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Readers’ Rock List: Color Bands

Photo: Mazur/WireImage Despite one street team’s attempt to ballot-stuff this weekend’s Rock List, echoing the Great “Killers-gate” of 2008, San Francisco punks and inspirers of musicals Green Day were voted the Best Color Band by the Rock Daily readers, edging out other colorful artists like the White Stripes, Pink Floyd and Black Flag. Our Top 20 reads like a rainbow, even if it is missing Agent Orange, the Silver Apples and the Indigo Girls, so check out the entire Rock List: Color Bands below: 1. Green Day 2. The White Stripes 3. Black Sabbath 4. Red Hot Chili Peppers 5. Pink Floyd 6. Deep Purple 7. Black Flag 8. Black Keys 9. James Brown 10. Black Lips 11. Al Green 12. Blue Oyster Cult 13. White Zombie 14. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 15. Black Kids 16. Frank Black 17. Godspeed You! Black Emperor 18. Yellowcard 19. Silversun Pickups 20.  The Red Krayola

Published: 2009-03-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Black Kids: Artist to Watch 2008

As we approach the end of our Artists to Watch days here at Rock Daily, we’re tossing a spotlight on Black Kids, the Jacksonville, Florida buzz band who write freewheeling indie-rock tunes that’ve earned them comparisons to Arcade Fire and the Cure. Click here to listen to their “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You” and to find out more about the quintet. To check out the rest of our Artists to Watch coverage, complete with videos and key tracks, click here.

Published: 2007-11-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Artist to Watch, Breaking

Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Judas Priest Prove Their Metal Mastery on Long Island

When two of the singers who most define the genre are in the house, calling a tour featuring Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Motorhead the “Metal Masters Tour” doesn’t have even a hint of hyperbole. The ashen skies threatened to open at any moment at Long Island’s Jones Beach Theater on Sunday, but even though lightning crackled in the distance during Judas Priest’s night-closing set, the evening remained dry. The band only pulled out one song from this year’s Nostradamus, so the rest of the set was dedicated to the glory days of yore. Apart from the old standbys (”Breaking the Law,” “Metal Gods,” “Hell Bent for Leather”), the deeper cuts provided some of the evening’s finer moments, especially a thunderous rendition of “Dissident Aggressor” and “Hell Patrol,” an unjustly forgotten number from the Painkiller album. Though the ticket read “Heaven and Hell,” a Ronnie James Dio-fronted Black Sabbath is still Black Sabbath. Guitarist Tony Iommi appeared in great spirits, cracking a huge smile while carving out the jagged solo on “I” (some of those Dehumanizer tracks are a lot better than you may remember). Dio was in fantastic voice, sounding more like one-third of his alleged 66 years, especially on “Children of the Sea” and “Heaven and Hell,” the set’s closing number. As always, Motorhead was Motorhead, and that’s all it takes. From a breakneck “Going to Brazil” to “Killed By Death” and the unstoppable closing one-two punch of “Ace of Spades” and “Overkill,” Lemmy Kilmister’s gravel throat has retained every bit of its charm, and his band is still top-notch. The only downer of the evening is that the audience skewed so far towards the older side, as kids with heavy metal dreams would be well advised to sign up for an evening of education and learn from the best. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-08-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows

Coachella Day One: The Breeders, Tegan and Sara, Black Kids and More

While most attendees were still smuggling their stashes past security at the front gates on Coachella’s Day One, math-rock outfit Battles had a large, vocal crowd enraptured at the Gobi tent with their pounding single “Atlas.” Battles are more concerned with complex rhythms than melody, and with a pumped festival crowd feeding off their energy, the band effortlessly locked into curious, mind-blowing grooves, turning what can come off on record as slightly joyless exercises in syncopated songwriting into something spectacular and energetic, like a dancey, mutant Rage Against the Machine. A tent away, the Black Kids were proving that they’re rapidly growing into the band their early buzz promised they would become. The Jacksonville, Florida five-piece’s Motown-garage jangle came off as robust and charming in the mid-afternoon heat. The band got the crowd moving to single “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You,” a bit of poppy disco-rock that brings out the Robert Smith in frontman Reggie Young’s yelpy voice, and hit their peak on “Look at Me When I Rock With You” as Youngblood took a break from ripping out smooth-toned guitar flourishes to sling his instrument off his shoulder and boogie. Back at the Gobi tent, Dan Deacon took the stage — or rather, the floor just in front of it — and smashed away at his keyboard as walls of synth noise kept the kids jumping around to no particular rhythm, while at the Outdoor Theatre, Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington scaled the scaffolding and threatened to jump, to the delight of his fans and dismay of security (he didn’t make the leap). Click here for photos from Day One of Coachella Meanwhile a modest (and slightly older) crowd gathered at the main stage to watch the Breeders play “some songs from Pod, some songs from Last Splash, Title TK and Mountain Battles,” as Kelley Deal put it. “I can feel it,” Kim Deal intoned as the band kicked into “Overglazed,” the triumphantly droning opening

