Archive for March 29th, 2010
Tour Tracker: The Black Keys, Jakob Dylan and Mountain Jam
March 29th, 2010
The Black Keys set some spring dates in support of their upcoming album Brothers, including a slot opening for Pearl Jam at Madison Square Garden. Plus, Jakob Dylan and Three Legs, co-starring Neko Case and Kelly Hogan, will embark on an April trek to showcase their new album Women and Country and this year’s Mountain Jam festival in Hunter, New York, will feature two nights of Gov’t Mule and a 70th birthday celebration for Levon ...
Guess the Next Cover of Rolling Stone: The First Hint
March 29th, 2010
This Wednesday, we’ll say farewell to the Greatest Guitarist of All Time who’s currently on our cover and welcome a new star — or stars. Your first look at the epic cover photo from our next issue is right here (and trust us, it’s epic). So who’s in the shot? We’ll take your best guesses in the comments — check back tomorrow for another clue, and don’t forget to visit RollingStone.com Wednesday morning for a ...
Yep, He’s Gay: Ricky Martin Comes Out of the Closet
March 29th, 2010
Photograph by David LaChapelle
After years of speculation over his sexual orientation, Ricky Martin has come out of the closet in a posting on his official website (via TMZ). In a lengthy note to his fans published in Spanish and English, Martin says writing his memoirs got him “very close to my truth” and that hiding his sexuality any longer would “indirectly diminish the glow that my kids here born with,” referring to his twin sons, ...
Patrick Stump Weighs Funkiness of Impending Solo Album
March 29th, 2010
Photograph by Candice Lawler for RollingStone.com With the future of Fall Out Boy uncertain, Patrick Stump headed to this year’s SXSW Festival in support of his new musical endeavors, namely his upcoming solo album. Though reluctant to call it a “solo project,” Stump’s debut disc, due out this summer, is a solo project in every possible way: Stump is writing all the songs and performing all the instruments single-handedly. Talking to MTV, Stump admitted that ...
Vampire Weekend, The National Rock Eclectic Big Ears Festival
March 29th, 2010
Photo: Forrest/WireImage
When you think of classic college towns, Knoxville, Tennessee doesn’t exactly spring to mind. Unlike Athens, Georgia, or Chapel Hill, North Carolina, whose respective universities spill into the downtown streets creating a vibrant, eclectic social hub, the University of Tennessee buttresses “The Strip,” a mostly soul-crushing stretch of countless fast foot chains and down n’ dirty student bars. For various reasons, the city’s nearby downtown area has struggled through the years — part of ...
Libertines Reunite for Reading and Leeds; Guns n’ Roses, Arcade Fire, Blink-182 Set to Headline
March 29th, 2010
Photo: Quinton/WireImageGuns n’ Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink-182 have been recruited to headline this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals, but the big news for the August 27-29th U.K. events is the reunion of the Libertines, who will perform together for the first time since their breakup six years ago. Weezer, Paramore, Modest Mouse, Queens of the Stone Age, LCD Soundsystem and Phoenix will also rock both Reading and Leeds in 2010. Tickets are available now ...
Iggy Pop’s Last Stand: Watch His Final Stage Dive at Carnegie Hall
March 29th, 2010
Iggy Pop’s already legendary closing set at the Tibet House benefit concert on February 26th will go down in the annals of rock history in another way: The recent Hall of Fame inductee has gone on the record saying that the infamous dive off the Carnegie Hall stage will be his last. “When I landed, it hurt, and I made a mental note that Carnegie Hall would be a good place for my last stage ...
Readers’ Rock List: Jimi Hendrix
March 29th, 2010
Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Last week, to celebrate Jimi Hendrix’s impending Rock Band takeover and his latest appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone, we asked our readers to let us know their favorite tracks by the Greatest Guitarist of All Time. We’ve tallied the votes, and the Electric Ladyland classic “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” edged out “Hey Joe,” “The Wind Cries Mary” and “Machine Gun.” Check out the full list here and be sure ...
Alternate Take: King Crimson’s Royal Remix Treatment
March 29th, 2010
When Steven Wilson of the English band Porcupine Tree, a lifelong King Crimson fan, began work on reissues of Crimson’s 10 1969-74 and ‘81-84 studio albums — remixing for CD and DVD-audio, excavating outtakes — one of the first he wanted to tackle was 1970’s Lizard, a notoriously turbulent merger of art rock and modern jazz. Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp was shocked. “His eyebrows went up,” Wilson says. “He said, ‘Really? That’s the least-popular album.’ ...
Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” Video Inspired By Matt & Kim, Kennedy Assassination
March 29th, 2010
Leave it to Erykah Badu to merge one of the most popular music videos in recent memory with one of the most infamous moments in American history: In “Window Seat,” the second video off her New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh), Badu combines Matt & Kim’s stripping-in-Times Square clip for “Lessons Learned” with the Kennedy assassination, shooting her one-take video in the exact same Dallas intersection where President Kennedy was killed in 1963. ...