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Fergie wants a baby after tour

Black Eyed Peas star Fergie is planning to start a family with husband Josh Duhamel as soon as the band's current tour is over.

Published: 2009-12-10 Provider: Canoe

News Ticker: Alice In Chains, “Star Wars: In Concert,” Independent Music Awards, More

Photo: Verdy/AFP Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan used his Seattle Weekly column this week to write glowingly about the return of Alice In Chains. “Last Saturday in Detroit, Alice played their first gig in the campaign that will support the release of their first record this decade,” McKagan writes. “A tour that I think will cement them as the premier rock band on this planet.” Alice in Chains’ new album Black Gives Way to Blue is out September 29th, exactly 17 years to the day the band rel

Published: 2009-07-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

New Reviews: Silversun Pickups, Metric, The Boy Least Likely To and Ida Maria

Up-and-coming rockers are the story on shelves this week in New Reviews. First up: Los Angeles shoegazers Silversun Pickups and their second album Swoon. “The guitar distortion that eats up much of the air on Swoon — the fine, at times genuinely exciting second album by Silversun Pickups — comes in many forms, including wounded-bear roars, pissed-off-snake hisses and black-syrup rivers of drone,” David Fricke writes in his three-and-a-half star review, noting the band draws on Nineties alternati

Published: 2009-04-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Ronnie James Dio, heavy metal star, dies

By Whitney Pastorek Fronted Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne's departure, as well as his own band; he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer last fall

Published: 2010-05-17 Provider: Entertainment Weekly Keywords: Partners, CNN Home RSS Feed

Black Eyed Peas - William Inspired Cole To Go Solo

BLACK EYED PEAS star WILL.I.AM convinced British singer CHERYL COLE to go solo and take a break from pop band GIRLS ALOUD.Cole teamed up with the rapper last year...

Published: 2009-10-22 Provider: Contact Music

Eminem, Jimmy Page, Flea Among Presenters At 2009 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony

Eminem, Jimmy Page, Ronnie Wood and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the artists who will induct the 2009 class of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers at a ceremony in Cleveland on April 4. Eminem, who returns from a long hiatus with a pair of Relapse albums due out this year, will welcome rap icons Run-DMC into the Rock Hall. San Francisco metal gods Metallica will be inducted by Flea, whose own band will become Rock Hall-eligible next year. (Photos: see this year’s Rock Hall class and the artists who will honor them.) One Yardbird will induct another as Jimmy Page salutes his former band mate and fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Jeff Beck. This will be Beck’s second time as an inductee: he entered the Hall as a Yardbird in 1992; this time it’s for his solo work. (Page, himself a two-time Hall of Famer reentered as a member of Led Zeppelin in ‘95.) This year’s all-star jam already promises to be a guitar fan’s dream. Not only will Beck, Page and James Hetfield be on hand, but Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood will be there to induct R&B singer-guitarist Bobby Womack. A pair of popular late-night television musicians will also be on hand. David Letterman’s sidekick Paul Shaffer will honor songwriting great Spooner Oldham, while E Streeter and Late Night with Conan O’Brien bandleader Max Weinberg will welcome DJ Fontana into the Hall. Another E Street Band member will take the stage when bassist Garry Tallent posthumously inducts Elvis Presley’s bassist Bill Black. Finally, Smokey Robinson will take the podium to pay tribute to vocal group Little Anthony & the Imperials. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be carried live on Fuse at 9 pm on April 4, and Rolling Stone will have you covered in the days leading up to the event. For all the cover stories, photo histories, definitive playlists and each artist’s road to the Rock Hall, be sure to check out our essential coverage: • Rolling Stone’s Essential Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Coverage

Published: 2009-03-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Slipknot: "We're gonna be bigger than Metallica"

Slipknot percussionist Chris Fehn believes that the Iowan nontet have the potential to be bigger than Metallica. "I think we're going to overtake [them]," Fehn told Kansas City Star. "We haven't even made our [Metallica's 1991] Black record yet. Wait until we do that. It's over, dude. We're going to overtake any band that sells out soccer arenas in Europe. We're going to do it. We're the last chance as far as the world goes."

