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Possible Black Sabbath Tour With Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie to Make TV Cameo, Snoop Booked For Europe’s VMAs

A potential Black Sabbath reunion tour with Ozzy Osbourne back on lead vocals is still in the embryonic stages, guitarist Tommy Iommi tells Billboard. Sharon Osbourne previously revealed that preliminary talks had taken place to bring Ozzy back into the fold for a 2008 tour, but Iommi admits nothing is set in stone yet. If the band were to reunite, Iommi anticipates that new material would be involved, marking the band’s first album of new songs with the Ozz since 1978’s Never Say Die!. David Bowie, following his comedic cameo on Extras, will appear in a more villainous role in two upcoming episodes of the BBC’s newest incarnation of Dr. Who. Bowie will play an evil alien who attempts to abduct mystery writer Agatha Christie. Finally, a European country that embraces Snoop Dogg: The L.B.C.’s finest has been cast to host this year’s MTV European Video Music Awards, to be held in Munich on November 1st. Snoop, who has had run-ins with police in both the U.K. and Sweden, cites Amy Winehouse as one of his inspirations as he records the follow-up to 2006’s The Blue Carpet Treatment. El DeBarge, singer of the Eighties R&B group DeBarge, was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of domestic violence. DeBarge, who is being held without bail due to two previous narcotics arrests, continues the DeBarges’ felonious sibling rivalry that includes three brothers/bandmates who have all served time for cocaine-related charges. Dealing a blow to anyone who really wanted a ringtone of “Buffalo Soldier,” the Bob Marley estate says they are suing Verizon and the Universal Music Group after the two corporations agreed on a licensing deal to use Marley’s music without seeking permission from the family. Universal, however, has issued a statement indicating they haven’t received such a suit. “Claims made in a press release issued today by Palm Pictures are meritless,” reads the statement. “Specifically, we are offering Bob Marley ringtones through V

Published: 2007-08-31
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Silverchair, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cold War Kids Rock the Early Shift at Lollapalooza’s Day Two

Before any band even begins playing, Saturday is off to a promising start. Overcast skies and lower temperatures are a welcome relief from the heat, and the hand-sanitizer dispensers have actually been refilled.Boy-girl Brooklyn synth-pop duo Matt & Kim are equally enthused. Neither can believe the size of the stage or the throng of people awaiting them. “Look how my boobs look up there. That is so not to size!” exclaims drummer Kim Schifino upon seeing her body up on the projection screen. Her partner, keyboardist Matt Johnson, is downright giddy. Their pastel tunes belong in a basement, not on a bandshell, though that doesn’t prevent “Grand” and “Yea Yeah” from registering cute-factor points. Later, Matt & Kim pull double duty, subbing for the cancelled CSS. Tokyo Police Club also express shock at attracting a decent crowd. Sonically, the Toronto quartet doesn’t stay in the same place for too long, and its approach borders on train-wreck looseness, yet somehow everything gels. The group punctuates its hectic garage-cum-indie rock with red-throat yelps and spiky bursts of sound. A few fans wave Canadian flags as keyboardist Graham Wright flails about and tambourines fly through the air during a forty-five-minute set that lives up to the hype. Speaking of expectations, 2006 buzz band Tapes ‘n Tapes take the stage next, and despite similarities between the two acts — herky-jerky motions, disjointed new-wave synthesizers, staggered tempos — the Minneapolis foursome is far artier. Maybe the group is distracted by the wafting pot smoke, but they threaten their set’s momentum with an overabundance of pauses and tempo changes. A few stages away, Silverchair is performing in the area for the first time in recent memory. Shirtless and sporting a headband, leader Daniel Johns embraces his inner rock star. The stadium-directed anthems are proudly populist and carried by falsetto vocals. Thanks to the band’s ringing chords, basic structures, showy

Published: 2007-08-06
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Festivals, Lollapalooza

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Foo Fighters Promise “Big Noise” and “Biggest Songs” on Tour With Jimmy Eat World, Against Me!

