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Green Day Revive Foxboro Hot Tubs for Surprise London Show

Photo: Nozu/FilmMagic Green Day waited until November 1st to celebrate Halloween, taking on their alternate identity — garage band Foxboro Hot Tubs — for a secret late-night show in London. The performance at the small Garage venue came just hours after Green Day’s final official U.K. concert at the city’s Wembley Stadium. For the Foxboro Hot Tubs show, the 21st Century Breakdown crew rifled through their entire album Stop, Drop and Roll and loaded Green Day rarities and covers into the two-hour

Published: 2009-11-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Green Day, Rock News

Phish Follow Halloween Show With First-Ever Acoustic Set At Fest 8

Photo: Crothers/FilmMagic Free breakfast has become a hotel staple, but how can Phish fans be sated while camping in the middle of the scorching California desert for Festival 8? A Sunday high-noon acoustic set with gratis coffee and donuts, shaped fittingly, like the number eight. Check out photos from Festival 8. Most of the 40,000 in attendance (many still buzzing about the band’s Halloween monster take on the Rolling Stones’ Exile On Main Street) straggled in to enjoy the band’s first-ever

Published: 2009-11-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Live Shows, Phish, Rock News

Phish Tease Fans With Halloween Cover Options: Nirvana, MGMT

Photo: Phish.com It’s tradition for Phish to cover another artist’s classic album in its entirety on Halloween — and for fans to furiously debate which LP the band will choose in the weeks before the big show. This year, the Vermont quartet is playing along by teasing its devotees with a gallery of album covers on the official Festival 8 Website. Records that won’t be performed in Indio, California, at the end of the month are being figuratively killed off the band — stabbed with a knife or an a

Published: 2009-09-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Readers’ Rock List: What Album Should Phish Cover for Halloween?

Last week, after Phish revealed plans to revive an old Halloween tradition and play another band’s album in its entirety during their Festival 8 in Indio, California, we asked our readers what LP they’d request on October 31st. We’ve tallied the votes, and the readers want to hear a jamified version Radiohead’s OK Computer, complete with a 25-minute version of “Karma Police” and a vacuum solo during “Climbing Up the Walls.” Other picks on the Rock List ranged from the plausible (David Bowie’s Z

Published: 2009-07-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Weekend Rock List: What Classic Album Should Phish Cover This Halloween?

Photo: Flanigan/WireImage Today, Rock Daily reported that perennial jam crew Phish are going to play their first Halloween concert in 11 years—an event that means the band covers a legendary album in its entirety. In previous years they’ve done the Beatles’ White Album, the Who’s Quadrophenia, Talking Heads’ Remain In Light and Velvet Underground’s Loaded, and they’re always a secret until Halloween night. So will we get a trick or a treat? Our comment section is already speculating: Will they p

Published: 2009-07-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Weekend Rock List: Most Gruesome Band Names

Because Halloween is right around the corner, this week’s Rock List focuses on bands that are more horrifying than the entire Nightmare on Elm Street series. To honor those groups that frighten the hell out of you before you can even hit “Play” (and those that even make Nas’ new album title seem tame) hit us up with your favorite gruesome band names. Here are five that make us listen with the lights on: Alien Sex Fiend Carcass Cannibal Corpse Flesh Eaters Christian Death [Photo: Dalle/Retna]

Published: 2007-10-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

The Hold Steady Ready Live Album, Documentary “A Positive Rage”

Photo: Finn/Getty The Hold Steady will release their first live album A Positive Rage on April 7th. In addition to a CD stocked full of tracks from the band’s earlier discography like 2004’s Almost Killed Me and 2006’s Boys & Girls In America, the package will also feature a DVD with a 53-minute documentary detailing the band’s voyage from their first-ever London concerts in 2006 to their return back to their native Minneapolis. The film will also feature backstage interviews, fan commentary and never-before-seen live footage. As for the live album itself, the songs were performed on Halloween 2007 at a sold-out show at Chicago’s Metro. The enhanced album will also feature five bonus studio tracks, including two unreleased songs “Spectres” and “40 Bucks.” Rounding out the whole package is the booklet, filled with personal photos and memories of the tour by band members including frontman Craig Finn. While very few cuts from the band’s most recent LP Stay Positive, Rolling Stone’s 36th best album of 2008, make it onto A Positive Rage, you can hear the newer tracks live when the Hold Steady tours in April, including a slot at this year’s Coachella Festival. Check the track list for A Positive Rage below: A Positive Rage 1. Intro 2. Stuck Between Stations 3. The Swish 4. Chips Ahoy! 5. Massive Nights 6. Ask Her For Adderall 7. Barfruit Blues 8. Same Kooks 9. You Gotta Dance (With Who You Came With) 10. Lord, I’m Discouraged 11. You Can Make Him Like You 12. Your Little Hoodrat Friend 13. Southtown Girls 14. Citrus 15. First Night 16. Girls Like Status 17. Killer Parities Related Stories: • Q&A: Craig Finn on Zeppelin, Lyrics and Springsteen • The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn on Depression and Obama • The Hold Steady Get Hip

Published: 2009-02-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Misfits Announce Anniverscary Tour, Foxy Brown: Still Incarcerated, Experience Hendrix Tour Brings Out Big Names

