Readers’ Rock List: Change Songs

Photo: RB/Redferns/Retna Last week, to celebrate President-Elect Barack Obama’s win, we asked our readers to nominate their favorite Change Songs for the Rock List. We counted the votes, and Sam Cooke’s civil rights anthem “A Change Is Gonna Come” edged out songs by Bob Dylan, David Bowie and the Band of Gypsys. While we anxiously await January’s inauguration, check out the Readers’ List below: 1. Sam Cooke - “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2. Bob Dylan - “The Times They Are A-Changin’” 3. The Chamber Brothers - “Time Has Come Today” 4. Tupac Shakur - “Changes” 5. David Bowie - “Changes” 6. Curtis Mayfield - “People Get Ready” 7. Black Sabbath - “Changes” 8. John Mayer - “Waiting on the World to Change” 9. Band of Gypsys - “Changes” 10. Hüsker Dü - “New Day Rising” Related Stories: • The Immortals: Sam Cooke • Cover Story: Bob Dylan Comes to Terms With His Icon Status • The Immortals: Tupac

Publicado: 2008-11-10 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock Lists

Def Leppard Consider Indie Status As Label Contract Ends

Photo: Kane/Getty After almost 30 years of major label success, Def Leppard are considering going the indie route. “For the last five or six years we haven’t had the greatest of support from our record label,” singer Joe Elliott told The Age. “We signed our contract in 1979, a lot of regimes ago. Once there was respect for what you’d done, but it’s all just bean-counters now. I find that very sad.” With their contract expiring and no major offers in sight, the band are considering going the same course as bands like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails. “If Radiohead and the Eagles can go off and do it on their own, that’s an acceptable yardstick to measure our own chances by,” said Elliott. Radiohead enjoyed great success in this new frontier, the Eagles raked in the royalties from Long Road Out of Eden thanks to a deal with Wal-Mart. Elliott believes that Def Leppard has been around long enough that they no longer need the major label support, as their fanbase is firmly set. With no deal in place, Elliott says the band will seek a lucrative agreement for touring and online sales while recording as independent artists. Related Stories: • Tour Preview: Def Leppard Admit “If You Play New Songs, The Audience Walks Out” • Radiohead Publishers Reveal In Rainbows Numbers • Nine Inch Nails, Eagles, Smashing Pumpkins: Who Needs Labels?

Publicado: 2008-10-31 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Kate Nash Brings Black Kids On Tour

The unsigned status of Black Kids—and their lack of an actual album—hasn't kept the band from landing on two hype-raking tours in the UK. First up (after some one-off shows and a handful of free Vice Live dates from January 29 through February 1): a

Publicado: 2008-01-14 Proveedor: Artist Direct

Broken Social Scene Heads Overseas

The supposed hiatus of Broken Social Scene's collective status is already over. According to Pitchfork, the band's announced a two-week tour of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and

Publicado: 2008-01-09 Proveedor: Artist Direct

MTV Celebrates 20 Years of “Headbangers Ball”

Photo: Samad/AFP/Getty The year was 1988. The first George Bush was elected as President, Kirk Gibson of the Los Angeles Dodgers was limping his way across the bases in the World Series and MTV was airing a show dedicated to heavy metal called Headbangers Ball. Even though their flagstaff hard rock program has been relegated to VJ-less MTV2 status in recent years, MTV will still pay homage to the show that gave metal heads stiff necks two decades ago with a 20th anniversary celebration. Highlighting the festivities is an interview and live performance by Headbangers favorite band, Metallica. Other specials include an Avenged Sevenfold concert from the Long Beach Arena, the premiere of Slipknot’s “Dead Memories” video and a heavy metal panel featuring the show’s past VJs like Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta and the show’s most memorable host, Riki Rachtmann (who presided over a number of phenomenal video premieres, including the Rock Daily favorite “November Rain”). Still, all that headbanging probably knocked a screw loose inside MTV’s head, as 2008 is actually the 21st anniversary of the show: The first Headbangers Ball aired in April 1987. Then there’s the fact that the show was off the air from 1995 to 2003, but who cares? The party begins on MTV2 on October 20th. Related Stories: • MTV Puts TRL on Hiatus • Talk Show Flashback: Beastie Boys Hang Out on Old, Weird MTV • Backstage at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards

Publicado: 2008-10-09 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

News Ticker: Yoko Ono, Foxy Brown, Miley Cyrus, The Strokes

Yoko Ono is fighting in court to prevent a film of John Lennon smoking pot and talking about putting LSD in President Richard Nixon’s tea from being shown publicly. The footage was shot in 1970 — just weeks before the Beatles split up — by Ono’s previous husband Anthony Cox. Less than a week after being released from prison, Foxy Brown was back in court yesterday for a status hearing regarding her assault case from a 2007 incident at a Florida beauty salon. Brown attempted to plea deal without her attorney, which made her attorney resign, delaying the case for two more weeks. Fifteen-year-old Disney sensation Miley Cyrus will write about her ascension to stardom in a memoir that is set to published next spring. The Strokes are planning to start work on the follow-up to 2006’s First Impressions of Earth, bassist Nikolai Fraiture posted on the band’s website. “I’d like to say that I’m still looking very forward to a fourth album release. We just need to work out a few technical kinks,” Fraiture said. [Photo: Getty]

