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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 ...
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 ...
News Ticker: Ozzy Osbourne, Glastonbury, Lil Wayne, AC/DC
April 15th, 2010
Ozzy Osbourne debuted “Let Me Hear You Scream,” the first single off his June 15th disc Scream, on last night’s episode of CSI: NY. The rocker plans to announce his 18-month tour shortly, and promises news about Ozzfest will arrive next week.
Snoop Dogg, MGMT, Willie Nelson and the Flaming Lips have been added to the Glastonbury lineup. The BBC reports that the fest, which runs from June 23rd through 27th, is already sold out.
While ...
New Music Report: Kate Nash
April 14th, 2010
Christian Hoard’s “Christian Rock” new music pick this week is Kate Nash’s My Best Friend Is You. The 22-year-old British singer’s 2008 album went platinum in the U.K. and showed off her cockney accent, witty piano pop and general English cheekiness. The new album is more expansive, confident and simply better. Nash is a tuneful hurricane of TMI, flipping between insecurity and chutzpah as she sings about stinky feet and threatens to do bad things ...
News Ticker: Big Boi, Sirius XM, Game, Band of Horses
April 14th, 2010
Big Boi tells the BBC info on OutKast’s upcoming music is “top secret” but allows “something is brewing.” Andre 3000 produces a “crazy, bananas” track on his colleague’s solo disc, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty.
Satellite radio company Sirius XM added 171,000 new listeners in the first quarter of 2010, according to the Hollywood Reporter, bringing its grand total to 18.9 million subscribers.
Cali rapper Game is returning on June 15th with R.E.D. ...
40 Reasons to Be Excited About Music: New Issue of Rolling Stone
April 14th, 2010
Photograph by Mark Seliger
“You hear it all the time: Rock is dead,” David Fricke writes in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on sale at newsstands today. “But the current state of music is the same as it ever was: There is the good and the bad, and there is always plenty of the former, if you’re willing to seek it out.”
To prove the point, the Rolling Stone staff assembled a rundown of the ...
New Reviews: MGMT and Freelance Whales
April 13th, 2010
Photo: Van Diji/AFP/Getty Before MGMT’s second album Congratulations even hit stores, it was being hailed as the Most Polarizing Album of 2010. The LP’s aesthetic is a galaxy away from the electro-pop of Oracular Spectacular’s hits “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” — Congratulations finds Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden mining late-’60s psychedelic and folk rock for a nine-track album that, for better or worse, makes no attempts to recapture their earlier commercial success.
“With Congratulations, the ...
News Ticker: Grammys, Nas and Kelis, Hank Williams, Supergrass
April 13th, 2010
The 53rd Annual Grammys will air live on CBS from Los Angeles’ Staples Center on February 13, 2011. Albums and songs released between September 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010 will be eligible for awards.
A Los Angeles judge has ordered Nas to pay spousal support to ex-wife Kelis. TMZ reports the MC will pay Kelis $10,000 a month until he catches up on the $299,015.50 he owes her in back child and spousal support payments.
Hank ...