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News Ticker: Phish, Ray Davies, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Janet JacksonPhoto: Flanigan/FilmMagic Late Night With Jimmy Fallon’s salute to the Rolling Stones’ reissued Exile on Main Street will feature a song by Phish, their first network TV performance since their reunion, Billboard reports (they performed at the Rock Hall induction on Fuse as well). Phish performed Exile in its entirety on Halloween at Festival 8, which will hit theaters as the live doc Phish 3D starting April 20th. The Kinks’ Ray Davies has joined the lineup for the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival.
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Published: 2010-03-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Morning News Roundup, Rock News
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Rewind: The Week in Rock DailyPhoto: Getty The Rolling Stones stunned us with news they’ll include 10 never-before-heard tracks on their May 18th Exile on Main Street reissue. Says Keith Richards, “They still had that great basement sound.” INXS revealed they’ve recruited the Killers’ Brandon Flowers and Ben Harper to help reinterpret their songs for a new disc. Ironically, Ray Davies also asked Flowers, along with Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, to contribute to his new Kinks covers project. Slash told us Velvet Revol
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Published: 2010-02-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rewind
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Ray Davies Nabs Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Killers to Redo Kinks CutsPhoto: Kane/WireImage Ray Davies has recruited Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, the Killers and Lucinda Williams to help him re-record classic Kinks tracks for a new album due out late 2010, NJ.com reports (via Twenty Four Bit). The genesis of the project dates back to last year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts at Madison Square Garden, where Davies shared the stage with Metallica, who rocked out the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me” and “All Day and All of the Night.” (NJ.com hints that Metallica
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Published: 2010-02-24 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, The Kinks
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Readers’ Rock List: Best Sibling BandsLast week, in honor of the Jonas Brothers on the cover of the current issue, Rock Daily asked the readers for their favorite bands that include siblings. The Kinks ended up as the top vote getters, which should smooth things over between brothers Ray and Dave Davies. Other popular choices included Van Halen (brothers Alex and Eddie), Heart (Nancy and Ann Wilson) and Radiohead (Jonny and Colin Greenwood). Click below for the gallery of the winners. • Readers’ Rock List Gallery: Best Sibling Bands [Photo: Ivan Keeman/Redferns/Retna]
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Published: 2008-07-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Rock Lists
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Kinks’ Ray Davies Pens New Musical “Come Dancing” The Kinks’ Ray Davies has reportedly written a new musical based on one of the band’s biggest hits, “Come Dancing.” Davies wrote roughly 20 new songs for Come Dancing, which is set in a 1950s London dance hall. The only Kinks song to make the show is the title track. The new musical will start its six-week run at London’s Theatre Royal Stratford East on September 13th. Rumor has it that Davies himself will serve as narrator during that initial run. Davies joins the ranks of a bunch of other artists who have stage shows in the works. U2’s Bono and the Edge are currently at work on a Spider-man musical, and Fela!, a musical based on the life of Afrobeat innovator and political prisoner Fela Kuti, is set to debut Off-Broadway in September.
