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Bad Brains Tour Select Dates

Legendary punk band, Bad Brains, have returned this year to make their comeback with an album titled Build A Nation. The is the band's first album since 2002, and was produced by vocal

Published: 2007-08-27 Provider: Artist Direct

Bad Brains Plan Comeback With Yauch

US punk icons BAD BRAINS are planning a major comeback with BEASTIE BOYS star ADAM YAUCH. Yauch, aka MCA, has produced the group's untitled new album

Published: 2007-03-05 Provider: Contact Music

Readers’ Rock List: More of the Greatest Singers of All Time

Photo: Winter/Getty Last week, inspired by our own 100 Greatest Singers list, we asked our readers to tell us which vocalists the experts and artists should have included. We tallied the votes and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder was deemed the man with the voice most worth hearing, followed by Vedder’s “Hunger Strike” buddy Chris Cornell. Punk rockers, soul legends and a member of Wham! all fill out your Top 20 of the greatest singers not on our list. So did Rush’s Geddy Lee make the cut? Check out the full roster below: Eddie Vedder Chris Cornell Michael Stipe Maynard James Keenan Joe Strummer Paul Westerberg Mike Patton Ian Curtis Ella Fitzgerald George Michael Harry Nilsson Frank Black Peter Gabriel H.R. (Bad Brains) Mark Lanegan Billie Holiday Liam Gallagher Joey Ramone Chris Isaak Richard Manuel Related Stories: • The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time • Photo Gallery: Legends at Work • The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time: The Voters • The 100 Greatest Singers: The Ballots

Published: 2008-11-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Tour Tracker: Fall Out Boy, Bad Brains and Mercury Rev

Photo: Gries/Getty Fall Out Boy plan some club dates in preparation for their Folie A Deux, Bad Brains rock their hometown of Washington D.C. on Election Day and Mercury Rev tour through December in support of Snowflake Midnight. Follow the jump for the complete set of tour dates. Fall Out Boy November 6 - Allston, MA @ Harpers Ferry November 7 - Philadelphia, PA @ Northstar December 4 - Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theater December 6 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre Bad Brains November 4 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club November 5, 6 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza November 9 - Austin, TX @ Waterloo Park December 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium December 7 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues Mercury Rev December 4 - Woodstock, NY @ Bearsville Theater December 5 - Boston, MA @ Paradise December 6 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero December 7 - New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom December 8 - Montreal, QUE @ Cabaret Du Musee Juste Pour Rire December 9 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House December 10 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick December 11 - Chicago, IL @ Metro December 12 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe December 14 - Boulder, CO @ Fox Theater December 16 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre December 17, 18 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent Related Stories: • Album Preview: Fall Out Boy Explore Soul, Baseball on New Album • Fall Out Boy Pushes Back Release Date • Fricke’s Picks: Mercury Rev

Published: 2008-11-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Jesse McCartney Celebrates New LP, Future David Cook Collabo

Jesse McCartney is known for being a child actor, pop dreamboat and consistently the most celebrated person at the Kids Choice Awards. But he’s also half the brains behind last year’s highest-grossing song in the U.K., Leona Lewis‘ sultry ballad “Bleeding Love,” and the owner of two Number One singles, a platinum record and a rack of Radio Disney trophies that would make Miley Cyrus jealous. Not bad for a dude who started out balancing soap opera roles with a tap-dancing boy band (Wiki search: Dream Street. Hilarious.) Rock Daily stopped by McCartney’s release party for Departure at New York’s Marquee last night and learned McCartney has good reason to be psyched that David Cook won American Idol. “Ryan [Tedder of OneRepublic] and I are planning to write some songs with him for his album,” he said. So does he have any regrets about giving “Bleeding Love” (which he also penned with Tedder) away? “No, no,” he said. “I’m so happy for Leona. She deserves it. There are really no bad feelings.” [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-05-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

CBGB’s Vacant Shell To House Designer Suits And Other Things We Can’t Afford

The space that was once occupied by New York punk landmark CBGB, shuttered since its farewell run last October, will soon be filled with the designer suits and upscale fragrances of a John Varvatos boutique. The designer hopes to move into the vacant spot along the Bowery by March. If cancer hadn’t recently claimed CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, this news might have. The boutique is just the latest addition to hit the formerly dilapidated Bowery strip: Whole Foods and Starbucks were recently constructed as the street continues to morph from punky to yuppie. While we’re a bit pained picturing cash registers where Talking Heads and the Ramones once performed, New York City blog Gothamist points out that Varvatos is kind of a rock-star designer — Iggy Pop was a model in his fall 2006 ad campaign, and Alice Cooper, Slash and Ryan Adams have donned his designs. Still, we’d rather reminisce about better days at 315 Bowery. Related Stories: CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal Dies After Battle With Cancer The CBGB Countdown: Bad Brains Opens the Final Week The CBGB Countdown: Non-Fakers With Tickets, Share Your Review

