Archive for December 3rd, 2009
Tour Tracker: Furthur, the Residents and Editors
December 3rd, 2009
The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh and Bob Weir plot more dates with their Furthur project, those mysterious men behind the giant eyeball masks in the Residents venture out on tour in support of any of their four releases this year and Editors prepare for a slate of February 2010 dates. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump.
Furthur
Dec. 8, 9 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
Dec. 11 – Wallingford, CT @ Chevrolet Theater
Dec. ...
Dave Grohl Says He Never Meant For Foo Fighters “to Be a Career”
December 3rd, 2009
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The Foo Fighters may have just released their Greatest Hits, but that doesn’t mean the band is calling it quits any time soon. “I look at it now like it’s the end of chapter one, this is the first 15 years,” Grohl tells Time.com in a video interview. “I think we’ll be back sooner than people would imagine.” Grohl, though, admits that he never expected the Foo Fighters to last this long. “The first ...
Enter to Win an Awesome Photo Book and More in Rolling Stone’s Gift Guide Giveaway!
December 3rd, 2009
Two photo books — Trust: Photographs by Jim Marshall and Matthew Niederhauser’s Sound Kapital — are just two of the many awesome gifts Rolling Stone is offering up in the rock & roll giveaways during December. As we wrote yesterday, this prize pack also features a Gibson SG Zoot Suit Guitar (retails for $1,999), a pair of AC/DC-branded Converse kicks and a Karmaloop x MTV Staying Alive Foundation Tee designed by Shepard Fairey.
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Rolling Stones’ Ron Wood Arrested on Suspicion of Assault
December 3rd, 2009
Photo: Brett/FilmMagic
Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood was arrested this morning on suspicion of assault. “I can confirm that there was an incident last night and that Ronnie Wood was arrested,” a spokesperson for Wood said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “He has since been released on police bail. We have no further statement to make at this time.” Rolling Stone also verified that the victim of the suspected assault was Wood’s 21-year-old girlfriend Ekaterina ...
Green Day Premieres Version of “21 Guns” Recorded With “American Idiot” Musical Cast
December 3rd, 2009
Photo: Kravitz/AMA
2009/FilmMagicGreen Day’s new version of “21 Guns,” featuring the cast of the American Idiot musical, debuted today over on Spinner, a day before it’s set to hit radio. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Billie Joe Armstrong and gang recorded the track with the cast in an Oakland studio just days after the musical’s final performance at the Berkeley Rep last month. The digital single of “21 Guns” will be available December 22nd.
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Adam Lambert Gets Burned By “FCC Heat” As ABC Cancels Two More Appearances
December 3rd, 2009
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Devaney/WireImageMore than a week after his racy American Music Awards performance, Adam Lambert is still coming up against a brick wall at ABC. Yesterday the singer revealed that the network canceled his scheduled appearances on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Lambert’s Good Morning America appearance last week was also nixed following his AMA performance.
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Hype Monitor: Oh No Ono, Sharon Van Etten and Letting Up Despite Great Fault
December 3rd, 2009
Photo by Claus Peuckert The Band: Oh No Ono
The Buzz: Here’s something suitably wintry: Danish band Oh No Ono make music that sounds like falling snow and bright white lights against a blackened sky — soft and twinkling and delicate. And fear not, the name is not a dis — the group actually met Yoko at a festival in the UK and they got on famously. Eggs, the group’s second full length, will be released ...
Behind the Scenes at the Grammy Nominations Concert with Fergie, Maxwell, Drake and Kings of Leon
December 3rd, 2009
Photo: Shearer/WireImage Behind the scenes at last night’s Grammy Nominations Concert there was a lot of talk about the good old days — fond remembrances of a time when industry folk actually listened to full albums and not just the ones they worked on; when Best New Artist truly meant an extraordinary breakout from that year, not five years or five minutes ago; and when the lucky hopefuls got word at the crack of dawn, ...
Springsteen, Depp and Hall & Oates: Charting the 2010 Grammy’s Strangest and Most Intriguing Storylines
December 3rd, 2009
Photo: Ufberg/WireImageCan Bruce Springsteen avenge his Oscar snub of “The Wrestler”? Will Johnny Depp be adding a Grammy to his critically acclaimed resume? And can Hall & Oates win their first Grammy more than 25 years after their last Top Ten album? These are just a few of the questions that arose following last night’s Grammy Nominations Concert. While Beyoncé and Taylor Swift grabbed the majority of headlines with their bucket load of nods, there’s ...
News Ticker: Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Marilyn Manson and Stevie Wonder
December 3rd, 2009
Arcade Fire’s follow-up to Neon Bible is on schedule for a May 2010 release, Billboard writes. Markus Dravs, who served as an engineer on Neon, will produce the band’s third full-length LP. The Canadian rockers have also reportedly been offered headlining spots on a few North American festivals.
A rehearsal recording of Radiohead’s “15 Step” Grammy collaboration with the University of Southern California’s Trojan Marching Band will be released on a double-CD called Trojan Legacy, ...