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SXSW Day Four Wrap-Up: Jim James, The Breeders, She & Him, Robyn

Follow all of Rolling Stone’s ongoing SXSW coverage — photos, video, interviews and live reports — here. You could see the crowds of 6th Street in the distance from the window of Jim James‘ solo gig, but that was as close as the Mardi Gras atmosphere of SXSW encroached to this special show on the festival’s final night. Inside the music hall of St. David’s Episcopal Church, it was calm as a chamber music recital as the My Morning Jacket frontman performed gorgeous acoustic versions of his band’s most spiritual songs. He put aside his guitar and placed a small keyboard on his lap for the gentle “What a Wonderful Man” from Z, hitting high soulful notes that matched the God-like surroundings. Later he was joined by MMJ guitarist Carl Broemel for a stunning version of “Gideon.” The audience, which had been sitting quietly as church mice for the entire show, exploded into a standing ovation when it was over. Over at Waterloo Park, the Breeders kicked off their set with the droney, pounding “Overglazed” and “Bang On” from their forthcoming album Mountain Battles. The crowd stayed quietly reverent as the Deal sisters debuted some of the more low-key tracks from their first album in seven years (and its most upbeat track, “Walk It Off”), but perked up for their cover of the Beatles’ “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” (off their debut Pod) and Amps tunes like surfy “Tip City” and “Pacer” and went nuts when Kim Deal — who never stopped grinning — strummed her guitar with her thumb for Last Splash’s “No Aloha” and grabbed an acoustic guitar with an electric pick-up for “Cannonball,” bending over to squall into a microphone equipped with a fuzzy filter. Earlier in the afternoon, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward’s She & Him played their fourth-ever show in the garden of the French Legation Museum.

Published: 2008-03-16
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, SXSW

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“Guitar Hero: World Tour” Unveils Full Track List

Photo:Activision Guitar Hero: World Tour has finally released its full track list. While the list of 86 tracks isn’t as jaw-dropping as that of its counterpart Rock Band 2, there are a bunch of highlights, including a pair of tracks by Jimi Hendrix and Ozzy Osbourne, plus cuts from Metallica, Nirvana, Van Halen, the Doors and Lynyrd Skynyrd. All the songs are original master recordings. There’s karaoke favorites like the Eagles‘ “Hotel California” and, for the true axmen, virtuoso songs like Joe Satriani’s “Satch Boogie.” Additionally, the game will boast exclusive Guitar Duel recordings by Ted Nugent and Zakk Wylde. There’s also a trio of new play options: Band Career, the Music Studio feature and the 8-player Battle of the Bands that allow bands to compete online. GH:WT also has those new instruments, new amps and that exclusive Smashing Pumpkins premiere single “G.L.O.W.” The game hits shelves October 26th. Guitar Hero: World Tour Track List: 311 - “Beautiful Disaster” 30 Seconds To Mars - “The Kill” Airbourne - “Too Much Too Young” The Allman Brothers Band - “Ramblin’ Man” Anouk - “Good God” The Answer - “Never Too Late” At The Drive-In - “One Armed Scissor” Beastie Boys - “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” Beatsteaks - “Hail to the Freaks” Billy Idol - “Rebel Yell” Black Label Society - “Stillborn” Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Weapon of Choice” blink-182 - “Dammit” Blondie - “One Way or Another” Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - “Hollywood Nights” Bon Jovi - “Livin’ On A Prayer” Bullet For My Valentine - “Scream Aim Fire” Coldplay - “Shiver” Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Up Around The Bend” The Cult - “Love Removal Machine” Dinosaur Jr. - “Feel The Pain” The Doors - “Love Me Two Times” Dream Theater - “Pull Me Under” The Eagles - “Hotel California” The Enemy - “Aggro” Filter - “Hey Man, Nice Shot” Fleetwood Mac - “Go Your Own Way” Foo Fighters - “Everlong” The Guess Who - “American Woman” Hush Puppies - “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!” Interpol - “Obstacle 1″ Jane’s Addic

