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Band of Horses plans free showMusic & 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...
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Published: 2007-10-05 Provider: Seattle Times
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Reality Show Recap: Dot Dot Dot Expire on “The Next Great American Band,” Episode Eight Sixty Great American Reality Minutes in Three Sentences: Emo-goth fashion disasters Dot Dot Dot are sent home in favor of Denver And The Mile High Orchestra—presumably because Dot Dot Dot fans are too busy sinning on a Friday night to compete with all the Christian youth groups playing ping-pong, eating pizza and hitting the phone lines for Denver. The remaining bands played the hits of this week’s great American—er, British—songwriters, Queen! And now that there’s only four bands, the producers have to struggle to pad a full hour, so all the bands got to play original songs in the final half-hour (or so we think, since we, like everyone else, turned it off after they announced which band went home). Best Great American Band: Pickin’ and winnin’ Clark Brothers took Dicko’s advice and added a rhythm section (including a barely audible bass player and a flat-haired, bandana-clad drummer who looks like he was fired from Dot Dot Dot). Their cover of Queen’s “These Are The Days Of Our Lives” was a mandolin-tweaked rave up featuring not one, but two, fiery fiddle solos. We also caught the Clark Brothers original song and the lyrics to their “back to the farm” song were really, really stupid. “Daddy was a preacher, swingin’ that old Bible belt.” Did you guys steal that one from Mad magazine? Anyway, everyone was bowled away by their bigger-than-life performance as per usual, but Dicko thought the lyrics made it a “crap song.” Worst Great American Band: Light Of Doom, apparently trying to capture some of Queen’s sense of theatrical bombast (or the Blue Man Group’s sense of theatrical bombast), come out playing the “We Will Rock You” beat on what appear to be four Japanese koto drums. It might have been pretty great if they had actually put some oomph behind it instead of just gently tapping a meek little “boom boom thwack” with some soft mallets. Oh, and totally botching the harmonies. And awkwardly trying to put on their guitars. And turning the rest of the song into ill
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Published: 2007-12-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Hot Issue Hits and Misses: Queens of the Stone Age and Tego Calderon Rolling Stone’s 2008 Hot Issue spotlights acts like Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend, but more on that later. For the next week, we’ll be taking a look at Hot Issue hits and misses from the past twenty-one years (because nobody’s cultural thermometer is accurate all the time). Hit: Rolling Stone named Queens of the Stone Age the Hot Rock in 2000, and while Nick Oliveri is no longer in the band, the Josh Homme-led crew are still going hard. They’ve put out three albums since Rated R (which came out the year they were hot), with Dave Grohl sitting in for the almost-platinum Songs for the Deaf, Lullabies to Paralyze hitting the Billboard chart at number five and this year’s Era Vulgaris clocking in at a slightly less strong fourteen. Yet the band has continued to headline major festivals and attract scores of press love. Miss: While many were quick to proclaim reggaeton sensation Tego Calderón the Next Big Thing (we did it in 2005), the Puerto Rican MC never quite made it to the bigtime in the States. His long awaited 2006 LP The Underdog/El Subestimado was eclectic and like his previous work, connected on the Latin charts, but he never struck it big on the albums chart: despite the positive reviews it has received thus far, the mainstream press has almost entirely ignored his late-summer release El Abayarde Contraataca.
