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Secrets of “The Runaways”: Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart and Co. on the Wild New Biopic

Photo: Wargo/WireImage What’s the only thing better than becoming the first acclaimed all-female rock band? Becoming the first all-female rock band to get your own biopic. At least that was the feeling during Wednesday night’s premiere of The Runaways, the true story of the five teenage girls who spent the Seventies kicking their way down the Sunset Strip and into the boys’ club. On the red carpet at New York’s Landmark Sunshine theater, the E Street Band’s Steven Van Zandt called the Runaways “

Published: 2010-03-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Kings of Leon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Wrap Austin City Limits Day One

Photo: Miller/FilmMagicThere was a large eyeball suspended at the rear of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ stage setup Friday night, a fitting prop for a band that prides itself on spectacle. The band’s Austin City Limits show was the second for which they stepped in as a replacement for the ailing Beastie Boys (the first was Lollapalooza), and if some of their typical razor sharpness had been blunted from all the subbing, that just meant that they were merely the fourth best live band around. See Day One o

Published: 2009-10-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Austin City Limits, Festivals, Rock News

Springsteen Set to Rock Full Albums at Jersey’s Giants Stadium

Photo: Cardy/AFP/Getty Even at age 60, Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band are pushing new boundaries: As Rolling Stone predicted, Bruce and the boys will perform one of their classic albums in full each night during the Rock Hall legend’s five-show stand at New Jersey’s Giants Stadium from September 30th to October 9th. The shows are also historic because they’ll mark the last-ever gigs at the stadium that has played host to so many great concerts; the venue will be demolished at the end of

Published: 2009-09-29 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Bruce Springsteen, On Tour, Rock News

Them Crooked Vultures Join Austin City Limits Lineup, Announce U.S. Tour

Photo: Dustin Rabin This year’s Austin City Limits lineup just got a lot heavier: Them Crooked Vultures, the supergroup of Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones, has been added to the festival’s Friday night (October 2nd) schedule. The band will perform from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the Xbox 360 stage, just before Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Kings of Leon’s dueling headlining sets. The YYYs are a late addition to ACL, as well: last week they quietly replaced the ailing Beastie Boys on the fest’s l

Published: 2009-09-01 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

Photo: Mazur/Wireimage The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame revealed plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary in style with a two-night birthday bash at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Among the artists on the esteemed guest list are Hall of Famers Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, U2, Simon & Garfunkel, Metallica, Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton. Stevie Wonder, Crosby, Stills & Nash and many more special guests. The Beastie Boys were forced to cancel their tour dates and push back the release of t

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

Brand New Does the Soft-Loud Thing At Gramercy Theater

Long Island emo outfit Brand New delivered an excellent conclusion to their run of hometown gigs with last night’s performance at New York’s Gramercy Theater. The show was the last in a string of four shows the band played at small clubs around the city, and were a far cry from the group’s appearance at the mammoth Bamboozle festival earlier this month, where they played before a literal cast of thousands. And so ended the emo boys’ North American tour. The band’s l

Published: 2007-05-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Live Shows

Kings of Leon serve up rock 'n' roll, Tennessee style

Arts & EntertainmentThe Kings of Leon are the kind of band that renews your faith in rock 'n' roll. They're wild boys from Tennessee whose well-crafted songs...

Published: 2007-05-03 Provider: Seattle Times

Boys Like Girls singer assaulted in Scotland

Boys Like Girls frontman Martin Johnson was attacked following his band’s gig at Glasgow’s G2 venue this past Friday night (February 19). While the exact details of the alleged assault are sketchy, Johnson posted a picture of his face following the attack on his Twitter with the accompanying message: "Wanna see a motherfucker jumped? Look at this. Fuck you." He then followed it up with a number of Tweets reassuring fans he was fine: “To those who are obviously slow, no, my band members did not b

Published: 2010-02-22 Provider: Kerrang!

Um, do YOU like the look of Nigel Martin-Smith’s new boy band?

We are grateful for the existence of Nigel Martin-Smith, because without the slightly scary pop svengali, Take That would never have existed and we wouldn’t have rude dreams every night about licking Jason Orange’s chest. However, we’re not 100 per cent convinced about his latest venture. The picture you are looking at with your eyes is of Nigel’s new boy band As Bro. Yes, As Bro. He’s manufactured the Mancunian boys in his factory of pop and they’re about to be launched into the big wide world.

