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April Fool’s Rock Hoaxes: Bieber or Die, Coldplay Perfume and More

April 1st is a rough day to be in the news business. Rolling Stone could get a press release that says Dr. Dre’s Detox finally has a release date or Talking Heads are reuniting or the Beatles are coming to iTunes, and we wouldn’t believe it since so many folks use April Fool’s Day to engage in shenanigans with their fans. Last year, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor pretended he recorded an album with Timbaland and Björk announced she’d joined Led Zeppelin, and in 2010 many artists are keeping the h

Published: 2010-04-01 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

New Music Report: Local Natives

Rolling Stone blogger Daniel Kreps directs your attention to Local Natives’ self-produced debut disc Gorilla Manor — which checked in on the charts at Number 142 this week — in our weekly spotlight of the best new music. The quintet come from Los Angeles’ Silver Lake district, and like their neighbors the Fleet Foxes, Local Natives excel at multi-part harmonies. But while Fleet Foxes gravitate towards more rootsy, Crosby, Stills and Nash-style harmonics, Local Natives draw on the Talking Heads’

Published: 2010-02-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: New Music Report, Podcasts

David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame, at Benaroya

Music & nightlifeDavid Byrne of Talking Heads fame brings his current tour, "Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno," to Seattle's Benaroya Hall on Feb. 18.

Published: 2009-02-18 Provider: Seattle Times

Rock List: Readers’ Best Eighties New Wave Bands

Inspired by last week’s announcement of the Regeneration Tour, we asked the Rock Dailyists to tell us their favorite New Wave acts of the 1980s. After rewatching the entire Savage Steve Holland filmography and tallying the votes, the readers have selected Echo & the Bunnymen as their favorite keyboard-stabbing, oddly hair-cutted New Wavers. Check out the entire top ten list after the jump. 1. Echo & the Bunnymen 2. New Order 3. Talking Heads 4. Psychedelic Furs 5. Elvis Costello 6. The Police 7. Depeche Mode 8. Duran Duran 9. The Cure 10. XTC [Photo: Musto/Redferns/Retna]

Published: 2008-04-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

The Almost Impossible Rock and Roll Quiz: Week 3

Where do Talking Heads side projects, Stephen King movies and post-punk album covers live in harmony? In the ten questions that make up the latest Almost Impossible Rock and Roll Quiz. Click below to push your knowledge of pop, rock, hip-hop and everything in between to the limit. • The Almost Impossible Rock Quiz: Week 3 [Photo: Slattery/Retna]

Published: 2008-04-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: The Almost-Impossible Rock & Roll Quiz

Obama's Secret Record Collection

When Barack Obama moved into the White House on January 20th, he gained access to five chefs, a private bowling alley — and a killer collection of classic LPs. Stored in the basement of the executive mansion is the official White House Record Library: several hundred LPs that include landmark albums in rock (Led Zeppelin IV, the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed), punk (the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols), cult classics (Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, the Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin) and disco. Not to mention records by Santana, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Isaac Hayes, Elton John, the Cars and Barry Manilow.

Published: 2009-01-23 Provider: Rolling Stone

David Byrne and Brian Eno Launch New Album Website

Details about David Byrne and producer Brian Eno’s collaboration album have emerged, as the duo launched a new site today. The album, entitled Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, will be released in August strictly through the album’s official website. As Byrne says in a video on the page, Eno wrote the music and Byrne wrote the lyrics. Everything That Happens will be streamed for free in its entirety upon its release, with physical and digital copies available for purchase. If you sign up for updates at the page, you’ll also be sent a free MP3 of one of the songs on August 4th. Additionally, Byrne will go on a tour that prominently features his previous collaborations with Eno, including their three Talking Heads albums together and their 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Dates for that tour will be announced soon. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-07-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Readers’ Rock List: Hot Songs

Last week, as a tribute to our Rock Daily colleagues baking in the ninety-plus-degree Indio heat to bring back Coachella reportage, we asked our air-conditioned readers to pick their favorite “hot” songs. The readers have spoken, we’ve battled through our third-degree sunburns to compile the votes and you’ve selected Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” as the most thermometer-bursting song. Check out the full list below. 1. Jimi Hendrix Experience — “Fire” 2. Johnny Cash — “Ring of Fire” 3. Sly & the Family Stone — “Hot Fun in the Summertime” 4. Bruce Springsteen — “I’m On Fire” 5. The Clash — “London’s Burning” 6. AC/DC — “Hell’s Bells” 7. The Beatles — “Here Comes the Sun” 8. Talking Heads — “Burning Down the House” 9. Jerry Lee Lewis — “Great Balls of Fire” 10. KISS — “Hotter Than Hell” [Photo: Dalle/Retna]

Published: 2008-04-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Rock Lists

Weekend Rock List: Hot Songs

Today, our intrepid Rock Daily team is suffering through mid-ninety degree heat just so they can report back to you, our readers, all that’s going at this year’s Coachella Festival. As a tribute to our colleagues in Indio, California, this Rock List is dedicated to songs about being hot. Like Fahrenheit hot. Tell us your picks, and on Monday, depending on how sunburned we are, we’ll compile the lot and reveal the Readers’ Rock List: Hot Songs. Until then, here are our picks: Prince — “Hot Thing” Brian Eno — “Baby’s On Fire” The Doors — “Light My Fire” MC5 — “Motor City is Burning” Talking Heads — “Love –> Building on Fire”

Published: 2008-04-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Single Minded: MGMT Do Talking Heads, Van Halen at Devo Speed

Photo: Sparrow/WireImageJay-Z, “Hate” [Aziz Ansari Remix] The funniest thing about Ansari’s “remix” of Jay’s track is how convincingly he plays obnoxious DJ. Could it be that every annoying mixtape MC is just a frustrated stand-up comic? Wheedle’s Groove, “Jesus Christ Pose” [Soundgarden Cover] This week’s must hear — A scorching R&B cover of Soundgarden’s “Jesus Christ Pose” that gets to the song’s unlikely spiritual center. Your grunge Gospel revival begins here — an absolute revelation. MGMT,

Published: 2009-09-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Single Minded

Weekend Rock List: What Classic Album Should Phish Cover This Halloween?

Photo: Flanigan/WireImage Today, Rock Daily reported that perennial jam crew Phish are going to play their first Halloween concert in 11 years—an event that means the band covers a legendary album in its entirety. In previous years they’ve done the Beatles’ White Album, the Who’s Quadrophenia, Talking Heads’ Remain In Light and Velvet Underground’s Loaded, and they’re always a secret until Halloween night. So will we get a trick or a treat? Our comment section is already speculating: Will they p

Published: 2009-07-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Breaking: Dirty Projectors

Who: Dirty Projectors, a Brooklyn five-piece led by mastermind David Longstreth whose unusual blend of blues and punk has captured the attention of David Byrne, Björk and TV on the Radio. Sound Like: The band’s latest album Bitte Orca mixes soul-inflected vocal harmonies, jagged art-rock guitar and Timbaland-like rhythms. Aging hipster’s gripe “Stillness Is the Move” sounds like Talking Heads by way of Destiny’s Child. Vital Stats: • Longstreth began the Dirty Projectors while studying classical

Published: 2009-06-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Breaking