Archive for March 25th, 2010
Tour Tracker: Them Crooked Vulture, Lilith Fair and Sublime With Rome
March 25th, 2010
Fingers crossed, Dave Grohl will recover from his coffee addiction quickly enough to drum during Them Crooked Vultures’ new batch of spring dates. Plus, this year’s resurrected and nomadic Lilith Fair announce their first string of stops, and add Disney singer Selena Gomez to their ever-growing bill, and Sublime With Rome plot a new trek. Full dates for all three jaunts below.
Them Crooked Vultures
Apr. 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia
Apr. 16 – Indio, ...
Dead Weather Confirm New “Sea of Cowards” Due May 11th
March 25th, 2010
Photo: Wargo/WireImage The Dead Weather have announced that Sea of Cowards, the follow-up to 2009’s Horehound, will be released on May 11th. According to the band’s official website, first single “Die By the Drop” will hit digital music services on March 30th. A 7” inch version of “Die,” backed by Cowards closing track “Old Mary,” will be available to pre-order through White’s Third Man Records starting March 30th.
12 Shades of White: check out Jack White’s ...
Phil Collins on Overcoming Nerve Damage, Future of Genesis
March 25th, 2010
Photo: Lovekin/Getty
Phil Collins is putting the finishing touches on a new Motown covers collection despite suffering severe nerve damage to his hands that has made drumming nearly impossible. “The first time I picked up the drum sticks after my neck surgery, they flew across the room because I couldn’t grip them,” he says. “When I play, I’ve had to tape the sticks to my hand. It’s like wearing a condom. It’s very strange. It really ...
Despite Two New Tracks, Janet Jackson “Not Working on an Album”
March 25th, 2010
Photo: Spellman/WireImage
Janet Jackson may have two songs in rotation — “Nothing” and her Pitbull team-up “Heartbeat Love” — but fans anxious to hear her follow-up to 2008’s Discipline have a long wait ahead of them: Jackson tells Rolling Stone she’s not currently working on an album.
Check out photos from Janet Jackson’s Rock Witchu Tour.
“There was a time where I was actually in the studio and I was recording, but I’m not working on an ...
Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister on Life as Jimi Hendrix’s Roadie
March 25th, 2010
Before he became the legendary singer/bassist of Motörhead, Lemmy Kilmister logged time as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix in the late Sixties, prepping his guitars for his explosive performances — and picking up the bits of his destroyed stomp-boxes post-show. In honor of our latest issue chronicling Hendrix’s last days and lost recordings, we caught up with Kilmister at SXSW, where he was promoting the documentary Lemmy, for a look back at his time with ...
Phish Go 3-D: Festival 8 Concert Doc Hits Theaters April 20th
March 25th, 2010
Last October, Phish descended on Indio, California, for the three-day Festival 8, a Halloween concert event that featured the band covering the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street in its entirety. Missed out? No worries. On April 20th, Festival 8 will hit the big screen in 3-D, Avatar fashion. (Check out the 2-D trailer above.) Tickets for Phish 3D go on sale tomorrow, March 26th at the film’s official website. (March 26th, incidentally, is also ...
Beck Covers INXS’ “Kick” With Liars, St. Vincent and Os Mutantes
March 25th, 2010
Beck’s Record Club — his running series of quickly made cover albums featuring a rotating cast of collaborators — has returned with a satisfyingly surprising choice: INXS’ 1987 hit album Kick. This time around, the Modern Guilt singer recruited Liars, St. Vincent and Os Mutantes’ Sergio Dias to join him in the studio.
Kick was suggested by Liars’ Angus Andrews, a native of Australia and the first one to step up to the microphone for ...
“American Idol” Nixes Paige Miles as Miley, Joe Jonas Take the Stage
March 25th, 2010
Photo: Becker/FOX Tuesday night, the dominant judges’ critique on American Idol was that the songs were too old. With all the Hot 100 Number Ones to pick, the 11 remaining contestants selected tracks from 1967 through 1998 (with one Fergie ballad from the 2000s in the mix). So what did Idol producers pick for the dreaded group number, which was lip-synced so poorly it was clear nobody could remember the lyrics? Wham’s 1984 hit “Wake ...
News Ticker: Trent Reznor, Lady Gaga, Liam Gallagher, Mark Ronson
March 25th, 2010
Photo: Buckner/Getty Images for Rebel Waltz
Trent Reznor returned to his once-abandoned Twitter to post a photo from the studio with the caption “Last day of the session!” No word on when the new music will be released, and the 33 1/3 book about the making of Pretty Hate Machine has been delayed until likely early fall, Clevescene reports.
Lady Gaga has made history, becoming the first artist to score one billion video views. Mashable reports Twilight ...
Jimi Hendrix Coming to “Rock Band” With Full “Axis” Album, More Exclusives to Follow
March 25th, 2010
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist of all time and current Rolling Stone cover star, and now RS can reveal that his legendary albums are coming exclusively to Rock Band with a wave of downloadable content thanks to Harmonix, MTV Games and Experience Hendrix. The guitarist’s entire second LP Axis: Bold as Love will be unleashed as DLC starting March 30th, along with the unearthed Jimi single “Valleys of Neptune” ...