Published: 2009-01-22 Provider: Kerrang!

Shane West on Joining the Germs and “What We Do Is Secret”

After years of drama, this Friday sees the long-awaited release of What We Do Is Secret, the biopic that tracks the rise and fall of notorious Los Angeles punk icons the Germs. Formed in 1977, Darby Crash, Pat Smear, Lorna Doom and Don Bolles became notorious for loud, fast songs about sex and destruction which they played with amateurish glee at their riot-inducing live shows. In recent years, the band has seen something of a renaissance, touring occasionally with What We Do Is Secret star Shane West in place of the late Crash. “I never thought so much fun being a Germ,” West says. “But I always remember that Darby was booed off the stage a lot back in the day, too.” Click above for an exclusive clip from What We Do Is Secret. How did you end up in this role? To be honest there’s no great story. I just had an audition the meeting came through, and I jumped up and was like “really, they’re doing what?” I’m thankful it’s so independent, because otherwise I don’t think I would have had the opportunity to do it. It was difficult, but that’s what I feel when the best movies come because you’re not trying to care about foreign rights or who is getting people into the seats. You’re actually trying to make the movie good. Were you a Germs fan before, or did your research of Darby come after you got the role? The real research started to begin when I got the role. I had heard the regular set of punk bands out of the L.A. scene: Black Flag, the Germs, X. I had heard of Darby’s legend, but that’s it. I knew of “Lexicon Devil” and “Circle One.” I might have heard those two songs. Is it difficult playing somebody who actually lived? It seems it’d be hard to keep the balance between the actual facts and you’re interpretation who Darby was. I had never done it before. I think it’s gonna be different for any actor or actress who has that chance. I’m not a method actor, but I feel it’s good to be somewhat method when it has something to do with a character like that. I also feel

Published: 2008-08-06 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Videos

Lyle Lovett Meets Ghostface Killah: How Rock-Biopic-Spoof “Walk Hard” Got Its Theme Song

This week, Lyle Lovett released his thirteenth album, It’s Not Big It’s Large. The title is indeed a joke, but probably not the first one that comes to mind. “We had done these arrangements with horn parts, but I’m a folk singer, basically, so the joke was ‘the large band,’” rather than a big band, he explains. “Any time you have a chance to make a joke, you’ve got to take it.” With that credo in mind, the singer-songwriter was perfectly suited to join up with comic genius Judd Apatow on his latest project, the music mockumentary Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Lovett, who has appeared on film several times in the past (remember his turns in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Opposite of Sex?) will be gracing the big screen once again this December alongside Jack White, Eddie Vedder, Jewel and Jack Black in a spoof that tracks the long and strange career of Johnny Cash-style figure Cox (John C. Reilly). Lovett says he was drawn into the project by its co-writer, Jake Kasdan. “I originally talked to him about writing one of the songs, which I never did,” he says. “I ended up getting to sing [the film’s title song] with Jackson Browne, Jewel and Ghostface Killah, which was really fun, but Marshall Crenshaw actually wrote it.” The track is Cox’s biggest hit, and Lovett and Co. appear onscreen briefly as an all-star band in one of the film’s last scenes, when Vedder hands over Cox’s lifetime achievement award at a Grammy-style ceremony. “We shot one day at the Shrine [auditorium in Los Angeles],” Lovett says. The track, he adds, came together effortlessly. “I had met Jackson years ago and he’s always been really kind to me over the years. And I had met Jewel but I had never sung with her. She was great to work with. And it was the first time to meet Ghostface Killah. It was very cool, he’s very cool. There’s a breakdown in our version, in the middle of

Published: 2007-08-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Single Minded: Cool Tracks From Paramore, Amy Winehouse, Sean Kingston, Eve and Bat for Lashes

Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more. Paramore, “Born For This” [Live, Fuse] Lightning-speed power punk seconds away from detonation. Hayley Williams sings, “We want the airwaves back!” and we go, “Would you like us to throw in the TV as well?” Remind us again why this band isn’t enormous? Sean Kingston feat. Fabolous, Sheek Louch, AC, Collie Buddz, Brick & Lace, JoJo, “Beautiful Girls Megamix” [Remix, Imeem] Seven-minute track combines all existing versions of the Sean Kingston summer juggeranut “Beautiful Girls.” Except for that one with Ben E. King. Bat for Lashes, “I’m On Fire” [Live/Bruce Springsteen Cover, Popdrivel] Ever wonder what it would be like if the Boss revered Robin Guthrie instead of Woody Guthrie? Okay, neither have we. But this cover is still terrifically chilling. Eve, “Party Like a Rock Star” [Live/Shop Boyz Reappropriation, AOL] How do you save a sort of mediocre summer jam? Put Eve on it. Her motormouthed rapid-fire flow decimates the track, working breathless magic in under two minutes. Amy Winehouse, “Tears Dry on Their Own,” “He Can Only Hold Her,” “Back to Black” [Daily Motion] Considering the fact that she both a) showed up and b) sang on-key, we’re tempted to label these “rare tracks.” Photo: Natalie Zfat 

Published: 2007-08-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Fricke’s Picks: The Monks

The silver lining around the passing on January 10th of banjo player Dave Day Havlicek of Sixties extreme-beat band the Monks (he died of heart failure at age sixty-six) is that he lived long enough to see the group ascend to its rightful place on garage-rock Olympus. Five ex-GIs based in Germany, the Monks dressed like Franciscans (complete with the clerical haircuts) and played a severe rock descended from the Star Club-era Beatles but shorn of the rockabilly and Motown influences and standard pop-song grammar (”Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Choice,” “Oh, How to Do Now”), with Day’s rapid-fire banjo chords sounding like he was strumming bamboo. At once ultraprimitive and the future of rock two decades hence, the Monks were post-punk before there were punks, an achievement nailed on the group’s sole album, 1966’s Black Monk Time (of the various reissues, get one with the non-LP singles). Deeper listening: Demo Tapes 1965 (Play Loud!), a one-day session even more rude and brittle than the ‘66 album, and Silver Monk Time: A Tribute to the Monks (Play Loud!), two CDs of homage by assorted Monks spawn, including the Fall, the Gossip, Jon Spencer and a combo called the Havletones — with Day himself pummeling that banjo.

Published: 2008-01-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Fricke's Picks, Rock Daily

Snoop Teams Up With Beckham, Winehouse Appeals Marijuana Charge, Arcade Fire Get Bottled

It’s not quite Dr. Dre, but Snoop Dogg has found a new Los Angelino to collaborate with: David Beckham. Snoop and Posh Spice’s hubby have formed an unusual bond (Beckham has even taught Dogg’s kids how to play soccer). The Doggfather says, “We’re talking about putting our money together to do a movie. It’s incredibly exciting. We both love fashion too, and we might even do a fashion label as well.” Amy Winehouse will appeal the marijuana-possession fine she paid after being arrested in Norway. Winehouse didn’t know that agreeing to pay a fine was equivalent to pleading guilty. The incident ultimately forced the singer to cancel her appearance at next week’s MTV’s Woodies. RS Breaking Artist the Black Lips will star in Let It Be, a movie loosely based on the story of alterna-gods the Replacements, as evidenced by the film’s title, which shares its name with an album by Paul Westerberg’s outfit. Repeat, this has nothing to do with the Beatles. The Arcade Fire have become the latest victim of the old British pastime of “bottle-hurling,” as Win Butler took one in the face during the band’s Halloween show in Nottingham. After a second bottle narrowly avoided hitting Butler, the AF singer declared the band would “never play Nottingham again.” Bling king Jacob the Jeweler will plead guilty to two counts of making false statements to investigators. Jacob also faced more severe money laundering charges, but those charges have been dropped thanks to the plea deal. He’s expected to serve roughly three to four and a half years in jail.

Published: 2007-11-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup