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U2 - U2 Conquer European Albums Chart

Irish rockers U2 have knocked THE PRODIGY from the top of the European albums chart with their new release NO LINE ON THE HORIZON. The band continue their triumphant return ...

Published: 2009-03-13 Provider: Contact Music

Last Night at the Beacon With the Allman Brothers … Phish Edition

Photo: Scwartz/Getty As the Allman Brothers Band get more comfortable in New York’s Beacon Theatre, their home for the rest of March, more friends are stopping by each night to jam. Rolling Stone brought you a full report from night one, which featured Taj Mahal and Levon Helm. Night two brought Johnny Winter and David Hidalgo and Cesar Rojas of Los Lobos, who guested on cuts ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Bob Dylan. Last night’s show upped the ante with living legend Buddy Guy, who led the band through a pair of blues standards before being joined onstage by Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell of Phish for first set-closer “Southbound.” Fresh off their highly successful reunion shows, Anastasio and McConnell later added their own sound to “I Know You Rider” and “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.” Boz Scaggs has been confirmed to appear tonight, and Rolling Stone’s Smoking Section broke the news that Duane’s old Derek and the Dominoes bandmate Eric Clapton will be appearing on March 19th and 20th. The newest list of rumored cameos counts Sheryl Crow, Billy Gibbons, Kid Rock, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh among the possibilities. Many of the guests were chosen to help honor fallen guitarist Duane Allman, whose sudden death in 1971 left a gaping hole that was briefly filled by Warren Haynes and later by slide-guitar prodigy Derek Trucks in 2000. Gregg Allman, the band’s patriarch, has denied on multiple occasions that founding guitarist Dickey Betts will appear. Betts left the band after an ugly dispute in 2000, but rampant speculation suggests an offer may have been extended. His presence on the Beacon stage would reunite the four surviving members of the original lineup (Allman, Betts, drummer Butch Trucks and percussionist Jaimoe Johanson). The sold-out, 15-night residency runs through March 28th. Live streaming video of the entire rest of the run can be purchased at Moogis, a live-concert video service started by the band’s own Butch Trucks. The shows mark 20 years of visits to

Published: 2009-03-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

New Reviews: U2, Neko Case, The Prodigy, Wild Light and More

Even though there are less and less places to buy albums, with every Tuesday comes a fresh batch of new releases. We’ve already gone on and on about this week’s — and possibly this year’s — biggest release, U2’s No Line on the Horizon, so let’s focus on some of the other artists looking to coax the dollars out of your pocket this cold March 3rd: First up, there’s Neko Case and her stellar fifth album Middle Cyclone, which earned a four-star rating from this here magazine. Joined by members of the New Pornographers, Calexico and Los Lobos, “the result is hypnotic alt-country twang, with reverb-slathered guitars ringing out over music-box plinks and moaning cellos,” writes Jody Rosen. If you’re looking for a female foil to all the Bono pouring out of your speakers, this is the album for you. Rave-rockers the Prodigy are back with frontman Kevin Flint for their first album since 1997 with Invaders Must Die. First “Smack My Bitch Up,” now they’re ready to smack your ears up with an album no one here really enjoyed that much, hence its one-and-a-half star review. “It’s all pummeling, vacuous rave noise — useful mainly for thrash dancing and scaring neighbors.” Perhaps your ears would prefer something else this week, like… Wild Light’s Adult Nights. These New Hampshire guitar romantics have already opened for the Arcade Fire, and some of that Quebec band’s signature sound along with the “suave moping of Eighties Brit pop” is all over Wild Light’s debut. If you’re not convinced by our review, we’ll have much more on Wild Light in our Breaking item tomorrow. As for the best of the rest, check out the albums below: • Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At the Movies • Bell X1 - Blue Lights on the Runway • The Answer - Everyday Demons

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

New Reviews: The Prodigy, JJ Cale, K’Naan, Papa Roach

The guys who played electronica like they were rock stars in the ’90s grow old, start getting clumsy and uninspired… Hey, just like real rock stars do! Not even the march of time can stop these guys from creating a constant stream of pummeling, vacuous rave noise — which writer Will Hermes says is “useful mainly for thrash dancing and scaring neighbors.” • The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die The great 16th album from JJ Cale comes just in time to influence country blues rockers like M. Ward. Still sticking to his guns at 70, he might even be the model for indie-rock longevity. • JJ Cale - Roll On Somalia-raised, Toronto-based rapper K’naan thinks like Bob Marley, flows like Eminem and mixes African music with conscious hip-hop, unabashed pop and even metal. • K’Naan - Troubadour Sloppy Atlanta “flower punk” band Black Lips clean themselves up for their fifth album, biting the 13th Floor Elevators and singing about the New York Dolls. • Black Lips - 200 Million Thousand One of indie rock’s great also-rans, Clem Snide returns with an album that’s simultaneously edgy and refined. • Clem Snide - Barracuda Intrepid Mexican electronic band Kinky return for their fourth album and still get the party started, even if it’s with ham-fisted chants and mash-ups • Kinky - Barracuda Virginia extreme metal powerhouse Lamb of God delve into grooves and tunes on their sixth album. They change their model, they still stick to an old blueprint. • Lamb Of God - Wrath Papa Roach hasn’t been a rap-rock band for a little while now. But what exactly are they? • Papa Roach - Metamorphosis All Rolling Stone album reviews

Published: 2009-02-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Who's gonna rock the hardest at Download?