When Foo Fighters take the stage at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida, tomorrow night to kick off their latest trek across North America, they will be embracing their inner stadium rockers to the max. “We’re proud to be an arena rock band,” says drummer and group cheerleader Taylor Hawkins. “We enjoy doing the bigass shows—making big noise with big toys.” They’ll take that big approach on their first domestic tour since the release of the critially and commercially successful new album Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace last fall. One of the few post-grunge bands to still be standing, Hawkins knows exactly why Foo Fighters remain relevant and will stand tall in the annals of rock history. “It’s all about Dave and how great a frontman he is,” Hawkins explains. “When we played Live Earth last year, Dave turned that stadium into a fucking club. All the great frontmen were like that. That’s what Freddie Mercury did every night.” Hawkins says the set list will focus on their latest record but the band won’t shy away from their biggest hits. “We pander to our audience, there’s no question. We’re not going to pull a Radiohead and not play our biggest songs. Luckily, I like playing ‘Everlong’ and ‘Monkey Wrench.’ ” The Foos aren’t going it alone. In fact, the tour has mutated into a post-modern “Monsters of Rock” tour, featuring some of the biggest bands in the country. Jimmy Eat World, Against Me!, Serj Tankian and about-to-break-huge Hi-Fi Hand Grenades will all join the Foos at various points on the run. “We played together at a radio festival in the fall,” says Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel. “My bandmates were hanging out in the Foos’ dressing room saying, ‘Come on, take us on tour!’ We didn’t think it would actually happen, but here we are.” On the prospect of playing arenas for the first time, Gabel says not to expect any bells and whistles. “We don’t have enough money or know-how to add pyro o

Published: 2008-01-15
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

PJ Harvey’s Netherworld: How She Tamed Her Growl and Dreamed Like a Kid for “White Chalk”

PJ Harvey has played only a handful of U.S. shows in support of her gorgeous new album, White Chalk, but she blew audiences away with her one-woman-band approach to the gigs, holding down guitar, piano, autoharp and synths while unleashing her beloved growl and the new vocal style she’s only recently embraced: “my church voice.” Though the album is largely piano-based, Harvey says didn’t know it would take shape that way until she’d completed forty or fifty songs — and that her primary goal for the record was simply to not repeat anything she’d done before. Here’s more from Harvey’s interview with Rolling Stone’s Evan Serpick, where she discusses interpretations of her lyrics, finding an imaginary world and rediscovering Bob Dylan. When did you start to write on piano? I didn’t start to play until early 2005 when a friend was looking for a home for a piano, and I quite simply had never owned one before. [To learn to play] I’d pretend to be a piano player. No, I’m serious. I pretend quite a lot in my head anyway, so I’m sitting there and I think, “How would a piano player play?” And I shut my eyes and improvise with myself, like I was giving this concert. Did you study the instrument in any structured way before you wrote White Chalk? I was thinking about what is it one loses as you go into adulthood, that capacity to imagine that we have as children, and I can remember having this crazy imagination where I would make anything happen — create an invisible friend, create a castle to live in, and anything could happen. And I just learned to play again, I just threw away any sort of adult rules I created and imposed upon myself, and anything was possible. I can remember one of the early songs that I wrote, I discovered these other vocals — high, almost sort of childlike vocals — and thinking, “That sounds about five years old,” and that really excited me. As I was beginning to sing in this childlike way, I was b

Published: 2007-11-03
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News

Smoking Section: Jack Johnson on the Beach, Midlake in the Studio and Jimmie Dale Gilmore on Stage

In December, the Smoking Section winged it out to Santa Barbara to hang out with Jack Johnson. Sitting on the rocky coastline with a fat spliff in our mitts watching Johnson shred massive swells was the perfect opportunity to reflect on the wild ride that was 2007. We witnessed amazing performances — Lucinda Williams‘ five-night stand in Manhattan, Stevie Wonder at the Garden, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in the Hamptons, Pearl Jam in Chicago, Wilco at Bonnaroo, The Killers in London and the Foo Fighters in a Vegas hotel room (sadly, we missed Dave Grohl’s “New Year’s Eve Disco Party” in L.A.). We moved into Kid Rock’s Malibu bachelor pad for a few days, tore up Paris with Ben Harper, guzzled absinthe at Marilyn Manson’s house and embraced our inner player, cocktailing with Snoop, strip-clubbing with Kanye and l’chaim-ing Jay-Z. It all poured sweet and clear — it was a very good year. * * * * If the SS had one regret from ‘07, it was that we were never in the same city as Midlake. The Denton, Texas, fivesome awed us with the mellow explorations of The Trials of Van Occupanther, and we’re happy to report that they’re home, taking their sweet-ass time on the follow-up. “It will be called The Courage of Others,” reports singer Tim Smith. “I think it will sound darker — not dark like Sabbath, but a little more minor-key.” Whereas Van Occupanther was recorded in their living room (”That was tough, because of roommates”), Midlake now occupy their own studio in Denton, with families and dogs waiting at home. “We’ve been going in at 8 a.m. and we’re done by 5,” says Smith, whose songwriting has been influenced, most recently, by No Other, the mysterioso 1974 solo gem from Gene Clark of the The Byrds. “We were jammin’ pretty hard this morning,” Smith says. “We said to ourselves, ‘No other rock band does this at 9:30 i

Published: 2008-01-18
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Smoking Section, Jack Johnson

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