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Q&A: Lemmy Kilmister on Motorhead’s Longevity, Famous Friends and Bad Advice

When Rolling Stone dialed up Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister to discuss the band’s 20th studio release, Motörizer (out August 26th), the famously moled rocker was happy to share his recipe for the perfect beverage: “One-third Jack, two-thirds Coke, about five ice cubes. Don’t bother stirring it, it’ll stir you! And then bend over, double and drink it upside down — that’ll cure your fucking hiccups!” Kilmister also opened up about stupid record-company advice, the war in Iraq, his days hanging with Jimi Hendrix and his new documentary, Lemmy: The Movie. • Q&A: Lemmy Kilmister [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-08-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Black Kids: Artist to Watch 2008

As we approach the end of our Artists to Watch days here at Rock Daily, we’re tossing a spotlight on Black Kids, the Jacksonville, Florida buzz band who write freewheeling indie-rock tunes that’ve earned them comparisons to Arcade Fire and the Cure. Click here to listen to their “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You” and to find out more about the quintet. To check out the rest of our Artists to Watch coverage, complete with videos and key tracks, click here.

Published: 2007-11-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Artist to Watch, Breaking

Single Minded: Death Cab Cover the Cure, Gaslight Anthem Rule “Letterman”

Photo: Winter/WireImage Death Cab for Cutie, “Love Song” [Cure Cover] One sad face deserves another: Ben Gibbard provides further proof that everyone who grew up in the suburbs owned a copy of Disintegration. If only he and Death Cab could swoop in and save Robert Smith from himself. The Gaslight Anthem, “The ‘59 Sound” [Live on Letterman] We’ve had this longstanding rule that no live band sounds good on TV. And then we saw NJ’s Gaslight Anthem on Letterman and concluded that either a) our rule was wrong, b) they are, in fact, the band of our generation, or c) some combination thereof. Absolutely breathtaking. The Police, “Roxanne” [Discotech Remix] Heart-stopping and electrifying, Discotech paint the Police bright pink and take them for a night on the town. Charlie Ash, “I Wanna Sex You Up” [Color Me Badd Cover] The critical reappraisal of Color Me Badd begins right here, with this aggro cover of their most grammatically improbable hit. Various Artists, “The Covers Mixtape” [Covers] Fourteen artists tackling 14 songs that aren’t their own, all of them handling their source material with class and panache. Start with Steve Earle’s rollicking punk/country cover of “Breed” and work outwards from there.

Published: 2009-02-06 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Single Minded

The Cure’s Robert Smith Slams Record Label, iTunes For EP Price

Photo: Magunia/Getty The Cure’s Robert Smith has lashed out at both iTunes UK and his record label after the band’s new remix EP Hypnagogic States hit the digital music service with an inflated price tag. “5 tracks for £7.99? For fucks sake!” rants Smith in an open letter to his label before complaining that the overpriced package is also missing a bonus remix of new song “The Only One.” “Who the fuck is going to pay this and not feel ripped off?” Smith asks. The tracks on Hypnagogic States will appear in non-remixed form on the band’s next album 4:13 Dream. Check out the album’s track list and cover art, plus more from Smith’s angry letter to his label, over at the Cure’s site. Related Stories: • Sasquatch 2008: R.E.M., The Cure, Flaming Lips Light Up the Gorge • The Cure Deliver A Devilish Good Time at Tour Opener in Virginia • The Cure Releasing Charity EP Featuring Remixes From Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds to Mars

Published: 2008-09-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Fricke’s Picks: Black Angels

Even by the nonstop-rock standards of 2008’s SXSW festival, it was weird to see a band that seems to live on ultraviolet light, out in broad daylight, making rippling-tremolo drone on the lawn of a downtown Austin restaurant. But local tripsters the Black Angels bring the aura of mid-1966 — the drilling guitars of early Velvet Underground shows, the raga inflections of late-show Fillmore jams, the acid-prayer stomp of Austin avatars the 13th Floor Elevators — everywhere they go, including the levitations on their second album, Directions to See a Ghost (Light in the Attic). Mid-Eighties echoes of Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain also roll through the scoured-guitar sustain and Alex Maas’ rocker-monk incantations. But he knows what time it is. “You say the Beatles stopped the war,” Maas sings in “Never/Ever.” “They might’ve helped to find a cure/But it’s still not over.” Even so, this medicine works wonders.

