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Readers’ Rock List: If U See Kay Songs (Explicit Titles)

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/ Getty Last week, inspired by Britney Spears’ controversial “If U Seek Amy,” we asked our readers to tell us their favorite songs that didn’t dance around with clever wordplay and just dropped cuss words in the song title. We counted the votes, and N.W.A’s ode to the LAPD, “Fuck Tha Police,” was the shit, beating out expletive-laden tracks by Nine Inch Nails, the Replacements and Neil Young. To see the entire list of songs that wouldn’t be played on the radio, check below. 1. N.W.A - “Fuck Tha Police” 2. Nine Inch Nails - “Starfuckers, Inc.” 3. Prince - “Sexy M.F.” 4. Wu-Tang Clan - “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit” 5. Liz Phair - “Fuck and Run” 6. Marilyn Manson - “This Is The New Shit” 7. Tenacious D - “Fuck Her Gently” 8. The Replacements - “Fuck School” 9. The Rolling Stones - “Bitch” 10. Warren Zevon - “My Shit’s Fucked Up” 11. Beastie Boys - “Hey Fuck You” 12. Elton John - “The Bitch is Back” 13. Nas - “Life’s A Bitch” 14. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - “Fuckin’ Up” 15. Violent Femmes - “Dance, Motherfucker, Dance”

Published: 2009-01-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

Rolling Stone was all over VH1’s Rock Honors, where Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, the Flaming Lips, Tenacious D and Incubus pay tribute to the Who. We also talked to Eddie Vedder about the Who’s impact and rocked the red carpet. Guitar Hero and Rock Band slugged it out for your attention. After Rock Band 2 fired the first salvo by grabbing a new Guns n’ Roses song and a massive track list, Guitar Hero responded with Death Magnetic and Jimi Hendrix. Oh, and Wii wants to get involved. We caught a pair of baseball-related shows: Billy Joel and friends said goodbye to Shea Stadium and Bon Jovi celebrated All-Star Week in NYC with a Central Park performance. And we assume a bunch of Seattle Mariners fans went to the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary. Both Eminem and Britney Spears are back in the studio, working on their new albums. Only one of the two gave up custody of their kids, though. [Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage]

Published: 2008-07-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

The Who Plot U.S. Fall Tour, Ready for Rock Honors

Despite Roger Daltrey’s longing to hang it up, the Who have announced the beginnings of a U.S. tour in the fall. So far, only a pair of dates have been announced: a two-night run at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre on November 8 and 9. Fan club tickets and VIP packages for those dates go on sale July 14th at the band’s official website. The band also promises more dates will be announced soon. The Who will also take the stage this Saturday night at UCLA’s Pauley Arena for a VH1 Rock Honors special, to air July 17th. Pearl Jam, Flaming Lips, Incubus and Tenacious D will also participate in the event, with each band paying tribute to the Who before Daltrey and Townshend take the stage. Rock Daily will be at this weekend’s event, so check back next week for the full report.

Published: 2008-07-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, The Who

Tenacious D Battle the Devil to Wrap Up Outside Lands Fest

Photograph by Chris Tuite for RollingStone.com Beastie Boys replacement headliner Jack Black of mock rockers Tenacious D sent his love to the ill Adam Yauch Sunday night during a chilly set that closed out the final day of San Francisco’s Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park. “Adam, I love you, you’re the greatest,” said the charismatic Black, dripping with sweat from their 100-minute, skit-filled performance, which included a duel with the Devil. “Get well, my brother.” Outside Lands in photos: P

Published: 2009-08-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Outside Lands: Stay Tuned to Rolling Stone for Full Coverage

Photo: Dyson/WireImage(Vedder), McDonald/Getty(Matthews) Right now San Francisco is rockin’ at the Outside Lands festival — Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Tenacious D, M.I.A., Mastodon, the Mars Volta and dozens more bands will take the stage in historic Golden Gate park for the second annual event, and Rolling Stone is on the ground, ready to bring you live reports, photos and much more. Stay tuned throughout the weekend and check back Monday for all our coverage from one of the West’s biggest

Published: 2009-08-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

News Ticker: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kiss, Brian Epstein, Patrick Stump

Photo: Gentner/Getty Yeah Yeah Yeahs have quietly replaced Beastie Boys at Austin City Limits, an eagle-eyed Stereogum reader noted. Karen O and Co. also replaced the Beasties (who nixed festival dates due to Adam Yauch’s cancer treatment) at Lollapalooza; Tenacious D will fill in at Outside Lands. Canadian Kiss fans in Oshawa, Ontario, won an online contest guaranteeing them a gig on the band’s fall tour and were shocked to see their city missing from the itinerary announced earlier this week.

