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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

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