Published: 2008-04-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Fricke's Picks

Korn Won’t Cover Up Admiration For Prince, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam Any Longer

When Korn taped their MTV Unplugged earlier this year, the band stocked their set with unlikely covers like Radiohead’s “Creep” and a mashup of their own “Make Me Bad” with The Cure’s “In Between Days.” Apparently, this was a sign of things to come, as the band has started working on a full-on covers album. Though they’re releasing a new album of original material July 31, Korn have already banked a bunch of covers. “We’ve already done, like, ‘Love My Way’ from Psychedelic Furs,” said frontman Jonathan Davis. “We’ve done ‘We Care a Lot’ from Faith No More [and Nine Inch Nails’] ‘Head Like a Hole.’ Those are already recorded. We just gotta get in and do some more.” Up next: Prince’s “Erotic City,” Ozzy Osbourne’s “Diary of a Madman” and Debbie Deb’s “Lookout Weekend” as done by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam. Photo: Winter/Getty

Published: 2007-07-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

The Cure Shoot Documentary, Thom Yorke Worries About the Climate, McDonalds Enters the Record Biz

The Cure are starting work on a career-spanning documentary to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary in 2009. It’s shaping up to be a busy next two years for Robert Smith, as his band releases a new, double-disc album in October, as well as double-disc reissues of classic albums Wish and Disintegration in 2008. In this video, Thom Yorke says new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown better cut carbon dioxide emissions or risk being pummeled by “a ton of bricks,” as opposed to the equally heavy but less-intimidating ton of feathers. Check out the new video for Mastodon’s “Sleeping Giant.” McDonald’s is pulling a Starbucks and entering the music industry with a 10-city tour that features Ne-Yo, Kenna and maybe the guys in this commercial. What better way to say “Happy Birthday” than with a card that plays Tim McGraw or the Barenaked Ladies out of a magical, battery-operated speaker? Eager to not have a similar fate as Paris Hilton, rapper Eve showed up to court four days early as per the terms of her DUI probation. Photo: Hale/Getty

Published: 2007-07-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

The Cure - The Cure Tickets Secured For Fans

Fans of British band THE CURE have been assured they can attend a forthcoming gig, after a ticket agency went bust. Approximately 500 people feared they would miss the ...

Published: 2009-02-22 Provider: Contact Music

The Cure Tickets Secured After Dealer Closes

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Published: 2009-02-22 Provider: StarPulse

Bat for Lashes Return With Scott Walker, Multiple Personalities on April’s “Two Suns”

Photo: Forrest/WireImage Last year English songstress Natasha Khan grabbed our attention with her incredible Donnie Darko-esque one-take video for her band Bat for Lashes’ “What’s a Girl To Do.” The album it came from, the well-received 2006 debut Fur and Gold, led to a prestigious European tour support slot with Radiohead: “Thom Yorke told me I should do what I want and fuck everyone else,” she recalls. And so she has — Bat for Lashes will return April 6th with Two Suns, an album heavy on musical method acting. Khan tells Rolling Stone that the record was inspired by intensely personal experiences that followed ’06’s hauntingly ethereal Fur and Gold. But instead of writing first-person confessionals, her new lyrics are channeled through two main personas, one of which is Pearl, an egotistical (and blond!) femme fatale. “When I was recording and struggling with relationships and being away from home, I would sometimes go out to a bar and get drunk and then dress up and some of the characters on the album,” she says. “It was like an escapist fantasy — a way for me to help make sense of what I was feeling. It sounds a bit mental but then again, I was feeling a bit mental at the time.” Brooklyn experimentalists Yeasayer contribute to the album and Khan has even managed to lure the famously reclusive Scott Walker into providing vocals on the album’s finale “The Big Sleep.” “That song was meant to be drag queen’s dying song and I wanted it to be very theatrical. I was trying to sing the low part like a man but when I did, I just heard Scott Walker’s voice in my head,” she says. “It was all done by e-mail and we didn’t even meet. I sent him the song with some notes and he sent it back saying he really tried to get into character and that he hoped he had done it justice — which he definitely has! He also said it was the quietest he’d sung in years.” Related Stories: • Breaking: Bat for Lashes • Single Minded: Bat for Lashes Cover the Cure

Published: 2009-01-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Bono Talks Frank Sinatra in First “New York Times” Op-Ed

Photo: Charrlau/Wireimage Rolling Stone has been pleased to publish Bono’s writing in the past (see his lengthy comment on the band’s first albums, his meditation on Immortal artist Elvis Presley, his essay on Greatest Singer Bob Dylan), and now The New York Times is putting the multitasking rock star to work. Bono’s tenure as a Times op-ed writer began yesterday. Rather than devote space in the world’s most-read newspaper to his many charitable causes, the recession or Barack Obama, the U2 frontman threw everyone a curve ball by dedicating his first piece to the “Chairman of the Board,” Frank Sinatra. Bono does briefly connect the recession’s hit on Ireland to the legendary crooner, recounting a recent trip to a Dublin pub where there was revelry but “builders and bankers laugh uneasy and hard at the last year, and swallow uneasy and hard at the new.” The one cure to mend all of their sorrows? Frank Sinatra’s “My Way,” which blares out of the bar’s speakers. From here, Bono gives us a critical take of what makes Sinatra Sinatra. “Fully inhabiting the moment during that tiny dot of time after you’ve pressed ‘record’ is what makes it eternal,” Bono writes, “If, like Frank, you sing it like you’ll never sing it again. If, like Frank, you sing it like you never have before.” Bono also examines the two different versions of “My Way,” from the triumphant 1969 version to a later version, when 78-year-old Sinatra sings “a heart-stopping, heartbreaking song of defeat.” Bono remembers the time he spent time with Sinatra around when they sang together on Duets‘ “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.” “I don’t usually hang with men who wear earrings,” Sinatra told Bono. In addition to penning the column, Bono also read his piece “Notes From the Chairman” aloud, which you can listen to over at the NYT Website. For those who’d rather listen to Bono sing than read, you might be in luck: U2 will reportedly perform new song “Get On Your Boots” at this year’s BRIT Awards on February 18th, pl

Published: 2009-01-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

The Eagles nested on the cover of the new Rolling Stone. Thus, we gathered photos from the band’s thirty-five year career, penned a guide to all their classic albums and posted an excerpt from the cover story. The Eagles also flew onto the fourth installment of Guitar Hero. And you know who probably digs the Eagles? Jason Castro. We put on our business suits, as the Nine Inch Nails’ manager talked about the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, we examined how high price tickets might hurt the concert biz and analyzed how smart bands make money while CDs don’t sell. If there was a concert this week, we were there: Our cameras caught Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd at MSG, watched Death Cab For Cutie rock Providence, encountered the B-52’s at a small club in San Francisco, gothed out at the Cure’s tour-opening show in Virginia and witnessed Dizzee Rascal teach Maths & English in NYC. We were also present at the triumphant return of New Kids on the Block. Metallica mania swept over us, as the band launched “Mission: Metallica,” played a small benefit show in Los Angeles (where James Hetfield revealed new details about the new album), announced they would headline the one-day Ozzfest and Lars Ulrich told us about what the group had in store for Bonnaroo. We even dedicated a Rock List to them. [Photo: Kent/Retna]

Published: 2008-05-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News