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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

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

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

Green Day Cut Secret New Album

Fans waiting for a new Green Day record are about to get one. Sort of: The Bay Area punks have just revealed that the rowdy garage-rock band called Foxboro Hot Tubs — who posted six tunes online in December — is in fact the rock superstars working under a pseudonym. And just as two of the new tracks are gaining traction on rock radio, Green Day have announced that the Foxboro Hot Tubs’ full-length album, Stop Drop and Roll, will be out “any day.” Billie Joe Armstrong and Co. say they consider the FHT album, recorded with perennial Green Day sidemen Jason White and Jason Freese, to be “the next Green Day record.” “We record live to an eight-track reel-to-reel machine,” they say in an e-mail to Rolling Stone. “We write songs as we go, on the fly, fast and spontaneous.” From the design of the Foxboro Hot Tubs’ Website — which includes Sixties clips of girls dancing the Swim and the Jerk — to the style of music, Green Day are riffing on the aesthetic of classic garage bands like the Animals and the Kinks on this project. Specifically, their inspirations were “red wine and the Troggs,” they say. The upbeat FHT tunes are presumably very different from the material the trio have been working on for the follow-up to their ambitious megahit, American Idiot, which sources expect out this year. “I want to dig into who I am and what I’m feeling at this moment — which is middle-aged,” Armstrong told Rolling Stone late last year. “We’ve been doing this for almost twenty years.” The project gives Green Day a chance to blow off steam before forging ahead with their next official album. “This is them having fun,” says a source close to the band. And it’s not the first time they’ve used a pseudonym: In 2003, while working on American Idiot, Green Day released a spiky New Wave LP as the Network. Of course, fans did

Published: 2008-04-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

In the Studio: Of Montreal

For Of Montreal’s previous disc, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Kevin Barnes wrote freaked-out synth-pop tunes that explored the depression he felt when he became a father and moved to his wife’s native Norway. “When I think about it now, I really wasn’t prepared for adult reality,” he says. He’s since moved back to Athens, Georgia, to cut the band’s ninth record (Barnes records by himself, assembling a group to tour), but he’s not feeling much better. “Every day, I wake up, I never know if I’m going to want to slit my wrists or go jogging,” he says. “It affects the music.” “Softcore” is a falsetto-voiced funk jam, “Paradigm Kisses” devolves into a dark explosion of guitar noise and “Our Last Summer as Independents” is a love song he wrote for his wife, Nina. But the weirdest cut might be “Plastis Wafer,” about an incestuous brother and sister. “I always joke how each album is a parallel to a Prince record,” he says. “This one is my Sign ‘o’ the Times, Lovesexy and The Black Album all together.” Related Stories: • Of Montreal Album Review: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? • Of Montreal video for “Grolandic Edit” • Of Montreal’s Artist Page on RollingStone.com [Photo: Jim Newberry]

Published: 2008-03-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, In the Studio

Foo Fighters Offer Pre-Sale Tickets With Digital Purchase, Daft Punk Reveal Live-Album Details, Ronnie Wood Says He Broke Up Pete Doherty and Kate Moss

The Foo Fighters are offering fans who (legally) download their new album Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace before the release date a chance to get concert tickets before the on-sale date. Dave Grohl’s gang has linked up with iTunes for the promotion, which will also include the immediate download of the band’s new single “The Pretender” and a bonus track called “Seda.” Those who preorder the album via Apple’s digital service will be given a password for Ticketmaster.com that would allow them to scoop up Foo tickets before the general public. Daft Punk, fresh off playing the concert of the summer, have revealed the details of their live album Daft Punk Alive 2007, out November 20th. The set will include twenty-seven songs from their hit-filled Paris concerts this summer. A bonus second disc will include five additional songs from the encore. Trying to ward off the worldwide compact-disc struggle, HMV Canada will lower the prices on CDs by 33 percent. The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood admitted that it was he — and not drugs, endless arrests or constant bickering — that was the catalyst for Kate Moss breaking up with Pete Doherty. Says Wood on advising Moss, “Someone had to do it.” MySpace, feeling the pressure from their boss Rupert Murdoch and their competitor Facebook, might finally allow musicians to sell their tunes directly on their music page.

Published: 2007-08-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Magic’: Exclusive Details on New E Street Band Album

On October 2nd Bruce Springsteen will release Magic, his first album with the E Street Band since 2002’s The Rising. “We’ve been together since 1974 and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him more excited than he is right now about this record,” says Jon Landau, Springsteen’s manager. The album was cut over two months at Southern Tracks studios in Atlanta with producer Brendan O’Brien, who previously worked with Springsteen on 2005’s Devils & Dust and The Rising. The E Street Band mostly flew down on weekends to record, while Springsteen and O’Brien spent weekdays cutting vocals and recording overdubs. “This album is E Street Band heavy,” Landau says. “Clarence [Clemons] has some great moments on it. You could say that it’s a little more sonically guitar-driven than any past Bruce album. There are a few sort of pop, romantic touches that haven’t shown up recently, but were very prominent on the very early records.” The lead single will be “Radio Nowhere,” a track Landau says “has a real anthemic quality to it. If it doesn’t get you out of your seat, I don’t know what will.” Landau is particularly excited about “The Long Walk Home,” which was performed live (click here to listen to an audience recording) on one occasion on the Seeger Sessions tour late last year. “It’s sort of the summational song of the album,” Landau says. “I think it’s one of Bruce’s great masterpieces.” Another track, “Girls in Their Summer Clothes,” Landau says has a “little bit of a Pet Sounds-type feeling mixed in with the sound of the E Street Band.” The final track, “Devil’s Arcade,” is described as one of the only songs on the album that delves into politics. “He gets some images across that are very powerful and will certainly give you a feeling of where he’s coming from, but on balance [politics] is not the primary intention of this record.” A world tour with the E Street Band is reportedly going to kick off in early October, but Landau remains tight-lipped on the detail

Published: 2007-08-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

The Eagles, Kenny Chesney Lead Country Music Award Nominations

Photo: Getty The Eagles, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and former Idols Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler were among those nominated for Country Music Association Awards today. Kenny Chesney led all finalists with seven noms, while Sugarland and George Strait each earned five nominations. The Eagles made the shortlist in the Vocal Group category, marking the first time since 1977 that the band picked up a CMA nomination in that category (they lost to the Statler Brothers). Alison Krauss has already won six CMA awards, but her Raising Sand cohort Robert Plant received his first nomination, as the duo was nominated for Musical Event. Krauss, Underwood and Taylor Swift will face off in the heated Female Vocalist category, while Pickler is up for the New Artist award. Related Stories: • The Eagles: Peaceful, Uneasy Feeling • On The Road With Robert Plant and Alison Krauss • Carrie Underwood Joins The Grand Ole Opry

Published: 2008-09-10 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News