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Sonic Youth Set to Bring “Starpower” To “Gossip Girl”Photo: Gershoff/WireImage Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and the rest of Sonic Youth are joining Chuck Bass, Blair Waldorf and the cast of TV’s hottest show Gossip Girl… for one episode. The New York band will feature on the fifth show of the upcoming season for a “very special event” that warranted a special guest the magnitude of Sonic Youth, showrunner Stephanie Savage told EW’s Music Mix. Sonic Youth aren’t using their GG appearance to promote their latest masterpiece The Eternal; instead, the b
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Published: 2009-08-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Madonna, Mellencamp, Cohen Honored at Emotional Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction As Iggy Pop and the Stooges pounded through punked-up reinventions of inductee Madonna’s “Burning Up” and “Ray of Light” Monday night at the 23rd annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, it was only the most extreme example of what the show did all night long: find unexpected common ground between disparate genres and eras of music. The broad range of newly inducted artists included John Mellencamp, the Ventures, Leonard Cohen and the Dave Clark Five, the last of whom inspired the evening’s most impassioned speech: fan Tom Hanks vividly described hearing the British Invasion band’s hits coming out of a “speaker the size of a soda can” as a kid. “Joy is eternal,” Hanks said. “Joy was in the music of the Dave Clark Five. Their records still jump out of any speaker.” (Click here for photos from last night’s ceremony.) Justin Timberlake inducted Madonna with a light-hearted, flirtatious speech. “The world is full of Madonna wannabes. I might have even dated a couple. But there truly is only one Madonna,” he said, adding, “Though I’m pretty sure Little Richard would disagree, the truth is that nobody has ever gotten into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame while still looking this damn fine.” He also told a story about Madonna giving him a B-12 shot: “That’s what Madonna was and will continue to be for all of us: A shot in the ass when we need it most,” Timberlake said. Madonna seemed moved by the occasion, appearing close to tears at a couple points as she gave a lengthy, heartfelt talk. She offered a brief history of her career, describing her first stabs at music: playing drums along with Elvis Costello records, and strumming four chords on a guitar. She thanked an old ballet teacher “who told me I was special,” and talked about songwriting in mystical terms: “Luckily, I have been miraculously and mysteriously possessed by
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Published: 2008-03-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Sonic Youth’s June Album “Replete With Juicy Supersonic Songs”Photo: Strauss/Wireimage Sonic Youth are reportedly in the final stages of recording their new album, the band’s first since 2006’s Rather Ripped. Thurston Moore tells Uncut the new album, which is still being called The Eternal, is “a record replete with juicy supersonic songs!” The band hopes to release their 16th studio album in June and will be their first as members of Matador Records’ galaxy of stars. “For Matador, the opportunity to work in partnership with a group who’ve made such an profound impact on our roster/hometown/collective consciousness was one to jump at,” the label said in a statement when the signing was announced. The group also premiered two new songs during a concert at Brooklyn’s McCarren Pool last summer. Sonic Youth were previously signed to DGC from 1990’s Goo until Rather Ripped (Though the band’s pre-Goo catalog was later reissued via DGC.) Related Stories: • Sonic Youth Say “Goodbye 20th Century” In New Biography, Plus Photos • Sonic Youth Sign to Matador Records, Prep 2009 Album • Thurston Moore at All Tomorrow’s Parties
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Published: 2009-01-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Rewind: The Week in Rock DailyPhoto: Moore/Getty We covered all angles of the Democratic National Convention — with the help of guest blogger Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie — from the performances by Sheryl Crow and Stevie Wonder to Tom Morello and Crosby & Nash to Rage Against the Machine and Kanye West. Plus, John Legend debuted a new song, Opeth won MySpace’s voter registration contest and our own National Affairs site live-blogged Obama’s entire acceptance speech. Kevin Cogill, that blogger who leaked the nine Chinese Democracy-bound tracks, had a rough week as he was arrested two months later for suspicion of violating copyright laws. If convicted, he faces five years in jail, the eternal wrath of Axl Rose and no Dr. Pepper. Still, the judge in the case doesn’t see what all the fuss about. At least Cogill has the long Labor Day weekend to look forward to. On the tenth anniversary of Lauryn Hill’s classic The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, we examined the groundbreaking album with an oral history courtesy of Hill’s collaborators, including John Legend, D’Angelo, Rohan Marley and the Fugees’ Pras. We took a ride with AC/DC on their “Rock N Roll Train,” even though it’s a runaway train running right off the track. The band also revealed their new album Black Ice will come in red, white and yellow (or blue, in the case of the deluxe edition.)
