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Watch the Strokes’ Hammond Jr. in the Studio With the Postelles

On Tuesday, the Postelles will unleash a four-track EP called White Night, which features production by the Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. and a remix by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor. Like the Strokes, the band’s members met in high school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side but soon adopted a downtown musical mentality that captured Hammond’s ear. “They found a cool sound reminiscent of the late Fifties, early Sixties that I really liked, but they had their own take on it,” the guitarist told us when we

Publicado: 2010-02-26 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Videos

Mars Volta and Mastodon Pummel the Outside Lands Festival

Photograph by Chris Tuite for RollingStone.com The Mars Volta wrapped day two at Outside Lands’ Twin Peaks stage with a thundering and delirious 90-minute set that drew Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo and their U.K. tourmates Mastodon to the side of the stage to gawk. The band, led by Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, maxed out allowable sound levels with their theatrical, histrionic brand of meandering, mystical loud-soft prog-metal. Set against a patterned bac

Publicado: 2009-08-30 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Festivals

WRITE THIS BAND'S NAME ON THE WALL

UNDER the radar and over the top: The best unknown rock band working New York -- one club at a time -- is Paris' the Wallpapers, who wowed Pianos earlier this year and played a phenomenal set at Mercury Lounge on the Lower East Side on Wednesday...

Publicado: 2009-08-28 Proveedor: New York Post Etiquetas: music news, new music, music charts, new music releases, record labels, latest music, music reviews

Single Minded: Danity Kane, Foo Fighters and Sesame Street

Various Artists, Sesame St. Songs [Covers] Proof that even Barenaked Ladies and Steven Tyler were children once. Foo Fighters, “Bargain” [Who Cover] Strange twists abound: Foo Fighters start a cover of the Who’s “Bargain,” then Dave Grohl cedes the mike to… Supergrass’s Gaz Coombes. We haven’t got a thing against Supergrass, but on a long list of likely surprise guest vocalists, Gaz ranks somewhere below Side of Ham. Diplo & Santogold, Top Ranking [Mixtape] If, for some inconceivable reason, you don’t have the Santogold record yet, this mixtape of dubs and re-workings (including a re-imagining of “Guns of Brixton”) should pacify you until you come to your senses. Danity Kane, “Damaged” [Mr. Gaspar Remix] Elevator pitch: Re-Making the Band, in which Diddy auditions a team of remixers to help breathe life into previous seasons’ victories. May Mr. Gaspar be at the top of that list. Harry Belafonte, “Jump in the Line” [John Bourke Bmore Remix] Once again, it’s Baltimore for the win — hyper-caffeinated remix of this Harry Belafonte standard creates brave new genre: apocalypso.

Publicado: 2008-07-18 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Single Minded

Zach de la Rocha’s One Day As A Lion Unveil First Song

The first song from One Day As A Lion, the side project of Rage Against the Machine’s Zach de le Rocha, has been posted on the band’s MySpace page. As “Wild International” proves, the years of recording dormancy hasn’t slowed de la Rocha’s flow, as the rapper comes roaring out of the gate and never loses speed. The song sounds like it could’ve been on RATM’s Evil Empire if not for de la Rocha’s keyboards replacing Tom Morello’s guitar wizardry. One Day As A Lion, who get their name from the quote “It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb,” will release their self-titled debut EP on July 22nd. [Photo: Getty]

Publicado: 2008-07-16 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Creation Records Founder McGee Tells Bands to “Do It Yourself”

Alan McGee, the former head of Creation Records who is credited with discovering artists like Oasis and the Libertines, spoke out against record labels in an interview with XFM. McGee urged new bands not to sign with labels, saying “I’d recommend a band not to go to any record label, I think they’re all fucking rubbish. You’re better off doing it yourself. They’re living in the past.” McGee apparently practices what he preaches, as Poptones Records, the company he founded following the demise of Creation, has pretty much ceased to exist as the music industry continues to tilt digitally. Poptones was responsible for bringing the Hives to the U.K. and released side projects of bands like the Beta Band and the Icarus Line. The label’s website went offline this past May.

