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Secrets of “The Runaways”: Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart and Co. on the Wild New Biopic

Photo: Wargo/WireImage What’s the only thing better than becoming the first acclaimed all-female rock band? Becoming the first all-female rock band to get your own biopic. At least that was the feeling during Wednesday night’s premiere of The Runaways, the true story of the five teenage girls who spent the Seventies kicking their way down the Sunset Strip and into the boys’ club. On the red carpet at New York’s Landmark Sunshine theater, the E Street Band’s Steven Van Zandt called the Runaways “

Published: 2010-03-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Comment of the Week: Radiohead Fans Cautiously Lobby For Best Album Grammy

Photo: Getty With Grammys a little over two weeks away and Rolling Stone’s celebrity experts predicting a Lil Wayne victory for Best Album, Radiohead fans besieged our site to lobby for In Rainbows, but realistically acknowledged the band probably doesn’t have a chance. Sum it up, TeddyB: “Really don’t get me started on the grammys, which have been a joke for many years. I honestly don’t give a sh*t who wins. Radiohead is head and shoulders above anybody in all the categories they are nominated in, end of story. I have a feeling that the Plant/Krauss record (which is quite good in my opinion) will be the winner here. It definitely has that grammy voter feel. But so many good artists didn’t get nominated that it doesn’t really matter at the end of the day.” Can Radiohead pull off the impossible and upset Weezy, Coldplay and Page & Krauss? Can anybody stop the Brothers Jonas from being crowned the Best New Artist? Check out our Grammy Faceoff ‘09 and have your say.

Published: 2009-01-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Wilco Plan Spring ‘09 Release For More-Sculpted New Album

Wilco are eyeing a Spring 2009 release for their next album, Jeff Tweedy told an Albany, New York radio station. Whereas their last album Sky Blue Sky was recorded under almost jam-session circumstances, Tweedy says the band will “allow ourselves a little bit more leeway in terms of sculpting the sound in the studio and doing overdubs and using the studio as another instrument. Last time around, it was more of a document.” Wilco are already performing a pair of new songs live: “One Wing,” which is reportedly reminiscent of Sky Blue closer “On and On and On,” and the looser, riff-driven “Sunny Feeling.” While Tweedy said following the release of Sky Blue Sky that those studio sessions resulted in a number of unfinished songs, it’s unclear whether those tunes will be the basis for the band’s seventh album.

Published: 2008-08-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Metallica’s New Album: “Ridiculous,” “Sick,” “Bitchin’” Says Matt Sorum

Metallica are hard at work on their next album with producer Rick Rubin, and at least one person outside the band has heard the songs: Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum. We’ll let him take it from here: “Lars is a good friend of mine. He played me the demos from San Francisco, and I turned and looked at him and I said, ‘Master that shit and put it out.’ It’s ridiculous. The demos were sick. Eight-minute songs, all these tempo changes, crazy fast. It’s like, ‘Dude, don’t get slower when you get older, but don’t get faster!? How are you gonna play this live?’ And then me and Lars were out partying all night, and he had to go in the studio the next day and do this stupid like nine or ten minute song, and I was laughing at him — because he played me the demo of it, and it was [sings really fast drum part], so fast. I called him, and said, ‘Dude, how are you feeling?’ He was like, ‘Dude, I’m hurting.’ They’re cutting everything to tape, no fuckin’ Pro Tools — live, no clicks. Bitchin’. I dig it. I’m really excited for them.” Photo: AFP/Moilanen/Getty

Published: 2007-07-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

The Whigs Hit the Studio With Elliott Smith Producer

Athens, Georgia rock trio the Whigs recorded their first album, 2005’s Give ‘Em All a Big Fat Lip, on eBay-bought equipment in a borrowed frat house with no air-conditioning in 110-degree heat — and still managed to make Rolling Stone’s Ten Artists to Watch as an unsigned band. But we’re pleased to tell you that the hard-touring Whigs are in a fancy (and presumably climate-controlled) Los Angeles studio right now, recording their label debut with producer Rob Schnapf, best known for his work with Elliott Smith. And the Whigs — who signed with ATO Records last year — aren’t feeling too much pressure. “It’s not like, you know, when Pearl Jam released their second album,” says frontman Parker Gispert. “No one knows who we are, so it’s okay. And it’s the first time we get to really go record, so we’re pumped.” Like the Whigs’ previous work, the new album should mix garage-y rockers with slower, keyboard-driven tracks — but we’re guessing the whole thing will sound bigger this time. Check out some old songs on the Whigs’ MySpace page, or get a sneak peek at the upcoming album with this excerpt of their Bonnaroo performance of the new song “Right Hand on My Heart.” Photo: Rahav Segev / Retna