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Published: 2008-08-29 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Bono Talks Frank Sinatra in First “New York Times” Op-EdPhoto: Charrlau/Wireimage Rolling Stone has been pleased to publish Bono’s writing in the past (see his lengthy comment on the band’s first albums, his meditation on Immortal artist Elvis Presley, his essay on Greatest Singer Bob Dylan), and now The New York Times is putting the multitasking rock star to work. Bono’s tenure as a Times op-ed writer began yesterday. Rather than devote space in the world’s most-read newspaper to his many charitable causes, the recession or Barack Obama, the U2 frontman threw everyone a curve ball by dedicating his first piece to the “Chairman of the Board,” Frank Sinatra. Bono does briefly connect the recession’s hit on Ireland to the legendary crooner, recounting a recent trip to a Dublin pub where there was revelry but “builders and bankers laugh uneasy and hard at the last year, and swallow uneasy and hard at the new.” The one cure to mend all of their sorrows? Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” which blares out of the bar’s speakers. From here, Bono gives us a critical take of what makes Sinatra Sinatra. “Fully inhabiting the moment during that tiny dot of time after you’ve pressed ‘record’ is what makes it eternal,” Bono writes, “If, like Frank, you sing it like you’ll never sing it again. If, like Frank, you sing it like you never have before.” Bono also examines the two different versions of “My Way,” from the triumphant 1969 version to a later version, when 78-year-old Sinatra sings “a heart-stopping, heartbreaking song of defeat.” Bono remembers the time he spent time with Sinatra around when they sang together on Duets‘ “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” “I don’t usually hang with men who wear earrings,” Sinatra told Bono. In addition to penning the column, Bono also read his piece “Notes From the Chairman” aloud, which you can listen to over at the NYT Website. For those who’d rather listen to Bono sing than read, you might be in luck: U2 will reportedly perform new song “Get On Your Boots” at this year’s BRIT Awards on February 18th, pl
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Published: 2009-01-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Fricke’s Picks: A Better BangThe first American full-length album by the Norwegian trio BigBang, From Acid to Zen (Oglio/Grand Sport), is a mixed bag of then and now: seven tracks pulled from the group’s most recent Norwegian releases, 2005’s Poetic Terrorism and 2007’s Too Much Yang, both Number One albums there, plus recut versions of two older numbers and two new songs. It’s a shotgun buffet, like those early U.S. LPs by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones that combined album tracks and singles from unrelated sessions, and it succeeds the same way: like an instant greatest-hits record. Singer-guitarist-songwriter Øystein Greni has the right history in his genes — his dad sang in a Norwegian band that opened for Led Zeppelin in 1968 — and he grounds songs like “Early December,” “Hurricane Boy” and the brilliantly titled “From Acid to Zen” in the eternal power-chord charge and fish-hook riffs of the Stones and the Who. But Greni also has a knack for wringing fresh excitement from the familiar: the country-angel harmonies and ice-Byrds guitar in the new version of “Wild Bird,” the improbable dream of Badfinger and Hüsker Dü in “The One.” For Greni, who co-produced the new tracks with Phil Nicolo, From Acid to Zen is a big step in a bigger gamble. After more than a decade of Pearl Jam-like success in Norway, Greni recently moved to Los Angeles, determined to break America the hard way. He, original drummer Olaf Olsen and new bassist Øyvind Storli Hoel now play clubs here with a set list that still rules Scandinavian festivals and is basically this album in your face: proven hits with forward thrust. Related Stories: • Fricke’s Picks: A Family Affair • Fricke’s Picks: Rebel Yellers • Fricke’s Picks: Mercury Rev
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Published: 2008-10-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Fricke's Picks
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Michael Stipe Reveals R.E.M. Has Had “Tough Ten Years” On Friday, Michael Stipe appeared on Jane Pratt’s SIRIUS show Jane Radio and discussed R.E.M.’s well-hidden decade-year struggle to communicate with each other. (Don’t fear, R.E.M. die-hards: Stipe also chatted about how the band’s March album is bringing them closer than ever). “It’s been a really tough ten years for us,” Stipe revealed. “We were trying to keep a real brave face publicly, and kind of hold through it. But I have to say I think we finally found a place of communication. We’re talking to each other, we’ve written a bunch of great songs … I’ve got another four songs to present to the guys next week when we go back in the studio and one of those is really going to surprise them. I can’t wait to see them.” Stipe added that he’s using a high-tech songwriting trick he picked up from Bono. “I use the memo on my cell phone to [record lyrics and melodies]. … I love technology.” Not that the twenty-first century is all it was cracked up to be. “I thought we would all have jet packs, and clean energy, and the world would be a great place, and there would be no wars. That’s not really quite how it turned out,” he lamented. The singer also proclaimed himself an eternal optimist, praised Sean Penn’s film Into the Wild (for which Eddie Vedder provides the soundtrack), and said he was heading off to catch Interpol’s Madison Square Garden debut Friday night: “I love those guys so much.”
