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Sean Combs - Diddys Boys Replace Diddys Girls At The TopRap mogul SEAN COMBS has scored an odd double at the top of the U.S. albums chart by replacing one band he created with another. Day26, who won Diddy's most recent Making ...
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Published: 2008-04-02
Provider: Contact Music
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Fall Out Boy: Monsters Of Rock? Band's Tour To Have 'Where The Wild Things Are' ThemeFall Out Boy's arena-tour theme will be inspired by "Where the Wild Things Are," as well as Hollywood's bad girls.
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Published: 2007-08-16
Provider: VH1
Keywords: Artist, Shadow, Album, Index, Ultra, Hard, VH1, Movies, News, Rock, A-Z, on, TV,
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Single Minded: Robyn, Portishead, The Roots and More Robyn, “Who’s That Girl” [Full Album Stream] The new Madonna record is also out today, but we figure you know a lot about that already. Instead, try this track from Robyn, who’s referred to as the Madonna of Sweden. Coincidentally, this track is called “Who’s That Girl.” Can a mock crucifixion on a particleboard, assemble-it-yourself cross and a starring role in Desperately Seeking Sven be far behind? Portishead, “Machine Gun” [MySpace] The title does not deceive: Portishead’s return is angry, threatening and violent, full of tight bursts of sound and long, terrified wails. “Machine Gun” is theoretically the album’s single, but if there’s a radio station that will play this, please send us the call letters immediately Robert Forster, “Pandanus” [Yep Roc] Two years after the death of his songwriting partner Grant McLennan, one half of the greatest band that ever was returns with a bright, hopeful solo record that honors the memory of his friend. Estelle, “American Boy” [Live on Letterman] We’re cheating with this one, but only because this live version is so good. Breathless and soulful and speedy, it would be played at every wedding in the country, if wedding DJs all simultaneously got struck by a giant cinder block and realized that KC & the Sunshine Band are terrible and that nobody, nobody likes doing the macarena. The Roots, “Rising Up” [Official Site] On this cut from the excellent-as-usual new Roots record, Chrisette Michelle complains, “The radio’s been playing the same song all day long.” If only that song was this one, she’d have nothing to complain about.
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Published: 2008-04-29
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Single Minded
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The Hold Steady Enter “Aquarium” to Record New Album Brooklyn-via-Minnesota rockers the Hold Steady announced on their Web site that they’ve finished preproduction work on the follow-up to Boys and Girls in America, which Rolling Stone deemed the one of the top ten albums of 2006. After enduring the longest stretch of time out of the recording studio in the band’s history, singer Craig Finn says, “I’ve never looked forward to being placed in a giant aquarium with headphones like I have been lately.” The group will take January and February to record the new album, during which time they’ll post “photos and updates for those interested,” which should mean everyone. There’s no target release date yet, but safe money says 2008 will bring a new Hold Steady record.
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Published: 2007-12-19
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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SURELY WON'T BE ASKING FOR 'MORETEEN pop-punk outfit Paramore had a peril ous encounter with bad sound at their sold-out, tour-ending performance Wednesday at Roseland. The three-boys-and-a-girl band - fronted by cute 'n' perky Hayley Williams - made the amateur decision to crank...
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Published: 2007-11-30
Provider: New York Post
Keywords: band, Williams, sound, boys, singer, music
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“Gimme Shelter” Director Albert Maysles Focuses In on Fall Out Boy From the strange collaboration department: Famed documentarian Albert Maysles has found a new subject to focus his lens on: Fall Out Boy. According to reports, the eighty-year-old Maysles has been ridin’ dirty on the Fall Out Boy tour bus, filming behind-the-scenes footage of the band for an upcoming documentary. Take a moment, check the Imdb and collect your thoughts. Maysles and his deceased brother David were the auteurs behind films like the Rolling Stones rockumentary Gimme Shelter, Salesman, Rock Daily favorite Grey Gardens (pictured above), countless films about the artwork of Christo and behind-the-scenes shorts about the making of Wes Anderson films. Now, the octogenarian is hanging with Fall Out Boy? We can only imagine the footage he’s collected so far: Pete Wentz blogging away on his computer, Ashlee Simpson floating in and out of frame, legions of teenage girls screaming, Patrick Stump practicing guitar riffs, Wentz faux-DJng at his club. Actually, the possibilities are endless. Keep rolling, Al. Related Stories: Fall Out Boy, the Intellectuals? Wentz and Stump Wax Philosophical on Gender, Tragedy Fall Out Boy to “Wild Things” Author: Oops, Sorry! Rock Bloggin’: Fall Out Boy Breaks Upper Cankle, ‘Tween Girls Line Up To Sign Cast
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Published: 2007-12-06
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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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.
