Archive for June 1st, 2012
Bonnaroo Releases Mumford & Sons’ 2011 Set for One Day
June 1st, 2012
With Bonnaroo a week away the festival is streaming a video of Mumford & Sons' full 2011 performance The set will be available until 1159 pm ET on June 2nd Though the video shows Mumford & Sons' second consecutive showing at Bonnaroo the UK folk-rock group isn't playing at this...
Weekend Rock Question: What is the Best Beach Boys Song?
June 1st, 2012
The Beach Boys are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a major reunion tour in support of That's Why God Made the Radio their 29th album and first record of new material since 1992 The band has built up a staggering body of work over the past five decades ranging from...
Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell Honored with Stevie Ray Vaughan Award
June 1st, 2012
Jerry Cantrell received the Stevie Ray Vaughan award – or as his Alice in Chains bandmate Mike Inez joked the "Junkie of the Year" award – at Thursday night's eighth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit in Los Angeles for work helping fellow musicians through addiction recovery Cantrell follows in the...
The Flaming Lips With Erykah Badu, ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’
June 1st, 2012
In April the Flaming Lips released a Record Store Day collaborative double vinyl called The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends In "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" Wayne Coyne teams with Erykah Badu for a post-rock trip with slow-motion glitter milk a blood-like liquid and Badu's sister Nayrok...
Carly Rae Jepsen: ‘I Want to Do Justin Bieber Proud’
June 1st, 2012
Just a few months ago Carly Rae Jepsen was a budding singer-songwriter best known for her third-place finish on the 2007 season of Canadian Idol Few people in America had even heard of her That changed last December when Justin Bieber heard her song "Call Me Maybe" on the radio...
Wilco’s Sauntering ‘Dawned On Me’ at the Primavera Sound Festival
June 1st, 2012
Yesterday Wilco joined the Afghan Whigs Spiritualized hardcore heroes Refused and others on the San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival live stream In this clip Wilco saunters through "Dawned On Me" a cut from their 2011 album The Whole Love After uniting the crowd with chants of "Olé!" the band shoots...
Exclusive Book Excerpt: ‘Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets’
June 1st, 2012
The Meat Puppets' story is one of many ups (guesting on Nirvana's Unplugged) and downs (bassist Cris Kirkwood's drug addiction derailing the band) The new book Too High to Die Meet the Meat Puppets is a comprehensive oral history of the band's career assembled by Rolling Stone writer Greg Prato...
Premiere: Christina Perri, ‘Distance’
June 1st, 2012
In this new rehearsal video for "Distance" singer-songwriter Christina Perri gets intimate with a melancholy love song recording it with the help of friend Jason Mraz and an acoustic guitar Though the video is unfussy with simple studio shots of the recording process the song's bittersweet message and haunting duet...
Premiere: Alejandro Escovedo, ‘Man of the World (Live)’
June 1st, 2012
Alejandro Escovedo is about to release his eleventh solo album Big Station but despite his longevity new inspiration isn't too hard to find In this live video the Texas rocker rips through "Man of the World" the first track off Big Station in a passionate debut performance of the song...
Tour Alert: Mumford & Sons Plot ‘Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers’
June 1st, 2012
Mumford & SonsUK folk band Mumford & Sons will play four "Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers" in August to promote their upcoming second LP due out in September Each performance will have the feel of an outdoor festival with local vendors and a lineup of supporting acts unique...