Archive for March 31st, 2010
Tour Tracker: John Mayer, Broken Bells, David Gray and Ray LaMontagne
March 31st, 2010
John Mayer plots his second leg of Battle Studies dates through September 2010, James Mercer and Danger Mouse’s Broken Bells announce their first tour and David Gray and Ray LaMontagne set out on a co-headlining run in August. Full dates for all three treks below.
John Mayer
Mar. 31 – Seattle, WA @ KeyArena
Apr. 1 – Vancouver, BC @ General Motors Place
Apr. 3 – Calgary, AB @ Pengrowth Saddledome
Apr. 4 – Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place
Apr. 6 ...
SXSW 2010’s Best Video: Court Yard Hounds, Free Energy, More
March 31st, 2010
Nearly 2,000 bands invaded Austin for rock’s annual Mardi Gras SXSW earlier this month, and Rolling Stone was on the scene, bringing you reports from the biggest shows (Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Muse) and 100 tweets about up-and-comers to watch. RS also hosted our first-ever showcases at the festival — be sure to grab our new issue, out today, for the story behind our pair of shows.
Our cameras were rolling onstage and behind the ...
First Look: Watch a Clip From New Doors Doc “When You’re Strange”
March 31st, 2010
A new documentary on the Doors called When You’re Strange is hitting theaters April 9th after opening to acclaimed reviews at Sundance 2009. Since its debut last year, director Tom DiCillo has added a megastar to narrate the film — Johnny Depp — plus tightened up the film’s editing to better tell the story of the psych-rock legends. In Rolling Stone’s exclusive clip from When You’re Strange, check out footage of Jim Morrison and Co. ...
Breaking: Love Is All
March 31st, 2010
Who: Heavy Swedish pop outfit fronted by manic 34-year-old singer Josephine Olausson, a fierce frontlady who has a fan in Karen O. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer likes the band so much it inspired her song “All is Love” on the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack.
Sounds Like: The band’s insanely catchy new disc Two Thousand and Ten Injuries combines the sound of early Nineties grrrl-punk acts bands like Huggy Bear and Bikini Kill ...
New Music Report: Cornershop
March 31st, 2010
Rolling Stone contributing editor Christian Hoard’s “Christian Rock” new music pick this week is Cornershop’s Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast. The band — one of the great alt-rock bands of the ’90s — is led by Anglo-Indian frontman Tjinder Singh and mixes drones, Velvet Underground-style guitars, sitar, bits of electronica and dub. The new disc leans more toward classic rock, which here serves as an inspiration and a loose theme (there are Rolling Stones ...
U2’s Massive Rose Bowl 360 Concert Hits DVD June 3rd
March 31st, 2010
Photo: Mazur/WireImageIt was one of the most watched concerts in rock history, scoring over 10 million YouTube streams over the course of a week — and on June 3rd, U2’s performance in front of 97,000 fans in Pasadena, California, will finally hit DVD and Blu-ray. U2360° at the Rose Bowl will feature U2’s October 2009 concert in front of the band’s biggest audience of their 360° Tour and their largest U.S. audience ever, as well ...
Decoding Lollapalooza’s “Wheel of Fortune” Lineup Puzzle: Strokes, Soundgarden, Phoenix, More
March 31st, 2010
This year’s big summer festivals haven’t been to content to simply announce their lineups, insisting instead on finding inventive ways to get fans amped to hit the road. Bonnaroo used the better part of an entire day virally unveiling their slate of artists one-by-one, and now Lollapalooza is employing an even more creative, Wheel of Fortune way to hint at their own roster before the official announcement on April 6th. The Lollapalooza site has posted ...
Paul McCartney Revisits Beatles Classics, Solo Gems at Hollywood Bowl Marathon
March 31st, 2010
Has Paul McCartney been borrowing Bruce Springsteen’s trainer? At 67, the former Beatle seems determined to suddenly turn his gigs into E Street-style marathons. When McCartney did an American mini-tour last spring and summer, fans (and, at the Coachella Festival, some curious acolytes) were astonished by shows that stretched out to the two-and-a-half hour mark. Returning to U.S. shores with a slightly revamped revue that he’s dubbed the “Up and Coming Tour,” McCartney now has ...
On the Charts: Justin Bieber’s “My World 2.0″ Jets to Number One
March 31st, 2010
Photo: Lacroix/WireImage
The Big News: As expected, Justin Bieber dominated the Billboard 200 in My World 2.0’s debut week in stores, selling 283,000 copies to earn his first Number One debut. My World 2.0 improved on the success of its 2009 predecessor, which arrived at Number Six with 137,000 copies last November. In fact, Bieber was on such a roll, sales of My World are up 50 percent from the previous week as either hardcore ...
Christina Aguilera Hits the Dance Floor With “Not Myself Tonight”
March 31st, 2010
In 2006, Christina Aguilera went Back to Basics, putting a modern spin on soul and swing-era music. Her new Bionic boasts a futuristic album cover and buzzing first single that show off her renewed desire to hit the dance club with high-powered beats from the 21st century. Aguilera premiered first single “Not Myself Tonight” on her official site yesterday, singing, “I’m not myself tonight, tonight I’m not the same girl,” a nod to her musical ...