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Published: 2008-01-31
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Fricke's Picks, Rock Daily
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Osbourne Auction Nets $800,000 For Charity, Radiohead “Jigsaw” Video Airs on YouTube, “Guitar Hero” and “Warcraft” Makers Merge Ozzy Osbourne’s infamous “bat coat,” which he donned on The Osbournes, sold for $3,300 at an auction this weekend that saw the family selling many of its most prized possessions for charity. A coffee mug Ozzy used on the TV show went for $1,625, while a sculpture by Edouard Douret sold for $10,500. Altogether, the Ozzchandise raised more than $800,000 for the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program. Radiohead’s “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” video, shown during the band’s Webcast, has officially been released to YouTube. Meanwhile, the discbox option of In Rainbows, featuring eight new songs, has begun hitting mailboxes worldwide. While the band’s merchandiser w.a.s.t.e. e-mailed customers yesterday saying that the box should reach U.S. customers in “five to eighteen days,” those lucky enough to live in Europe (they received theirs today) have leaked its contents on the Web. Check out Brian Wilson’s “Smart Girls,” a semi-sorta rap song the Beach Boys brainchild recorded in 1989 with his associate Dr. Eugene Landy playing the role of hype man. The song was released as a limited-edition cassingle (remember those?) as a personal gift to 250 of his friends and associates for the holidays back when the first George Bush was in power. While nearly every industry profited this past Black Friday, CD sales still slumped, with the number of albums sold coming in eighteen percent less than the same weekend last year. As a result of the endless beatdown on the record companies, Island/Def Jam and SonyBMG have begun cutting jobs. In a merger of truly epic proportions, video game companies Activision and Blizzard — a.k.a. the makers of Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft, respectively — have merged in a $18 billion deal.
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Published: 2007-12-04
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup, Radiohead's "In Rainbows"
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Fall Out Boy, the Intellectuals? Wentz and Stump Wax Philosophical on Gender, Tragedy Fall Out Boy mouthpiece Pete Wentz and singer-songwriter Patrick Stump took some time the past few days for some real talk. On NPR’s All Things Considered, Wentz spoke at length about how he likes to mess with gender roles, then broke out an exhibition on how to properly apply “guyliner.” Wentz said he chooses to distort gender, taking it as far as subbing “he” and “she” in his lyrics and kissing his male bandmates onstage as a way of getting people to confront their own homophobia. Wentz cited David Bowie, Marilyn Manson and Kurt Cobain as inspirations for his sexual juggling act, and admitted that his gender play has led some to believe he’s secretly gay. “I would never come out and say I’m gay, because I’m not gay,” Wentz said. “There’s part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that comes from anybody constantly wishing they were in the minority and constantly wants to be fighting everybody off.” The same day, Stump wrote to Absolute Punk to express his sorrow about the recent deaths of Kanye West’s mother, Donda, and Hawthorne Heights‘ Casey Calvert (he also cryptically referred to “horrible news of a tragedy I will keep quiet that happened on my own tour”). At the end of the post, Stump told fans, “I want to let everyone know, even the people that hate my band and say mean things every time someone leaks some ridiculously fake scandal and slaps my best friend’s name on it, we are all doing this little thing called music. That makes us family, however dysfunctional. Don’t take your friends for granted and hug your loved ones every chance you get.” Related Stories: Fall Out Boy and Gym Class Heroes Enjoy the Internet, Using Their Hands Fall Out Boy to “Wild Things” Author: Oops, Sorry! Rock Bloggin’: Fall Out Boy Breaks Upper Cankle, ‘Tween Girls Line Up To Sign Cast
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Published: 2007-12-04
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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David Byrne, Krist Novoselic, Carrie Brownstein Put the “Rock” In “Rock Writing” Even though this has absolutely nothing to do with the writers’ strike that’s crippling Hollywood, it’s interesting to note the recent influx of musicians who are temporarily ditching their day jobs to become music writers. Case in point: Former Talking Head David Byrne, who trekked to England last week to interview Radiohead’s Thom Yorke for an upcoming issue of Wired (the idea makes sense, especially since Radiohead took their name from a song off the Talking Heads’ True Stories). Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein has also joined the rock bloggin’ act (that is, when she isn’t making hilarious videos with Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen as the comedy team ThunderAnt) as the author of Monitor Mix, NPR’s new music blog (sample post: “Songs in commercials are the arranged marriages of the music business, with the fans as the naive bride or groom, forced to pair that which they hold dear with something they have yet to meet”). Then there’s Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, who just began writing for the Seattle Weekly. While Novoselic talks at length about his band’s breakthrough hit “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” it’s obvious that his interests still lie mainly with political writing. What gave us that idea? “Popular political thinking is like a three-legged stool. One leg is reactionary conservatism, another reactionary liberalism and the third apathy. All three seat into to a centralized government / economic structure.” For the moment, it doesn’t seem like Novoselic (the author of Of Grunge and Government: Let’s Fix This Broken Democracy!) is gunning for our jobs at the Rock Daily blog, but Tim Dickinson over at National Affairs better watch his back. Related Stories: Rock Bloggin’: Courtney Love Disses Madonna, Starts Poorly Spelled War of Words Rock Bloggin’: Fall Out Boy Breaks Upper Cankle, ‘Tween Girls Line Up To Sign Cast Rock Bloggin
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Published: 2007-11-13
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Reality Show Recap: Not a Boy Band, Not Yet a ‘Man Band’ Misson: Man Band tracks a reality show’s efforts to restore four former boy-banders to their chart-topping glory. Rock Daily’s Reality Show Recaps will track our efforts to be sympathetic to their cause. Here’s our first report: Welcome to Mission: Man Band, VH1’s new half-hour sad-sack fest that gathers the runts of Lou Pearlman’s litter and convinces them to make a new, six-pack-abs-free, over-thirty boy band. One episode in and already we have a mutiny: Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees (the one who wasn’t a Lachey) faces the difficult decision of whether to be involved in the project or go back to living in his parents’ house in Orange County, CA (he picks the band). You know these guys are in trouble when producers misspell their names immediately following the opening credits. Go back and check the TiVo: They spelled the ‘NSYNC member’s name wrong on the first attempt (welcome to “Chris Kirkpatirck’s House” in Orlando, FL). Sadly, this would not be the saddest part of the episode, which is reserved for Bryan Abrams of Color Me Badd, who prays to God that the Man Band works out while he pushes around giant tires at his job in Oklahoma. The last member of our all-star quartet is Rich Cronin of LFO, who sang that song about girls wearing Abercrombie & Fitch and has been battling leukemia (he’s got a regimen of meds that would impress Lindsay Lohan in his bedroom). So far the foursome have a shark of a manager and a renewed will to sing. But will anyone want to hear it? We’ve got a whole season’s worth of episodes to find out …
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Published: 2007-08-08
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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And You Shall Know Them by the Herd of Geeks: A Quick Guide to Harry Potter BandsHarry Potter hysteria culminates tonight at 12:01 AM with the official release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in the series. Nobody in the rock world will be as psyched as those folks who have formed bands named after Potter characters … to play music inspired by Potter characters. Here’s a guide to the world’s foremost wizard-rock outfits (a bunch who make surprisingly few wand jokes): Band Name: Harry and the Potters Name Inspiration: No mystery here Sample Lyric: “We’ve got to save Ginny Weasley from the basilisk / We’ve got to save the school again” — “Save Ginny Weasley” Band Name: The Remus Lupins Name Inspiration: Harry’s third year Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and old pal of his father’s who happens to be a warewolf Sample Lyric: “Know you tried to make Hogwarts proud / So I’ll keep them singing, singing out loud / Remember Cedric Diggory” — “Remember Cedric” Band Name: The Moaning Myrtles Name Inspiration: Moaning Myrtle, the girl ghost who lives in the second floor girls’ bathroom at Hogwarts and died after the Chamber of Secrets was opened Sample Lyric: “Bathrooms are great places for peep shows / Cedric Diggory’s really hot without his clothes” — “Prefects are Hot” Band Name: Draco and the Malfoys Name Inspiration: Harry’s arch nemesis at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy Sample Lyric: “Harry Potter, you know that I hate you / You always think you’re better than me” — “The Power of Love” Band Name: The Parselmouths Name Inspiration: The select group of wizards who can speak the language of snakes Sample Lyric: “Who’s that girl who’s always first to raise her hand? / Her name’s Hermione and boy she makes me mad” — “What Kind of name is Hermoine?” Band Name: The Whomping Willows Name Inspiration: The gnarled tr
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Published: 2007-07-21
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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