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]

Published: 2008-07-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, In the Studio

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

Published: 2008-01-14 Provider: 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

Published: 2008-01-09 Provider: Artist Direct

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]

Published: 2008-04-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: 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

Published: 2007-08-17 Provider: Artist Direct

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.

Published: 2007-10-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: 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.

Published: 2007-05-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: General, Advance Music

Lydia Hearst Goes to War for Love

Hearst and new boyfriend Matt Rains last week.Photo: Patrick McMullanIt seems like only yesterday that Lydia Hearst was personally inviting us to go hear boyfriend Joe Barney perform with his band. But the whims of model-socialite-designer-humanitarian-actresses are fickle, and today's "Page Six" tells us that she's moved on! How far has she moved on? To Iraq, that's how far. Turns out that she's fallen head over pasties for the hot brother of her gay BFF, Heatherette designer Traver Rains. Matt Rains is, fantastically, a helicopter pilot. How Gossip Girl appropriate! He'll be deployed in Iraq in a few weeks. Even though the two only got together at the Life Ball, which was a couple of days ago, Lyds is already planning a USO tour to the Middle East so she can be near him. And to think, she only changed her Facebook status to "It's Complicated" last week! That is complicated. For example, what will she do to entertain the troops? Channel her mother? Or will it involve the outfit she barely wore to the Life Ball? Because we're pretty sure that's frowned upon in Muslim countries. LOVE & WAR [NYP]

Published: 2008-05-21 Provider: New York Magazine

A Late-Afternoon LaBeouf-In-Crisis Round-Up [Shiaing Under The Influence]

newVideoPlayer("/shianews_def.flv", 506, 423,""); As a world on edge waits to hear whether Mutt Williams will ever wield a whip again (we're hearing some encouraging news that his pinkie is out of critical care!), we bring you all the latest in the Shia LaBeouf could-have-been-much-worse DUI nightmare: · Sgt. Tressa Gunnels is amazed the injuries weren't more severe. Also: She's bad ass. [KCAL] · The rap sheet! [ET] · Shia was at The Troubadour at a Lemon Sun and Rumspringa show before the accident: "[He was] dancing around and acting really crazy...He kept doing shots of whiskey...He stayed until the band was done and then stumbled out of the club by himself." The female passenger in the overturned car was his Australian Transformers 2 co-star Isabel Lucas, pictured here moments after boyfriend Adrian Grenier's generous offer to polka-dot the stripes out of her. [Us] · Grenier, meanwhile, is reportedly displeased that she was out partying with LaBeouf at 3 a.m. Asked for a status update, Grenier was reportedly "testy...and refused to comment." [NY Daily News] · Shia's mom Shayna LaBeouf spoke to reporters from Cedars-Sinai, where she's been with Shia since the accident. She said he's "doing fine," and was close to tears as she said "thank you, thank you," to concerned fans. [E!] · Gold Derby blog's Tom O'Neil takes out his gilded switch and raps Shia lightly on his non-injured hand. If you expect to win Oscars, young man, we'll need to see some shaping up in the DUI truck-flipping department! [LAT] ·Transformers 2 co-star Tyrese was asked if he thought the reported month-long hiatus might affect Shia's involvement in the film, to which he responded: "A month? He won't be in the hospital for a month. He just hurt his hand. He can afford a private nurse." [MTV]

Published: 2008-07-29 Provider: Defamer Keywords: Shiaing Under the Influence, Clips, Dui, Indiana Jones, Shia LaBeouf

Status Quo's Rick Parfitt and wife welcome twins Tommy and Lily

English rock band Status Quo's singer and guitarist Rick Parfitt, 59, and his wife Lyndsay Whitburn, 47, welcomed twins Tommy Oswald Parfitt and Lily Rose Parfitt on Monday, May 26th. The couple announced the pregnancy in December and confirmed that the pregnancy was made possible with the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Tommy and Lily join Rick's sons Richard, 29, and Harry, 18, from previous relationships. Source: Showbiz Sky; Photo by Jules Annan/WireImage.com

Published: 2008-05-29 Provider: Celebrity Baby Blog Keywords: Celebrity Dads, Fertility issues, It's a boy!, It's a girl!, Multiples

Stars Align For Local Band "Kessler"

The stars have seemingly aligned for Kessler, whose local status may soon be catapulted onto the national stage.

Published: 2008-04-16 Provider: NBC Dallas/Fort Worth

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.

Published: 2008-04-13 Provider: MSNBC