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Rob Sheffield Remembers Ultimate Indie Cult Hero Alex Chilton

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Classic Alex Chilton live moment: 1987, long after midnight, a sleazy rock bar in Roanoke, Virginia. When the man strikes up his best-loved song, the Big Star classic “September Gurls,” some drunk idiot celebrates by throwing a bottle that hits the guitar. Chilton cuts the song dead right at the syllable “Sep—” and snarls, “If I catch the motherfucker who threw that bottle, I’m gonna kill him.” Then, to the band: “OK, on D. One. Two.” They pick it up without m

Published: 2010-03-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

International Report: Live Earth Rio

From Márcio Cruz of Rolling Stone Brazil: WHO PLAYED: Pharrell, Macy Gray, Lenny Kravitz, Guilherme Arantes, Xuxa, O Rappa, Marcelo D2, Jota Quest, Jorge Ben Jor HIGHLIGHT: Macy Gray and her backing vocalists decked out in dresses stamped with political messages targeting racism, the crisis in Darfur and the war in Iraq. Her band also busted out live samples of “Give Peace a Chance” sprinkled with Jimi Hendrix riffs. MOST UNEXPECTED MOMENT: An ecstatic Lenny Kravitz jumped off the stage and joined the audience of 400,000 during “Let Love Rule.” The crowd, unsurprisingly, went crazy.

Published: 2007-07-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Earth, Live Earth International Report

“Gimme Shelter” Director Albert Maysles Focuses In on Fall Out Boy

From the strange collaboration department: Famed documentarian Albert Maysles has found a new subject to focus his lens on: Fall Out Boy. According to reports, the eighty-year-old Maysles has been ridin’ dirty on the Fall Out Boy tour bus, filming behind-the-scenes footage of the band for an upcoming documentary. Take a moment, check the Imdb and collect your thoughts. Maysles and his deceased brother David were the auteurs behind films like the Rolling Stones rockumentary Gimme Shelter, Salesman, Rock Daily favorite Grey Gardens (pictured above), countless films about the artwork of Christo and behind-the-scenes shorts about the making of Wes Anderson films. Now, the octogenarian is hanging with Fall Out Boy? We can only imagine the footage he’s collected so far: Pete Wentz blogging away on his computer, Ashlee Simpson floating in and out of frame, legions of teenage girls screaming, Patrick Stump practicing guitar riffs, Wentz faux-DJng at his club. Actually, the possibilities are endless. Keep rolling, Al. Related Stories: Fall Out Boy, the Intellectuals? Wentz and Stump Wax Philosophical on Gender, Tragedy Fall Out Boy to “Wild Things” Author: Oops, Sorry! Rock Bloggin’: Fall Out Boy Breaks Upper Cankle, ‘Tween Girls Line Up To Sign Cast

Published: 2007-12-06 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Maroon 5’s Adam Levine Recalls the Band’s Early Days, How They Incorporated R&B: Exclusive Audio

As you may have realized by glancing at our Web site, Maroon 5 is on the cover of the current issue of Rolling Stone. Contributing editor Gavin Edwards sat down with the quintet to discuss everything from their explosive inter-band battles to the moment frontman Adam Levine realized Maroon 5 would have a career beyond their first album. Listen in on a bit of their conversation here: Adam Levine discusses Kara’s Flowers — the teenage iteration of Maroon 5 — and reminisces about playing shows at L.A. clubs when he and his bandmates were still in high school. Levine talks about the song “Not Falling Apart” and explains how his approach to music changed as the band adopted a more R&B influence.

Published: 2007-08-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Audio Interviews

Bootleg Watch: Elvis Costello Hits the Gas on “This Years Model”

Starting this week, we’re going to be spotlighting our favorite bootlegs of the moment. No, we won’t be linking to them – we don’t want anybody to get sued on our account – but if you’re interested, begin here and here. Elvis Costello and the Attractions Winterland Ballroom, June 7th, 1978 By the time Elvis Costello and the Attractions hit San Francisco for this show in 1978, they had been on the road pretty much nonstop for a solid year and had only just begun to play large rooms such as Bill Graham’s famed Winterland Ballroom. Performing most of This Year’s Model – Costello’s first album with the Attractions, which had hit stores just a few weeks prior – the four-piece bashed away at a frantic pace they haven’t matched since. The songs rush by Ramones-style – there are barely any pauses between them except for Costello screaming out terse intros like, “This one’s called ‘Pump It Up!’.” This must be why all their early press called them a punk band. Highlights include a highly pressurized ‘Watching the Detectives” and a frenzied “Radio Radio,” during which Steve Nieve bangs on his organ with such force that the thing sounds like it’s on the verge of short-circuiting. Photo:Photo: Sussman/Getty

