Dave Grohl, Corey Taylor Debut ‘Sound City’ Collaboration, ‘From Can to Can’t’
January 15th, 2013 No comments »
Dave Grohl and Slipknot/Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor have released their new collaboration "From Can to Can't" off Sound City – Real to Reel the soundtrack to Grohl's upcoming documentary The slow-burning rocker which premiered today on the BBC (listen to a radio rip at Antiquiet) also features Cheap Trick's Rick...
Sound City Players Add Los Angeles Show
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The Sound City Players will live to play another day The massive supergroup helmed by Dave Grohl and featuring rock luminaries including Stevie Nicks and John Fogerty will play a one-off show at Los Angeles' Hollywood Palladium on January 31st the same night Grohl's documentary Sound City makes its theatrical...
Conor Maynard on ‘Contrast’ and All Those Justin Bieber Comparisons
January 15th, 2013 No comments »
British singer Conor Maynard has made peace with the Justin Bieber comparisons The 20-year-old heartthrob has similar origins to the Canadian pop star having uploaded DIY covers of Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" and Chris Brown's "Freeze" to YouTube before scoring a deal with Capitol Records early last year They've even got...
Lucinda Williams Has ’40-Plus’ Songs for 10th Studio Album
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More than 40 unheard songs await recording once Lucinda Williams wraps a month-long tour in early February and secures her first new contract in 15 years the singer-songwriter tells Rolling Stone "We've got a couple of really good offers" Williams said in a phone interview from her Los Angeles home earlier...
Dawes Push Past Throwback Sound on New Album
January 15th, 2013 No comments »
Although Dawes leader Taylor Goldsmith is more than the sum of his influences the name of Dawes' upcoming third album Stories Don't End doesn't exactly help his case The folk-rockers borrowed the line from Joan Didion's novel Democracy but Goldsmith says it fits Photos Behind the Scenes at Lollapalooza "I feel like...
Jessie Ware Brings Downtempo R&B to U.S.
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When Jessie Ware was writing songs for her upcoming EP she couldn't stop asking herself "Who would give a shit about what I have to say?" It's now clear as the British R&B singer takes to the US for a limited tour in support of its release this week that...
Sandy Hook Choir and Ingrid Michaelson Go ‘Over the Rainbow’
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Students from the Sandy Hook Elementary School choir recently teamed with singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson on a version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in tribute to their friends and neighbors killed in a shooting spree December 14th in Newtown Connecticut Photos A Song From Sandy Hook The children and Michaelson recorded the song in...
Flashback: Van Halen Tours With Former Extreme Singer Gary Cherone
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It's easy to understand why Van Halen thought they'd get away with bringing on Gary Cherone as their new lead singer back in 1998 The hard rock giants hadn't dealt with a lot of failure at that point Everyone thought losing David Lee Roth back in 1985 would destroy the...
Sean Lennon’s New Noise-Rock Duo Is ‘Incredibly Liberating’
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"It was really one of those magic moments" Sean Lennon tells Rolling Stone looking back on the instant chemistry between himself and Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier The two musicians who now perform as improvisational noise-rock duo Mystical Weapons and will release their self-titled debut album on Tuesday first hooked up...
Andre 3000 Says Big Boi Remixes ‘Are Not OutKast Collaborations’
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Andre 3000 has put an end to talk that pairing his guest verses with rhymes from Big Boi on remixes by Frank Ocean and reportedly TI constitutes an OutKast reunion Spin reports A recent remix of Ocean's "Pink Matter" added a verse from Big Boi who is also said to be on a rumored remix of TI's...