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Published: 2007-10-05 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Rock Band: A First Look at the Biggest Thing Since Guitar Hero The breakout hit of this year’s E3 video game conference is clearly Rock Band, which is essentially a four-person version of Guitar Hero. MTV Games is publishing the title, and its music-industry muscle has helped get Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Rush, Foo Fighters and the Hives on board. Metallica is making its entire catalog available for the next-gen karaoke treatment, and the game’s creators say that new music will be released every week as soon as the game launches in the fall. Even entire albums will be offered — first up is the Who’s Who’s Next. So what better way to celebrate this fusing of truly excellent bands with truly excellent game developers than with an intimate live concert, which took place last night in the cozy space that is L.A.’s Troubadour. (For more on the party and a first look at how Rock Band actually works, read on.) Though blogosphere rumors abounded that Slash would get up on stage and perform, the mystery musical guests turned out to be Eagles of Death Metal and Queens of the Stone Age, both of whom performed tight sets for an audience that included mostly video game journalists and bloggers, Xbox 360 execs and the typical assortment of B- and C-list Young Hollywood celebs like Scott Caan. The Queens ran through 40-minute set that ranged from “Hit of the Summer” and “Little Sister” to the new “Sick, Sick, Sick” off Era Vulgaris. Naturally, players will be able to get all of these songs and more when Rock Band comes out this fall. The game works like this: Each person takes an instrument in the form of a plastic video game controller shaped like a guitar, bass, drums and mic, respectively. When the music starts, each member of the band has to press certain buttons on the controllers (or sing correctly) in time with ever-changing symbols on the screen — typical Karaoke Revolution-meets-Guitar Hero gameplay style, only ingeniously designed to work with four instruments at once. Developed by Harmonix Systems, the same company behind the o
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Published: 2007-07-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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Single Minded: Radiohead, Reggae, Female MCs and More Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more. Radiohead, Live at the BBC 2008 [Live] In a follow-up to their remix contest, Radiohead will be letting lucky fans run the soundboard for their upcoming tour. S-M is looking forward to treating New York City to two nights of all-bass Radiohead. Various Artists, 4-Volume Women of Rap Compilation [Mixtape] Eighty-five tracks, and not a reference to lip gloss among ‘em. You get Queen Latfiah pre-Oscar nom, Lauryn Hill pre-insanity and Lady of Rage pre-…whatever Lady of Rage did after this. Various Artists, Just the Versions [Reggae Mix] 12 consecutive reggae B-sides, which is more dub than you can shake a stick at. Though if you’re going to listen to 12 consecutive reggae B-Sides, shaking those sticks is probably not what you had in mind. Various Artists, The Funky Side of Rock & Roll [Mixtape] White rock bands take on funk and emerge more-or-less unscathed. Unlikely highlight: the Osmonds barreling through a song called “Crazy Horses,” which we’re fairly sure is about the apocalypse. One sign of the apocalypse? The Osmonds performing a funk song. Various Artists, Ethiopia’s Revolutionary ’60s [Guided Tour] A history of Ethiopian music in the ’60s fleshed out with embedded, full-length songs. Unlike retrospectives of American music from the ’60s, you don’t have to suffer through “Born to be Wild.”
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Published: 2008-04-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Single Minded
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by: Patricia Meschino When Soca singer Alison Hinds instructed her male fans to “ride” her riddim on 1998’s “DJ Ride,” she wasn’t extending a salacious invitation — she was offering a challenge. The Britishborn, Barbados-based Hinds is renowned for her formidable waistline rolling, or “wining” skills — few men can handle the ride, but most are eager to try. Soca, the fast-paced derivation of calypso created in Trinidad and Tobago, is the soundtrack to Caribbean-infl uenced carnivals throughout the world. Hinds’ ability to command carnival revelers to “jump,” “wave,” and “wine,” previously the exclusive domain of male singers, earned her the title Queen of Soca. “Several female soca artists have told me, ‘You inspired me so that I could do this, too,’” said Hinds last October, while preparing for a performance at the Miami Carnival. “I feel like I’ve had a huge impact on young Caribbean women.” Hinds’ inimitable body groove coupled with her robust yet controlled vocals made her the focal point of Square One, the band she joined in 1986. With Hinds on lead, their soca originals made them a Caribbean phenomenon, but after giving birth to a daughter in 2004, the queen fi nally decided to go solo. “I had family responsibilities,” she says. “I just couldn’t devote as much time to the band.” She has since leaped to the scene’s forefront, releasing her hip hop-infused “Roll It Gal” in 2005. It soon became a Caribbean female empowerment anthem. Now, with the release of her debut, Soca Queen (1720 Ent./Black Coral), the 37-year-old hopes that the uninitiated will dare to ride her riddim. “I want to do big shows, extravaganzas in Vegas,” Hinds says, “I’ll try anything to make soca more popular.” imagePath = '/ui/img/icons'; echo $social->getFeedHTML(); } ?> Page printed from: http://www.vibe.com/ Return to previous page
