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Grab Gogol Bordello’s New Track “Pala Tute”Photo: Madonna’s favorite band Gogol Bordello are offering up a free download of new track “Pala Tute,” a joyous blast that gives the band’s trademark Gypsy-punk sound a Brazilian twist (grab the track through the widget, above). The group recorded their upcoming album Trans-Continental Hustle (due April 27th) with producer Rick Rubin, and frontman Eugene Hutz says the two were “completely on the same page.” “The record process was actually like this: I would go to Brazil, write for two or th
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Published: 2010-03-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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The 20 Best Live Bands Playing Right NowThis weekend’s rock list, Best Live Band Playing Right Now, got an awesome and terrifying response from you all - thanks for all the nominations. After careful consideration, here is our final list. Now go see these guys! 1. White Stripes 2. Radiohead 3. Pearl Jam 4. Rage Against the Machine 5. U2 6. Metallica 7. Flaming Lips 8. My Morning Jacket 9. The Hold Steady 10. Arcade Fire 11. The Raconteurs 12. Wilco 13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 14. Red Hot Chili Peppers 15. Gogol Bordello 16. Kings of Leon 17. Muse 18. Dave Matthews Band 19. Tool 20. LCD Soundsystem Photo: AFP/STADLER/Getty
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Published: 2007-07-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz on Soaking Up Culture and Making Crowds DanceGogol Bordello have become staples of the summer festival scene, and their sets are typically weekend-stealers. Their Friday afternoon performance at Lollapalooza was no exception, as Eugene Hutz brought his group’s brand of madcap gypsy punk to a rabid crowd at Chicago’s Grant Park. Click above to find out how Hutz manages to whip himself into a frenzy for shows and how the group constructs its multi-cultural pastiche songs. • Complete Lollapalooza Coverage • Gallery: Lollapalooza 2008: Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West and More • Gallery: Backstage at Lollapalooza With Perry Farrell, Slash, Gnarls Barkley and the Raconteurs • More Lollapalooza Coverage: Rock ‘N’ Roll Diary [Video: Pete Maiden]
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Published: 2008-08-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Videos, Lollapalooza
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Perry Farrell Talks Favorite Lollapalooza Memories, Plus Backstage PhotosWith the festival he helped organize now in its 12th year, Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell talked to Rolling Stone about his favorite Lolla moments backstage at the fest. “There’s a zillion of them. Watching Eddie Vedder jump from a stack a story high into the crowd back in 1994,” the onetime Jane’s Addiction leader said, even though he meant 1992. “I’ve seen people having sex backstage. That was pretty exciting. I’ve participated myself.” With this year’s Lollapalooza maybe sporting its most power-packed, headliner-heavy lineup yet, what was Farrell looking forward to the most? “I don’t think there will be anything but mayhem when Rage Against the Machine takes the stage,” Farrell said. Turns out he was right. For more of Farrell from Lollapalooza, plus video interviews with the Black Keys, Gogol Bordello and Mason Jennings, check out our Rock ‘N’ Roll Diary from the Chicago fest. For more behind the scenes photos from backstage at Grant Park, click here. For our full gallery of live shots from the fest, click here. [Photo: Josh Rothstein for RollingStone.com]
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Published: 2008-08-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Lollapalooza
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Tour Tracker: Daughtry, Gogol Bordello, Sunset Strip FestivalPhoto: Lauren/WireImage Daughtry plot out the second leg of their Leave This Town tour, Gogol Bordello visit the Great White North this October before embarking on a West Coast trek and Korn, Chris Cornell and the Donnas lead Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip Music Festival on September 10th through 12th. Full dates plus the entire Sunset Strip lineup, after the jump. Daughtry Oct. 19 - Topeka, KS @ Kansas ExpoCentre Oct. 21 - Omaha, NE @ Omaha Civic Auditorium Oct. 22 - Ames, IA @ Hilton Coliseum Oct.