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Published: 2008-07-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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News Ticker: Yoko Ono, Foxy Brown, Miley Cyrus, The Strokes Yoko Ono is fighting in court to prevent a film of John Lennon smoking pot and talking about putting LSD in President Richard Nixon’s tea from being shown publicly. The footage was shot in 1970 — just weeks before the Beatles split up — by Ono’s previous husband Anthony Cox. Less than a week after being released from prison, Foxy Brown was back in court yesterday for a status hearing regarding her assault case from a 2007 incident at a Florida beauty salon. Brown attempted to plea deal without her attorney, which made her attorney resign, delaying the case for two more weeks. Fifteen-year-old Disney sensation Miley Cyrus will write about her ascension to stardom in a memoir that is set to published next spring. The Strokes are planning to start work on the follow-up to 2006’s First Impressions of Earth, bassist Nikolai Fraiture posted on the band’s website. “I’d like to say that I’m still looking very forward to a fourth album release. We just need to work out a few technical kinks,” Fraiture said. [Photo: Getty]
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Published: 2008-04-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Readers’ Rock List: Best “Green” Songs Last week, in honor of tomorrow’s Earth Day and yesterday’s “Sit on the couch and watch The Big Lebowski repeatedly” Day, we asked our readers to pick their favorite Earth-friendly/colorful/wake n’ bake songs. With bloodshot eyes we tallied the picks, and the double entendre that is Black Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” was deemed the Best “Green” Song. Without further ado, here’s our Readers’ Top Ten picks. Why only ten? We’re trying to decrease our carbon footprint. 1. Black Sabbath – “Sweet Leaf” 2. Booker T. and the MG’s – “Green Onions” 3. Gorillaz – “O Green World” 4. Weezer – “Hash Pipe” 5. Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Green River” 6. Coldplay – “Green Eyes” 7. The Kinks – “The Village Green Preservation Society” 8. Sublime – “Smoke Two Joints” 9. Joni Mitchell – “Big Yellow Taxi” 10. Elvis Costello – “Green Shirt” [Photo: Retna]
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Published: 2008-04-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists
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Rock List: Readers’ Best Drinking Songs To honor St. Patrick’s Day, we asked our readers to tell us their favorite drankin’ tunes. We went through the picks and came up with the top ten, because $3 will buy you ten songs on any respectable jukebox. Without further pregaming, here are your picks for the Best Drinking Songs: 1. Tom Petty – “Free Fallin’” 2. Guns N Roses – “Paradise City” 3. Billy Joel – “Piano Man” 4. Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Sweet Home Alabama” 5. Beastie Boys – “Fight For Your Right” 6. The Kinks – “Lola” 7. Elton John – “Tiny Dancer” 8. Journey – “Don’t Stop Believin’” 9. Bon Jovi – “Livin’ On a Prayer” 10. Jerry Lee Lewis – “What Made Milwaukee Famous”
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Published: 2008-03-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists, Rock Daily
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Wes Anderson’s ‘The Darjeeling Limited’: First Look at the Film’s Soundtrack Last night Rock Daily got a first look at the latest film from Rushmore director Wes Anderson, The Darjeeling Limited, which follows three brothers — Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody — on a spiritual train journey across India following their father’s death. Since his first feature was released more than ten years ago, Anderson has become known for his soundtracks, which have featured psych-rock, British invasion hits and bossa nova renditions of David Bowie songs. When the Darjeeling trailer hit the Web last month, fans noted the Kinks’ “This Time Tomorrow” and “Strangers,” which both appear in the film, as does “Powerman.” The Peter Starstedt tune “Where Do You Go To My Lovely” is a recurring theme, but the most stunning use of music comes near the movie’s conclusion, where a particularly poignant slow camera pan is accompanied by the Rolling Stones’ “Play With Fire.” The movie also features classical tracks like Debussy’s “Clair de Lune,” but overall, the soundtrack made less of an impact on us than the tunes from The Royal Tenenbaums did.
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Published: 2007-08-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News
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David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust Turns 35, Beck Hits the Studio, Ray Davies Loses His Day in Court Everyone’s going milestone crazy. Rolling Stone is honoring Appetite for Destruction’s 20th birthday, the Sex Pistols are getting ready for Never Mind the Bollocks to hit the three-decade mark, and everyone can celebrate the 35th anniversary of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust by voting in the new album cover contest on his Web site. Our favorite: number thirty-nine’s post-modern take on the iconic Bowie image. Comedian Zack Galifianakis reminisces about that time he and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy went down to the farm and lip-synched to Kanye West. The man who shot the Kinks’ Ray Davies in New Orleans in 2004 has had the charges against him dropped due to Davies’ failure to make it to court (Davies says the district attorney didn’t notify him in time). Beck and Jamie Lidell are sharing studio time while recording on a direct-to-disc device. To honor Gene Simmons’ birthday, the minor league baseball team Brockton Rox will pay homage to his band Kiss on August 25. The team will don Kiss-inspired uniforms and, if we’re lucky, the starting pitcher will paint his face like Ace Frehley.
