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Rock List: Readers’ Top 25 Albums of 2007

Last week, we asked you, Rock Daily readers, to tell us your picks for the Best Albums of 2007, and you spoke: Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want In Rainbows is the top album of 2007, edging out strong campaigns from Arcade Fire and Wilco for the top spot. So how does the readers’ picks compare to Rolling Stone’s own list? Find out next Monday, when we reveal the magazine’s Top 50 Albums of 2007. Until then, here’s your Top 25: 1. Radiohead – In Rainbows 2. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible 3. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky 4. White Stripes – Icky Thump 5. Bruce Springsteen – Magic 6. Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero 7. The Shins – Wincing The Night Away 8. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 9. Kings of Leon – Because of the Times 10. Kanye West – Graduation 11. Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris 12. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace 13. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver 14. Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger 15. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare 16. The National – Boxer 17. M.I.A. - Kala 18. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black 19. Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist 20. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank 21. Eddie Vedder – Into the Wild Soundtrack 22. Rilo Kiley – Under the Blacklight 23. Bright Eyes – Cassadaga 24. Robert Plant/Alison Krauss – Raising Sand 25. Paul McCartney – Memory Almost Full

Published: 2007-12-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Sonisphere announce more bands

Sonisphere have announced that Skindred, Fei Comodo and Slaves To Gravity have been added to their festival bill. Other new additions include: 65 Days of Static, Black Spiders, Fastway, Sylosis, Audrey Horne, Boys With Xray Eyes, The Casino Brawl, March Of The Raptors, Throats, After The Ordeal, Blitz Kids, Little Fish, Lower Than Atlantis, Cars On Fire and The Xcerts. The festival, which takes place at Kenbworth between July 30 and August 1, will feature headline sets from Iron Maiden and Ramms

Published: 2010-05-20 Provider: Kerrang!

Reclusive Rapper Doom Talks New LP “Born Like This.” and Responds to Fan Rage

Photo: Kramer/Getty American underground rap iconoclast Doom (formerly MF Doom) releases his new album Born Like This. on Lex Records tomorrow, March 24th. The U.K.-born, New York-raised rapper’s LP features contributions from Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and the beats of late production genius J Dilla, and represents seven years of work recorded on and off at home in Atlanta. Thom Yorke recently remixed sexy single “Gazillion Ear” and funky, Jake One-produced “Ballskin” is bouncing across the major music blogs. The centerpiece of the record is “Cellz”, which explodes with apocalyptic fury. On it, the late, great American poet Charles Bukowski reads of one of his best poems, “Dinosauria, We,” for almost two minutes while missiles fire and the Earth is laid to waste. “Don’t freak with old Buke. Buke is nice. He’s as good as the rest of the rappers on there,” Doom says. “He kind of sets the tone for the record, being that we’re living in what he was kind of describing. He might’ve been reaching for the worst description based on what he saw us heading to, but it happened and that made me go, ‘Wow, that’s ill. Kinda prophetic words.’ ” With a career modeled on the Marvel comics arch-villain Doctor Doom, the metal mask-wearing fortysomething remains characteristically cryptic about future live dates. “I tell you one thing: when you come to a Doom show, come expecting to hear music, don’t come expecting to see. You never know who you might see. It has nothing to do with a visual thing. Use your mind and think. I might be there. Next time I do a show, I might tell everybody to close they eyes. Use your own mind’s eye. That’s better than a camera phone, know what I’m sayin’?’ ” He says Michael Jackson — who just sold out 50 shows in the U.K. — might be doing the same thing. “Word. That nigga was crazy as hell. How do you even know he’s still him? He might’ve been doing the technique.” The Doom live experience caused controversy in 2007, when the highly acclaimed lyricist behi

Published: 2009-03-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Jerry Lee Lewis Eyes Rolling Stones For New Album

Rock and roll icon Jerry Lee Lewis wants to collaborate with two fellow music legends on his new album - Rolling Stones duo Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The "Great Balls Of Fire" hit-maker[...] Read more!

Published: 2008-10-26 Provider: StarPulse

Smoking Section: AC/DC, Bob Dylan, The Stills

Sweet vindication! Last year in this column, AC/DC singer Brian Johnson promised that they’d tour in 2008. Well, he wasn’t kidding. Soon they’ll begin rehearsals in a secret location, before hitting U.S. arenas in late fall. We heard this news at the Sony HQ on New York’s Madison Avenue, before hearing all 15 tracks of the band’s earthshaking new Black Ice, recorded in Vancouver in just eight weeks with Brendan O’Brien. On it, Brian wails about skies on fire, blood in his eyes, storms raging, lightning flashes, hard rain and pretty women. Angus Young shreds throughout (we dig his slide work on “Decibel”), and the rhythm cats — Malcom Young, Cliff Williams and Phil Rudd — are solid as a rock. The first single is “Rock ‘N Roll Train”; “She Likes Rock ‘N Roll” will be a stripper anthem; and “War Machine” (our favorite) will tear you to pieces. ***** In Chronicles Vol. 1, Bob Dylan tells about a trip to Princeton, New Jersey, where, accompanied by his “obstreperous” buddy David Crosby, he received an honorary degree. The ceremony was a bummer — the speaker pissed off Bob by introducing him as “the authentic expression of the disturbed and concerned conscience of young America.” Dylan ended up writing “Day of the Locusts” about the trip. The S.S. recently had the pleasure of meeting Crosby and asked him for his side of the story. “I did something that I do to people: I got him really high,” said Crosby. “When we got there, there was an altercation between Bob and the Princeton people, who insisted that he wear a robe. I had to convince Bob to stay and do it.” In return, Crosby made it into “Day of the Locusts.” “There’s a line that goes, ‘The man standing next to me, his head was exploding,’ ” said Crosby proudly. “That’s me!” Crosby also told us that CSN are working on a new album with Rick Rubin, featuring covers of their favorite songs. “James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, people that we love,” says Crosby. “And Dylan, of course.” ***** We loved the Stills

Published: 2008-08-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Smoking Section

Mark Ronson Named VMA House Band, LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire Plan Split Single, Flaming Lips Hit the Road

Mark Ronson and his live ensemble of musicians will handle house band duties at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas on September 9th. The Dap-Kings (also known as Sharon Jones’ and Amy Winehouse’s band) will guest, along with Stu Zender of Jamiroquai and other still-to-be-announced vocalists. LCD Soundsystem and the Arcade Fire will release a split 7″ single on their upcoming joint tour featuring LCD’s cover of Joy Division’s “No Love Lost” and Arcade Fire’s version of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son” Wilco canceled two dates after guitarist Nels Cline came down with the chicken pox. The Duluth, MN, date has been rescheduled for September 4, but the band has yet to announce a new date for Winnipeg, MB. George Michael began serving one hundred hours of community service yesterday at a London homeless shelter as a part of his May sentence for driving while unfit. Michael is also prohibited from taking the wheel for two years. Bright Eyes have announced a brief U.S. fall tour, Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore has plotted a short solo outing and the Flaming Lips have added late summer and early fall dates, as well. Dates after the jump. Bright Eyes Tour Dates: 9/14 - Boise, ID (Big Easy) 9/15 - Spokane, WA (Big Easy) 9/18 - Fairbanks, AK (University of Alaska) 9/19, 20 - Anchorage, AK (University of Alaska) 9/22 - Seattle, WA (End Fest 2007) 9/23 - Eugene, OR (McDonald Theatre) 9/24 - Chico, CA (Senator Theatre) 9/29 - Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood Bowl) Thurston Moore Tour Dates: 9/24 - Hoboken, NJ (Maxwell’s) 9/26 - Brooklyn, NY (Music Hall of Williamsburg) 9/27 - Boston, MA (Museum of Fine Arts) 9/28 - Princeton, NJ (Terrace Club) 9/29 - Washington, DC (Rock and Roll Hotel) 9/30 - Philadelphia, PA (Johnny Brenda’s) 10/24 - Seattle, WA (Neumo’s) 10/25 - Portland, OR (Doug Fir Lounge) 10/26 - Arcata, CA (Humboldt St. University) 10/29 - Sa

Published: 2007-08-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Miley Cyrus accused of racism after new photo scandal

It’s been a while since Miley Cyrus has found herself in hot water (not literally, you understand – we’re sure she’s taken a bath quite recently), but the 16 year old is in big trouble after a photo emerged of her apparently mocking Asians. In the shot, Miley and a group of friends are pulling their eyes while sitting with an Asian friend, in what has been viewed as a racist gesture, and she’s now come under fire from racial equality groups. “Not only has Miley Cyrus and the other individuals in the photograph encouraged and legitimised the taunting and mocking of people of Asian descent, she has also insulted her many Asian Pacific American fans,” says the Chief Executive of The OCA. “We hope that Miley Cyrus will apologise to her fans and the APA community for this lapse in judgment and takes the opportunity to better understand why the gesture is offensive.” Miley has so far neglected to the comment on this latest hoo-ha, but we’re really not sure how she’s going to get out of this one…

Published: 2009-02-04 Provider: Heat

Twilight track listing revealed

Amazon.co.uk have posted the track listing for the upcoming Twilight soundtrack. The score to the film adaptation of Stephanie Mayer's best selling book will feature two new Paramore tracks as well as songs by Linkin Park, Muse and actor Rob Pattinson who plays Edward Cullen in the movie. The full track listing is as follows: 01 Muse - Supermassive Black Hole 02 Paramore - Decode 03 The Black Ghosts - Full Moon 04 Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest 05 MuteMath - Spotlight (Twilight Mix) 06 Perry Farrell - Go All The Way (Into The Twilight) 07 Collective Soul - Tremble For My Beloved 08 Paramore - I Caught Myself 09 Blue Foundation - Eyes On Fire 10 Rob Pattinson - Never Think 11 Iron & Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth 12 Carter Burwell - Bella's Lullaby The Twilight soundtrack will be released in the UK on November 4.