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Published: 2009-08-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour
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Tour Tracker: Sasquatch! Festival, No Doubt and PJ HarveyPhoto: Getty Images Rolling Stone predicted Nine Inch Nails and their new tourmates Jane’s Addiction would be hitting some festival this summer, and voila: the Sasquatch! Festival revealed that Trent, Perry and the rest of the gangs will headline this year’s fest at the Gorge in Quincey, Washington on May 23-25th. Kings of Leon will also headline a night at Sasquatch, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective and Santigold are also on a pretty strong bill. Check after the jump for the full initial Sasquatch! lineup. In other news, No Doubt announced that their reunion tour will kick off with a May 16th show at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for Tiger Woods’ Tiger Jam, an event that benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation and other Vegas charities. “Playing this show is going to be really fun for all of us. Tiger’s foundation empowers kids to achieve their dreams and we’re excited to help support that,” No Doubt’s singer Gwen Stefani said in a press release. Paramore and the Sounds will also appear. Plus, PJ Harvey revealed a trio of dates and a March 24th performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in support of her new album with John Parish, A Woman A Man Walked By (due March 31st). Check below for the Harvey & Parish dates, too. Sasquatch! Festival Jane’s Addiction (feat. all four original members), Kings of Leon, Nine Inch Nails, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Erykah Badu, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, TV On The Radio, Animal Collective, Silversun Pickups, Bon Iver, Santigold, Of Montreal, Explosions In The Sky, Devotchka, Peter Bjorn & John, Gogol Bordello, M. Ward, The Avett Brothers, Doves, Calexico, Grizzly Bear, M83, Girl Talk, The Gaslight Anthem, The Walkmen, Chromeo (dj set), Deadmau5, Mugison, Sun Kil Moon, Airborne Toxic Event, Blitzen Trapper, Shearwater, BLK JKS, The Wrens, Tobacco, Monotonix, King Khan & The Shrines, St. Vincent, Passion Pit, John Vanderslice, Bishop Allen, Blind Pilot, AA Bondy, Black Moth
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Published: 2009-02-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour
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Pop Life: Special Live Earth EditionHow much of the ozone layer would you give up to never hear Billy Corgan sing again? Wouldn’t you sacrifice a polar icecap or two? It’s a tough question, but these are tough times, and Live Earth proved we need to combat global warming, because Enrique Iglesias would never lie about a thing like that. The whole day was full of TV mindfucks: Pauly Shore going onstage in Johannesberg to introduce Baaba Maal? Kanye West rapping, “Sting, you the only Police good in the hood”? Madonna teaming up with gypsy-punk madmen Gogol Bordello to do “La Isla Bonita”? Madonna’s new theme song “Hey You” was unfortunately not a rewritten Pink Floyd song (“hey you, drivin’ SUVs / Dumping toxins in the breeze, can you hear me?”) But Roger Waters did show up to sing “Another Brick in the Wall,” yet skipped the temptation to have his confused-looking children’s choir chant, “We don’t need no carbon emissions.” In terms of music, Live Earth was short on the two things that usually make superstar benefit concerts fun: strange duets and dead-band reunions. They could have used some more heavy hitters. The best duet, as everybody agreed, was Keith Urban and Alicia Keys doing “Gimme Shelter”; the best reunion was Japanese electro-prog pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra, who inexplicably (yet excellently) got the final ten minutes of NBC’s highlight special to themselves, playing the Kyoto Temple. Some of the music bits were fun (Snoop, Lenny Kravitz, Beastie Boys), others weren’t (Melissa Etheridge). Duran Duran? They were GREAT. So where was Andy Taylor? No matter: I loved it when Simon Le Bon told the crowd, “Just coming here is not enough to get what’s got to be done, done…BUT…If we all sing…We might just make a stand, right here!” And the song he picked to save the planet with? “Girls On Film.” Simon, you have answered the call of awesome. Metallica wheezed amiably through “Enter Sandman,” with James Hetfield’s beard providing much-needed comic relief, as did his huff-and-puff ad libs at the
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Published: 2007-07-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Jay-Z Gets Dissed, Madonna Finds a New Muse, Foxy Brown Goes Missing Today in Detroit, rap legends Kurtis Blow and Eric B. will attend the funeral of their former friend, the “N” word. The mock burial is just one of the many hip-hop-centric events taking place at the 98th annual NAACP convention. Yesterday, NAACP chairman Julian Bond took umbrage with Jay-Z, saying, “I heard somebody say that when Jay-Z talks about ho’s, he gets a gold record. When Don Imus talks about ho’s, he gets fired. We believe in equal justice and equal justice for everyone.” Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz will take his collaboration with Madonna from the Live Earth stage to the Sundance Film Festival as he stars in the Material Mom’s directorial debut, Filth & Wisdom. Meanwhile, Madonna’s f-bomb dropping on the Wembley stage pissed off 123 sensitive Brits. Weeks after being assaulted and refusing to testify against her alleged attackers, Foxy Brown is missing. She was last seen boarding a flight from NYC to London. Update! Evidently she was already found. Panic over. Cat Power’s second volume of covers, The Covers Record: Volume Two, is due in January 2008 and will likely feature songs by Hank Williams, Otis Redding and the requisite Bob Dylan cover. Hours after Russian file-sharing site Allofmp3.com was shut down following demands by the U.S. government, Mp3sparks.com, a mirror site, emerged. It’s no coincidence that both sites are run by the same company.