The annual Kerrang! sponsored Download festival is only a few months away and we wanna know who you think is gonna rock the hardest? You lot have already been hard at work voting in your MILLIONS! In fact, nearly six million of you think Limp Bizkit are going to be THE band to watch at Download. But what about newly announced headliners Faith No More? We know we only added them to the vote last night, but surely they warrant a few more of your all important clicks? And what about rock 'n' roll icons Buckcherry? At the time of writing they only have a measley 11 votes. C'mon, show Josh Todd and Co. some love! The final votes will be tallied up and announced on K! Dot Com and in Kerrang! magazine just before the festival in June. Click here and vote! Download 2009 takes place at Donington Park on June 12, 13 and 14. The festival will be headlined by Faith No More, Slipknot and Def Leppard. Other bands on the bill include Anvil, Billy Talent, Buckcherry, DevilDriver, DragonForce, Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, Motley Crue, Pendulum, The Blackout, The Prodigy, Trivium, Whitesnake and ZZ Top. Tickets for Download are on sale now from www.aloud.com. Prices are as follows: a full weekend ticket: £135, camping: £25, family camping: £25, car parking: £10 advance, £20 on the day, camper vans: £40, lockers: £11.

Published: 2009-03-03 Provider: Kerrang!

The Prodigy announce massive summer gig

The Prodigy will play a massive out door gig next summer. The band will headline Milton Keynes Bowl on July 24, 2010 with Pendulum and enter Shikari in support. Tickets go on sale this Friday (October 30) at 9am from www.aloud.com.

Published: 2009-10-27 Provider: Kerrang!

Liam Gallagher - Liam Gallaghers Son Loves Uncles Band

Liam Gallagher's son is "obsessed" with his uncle's group The Prodigy.Gene Gallagher - the Oasis star's eight-year-old son with wife Nicole Appleton - infuriates...

Published: 2009-09-26 Provider: Contact Music

Free Prodigy download!

The Prodigy are set to release their new album Invaders Must Die on March 2. The band recently revealed to Kerrang! magazine that the group collaborated with Foo Fighters mainman Dave Grohl on one of the album's tracks. "Dave contacted us to see what we were up to and offered his services," Liam Howlett tells Kerrang!. "It was really inspiring. It was wicked." Today the band have uploaded title track Invaders Must Die for free download from their site. The track will be available for one week only. Get your download of Invaders Must Die HERE.

Published: 2008-11-27 Provider: Kerrang!

Fricke’s Picks: The Octopus Project, “Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938? and Roy Wood

Happy Machine Music Machines don’t make music — people do. And going by the bright action-packed gurgle, bam and squeak of their third album, the Octopus Project — a mostly instrumental analog-electronics dance band from Austin, Texas — are smart pop scientists and total party animals, like Stereolab with happy feet. And a stopwatch — the thirteen songs on Hello, Avalanche (Peek-A-Boo) are all tightly composed bundles of synthesized whoop and circus-calliope cheer, dotted with throaty Duane Eddy-treble guitar and powered by prancing-elephant drumming. The closest thing here to conventional club-remix electronica is the thumping near-techno of “MMAJ.” But for all of the willful yesterday in the Octopus Project’s discothèque blend of Switched-On Bach and Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, there is a delightful, disciplined modernism in the album’s brisk parade of hooks and the songs’ densely layered brevity. Compared to the purple-surf rock of “Bees Bein’ Strugglin’ ” and the mermaid-choir effect of Yvonne Lambert’s theremin in “I Saw the Bright Shinies,” the Prodigy are so 1997. Apocalypse Then American folk and blues were, in the early twentieth century, more than entertainment. They were broadcasting. Long before there was a Fox News, country pickers the Skillet Lickers, the balladeer Blind Alfred Reed, the slide guitarist and yodeler Cliff Carlisle and the prewar blues legend Charlie Patton were the “We Report, You Decide” network of their day: adapting the terrible things that happened to good people in real life — floods, murders, train wrecks, disease, crop failures — into lyrical bulletins, waltz tunes and moral hymns that long outlived the headlines and police reports that inspired them. People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs 1913-1938 (Tompkins Square) is nothing but that bad mojo made poetic. You already know some of these tales, in electrified form — Kansas

Published: 2007-11-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Fricke's Picks

Fall Out Boy Holding Off Before Starting Next LP, Wu-Tang Move Release Date, The Verve Unleash Lengthy Demo