Published: 2008-10-20 Provider: Kerrang!

'Twilight': 'Eyes on Fire' band is back

By Leah Greenblatt Hear exclusive new version of song ''Watch You Sleeping'' from electronic outfit Blue Foundation, only on EW's Music Mix

Published: 2009-07-06 Provider: Entertainment Weekly

EXCLUSIVE! Fightstar album playback report

Last night (Thursday, February 19) Fightstar hosted a special playback of some of the tracks which will be included on their upcoming third studio album, Be Human, in a central London bar. Kerrang!'s Katie P reports: The Brit four-piece treated invited guests to a playback of seven of the tracks that will be included on Be Human. First up was upcoming new single Mercury Summer - with the accompanying video. The footage showed the band playing in grey suits interspersed with images of a blond woman. The track itself showcased a new direction for the band; epic and heavy with huge pop hooks. The video was followed by new tunes Calling All Stations, Never Change, the grandiose War Machine, Whisperer, Tonight We Burn and electronic ballad Follow Me Into The Darkness. The tracks were accompanied by a slide-show of photos from the group documenting the creation of the album, which was recorded at Tree House Studios, and co-produced by the band along with Carl Brown. "I just shut my eyes and turned it up," bassist Dan Haigh told me. "I was trying not to look at people's reactions!" "We had the photos for people to look at while they listened," explains guitarist Alex Wetaway, "but we snuck in a photo of a dishwasher full of dildos halfway through to see if people would notice," he laughs. "That kept us entertained." "People gave us a standing ovation to War Machine, which made it all worthwhile," says Dan. "The final album will have 12 tracks on it. We are so proud of what we have done." "I'm more proud of this than anything we have ever done," added vocalist Charlie Simpson. "I'm so glad that people enjoyed it, I can't wait for everyone to hear the full album!" The band will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall with Bullet For My Valentine and The Blackout as part of a concert for The Teenage Cancer Trust on March 28. The group will then begin a headline tour on April 22, with support from In Case Of Fire and Laruso. For tickets/dates, click HERE. Be Human will be relea

Published: 2009-02-20 Provider: Kerrang!

How it happened: minute by minute

We’re still reeling from the news that Britney’s been rushed to hospital, but now we’ve pieced together the events of her dramatic evening:   7pm (Los Angeles time – 3am here): K-Fed’s minders arrive to collect the kids from her house at a pre-scheduled time. She refuses to hand them over, and his lawyers are notified.   8pm: Los Angeles police receive a call from the lawyers, and five squad cars make their way to Britney’s gated residence. While Sean Preston is taken away by Kevin’s lawyers, Jayden James remains inside with Britney.   9pm: An LAPD officer tells reporters that they are “concerned about her mental state and believe she may be under the influence.”   11pm: There are now 13 police cars, an ambulance and, bizarrely, a fire engine at the house.   11.45pm: Britney leaves her home in an ambulance and behaves very oddly – grinning at some onlookers and giving the finger to others. The 13 police cars, with full lights and sirens on, escort the ambulance to the Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Jayden James is also taken to hospital in a separate ambulance, but it’s not currently known why. 12.30am: Britney arrives at the hospital. “Her eyes were like pinholes,” reveals one witness. Meanwhile, Kevin Federline has arrived separately, with Sean Preston. Britney’s pal Sam Lufti has also tried to enter, but was barred.   12.45am: Even K-Fed’s lawyer Mark Kaplan says, “I actually don’t know what is going on.”   1.15am (9.15am here): Britney’s dad Jamie – who has not been seen with Britney since spring 2007 – arrives at the hospital.

Published: 2008-09-23 Provider: Heat

Greg Kot: How the Internet Changed Music

Greg Kot, the author of Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music talks to TIME about the demise of the music industry, whether illegal file sharing is really that bad, and why nobody may ever again be as big as the Beatles

Published: 2009-05-21 Provider: Time Magazine Keywords: Q&A, ripped, napster, arcade fire, radiohead, death cab for cutie, bright eyes, american idol, beatles, file sharing