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Published: 2008-03-03 Provider: VIBE
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McCartney Says Beatles Going Digital in ‘08, New Alice in Chains Album, Queens of the Stone Age Booted From Rehab Clinic According to Paul McCartney, in 2008, the Beatles catalog may finally be available in digital-music stores. McCartney tells Billboard “it’s all happening soon,” and “there’s just maybe one little sticking point left, and I think it’s being cleared up as we speak.” McCartney makes no mention of a possible remastering of the Beatles tracks, however, and instead says that delay is due to “contractual” issues. Alice in Chains, with William DuVall assuming Layne Staley’s vocal duties, are hoping to release an album of new music in the latter half of 2008, even though no complete songs have been written. The band’s last album of new material was 1995’s Alice In Chains. Queens of the Stone Age were forced offstage during a concert at a California drug-rehab center after only one song. The band opted to open their set with “Feel Good Hit of the Summer,” which contains the lyrics “Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol/C-c-c-c-cocaine.” Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis was honored by the Queen of England, who took the opportunity to ask about the fest’s infamous mud. Next week, George W. Bush is expected to honor Perry Farrell for all his hard work on Lollapalooza by throwing a kegger. The geniuses at Gibson have created a limited-edition stock of self-tuning, robotic guitars. The guitars would help roadies at concerts who are responsible for tuning numerous guitars, as well as amateurs who have no idea how to find an E.
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Published: 2007-11-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup, Digital Music
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FIT FOR A QUEENWHEN 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...
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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
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Queen Stars To Perform At Mandela ConcertBRIAN MAY and ROGER TAYLOR, members of legendary rock band QUEEN, will perform at a concert next year to celebrate the 90th birthday of South Africa's
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Published: 2007-08-30 Provider: Contact Music
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Queens Of The Stone Age Usher In A 'Positively Dirty' New EraQueens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme embraces modern times on the band's new album, Era Vulgaris, due June 12.
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Published: 2007-06-05 Provider: VH1 Keywords: Vulgaris, Artist, Queens, Album, Stone, Age, Era, the, VH1, of, Experience, Performers, Positively, <i>Era<i>, Tribute, Honors, Movies, Photos, Voodoo, Dirty, Fresh, Music, Radio, Usher, VSPOT, 2007, Best, Ever, June, News, Rock, Roll, Spot, Week, And, A-Z, New, In, on, TV, A,
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Eighteen Grateful Dead Tracks Coming to “Rock Band” “Truckin’,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Touch of Grey,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “Casey Jones” and thirteen more original Grateful Dead recordings are coming to Rock Band when the four-player game is released this winter. The Who’s Who’s Next will still be the first full album of downloadable content available, and users will be able to nab individual tracks from Mountain, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Rush, Blue Öyster Cult, the Hives, Queens of the Stone Age, the Ramones, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer, Foo Fighters and the Strokes. For more on Rock Band, check out Rock Daily’s first hands-on experience with the game here. [Photo: Baker/Redferns/Retna]
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Published: 2007-09-06 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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"Take Cover" by QueensrÿcheIf the prospect of Queensrÿche covering The O'Jays' "For the Love of Money" feels misguided, then perhaps the Seattle metal band's latest Take Cover is not for you. This bizarre collection of 11 interpretations—including originals by Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash and, strangely enough, a song from the broadway show Jesus Christ Superstar—is a conceptually bold record, but in actual execution it inspires a fair share of bewildered head scratches. Could singer Geoff Tate really think his fans would appreciate a Carlo Marrale and Cheope track sung in butchered Italian (in interviews, Tate even admitted to not speaking a word of Italian. Crikey)? This is not to say that Take Cover as a whole is perplexing and pretentious—Queensrÿche also tackle some material fitting for a prog-metal band, such as Pink Floyd's hazy "Welcome to the Machine," Queen's epic "Innuendo" and Peter Gabriel's moving "Red Rain."
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Published: 2007-11-30 Provider: Artist Direct
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