Published: 2008-04-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Coachella

My Chemical Romance Shine Some Darkness in Tempe for Tour Opener

For a complete gallery of photos from this show, click here. Normally a preppy college town baked in desert heat, Tempe, Arizona was bathed in darkness Friday night thanks to the black-clad denizens who descended upon Tempe Beach Park for My Chemical Romance’s tour kickoff. The band eschewed their black-and-white Black Parade uniforms for casual street clothing and tore through a ninety-minute set that focused primarily on 2006’s The Black Parade. However, the New Jersey-based band, playing as part of the two-day Circle K Tempe Music Festival, went back to their 2004 breathrough album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge for its opening and closing numbers: impassioned versions of breakout hits “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” and “Helena,” respectively. Frontman Gerard Way gains a little more confidence with each passing tour, and for this show he channeled the spirit of Mick Jagger: shimmying across the stage, stopping to wiggle his hips on a catwalk that projected into the mosh pit. During “This Is How I Disappear,” his bassist brother Mikey Way (wearing a fantastic T-shirt that announced, “Mikey Fuckin Way”) violently shook his head as Gerard encouraged the audience to raise their right hands. “Thanks for coming out to the fucking rock show,” Gerard said while introducing “Dead!” “Are you all ready to die?” Luckily, nobody bit the dust before the band closed the show in mid-tour form. The group that began in garages in New Jersey has graduated to one of the top arena acts in the country, and its members wear it awfully well. The kids, as they say, are all right. [Photo: Mark Peterman for RollingStone.com]

Published: 2008-03-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows

Foxy Brown Faces Blackberry-Related Assault Charge, Violent Femmes Head to Court, Fans Speculate About Radiohead Track

Foxy Brown has been charged with assault after hurling a Blackberry at her neighbor days after the two argued over the volume of the MC’s stereo. The incident may put Brown’s probation (which stemmed from 2004’s manicure assault) in jeopardy. In a move that might anticipate an influx of legal bills, Brown is leaving her career-spanning gig at Def Jam for Koch Records. Violent Femmes bassist Brian Ritchie is suing the band’s singer, Gordon Gano, for “trashing the band’s reputation” by allowing their hit “Blister in the Sun” to be featured in a Wendy’s commercial. Ritchie also alleges Gano denied him of songwriting credits. The band had just finished, peacefully, a tour of South Africa. The Hives have completed their The Black and White Album puzzle by revealing the cover art, release date (October 9th), and a new monochromatic Web site. Last March, Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood and producer Nigel Godrich recruited thirty kids from the Matrix Music School to contribute handclaps to a song. Speculation is that the claps are being used in “15 Step,” which may or may not appear on the band’s new album, due out in 2008. No bells will toll in Sacramento, as the Rock the Bells tour has canceled its stop in the California capital due to poor ticket sales. They don’t know what they’re missing. Photo: Wintrow/Getty

Published: 2007-08-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

'Madden NFL 08' Debut Turns Times Square Into A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

"Madden NFL 08" turned New York's Times Square into a block party on Monday night as the game made a glitzy debut.

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Rock List: The Twenty Most Gruesome Band Names

Last week, in honor of All Hallow’s Eve, we asked you what bands had the most gruesome, blood-curdling monikers. After reading through all your Stephen King-like reader comments (some of you kids need psychiatric help), it’s with shaky typing and petrified pride that we present our list of the Twenty Most Gruesome Band Names: 1. Cattle Decapitation 2. Dahmer’s Icebox 3. Alien Sex Fiend 4. Chainsaw Surgery 5. My Bloody Valentine 6. Southern Death Cult 7. Cannibal Corpse 8. Christian Death 9. Revolting Cocks 10. Black Sabbath 11. diSEMBOWELMENT 12. Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium 13. Dogs Die In Hot Cars 14. Throbbing Gristle 15. Carcass 16. Pig Destroyer 17. Nosferatu 18. Flesh Eaters 19. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 20. Hootie & The Blowfish

Published: 2007-10-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Kerrang! Relentless Energy Drink Tour 2009 is go!

Mindless Self Indulgence are set to return to the UK and Ireland as the headline act of next year's Kerrang! Relentless Energy Drink Tour which kicks off on January 13. The New York-based industrial-techno-punks will return to the UK for the 15-date Kerrang! Tour alongside Brit heavyweights Bring Me The Horizon, Kerrang! Award winners Black Tide and fast-rising Northern Irish trio In Case Of Fire. "We feel good!" MSI frontman Jimmy Urine tells K!. "Kerrang! and Mindless Self Indulgence will be together again, like Smokey and the Bandit or like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers! We really like that it's such an eclectic bill. I like it when there's a lot going on and people try to mix it up, that's my favourite thing. "And the food!" the singer laughs. "We're coming for the food! Oh man, I want me some bangers and mash and little Marmite sandwich! I dunno why Kerrang! have entrusted us with running the ship, though? The lunatics have taken over the asylum!" "We're psyched to play this tour," says Bring Me The Horizon vocalist Oli Sykes. "We're going to bring a bit of metal to the shows. It'll be fun to see how kids react and how we go down with our new material. Hopefully some kids will dig it, and maybe we'll even win over some new fans!" Winners of this year's Kerrang! Award for Best International Newcomers, Floridian teens Black Tide are preparing to cause havoc across the country. "We're super excited to be coming back to the UK to do the Kerrang! Tour," says bassist Zakk Sandler. "England is always so good to us and our fans there are amazing. After playing Reading and Leeds and the amazing experience at the Kerrang! Awards, we can't wait to come back and play!" Meanwhile, openers In Case Of Fire are "honoured" to be chosen as this year's opening act. "It's going to be a great tour to lead up to the release of our debut album, Align The Planets, and will be a great way to start the year," says drummer Colin Robinson. "Obviously being the opening band, it'll be a ch

