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News Ticker: “American Idol,” Jesus and Mary Chain, Franz Ferdinand

Think you’re the next David Cook or William Hung? American Idol season eight auditions begin July 17th in San Francisco. Louisville, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Kansas City, East Rutherford, NJ and San Juan, Puerto Rico are the other audition sites. The Jesus and Mary Chain will drop a 4-CD rarities and b-sides box set entitled The Power of Negative Thinking on September 30th. Franz Ferdinand will reportedly release their third album in January 2009. A new, non-album song will precede the album and appear on the Madden 09 video game in August. Former New Order bassist Peter Hook and his new project Freebass, featuring Stone Roses’ Mani and the Smiths’ Andy Rourke, will release their debut album in March 2009. Billy Corgan and Liam Gallagher both contribute vocals.

Publicado: 2008-06-27 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Lunchtime Poll: Who Should Sing With The Mary Chain Next?

This whole Jesus and Mary Chain reuniting thing is going even better than expected. Not only is the band reportedly not sucking live at all, but they’ve recruited both Giant Drag’s potty-mouthed punk rock Lolita Annie Hardy and aspiring crooner Scarlett Johansson to sing “Just Like Honey” with them. (Hardy joined the band during a pre-Coachella warmup gig, while Johansson performed with the Reid brothers at Coachella). You are with the Reid brothers tonight. They’r

Publicado: 2007-04-30 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Lunchtime Poll

New Reviews: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wavves, Peter Doherty and More

Photo: Josh Wildman It’s Tuesday once again, which means there’s a whole slate of new CDs on sale now at your soon-to-be-closing record stores or favorite digital outlet. Before you brave the St. Patrick’s Day-celebrating masses on the way to the store, let Rolling Stone be your guide to the best of this week’s new releases. Indie rock (or, in this case, sorta indie rock) is the place to be this week, mostly because of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ third album It’s Blitz. Awarded four stars in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, which hits newsstands tomorrow, It’s Blitz finds the YYYs throwing an art-punk dance party. “The turn toward the dance floor makes sense: Yeah Yeah Yeahs are drawing on a tradition of arty New York dance punk that extends from the Talking Heads to TV on the Radio, whose guitarist, Dave Sitek, co–produced It’s Blitz! The big news, though, isn’t YYY’s groovier sound — it’s the heat they radiate,” Jody Rosen writes in his review. Out of San Diego, California, we have Wavves’ Wavvves, the second LP by one-man surf-punk auteur Nathan Williams. (Be sure not to mistake Wavvves for the one-less-”v” of Wavves, the band’s debut album.) A cacophony of Brian Wilson melodies and Jesus & Mary Chain distortion, Wavvves is bad–trip music for cloudless days: surging distortion, sun–dazed hooks and a dark sense of humor,” Will Hermes writes in his three-star review. “The battle between noise and melody veers from scary to hilarious to heroic, and as a metaphor for trying to feel good in trying times, it may hit you close to home.” There’s also Grace/Wasteland, the first solo album by former Libertines/Babyshambles trainwreck Pete Doherty (now going by the first name Peter), with the oft-troubled guitarist managing to “make his dysfunction sing” on his debut LP. The album also features “Sheepskin Tearaway,” “a sketch of a chemical romance and one of Doherty’s prettiest songs ever.” For the rest of this week’s New Releases, check below: • MSTRKRFT’s Fist of God • Maria

Publicado: 2009-03-17 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Long Live The Peach Pit: The TV Soundtrack Examined [Ship Directly To Cut-Out Bin]

First: Why does there need to be a soundtrack to the show Heroes? Second: Why does it need to be the venue for the first new Jesus and Mary Chain song in nearly a decade? (Fast forward to the...

Publicado: 2008-03-05 Proveedor: Idolator Etiquetas: dan gibson,Heroes,Ship Directly To Cut-Out Bin,Soundtracks

New Jesus and Mary Chain Album and Tour Confirmed

In the wake of their totally unexpected reunion tour, the iconic noiseniks Jesus & Mary Chain have announced they will be making a new album. This will be the first release since 1998's