All hell breaks loose: The Misfits have announced details for their thirtieth “Anniverscary” tour. Although original lead singer Glenn Danzig will not completely be back in the picture, ghouls will be happy to know that speculation has him making a few guest appearances, hopefully at the Halloween show in New York. Tickets are on sale now. Foxy Brown’s bid to leave Riker’s Island has been denied, forcing the three-month-pregnant MC to remain in jail until a September 7th court date. Brown was incarcerated for parole violations stemming from a litany of charges. Not sure if anyone actually watched the mannish version of Diddy’s Making the Band 4, but Diddy signed Donnie, one of the contestants who didn’t make the final cut, to a solo contract with Bad Boy. LCD Soundsystem will release “Someone Great,” from Sound of Silver, on October 22nd. The single will be backed by three remixes and one live performance. Also, LCD will release “45:33,” an MP3-only song they recorded for Nike-inspired workouts, on CD and vinyl for the first time in November. The five-city Experience Hendrix tour with feature virtuosos like Buddy Guy, The Doors’ Robby Krieger, The Rolling Stones’ Mick Taylor, Robert Randolph, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and many more pros. Full dates after the jump. October 16: Washington, D.C. (Constitution Hall) October 17: New York (Beacon Theatre) October 18: Hampton Beach, N.H. (Casino Ballroom) October 19: Atlantic City, N.J. (Trump Casino) October 20: Waterbury, Conn. (Palace Theatre)

Published: 2007-08-29 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Springsteen Reportedly Readying New Album For January

Photo: Readle/Getty Having successfully completed his role on the campaign trail, Bruce Springsteen will reportedly go back to work on his next album, according to Backstreets. During his six-song concert in Cleveland, Springsteen debuted a new song entitled “Workin’ On a Dream.” The song is expected to appear on the follow-up to last year’s Magic and may be out in time for Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony in January 2009. Before helping out Obama, Springsteen had spent the autumn season prepping the new album. The winter months promise to be just as busy for Bruce, as he and his E Street Band will also rock the Super Bowl halftime show on February 1st. Related Stories: • Springsteen, Jay-Z, Reznor, Doors’ Densmore Make Last Minute Election Pushes • Springsteen Posts Devilish New Song As Halloween Treat • Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel Form Supergroup for Obama in NYC

Published: 2008-11-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Snoop Teams Up With Beckham, Winehouse Appeals Marijuana Charge, Arcade Fire Get Bottled

It’s not quite Dr. Dre, but Snoop Dogg has found a new Los Angelino to collaborate with: David Beckham. Snoop and Posh Spice’s hubby have formed an unusual bond (Beckham has even taught Dogg’s kids how to play soccer). The Doggfather says, “We’re talking about putting our money together to do a movie. It’s incredibly exciting. We both love fashion too, and we might even do a fashion label as well.” Amy Winehouse will appeal the marijuana-possession fine she paid after being arrested in Norway. Winehouse didn’t know that agreeing to pay a fine was equivalent to pleading guilty. The incident ultimately forced the singer to cancel her appearance at next week’s MTV’s Woodies. RS Breaking Artist the Black Lips will star in Let It Be, a movie loosely based on the story of alterna-gods the Replacements, as evidenced by the film’s title, which shares its name with an album by Paul Westerberg’s outfit. Repeat, this has nothing to do with the Beatles. The Arcade Fire have become the latest victim of the old British pastime of “bottle-hurling,” as Win Butler took one in the face during the band’s Halloween show in Nottingham. After a second bottle narrowly avoided hitting Butler, the AF singer declared the band would “never play Nottingham again.” Bling king Jacob the Jeweler will plead guilty to two counts of making false statements to investigators. Jacob also faced more severe money laundering charges, but those charges have been dropped thanks to the plea deal. He’s expected to serve roughly three to four and a half years in jail.

Published: 2007-11-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Halloween and Bob Dylan: An Unlikely (Yet Fruitful) Collaboration

Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and the acts vying to be The Next Great American Band aren’t the only ones pretending to be Bob Dylan this Halloween. Across the nation, Dylanphiles are leaping into the songwriter’s esteemed lyrical tablet searching for possible costume inspirations. The Seattle Weekly offers a few ideas, ranging from the obvious (”Quinn the Eskimo”) to the too-obscure (”Einstein disguised as Robin Hood” from “Desolation Row”). Here’s a few of our own suggestions: For those celebrating solo, there’s the “Mr. Tambourine Man” costume, which pretty much requires two tambourines and the need to play a song for those not sleepy. For the ladies, apply the proper formula of dreary mascara, carry around a deck of cards missing the jacks and the aces and bang — “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.” With couples, it’s easier, with options like the Joker and the Thief from “All Along the Watchtower,” or Frankie Lee and Judas Priest from “The Ballad Of … ,” even though we’re not sure what that costume would constitute. If you’re traveling in packs with two nametags and a Jack of Hearts costume, “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” may be a route you should consider. [Illustration: Michael Dougan] Related Stories: New Bob Dylan Escalade Ad: “What Global Warming?” Bob Dylan in Black and White: Classic Photos by Barry Feinstein “I’m Not There” at the Venice Film Fest: Video Interview With Todd Haynes and Heath Ledger

Published: 2007-10-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News