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The Who Booked for Super Bowl XLIV, Source Tells Rolling Stone
November 17th, 2009
Photo: Dadswell/GettyThe Who have signed to play during halftime at Super Bowl XLIV, a source close to the performance confirms to Rolling Stone. “It’s 100 percent the Who,” the source says. “They signed a long time ago.” The official announcement from the band and the NFL is expected on Thanksgiving Day, according to another source familiar with the deal. The game, which will take place February 7th in Miami, will be broadcast on CBS.
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Breaking: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
October 28th, 2009
Who: Before this rising New York indie-pop quartet played a note together, they had a band name, a MySpace page and some shared tastes: “We loved loud, sort of enthusiastic, life-affirming pop like Yo La Tengo and Smashing Pumpkins,” says frontman and songwriter Kip Berman, “where there’s big guitars and everything’s right in the world.”
Sounds Like: February’s debut disc and the just-released Higher Than the Stars EP are dreamy and shimmery, with plenty of guitar ...
Lenny Kravitz: I Want to Work With Jack White
October 22nd, 2009
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Lenny Kravitz doesn’t spend much time listening to current music — he prefers old favorites and new obsessions such as Nina Simone. But there’s at least one exception: “Jack White is very good,” Kravitz says. “I mean, I love the White Stripes records. Love them. I think he’s very interesting; he’s someone I’d actually like to play with. One thing I haven’t done that I want to do is, for instance, go ...
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s Alec Ounsworth Talks Solo Disc “Mo Beauty”: Hear the Album
October 20th, 2009
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Alec Ounsworth has released albums with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and as Flashy Python, but he’s casting out under his own name for the first time with his solo debut, Mo Beauty (hear the whole record, which is in stores today, after the jump). Rolling Stone caught up with the Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter to get the story behind the new album and an update on the future of CYHSY.
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