Published: 2007-07-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Foo Fighters Roar Back Into the Spotlight With New LP, Anniversary Re-Release

According to Rolling Stone’s Austin Scaggs, Foo Fighters were the undeniable highlight of Live Earth London, and though the band was certainly there to raise awareness about global warming, they wisely seized the weekend’s internationally telecast moment to announce to the world that they are back. We’re going to be hearing a lot from the Foos in the next few months: Tomorrow the band will re-release its smash album The Colour and the Shape in honor of the record’s tenth anniversary, and their forthcoming sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, now has a September 25 release date. Echoes was produced by Gil Norton, and Dave Grohl has described it as a mix between Steely Dan and NoMeansNo. Check out the tracklist after the jump: “The Pretender” “Let It Die” “Erase Replace” “Long Road to Ruin” “Come Alive” “Stranger Things Have Happened” “Cheer Up Boys, Your Makeup Is Running” “Summer’s End” “The Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners” “Statues” “But Honestly” “Home”

Published: 2007-07-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

International Report: Live Earth Sydney

We asked Rolling Stone’s international editions to report on the Live Earth concerts nearest them. Here’s the report from Dan Lander of Rolling Stone Australia on Live Earth Sydney: WHO PLAYED: Wolfmother, Jack Johnson, Crowded House, Blue King Brown, Toni Collette, Sneaky Sound System, Ghostwriters, Paul Kelly, Eskimo Joe, Missy Higgins, John Butler Trio HIGHLIGHTS: • Crowded House joined by everybody on the bill for a sing-along version of “Weather With You”, a song which took on a new meaning under the circumstances. • An intense-as-hell drum solo from the John Butler Trio’s Michael Barker, the perfect foil to Butler’s equally intense demand to Australia’s leaders not to introduce nuclear energy as an answer to global warming (we have much better options). The JBT set was a standout overall – there is no one on the planet who sounds better at an outside gig than these guys. • Paul Kelly joined by Kev Carmody, Missy Higgins and John Butler for “From Little Things Big Things Grow”. The whole crowd sung along – all eleven verses. MOST UNEXPECTED MOMENT: Academy-Award nominated actress Toni Collette and her band the Finish closing their set with a very fitting cover of T-Rex’s “Children of the Revolution”, proving not every actor who tries their hand at music need be as bad as Russell Crowe.

Published: 2007-07-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Earth, Live Earth International Report

Gaslight Anthem Talk Rocking With Bruce Backstage at Lolla

Fresh off their Lollapalooza set, Brian Fallon and Alex Levine from the Gaslight Anthem sat down with Rolling Stone to recall an incredible recent festival moment: sharing the stage with Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury. Fallon tells RS Springsteen’s son Evan discovered the band, and the man himself “showed up one day at Glastonbury. He was like, ‘I think I’m going to play that ” ‘59 Sound” song with you.’ ” The pair also give a few hints about the secret new sound they’re working up now: a mix

Published: 2009-08-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Lollapalooza

Exclusive: Queen’s Brian May Addresses Adam Lambert Rumors

Photo: Mickshaw/FOX After Adam Lambert’s killer performance with Queen on Wednesday night’s season finale of American Idol, rumors flew that he had already been offered a job singing with the band. That’s slightly premature, according to the band’s guitarist, Brian May. “Amongst all that furor, there wasn’t really a quiet moment to talk,” May tells Rolling Stone in an e-mail interview. “But [drummer Roger Taylor] and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some poi

Published: 2009-05-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, American Idol

Rock's landmark Lollapalooza is 15

Arts & EntertainmentIt happens to everyone: Some cultural moment makes you "feel old. " For Generation X, now in their 30s and 40s, this is one of those times...

Published: 2006-07-21 Provider: Seattle Times

Rivers Cuomo says Weezer is 'done'

Rivers Cuomo says that, for now, Weezer is "done." Cuomo, the band's bespectacled songwriter and frontman, told MTV that while ...

Published: 2006-07-13 Provider: USA Today

Nightwish and Within Temptation members team-up for new band

Nightwish frontwoman Anette Olzon has formed a new band with Within Temptation keyboard player Martijn Spierenburg. The as yet unnamed outfit are currently working on their debut album. "I have recorded one song that is with Martijn for mixing at the moment and I look forward to hearing it soon," says Olzon. "The project album is also being discussed with record labels at the moment and as soon as we know more I promise to tell you who else will be involved!" In related news, Nightwish keyboard

Published: 2010-06-03 Provider: Kerrang!