Published: 2007-10-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, CBGB

Hatebreed to release covers album

Connecticut hardcore bruisers Hatebreed have revealed that they will be releasing a 18-track covers album through Century Media later this year. For The Lions will be released in the UK on May 11. The track-listing is as follows: 01: Slayer – Ghosts of War 02: Cro-Mags - It's The Limit 03: Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Maniac 04: Sepultura - Refuse/Resist 05: Metallica – Escape 06: Bad Brains – Supertouch/Shitfit 07: Misfits – Hatebreeders 08: D.R.I. - Evil Minds 09: Madball - Set It Off 10: Sick Of It All - Shut Me Out 11: Black Flag- Thirsty 12: Negative Approach - Sick Of Talk 13: Crowbar - All I Had I Gave 14: Merauder - Life Is Pain 15: Agnostic Front - Your Mistake 16: Judge - Hear Me 17: Obituary - I'm In Pain 18: Subzero - Boxed In In related news, the band recently parted ways with guitarist Sean Martin, who has since been replaced by original guitarist Wayne Lozinak. "I speak on behalf of all of us and we support Sean's decision to leave and want him to be happy and successful at everything he does," says frontman Jamey Jasta. "There are no bad feelings at all and you'll probably see him hanging on stage at some of our local shows. We're family and he will be missed but Hatebreed will forge on!"

Published: 2009-02-25 Provider: Kerrang!

Mel Gibson - Gibson Uses Cow Brains Goo To Aid His Bad Poker Game

MEL GIBSON uses a smelly ointment made from cow's brains to sharpen his mind for poker games with pals.The movie star and his publicist Alan Nierob invited Up In The...

Published: 2010-01-08 Provider: Contact Music

K!'s SXSW blog (Part One)

K! editor Paul Brannigan reports from this year's South By South West festival. Wednesday, March 18 The city fathers of Austin, Texas grandly refer to their hometown as 'the live music capital of the world'. During the annual South By South West festival you won't hear any dissenting voices. What you will hear, is music pumping out of every bar, restaurant and tattoo parlour, as hundreds of up and coming bands slug it out for Next Big Thing status. The competition is fierce - at any given hour there are 50 or 60 shows taking place simultaneously across the city - but the sheer variety of music on offer makes SXSW a fabulous, fascinating festival to attend. A wristband or SXSW badge gives you access to every show...the only problem being deciding where to start. Our SXSW starts at the legendary Emos venue, with the hardcore fury of Trash Talk, an impressively belligerent quartet from Sacramento. Reminscent of Black Flag at their most antagonistic, the quartet deal in short brutal bursts of noise with scant regard for melody or harmony. That their singer ends the show dripping blood and vomit tells you all about their commitment to pushing extremes. K! favourites The Bronx are up next, playing the first of what will be three shows today. They are, as ever, fantastic, slamming through a 35 minute set to a packed room, More on them later... At 7 o'clock it's Gallows turn to wreak havoc, over on Emos' outside stage, opening a bill which will later feature hardcore heroes Circle Jerks and former Bad Brains' frontman HR's new band. But there is nothing nostalgic about the Brit punks' set: indeed Frank Carter abandons Abandon Ship halfway through with the words "You get the gist" so that his band can focus on showcasing tunes from their upcoming Grey Britain album. Trust us, this album is immense and tonight songs like Vultures and Misery are given their US premiere in the most savage way. Carter's stage dive from the venue's roof is almost as impressive. As Gallows set cli

Published: 2009-03-20 Provider: Kerrang!

£24million richer and Heather’s STILL playing games

Listening back to Heather’s rant outside court, we’ve noticed something very interesting: Heather claims that she is only speaking to the press because she fears a ruling to make Justice Bennett’s judgement public will make her come across in a bad way. Ranting on about how the courts never want a litigant in person to come across well, she says the judge’s decision to make his judgement public “goes against everything to do with human rights” and that Sir Paul and the courts want to “make it look like I wasn’t successful”. Heather claims that she wants the judgement sealed because it “involves private secure matters concerning my daughter”. Could it also be that there might be some other information that Heather doesn’t want people to hear...? There are always two sides to every story, we grant you, but Heather’s speech does come over a little paranoid. At one point, she says about the courts, “These people are in a club. A lot of strange things have been going on.” Speaking about Sir Paul, she simply states, “He’s got everything that he wanted.” But, when a nearby reporter asked her if she was angry with him, she merely replied, “I can’t say that for the sake of my daughter, but my sister does.” Umm, her sister does what? Feel angry? Milk rats? Love Beatles songs still? We don’t know, but it’s all very bizarre, isn’t it? What do you think to all this, heatworlders? Speak your brains in true Heather fashion below....

Published: 2008-09-23 Provider: Heat

IT'S ALIIIIVE!

What knockers! And, while we're at it, those neon-lit, eerily lifelike brains aren't bad, either. They're all part of Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein," the $20 million mega-musical coming to town on great gallomphing monster boots for a preview run...

Published: 2007-10-07 Provider: New York Post Keywords: movies

A Texting Tour Of Punk's Old Places

For those interested in Washington punk rock of the 1980s, there's no shortage of ways to learn about the scene. You could listen to Minor Threat, Bad Brains and Fugazi. You could watch the documentary "American Hardcore." Or, you could stand outside the Starbucks at Seventh and E streets NW and...

Published: 2006-11-16 Provider: Washington Post