Published: 2009-08-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

News Ticker: M.I.A., Radiohead, Larry Knechtel, John E. Carter

Photo: Tran/FilmMagic Rapdirt noticed that M.I.A. doesn’t seem thrilled with the prospects of opening for Tenacious D (rather than the Beastie Boys) at the Outside Lands festival. “Now [the Beasties] ain’t doing it and I jus wanna say, we have to go hard!!!,” she tweeted. Radiohead performed the new single they released just last week, “These Are My Crooked Words,” live at the Frequency Festival in Austria. Watch the footage at " Target="blank">YouTube. Larry Knechtel, a keyboardist who won a

Published: 2009-08-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

“Guitar Hero: Van Halen” Reportedly On the Way

Photo: Uffberg/WireImage Van Halen are rumored to be the next band to get its own Guitar Hero game, Joystiq.com is reporting. The group would be the third with a specifically branded Guitar Hero title, following Aerosmith and Metallica, whose version is set for release on March 29th (check out our Guitar Hero: Metallica sneak preview.) According to Joystiq, GH: VH will feature many of the band’s greatest hits (”Jump,” “Panama,” “Hot for Teacher”), plus recordings by Weezer, Tenacious D and Judas Priest. While Activision wouldn’t comment on the game, the potential of a Van Halen Guitar Hero is already generating hundreds of questions. Will new bassist Wolfgang Van Halen appear in the game instead of Michael Anthony? Will the game feature playable versions David Lee Roth, Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone, and if it’s just Roth does that mean his polygonal doppelganger will sing Hagar’s “Right Now?” Also, will Diamond Dave’s virtual dressing room ensure that he has enough room to practice his digital martial arts? We must know. Of course, it comes as little surprise that rumors of a Van Halen Guitar Hero leaked out just days after their competitor Rock Band revealed more details about their own game dedicated to another pretty popular quartet. As Rock Daily reported last week, The Beatles: Rock Band will hit stores September 9th and feature career-spanning tracks from the Fab Four’s Please, Please Me through Abbey Road. Clearly the Guitar Hero makers had to plot a course of action to compete with Rock Band’s mega-release for the holiday sales, and they’re hoping the allure of blasting through “Eruption” and “Hot for Teacher” will ensure two video games are under the tree come Christmas. Related Stories: • “The Beatles: Rock Band” Set to Hit Stores September 9, 2009 • Sneak Peek: “Guitar Hero: Metallica” Offers Deep Cuts and Lifelike Band, But No Cliff Burton ଊ Van Halen to Rock On With David Lee Roth

Published: 2009-03-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Eddie Vedder on The Who: “These Guys Changed My Whole World”

Eddie Vedder can still recall the exact date of his first Who concert: June 18, 1980, at the San Diego Sports Arena. By then, Kenney Jones was drumming in the band, and he “was on fire,” Vedder remembers. “These guys changed my whole world. It’s a big part of why I get to do what I do.” Vedder and Pearl Jam got a chance to repay that favor on Saturday at the VH1 Honors tribute concert to the Who at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, reaching across the generations to perform two songs from the Who’s 1973 concept album Quadrophenia. Following sets by the Foo Fighters (who covered “Young Man Blues” and “Bargain”), Flaming Lips (who performed a Tommy medley that included “Pinball Wizard” and “Sparks” and Wayne Coyne’s signature bubble) as well as from Incubus (”I Can See for Miles” and “I Can’t Explain”) and Tenacious D (”Squeeze Box”), Sean Penn introduced Pearl Jam, who erupted with “The Real Me” and a soaring, emotional reading of “Love, Reign O’er Me,” as a string section swelled with Vedder’s Daltrey-like wail. Pearl Jam has frequently included Who songs (including “Baba O’Riley”) in their live shows. “I came out all the better for it,” says Vedder, standing outside the venue after a dress rehearsal, several Who buttons pinned to his olive-green army shirt. “That time was almost like a peak for rock & roll bands. The arrangements and the musical structures and the maturity really reached a high level. That’s why this is good — there is a potential for reinvigorating people’s interest in the Who, because we’re getting to the point now where [younger listeners] might have missed them. I don’t hear that use of instrumentation and even the natural approach to musicianship in some of the newer bands.” For those perfo

Published: 2008-07-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Wayne Coyne: “The Who’s Music Is Really Optimistic”