Publicado: 2008-07-04 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, The Industry

Inside Joseph Arthur’s Studio: A Tour of the Songwriter’s Artistic Haven

Rock Daily recently crashed Joseph Arthur’s Rolling Stone style shoot at the singer/songwriters Brooklyn, New York art gallery (what he has dubbed the the MOMAR — Museum of Modern Arthur). He gave us a tour of his creative haven, which includes a gallery, painting studio, performance stage and even a self-built recording studio. Arthur is an art producing machine — this year he will release 4 EPs and a full-length album with his band, and has piles of paintings in his joint. “I don’t really feel like I work particularly hard,” he says. “Making paintings or music is like child’s play to me, it’s rooted in inspiration, and I think the key for any artist is to keep your inspiration alive and ignore whatever forces try to kill it.” While Arthur’s songs range from dreamy acoustic ballads to punchy rock songs, his sound tends towards a soft and sweet aesthetic. Not so with his creepily edgy artwork, which borrows from Basquiat-style graffiti and Warhol-like repetitive screen prints, and shows off a darker, more mysterious side. Click above to check out the video to see how he paints while performing music live and the incredible results.

Publicado: 2008-04-23 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Videos

Arctic Monkeys Side Project The Last Shadow Puppets Arrive in NYC

Though no one could quite remember the name of the band, a few dozen New Yorkers showed up at Brooklyn’s Sound Fix Lounge last night for a “surprise” acoustic gig by the Last Shadow Puppets: a collaboration between Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner and his mate Miles Kane from U.K. group the Rascals. The pair worked through unplugged renditions of eight songs from their forthcoming album to a crowd that included Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij. (VW fans will be pleased to know that drummer Chris Thompson is doing just fine after being hit by a taxi in London last week. “He didn’t even need stitches,” Batmanglij says.) The Puppets’ set was decidedly low-key, coming on more like noir-ish Sixties soundtrack music than the loose-limbed Brit-punk of the Arctic Monkeys. Or, as one astute fan noted: “If the Arctic Monkeys are Blur, this is the Good, The Bad and The Queen.” The duo’s debut album, The Age Of Understatement, is due out April 21st, if that sounds like your cup of tea. For our part, we were impressed. [Photo: Bao Nguyen]

Publicado: 2008-03-05 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Live Shows

Wolfmother Hard at Work on “Cinematic, Epic” New Album

Good news for fans of asskicking Australian bands: Wolfmother is hard at work on a new album. According to singer Andrew Stockdale, the band is looking to release the as-yet-untitled album early next year. “It’s kind of cinematic, and it’s kind of epic,” Stockdale says of the new disc. “But there’s also this fully-aggressive side that’s undeniably explosive.” Wolfmother have yet to select a producer, but Stockdale says they have about ten songs ready to go, including a track called “Back Home,” which is one of Stockdale’s favorites. “Other bands are like, ‘Yeah, we wrote sixty songs and edited it down to this,’” says Stockdale, who’s been wrtiting both at his new house in Brisbane and while vacationing in Byron Bay. “We spend a lot of time on each song, crafting it, changing the key, changing the arrangement, and so on. We don’t like to write thousands of songs.”

Publicado: 2007-11-20 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Advance Music, In the Studio

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

Pearl Jam kicked off the weekend’s Lollapalooza festivities in Chicago with a super-intimate gig packed with rarities and covers. Ryan Adams admitted that people still can’t get over that whole Gap-ad thing. Maynard James Keenan gave his Puscifer side project’s debut album an anatomically correct name. In honor of Prince’s Planet Earth album, Rob Sheffield explored lesser-known gems buried in the Purple One’s vast catalog. Rock Daily brought Rolling Stone’s celebration of all things Guns N’ Roses to a conclusion with a video girl photo gallery, footage of early GN’R gigs, photos from the band’s formative years and a bunch of pics of awesome hair-metal guitars.

Publicado: 2007-08-04 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

The Flaming Lips Rock in 2010 With “Dark Side of the Moon” Show

There is a reason why the Flaming Lips have become one of the most improbably famous rock bands in the world: they are ridiculous. Seeing band ring in the new year at the Cox Center, their home city’s oldest venue for arena rock — in the same room where a teenage version of frontman Wayne Coyne once saw both the Who and Led Zeppelin give lessons on rock showmanship — it’s hard not to admire the Lips’ goofy charisma and general display of balls (both literal and metaphoric). Before launching into

Publicado: 2010-01-01 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Live Shows, Rock News

Seattle band members mix and mingle to form new groups and side projects

Music & nightlifeMark Gajadhar programs beats in hip-hop trio Champagne Champagne and plays drums with prog-punks Past Lives. Past Lives' Devin Welch also plays with dub-rockers Flexions. And on it goes, in Seattle's musically promiscuous community.

Publicado: 2009-12-06 Proveedor: Seattle Times