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Wolfmother Break Out “Cosmic Egg” at Secret New York Show
September 4th, 2009
Photo: Danny ClinchA boozy night out was all it took to convince Wolfmother to give up their only night off this week. The Aussie stoner-rock heroes are currently in the midst of an East Coast jaunt opening for the Killers, but last night they also made a surprise appearance at the tiny Bowery Electric club in New York.
The band admitted on stage that the idea for the gig emerged during a drinking session the ...
Whitney Houston Stumbles During “Good Morning America” Taping
September 1st, 2009
Photo: Busacca/Getty
The same day I Look to You, Whitney Houston’s first album in seven years, arrived in stores, the singer’s long-awaited comeback seemed to stutter during a live appearance in New York. The free show at Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield was a taping for ABC’s Good Morning America that was attended by some 4,000 fans, some of whom had been in line since the previous night. The performance and brief interview air tomorrow ...
Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch on Epic Songs, New LP
August 31st, 2009
Photo: Bedder/Getty
On October 12th, Echo and the Bunnymen will release their 11th studio album, The Fountain, and as a recent Q&A with Rolling Stone demonstrates, irreverent frontman Ian McCulloch’s humor is aging as well as their landmark 1980 debut:
It’s been nearly 30 years since the band’s debut Crocodiles — are you thinking about that milestone?
It’s funny you should say that because to me, the new album sounds like a debut album. It’s thumping and ...
Coldplay Soar at All Points West With Anthems, Beastie Boys Cover
August 3rd, 2009
Photograph by Alex Reside for RollingStone.com
It’s terribly fashionable to criticize Coldplay but unless trenchfoot is the latest hipster accessory, there wasn’t anyone being fashionable on the third day of All Points West. With the rain and sludge double-whammy demoralizing the thousands of fans in Liberty State Park, the sound of the London-four piece spinning out a decade’s worth of stadium anthems and a few other party favors was just the unpretentious tonic that Sunday ...
Echo and the Bunnymen, The Black Keys Rock the Muddy Masses at All Points West
August 3rd, 2009
Photo: Bedder/GettyNevermind the slew of commemorative cash-ins and merchandise that have emerged in time for the 40th anniversary of Woodstock; Sunday at All Points West almost turned out to be a living, breathing, squelching, real-life re-enactment of the epochal 1969 mud-bath.
(Check out the best of All Points West, in photos.)
Early arrivals to day three of the festival were first denied entry and subsequently herded into the nearby ferry terminal like poncho-wearing refugees as torrential ...