Published: 2009-04-07 Provider: Heat

Tool Announce Plans to Hit the Road Summer 2009

Photo: Grimwade/WireImage Last year was a quiet one for Tool, with frontman Maynard James Keenan concentrating on Puscifer and not much activity to follow up Tool’s 2006 album 10,000 Days. But the band’s vacation will end soon, as the Tool Website has revealed plans for a summer tour. No dates have been confirmed as yet, but “once they are finalized and official, we’ll be sure to announce them on the site,” the band writes. According to a press release announcing the performers at Denver’s Mile High Festival on July 18th and 19th, Tool are confirmed headliners. The announcement of the summer trek comes as a minor surprise, as Tool tour rumors have been buzzing about the Internet. Tool was last week mentioned by the Chicago Tribune as one of the bands possibly headlining this year’s Lollapalooza festival, so the fact that the band revealed plans to tour this summer lends credence to that theory. Plus, Tool took part in the 1993 and 1997 mobile Lollapaloozas, and with rumored headliners like Jane’s Addiction, the Killers, Beastie Boys and Kings of Leon all having previously played the fest through the years, Tool’s addition makes sense. The band’s last tour was an 18-month world-spanning jaunt that kicked off at April 2006’s Coachella Festival and wrapped up December 14th, 2007 in Las Vegas. In between, the quartet headlined a night at the 2007 Bonnaroo. If you really can’t wait until this summer to see Tool, there’s some good news: Keenan will be hosting a wine signing at the Whole Foods Market today, March 26th in Houston, Texas and tomorrow at a Whole Foods in San Antonio. The Tool site promises that the tour dates will be “posted soon,” so check back with Rock Daily soon for all the details. Related Stories: • How Tool Came to “Guitar Hero World Tour”: Exclusive Video • Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer: Tool Leader Speaks on Enigmatic Side Project • Cop Buys Pot Brownie at Tool Show, Things Go Downhill From There

Published: 2009-03-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Allman Brothers Reveal Wanee Festival Details

Photo: Ufberg/WireImage As they’ve done since 2005, the Allman Brothers Band will headline two nights at the fifth annual Wanee Music Festival in Live Oak, Florida, on June 5 and 6th. This year’s Wanee fest is especially noteworthy as it coincides with the band’s yearlong 40th anniversary extravaganza, which includes a 15-night run at New York’s Beacon Theatre. Helping the Eat A Peach rockers celebrate at Wanee are Gov’t Mule, the Doobie Brothers, Toots and the Maytals, the Drive-By Truckers and many more jam-happy artists spread over the fest’s two days. Plus, the Derek Trucks Band will perform a special midnight set on Friday night and the Wailers will perform Exodus in its entirety. Tickets go on sale March 7th. Check out the full Wanee lineup below: Wanee Festival The Allman Brothers Band Gov’t Mule The Doobie Brothers Toots And The Maytals Little Feat Umphrey’s McGee Susan Tedeschi Arc Angels (Featuring guitarist and singers Doyle Bramhall II and Charlie Sexton and two former members of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s band Double Trouble, drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon) The Wailers (Performing Exodus) Drive-By Truckers Bill Kreutzmann (featuring Oteil Burbridge and Scott Murawski) Keller Williams Grace Potter & The Nocturnals Jorma Kaukonen Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance The Lee Boys with Oteil Burbridge Hill Country Revue (Formed by Cody Dickinson from The North Mississippi Allstars, also features Chris Chew from The Allstars, Kirk Smithhart, Ed “Hot” Cleveland and Dixie Dan Cobur) Devon Allman’s Honeytribe Bonobos Convergence Mocean Worker The Derek Trucks Band The Radiators

Published: 2009-02-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

L.A. Guns, Guess Who, Beach Boys Members Battle With Competing Lineups

Photo: Natkin/WireImage One night last summer, L.A. Guns took the stage at the Taste of Lombard food festival in Lombard, Illinois. At the same time, 1,200 miles away, L.A. Guns hit the stage at the Muscle Party Rockfest in Sarasota, Florida. How was this possible? Because L.A. Guns, like a growing number of acts, are touring in two competing lineups: one fronted by the group’s original guitarist, Tracii Guns, and another led by his Eighties bandmates, singer Phil Lewis and drummer Steve Riley. “Tracii’s L.A. Guns is bogus,” says Riley. “People want to hear the songs sung by the original lead singer.” Guns counters, “Those guys are a couple of dirty motherfuckers. I hired them for my band — if you get hired as a manager at McDonald’s, you don’t take over the McDonald’s.” Two versions of the Guess Who, War, Jefferson Airplane, the Temptations and the Beach Boys are all battling for bookings next summer. Band members are crying foul, lawsuits are flying, fans are confused, and promoters are tempeted to give out shows to the lowest bidder. “This has proved beyond Spinal Tap ridiculous,” says original L.A. Guns guiitarist Tracii Guns. “The next chapter would be us trying to book a convenience store and battling over the $300 they’d pay us.” To read more about how bands are dealing with their doppelgängers, check out Andy Greene’s story from issue 1072 below: • The Battle of the B-List Bands

Published: 2009-02-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News