Publicado: 2008-04-23 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

"Four on the Floor (Bonus Tracks)" by Juliette & the Licks

Despite the sort of relentless touring that would earn most upstart bands their credibility stripes, Juliette Lewis still garners skepticism due to her "actress-turned-rocker" status. That criticism rings fairly hollow, though. Four on the Floor, like its predecessor (her debut), points to Lewis being the genuine article. While she's clearly not going to be reinventing the wheel, Lewis and her band pump out smartly simple retro-garage rockers that aim for the groin, lodge in the head, and sound great with a beer. Lewis is aided by non-Lick Dave Grohl, who bashes away on the drumset with reliable glee. An especially accessible early stretch on the album—featuring "Sticky Honey" and "Purgatory Blues," among others—gets waylaid by the ragged "Death of a Whore," one of several speed bumps that strain for a rawness the band and the vocals can't quite muster. On record, the Licks also suffer from the lack of Lewis' considerable panache as a performer, which

Publicado: 2007-08-17 Proveedor: Artist Direct

Pete Wentz on Next Fall Out Boy LP: No “Happy Fairy Tales”

Last month, Pete Wentz told MTV News that the next Fall Out Boy album will be so riff-heavy, it might sound like AC/DC. The bassist confirms to Rolling Stone that he and singer-guitarist Patrick Stump are working on new tracks this summer the way they usually do: “Patrick’s obviously been writing all the music, and the words haven’t even really come in yet,” Wentz says. “I’ll go over to Patrick’s house and he’ll kind of just sit there and play songs, and I’ll be like, ‘Ah, that one’s awesome!’” So will Wentz’s lyrics reflect his new status as a new husband and expectant father? “I think that it’s kind of blown out of control,” he says. “That people expect us to have a happy fairy tale record or something.” He notes that the band wanted to get started on new music sooner, but their cover of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” stood in the way. “I’m psyched to write new songs,” he says. “‘Beat It’ took off a little bit and that kind of stalled out our label and stuff like, ‘We gotta film a video for this.’ We weren’t in the right headspace to write songs before,” he adds. “We tried to before we went to Chile, and it makes a lot more sense now. We became good friends again, which is good.” [Photo: Lai/Getty]

Publicado: 2008-07-11 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, In the Studio

Hot Issue Hits and Misses: Coldplay and Enuff Z’Nuff

Rolling Stone’s 2008 Hot Issue spotlights acts like Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend (more on that here). 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: In 2002, just before the release of A Rush of Blood to the Head, Rolling Stone caught up with Coldplay as they toured small clubs for perhaps the last time, and named the group Hot Band. It was a pretty accurate assessment. Rush went platinum four times; its follow-up, X&Y, sold more than two million copies. Perhaps fueled by his Hot List status, Chris Martin went on to wed Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, Rolling Stone’s Hot Actress of 1994, in 2003. Miss: It was the year of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Pearl Jam’s Ten. Primal Scream’s Screamadelica. So many bands to choose from, yet we chose Chicago rockers Enuff Z’Nuff as “The Hot Band” of 1991. Maybe it was their faux-GN’R spirit that blinded us. In the end, the music of Pearl Jam and Nirvana resonated throughout the Nineties, while the only evidence of Enuff Z’Nuff’s existence, outside of that Hot Issue, is their cover of “Happy Holiday” that appears on the Monster Ballads X-Mas promo we just got in the mail.

Publicado: 2007-10-10 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, RS 10/18/07: Kid Rock (The 2007 Hot Issue)

Album Preview: Ryan Adams’ New Record “Easy Tiger”

As both Whiskeytown frontman and solo artist, Ryan Adams has been helping damaged lovers fill breakup/makeup mix tapes for more than a decade. While prolific to the point of compulsion nothing he’s done has rivaled his classic solo debut, 2000’s uniformly gorgeous Heartbreaker…until now. The punk troubadour’s new album Easy Tiger - which is playing in our mail room, in our editors’ cars, and may soon be piped in via loudspeaker to the restrooms around here - has us thinking Adams may finally transcend his perpetual next big thing status. If you haven’t already heard the messy, chaotic jam “Goodnight Rose,” which opens the album check it out here. It gives way to the elegiac “Two,” which has Adams lamenting “it takes two when it used to take one” between sincere if roguish apologies for not being a better man. Other great tracks include the churning, almost violent ode to self-destruction, “Halloween Head,” the traditional folk ballad “Pearls On a String,” and “These Girls,” a spare confessional that would fit perfectly next to “Sylvia Plath” on Gold or “Call Me On Your Way Back Home” on Heartbreaker. Easy Tiger seems to prove that Adams — having for years indulged his jones for Grateful Dead-inspired jam band impersonation (and other dubious cravings) — is once again as in touch with the delicate tragedies of life and love as he’s ever been.

Publicado: 2007-05-11 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: General, Advance Music

Quo auction fetches £100,000

Rock band Status Quo help raise £100,000 at a charity auction held in aid of The Prince's Trust.

Publicado: 2008-11-06 Proveedor: BBC

Buckcherry savors ‘Crazy’ resurgence

When a DJ spins Buckcherry’s ‘Crazy,’ it’s a clear illustration of the transcendence the band has made from what their manager calls “beyond dead” to a return-to-platinum status.

Publicado: 2008-04-13 Proveedor: MSNBC