Despite having an “album’s worth of material” ready to go, Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump doesn’t anticipate the band will start work on the follow-up to the only-nine-month-old Infinity On High any time soon. Discussing the musical direction of the material, Stump manages to say “experimenting with piano phases like Steve Reich” and “it’s probably just gonna be a pop record” in the same paragraph. Stump also recently shot a guest spot on NBC’s unkillable crime drama Law & Order, which will air next February. The reunited Verve have released their first new music in over a decade in the form of a fourteen-minute demo. The experimental track, dubbed “The Thaw Session,” is available as a free download that you can get here. Mobb Deep’s Prodigy isn’t going to jail quietly. The rapper, who earlier this month accepted a three-and-a-half year prison sentence in a plea bargain for gun possession, told G-Unit Radio that police officers once asked him set up 50 Cent by planting evidence in 50’s car. Family crisis averted: The Wu-Tang Clan have pushed the release date of their new album The 8 Diagrams back one week so it wouldn’t compete with angry Ghostface Killah’s own album The Big Dough Rehab on December 4th. The news comes straight from the RZA’s mouth, and he’s smart. The Live Nation feeding frenzy continues. One week after securing every Madonna movement for a modest reported $120 million, the concert promoter is now making a bid for Signatures Network, which holds the right to license and market over 125 artists, including Bruce Springsteen, U2 and Kanye West.

Published: 2007-10-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Bright Eyes: Recapping Conor Oberst’s Wild Seven Nights At New York’s Town Hall

Photo Credit: looserecords.com Last week Bright Eyes played seven shows in a row at New York’s famed Town Hall. The performances were billed as guest-star studded spectacles — music’s favorite prodigy all grown up and onstage with a huge band and a slew of bold names – and they didn’t disappoint. During the first show (Saturday, May 26th) Lou Reed showed up. Conor and the other twelve or so people currently playing in his band (including the inimitable former drummer from Sleater-Kinney Janet Weiss) were dressed like excitable brides in various shades of white. Reed wore black and joined the band for two songs, “Waiting For My Man” and “Dirty Blvd.” Over the course of the following six nights Oberst was joined onstage by a slew of other guests including Ben Kweller, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis and her boyfriend, singer/actor Jonathan Rice, Norah Jones and her band The Little Willies, Nick Zinner and Ben Gibbard, Ron Sexsmith and Britt Daniel. All this starpower came in addition to Conor’s opening act, the extremely impressive Gillian Welch and her man David Rawlings, and Oberst’s girlfriend and fellow Saddle Creek affiliate Maria Taylor, all of whom joined Bright Eyes onstage to lend their particular talent (haunting old school bluegrass vocals if you’re Gillian Welch, tambourine playing if you’re Maria Taylor) to various songs. Though there are a couple of noteworthy bands on Saddle Creek - the Omaha-based label Oberst helped found – its his music that defines the label, and the scene that gave birth to it. At twenty-seven, the guy is clearly tired of shouldering that burden alone and is trying to get away from images of himself as prophet/troubadour, even though that’s exactly what he is. Oberst has made longtime Bright Eyes collaborators Nate Wolcott and Mike Mogis official members of the band, and he’s gotten busy surrounding himself with other super-talented people likely to

Published: 2007-06-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: General

And the third Download headliner is...

K! Dot Com can exclusively reveal that the third headliner for this year's Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival is... Faith No More! The highly-influential Californian quintet originally split in 1998, following their world tour for 1997's Album Of The Year. But last November Kerrang! exclusively revealed that the band were set to re-group this year, and the five-piece confirmed the news in a statement issued on February 25. The band, featuring vocalist Mike Patton, bassist Bill Gould, drummer Mike Bordin, keyboardist Roddy Bottum and guitarist Jon Hudson, will regroup for a headline slot at Download and additional European shows. "Faith No More has always stood out as some sort of unique beast; part dog, part cat - its music almost as schizophrenic as the personalities of its members," reads Faith No More's official statement. "When it all worked, it worked really well, even if the chemistry was always volatile. Throughout our 17 years of existence, the mental and physical energy required to sustain this creature was considerable and relentless. Though amicable enough, when we finally split, we all followed paths seemingly destined to opposite ends of the universe. What's changed is that this year, for the first time, we've all decided to sit down together and talk about it. And what we've discovered is that time has afforded us enough distance to look back on our years together through a clearer lens and made us realise that through all the hard work, the music still sounds good, and we are beginning to appreciate the fact that we might have actually done something right." The band will be joining fellow headliners Slipknot and Def Leppard plus Anvil, Billy Talent, Buckcherry, DevilDriver, DragonForce, Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, Motley Crue, Pendulum, The Blackout, The Prodigy, Trivium, Whitesnake and ZZ Top. Download 2009 takes place at Donington Park on June 12, 13 and 14. Tickets for Download are on sale now from www.al

Published: 2009-03-02 Provider: Kerrang!