Archive for December 9th, 2009
Enter to Win WeSC Headphones and More in Rolling Stone’s Gift Guide Giveaway!
December 9th, 2009
If you’re lucky, you could end this holiday season marching around in a pair of the most brightly colored (and sharp-sounding) headphones around. As part of Rolling Stone’s epic guide guide giveaway, we are offering you the chance to score a pair of WeSC headphones, along with the A-Morir Barracuda shades Rihanna made famous in the “Run This Town” video, a Motorola Droid, a G-Shock 5600 watch, a Johnny Cupcakes bundle (earrings, a “Cupcakes ...
New Music Report: Jemina Pearl
December 9th, 2009
Former Be Your Own Pet frontwoman Jemina Pearl is breaking out on her own with solo album Break It Up, Christian Hoard’s “Christian Rock” new music pick of the week. Pearl’s pal Thurston Moore stars in the video for “I Hate People” from the 22-year-old’s solo debut, and Iggy Pop sings on the track, too. Without her former bandmates, Pearl is still smart, talented and bratty, but she scales down the cartoonishness and ups the ...
Eminem and The Beatles: The Top-Selling Artists of the 2000s
December 9th, 2009
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/GettyOver three decades after their breakup, the Beatles still released the top-selling album of the 2000s. The Fab Four’s greatest hits compilation 1 sold over 11,448,000 copies since its release in November 2000 according to Nielsen SoundScan’s decade-end sales numbers. Eminem was the 2000s’ top-selling artist with 32.2 million combined in sales, plus two albums in the decade’s Top 10: The Marshall Mathers LP was fourth with 10,195,000 sold and Eminem Show ...
Vevo Arrives: Test Driving the Labels’ New Video Streaming Site
December 9th, 2009
Vevo, the new video streaming Website being touted as the next decade’s MTV by the record companies that founded it, finally launched last night with a host of new music videos from 50 Cent, Mariah Carey and Lupe Fiasco. Google’s YouTube and three of the four major labels — Universal, Sony and EMI — collaborated on Vevo, which gives labels a premium on the per-views advertising fees, as opposed to the $3-$8 per 1,000 views ...
Breaking: The Big Pink
December 9th, 2009
Who: A fuzzy, scuzzy electro-indie duo made up of Londoners Milo Cordell and Robbie Furze. Their enormous sound is currently sweeping the indie underground, but you may know them from the countless reviews that joke about how they don’t exactly sound like Music From Big Pink creators the Band — a journalistic trend than rankles the two Brits. “What we set out to be is pretty much a Band cover band,” jokes Furze. “When you ...
E Street Road Manager Sullivan’s Death Ruled Accidental Overdose
December 9th, 2009
Photo: Sullivan/Getty
An autopsy has revealed that the death of Lenny Sullivan, Bruce Springsteen’s cousin and the E Street Band’s assistant road manager of 10 years, was caused by an accidental overdose from acute amphetamine and heroin intoxication, Kansas City’s KCTV5 reports. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Springsteen’s concert in Kansas City was canceled in late October after Sullivan was found dead in his hotel room. He was 36. “A warm and sensitive person, he ...
Velvet Underground Tell Tales About Warhol, Nico at NY Library
December 9th, 2009
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty
As the Velvet Underground’s “Heroin” blared through the loudspeakers at the New York Public Library on 42nd Street last night, a spotlight focused on a lone turntable and the band’s Lou Reed, Maureen “Moe” Tucker and Doug Yule took seats alongside Rolling Stone’s David Fricke. The special occasion: a rare discussion of everything from the Velvets’ first paying gig at Summit High School in New Jersey ($80 for the night) to ...
On the Charts: Susan Boyle Breaks Record in Huge Second Week
December 9th, 2009
Photo: Raglin/WireImageThe Big News: Susan Boyle continued her British Invasion of the Billboard Top 200 as I Dreamed a Dream remained Number One for a second consecutive week, selling another 527,000 copies to hit platinum at almost a Carter III-like pace. Following the history-making debut Boyle had last week, the Britain’s Got Talent runner-up set another record by having the fastest-selling debut album after a two-week period in chart history. Andrea Bocelli’s My Christmas remained ...
The 2000s – Best of the Decade: The New Issue of Rolling Stone
December 9th, 2009
Cover concept by Chip Kidd, logo type by Jim Parkinson, design by Joseph Hutchinson.
It was a decade in which we saw our leaders squander the peace and prosperity of the previous decade, Rob Sheffield writes in the new special issue of Rolling Stone. Yet music offered shelter from the storm, even if it was just for one three-minute song at a time.
RS looks back at the decade of lost chances, counting down the best albums ...
Bob Dylan Unwraps “Little Drummer Boy” Video
December 9th, 2009
Bob Dylan’s seasonal Christmas in the Heart continues to dole out visual gifts: the video for Dylan’s take on “Little Drummer Boy” has been unveiled on Amazon.com. This video is Christmas for the eyes, as artist/filmmaker Jeff Scher painstakingly rotoscoped classic films — we’re pretty sure the woman at the 2:10 mark is actress Jane Greer — and home movies with watercolors and crayons.
As Rolling Stone previously reported, for the first time in over a ...