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Velvet Revolver Turmoil: Looking Back at Last Year’s Rolling Stone Feature With all the turmoil surrounding the end of Velvet Revolver (at least as we know it) this week, take a look back at last year’s Rolling Stone story about the band, which reveals some interesting dynamics that are even more fascinating considering the events of the past few days. For the complete story by Rolling Stone’s Brian Hiatt, click here.
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Published: 2008-04-03
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Velvet Revolver
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Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily While Coldplay was ruling the charts with Viva La Vida, the band’s label EMI started laying off employees. The band also turned to YouTube to recruit opening acts and played to the cheap seats at a free show at Madison Square Garden. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama graced the Rolling Stone for a second time. In addition to the complete cover story, we also revealed what’s playing on the huge Stevie Wonder fan’s iPod and explored Obama’s life in pictures. Sebastian Bach came clean about the mysterious Axl Rose, telling us that Axl has a (funny) mean streak, that Sly Stone could be the key to a GNR reunion and Rose may be penning an autobiography. Meanwhile, the guy who leaked those Chinese Democracy tracks had a sobering week. We pulled an all-nighter with Amy Winehouse, as the part-time singer/part-time train wreck opened up to us about her crack use and the rocky relationship with Blake Incarcerated. We also documented the Winehouse’s wild year in a photo gallery.
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Published: 2008-06-28
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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News Ticker: Abbey Road, Judas Priest, Jay-Z, Frank Lucas Jr. Mary J. Blige, Panic at the Disco and Sheryl Crow will be among the artists that will perform on the second season of Sundance Channel series Live From Abbey Road. Metal icons Judas Priest will release their sixteenth album, a double-length entitled Nostradamus, on June 17th. The band’s first concept album will tell the story of the legendary sixteenth century prophet Michel de Nostradamus. Jay-Z will join Radiohead and My Bloody Valentine as a headliner at this year’s Roskilde Festival, to be held in July 3-6 in Denmark. Rapper Frank Lucas Jr., son of American Gangster focus Frank Lucas, is suing the NYPD for $25 million, claiming the police used excessive force and racially profiled him during an arrest in March.
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Published: 2008-04-16
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Bruce Springsteen and E Street “Say Goodbye for a Little While” as Tour Wraps in BuffaloPhoto: Kisby/Getty Early on in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s final gig of their two-year world tour, Bruce began telling a familiar story: the night of a wicked nor’easter in Asbury Park, New Jersey, circa 1971, when a gigantic saxophone player walked into a club and asked to sit in with the band. “We got into a Cadillac at the end of the night and drove out to the outskirts of town,” Springsteen said as he called Clarence Clemons to the center of the stage to thunderous applause. “W
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Published: 2009-11-23
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Bruce Springsteen, Live Shows, Rock News
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Anvil Exposed: Canadian Metal Vets Rock With Slash, Talk DocAnvil! The True Story of Anvil is the year’s most praised rock doc, a film that follows Canadian heavy-metal outfit Anvil on their 30-year-plus quest for rock stardom and respect. The Smoking Section’s Austin Scaggs recently hung out with Anvil guitarist and singer Steve “Lips” Kudlow and drummer Robb Reiner, who founded the band in 1977, and chatted about how the movie has become “the best opening act we’ve ever had.” Go behind the scenes at the band’s RS photo shoot, where the band get the but
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Published: 2009-05-01
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Videos
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THE GROHL STORYThe other day on a MySpace group dedicated to the Foo Fighters, a fan posted a complaint about the band's Grammy defeat to Amy Winehouse for Album of the Year. Several other fans quickly replied that yes, they would have preferred that their beloved...
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Published: 2008-02-17
Provider: New York Post
Keywords: Grohl, week, Fighters, Nirvana, band, think, work, music, won, yet, Grammy, Cobain, Dave, album, rock, music
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Every Time I Die gear up for new releaseEvery Time I Die have announced this week that they are to start work on the follow-up to 2007's The Big Dirty. The band have entered a studio in Anaheim, California with producer Steve Evetts (He Is Legend, Story of the Year, Still Remains) to begin work on the as-yet untitled new record. The album is due to be ready for release in the Autumn, through Epitaph Records. The band are set to support Gallows on their upcoming May UK tour. For tickets/details, click here.
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Published: 2009-03-24
Provider: Kerrang!
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No Doubt - behind the music!Ska punk legends No Doubt have reunited and will be touring the US this summer with Paramore in tow. While the band are in two minds as to whether they'll release the follow-up to 2001's Rock Steady this year, they recently uploaded a series of videos to YouTube explaining their classic tracks! Check out all the videos here, on the band's YouTube channel. Watch the story behind their hits Just A Girl and Spiderwebs below.
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Published: 2009-03-17
Provider: Kerrang!
