News Ticker: Kid Rock, Zac Efron, Ted Jarrett and Eddie BoPhoto: Grant/WireImage Kid Rock and the Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger will perform at this year’s 25th annual Wrestlemania on April 5th at Houston’s Reliant Stadium. Scherzinger will open the show with “America the Beautiful” while Rock will perform a medley of his hits, according to NME. High School Musical star and former Rolling Stone cover boy Zac Efron has dropped out of the remake of the Kevin Bacon town-with-no-dancing hit Footloose, E! reports. Paramount Pictures confirmed Efron’s departure in a statement. The film is still scheduled for a 2010 release. Nashville R&B singer-songwriter Ted Jarrett, best known for his 1957 hit “You Can Make It If You Try,” passed away March 21st after suffering liver failure, Reuters reports. He was 83. “You Can Make It…” was covered by the Rolling Stones’ for their 1964 debut album. New Orleans pianist Eddie Bo died following a “sudden, massive heart attack” on March 18th. Bo worked with artists like Irma Thomas and Art Neville and penned the song “I’m Wise,” which Little Richard recorded and released as “Slippin’ and Slidin,’” Hollywood Reporter writes.
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Published: 2009-03-24
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup
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News Ticker: Chris Cornell, Carrie Underwood, Tegan and Sara, Massive AttackPhoto: Katopodis/Getty Chris Cornell has struck a deal with Virgin America airlines that will bring his music to all flights in the fleet, so passengers can listen to Scream onboard the plane, watch Cornell videos in-flight, and hear some of his tunes while boarding the aircraft. A press release didn’t specify whether the agreement includes work by Soundgarden, Audioslave or Temple of the Dog. Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley have been booked to host the Country Music Association Awards in Nas
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Published: 2009-08-27
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup
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Ground Control To David Bowie: It’s Time To Fall Back To EarthPhoto: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Last week a ludicrous rumor made the rounds that David Bowie was going to revive Ziggy Stardust at Coachella. Obviously, when the artist lineup made the rounds his name was nowhere to be seen. About two and a half years ago Bowie himself announced he was going to return to the stage. It was going to be the culminating event of the High Line Festival, curated by Bowie. “His live performance will be enjoyed by tens of thousands of spectators at the festival itself,” read the press release. “Millions more will experience the concert online and on satellite radio.” Months later came the bad news: “Due to ongoing work on a new project, David Bowie has announced that it will not be possible for him to perform at the Highline Festival in May.” Needless to say, his “new project” hasn’t seen the light of day. He also hasn’t performed in public since joining David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall for a couple of tracks in the summer of 2006. What’s going on here? The mysterious absence comes just when Bowie was on a huge creative roll. 2002’s Heathen and 2003’s Reality — his first albums with producer Tony Visconti since 1980 — were stellar returns to form. The accompanying tour was even better. Backed his best band since the Spiders From Mars and with Bowie in flawless voice, the show mixed hits (”Changes,” “Rebel Rebel”) with rarities (”Station To Station,” “Hallo Spaceboy”) and covers (”White Light, White Heat”). Every night ended with a block of songs from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars. It ranks high among the greatest shows I’ve ever seen. If you doubt me, check out this clip of “Five Years.” Bowie hasn’t pulled a J.D. Salinger and retreated into his house. Two weeks ago he was all over the Sundance Film Festival. He’s also a regular on the New York black-tie fundraiser circuit. Bowie suffered a massive heart attack at the tail end of the Reality Tour, but that was five years ago. The longest distance betwe
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Published: 2009-02-05
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Tricky’s First American Show in Seven Years Full of Rage, SmokePhoto: Chung/Getty The one guy in the Fillmore East most blatantly disobeying New York’s smoking ordinances also happened to be the one with the most lights pointed at him. For his whole career, Tricky has always assumed one of two positions onstage: two hands tightly gripping the mic on a stand, or with his back to the audience and a joint in his mouth. And for some reason, no one ever gives him any grief for the latter. “It’s fucked up, isn’t it?” he told Rock Daily. “I never think about it and I never have any problems.” For a man so perpetually stoned, he gave a high-intensity performance bouncing between menace and catharsis at what was his first American show in seven years. Last time through, he opened up for prog-metal heroes Tool on an arena tour, and met with a mostly disinterested crowd and a chorus of boos. “That was a tough crowd, wasn’t it?” he said. “I had a great time, though. It was incredible, it was just hard.” Tomorrow sees the release of Knowle West Boy, Tricky’s first disc in five years and a refreshing return to form. At the Fillmore, he dove into new songs like the hard-hitting rocker “Council Estate” and “Past Mistake,” a stark, Joy Division-meets-Massive Attack slow creeper. Another of the album’s tracks, “Joseph,” was stretched into a climactic twenty-minute jam to close out the evening, with Tricky visibly seething, trying to hit just the right match of energy and emotion. “When I’m onstage, I get frustrated because I can’t do certain things,” he said. “I’m not a singer, I’m not a dancer. I have to go for rage, and then it changes my attitude, and my frustration comes out and becomes part of the song. Onstage, it’s like a fight. You’re fighting to be your best, so you get frustrated, and all these different emotions come out.”
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Published: 2008-09-08
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows
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