Published: 2007-07-25 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Kings of Leon, Lady Gaga Rule iTunes Top-Selling 2009 Charts

Photo: Nikolova/FilmMagic Kings of Leon were the kings of the 2009 iTunes charts as the Followill clan’s Only By the Night was both the top-selling album and the Editor’s Pick as Album of the Year on Apple’s digital music service. The band’s “Use Somebody” was also the 10th bestselling song of the year. On the top-selling songs chart, the Black Eyed Peas rode their historic reign atop the Hot 100 by locking up the year’s Number One most purchased single “Boom Boom Pow,” with “I Gotta Feeling” co

Published: 2009-12-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Chart Roundup, Rock News

Kiss Piss Scandal: Man Arrested For Urinating on Fan at Concert

Photo: AFP/Getty In what now seems to be an unfortunate trend at Boston rock concerts, a man was arrested at Kiss‘ TD Garden show on October 5th after urinating on the concertgoer standing in front of him. According to the BPDNews blotter, a woman was watching the Sonic Boom band in action when suddenly she experienced “a warm feeling on the back of her leg.” The victim turned around to see the source of the warmth, only to discover the man standing behind her was urinating. Security was called

Published: 2009-10-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

“The Beatles: Rock Band” - Read the Rolling Stone Review

When The Beatles: Rock Band really clicks — when you’re pounding out “Helter Skelter” hard enough to get blisters on your fingers; when you’re loping through the bass line of “Dear Prudence”; when it starts feeling like you are, in fact, the Walrus — the experience is almost eerie. It begins to seem like the Beatles didn’t write and record these songs so much as construct them — so sturdily that they translate with absurd ease to an interactive format that was four decades away. The Beatles’ mus

Published: 2009-09-08 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Coachella Day Three: Trailers, Beer and Gaydar

For this year’s Coachella, we’ve dispatched our very own indie rock star reporter, Ed Droste of Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear. April 29th 2:04pm: Having a trailer makes life much easier. I can leave things there, there is booze. We are right next to the Klaxons trailer and CSS which is nice since they are the bands I’ve been hanging out with the most. Lots of British bands with tude around today. Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks, The Feeling. Everyone has such outfits. As I said earlie

Published: 2007-04-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Coachella 2007

Coachella: Touchdown, Tacos, Weird Parties and GPS

For this year’s Coachella, we’ve dispatched our very own indie rock star reporter, Ed Droste of Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear. Below is his first of many reports. April 26th 4:46 p.m.: I’m stuck in the most hellish traffic ever. I’ve been informed we are passing through San Bernardino (supposedly the “Newark” of Southern California). I’m feeling satiated from our Baja Fresh stop, yet exhausted from the flight and now being stuck in endless, stand-still grid

Published: 2007-04-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Coachella 2007

Coachella: New York to Cali…The Hipster Exodus Begins

For this year’s Coachella, we’ve dispatched our very own indie rock star reporter, Ed Droste of Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear. Below is his first of many reports. THE AIRPORT 8:34 a.m.: I’m definitely feeling the effects of a few too many drinks from last night’s DNTEL record release party at Union Pool. I’m starving but will likely only get a bag of blue taro chips on our jet blue flight. Maybe I’ll watch HGTV and pass out in row 18A. I need to be ready for my s

Published: 2007-04-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Coachella 2007

Lunchtime Poll: Seeking Rock Guidance Counselors

Maybe it’s the fact that we live in such an accelerated culture in which bands are plucked from MySpace one month, on the cover of magazines the next, and therefore never find the time to figure out who they really are, but it seems like some new, promising artists are in need of some serious guidance. After listening to whatever new band’s new record and feeling kinda “uh” about the whole thing you decide it’s time to do something about these directionless new bre

Published: 2007-04-02 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Lunchtime Poll

Wilco Get Experimental On June Album: Update Plus Early Track List

Photo: Jeff Sciortino In Rolling Stone’s Spring Album Preview, Jeff Tweedy says Wilco’s country-tinged album, due in June, is their best yet. “We wanted to go in there with more of an eye for sculpting something sonically,” he says. The group also confirmed that the album’s closing track, “You and I,” will feature Canadian songstress Feist on vocals. Today Wilco took to their official Website to tell fans they’ve spent the past few weeks in Valencia, California, mixing the disc. The band adds, “Here’s a list of song titles spied on the reels — note this is not necessarily complete and not in sequence:” “Deeper Down” “Conscript (aka I’ll Fight)” “One Wing” “Solitaire” “Wilco (the song)” “Country Disappeared” “Everlasting” “Bull Black Nova” “Sonny Feeling” “You and I” You read that right. As of right now, there is a song called “Wilco (the song)” on the album. How “Bad Company” of them. As we reported in the Spring Album preview, the theme song of sorts contains the chorus “Wilco will love you.” The album’s experimentation is anchored once again by Tweedy’s sly, insightful and often heartbreaking lyrics. “Deeper Down” opens with “By the end of the bout, he was punched out, fists capsized, muscles shouting,” while “My Country Disappeared” explores America’s “crushed cities,” concluding “There’s nothing left here.” For much more on the upcoming Wilco album, and 45 more of the biggest releases on the way, check out our Spring Music Preview: • Spring Music Preview: Inside 45 of the Year’s Biggest Albums

Published: 2009-03-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Breaking: Lisa Hannigan

Who: Lisa Hannigan, an Irish folk singer who spent seven years backing Damien Rice before she was abruptly fired. Hannigan landed an opening slot on Jason Mraz’s tour last fall and launched her solo career. Sounds Like: Hannigan’s gentle, airy voice draws listeners into the quaint and cozy tunes on her debut disc, Sea Sew. “I Don’t Know” incorporates strings and horns into a charming anthem for hopeless romantics everywhere while “Pistachio” finds Hannigan comparing love to a nut over delicate piano (”I always trick you when you’re feeling low/When you feel like your flavor has gone the way of a pre-shelled pistachio”). Vital Stats: • Hannigan always knew she wanted to be a singer, but almost didn’t take the rock-star route. When she was 13, her mom brought home an opera compilation featuring renowned soprano Maria Callas singing “The Bell Song” from the French Opera Lakmé. “It was a crazy coloratura, a really technical song — and I could not stop listening to it,” Hannigan says. Inspired, she bought as many Callas recordings as she could. “I lost myself in it for about three years, then at the end of it realized that wasn’t my voice at all and I should really shut up,” she laughs. • Hannigan’s distinctively soft voice was almost her downfall. “I loved taking singing lessons each week in high school, but I never got the part in the school play because I was so quiet!” she says, but adds that once she graduated and added a microphone to her performance “things changed a lot.” • The small music community in Dublin helped Hannigan find her past and present bandmates: Hannigan met Damien Rice while she was in college, and her current band is made up of both musicians who used to tour with Rice, and others who Hannigan knew from around town. Hannigan’s roommate also doubles as her tour manager. “We do feel like a family on the road, like [The Sound of Music’s] von Trapps — only with less harmonies and lederhosen,” she jokes. Hear It Now: Sea Sew hit stores last mon

Published: 2009-03-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Videos, Breaking

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

My Coachella: The Black Lips

The Black Lips faced some heavy competition for attention on Coachella’s opening night, with Jack Johnson on the Main Stage and Fatboy Slim in a nearby dance tent, but the garage band wasn’t worried. “You either want to dance, you want to chill, or you want to rock,” says guitarist Cole Alexander, whose band is known for wild eruptions of noise, nudity and the sharing of fluids. “I think people are going to want to rock.” Guitarist Ian Saint Pe adds: “If you want to see someone make love to their guitar like Jack Johnson, or if you want to see someone beat the shit out of their guitars like us, you have your choice. We’re in America. It’s a free country.” Rock Daily sought more answers. Coolest thing about your own set: Alexander: “We have fun. I don’t know that we’re the best musicians, but it will be the most entertaining.” Saint Pe: “We’ll actually luck out because [fans] will be all be drunk and tired, so it will sound good no matter what.” Best part of playing in a desert tent: Alexander: It’s kind of like a rodeo or a tee-pee. Best Coachella drug (or cocktail): Alexander: “I like Robitussin.” Drummer Joe Bradley: “I’ll have a scotch and soda, the old man drink. It’s a good one.” Saint Pe: “Vicodin and beer.” Singer-bassist Jared Swilley: “I like Moroccan hash, but it’s hard to get in the states.” Best backstage perk: Bradley: “We’re going to be networking – a.k.a. meeting girls.” Saint Pe: “We just saw Steven Tyler. He walked right by our trailer.” Bradley: “He was eating somethin’ and it sounded like someone was clappin from his lips.” Saint Pe: “You just look around and tell me there’s no God. We have to find a new dream now, because we’re living ours. All we ever wanted was to travel and play music and make a living at it. Life’s feeling alright. The next step is finding a new dream. Best Prince stories: Alexander: “There is a movie Purple Rain that my mom took me to when I was just a baby. And she breast-fed me during

Published: 2008-04-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Coachella