Archive for April, 2010
Rolling Stone’s Top Stories
April 16th, 2010
• Pavement Rock First U.S. Reunion Show
• The Specials Return At Precise L.A. Gig
• Inside T.I.’s King Uncaged
• Announcing the New Rollingstone.com!
• Volcanic Ash May Stymie Coachella Acts
• Jay-Z Sues Red Sox Slugger Ortiz
• News Ticker: Soundgarden, Rihanna
• Type O Negative’s Steele Dies at 48
• Glee Ratings Nearly Double
• Lambert Performs, Idol Nixes Two
• Wilco, MGMT, Hole’s Record Store Exclusives
• 40 Reasons to Be Excited About Music
• Public Image Ltd. Return in L.A.
• Eminem Scraps ...
Rewind: The Final Week in Rock Daily
April 16th, 2010
In its final week on the Web, the Rock Daily blog went out with a bang as we checked out four awesome Coachella warm-up reunion shows: Pavement’s first U.S. reunion concert, Faith No More’s powerhouse gig at San Fran’s Warfield, the return of Public Image Ltd. and the Specials in Los Angeles.
Promptly after killing Relapse 2, Eminem revealed plans to release a new album, dubbed Recovery, on June 22nd. Plus, T.I. talked to Rolling ...
Coachella Acts Might Miss Festival Due to Volcanic Ash
April 16th, 2010
A volcanic eruption that occurred under an Icelandic glacier on Wednesday, April 14th, has set off a series of unforeseen events that might force a few Britain-based artists scheduled to perform at this weekend’s Coachella festival to cancel their slots. The Cribs with Johnny Marr, Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant and Gary Numan are just a few of the bands affected by the volcanic ash that lingers in the skies above Europe, all but shutting down ...
Pavement Return as Indie-Rock Heroes at Debut U.S. Reunion Gig
April 16th, 2010
Photo: Melissa Moore
“I’d say it’s nice to be back,” remarked Bob Nastanovich not long into Pavement’s show last night at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California. “But I’ve never fucking been here before!”
True enough, Bobby boy. The jocks pumping their fists to “Cut Your Hair,” the chick doing the Phish-fan noodle dance to “Stereo,” the countless balding dudes diluting their beers with tears during “Here” — this was definitely new territory for arguably the ...
T.I. Compares “King Uncaged” to Tupac’s “Eyez”: Inside the Album
April 16th, 2010
Photo: Nunez/WireImageT.I. is setting the bar high for his post-prison album, King Uncaged, comparing it to Tupac’s 1996 classic All Eyez on Me, which was released months after ‘Pac got out of prison. “This is the most significant return from incarceration that the game has had since then,” T.I. says. “Just given the enormous success of that project, everyone’s expecting the same results. I just want to meet the expectations, if not surpass them.”
The Atlanta MC ...
Jay-Z Sues Red Sox Slugger David Ortiz Over 40/40 Club Name
April 16th, 2010
Photo: Rogash/Getty(Ortiz), Trotman/Getty(Jay-Z)
The heated Yankees-Red Sox rivalry has branched into the rap game. Jay-Z, a diehard Yankees fan who even wore the team’s cap on the cover of Kingdom Come, is suing Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz for allegedly using the name of Jigga’s 40/40 Club chain for his own nightclub in the Dominican Republic without permission. In a lawsuit filed yesterday, Jay accuses Big Papi of naming his Santa Domingo nightclub ...
News Ticker: Soundgarden, Rihanna, Tool, T.I.
April 16th, 2010
Perry Farrell thought he’d scored Soundgarden’s first-ever reunion gig for Lollapalooza, but the grunge vets will actually take the stage tonight at Seattle’s Showbox for a secret show, Billboard reports.
Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” continued its strong run on the Hot 100, taking Number One for the fifth straight week, according to Billboard. B.o.B.’s “Nothin’ On You” scored second place.
Tool have begun work on their fifth album, TwentyFourBit reports via the band’s newsletter to fans, which promises ...
Announcing the Bigger, Bolder Rollingstone.com
April 16th, 2010
On Monday, April 19th, you will be looking at at the new Rollingstone.com — a cleaner, easier-to-navigate site that’ll boost our regular doses of daily rock news, photo galleries and music reviews with new audio and video features. We’ll also be debuting three new blogs: Rob Sheffield on pop culture, David Fricke on music and Matt Taibbi on politics.
We’ll also be introducing “Rolling Stone All Access,” which will give those who sign up full contents ...
The Specials Return to the States With Powerful, Precise L.A. Set
April 16th, 2010
It’s fitting that the Specials chose Los Angeles as the location for their first reunion shows in the United States in nearly three decades. Southern California has long proven to be the American ska scene’s ground zero, spawning the likes of Sublime, No Doubt, Operation Ivy and Rancid, among others — all of whom were both clearly influenced by the U.K. “2 Tone” legends; Specials lead singer Terry Hall even co-wrote the hit “Our Lips ...
Type O Negative Singer Peter Steele Dead at 48
April 15th, 2010
Peter Steele, the deep-voiced singer, songwriter and bassist for Brooklyn’s goth-metal outfit Type O Negative, has passed away at the age of 48. In an e-mail to CBS News, the band’s manager Mike Renault confirmed Steele’s death, writing “Peter passed away last night. As of now it appears to have been heart failure. That’s all the details we have right now.” Steele was rumored to have been ill in the days leading up to his ...