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Levon Helm, Zac Brown Band, Deer Tick and More Battle the Mud at Austin City Limits Day Two

There was a tie for Most Significant Special Effect on Day Two of the Austin City Limits Festival. The first contender was Austin’s own Ghostland Observatory, whose agitated dance music took a back seat to a breathtaking light show. The stage shot sharp, endless beams of green light over the heads of festivalgoers, occasionally filling in the spaces between the eerie beacons with cloudlike LED patterns. The stage itself was almost entirely obscured by smoke and bathed in neon purple lights, fron

Published: 2009-10-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Austin City Limits, Festivals, Rock News

Maroon 5, Fergie Rule iTunes’ 2007 Chart, Panic! Sets Album Release Date, Lily Allen Covers ELO and More

Even though no readers voted for Maroon 5’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long in our Readers’ Top 25 Albums of 2007 list, the band still managed to top another important list: it was named iTunes’ best-selling album of 2007. Maroon 5 beat out Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and Kanye West’s Graduation for the most-purchased spot. On the singles side, Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” grabbed number one, while her “Glamorous” settled in at number five. In a ruling issued yesterday, a $3 billion invasion of privacy lawsuit against rapper/producer Dr. Dre was dismissed. The suit stems back to 2000, when a conversation between Detroit city officials regarding risqué videos shown during Dre’s concert was included on the Dre/Eminem Up in Smoke tour DVD. Panic! At the Disco will release their second album on March 25th. Panic! will also play a series of U.S. shows before the new, still-untitled album comes out. System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian will collaborate with Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA on the “futuristic-specific” score for the upcoming sci-fi film Babylon A.D., starring Vin Diesel. After two months of distributing for free the Readers’ Number One Album of 2007, Radiohead finally closed down InRainbows.com yesterday in preparation for the album’s proper release on CD January 1st. Check out Lily Allen’s cover version of the Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mister Blue Sky.”

Published: 2007-12-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Kill Hannah - bus catches fire!

We have just had word from Kill Hannah that their tour bus caught fire in the Swiss Alps. The band have lost all their possessions that we on the bus, and will update Kerrang! shortly as to whether their upcoming UK dates will be affected. We have had the following message from the band's management: “Well it is literally going down now...the fire is going out, and they are letting firefighters on the bus to see if there is anything salvageable. Bus was driving from Bologna Italy where they played last night to Paris for show tomorrow. They are in the Swiss Alps, closest city is Airolo, Switzerland. They were sleeping and bus filled with smoke and they realized it was on fire...something from the engine must’ve started it...the bunks are all pretty much melted...but everyone is out alive and uninjured, which is the important thing. Apparently the bunk section is particularly bad, some of the bunks collapsed onto each other and melted....”

Published: 2008-10-21 Provider: Kerrang!