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Queen and Paul Rodgers Announce New Album Release Date

Queen and Paul Rodgers revealed that their new album The Cosmos Rocks, their first studio album with Rodgers on vocals, will be released October 14th. For the band, it’s their first studio album since 1995’s Made In Heaven, which collected the last remaining songs by Freddie Mercury. Among the songs expected to be included on Cosmos are “Say It’s Not True” (initially available as a free World Aids Day download) and “C-lebrity.” The album will also feature a cover song (perhaps Del Shannon’s “Runaway”) for the first time in Queen’s recording history. More Queen: • In the Studio: Queen [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-07-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

No "Apologies" needed for Wolf Parade

Music & nightlife"At Mount Zoomer," Wolf Parade's new jam album on Sub Pop Records, improves on the already-classic debut "Apologies to the Queen Mary"; the band is on the SP20 lineup at the Seattle-area Marymoor Park on July 12.

Published: 2008-07-11 Provider: Seattle Times

Arctic Monkeys Side Project The Last Shadow Puppets Arrive in NYC

Though no one could quite remember the name of the band, a few dozen New Yorkers showed up at Brooklyn’s Sound Fix Lounge last night for a “surprise” acoustic gig by the Last Shadow Puppets: a collaboration between Arctic Monkeys singer Alex Turner and his mate Miles Kane from U.K. group the Rascals. The pair worked through unplugged renditions of eight songs from their forthcoming album to a crowd that included Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij. (VW fans will be pleased to know that drummer Chris Thompson is doing just fine after being hit by a taxi in London last week. “He didn’t even need stitches,” Batmanglij says.) The Puppets’ set was decidedly low-key, coming on more like noir-ish Sixties soundtrack music than the loose-limbed Brit-punk of the Arctic Monkeys. Or, as one astute fan noted: “If the Arctic Monkeys are Blur, this is the Good, The Bad and The Queen.” The duo’s debut album, The Age Of Understatement, is due out April 21st, if that sounds like your cup of tea. For our part, we were impressed. [Photo: Bao Nguyen]

Published: 2008-03-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows

Smiths Fans Ride Bikes To Save Manchester Landmark

Manchester’s loyal Smiths fans are coming to the rescue of the Salford Lad’s Club, which is featured on the cover of the Smith’s 1986 opus The Queen is Dead. The club is currently undergoing an expensive renovation, which has been threatened by a band of (neither sweet nor tender) hooligans who made off with expensive roofing materials. When word spread that the renovation might not proceed as a result, local fans decided to organize a bike tour of iconic Smiths-related Manchester area spots in order to raise awareness of the club’s plight and inspire people to contribute money for replacement materials. The bike ride is scheduled for September 30, pending police approval.

Published: 2007-08-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Exclusive: Queen’s Brian May Addresses Adam Lambert Rumors

Photo: Mickshaw/FOX After Adam Lambert’s killer performance with Queen on Wednesday night’s season finale of American Idol, rumors flew that he had already been offered a job singing with the band. That’s slightly premature, according to the band’s guitarist, Brian May. “Amongst all that furor, there wasn’t really a quiet moment to talk,” May tells Rolling Stone in an e-mail interview. “But [drummer Roger Taylor] and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some poi

Published: 2009-05-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, American Idol

Cobra Starship Grab “Gossip Girl,” “Idol” Stars for “Hot Mess”

For “Good Girls Go Bad,” the first single from Cobra Starship’s forthcoming third album (click to listen), the band did something familiar: immersed themselves in pop culture. The group known for turning “Snakes on a Plane” from a punchline into a radio hit landed guest vocals from the ultimate good girl with a bad streak — Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester, who plays Blair Waldorf, the show’s bitchy queen bee with a loyal heart — recruited newbie American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi (who co-wrote Ke

