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Riding With U2: Watch the Band Prep For 360 Opener in Chicago

Follow Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. as they meet a throng of screeching fans outside their Chicago hotel, make their way to local radio stations for interviews (”The scale of the production is much bigger, but it boils down to the four of us out there,” the Edge says) and journey to Soldier Field, where U2 kicked off their epic 360° Tour. If you haven’t seen the band’s giant “Claw” stage glowing in a football stadium, don’t miss the last 25 seconds of this clip. Rolling Ston

Published: 2009-10-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, U2, Videos

Green Day Confirm Venues for “21st Century Breakdown” Tour

Photo: Martin Chavez Last week Green Day announced the dates for their massive summer tour supporting May 15th’s 21st Century Breakdown, and now the band has confirmed the venues they’ll be hitting on their 38-date journey across the U.S. and Canada. As Rock Daily reported, the band will be playing indoor arenas rather than amphitheatres. The trek starts July 3rd at Seattle’s Key Arena and ends August 25th at Los Angeles’ Forum. Green Day have not booked any festival dates. Keep an eye out for R

Published: 2009-04-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour

Report: AC/DC To Go Wal-Mart Only

AC/DC have left music stores across the country thunderstruck as the Australian band’s new album, due out in the fall, will be released exclusively through Wal-Mart, the Wall Street Journal reports. The still-untitled, Brendan O’Brien-produced album will be the group’s first since 2000’s Stiff Upper Lip. AC/DC join a club currently occupied by Garth Brooks, Journey and the Eagles as artists who have made their albums exclusively available for purchase via the retail giant (in theory, at least.)

Published: 2008-06-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Blur “Certainly Going To Rehearse” In 2009, Says Damon Albarn

Photo: Cattermole/Getty This is probably the umpteenth time we’re reporting news like this, but according to Damon Albarn, he and his Blur mates will all enter the studio in 2009. “Blur are certainly going to rehearse and see if we’re into it,” Albarn told the BBC this afternoon. Guitarist Graham Coxon, who left the band while they were worked on 2003’s Think Tank, also factors into the reunion equation. The band reconnected numerous times this year in non-musical situations this year, first meeting for lunch and then attending Albarn’s performance of his Monkey: Journey to the West at London’s O2 Arena. If Blur were to reunite for albums and the lucrative festival season, they’d have to compete for Albarn’s time with his other project Gorillaz, as Albarn stated in September he hopes to begin work on the follow-up to 2005’s Demon Days in January. Related Stories: • Album Review: Blur, Think Tank • Album Review: Gorillaz, Demon Days • Albarn Goes Ape Over Gorillaz

Published: 2008-11-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

New Journey Singer’s Dream Turns Ugly

When Journey guitarist Neal Schon found singer Arnel Pineda on YouTube and hired him to be the band’s new singer, it sounded like something out of a 21st century fairy tale. But it’s been anything but a happy ending for Pineda, as the grind of a successful world tour is getting to him. “There are days I just break down and cry,” says Pineda. “This is a job I’m doing for my family. That’s all the consolation I’m getting.” Click below for more on Pineda’s story, including a bonus interview where he talks about the audition process and what Journey’s songs mean to him. • Sad Journey For New Singer • Q&A: Journey’s Arnel Pineda Related Stories: • Journey Find New Singer On the Internet • Journey Vocalist Won’t Stop Deceivin’ • 13 Arrested at Journey Concert in Pennsylvania

Published: 2008-09-19 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

News Ticker: Weezer, NIN, Conor Oberst and Radiohead

Having already covered the Band and Talk Talk, Weezer will attempt songs by R.E.M., Gary Numan and the Psychedelic Furs for the B sides of the “Pork & Beans” single. Nine Inch Nails will release physical copies of their new album The Slip on July 22nd. Only 200,000 numbered copies will be distributed in the U.S., each with an accompanying DVD. Two songs from Bright Eyes‘ Conor Oberst’s upcoming solo album, “Danny Callahan” and “Souled Out!!!,” are now streaming on the singer/songwriter’s website. A fan-made, Radiohead-approved documentary Follow Me Around is now up on YouTube. The film documents Radiohead’s journey through Spain and Portugal in 2002 as they road-tested material from Hail to the Thief.

