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ESPN Takes Journey, Ozomatli and Candlebox to the Ballgame

ESPN’s Baseball Tonight will play host to a “Battle of the Bands”-esque competition where nine artists will perform “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” this Sunday night. Among the combatants will be Journey and their YouTube-recruited vocalist, REO Speedwagon, Ozomatli, the Cab, R&B singer Lloyd and the suddenly unearthed Candlebox. Even famed baseball analyst Peter Gammons will buy you some peanuts and Cracker Jacks as he performs the song as an homage to the late Bo Diddley. The show will feature videos by the nine acts, with online voting deciding the victor. Our early guess about who will win: Not the New York Mets.

Published: 2008-06-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Tour Tracker: Against Me! Moonlight, Radiohead Pick Cities, Carrie Underwood and More

Against Me! plot a trio of charity gigs between opening Foo Fighters shows, Radiohead announce what North American “markets” they will visit (with no dates or venues yet), Def Leppard bring Styx and REO Speedwagon along for a monstrous good time and Carrie Underwood hits the road to reclaim her throne as American Idol’s biggest star. Full dates for all four after the jump. Against Me! January 15 - Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds January 18 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club January

Published: 2008-01-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, On Tour, Against Me!, Radiohead, Carrie Underwood, Def Leppard

Earth, Wind & Fire Team Up With Chicago For Joint Summer Tour

Photo: Bedder/Getty Two more classic acts are teaming up for a 30-city co-headlining tour: Earth, Wind & Fire and ">Chicago will head out together starting June 5th. The two long-lasting bands also set out on a joint tour in 2004-2005. Each night, both groups will perform a full set apiece, then it’ll be Earth, Wind & Fire & Chicago for the final set as all the musicians hit the stage together. EW&F have enjoyed a renaissance of late, no doubt helped out by big fan President Obama recently having the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers perform at the White House. The prolific Chicago have gone platinum with 25 out of their 30 albums. We’re calling this the Revolving Door Tour, as if you combined the total number of band members both Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago have employed in the past four decades, it’d be somewhere in the 50s. With the slumping economy expected to seep into the summer touring business, multi-artists tours like Poison, Def Leppard and Cheap Trick and REO Speedwagon, .38 Special and Styx are becoming a necessity on the circuit. The dates for the E,W&F and Chicago tour are below. June 5 - Orange Beach, AL @ The Amphitheater June 6 - Atlanta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre June 9 - Charlotte, NC @ Time Warner Cable Arena June 10 - Washington, D.C. @ Merriweather Post Pavilion June 12 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Event Center June 13 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Event Center June 14 - Bethel, NY @ Bethel Performing Arts Center June 16 - Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena June 17 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden June 19 - Ledyard, CT @ MGM Grand Theatre at Foxwoods June 20 - Verona, NY @ Turning Stone Resort Casino June 21 - Columbus, OH @ Value City Arena June 23 - Indianapolis, IN @ Conseco Fieldhouse June 24 - Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre June 26 - Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena June 28 - Kansas City, MO @ Sprint Center June 30 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest July 1 - Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center July 10 - Houston, TX @ The Cynthia Woods M

Published: 2009-03-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Def Leppard, Poison, Cheap Trick To Tour Together This Summer

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Mid-’80s rock radio is going to come alive in the nation’s amphitheatres this summer as Def Leppard, Cheap Trick and Poison join forces for a full summer tour. “We’re going out with three bands, which limits the amount of time we can play to about 90 minutes. When you do your greatest hits and some new material or extra stuff you might throw in, you have got to push and shove and clamp down,” Def Leppard’s Joe Elliot told Billboard.com. To avoid the expected concert industry slump this summer he adds, “We’ve taken the path of least resistance, we’ve put a bill together that we think is attractive.” The tour has something for all rock fans, from Poison’s hair-metal antics to Cheap Trick’s classic power pop to Def Leppard’s….. well, what exactly was Def Leppard anyway? When Rolling Stone talked with Elliot back in 2006, he was quick to confront the popular belief that the band was “hair-metal” or “heavy metal.” “We may have once accidentally… had one picture taken that let the hair dresser run riot with the hair spray,” Elliot said. “But generally speaking, we were a long-haired band. If we’re hair metal, so are Led Zeppelin. Warrant and Ratt were hair metal, we’re not. We were always better than that. If you came from the L.A. metal strip thing, Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison, Warrant, whatever. And we get lumped in with that, I don’t get it.” So what genre would Elliott consider the band to be? “We belong in the same kind of category as Van Halen are. It’s just rock.” It’s interesting that a band trying to distance themselves from hair-metal would tour with a band synonymous with Aqua-Net, but desperate economic times call for desperate measures. In case that tour doesn’t fill your rock needs, a trio of power ballad-heavy bands are also teaming up for the Can’t Stop Rockin’ Tour: REO Speedwagon, Styx and .38 Special. Check out the full dates for both megatours, after the jump… Def Leppard/Cheap Trick/Poison June 23 - Camden, NJ June 25 -

Published: 2009-02-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

VH1 to Bring Back “Behind The Music” with Lil Wayne, Scott Weiland and Others

Photo: Cohen/WireImage VH1 will resurrect a former staple in the network’s programming, Behind the Music, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The network has ordered at least 10 more episodes of the long-running series, with Lil Wayne and Scott Weiland already signed on for their own specials. Other artists involved and potential air dates were not yet revealed. By documenting the bizarre careers of Milli Vanilli and MC Hammer, BTM  was an instant hit and a stalwart on the schedule from 1997 to 2002. In recent years, VH1 has trucked out special episodes to tie in to other programming or exclusive content, most recently in September 2008, when New Kids on the Block tied in their first reunion performance with a 90-minute BTM. The network also aired a 30-minute version of the series called BTM2 that focused on then-newer talent such as Smash Mouth and Paula Cole, but that was short-lived. VH1 will also reemploy Jim Forbes, whose distinct voice narrated the entire the original series except for the first two episodes. Forbes’ voice lent a tone of gravitas to the sad tales of BTM subjects ranging from Leif Garrett to REO Speedwagon. So we ask the question to our Rock Daily readers: Who should get the Behind the Music treatment? Tupac Shakur instantly comes to mind, and while Guns n’ Roses already had an episode in the original series, they’re more than due for an updated version. (Wikipedia has the whole list of episodes.) Nirvana, the Libertines and, most recently, Chris Brown should also get their due. Leave your picks in the comments and we’ll be sure to forward them over to the VH1 programming department.

Published: 2009-03-19 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News