Published: 2009-05-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

On the Smoking Section: Ben Harper and the Relentless7 Set

Photo: Kambouris/Getty To mark Tuesday’s release of Ben Harper and the Relentless7’s debut album White Lies for Dark Times, the Smoking Section has posted four songs from a private set the band rocked at New York’s legendary Electric Lady Studios at a WFUV-sponsored event. Click over to check out “Shimmer & Shine,” “Number With No Name,” “Lay There & Hate Me” and an awesome cover of Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure”: • Ben Harper & Relentless7 Enter the S.S. Related Stories: • Watch Ben H

Published: 2009-05-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

BROOKLYN'S QUEEN OF VINTAGE SOUL

Soul singer Sharon Jones made a mistake that millions of women would kill for the chance to make - because she made it in front of dreamy Denzel Washington. Washington hired Jones to sing in his film "The Great Debaters," and liked her so much he...

Published: 2008-08-17 Provider: New York Post Keywords: Jones, band, sing, wasn, Dap, Kings, Sharon, Soul, coming, film, gained, line, recalls, sang, soul, music

FIT FOR A QUEEN

WHEN Queen Latifah was thinking about recording Phoebe Snow's 1975 hit "Poetry Man," she sought permission from a higher power: her mom. "I'm still one of those kids who wants to please their parents," she tells The Post. "I know I'm a grown woman...

Published: 2007-10-23 Provider: New York Post Keywords: music, Queen, Latifah, mom, big, still, Jersey, band, became, hard, house, jazz, kids, make, play, music

Band of Horses plans free show

Music & nightlifeSub Pop's Band of Horses plays a free in-store concert at the Queen Anne Easy Street Records Monday at 11 p.m. The show is a pump-up for...

Published: 2007-10-05 Provider: Seattle Times

The Gaslight Anthem unveil new album artwork

Former Kerrang! coverstars The Gaslight Anthem have confirmed the tracklisting for their upcoming third studio album, American Slang. The hotly anticipated follow-up to the band's 2008 break through album, The '59 Sound, will be released through Side One Dummy in the UK on June 14. The full tracklisting and artwork for the record are below: 01 American Slang 02 Stay Lucky 03 Bring It On 04 The Diamond Church Street Choir 05 The Queen of Lower Chelsea 06 Orphans 07 Boxer 08 Old Haunts 09 The Spir

Published: 2010-03-23 Provider: Kerrang!

Oops: “Guitar Hero: Metallica” Cover Art Misspells Lynyrd Skynyrd

The cover has been unveiled for the anxiously awaited Guitar Hero: Metallica, and the artwork pumps up the contributions of all the bands not named Metallica featured in the game, like Judas Priest, Alice in Chains, Queen, and Lynyrd… Skynrd (check the left-center). Sadly, it seems the Southern rock heroes have lost a Y in their band name — haven’t they lost enough already? Even the (properly) misspelled Mercyful Fate get their name handled correctly, and the oft-mangled Mastodon pass the fact-checking test. It doesn’t mean that Skynyrd’s bluesy kiss-off “Tuesday’s Gone” will be any less fun to play, though. It’s also been announced that Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister will make an appearance as an animated character in the game, so players can gargle along with “Ace of Spades” without having to see a spiky-haired punk rock caricature singing it onscreen. There are also multiple songs featuring the facepaint-loving King Diamond, so there’s even money on him making an appearance, as well. Metallica’s biggest songs are represented in the track list (”Enter Sandman,” “Sad But True,” “One”), but there are also a few old gems thrown in for the diehards, including “Dyers Eve,” “The Shortest Straw” and “Hit the Lights,” the first song the band ever wrote and released. The XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game — which will be sold stand-alone, so players will already need the rest of the Guitar Hero gear — will be released on March 29. For Rolling Stone’s hands-on preview of the game, check out our Sneak Peek: Guitar Hero: Metallica. Related Stories: • Metallica Reveal Guitar Hero Track List • Have Guitar Hero and Rock Band Peaked?

Published: 2009-02-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News