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Traveling Roma band Les Yeux Noirs camps at The Triple Door April 6

Music & nightlifeThe hybrid sounds of the Roma people come to Seattle's Triple Door April 6 with the arrival of Les Yeux Noirs.

Published: 2010-04-02 Provider: Seattle Times

New Eagles Song Hits MySpace; Watch Jack White as Elvis Presley; Nine Inch Nails to Release Remix Album

The Eagles are back in flight. It’s been 28 years since their last studio album, but now “How Long,” the first single from the band’s October-released, Wal-Mart-only album Long Road Out Of Eden, is streaming on MySpace. Click here to listen to the song. From the Hollywood comedy mafia that brought you Knocked Up and Superbad comes the trailer for the musical biopic spoof Walk Hard, starring John C. Reilly as a Johnny Cash/Brian Wilson hybrid, White Stripes’ Jack White as kung-fu Elvis, and Jewel in some capacity. Nine Inch Nails will release a Year Zero remix album, cleverly leet-titled Y34R Z3R0 R3M1X3D. The strange visa issues that Lily Allen somehow circumvented to attend the MTV Video Music Awards nomination show in Las Vegas will also force her to miss her appearance at the actual award show on September 9th. The Beastie Boys are following up their first ever concert in Brooklyn by adding shows in Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, and Montreal. Check out the dates after the jump. 9/20 Montreal, Quebec - Bell Centre 9/21 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre 9/22 Toronto, Ontario - Hummingbird Centre for Performing Arts (Instrumental show) 9/24 Detroit, MI - Fillmore 9/26 Chicago IL - Riviera Theatre (Instrumental show) 9/27 Chicago IL - Charter One Pavilion

Published: 2007-08-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Hype Monitor: Junius, Dam-Funk, Laura Veirs

Photo by George Dubose The Band: Junius The Buzz: Breathtaking Boston metal band pulls off a perfect hybrid of Neurosis and the Smiths, striking a stunning balance of brutality and beauty. Their latest album, The Martyrdrom of a Catastrophist, is a concept record about catastrophe theorist Immanuel Velikovsky, exploring his insistence on a chaotic universe. Its songs are spellbinding and heartbreaking, gripping from the first note to the last. A hard rock dream come true. Listen If: You dress i

Published: 2009-12-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Breaking, Hype Monitor

New Music Report: Prince and Neil Young, Plus Zac Brown Band

In this week’s New Music Report, Rolling Stone contributing editor Christian Hoard takes us in-depth into the Reviews section of the new, Lil Wayne-fronted issue of RS. Prince’s three-disc Target exclusive, featuring LOtUSFLOW3R, MPLSoUND and protégée Bria Valente’s Elixer, is in the spotlight, with the Purple Rain great releasing a package that is “excessive and uneven, of course, but it’s also intermittently brilliant and a real bargain.” (Target is selling the collection for only $11.98.) At it’s best, the songs sound like 1999 or Controversy B sides, but at its worst, especially in the case of Valente’s Elixer, the tracks are just “generic pop ballads.” Hoard also discusses Neil Young’s Fork in the Road, a concept album dedicated to the LincVolt electric hybrid automobile that’s also about “American myth, governmental betrayal and how rust still never sleeps.” While comparative to previous Young thematic exercises like Trans and This Note’s For You, Will Hermes writes in his three-star review that Fork “most resembles Living With War — the rock album recast as blog rant, less about aesthetic craft than about spitting out what needs to be said this minute.” Finally, the Zac Brown Band recently stopped by the Smoking Section to talk the about the recording process, how reggae influences their music and their next two or three albums the band has already recorded. A nominee for the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Artist, the Zac Brown came to the Rolling Stone studios to perform a handful of songs, including their single “Chicken Fried” and a cover of “The Devil Went Down To Georgia.” For the whole New Music Report, check the video above.

Published: 2009-04-01 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Videos, New Music Report

"When Angels and Serpents Dance" by P.O.D.

A few things have happened in the P.O.D. camp since the release of their last album, Testify. Frontman Sonny Sandoval lobbed off his signature dreads. Gasp! In all seriousness, the Cali band left longtime label Atlantic for the new confines of Columbia. And prodigal son, guitarist Marcos Curiel, who played with the band on multi-platinum super smashes The Fundamental Elements Of Southtown and Satellite before bailing, has returned to the fold. How do all these factors effect When Angels And Serpents Dance? Positively, I'm happy to report. P.O.D. have matured and progressed from their rap-rock-reggae hybrid, crafting smart songs with groove. When Angels And Serpents Dance is a well-manicured collection of radio-ready hard rock with balls. Sandoval still delivers his positive lyrics in a hip-hop cadence, and Curiel's riffs clamp down on the jugular on raucous rawkers like "Condescending" and "Addicted." The glorious "End Of The World," featuring a Gospel choir, is reminiscent of the

Published: 2008-03-10 Provider: Artist Direct

Red Hot Chili Pepper Sues Showtime For Not Coming Up With Their Own Cool Word That Means Screwing In The Golden State [Californication]

If you came to Californication without knowing much about the Showtime series, you'd be forgiven if you'd have expected the familiar Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Californication" to play under the show's titles; failing that, you'd think at least some reference to the band's hit 1999 album of the same name might figure into the action or back story. As it turns out, however, no permission from the band was secured by the network or the show's creators, who merely saw in the lexical hybrid a catchy, succinct term covering the shows primary themes of fucking and life in Southern California. Now, reports THR ESQ, the Chili Peppers are suing: The Peppers don't claim Federal trademark infringement. Instead they allege state law claims of unfair competition, dilution of value of the "Californication" mark and unjust enrichment. "Californication is the signature CD, video and song of the band's career, and for some TV show to come along and steal our identity is not right," band frontman Anthony Kiedis says [in a press release]. One would have thought that at least one clearance report red flag might have gone up alerting the network to the possibility of legal troubles down the line should they have chosen to borrow Kiedis's coinage without paying for the privilege. Still, faced with the series's rather cumbersome original working title of Midlife Crisis Featuring Bitter, Boozy Writer Who Gets Barrels of Pussy in an Improbable L.A. Teeming With Hot Bookworm Groupies, we can understand how they might have perhaps too hastily chosen to go with the far catchier one-word moniker. Red Hot Chili Peppers Sue Showtime over 'Californication' Title [THR ESQ]

Published: 2007-11-19 Provider: Defamer Keywords: californication, Celeb Jurisprudence, David Duchovny, idolator, Showtime