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Cold War Kids Get Darker on “Loyalty to Loyalty”

With a stirring debut and a name inspired by Stalin, Cold War Kids quickly became a sharp-dressed band to watch. Now, on the eve of their second record, they talk about their dark sound, their humble days and the joys of an eBay guitar. Find out more about their Ayn Rand and Josiah Royce-influenced new album Loyalty to Loyalty below. • Cold New World [Photo: Ben Watts]

Published: 2008-08-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

STRONG FINNISH

LET'S play a quick game of word association: Cat? Dog. Hot? Cold. Finland? Um ... The sparsely populated (5 million) sliver of land inconveniently situated between the former U.S.S.R. and Sweden, where it's dark all winter and light all summer, is...

Published: 2007-03-10 Provider: New York Post Keywords: Myspace, metal, rock, band, pop, play, Finnish, country, singer, sold, Bam, Callisto, Finland, Goth, Helsinki, music

Hot bands for cold weather: Chart-burners headed our way this week

Arts & EntertainmentSome of the hottest young bands in the country — offering everything from emo punk to hip-hop soul — are performing in the Seattle...

Published: 2006-11-30 Provider: Seattle Times

12 Shades of White: The Many Guises of Jack White

When we posted our full report from Jack White’s private gig in Nashville last night where he debuted his new band Dead Weather, it got us thinking about the many roles White has played throughout his career — onstage, behind the scenes and onscreen. So we put together some photographs charting the Detroit rocker’s many White Stripes styles (from his simple red-and-white phase to his fringed cowboy outfits), the swashbuckling country gentleman he became while working with Loretta Lynn, plus his big-screen debut in Cold Mountain, that infamous mugshot, the Raconteurs and more. Check it out here: • 12 Shades of White: The Many Guises of Jack White

Published: 2009-03-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Hype Monitor: Celeste, Jean on Jean, La Roux

The Band: Celeste The Buzz: Grim, grinding French metal band releases latest album for free, giving unlimited darkness and doom to all. Listen If: You consider Dillinger Escape Plan “soft rock.” Key Track: “Que Des Yeux Vides et Seches,” a knot of razor-wire guitars and seared-larynx vocals, the sound of an elevator ride to the underworld. The Band: Jean on Jean The Buzz: The inverse of Celeste: sweet, soft, female-fronted pop that blend shoegaze vocals with starry-eyed strumming. Listen If: You’re excited about the return of lo-fi, but wish some of the melodies were a bit stronger and a lot warmer. Key Track: “Cold Horse,” which sounds like it was rescued from the dusty archives of forgotten dreampoppers Lush. The Band: La Roux The Buzz: Dance dance revolution! Big beats and bright synths make for perky, catchy electropop. Listen If: You’re DJing a dance night in Berlin and you’ve run out of MGMT remixes Key Track: “In for the Kill,” where breathy female vocals float over morse code synths like cotton balls over a bed of nails.

Published: 2009-02-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Breaking

Weekend Rock List: Cold Songs

It figures that the week we put a band called Coldplay on our cover, temperatures on the Eastern seaboard touched a hundred degrees. In an attempt to at least try to keep cool in our heads, this week’s Rock List is dedicated to “cold” songs. Let us know what songs with frosty subject matter are your favorites and next week we’ll reveal the Readers’ List of Best Cold Songs. Before we go and commune with the peas in our freezer, check out our picks: GZA - “Cold World” Vanilla Ice - “Ice Ice Baby” Madonna - “Frozen” John Cale - “Antarctica Starts Here” Prince - “Sometimes It Snows in April” [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-06-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Cold War Kids Showcase “Behave Yourself,” Creedence Cover Live at Rolling Stone

Cold Wars Kids recently stopped by the Rolling Stone offices for an intimate performance of a pair of songs off the band’s recent EP Behave Yourself. Above, watch the Long Beach indie rockers showcase the EP’s opening track “Audience,” then hit the jump for two more songs: Behave Yourself’s “Santa Ana Winds” and a moving cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Cosmo’s Factory closer “Long As I Can See the Light,” which the band has been performing live at recent shows. “Santa Ana Winds”: “Long

Published: 2010-02-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Live at Rolling Stone

This rocker has no sour grapes

If you know him at all, you probably know Maynard James Keenan as the frontman for the art metal band Tool, renowned for such refined ditties as "Disgustipated," "Cold and Ugly" and "Stinkfist."

Published: 2009-06-01 Provider: Journal Sentinel Online

STILL MAKING A NAME FOR HIMSELF

LISTENING to Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears' new album, "Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!" could make you break out in a cold sweat. The eight-piece band out of Austin, Texas, is one of those throwback soul ensembles powered by Memphis-style horns...

Published: 2009-03-31 Provider: New York Post Keywords: music news, new music, music charts, new music releases, record labels, latest music, music reviews

Taking the measure of folk-pop band the Pica Beats

Music & nightlifeThe Pica Beats celebrate their new release, "Beating Back the Claws of the Cold," at Seattle's Chop Suey on Thursday, Oct. 9, and Reverb Fest on Saturday, Oct. 4, will feature 65 acts including Moondoggies, Aqueduct, Shim, Grayskul, and See Me River.

Published: 2008-10-03 Provider: Seattle Times

Hellyeah confirm new album tracklisting

Metal supergroup Hellyeah have confirmed the tracklisting for the new album, Stampede. The band, who feature Pantera, Mudvayne, Nothingface and Damageplan, will release the follow up to their 2007 self-titled debut on June 28 through Spinefarm. The tracklisting is as follows: 01 The Cowboy Way 02 Debt That All Men Pay 03 Hell Of A Time 04 Stampede 05 Better Man 06 It's On! 07 Pole Rider 08 Cold As A Stone 09 Stand Or Walk Away 10 Alive And Well 11 Order The Sun

Published: 2010-05-28 Provider: Kerrang!

New Reviews: U2, Neko Case, The Prodigy, Wild Light and More

Even though there are less and less places to buy albums, with every Tuesday comes a fresh batch of new releases. We’ve already gone on and on about this week’s — and possibly this year’s — biggest release, U2’s No Line on the Horizon, so let’s focus on some of the other artists looking to coax the dollars out of your pocket this cold March 3rd: First up, there’s Neko Case and her stellar fifth album Middle Cyclone, which earned a four-star rating from this here magazine. Joined by members of the New Pornographers, Calexico and Los Lobos, “the result is hypnotic alt-country twang, with reverb-slathered guitars ringing out over music-box plinks and moaning cellos,” writes Jody Rosen. If you’re looking for a female foil to all the Bono pouring out of your speakers, this is the album for you. Rave-rockers the Prodigy are back with frontman Kevin Flint for their first album since 1997 with Invaders Must Die. First “Smack My Bitch Up,” now they’re ready to smack your ears up with an album no one here really enjoyed that much, hence its one-and-a-half star review. “It’s all pummeling, vacuous rave noise — useful mainly for thrash dancing and scaring neighbors.” Perhaps your ears would prefer something else this week, like… Wild Light’s Adult Nights. These New Hampshire guitar romantics have already opened for the Arcade Fire, and some of that Quebec band’s signature sound along with the “suave moping of Eighties Brit pop” is all over Wild Light’s debut. If you’re not convinced by our review, we’ll have much more on Wild Light in our Breaking item tomorrow. As for the best of the rest, check out the albums below: • Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At the Movies • Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway • The Answer - Everyday Demons

Published: 2009-03-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News