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Robert Plant’s New Band of Joy Plot Album, Summer Tour

Photo: Kent/WireImage Led Zeppelin have been turning down festival reunion offers left and right, and now we know why: Robert Plant will hit the road with his resurrected Band of Joy project this summer — and he’s currently recording a new album slated for release in early summer or late fall. The first leg of the 12-date tour kicks off July 13th in Memphis before wrapping up July 31st in Miami; a second leg is scheduled for the fall. As Zep fans probably know, Plant and drummer John Bonham were

Publicado: 2010-03-26 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Bob Dylan, The Raconteurs, The Roots Headline New Festival

Add another multi-day music event to your summer schedule, as Bob Dylan, the Raconteurs, the Roots, Gnarls Barkley and Spoon will headline the inaugural New American Music Festival on August 8 & 9 at SouthSide Works in Pittsburgh, PA. The festival is sponsored by American Eagle Outfitters and curated by Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers. Rounding out the lineup will be fifteen bands from various colleges across the country who will compete in a competition, with the winner receiving recording time in a Los Angeles studio. Tickets go on sale Friday and cost a mere $25 for students. Follow the jump for the full lineup. The New American Music Festival Bob Dylan and His Band The Raconteurs Gnarls Barkley The Roots Spoon The Black Keys Black Mountain The Duke Spirit NASA Tiny Masters of Today College Bands Bears (Kent State University) Flying Machines (The New School) Gospel Gossip (Carleton College) Magic Bullets (University of California Berkley) Math the Band (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) My Dear Disco (University of Michigan) Nothing Unexpected (Robert Morris University) The Black Fortys (University of Southern Illinois) The Company Kang (Whitman College) The Delicious (Indiana University) The Depreciation Guild (New York University) The Elizabethan Report (Brigham Young University) The French Horn Rebellion (Northwestern University) The Royal Bangs (University of Tennessee) The Steps (University of Texas Austin)

Publicado: 2008-05-15 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Enter Shikari to release new single

Enter Shikari will release a new single, No Sleep Tonight on August 17. The single - available on CD and through iTunes - will be backed with a variety of exclusive remixes from The Qemists, Hospital Records' Mistabishi and frontman Rou Reynolds, plus a pop electro mix from teenage Kent duo Lightsgoblue. The band will play Reading and Leeds festivals and have confirmed a UK tour in October. See Kerrang! magazine for details.

Publicado: 2009-07-09 Proveedor: Kerrang!

Brian Eno’s Mutating “Spore” Score Reinventing Game Music

Photo: Getty With games like Grand Theft Auto, Rock Band and Guitar Hero tripping over each other to license as much music as possible, at least one eagerly anticipated game is going in the opposite direction. When playing Spore, the latest brainchild of Sim City mastermind Will Wright, gamers won’t hear any songs they know. In fact, they won’t hear the same song twice. Spore simulates the evolution of creatures from single-cell organisms through the space age, so the changes start at the very beginning: make your creature an aggressive carnivore, and the music will be noticeably different from that of a plant-eating species. The uses procedural music, meaning that the music a player hears will develop and mutate along with their style of play. Iconic producer Brian Eno was brought in to provide much of these tracks. According to Kent Jolly, audio director for Maxis/Electronic Arts, Eno understood the concept and was on board immediately. “In the first phone conversations with him, he really got the idea that the music was always changing, that it would be procedural, and he was really excited about it,” Jolly said. “Within a week of talking to him, without having set up anything, he sent us a full CD or more of stuff, and some of it was made right then, not just things he found on his computer, which was pretty amazing.” There is some more traditional music in Spore (Jolly compares the Eno compositions to his 1983 album Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks), but those songs also mutate. Jolly hopes that Spore will open the door for more creativity and game-specific compositions. “I’m interested in the idea of games creating original music,” he said. “It allows you to write interactive music in ways that are very difficult to do when you’re licensing music. With licensing, you have a band who has already written a piece of music without having thought at all about the idea of games or interactivity in any way, and so unless you happen to have some particular thing go

