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Rolling Stone’s Texas Takeover: “Historic” Portraits From SXSW

Photograph by Candice Lawler for RollingStone.com. Photographed with permission from the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Rolling Stone stayed busy at SXSW this year, tweeting 100 band reviews @RollingStone (catch up on all the reports — and check out video — here), and seeing the biggest shows by Muse, Hole, Stone Temple Pilots and more. We also helped some of the fest’s hottest rockers into exhibits at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum — so Patrick Stump, the xx, Surfer Blood, N

Published: 2010-03-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW

Muse Pack Arena-Size Anthems Into Surprise SXSW Show

Photo: Webber/Getty Muse are a band that like things on a massive scale, igniting big sounds on the biggest stages, with the kind of big visual effects known only to the likes of Pink Floyd and Daft Punk. That’s the Muse comfort zone, but the British trio’s special appearance Friday on a much smaller stage at a MySpace Music-presented South By Southwest show traded grand gestures for relative intimacy, without deflating the band’s soaring post-punk prog sound. There were still laser-beams and so

Published: 2010-03-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW

SXSW 2010 Day Three Twitter Marathon: 24 Reports, From Liars to Local Natives

The big story on SXSW’s third day was the surprise Muse performance at Stubb’s, which was announced during the broadcast of the Fox show Human Target earlier in the week (yes, really) — though Rolling Stone’s own showcase featuring Band of Skulls, Jimmie Dale and Colin Gilmore, Court Yard Hounds, John Doe, Rye Rye and Nneka was a pretty hot ticket, too. Christopher R. Weingarten of @1000TimesYes continued his Twitter odyssey yesterday, tweeting about 24 bands in 14 hours for @RollingStone. Reli

Published: 2010-03-20 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW, SXSW Twitter Marathon

News Ticker: Arcade Fire, Phish, D’Angelo, The Dramatics’ Ron Banks

Photo: Venema/WireImage Arcade Fire have booked their first 2010 live date: a spot headlining Dublin’s Oxegen Festival, NME reports. Jay-Z, Muse, Broken Social Scene, Vampire Weekend and the Black Eyed Peas are also confirmed for the event, which takes place July 8-11th. Phish are jumping into the lucrative 3-D game with an upcoming movie that’ll have fans strapping on paper glasses. A new Website Phish3Dmovie has launched, but the band isn’t offering up any concrete details yet. Rumor has it

Published: 2010-03-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Morning News Roundup, Rock News

The 20 Best Live Bands Playing Right Now

This weekend’s rock list, Best Live Band Playing Right Now, got an awesome and terrifying response from you all - thanks for all the nominations. After careful consideration, here is our final list. Now go see these guys! 1. White Stripes 2. Radiohead 3. Pearl Jam 4. Rage Against the Machine 5. U2 6. Metallica 7. Flaming Lips 8. My Morning Jacket 9. The Hold Steady 10. Arcade Fire 11. The Raconteurs 12. Wilco 13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 14. Red Hot Chili Peppers 15. Gogol Bordello 16. Kings of Leon 17. Muse 18. Dave Matthews Band 19. Tool 20. LCD Soundsystem Photo: AFP/STADLER/Getty

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

Warner Music Partners With Hulu to Bring More Music Videos Online

Warner Music Group has teamed up with Hulu to bring the label’s artist roster to the video streaming site. The Resistance rockers Muse are the first beneficiaries of this new deal, as the band’s Hulu page is stocked with music videos and live performances. The deal also calls for artist pages for Jason Mraz and Paramore to be launched in 2010, with more WMG artists to follow in the new year. Interestingly, Warner Music remains the lone major label holdout to not agree to a deal with the new vide

Published: 2009-12-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, The Industry

The Dead Weather Muse on the Future of Music, Supergroup Wars

Rolling Stone recently had a kind of stream-of-consciousness backstage chat with the Dead Weather where Jack White and Co. tackled topics ranging from time travel and geography to the art of picking band names and avoiding being sued (for instance, White insists, the Arctic Monkeys added the “Arctic” to sidestep the legal wrath of the Monkees). We also quizzed the band on who would win in a supergroup slugfest, the Dead Weather or Them Crooked Vultures. Watch White’s response in the video above.