Published: 2008-09-12
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News

Exclusive: “Guitar Hero World Tour” Adds Songs by Steve Miller, Wings, Rise Against

Photo: Getty Guitar Hero World Tour has already revealed an intimidating track list, and today Rock Daily can unveil another nine songs that will be included in the franchise’s latest offering. With a mix of the hyper-technical (Dream Theater), late-night stoner jams (Steve Miller), and full-on screamers (Filter), the new batch of tunes showcases a number of classics, as well as one currently climbing the rock charts: “Re-Education (Through Labor)” by Chicago punk band Rise Against. “I’ll meet one of the kids who live in my neighborhood, and they’ll be like, ‘Oh, I heard you’re in a band,’ ” Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath says. “I say, ‘Well, we’ve sold this many records and we’ve played giant shows and I’ve toured the world seven times,’ and they’re like, ‘No, I’ve never heard of your band.’ Then I say, ‘Well, I have a song in Guitar Hero,’ and they say, ‘You have a song in Guitar Hero? Are you serious?’ “ McIlrath isn’t a heavy gamer, but while some musicians give rhythm-based games grief for being just a facsimile of the real thing, he understands the appeal and even has a strategy for when he dabbles. “It’s like an interactive jukebox,” he says. “Who doesn’t want to listen to AC/DC and Heart all day? I can usually play it on ‘hard.’ I play with an actual guitar pick, and it really helps me. There’s something about the action of a pick going up and down — that’s my secret weapon.” As for the song itself, the average listener might not catch the serious lyrics from underneath the riffing and melodies, but as with most Rise Against songs, the subject matter stands in strong juxtaposition to the borderline bouncy tune (”We don’t live, we just survive on the scraps that you throw away”). “That’s always been the ace up our sleeve as a band,” McIlrath said. “We have songs that can sound good on the radio and can sound good in a video game, but we have lyrics that are still very much derivative from the hardcore and punk world that we came from. They can be very blu

Published: 2008-09-10
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News

IRAQ WAR OFF-KILTER FOR FILTER

ALMOST 40 years ago, Edwin Starr asked, "War - what is it good for?" Judging from a survey of albums and songs that've been released this year, one thing's for sure: It's good for songwriting.In the last few months, we've seen albums presenting the war from the point of view of soldiers (Black 47's "Iraq" album), anti-war tracks (Sheryl Crow's "God Bless This Mess") and tributes to dead soldiers (Tim McGraw's "If You're Reading This") and the National Guard (3 Doors Down's "Citizen Soldier"). There's also the soundtrack to "Body of War," a documentary about an Iraq war vet, with "No More," a new Eddie Vedder song.The latest musician taking a look at the realities of war is Richard Patrick, the mastermind behind the industrial/alt-rock band Filter."Anthems for the Damned" - Filter's first new disc in five years, post-Patrick's taking time off to deal with his alcohol addiction - is laced with irritation over the seemingly never-ending war in Iraq and general uncertainty about the times we're living in. But it's the first single off the album, "Soldiers of Misfortune" (download it at nypost.com), that really sheds light on Patrick's mind-set during his writing process.Inspired by a longtime Filter fan, the song is about a kid who "wanted to get a college education so he joined the Reserves, thinking, 'It's 1998, nothing will happen,'" Patrick says."In his senior year of college, they yank him out, tell him to put everything in storage, put him in training and send him to Baghdad. Ten days later, he ends up dead."A play on the "soldier of fortune" mercenary image, Patrick says "this kid is a soldier of misfortune - he's not Blackwater. He wasn't out there for any other reason than to do the country's bidding and there better be a very good reason for him to be out there and there wasn't . . . it's a stupid war and now he's dead."Having just turned 40, Patrick says, "I've grown up enough to know that I have to say something - I want to say something, popular or not."Whi

Published: 2008-05-13
Provider: New York Post
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