Archive for March 16th, 2012
Keane, Nick Waterhouse, Tennis Play Rolling Stone’s Rock Room at SXSW
March 16th, 2012
Rolling Stone's Rock Room at SXSW got off to a rousing start on Friday as Keane Nick Waterhouse Tennis the Heavy and We Were Promised Jetpacks all took the stage in front of festival-goers at Austin's La Zona Rosa Scottish band We Were Promised Jetpacks kicked off the bill with tunes...
SXSW Bands Head to Willie Nelson’s Ranch for Heartbreaker Banquet
March 16th, 2012
Willie Nelson's ranch the endearingly nicknamed Luck Texas once served as the backdrop for the 1986 Western Red Headed Stranger On Thursday it played host to the inaugural Heartbreaker Banquet a two-stage event purposely scheduled to take place at the same time as SXSW in the hopes of gaining traction...
Skrillex, Porter Robinson and M Machine Throw OWSLA Dance Party
March 16th, 2012
Skrillex may be the boss when it comes to his DJ/Producer-heavy label OWSLA – the label is named for a military caste of rabbits in the legendarily intense 1970s children’s fantasy novel Watership Down – but on Thursday the deafening bass pioneer showed he's also just one of the DJs...
Jimmy Page Unearths Soundtrack Album
March 16th, 2012
Jimmy Page's avant garde soundtrack music from the early Seventies will finally be released on March 20th Lucifer Rising and Other Sound Tracks will collect several compositions that were recorded at the Led Zeppelin guitarist's home studio including the title piece which was intended for use in Kenneth Anger's short...
Radiohead, Keys, Dre Invade the Desert for Coachella 2012
March 16th, 2012
Two years ago Florence and the Machine celebrated their breakthrough year with a victory lap at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival "It was quite surreal looking out as a performer and seeing palm trees and Ferris wheels and this amazing desert skyline in the distance" says Florence Welch...
@Discographies SXSW Diary, Day Two
March 16th, 2012
Anonymous music critic @Discographies (even we don't know who he/she is) has earned tens of thousands of Twitter followers by distilling artists' entire discographies to 140 characters (example Bruce Springsteen 1-5 "You ride the road" 7-8 "until you arrive" 9-10 "or run out of gas" 611-17...
Little Hurricane Bring the Heat to SXSW
March 16th, 2012
Little Hurricane might be a duo but they have a big sound and they aren't afraid to get messy "I've gotten used to wiping my sweat with my socks" drummer Celeste "CC" Spina tells Rolling Stone before their gig at SXSW's Auditorium Shores Stage where she and guitarist Anthony "Tone"...
Todd Rundgren Readies ‘Musical Revival Camp’ With Guest Peter Buck
March 16th, 2012
Todd Rundgren's second annual retreat now called Musical Revival Camp will take place July 23rd-27th at the Full Moon Resort in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York with guests including Peter Buck After launching the event last year as "Survival Camp" Rundgren tells Rolling Stone he has recast the...
Delta Spirit Hit SXSW at Breakneck Pace
March 16th, 2012
By the time SXSW wraps Delta Spirit will have played 16 shows at a rate of about four shows a day "I just eat Halls and drink Whiskey" frontman Matthew Vasquez says of his survival strategyIt's the Brooklyn band's fifth trip to SXSW "The first time was the craziest experience...
Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Bruce Springsteen Album?
March 16th, 2012
Bruce Springsteen just released Wrecking Ball the 17th album of a career stretching back to 1973 Springsteen has been remarkably consistent over the years continuously pushing his creative boundaries and surprising his audience with brave artistic risks Our question for you this week is What is the best Bruce Springsteen album?...