Published: 2009-11-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, The Dead Weather, Videos

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

“Twilight” Author Stephenie Meyer on Her Musical Muses, Upcoming Movie and Mermaid Dreams

Over the past year, author Stephenie Meyer has been lauded as the next J.K. Rowling thanks to the blockbuster sales of 1.3 million copies of Breaking Dawn, the final installment in her four-book vampire series Twilight. Meyer’s got the same hysterical fans, midnight release parties and movies in the works as the Harry Potter scribe, but there’s a rock & roll side to her work that makes her unique: each book is accompanied by a playlist packed with bands like Muse and Linkin Park, and she’s currently on tour — with Blue October lead singer Justin Furstenfeld. (Click here for our full story on Meyer’s Breaking Dawn Concert Series, her musical muses and more.) Meyer tells Rolling Stone she’ll take next year to work on Midnight Sun, a retelling of Twilight from the perspective of her male lead, Edward, that she began after discovering he was misunderstood by readers. Then there’s a possible sequel to her first adult novel, The Host (”Those characters are really hard to put away”), a potential ghost story (”I’m pretty excited about it because I get to make up my own world there”) and even a mermaid tale (”I love the idea, and I love the characters, but I don’t know if I can do it”). Before the end of 2008, Meyer will also see the release of the Twilight movie. After viewing a rough cut for the first time, she tells Rolling Stone, “It just has the soul of the book — it had Bella and Edward’s relationship.” Meyer was also ecstatic that the film’s soundtrack will include “Super Massive Black Hole” by her favorite band, Muse (”It wouldn’t feel like this movie was based on something I did without Muse in it,” she laughs) and says she’s being consulted on the rest of the soundtrack, as well. • Dawn of the Undead: Why Stephenie Meyer Gave her Vampire Series a Rock & Roll Soundtrack

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

Interpol, Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Patti Smith and the Hold Steady Rock Into the Chicago Night at Lollapalooza Day Two

“Last year we played here and I said it was the most fun I ever had at 3 PM. This is shaping up to be the most fun I’ve ever had,” proclaimed Craig Finn two songs into the Hold Steady’s unhinged late-afternoon set. If not the finest, the singer-guitarist’s quintet made a watertight case for at least being the day’s most jubilant and ecstatic performance. Finn understands that a frontman needs to be unafraid to act a fool. Keyed-up and rambunctious, the bespectacled singer pointed, hopped and shuffled while playing the role of an inebriated storyteller. Drinking (“Party Pit”), driving (“Multitude of Casualties”), drugs (“Cattle and the Creeping Things”), dealers (“You Can Make Him Like You”) and sex (“Southtown Girls”) fueled the location- and character-rich tales, alternately shot through with barroom swagger, driving power chords and Southern rock abandon. Adorned in a Ron Gardenhire Minnesota Twins jersey, Finn also spoke of the I-35W bridge collapse that impacted his beloved town, and did a sign of the cross after mentioning the Mississippi River during “Stuck Between Stations.” A throng of converts soaked it all in, but the biggest fan of all was Finn, whose uplifting presence and merry mood caused anyone within earshot to grin. Not to be outdone, Karen O dressed in black latex and criss-cross-patterned stockings. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman also brought masquerade masks and glittery towels to throw over her head. She wasted no time in smearing her makeup or ripping gloves off of her hands with her teeth with her band aptly followed O’s animated antics and vocal meows, snarls and screams through songs from their latest EP, Is Is and tracks from their most recent full-length, Show Your Bones. For pure, genuine rebellion, all anyone needed to do was hoof it across the park to see Patti Smith. Initially, Smith clung to calmness. Outfitted in a homemade peace-and-love T-shirt, she strummed an acoustic guitar while taking “Beneath the Southern Cross” into t

Published: 2007-08-06 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals, Lollapalooza

Muse Lose Honor Thanks to Acronym For Boner

The coastal town of Teignmouth, England, was all set to honor local boys Muse with a billboard boasting “Home of Muse” at the entrance to town. (According to David Cox, the town’s council chairman, “a small but significant number of foreign tourists come to Teignmouth because it’s the hometown of Muse.”) Then things went terribly wrong: Somebody with way too much free Googling time discovered that MUSE is an acronym for “Medicated Urethral Suppository for Erection,” which is a really hard way to say Viagra or Levitra. The plans were scuttled. “I thought the slogan ‘Hometown Of Muse’ would create a fresher, younger image for the town,” Cox said, “But now I see the Muse slogan might not send the right message.” The town isn’t entirely disowning the band. Cox is planning for Teignmouth “to honour some of [Muse’s] most famous songs,” whatever that means. Meanwhile, the town of Colchester, England, has launched a full-scale investigation into hometown band Blur.

Published: 2007-11-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Control

Starring: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Craig Parkinson Review: Rock photo guru Anton Corbijn hits all the right notes in his remarkable feature-directing debut. His muse is Ian Curtis (a knockout Sam Riley), the epileptic lead singer of the Brit punk band Joy Division, who hanged himself in 1980 at twenty-three. Samantha Morton plays the wife who helped him fight his demons, and Tony Kebbell excels as the band manager. But it's Corbijn, shooting with a poet's eye in a harshly stunning black-and-white, who cuts to the soul of Ian's life and music. You don't watch this movie, you live it. Rating: 3 Stars

Published: 2007-10-10 Provider: Rolling Stone