Published: 2008-06-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

News Ticker: Coachella, Journey, Kid Rock, Iron Maiden

Festival promoters Goldenvoice announced Aphex Twin, Goldfrapp, Kate Nash and Serj Tankian have been added to this year’s Coachella Festival. Goldenvoice also told Billboard.com fans shouldn’t expect lineup additions to their new All Points West Festival. Journey will release a three-disc CD/DVD package exclusively at Wal-Mart on June 3 featuring one CD of re-recorded classics, a second of new tracks, and a live DVD. Kid Rock held a meet-and-greet as a means of making amends with the Atlanta Waffle House where he was arrested last year. The event benefited an area homeless shelter. Iron Maiden will release Somewhere Back in Time, a combination of classic tracks from the band’s first ten years and a live album from their current tour. The album will also be available as a free download that will expire after three listens. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-03-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals, Morning News Roundup

Pete Townshend Demonstrates the Art of Guitar Destruction: Exclusive Clip From “Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who”

There have been many guitar-demolishers in the history of rock, but perhaps none more accomplished than the Who’s Pete Townshend. Click above to check out an exclusive clip of Townshend demonstrating his technique from Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who, a film tracking the band’s forty-plus-year career via all-new interviews with Townshend, Roger Daltrey and more, plus rare concert footage. The movie comes out on DVD November 6th along with Amazing Journey: Six Quick Ones, an additional feature-length project that compiles commentary on the Who’s significance from Eddie Vedder, the Edge, Sting and Noel Gallagher, among other musicians.

Published: 2007-10-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Videos, The Who

Zach de la Rocha Completes Solo LP, J.Lo Considers Spice Girls Collabo, iPhone Goes Overseas

Rage Against the Machine frontman Zach de la Rocha has finally ended his Chinese Democracy-esque journey by revealing that his first solo album is finished. The record, which de la Rocha started after leaving Rage in 2000, will feature Zach playing keyboards and former Mars Volta member Jon Theodore on drums. A source close to the recordings called it a cross-pollination of “Led Zeppelin and Dr. Dre.” While no decision has been handed down yet, some reports claim Britney Spears will temporarily relinquish custody of her kids to ex-husband Kevin Federline following allegations that Spears’ former bodyguard would testify regarding drug use, and the voluntary exile of her lawyer and manager. In what would be a career move only slightly less devastating than Gigli, Jennifer Lopez has expressed interest in joining the Spice Girls onstage during their reunion tour after striking up a friendship with Posh Spice. Apple’s platinum-selling iPhone will make its U.K. debut on November 9th. The phone will be available exclusively on wireless carrier O2 and will cost a meager £269 ($540). The principal members of Shudder to Think reunited onstage last night at New York’s Mercury Lounge, marking the first time since 1999 that the Washington, D.C. band has played together live. The group performed six songs, including two tracks from 1994’s Pony Express Record.

Published: 2007-09-19 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Metallica Chart Journey to Rock Hall of Fame in New Fuse Special

On April 4th, Metallica will march into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when they’re inducted alongside Run-DMC and Jeff Beck. But tonight on Fuse, the band charts its journey to the Rock Hall in a new special called Metallica: In Their Own Words (it airs at 9 p.m.). The doc mixes brutal onstage footage with the band’s reflections on its lengthy and prolific career. Click above to check out a clip from the show, where frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich muse on staying on the road for 20-plus years. (Get reacquainted with the band’s career in Metallica: Through the Years in Photos.) “When people talk about longevity they go right to the Rolling Stones,” Hetfield says. “No disrespect, they’re not doing what we’re doing, it’s that simple,” Lars Ulrich adds. Hetfield continues, “They’re not head-banging, they’re not playing 100-miles-an-hour songs.” Flea will induct the San Francisco metal legends on April 4th in Cleveland, where the band will perform with former bassist Jason Newsted. “Lars is ready to rock,” Newsted told Rolling Stone last week. “He sounded like a kid again talking about the induction, and I felt pretty much like that, too. Getting fired up to rock after that many years… it’s pretty special.” Rock Daily will have more from Newsted tomorrow, and full coverage of the Hall of Fame induction live from Ohio on the 4th, so stay tuned. Related Stories: • Rolling Stone’s Essential Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Coverage • Metallica, Run-DMC, Jeff Beck Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2009 • Jason Newsted on Metallica’s Rock Hall Induction: “The Black Album Band Will Be Back”

Published: 2009-03-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Metallica, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Neil Young’s “Archives Vol. 1″ Set for Release June 2nd

