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Photo: Kane/WireImage Aerosmith are still dancing around the idea of a summer tour of the States. They’ve already announced a European trek, and today they added South American dates to their schedule. Check out the list (and another amusing clip of the band) at their official Website. The Flaming Lips, Alice in Chains, Earth, Wind and Fire, Limp Bizkit and Jeff Beck are set to rock the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis on April 30th to May 2nd. The full, eccentric lineup is posted on the

Published: 2010-03-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Morning News Roundup, Rock News

Earth, Wind & Fire Team Up With Chicago For Joint Summer Tour

Photo: Bedder/Getty Two more classic acts are teaming up for a 30-city co-headlining tour: Earth, Wind & Fire and ">Chicago will head out together starting June 5th. The two long-lasting bands also set out on a joint tour in 2004-2005. Each night, both groups will perform a full set apiece, then it’ll be Earth, Wind & Fire & Chicago for the final set as all the musicians hit the stage together. EW&F have enjoyed a renaissance of late, no doubt helped out by big fan President Obama recently having the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers perform at the White House. The prolific Chicago have gone platinum with 25 out of their 30 albums. We’re calling this the Revolving Door Tour, as if you combined the total number of band members both Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago have employed in the past four decades, it’d be somewhere in the 50s. With the slumping economy expected to seep into the summer touring business, multi-artists tours like Poison, Def Leppard and Cheap Trick and REO Speedwagon, .38 Special and Styx are becoming a necessity on the circuit. The dates for the E,W&F and Chicago tour are below. June 5 - Orange Beach, AL @ The Amphitheater June 6 - Atlanta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre June 9 - Charlotte, NC @ Time Warner Cable Arena June 10 - Washington, D.C. @ Merriweather Post Pavilion June 12 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Event Center June 13 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Event Center June 14 - Bethel, NY @ Bethel Performing Arts Center June 16 - Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena June 17 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden June 19 - Ledyard, CT @ MGM Grand Theatre at Foxwoods June 20 - Verona, NY @ Turning Stone Resort Casino June 21 - Columbus, OH @ Value City Arena June 23 - Indianapolis, IN @ Conseco Fieldhouse June 24 - Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre June 26 - Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena June 28 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center June 30 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest July 1 - Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center July 10 - Houston, TX @ The Cynthia Woods M

Published: 2009-03-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Five Great Music Moments in “Pot Culture”

April 20 is a national stoner holiday, and the best way to celebrate getting high on the wacky tobacky is by reading. Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life (by Shirley Halperin & Steve Bloom, out April 20 on Abrams Image) is the ultimate reference book for being a professional stoner. Musicians are not strangers to the devil’s weed, so check out the five best music-related moments from the book. • Rob Thomas Is the King of Advice: In a section called “The Art of Scoring,” Matchbox Twenty frontman Thomas says, “The absolute last thing you want to do is walk down to the corner of Stab Me Avenue and Beat Me Street and start asking shady people if they know where you can find some really good stuff.” • Buy Vinyl: The book endorses a number of classic albums that contained stonerriffic gatefolds, including Black Sabbath’s Paranoid, Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy and Earth, Wind & Fire’s Gratitude. • Like His Band, Adam Levine is Totally Predictable: The Maroon 5 singer writes a section called “Music to Smoke To,” and it’s got all the usual trappings: Phish, Bob Marley and Miles Davis (though he does throw a curveball with Notorious B.I.G. — a truly underrated MC for smokers). • Bob Dylan Was Also Good At Math: Sure, everybody knows that “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35″ has a fantastically smoke friendly chorus, but did you know that when you multiply 12 by 35, you get 420? • Don’t Smoke With Bob Pollard: The prolific genius behind Guided By Voices has some sure fire buzzkills in his “Music to Smoke To” page, including a track that he describes as “a guy who somehow screams and whispers simultaneously for four minutes.”

Published: 2008-04-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

SXSW: My Morning Jacket Debut New Songs, Bring the Thunder

Follow all of RollingStone.com’s ongoing SXSW coverage — including news, interviews, and video — here. For photos, stay tuned here. During SXSW, Austin, Texas is the center of the indie-rock universe, overrun with singers and bands deserving of wider attention and a fair payday but, with the major labels in free fall, more defensive than ever about creative purity and corporate sabotage. The headlining set by indie-scene graduates My Morning Jacket at the Austin Music Hall, on the second night of SXSW ‘08, proved that they became arena-worthy and pop-smart without selling out or diluting their Southern-gothic boom. Like R.E.M. the night before, My Morning Jacket devoted nearly half of their generous set — sixteen songs and four long encores over close to two hours — to their imminent new album, Evil Urges, including the heavy funk and wah-wah city of “Highly Suspicious” and the disco-pulse Armageddon of “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 2.” The record features singer-guitarist-songwriter Jim James in a bold, R&B frame of mind, unleashing his inner Earth Wind and Fire — particularly his strong, piercing falsetto — over oceans of guitar fuzz and John Bonham-thunderclap drums, and it was all there, at maximum volume, on stage. James has been going forward into the past for some time. “Wordless Chorus” from 2005’s Z, featured slick sheets of storefront-church harmonies over a stuttering-calypso rhythm. The band beefed up the elephant-walk reggae time of “Off the Record” with lion-roar guitar quotes from “Hawaii Five-O” and furious, dueling breaks by James and guitarist Carl Broemel. But My Morning Jacket are an R&B band the way Led Zeppelin made mountains out of the beats and meters of Sixties New Orleans singles and James Brown records. “Aluminum Park,” from the new album, opened with jackhammer riffing and blew up into nuclear

Published: 2008-03-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW

Inside Barack Obama’s iPod

Barack Obama is a Stevie Wonder geek. In the Democratic presidential candidate’s new interview with Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Jann S. Wenner, Obama waxed rhapsodic about his favorite artists, many of whom — Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Jay-Z — have shown him love with endorsements. “If I had one musical hero, it would have to be Stevie Wonder,” says Obama, who grew up on Seventies R&B and rock staples including Earth, Wind and Fire, Elton John and the Rolling Stones. “When I was at that point where you start getting involved in music, Stevie had that run with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Fulfillingness’ First Finale and Innervisions, and then Songs in the Key of Life. Those are as brilliant a set of five albums as we’ve ever seen.” Wonder shares room on Obama’s iPod with “everything from Howlin’ Wolf to Yo-Yo Ma to Sheryl Crow,” he says. “And I have probably 30 Dylan songs on my iPod.” Though he’s partial to 1975’s Blood on the Tracks, “Maggie’s Farm” is “one of my favorites during the political season,” says Obama. “It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric.” While his musical tastes tend towards the old-school, Obama is in touch with today’s creative top dogs: He’s talked policy with Ludacris, referenced Jay-Z’s “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” (with a brushing motion in response to Hillary Clinton-hurled criticisms) in a campaign speech, and joined acts ranging from Usher to Will.i.am at rallies. “Every time I talk to Jay-Z, who is a brilliant talent and a good guy, I enjoy how he thinks,” says Obama, who believes that the recent political galvanization of America’s youth will soon be reflected in music. “He’s serious and he cares about his art,” he adds. “That’s somebody who is going to start branching out and can hel

Published: 2008-06-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News