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Published: 2007-07-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour Rolls Into New York With Reworked Hits, Virtual BritneyPhoto: LeSegretain/AFP/Getty Madonna may have toyed with dominance and submission on this year’s Hard Candy, but there was no question who was carrying the cane at the first New York City date on her Sticky & Sweet Tour last night (the trek’s second stop in the States). Emerging on a throne to the thumpy sound of “Candy Shop,” the 50-year-old singer kicked off a tightly choreographed two-hour set designed to accentuate her physical and musical strength and flexibility. (Check out photos from Madonna’s opening-night show here.) Skipping rope during a section evoking the 1980s New York where she began her career, Madonna pranced on the DJ’s table during a beefier “Into the Groove” as colorful Keith Haring figures spelled out the lyrics on giant video screens. With some chunky power chords, “Borderline” became a Cheap Trick-style power-pop song, “Vogue” was mashed up with the funky brass of “4 Minutes” and “La Isla Bonita” morphed into a Gogol Bordello-esque hoe-down featuring fiddle and accordion. “You know who’s not invited to my party? Sarah fucking Palin” Madonna shouted after a montage of images that included Oprah and Bono urged “Get up – it’s time – your life – your choice.” As expected, she did permit another embattled mother to share her spotlight briefly: during a punchy “Human Nature,” Britney Spears paced a stalled elevator in a video. When the song reached its final refrain of “I’m not your bitch” Spears spoke: “It’s Britney, bitch!” and the crowd erupted. Kanye West, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell also made virtual appearances. The focus quickly returned to Madonna, of course, and her impossibly muscled body. Strutting down the set’s catwalk during a defiant “She’s Not Me,” tearing out guitar chords at the noisy conclusion of “Hung Up” or reinventing older hits like “Like a Prayer,” she made a solid argument for her continued durability as the Jumbotron showed off her sinewy arms and steely legs. (She rarely sounded winded, though she was singing live.
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Published: 2008-10-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows, Madonna
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Tour Tracker: Gogol Bordello, the B-52’s and They Might Be GiantsPhoto: Getty Gogol Bordello travel America like a pack of gypsies, the B-52’s invite you to the Funplex and They Might Be Giants say leave the kids at home for their “adult” tour. Follow the jump for the full set of tour dates. Gogol Bordello September 24 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse September 25 - New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues September 26 - Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits September 27 - Queen Creek, AZ @ Edgefest September 29 - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre October 1 - San Diego, CA @ 4th and B October 2 - Anaheim, CA @ The Grove of Anaheim October 3 - Las Vegas, NV @ Fremont East October 4 - Los Angeles, CA @ Detour Festival October 5 - San Francisco, CA @ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival October 7 - Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre October 8 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater October 9 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo October 10 - Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore Ballroom October 11 - Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore Ballroom October 14 - Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall October 15 - Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Events Centre December 27 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall December 29 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall December 30 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall December 31 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Electric Factory January 2 - Washington DC @ 9:30 Club January 3 - Washington DC @ 9:30 Club The B-52’s September 25 - Rama, ONT @ Rama Casino September 26 - Rama, ONT @ Rama Casino September 27 - Buffalo, NY@ Albright Knox Gallery October 17 - Merrillville, IN @ Star Plaza Theater October 18 - Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater November 1 - New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom November 7 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues November 8 - Palm Desert, CA @ McCallum Theater November 9 - Thousand Oaks, CA @ Civic Arts Plaza November 11 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues November 12 - Las Vegas, NV @ Primm Valley Casino November 14 - San Rafael, CA @ Marin County Civic Center November 15 - Bakersfield, CA @ The Fox Theater November 16 - Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia at LA Live They Might Be Giants September 26 - L