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Springsteen Adds Glastonbury Headline Slot To Busy Summer SchedulePhoto: Getty Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are adding another major summer festival to their Working on a Dream tour schedule, this time crossing the Atlantic to headline an evening at the UK’s famed Glastonbury Festival. Springsteen had been rumored to be among the headliners for some time, but it finally became official with an announcement on the festival’s website. “I’m so pleased that Bruce Springsteen has agreed to come to Worthy Farm for the first time,” Glastonbury organizer Michael Eavis said on the fest’s official website. “He’s one of the all-time rock legends and I’m confident that this will be one of our best shows ever.” Adds Emily Eavis, “I’m knocked out that we’ve managed to get Bruce to play. It’s the icing on the cake of this year’s bill, which I’m sure will take everyone’s breath away when we announce the full details.” Springsteen has already revealed plans to headline a night of Bonnaroo, and there’s a conspicuous gap in his touring schedule that has Springsteen idle in California during the Coachella festival, just in case the organizers of the Indio, California fest to give in to fans’ demands and spruce up their Saturday night offering. (As of now, the Killers are headlining that night.) And even though tickets for Glastonbury have already sold out, after performing for the Super Bowl halftime show in front of an audience of hundreds of millions, Glastonbury probably seems like an intimate club gig to the E Street Band by comparison. Of course, this is all in support of Springsteen’s recent five-star album Working on a Dream. Springsteen recently spoke to Rolling Stone’s David Fricke about his latest album, and you can read the cover story below: Cover Story: Bruce Bringing It All Back Related Stories: • Q&A: The E Street Band on Bruce — Their Springsteen • Bruce Springsteen on His Super Bowl Slide: Rocker Opens Up in Candid Journal • Bruce Springsteen “Furious” At Ticketmaster, Rails Against Live Nation Merger
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Published: 2009-02-23
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Exclusive Taylor Swift Video: “Oh My God, I’m on the Cover of Rolling Stone”Taylor Swift should probably be jaded by now. She was the biggest selling artist of 2008, she’s taken her songs to stages around the world, and despite her young age, she’s been pursuing music as a profession for eight years already. But there are still plenty of steps on this unique journey that get Taylor excited, like a spot on the cover of Rolling Stone. Taylor’s cover hits newsstands across the U.S. today, but the singer is across the pond right now in the U.K. preparing for the release of her album there on March 9th. So we shipped her a copy of her cover along with a Flip cam, and she was kind enough to let it roll as she checked it out for the first time. Her reaction? Everything you’d expect from a 19-year-old: giddiness, awe and pure excitement. But what’s the use of being on the cover unless you can show it off? Taylor immediately took her cover down the hall to show her band, and captured that moment for us as well: watch it here! The story underneath that cover comes courtesy of contributor Vanessa Grigoriadis, who found Taylor to be essentially the young woman you see in these videos — a composed and driven musician who, at her core, is still a wide-eyed teen. “She really is that girl in the tiny little bedroom at home writing songs about the things she hopes and dreams and feels,” -story-behind-rolling-stones-cover-story">Grigoriadis told us in our story-behind-the-story. For more undiluted Taylor, we pulled together a Q&A from Vanessa’s interview with the country crossover star, plus put together a collection of private snapshots from her family album and a gallery charting her swift rise to superstardom.
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Published: 2009-02-20
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “It’s Blitz”: “Less Angst and More Positivity, Man”Photo: Malluk/WireImage One of New York’s finest rock trios, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, are returning in April with a new album called It’s Blitz — and Rolling Stone has the scoop with an in the studio story in the next issue (on newsstands this week!). “We’re always going to have Yeah Yeah Yeahs hooks and energy,” Karen O tells us. “But we came up with something new that we’ve never heard before from ourselves. Less angst and more positivity, man!” It’s Blitz, the follow-up to 2006’s Show Your Bones, was produced by Nick Launay (who oversaw the band’s 2007 EP Is Is) and TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek. Recording went down in the band’s native Brooklyn and in Texas where — no joke — the crew lived on a pecan orchard. It was certainly a far cry from the sessions that produced the trio’s raw 2003 debut Fever to Tell. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are already booked for two of the year’s biggest festivals, Coachella and Bonnaroo, where they’ll certainly be road-testing their newest tunes. The last time the Yeahs rocked New York City (an August ‘07 gig at Webster Hall) they tested out a new song and brought one of their sweatiest, passionate performances yet. Before the set ended with “Maps,” Karen O gave fans a little preview of this newfound positivity: “This brings us to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs love song,” she wailed as her parents looked on. “Love is real and this is for each and every one of you!” Related Stories: • Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Goth, Nerd, Slut • Yeah Yeah Yeahs Deliver Sex, Violence and Perversion
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Published: 2009-02-03
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Gene Simmons Starts Canadian Record Label, Hates on the DoubtersPhoto: Pimentel/WireImage KISS‘ Gene Simmons has signed on with Universal Music Canada to form Simmons Records, which will find the self-proclaimed “God of Thunder” signing and developing Canadian bands. “If you’re reading this and you’re in a Canadian band (only!!!)….and you believe you’re the next Elvis or Beatles (don’t we all…)…go to SIMMONSRECORDS.COM and we will tell you how YOU can submit your electronic demo. This is serious,” Simmons wrote on his official Website, stressing his seriousness by Caps Locking the occasional word. “We are signing 3 new acts the first year. We intend on launching them from Canada and then worldwide,” he continued. Hopeful artists must also include a video with their demo, as this is the 21st century and that stuff is important. It’s interesting that the rocker would suddenly embrace the standard record label format, considering Radiohead and their whole pay-what-you-want idea made Simmons lash out at the In Rainbows scheme and wonder how anyone these days can make a living being a musician. Rock blog Idolator asked a similar question of Simmons in their post yesterday about his new label, and somehow Simmons found out, which prompted this response on the Simmons Records site: “Here’s an amateur who’s achieved nothing in his life. Read it. You will see the built in bias…the arrogance of US media. What are YOU and I going to do about it? We’re going to shame this guy into submission. We will send him and his ilk back to fish wrapping factory they escaped from.” It’s worth noting that the “guy” in this situation is in fact a girl, Idolator’s Maura Johnston. Simmons goes on, “We’re going to find, develop, nurture and launch new talent emanating from — CANADA!!!. That’s right, Baby.Why here? Because you actually DO have the talent. And now, you have a WAY. ME.” “Oh, and the asshole who posted the story? He gets no free tix, no backstage passes, and therefore, he won’t have access to our parties and our girls,” Simmons pens in the pos
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Published: 2009-01-27
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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