the O2 London” DVD Out November 10th
October 14th, 2009
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Kings of Leon’s sold-out three-night stand at London’s O2 Arena will be the subject of the Followill clan’s first DVD, Live at the O2 London, England, due out November 10th. The DVD itself was filmed on June 30th, 2009, with the band rocking out in front of a packed house of 18,000 fans. The 22-song set list hits on all four of the Kings’ albums, stretching from “Molly’s Chambers” to “Be Somebody” and all ...
Bob Dylan Celebrates Charlie Sexton’s Return By Cranking Up His Guitar in L.A.
October 14th, 2009
There are many reasons to celebrate Charlie Sexton’s return to Bob Dylan’s live band, but the biggest one might be that Sexton’s presence frees up Dylan to peel off terrifically cranky lead lines on a guitar that sounds like it’s been strung with straightened-out wire hangers. Kicking off a three-night stand at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles last night, Dylan spent a good deal of his two-hour set tangling with the Austin blues-rock whiz, ...