Published: 2008-10-22 Provider: Kerrang!

My Chemical Romance slam the X Factor on new album

My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way says the band’s as-yet-untitled new album is a scathing attack on reality TV music shows like American idol and the UK’s X Factor. Speaking to Spinner.com, Way said the follow-up to 2006’s The Black Parade is a reaction to "the world at the moment." "There's a definite undercurrent of fame versus working class, people having stuff handed to them with zero talent versus working class kids that start a band," he said. "Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and My

Published: 2009-12-02 Provider: Kerrang!

Tom Waits Spins Yarns, Sings About Jesus at Tour Opener in Phoenix

“The world is not my home,” Tom Waits sang on the opening night of his highly anticipated U.S. tour. “I’m just passing through.” One place Waits has always made his own is the stage, so no surprise that last night’s looked like a junkyard at midnight: nebulously lit and hung in mist. Flanked by a menacing installation of horn speakers crackling out old-time phonograph music and surrounded by a graveyard of cigar-box banjoes, bullhorns and ramshackle guitars, Waits’ sextet took the stage at Phoenix’s Orpheum Theatre around 8:30 and powered into a lurching medley of “Lucinda” and “Aint Goin Down to the Well.” Set against his own towering silhouette, Waits was a drawn sketch of twisted limbs: heaving and panting like a stalled locomotive. Clutching the microphone with both hands as if it were the only thing keeping him up, he stomped his workman’s boots so hard the floorboards coughed up thick clouds of dust into the spotlight around his legs. The 25 songs the band played were fever dreams from an old, weird America whose greatest trick has been convincing the world it’s been eradicated by modern life: an underworld of “Rain Dogs,” “Eyeball Kids” and “Black Market Babies”; of “Trampled Roses” and “Christmas Cards from Hookers in Minneapolis.” “Jesus Gonna Be Here” Waits coughed, but “God’s Away on Business.” Waits’ subjects are down and out American grotesques, and he spent the better part of his performance playing the demented preacher to that set: slightly oversized suit and bowler hat, arms spread out to their length, palms down, wide hands quavering or waggling an index finger. “Does life seem nasty, brutish and short?” he sang. “Come on up to the house.” Sonically, Waits still sings like the devil he’s slated to play in the new Terry Gilliam flick, and h

Published: 2008-06-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows

Pearl Jam Showcase Rarities, Politics, Dylan and Who Covers at Bonnaroo

While most bands used Bonnaroo as a platform to play hits, Pearl Jam used their Saturday night closing set to unleash some rarities. Around 10:15 p.m., the band strolled onto the stage and unleashed “Hard to Imagine,” a gorgeous ballad that the band has only played a few dozen times since 1992. Later on, they turned out jams like “W.M.A,” and monster covers of the Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” and Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower.” Vedder — who earlier had joined Jack Johnson on a duet of the beach bum’s jam “Constellations” — got political at points during Pearl Jam’s set. Before the band performed “Gone,” Vedder spoke critically about the conspicuous rise in gas prices since George Bush took over the White House. And later, he urged the crowd to get out and vote (presumably for Barack Obama) in the November election. “A song cannot change the world,” he declared. “But this many people can change the world. How do we know? It is stitched into the fabric of our flag and it is welded into our constitution that we have the right and the responsibility to make change.” Of course, portions of the crowd were upset by Vedder’s proclamations — Bonnaroo, after all, is located in Tennessee, the heart of Bush Country. One dude even shouted, “You’re a dipshit,” before storming off the grounds. But Vedder’s political statements didn’t get in the way of their awesome set, which also featured tunes like “Black,” “Why Go,” “Even Flow” and “Corduroy.” During a cover of Victoria Williams’ haunting ballad “Crazy Mary” — which includes the lyrics “Take a bottle/ drink it down/ pass it around” — Vedder hopped off the stage to share his bottle of red wine with kids in the front row. The highlight of the band’s set was “Betterman,” during which the crowd ignited lighters and shouted along to the words, drowning out the band. Vedder seemed visibly touched by the sight, saying, “That’s fucking beautiful, man!” [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-06-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Bonnaroo