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New Music Report: Metric, Doves

In this week’s New Music Report, Rolling Stone’s Kevin O’Donnell takes a look at Metric’s new album Fantasies, and the band provides some insight into the writing of single “Gimme Sympathy” in a video interview. Metric’s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw recently popped in the RS offices to perform acoustic versions of tracks off Fantasies, the quartet’s first album in four years. In Rolling Stone’s three-and-a-half star review of the LP, contributing editor Christian Hoard writes, “Emily Haines deliv

Published: 2009-04-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Videos, New Music Report

Kingdom Of Rust by Doves

The fourth album for the British rock band was co-produced with Dan Austin and John Leckie. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2009-04-07 Provider: Metacritic

Readers’ Rock List: Bird Songs

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty In memory of Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell, the musician responsible for the famous introduction to the band’s “Free Bird” (and to honor last night’s great effort by the Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl), this weekend’s Rock List was dedicated to Bird Songs. It was a heated battle between two former Super Bowl Halftime Show performers, but in the end Paul McCartney and the Beatles’ White Album classic “Blackbird” edged out Prince and his Purple Rain gem “When Doves Cry” for the prize. To see where Alice in Chains, the Misfits and Wilco all nested, check out our Readers’ Rock List: Bird Songs below: 1. The Beatles – “Blackbird” 2. Prince – “When Doves Cry” 3. Alice In Chains – “Rooster” 4. The Beatles – “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” 5. Bob Marley – “Three Little Bird” 6. The Trashmen – “Surfin’ Bird” 7. The Beatles – “And Your Bird Can Sing” 8. The Grateful Dead – “Bird Song” 9. Steve Miller Band – “Fly Like An Eagle” 10. Phish – “Birds of a Feather” 11. The Misfits – “Where Eagles Dare” 12. Nelly Furtado – “Like A Bird” 13. Fleetwood Mac – “Songbird” 14. Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Free Bird” 15. Wilco – “Hummingbird”

Published: 2009-02-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

The Doves - Doves Talk New Album

THE DOVES have been discussing their forthcoming album, which they claim has German and country influences.SOME CITIES, the band's last album, was released back in ...

Published: 2008-09-19 Provider: Contact Music