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Published: 2007-09-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Punk Band Joy Division Left a Legacy That's to Die ForThanks to "Love Will Tear Us Apart," upcoming reissues, and the October release of director-photographer Anton Corbijn's biopic Control, Joy springs eternal.
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Published: 2007-10-10 Provider: Wired
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Puppy Bowl VI: The Kitty Halftime Show Hasn’t Stopped Being AdorableIt’s the eternal debate during every Super Bowl halftime: Do I watch a legendary but aging band play a rushed setlist of abridged hits, or do I watch scared, adorable kitties paw at each other and rotating puffballs? I ended up watching the former, correctly banking on Animal Planet rerunning Puppy Bowl VI with Comedy [...]
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Published: 2010-02-08 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Sports
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Sonic Youth Show Jools Holland "What We Know"The Eternal, complete with its "heavy ass weirdo hooks," is Sonic Youth's 16th album, but the band (now with Mark Ibold) come off as energized as ever in this clip of them performing the Lee Ranaldo track "What We Know" on Jools Holland. Lee's songs nail
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Published: 2009-04-30 Provider: StereoGum Keywords: stereogum,indie,rock,mp3,blog
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The Great “Greatest Hits” DebateForbes brings us this rather interesting article about Greatest Hits albums, fanning the flames of the eternal hardcore fan vs casual fan vs convenience vs integrity vs whateverthehell debate: are Greatest Hits albums useful capsules to distill the output of a prolific band, or are they money-making endeavors that in some way lessen the integrity of a band's prior albums? Swallow this double-edged sword: Other bands like U2 and Aerosmith have been criticized for their seemingly unceasing parade of greatest-hits albums. U2 followed 1998's "The Best of 1980-1990" and 2002's "The Best of 1990-2000" with 2006's "U218 Singles." Last year's "Devil's Got a New Disguise: The Very Best of Aerosmith" was the band's eighth compilation over the course of their 27-year career. If this article is insinuating that U2 and Aerosmith have in some way sold out, this is certainly the first I've heard of it. On the other hand... Still, there are several notable holdouts, including AC/DC, Radiohead, Phish and Metallica. Many artists feel greatest-hits discs corrupt the integrity of their prior albums. For the same reason, Radiohead and AC/DC have thus far resisted putting their music on iTunes, where albums are chopped into single tracks. While I obviously understand Radiohead and Phish holding out on the Greatest Hits front, how can AC/DC possibly argue with a straight face that their music is better when listened to in album form? Could this perhaps be because Back In Black still sells a thousand copies a week, or do they honestly believe fans stand to gain by unearthing the spectacular deep tracks on The Razor's Edge, which involve a slightly different power chord while the singer screams about electric hell? Even Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, two of the most album-centric bands in history, have caved under the robust earnings potential of the Greatest Hits cds; Zeppelin continues to withhold their material from iTunes, however, in some apparent bid to retain some flimsy, misguided int
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Published: 2007-08-20 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment
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Louise Redknapp talks about fertility struggle Endometriosis prevented Louise Redknapp -- former member of the band Eternal, wife to footballer Jamie Redknapp and mom to 3 1/2-year-old Charley -- from having a baby after several years of trying. But it was Louise, herself, who very nearly prevented the couple from ever finding out that endometriosis was to blame in the first place. The 33-year-old says that she was somewhat in denial about having a fertility problem and was reluctant to seek treatment.I put it to the back of my head and blocked it out; I thought it’s nothing, it sometimes takes a long time. People tried to talk to me about it, but I convinced myself that I was having a great life and it wouldn’t be the right time to have a baby anyway. So I never went through that whole thing of investigating it or looking for alternative treatments. It was Jamie who said let’s find out what’s going on here. After a laparoscopy revealed extensive endometriosis, a condition which causes infertility in 30-40% of all women who suffer from it, Louise was told that her own odds of having children were diminished. The news was "a big shock" for the couple, Louise says, adding,It was the biggest wake-up call; it made me realize how much I wanted to be a mum. At times, I felt terribly sorry for myself, but I think it was harder for Jamie because he just had to wait and hope while I had treatment.Charley was conceived after Louise underwent two separate surgeries to treat her condition over six months, and although the couple was thrilled to finally be pregnant, Louise soon thereafter developed chloasma that only worsened upon giving birth. A skin disorder -- commonly referred to as "the mask of pregnancy" -- chloasma caused pigmentation patches to appear on Louise's face that took two years to fade. Despite her life as the wife of a footballer and a fashion presenter on television, Louise has been humbled by all that she endured in her quest to become a mom, sayin
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Published: 2008-01-26 Provider: Celebrity Baby Blog Keywords: Fertility issues, News, Quotable quotes
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