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Tour Tracker: Joe Jackson, Dropkick Murphys and Black Mountain Start Fueling The Tour Bus

Joe Jackson will cross North America to find out “Is she really going out with him?,” the Dropkick Murphys come moshing into town and this week’s Breaking artist Black Mountain hit the road in support of In The Future. Check out the complete list of dates after the jump. Joe Jackson April 1 -Toronto, ONT @ Danforth Music Hall April 2 - Montreal, QUE @ Metropolis April 4 - Philadelphia, PA @ Keswick Theatre April 5 - Northampton, MA @ Calvin Theater April 7 - Boston, MA @ Some

Published: 2008-01-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest Of Times

Artist: Dropkick Murphys Review: These seven Massachusetts guys know how to make even dire moments sound like a hot party. On their sixth album, fiddle, mandolin and other Gaelic accouterments adorn rave-ups like ?The State of Massachusetts,? reminding you they're a punk band with a Celtic twist. They're also songwriters -- and good ones, too, preserving their party-boy reputation while turning out giant, soulful choruses on songs both manicured and memorable: Dig tunefully sotted jams like ?Tomorrow's Industry,? which sounds ... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Published: 2007-09-13 Provider: Rolling Stone

Bruce Brings The Rock For New Album

The fact that Bruce Springsteen has been recording a new album at Southern Tracks Studios with members of The E Street Band is one of the worst kept secrets in rock. The man has been sighted all over town and, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, recently stopped by local record shop and a bookstore to pick up some music related items — including a CD by the Dropkick Murphys, a Jimi Hendrix DVD and a Joe Strummer biography. The article says he was buying them for his kids, but we think that after The Seeger Sessions and Devils and Dust he’s trying to brush up on his rock & roll for his new album. There’s nothing resembling an official word at this point, but all signs point to the album coming out around September with a worldwide E Street Band tour to follow. With Max Weinberg heading to 11:30 with Conan O’Brian in 2009 and Clarence Clemons five years away from the big seven-oh this could very well be the final tour with the full band.

Published: 2007-06-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: General

Readers’ Rock List: City Songs

On Friday, Rock Daily was so inspired by a visit from Tokio Hotel that we wondered what were the finest songs that incorporated the name of a city into the title. What we discovered was that the definitive winner was British, there are way too many songs about New York and a handful of readers think California is a city and that “Paradise City” is real (only in Axl’s mind, children). Check out the twenty biggest winners below, lead by the Clash’s signature anthem “London Calling.” 1. The Clash - “London Calling” 2. Kiss - “Detroit Rock City” 3. Billy Joel - “Allentown” 4. Randy Newman - “I Love L.A.” 5. Neil Young - “Philadelphia” 6. Deep Purple - “Woman From Tokyo” 7. Ryan Adams - “New York New York” 8. Bob Dylan - “Stuck Inside Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again” 9. LCD Soundsystem - “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” 10. Wilco - “Via Chicago” 11. U2 - “New York” 12. Dropkick Murphys - “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” 13. Bruce Springsteen - “Streets of Philadelphia” 14. David Bowie - “Panic in Detroit” 15. The Kinks - “Waterloo Sunset” 16. Johnny Cash - “Jackson” 17. Lou Reed - “Berlin” 18. Beastie Boys - “An Open Letter to NYC” 19. Stone Temple Pilots - “Atlanta” 20. R.E.M. - “Leaving New York” [Photo: Tabak/Sunshine/Retna]

Published: 2008-05-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Rock Lists

On the Charts: Kanye and 50 Fall to Reba McEntire, Plus Eddie Vedder, James Blunt Open Strong

The Big News: As predicted, Reba McEntire nabbed her first-ever Billboard number-one debut with her thirty-first album, Reba Duets, which features pairings with the likes of Justin Timberlake and Kelly Clarkson. Kanye West and 50 Cent both experienced massive second week drop-offs, but still turned out pretty impressive figures: Graduation fell 76 percent to nearly 226,000 copies sold, and Curtis dropped 79 percent to 143,000. View-eschewing Barry Manilow snuck in between Fifty and last week’s third runner up Kenny Chesney, as Manilow’s Greatest Songs of the Seventies moved 113,000 copies, which was good enough for a fourth place finish. The Debuts: More than half of the top ten consisted of new releases. James Blunt’s All the Lost Souls came in at number seven (92,000 copies sold), followed by KT Tunstall’s life-saving Drastic Fantastic, Chamillionaire’s not-accurately titled Ultimate Victory and Twista’s Adrenaline Rush 2007. Eddie Vedder’s solo album (the soundtrack to the film Into the Wild) arrived at number eleven with nearly 40,000 copies, followed closely by Finnish goths H.I.M., Motion City Soundtrack, Diana Krall and Dropkick Murphys all debuted in the top twenty, The Used arrived at forty-two, the Donnas came in at eighty-nine and Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew hit the chart at 113. Last Week’s Chart Heroes: Everyone knew Kanye and 50 would fall off a bit after their incredible debut sales week, so it’s no surprise the pair slid out of first and second place (by comparison, though, Chesney’s sales slipped a few percentage points less than theirs did). The soundtrack to High School Musical 2 is still stubbornly hanging around the top of the chart, but big recent sellers like T.I.’s T.I. Vs. Tip and Common’s Finding Forever aren’t having as much luck as their sales dipped to 19,000 and 16,000, respectively.

Published: 2007-09-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Chart Roundup