Archive for December 21st, 2009
Forgotten Faces: The Decade’s Minor Stars’ Second 15 Minutes
December 21st, 2009
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We’ve been celebrating the Best of the Decade here at Rolling Stone for the past few weeks: the best songs, best albums, most memorable moments — so we figured it was only right to celebrate those forgotten faces who also made the decade special, like the man who brought us “Thong Song,” the American Idol contestant who had us yelling “She bangs!” off-key, and Brandon Flowers’ mustache. Relive them all in their 15-minute glory ...
Tour Tracker: Timbaland, Ted Leo and Nick Oliveri
December 21st, 2009
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Timbaland showcases his Shock Value 2 in an intimate club setting in early 2010, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists hit the road in support of their upcoming fifth album The Brutalist Bricks and former Queen of the Stone Age member Nick Oliveri sets out on a solo trek. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump.
Timbaland
Jan. 15 – Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
Jan. 16 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Jan. 17 – Baltimore, MD ...
“Michael”: Rolling Stone’s Ultimate Jackson Book Is in Stores Now
December 21st, 2009
When Michael Jackson died suddenly on June 25th, the stunned and saddened Rolling Stone team snapped to action and devoted a commemorative issue to the King of Pop. Now the magazine’s editors are proud to present an even bigger version of that special edition of RS: Michael, a book devoted to Jackson’s life and career that features more than 100 rare photographs from his Jackson 5 days through his troubled later years. It’s the perfect ...
Britney Spears Counts Down Her Wackiest Rumors of 2009
December 21st, 2009
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If Britney Spears’ life seems stranger than fiction, maybe that’s because most of what is reported about the pop star is actually untrue. To prove her point, the official Britney Spears Website posted something they’re calling “The BS Alert,” featuring 75 screen caps of headlines about Spears that turned out to be complete fabrications. It seems there’s an entire industry of gossip papers that make a living reporting fake news concerning the Circus star, ...
2000 Flashback: At the Drive-In, Jay-Z and the Year’s Best Albums
December 21st, 2009
It was the year of Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP, Madonna’s Music and At the Drive-In’s Relationship of Command — now that we’ve counted down the best albums and songs of 2009 and the greatest LPs and singles of the decade, take a look back at 2000 in our countdown of that year’s 50 top records:
• The Year in Recordings: The Top 50 Albums of the Year 2000
Readers’ Rock List: Fire Songs
December 21st, 2009
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Last week, inspired by the incoming thundersnow that threatened the East Coast and Lil Wayne’s love of songs with “Fire” in the title, we turned our readers into musical pyromaniacs by asking for their favorite Fire Songs. While none of Weezy’s output made the Rock List, Johnny Cash’s scorching “Ring of Fire” was voted Number One, edging out flammable tracks by Bruce Springsteen, Pixies and Billy Joel:
1. Johnny Cash – “Ring of Fire”
2. The ...
Tori Amos’ Track-by-Track Guide to 1992 Debut “Little Earthquakes”
December 21st, 2009
Tori Amos recently released her first seasonal album, Midwinter Graces, and while the singer-songwriter was in a charitable mood, we asked her to take a long, hard look back at her landmark 1992 debut Little Earthquakes. Find out how Hans Christian Andersen influenced “Silent All These Years,” Barbra Streisand led her to write “China” and negative reactions to Y Kant Tori Read set her on a journey of rejection and self-discovery in our exclusive track-by-track ...
Michael Jackson’s “Captain EO” Returns to Disneyland Feb. 2010
December 21st, 2009
This Is It’s limited theatrical run may have ended, but we won’t have to wait long to see the King of Pop on the big screen again: After a 13-year hiatus, Michael Jackson’s 3-D sci-fi adventure film Captain EO will return to Disneyland for a limited engagement starting in February 2010, Disney’s Parks Blog revealed this weekend. It’s been long rumored since Jackson’s June 25th death that Captain EO, which screened at the Disney family ...
Watch Dashboard Confessional’s Acoustic Rolling Stone Session
December 21st, 2009
Last month, Dashboard Confessional unleashed their sixth album of the decade, Alter the Ending. As Rolling Stone reported, the release came as a standard disc and a special edition bundled with acoustic versions of the album’s dozen songs. When Chris Carrabba and John Lefler stopped by the RS offices recently, we made them recreate the acoustic experience by stripping down “Get Me Right” and “Belle of the Boulevard.” Watch “Get Me Right” up top and ...
Muse Bring “The Resistance” to “Saturday Night Live”
December 21st, 2009
Muse and James Franco had a captive audience for this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live as most of the East Coast was forced indoors by a massive snowstorm. While Franco joked about his current stint on General Hospital and made out with both men and Christmas trees, the U.K. band delivered strong performances of a pair of tracks, The Resistance: “The Uprising” and Black Holes and Revelations‘ “Starlight.” Watch “Uprising,” courtesy of SNLer Fred Armisen’s ...