Archive for December 10th, 2009
Tour Tracker: Carrie Underwood, Muse, The Antlers
December 10th, 2009
Carrie Underwood has announced her Play On Tour will keep her on the road most of spring 2010 (tickets for the full trek go on sale starting next Friday, December 18th). Plus, Muse start sketching out a 2010 headlining tour behind The Resistance and the Antlers join the Editors for a February trek. Full dates for all three tours, after the jump.
Carrie Underwood
March 11 – Reading, PA @ Sovereign Center
March 12 – Albany, NY @ ...
Matt Taibbi’s 2000s Playlist: From Ben Folds to A Tribe Called Quest
December 10th, 2009
Rolling Stone revisits the best music of the decade in our new issue, on stands now. We’ve unveiled the best albums and songs of the decade, and now our political expert Matt Taibbi reveals what he was spinning in the 2000s:
I was one of those irritating suburban white kids who listened to hip-hop in the Eighties and instead of growing out of it, I just got old and square and stopped listening to music altogether, ...
Lil Wayne’s “Rebirth” Pushed Back to February 2010
December 10th, 2009
Photo: Dowling/GettyLil Wayne’s Rebirth, which was supposed to land in stores December 15th, has been pushed back yet again to February 1st, meaning it will hit shelves nearly a year after its original release date of April 7, 2009. The delay was revealed in a Twitter post from Cash Money label boss and rapper, Bryan “Birdman” Williams, Billboard reports. No one from the label was available for comment at press time.
Lil Wayne’s World: photos ...
Karen O Gets “Wild Things” Grammy Nod After Cyrus Withdraws “The Climb”
December 10th, 2009
Photo: Woolliscroft/WireImage
The Grammy Awards just got a little wilder. Last week, when the nominees were revealed at a concert in Los Angeles, fans of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were peeved by the omission of Karen O and the Kids’ “All is Love,” written for Where the Wild Things Are, from the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media field. This week, however, “All is Love” is in the running thanks to ...
Axl Rose Fights Photographer at L.A. Airport En Route to Guns n’ Roses Tour
December 10th, 2009
Earlier today, footage of Guns n’ Roses sound checking at Taipei County Stadium in Taipei, Taiwan, in anticipation of their concert there December 11th hit Blabbermouth — with Axl Rose conspicuously missing from the mix. Now Live Daily has revealed one possible reason for Rose’s delay: the frontman got into a scuffle with a paparazzi photographer at Los Angeles International Airport last night that “ended up with a few bloodied participants.” Airport police tell RS ...
Lilith Fair Returning in 2010 With Blige, Crow, Tegan and Sara
December 10th, 2009
Photo: Kravitz/AMA2009/FilmMagicIt’s been more than 10 years since Sarah McLachlan’s lady-friendly Lilith Fair went the way of the dodo after three successful, successive summers, and for months now, we’ve been hearing rumors that the fest would be back in ‘10, with McLachlan once again anchoring the bill.
Well, the rumors were right on, and not only is Lilith Fair coming back, it’s coming back in a huge way, blending all musical styles. Mary J. Blige, ...
Miley Cyrus Plots Cover of Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
December 10th, 2009
Photo: Marsland/WireImageTaylor Swift has long professed her love of Def Leppard, and now another young country starlet has admitted her love of pop metal. Miley Cyrus’ first concert — after seeing dad Billy Ray Cyrus shake his achy, breaky mullet onstage, of course — was a Poison show. So it should come as little surprise to anyone that Miley’s tackling one of the band’s most beloved classics. According to sources, Cyrus was recently in New ...
Watch Phoenix Talk Grammy Nod, Inspiration Behind Hit “1901 “
December 10th, 2009
Rolling Stone caught up with Phoenix’s Deck D’Arcy and Laurent Brancowitz just days after the French rockers received their first Grammy nomination in the Best Alternative Album category for their fourth album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The nod is a rare accomplishment for a band from France — so rare, in fact, that the group were clueless about its significance. “We were playing a show in New York when suddenly the head of our label came ...
Hype Monitor: Ringers, Olof Arnalds, Gigi
December 10th, 2009
The Band: Ringers
The Buzz: Certifiable proof punk is far from dead, this Boston band that sprung from the ashes of the band Sirens (they have a thing for one-word plurals apparently) give hope to anyone who loves ragged, hook-laden music delivered with a throat that sounds like it’s been floor-sanded for six years.
Listen If: You still have your beat-up leather jacket from when you were 15, even if it doesn’t fit quite the way it ...
R. Kelly Vows to Reveal “Tears, Fears and Sweat” in 2011 Memoir
December 10th, 2009
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“Trapped In the Closet” mastermind R. Kelly will be releasing a “tell-all” memoir sometime in 2011, and publishers SmileyBooks promise the project will clear up several misconceptions about the embattled R&B star. “I’m writing this book as Robert, not R. Kelly,” Kelly says in the release. “I’m tired of being misunderstood. I will show you the tears, fears, and sweat. I will open my heart and reveal the good in my life as well ...