Publicado: 2008-09-12 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

The Eagles nested on the cover of the new Rolling Stone. Thus, we gathered photos from the band’s thirty-five year career, penned a guide to all their classic albums and posted an excerpt from the cover story. The Eagles also flew onto the fourth installment of Guitar Hero. And you know who probably digs the Eagles? Jason Castro. We put on our business suits, as the Nine Inch Nails’ manager talked about the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, we examined how high price tickets might hurt the concert biz and analyzed how smart bands make money while CDs don’t sell. If there was a concert this week, we were there: Our cameras caught Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd at MSG, watched Death Cab For Cutie rock Providence, encountered the B-52’s at a small club in San Francisco, gothed out at the Cure’s tour-opening show in Virginia and witnessed Dizzee Rascal teach Maths & English in NYC. We were also present at the triumphant return of New Kids on the Block. Metallica mania swept over us, as the band launched “Mission: Metallica,” played a small benefit show in Los Angeles (where James Hetfield revealed new details about the new album), announced they would headline the one-day Ozzfest and Lars Ulrich told us about what the group had in store for Bonnaroo. We even dedicated a Rock List to them. [Photo: Kent/Retna]

Publicado: 2008-05-16 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Jake Gyllenhaal Once Peed on Someone’s Leg

Jake gives golden showers only when necessary.Photo: Getyu ImagesCindy Adams has a rundown of how celebs spent their summers as teenagers. (Jake Gyllenhaal was a lifeguard in Martha's Vineyard, where he once peed on someone's leg to counteract the sting left by a jellyfish.) Alex Rodriguez donated "at least $500,000" to Madonna's Raising Malawi charity. Alleged lesbians Tila Tequila and Courtenay Semel gave each other lap dances at an L.A. club. The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., who is engaged to Agyness Deyn, is selling his East Village co-op and moving to Brooklyn. Evin Cosby, Bill and Camille Cosby's youngest daughter, said that she relates to Barack Obama because she went to school with a bunch of rich white people.Princess Michael of Kent, a.k.a. Princess Pushy, is annoyed at David Patrick Columbia after he reported that her 66-year-old husband is having an affair with a much-younger Danish woman. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band are set to play at halftime of next year's Super Bowl. Us Weekly editor Janice Min said that obese women don't read her magazine. WWE champ John Cena was "mobbed" by fans at Wildwood Barbeque on Park Avenue South. Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson stormed out of Macaluso's in Miami after a staffer asked them to pose for photos in the kitchen. An employee at Soho House prematurely kicked out guests at a M&C Saatchi party. Mena Suvari didn't want to wear Diane Von Furstenberg to a Warhol party she was hosting because all the dresses she was sent were too see-through. Chris Noth ate Kobe beef with his Plumm partner Noel Ashman at Nobu 57. Calvin Klein, David Geffen, and Sandy Gallin hung out near the wood-burning stove at Nick & Toni's in East Hampton during a recent rain- and hailstorm. Julia Stiles and Jonathan Kramer, her artist boyfriend of two years, have split over "irreconcilable differences."

Publicado: 2008-08-11 Proveedor: New York Magazine

Love and a Bullet

Music sensation TREACH (HBO's "Oz", Rapper) stars in the most explosive and intense thriller of the year - LOVE AND A BULLET. Also starring KENT MASTERS-KING (The Wash), FREEZ LUV (Baby Boy, Coyote Ugly), and WALTER JONES (Malcolm X, American Gun). Maleek "Ghost" Bishop (Treach) is a nasty, dangerous killing machine - a street animal loaded with rage and packing a hair-trigger temper that's primed to explode. As word of his prowess in the fine art of murder spreads, he finds himself recruited to join an elite band of professional hitmen. But when the big boss assigns him to keep an eye on his super-sexy girlfriend, his loyalties are put to the ultimate test. Now, the band of brothers that previously watched his back, are eager to drive a bullet in it - and the shooter becomes the target when the best of the worst come gunning for revenge.View Trailer

Publicado: 2008-01-31 Proveedor: Movielink