Live Review: Rush in Toronto

TORONTO - Rush has never been a band that rushes through its music in concert.

Published: 2008-07-10 Provider: Canoe

The Cab Announces "Why So Serious?" Headline Tour

Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen recording group The Cab has announced details of their upcoming live schedule. The Las Vegas-based band – whose breakthrough debut album, Whisper War, arrived earlier this year[...] Read more!

Published: 2008-08-08 Provider: StarPulse

Metallica Getting “Mandatory” XM Station

Metallica will soon have their very own station on XM satellite radio station. “Mandatory Metallica” will hit satellite receivers starting August 16th and feature the band’s entire catalog as well as rare live recordings from the group’s personal archives. All four members of the band will serve as hosts during the station’s six-week run, which will last past the release of their new album Death Magnetic on September 12th. The station will also air interviews with members of Linkin Park, Slipknot, Guns n’ Roses and pretty much every other metal band ever as they talk about the impact Metallica has had on their music. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-08-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Live Review: The Stooges in Toronto

TORONTO - Maybe Iggy Pop foreshadowed the past week when he and his classic band The Stooges released their proper comeback album The Weirdness last year.

Published: 2008-08-07 Provider: Canoe

Panic At The Disco & Dashboard Confessional To Co-Headline First Ever 'Rock Band Live' Tour

The musical video game phenomenon of Rock Band™ is coming to a city near you. This fall Rock Band Live[...] Read more!

Published: 2008-08-02 Provider: StarPulse

Live Review: NIN in Edmonton

EDMONTON - Nine Inch Nails is such an exciting band for such famously depressing lyrics like "I don't feel anything at all" and "every day is exactly the same" that I'm beginning to think it's all an act. But what an act.

Published: 2008-07-29 Provider: Canoe

Counting Crows To Return To The UK For December Tour

Counting Crows were the first band in the O2 Wireless Festival's 4-year history to perform in front of a sell-out crowd in London's Hyde Park. Following this achievement, Live Nation is proud to present the band [...] Read more!

Published: 2008-07-28 Provider: StarPulse

Exclusive Clip: “CSNY: Deja Vu”

This Friday sees the theatrical release of CSNY: Deja Vu, a very different kind of band documentary. It follows Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on their “Freedom of Speech” tour in 2006 and features a combination of performance footage combined with stories from and interactions with fans on the road. Click above for an exclusive clip from the film, including why Stephen Stills equates his band’s live show with political cartoons.

Published: 2008-07-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Videos

Rush Never Sleeps, Plus the Complete Album Guide

Epic bands have come and gone, but Rush are here to stay. For over thirty years, Geddy Lee, Ales Lifeson and Neil Peart have split the difference between big-time arena rock and sci-fi explorations of the nerdiest prog imaginable. Click below for a sample of the feature in the current issue of Rolling Stone, which reveals the band’s insider-only nicknames and what they think of Pavement’s “Stereo.” Also click below for the complete Rush album guide, from their self-titled debut to this year’s Snakes and Arrows Live. • Rush Never Sleeps • Rush: The Complete Album-by-Album Guide [Photo: Dan Winters]

Published: 2008-07-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Wilco Plan Spring ‘09 Release For More-Sculpted New Album

Wilco are eyeing a Spring 2009 release for their next album, Jeff Tweedy told an Albany, New York radio station. Whereas their last album Sky Blue Sky was recorded under almost jam-session circumstances, Tweedy says the band will “allow ourselves a little bit more leeway in terms of sculpting the sound in the studio and doing overdubs and using the studio as another instrument. Last time around, it was more of a document.” Wilco are already performing a pair of new songs live: “One Wing,” which is reportedly reminiscent of Sky Blue closer “On and On and On,” and the looser, riff-driven “Sunny Feeling.” While Tweedy said following the release of Sky Blue Sky that those studio sessions resulted in a number of unfinished songs, it’s unclear whether those tunes will be the basis for the band’s seventh album.

Published: 2008-08-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Live Review: Black Crowes in T.O.

TORONTO -- The Black Crowes have been doing this for too long. The band, a well-oiled rock 'n' roll machine, brought their brand of bluesy rock to Massey Hall on Saturday night.

Published: 2008-07-14 Provider: Canoe

News Ticker: The Police, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath

The Police will release their live CD/DVD Certifiable exclusively through Best Buy on October 7. The album will feature the band’s Buenos Aires concert from late 2007. Best Buy will also webcast the encores from tonight’s final Police concert at Madison Square Garden, so check here at 10:45pm EST. Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith had his one-of-a-kind guitar stolen after a concert in Greece. The band is offering signed tour jackets in exchange for the guitar’s safe return. Black Sabbath’s Paranoid will get the deluxe reissue treatment on September 29th. The triple CD package will feature the original album, a quadraphonic mix and never-before-released demo versions of Paranoid songs. Robert Hazard, the writer of Cyndi Lauper’s hit “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and his own “Elevator of Life,” died unexpectedly after surgery on August 5th. He was 59.

Published: 2008-08-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup