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Neil Young, Tom Waits, Metallica Highlight Annual Bridge School Benefit Although it lacked the all-star collaborations of years’ past, Neil Young’s annual Bridge School Benefit was still full of surprises. Featuring sets by the likes of Young, John Mayer, Tegan and Sara and Jerry Lee Lewis, this year’s event (which took place Saturday and Sunday at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, California) did not disappoint, despite a last-minute cancellation by Eddie Vedder, who was replaced by perennial Bonnaroo heroes My Morning Jacket. The undisputed highlight of the concert was Tom Waits, who was backed by the Kronos Quartet during his half-hour set. Headliners Metallica took a break from working on their next LP to frustrate/confuse/entertain the audience with odd covers of Rare Earth (”I Just Want to Celebrate”!), Nazareth and Dire Straits songs, while interspersing some selections from their own albums. To revisit the Bridge School event yourself, check out our photo gallery.
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Published: 2007-10-30
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Hear Rolling Stone’s Favorite New Tracks including Down, Iron and Wine and Mark Knopfler Down, “I Scream” Phil Anselmo combines neck-brace metal with white soul to sing about his favorite anger-management method. [Listen]-[Review] Iron and Wine, “White Tooth Man” Appalachian folk gets psychedelic in this campfire song about a cop, an Indian chief and a guy with a suspiciously clean mouth. [Listen]-[Review] Mark Knopfler, “Let It All Go” The former Dire Straits figurehead plays a recovering guitar god on this ode to an artist in pursuit of the perfect red paint. [Listen]-[Review] Devendra Banhart, “Sea Horse” An extended hippie jam complete with guitar noodling, flutes and a vision of being “high and happy and free.” [Listen]-[Review]
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Published: 2007-09-28
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Key Tracks
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The 25 Coolest Guitar Solos We asked for the greatest guitar solos of all time. You gave us your nominations (including some riffs — we’ll get to those another time, folks). After much complicated tallying, here’s the final list: 1. “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” Guns N’ Roses 2. “Freebird,” Lynyrd Skynyrd 3. “One,” Metallica 4. “Comfortably Numb,” Pink Floyd 5. “Marquee Moon,” Television 6. “Crossroads,” Cream 7. “Purple Rain,” Prince 8. “Machine Gun,” Jimi Hendrix 9. “Ball and Biscuit,” The White Stripes 10. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” The Beatles 11. “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin 12. “Eruption,” Van Halen 13. “November Rain,” Guns N’ Roses 14. “Alive,” Pearl Jam 15. “Paranoid Android,” Radiohead 16. “Maggot Brain,” Funkadelic 17. “Fortunate Son,” Creedence Clearwater Revival 18. “Time,” Pink Floyd 19. “Hotel California,” Eagles 20. “Cinnamon Girl,” Neil Young 21. “Yellow Ledbetter,” Pearl Jam 22. “Telegraph Road,” Dire Straits 23. “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” Allman Brothers 24. “Soma,” Smashing Pumpkins 25. “Scar Tissue,” Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Published: 2007-08-07
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock Lists
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LiLo's finances in 'dire' straitsTroubled actress Lindsay Lohan was recently 'two months behind in rent,' according to celebrity gossip website TMZ.
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Published: 2010-04-02
Provider: Canoe
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Knopfler declines Straits reunionDire Straits bassist John Illsley reveals how he has tried to persuade former bandmate Mark Knopfler to reform the group.
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Published: 2008-10-07
Provider: BBC
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Viacom Freelancers Protest in Times Square: ‘I Want Teeth’Photo: AnonymousThe section of 42nd Street directly below the glass-walled studio where MTV's Total Request Live is filmed is usually occupied by screaming fans of pop-music acts and MTV personalities, but at 3 p.m. today it was filled with nearly 300 MTV employees, who gathered outside the Viacom building to protest the drastic cuts the company is making to the benefit plans of its full-time freelancers. "The TRL people were all looking down at us," said one freelancer. "We booed them." They may have been angry, but the protesters weren't uncreative: They held aloft signs bearing twisted Viacom logos — Nickelodeon became "Sickolodeon" and MTV "WTF." They were even musical, chanting "I want my benefits" to the tune of the Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing," and "You've Got to Fight for Your Right to Health Care!" to the Beastie Boys' "You've Gotta Fight for Your Right (to Party)!" "It was pretty catchy," said one freelancer, who added that some of the chants were more direct. "There was one where everyone just shouted, 'I want teeth,'" she said. But the protests weren't, after all, just for fun. "We deserve to be able to take care of our bodies when we get sick," said the freelancer about the new health plan, which she called "a piece of shit." "We're worth more than that."
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Published: 2007-12-10
Provider: New York Magazine
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Stars shine at Palm Springs festPALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The world economy is in dire straits, but you sure wouldn't know it from the red carpet at the 20th-annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala.
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Published: 2009-01-07
Provider: Canoe
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AUTHOR DEALS WITH DIRE STRAITSYOU'VE read author JT LeRoy's been sued by a multimillionaire film exec utive who bought his life story "Sarah" then learned Mr. JT LeRoy was, in fact, a lady named Laura Albert. Claiming "hoax . . . fraud," this exec won a judgment of $110,000 plus...
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Published: 2007-08-08
Provider: New York Post
Keywords: week, God, mother, wanted, went, JT, LeRoy, York, abused, child, gave, help, lead, problems, under, cindy
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