Wayne Coyne’s life was changed back in Oklahoma City in the 1970s, when he attended his first Who concert as a teenager. The Flaming Lips leader can still talk excitedly about that night with his brothers, hearing the music erupt onstage, watching the band explode, worrying if the green lasers just might cut off his fingers. By 1986, Coyne and the Flaming Lips were performing a raw medley of songs from Tommy. And as part of Saturday’s VH1 Honors tribute concert to the Who at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, the Lips will perform a typically mind-altering take on songs from the Who’s most famous rock opera. Coyne plans to emerge in his epic “space bubble” and begin the Lips’ set with the immortal words: “See me, feel me, touch me, heal me…” The show, to be broadcast on VH1 on Thursday, July 17, will also include performances by the Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Incubus and Tenacious D (who will play “Squeeze Box”). But this won’t be the first encounter between the Who and the Flaming Lips. In recent years, Coyne and the Lips have occasionally stepped onstage with Pete Townshend at his series of intimate “In the Attic” club shows, performing Who songs and originals with the classic rock icon. “Their music is really optimistic,” says Coyne. “There is a sense that they believe what they’re saying. When the music is going with it, we all believe it together. And that’s a cool thing.” Did you get to choose what Who songs you would be doing? Luckily, they wanted us to do a Tommy medley. We’re like, “Fuck, yeah!” We had done this Tommy medley in 1986. When we think of the Who doing those songs in the Live At Leeds era — doing the most intense freak-out shit — that was the period we like the most. We probably would have done anything they asked us, just because it’s cool to do and to meet Pete Townshend is great.

Published: 2008-07-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, The Who

Soundstage: Jack Black, Mos Def, Notorious B.I.G., Ice Cube on the Big Screen

There’s already been pretty terrific buzz about Tenacious D funnyman Jack Black and rapper turned serious actor Mos Def’s December film Be Kind Rewind. Imagined by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (and many a White Stripes video) director Michel Gondry, the pair portray two video-store clerks who accidentally erase their store’s entire movie collection and decide to re-create the tapes on their own — filming and starring in flicks from Ghostbusters to Boyz N the Hood. Check out the trailer, it’s pretty damn funny. Diddy oversaw the Notorious B.I.G.’s career when the Brooklyn rapper was alive, and now he’s going to watch over the film based on his late friend’s life. The Biggie biopic Notorious, which has been in the works for seven years, garnered a lot of attention last week when filmmakers announced an open audition to fill its starring role. Barbershop’s George Tillman Jr. is directing the movie, which will focus on a side of the rapper “not seen in public life.” The script is based on Cheo Hodari Cocker’s book Unbelievable: The Life, Death & Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. The movie will be co-produced by Big’s mother, Voletta Wallace. Ice Cube is set to star in the big-screen adaptation of the Shannon Eric Denton/Keith Giffen graphic novel 10, and his film company, Cube Vision, is in negotiations to produce the movie. Cube will play a man who receives junk mail informing him that he’s in a life-or-death competition with nine others, and whoever survives wins. The rapper’s character throws away the letter, but reconsiders ditching the contest when a man toting an ax shows up at his door. This sounds eerily like his last quality flick, Are We Done Yet?

Published: 2007-08-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

NBA Star Ron Artest Preps DJ Drama Mixtape, Samples Coldplay

Photo: Shamus/Getty Houston Rockets basketball player, brawl catalyst and part-time rapper Ron Artest will showcase his ability to shoot rhymes on a new mixtape. Artest is backed by notable mixtape mastermind DJ Drama, automatically elevating Artest’s cred. Artest brings his tenacious on-court personality off the court, criticizing rappers like 50 Cent and Nas and saying “Hip hop has been heavily watered down and knocked off course by the big money makers. There are many artists who are scared to make music for themselves and they cater to the boss with grey hair or light skin who never ever been caught in a cross fire, or been racially profiled, or cut in the face, or been face to face with multiple crack heads.” The cager also samples Coldplay’s Viva La Vida cut “Lost!” on a track with the same name. Related Stories: • The Capri Lounge: Malik Sealy Had a Good Jumpshot But Was a Terrible Rapper • Photo Gallery: Athletes, Actors and Other Outsiders Try Their Hand at Music • How Lil Wayne Used Mixtapes to Become a Mainstream Sensation

Published: 2008-10-01 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny

Starring: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Jason Reed, Ronie James Dio, Troy Gentile Review: In this deliberately dumb comedy, Jack Black and Kyle Gass play wanna-be rock gods on a quest to find the guitar pick that holds the power of rock... Rating: 2 Stars

Published: 2007-03-20 Provider: Rolling Stone