Archive for March 1st, 2010
Tour Tracker: “Glee,” Pavement and Echo & The Bunnymen
March 1st, 2010
Photo: Clamer/FOXThe cast members of Glee will come roaring out of your television set for a four-city Live! In Concert! tour of Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. Also, after spending the first half of 2010 jet setting across other hemispheres — their first reunion show was today in New Zealand — Pavement begin to flesh out their U.S. tour and Echo & The Bunnymen reveal their live post-Coachella ...
Guess the Next Cover of Rolling Stone: The First Hint
March 1st, 2010
This is your first glimpse of the next cover of Rolling Stone, which hits newsstands this Wednesday when we say farewell to Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. The first hint: something fiery and patriotic. Leave your best guesses in the comments, and we’ll be back tomorrow with another clue.
Jim Morrison’s Lewd Show, Plus More Outrageous Rock Moments
March 1st, 2010
It was exactly 41 years ago tonight that a very inebriated Jim Morrison took the stage at Miami’s Dinner Key Auditorium, mumbled his way through a couple songs by the Doors, and propositioned a frustrated audience of 13,000 with the infamous line, “Do you wanna see my cock?” What happened next is rock & roll history: Morrison, who boozed heavily prior to the incident at a pair of airports on his way to the show, ...
Readers’ Rock List: ’80s Hip-Hop Songs
March 1st, 2010
Photo: Haun/Michael Ochs Archive/GettyLast week, in memory of Newcleus’ Chilly B and their hit “Jam On It,” we asked our readers to tell us their favorite 1980s hip-hop tracks. Public Enemy, Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys rightfully dominated the list, but it was Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” that won the popular vote, beating out “It’s Tricky,” “Brass Monkey” and “The Breaks.”
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OK Go Slap a Tetherball for “This Too Shall Pass”: Behind the Clip
March 1st, 2010
OK Go’s insanely complex video for Of the Blue Colour of the Sky single “This Too Shall Pass” will finally make its (embeddable!) premiere tonight at 7 pm EST, but before the band reveals their latest viral achievement, Rolling Stone has another behind-the-scenes clip from the video’s construction site in a Los Angeles warehouse.
As Rolling Stone previously reported, for their second “This Too Shall Pass” clip, OK Go and the geniuses over at Syyn ...
Slash’s 1979 Love Letter to “My Michelle” Hits the Web
March 1st, 2010
Photo: Hogan/GettyA recently unearthed love letter written by a then-14-year-old Slash in 1979 proves that before the guitarist was providing riffs for Guns n’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, he was a kid writing cheesy compliments and doodling pot leafs on looseleaf paper to impress girls. The blog Letters of Note, via Hard Rock Memorabilia, posted Slash’s handwritten missive to Michelle Young last week, giving us a glimpse of Saul Hudson’s teenage mind — he writes ...
Iggy Pop Brings Punk Carnage to Carnegie Hall at Tibet Benefit
March 1st, 2010
Photo: Tracy KetcherAbout 30 seconds into his opener “The Passenger” at New York’s Carnegie Hall Friday night, Iggy Pop declared, “Aw, fuck this shirt,” tore off his black V-neck sweater and tossed it stage right to a waiting Patti Smith, who caught it and giddily hopped up and down while swinging like she’d just caught a wedding bouquet.
It was a rare moment even for the Tibet House Benefit Concert, an annual event that raises ...
Carly Simon Refutes Theory That “So Vain” Target Is David Geffen
March 1st, 2010
Photo: Kohen/WireImage
Last week it seemed like the nearly four-decade-old mystery surrounding Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” was finally solved after the always-reliable (cough) U.K. press speculated that record exec David Geffen was the subject of Simon’s 1972 hit. As Rolling Stone wrote last week, Simon had previously promised that in a newly recorded version of “You’re So Vain,” the name of vain man in question would be revealed when the song was played backwards. The ...
Jennifer Lopez Plays Rihanna as “SNL” Mocks “We Are the World”
March 1st, 2010
Saturday Night Live returned from its Winter Olympics hiatus this weekend with a killer sketch poking fun at the “We Are the World 25 For Haiti” single, where SNL cast members and guest host Jennifer Lopez assumed the guises of stars who didn’t take part in the rerecording. “Recently, the music world came together to record ‘We Are the World 2,’ a song to raise awareness of the Haiti earthquake disaster; sadly, the song itself ...
Sara Bareilles Turns Panic Into Rebirth on Uptempo Summer Disc
March 1st, 2010
Photo: Michael Case Gordon
When Sara Bareilles finally finished touring behind her major-label debut Little Voice and sat down to start her next album, she was overcome with one dominant emotion: panic. “There’s that cliché phrase, ‘You have your whole lifetime to do your first record and you have to do your second one overnight.’ I was really torn with the writing,” she admits. Her pal Matt Hales from Aqualung gave her some valuable advice — ...