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Neil Young’s long-in-the-works and much-anticipated Archives Vol. 1 1963-1972 finally has a release date: June 2nd. The pre-order page for the incredible box set is up on the Neil Young Website now. The set features 128 tracks, 43 unreleased recordings, three live concerts, a 236-page full-color hardcover book and Young’s debut feature film Journey Through The Past, which is being released for the first time since its 1973 theatrical run. The set charts Young’s career from the Squires to Buffalo Springfield to his early solo works and finally his 1972 album Harvest. Archives Vol. 1 was originally scheduled for Summer 2007, then pushed to February 2008, then autumn of last year, January 2009 and now finally June 2nd. The 10-disc box set will be available in both DVD and Blu-Ray, as well as an eight-disc CD package that won’t include Journey Through the Past or the hardcover book. Visit the Neil Young site to get a gander at the massive track list on this behemoth box set. Thankfully, the price of the set has been drastically reduced as well: Amazon.com had the Blu-Ray box set selling at $431, but the Young site is offering the package for a pre-order price of $299.99, with standard DVD costing $199.99 and the CD set $99. For those who can’t afford the full set or already own the previously released Live At Massey Hall 1971 and Crazy Horse at the Fillmore 1970, each disc will also be sold individually in all formats. In addition, by ordering now, you’ll also receive a 7′’ vinyl featuring two songs by Young’s early band the Squires, “Mustang” and “Aurora.” A preview of the set’s “Disc 0 – Early Years 1963-1965″ will also ship pre-June 2nd for those who pre-order. Neil Young fans will have their hands full keeping up with all the recordings the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is unleashing this year. Young will also release his new, electric-car inspired album Fork in the Road on April 7th. Related Stories: • Jonathan Demme Debuts “Neil You

Published: 2009-03-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Radiohead Respond To Miley Cyrus and Kanye West’s Post-Snub Tantrums

Photo: Getty We’ll be honest, we kind of expected both Miley Cyrus’ and Kanye West’s feuds with Radiohead over backstage snubbings to just fade away considering Thom Yorke and friends aren’t usually ones to stir the pot. We were wrong, however: Yorke took the band’s Dead Air Space blog to issue one last parting jab before the band embarks to South America. “Wish us all a safe journey if you still like us and you’re not one of those people i have managed to offend by doing nothing xx,” Yorke wrote. Both Cyrus and West publicly complained that Radiohead ignored them backstage at the Grammys. West was so hurt that he “sat the fuck down,” as Kanye said on VH1’s Storytellers when Radiohead took the stage to perform “15 Step” with the USC Marching Band. Meanwhile Cyrus threatened to “ruin” Radiohead for refusing to meet with her backstage. Surprisingly, the In Rainbows quintet issued a statement to Us Weekly, saying, “When Miley grows up, she’ll learn not to have such a sense of entitlement.” Unfortunately for Miley, the statement did not come with a definition for the word “entitlement.” Cyrus dragged Radiohead’s name through the mud last week when she went on the radio to complain about the band’s snub. “They’re like, my rock god. I am obsessed with them. This is the only person I would probably cry over. I would cry,” Miley said. And cry Miley did after a rep for Radiohead told Cyrus’ people that when it comes to meeting people, “We don’t really do that.” If Cyrus sticks to her promise to “ruin” Radiohead, she’ll have to act quickly: Radiohead plans to hit the studio and go out on tour this summer. Related Stories: • Miley Cyrus Snubbed By Radiohead, Vows to “Ruin Them” • Kanye West’s “VH1 Storytellers” Won’t Air Rapper’s Radiohead Diss, Chris Brown Support • Cover Story: The Future According to Radiohead

Published: 2009-03-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Radiohead

Pete Wentz Explains the Birth of Online Video Game “Fall Out Boy Trail”

Photo: Johnston/Getty For a certain generation who grew up with Commodore 64s and Apple IIcs, downtime in computer class was spent obsessing over one primitive yet lovable educational video game: Oregon Trail. Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz was one of the floppy disc’s biggest devotees as a kid, so he was willing to dedicate a “retarded” amount of time to helping build the band’s own version of the game: Fall Out Boy Trail. The online game, which has clocked more than 250,000 plays since its launch on March 3rd, is a survival exercise like the original. But instead of helping your caravan of pioneers make their way across the colonial States, users are asked to “Help the band survive a grueling tour across the country. Travel to shows, play your songs, and don’t party too hard and get in trouble!” Players are first asked to selected how hardcore they are (sell-outs presumably lose points later on), then have to load up on provisions for the journey — McNuggets and Vitamin Water. Fully equipped, your oxen-tugged wagon trucks along from city to city, encountering a variety of emo issues (someone started a rumor on Absolute Punk!) and real-life ones (your Stump is starving). “What better than to have a game where you can let Pete Wentz die of sadness,” Wentz tells Rolling Stone. “I think that’s awesome and hilarious, because there’s plenty of people who would love to let that happen anyways — here’s your chance!” There were several elements from the original game that Wentz was hellbent on preserving. “Definitely dysentery,” he says of one of the most common ways a player can perish. “Going across the river and deciding whether to caulk it or not. We wanted the basic elements there, and I have an obsession with the way those things looked. Video games look so real now, but that was the escape of them, how bad they looked. And the music was bad, so we were like, we have to find MIDI-style versions of all our songs. We couldn’t find them, so we just made them.” There are pri