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Published: 2008-09-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour
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New Rothbury Festival to Hit U.S. in July: Matthews, Mayer, Snoop, Modest Mouse A new, environmentally conscious music festival is about to hit the ever-growing U.S. market July 4th weekend: AEG Live (the folks behind Coachella) and Madison House Presents are introducing the Rothbury Festival, to be held in Rothbury, Michigan on July 3rd through 6th at the idyllic Double JJ Ranch near Lake Michigan. Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Widespread Panic, Phil Lesh & Friends, Modest Mouse, 311 and Snoop Dogg are among the many confirmed acts, and organizers say the festival’s goal is to draw attention to climate change and clean energy alternatives. To wit, the weekend will feature a think tank featuring panel discussions on those climate concerns, an energy fair where attendees can get their hands on related technology and products, and the festivals’ campgrounds will strive for a zero-waste experience via composting, carbon-offsetting and more strategies (alternative lodging will also be available for festival-goers who don’t want to pitch a tent). For the initial lineup announcement — the fest promises more than seventy bands on eight stages — keep reading. The first batch of tickets go on sale February 27th at the fest’s official site. Dave Matthews Band Widespread Panic John Mayer 311 Phil Lesh and Friends Primus Thievery Corporation Snoop Dogg Modest Mouse Michael Franti and Spearhead Gov’t Mule Sound Tribe Sector Nine Colbie Caillat Slightly Stoopid The Black Keys Yonder Mountain String Band with Jon Fishman Gogol Bordello Citizen Cope Keller Williams and The WMD’S The Disco Biscuits Medeski Martin & Wood Ray LaMontagne Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival Drive-By Truckers Of Montreal The Dresden Dolls Gomez Brett Dennen Taj Mahal Mike Gordon Zappa Plays Zappa Crystal Method DJ Set JJ Grey & MOFRO The Greyboy Allstars The Secret Machines Beth Orton Jakob Dylan and the Green Mountain Rebels A 3 Bettye Lavette Lotus Yard Dogs Road Show State Radio The Beautiful Girls Sage Franc
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Published: 2008-02-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Vegoose Festival Report: Rage Against the Machine, the Stooges, Shins, Daft Punk, More For three years now, the Vegoose festival has been bringing Las Vegas the sort of eclectic acts the city normally shuns: metal, hip-hop, politically motivated tunage and indie rock’s latest beloved. This year was no exception: the first day alone delivered Mastodon, Public Enemy, M.I.A. and the Shins. Throw in Saturday night performances by Iggy and the Stooges and Daft Punk, and you might just have the most musically diverse day in Sin City history. (For a full photo gallery from Vegoose, click here.) From the start great music was plentiful. Gogol Bordello opened the festival with one of the strongest sets of the weekend. Backed by two percussionist/dancers, ferocious fiddle playing and singer Eugene Hutz’s manic presence, the band won over an audience that seemed delightfully surprised by the band’s gypsy-punk attack. As with many of the afternoon bands, the Vegoose set was only the beginning of their Vegas trip. After performing, the band did a signing in a makeshift Zia Records tent in the Vegoose field, before heading to downtown Las Vegas where bandmembers spun discs at Beauty Bar until 3 AM. Not everything worked. Bands like the Shins (who wore costumes) and Blonde Redhead (who did not) found their more intricate music bleed away by the acoustics of a vast field and competing bands. Vegoose has three active stages and overlap between sets made it hard to see everything even for the most dedicated fans. Perhaps the biggest disappointment of Saturday was competing sets between Cypress Hill and Public Enemy (who arranged for that?). Still, some of the Cypress audience popped over long enough to join Chuck D for a rousing chant of “Fuck George Bush.” Other of Chuck D’s pronouncements on affairs of State might have been a bit over the crowd’s head: His complaints that the Euro and Pound were kicking American ass ellicited a collective “huh?” As night descended with dust filling the air from the dirt field, Iggy and the Stooges came out and gra
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Published: 2007-10-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows, Festivals
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