Published: 2009-03-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

How Def Leppard and Poison Mended Fences for Summer Tour

“We sing better, we sound better, we look and feel better, our progression is perfect,” declares Def Leppard’s Phil Collen. More than 25 years since the seminal British hard rock band took the world by storm (selling upwards of 100 million albums), Joe Elliott and crew are back for another U.S. tour this summer — their fifth in a row — sharing the bill with Poison and Cheap Trick and promising audiences nothing but a good time. But just as vital for the band who turned traditional rock staging on its head by playing in the round back in the Hysteria days: putting on a show. “It was sorely lacking in the ’90s,” says Collen, who likens this tour’s production to that of a classic Kiss concert. “No pyro, we’ve done that before, but a big lighting rig,” he adds. “And the ego ramp to go down there and shake your stuff.” Guitarist Vivian Campbell interjects: “For Joe to hang out.” Though Ozzfest was called off this year, and annual weekend festivals are slowly replacing multi-band treks, ’80s package tours represent one of the few sectors of the music industry that’s thriving. “It’s more value for the people,” says Campbell, though he confesses finding the right combination of bands can be tricky. “We always had a problem figuring out who we were compatible with. When it was suggested a few years ago that we tour with Journey, we all [thought], would we have something in common with an American keyboard-driven band? Turns out we know nothing about our audience because it was a massive tour and incredibly successful. The only downside for us is having to decide which songs we want to play because we’re all sharing stage time.” Playing nice is key, insist the band’s two guitarists, dismissing Internet chatter of a spat between Def Leppard and Poison resulting from a comment Elliott made at a press conference in Sweden. “Joe said we were about the music, not like image-based bands” defends Collen, “I was sitting right there and didn’t see anything wrong with it.” Neither did

Published: 2009-03-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

U2 “Spider-Man” Musical Swinging Onto Broadway February 2010

Photo: Parra/FilmMagic(Bono), Honda/AFP/Getty (Spiderman) The planned Spider-Man musical, featuring music and lyrics by U2’s Bono and the Edge, will make its Broadway debut in February 2010. Previews of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark start January 16th, with the musical’s official starting date February 18th at the Hilton Theatre. Julie Taymor, director of film musical Across the Universe, is set to direct. Bono and the Edge assuredly had no shortage of material to contribute to the musical — they’re incredibly prolific these days, penning 50 to 60 songs during their No Line on the Horizon recording sessions. The real test for the Irish band’s comic book knowledge surely came into play when they wrote the musical’s lyrics. We’re hoping for a tender eight-arms-to-hold-you ballad sung by Dr. Octopus. While no casting announcements have been made yet, The Wrestler actress Evan Rachel Wood has long lobbied for the role of Peter Parker’s girlfriend Mary Jane. Wood appeared in Taymor’s Across the Universe alongside actor Jim Sturgess, who has been rumored to play Peter Parker. According to the press release, “Spider-Man’s battles will hurtle the audience through an origin story both recognizable and unexpected—yielding new characters as well as familiar faces—until a final surprising confrontation casts a startling new light on this hero’s journey.” Rolling Stone will have more details about the Spider-Man musical in the next issue, so keep an eye on stands. Related Stories: • Label Leak to Blame for Early Arrival of U2’s “No Line on the Horizon” • Bono’s Search for a “Spiritual Mecca”: Daniel Lanois on U2’s “No Line on the Horizon” • U2 Book Letterman Residency For “No Line on the Horizon” Release Week

Published: 2009-02-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Exclusive Taylor Swift Video: “Oh My God, I’m on the Cover of Rolling Stone”

Taylor Swift should probably be jaded by now. She was the biggest selling artist of 2008, she’s taken her songs to stages around the world, and despite her young age, she’s been pursuing music as a profession for eight years already. But there are still plenty of steps on this unique journey that get Taylor excited, like a spot on the cover of Rolling Stone. Taylor’s cover hits newsstands across the U.S. today, but the singer is across the pond right now in the U.K. preparing for the release of her album there on March 9th. So we shipped her a copy of her cover along with a Flip cam, and she was kind enough to let it roll as she checked it out for the first time. Her reaction? Everything you’d expect from a 19-year-old: giddiness, awe and pure excitement. But what’s the use of being on the cover unless you can show it off? Taylor immediately took her cover down the hall to show her band, and captured that moment for us as well: watch it here! The story underneath that cover comes courtesy of contributor Vanessa Grigoriadis, who found Taylor to be essentially the young woman you see in these videos — a composed and driven musician who, at her core, is still a wide-eyed teen. “She really is that girl in the tiny little bedroom at home writing songs about the things she hopes and dreams and feels,” -story-behind-rolling-stones-cover-story">Grigoriadis told us in our story-behind-the-story. For more undiluted Taylor, we pulled together a Q&A from Vanessa’s interview with the country crossover star, plus put together a collection of private snapshots from her family album and a gallery charting her swift rise to superstardom.

Published: 2009-02-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News