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Published: 2007-07-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup
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Weekend Rock List: Color Songs This weekend’s rock list pays homage to one of music’s most celebrated subjects: Roy G. Biv. Let us know which song with a color in its title you prefer, and on Monday we’ll tally the votes to a form a rainbow we’ll call “‘Rock List: Readers’ Best Color Songs.” Before you go consorting the Crayola box, here are our preliminary picks: Prince – “Purple Rain” Weezer – “Pink Triangle” The Velvet Underground – “White Light, White Heat” The Kinks – “The Village Green Preservation Society” New Order – “Blue Monday”
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Published: 2008-02-29 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists
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New Music Report: Ray Davies, The Mountain Goats In this week’s New Music Report, Rolling Stone’s Christian Hoard points his critical ears at Kinks legend Ray Davies’ Working Man’s Cafe and the Mountain Goats’ lovely, quirky new offering Heretic Pride. Plus: Read Christian Hoard’s review of Working Man’s Cafe here. >>Watch every episode of our weekly New Music Report video podcast by subscribing via iTunes (when prompted, click “Launch application”). Every Tuesday, a new episode will be delivered to your iTunes. [If you don’t have iTunes, download it here. [Video: Jennifer Hsu]
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Published: 2008-02-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Videos, New Music Report, Podcasts
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Blogging “American Idol”: Mrs. Scarnato, You’ve Got A Lovely DaughterIt could have been a recipe for disaster: The eleven remaining American Idol contestants covering songs from British Invasion bands including Gerry & The Pacemakers, the Kinks and the Zombies, all under the expert guidance of Herman’s Hermits singer Peter Noone and Invasion-era singer Lulu. Miraculously, the kids put on their game faces for last night’s episode, and achieved their most favorable ratio of competent-to-crappy so far this season. For instance, the heretofore milque
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Published: 2007-03-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: American Idol
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Single Minded: Britney Spears Remix, Wilco Cover Neutral Milk Hotel and MorePhoto: Bedder/Getty Britney Spears, “Circus” [Diplo Remix] We’ve been hard on Diplo lately (but not as hard as, say, Diplo has been on Nirvana), so to make amends: his Morse Code redo of Britney’s ode to Ringling Bros. is smooth, sinister and sublime. Wilco, “King of Carrot Flowers” [Neutral Milk Hotel Cover] If indie rock had been invented in the deep South by people who wore overalls all the time, this is what it would sound like. Even Wilco, who haven’t been “country” in decades now, pull off a pretty respectable bluegrass burn. It doesn’t hurt that they have as their source material one of the greatest songs ever written. Lady Rizo & “Moby,” “Whatever You Like” [T.I. Cover] Lady Rizo and half of Kiki & Herb (we’re pretty sure, anyway) bring out the Broadway in this T.I. chart-topper, making the lyrics “late night sex, so wet, so tight” seem like they’d sound natural coming from a guy with half a porcelain mask on his face. Franz Ferdinand, “No You Girls” [Christian Vorbeau Remix] We sort of wish we were named Christian Vorbeau. It’s a ridiculously badass name. And then you could turn out thumping big-beat remixes of rock songs, like this one. Ema & the Ghosts, “Victoria” [Kinks Cover] We don’t know anything about Ema & the Ghosts, and the post that accompanies this song was written in another language which, when run through the always-reliable Babelfish, comes up like this: “Ema & the Ghosts are a supreme hot dog, full of slippery and sleep. Onetime math equation of Ray Davies is cake icing, done with a downtown 7 train and the color of laughing.” So, all that.
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Published: 2009-01-23 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Single Minded
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Ray Davies Dials Up Showmanship, Kinks Tunes at San Fran Solo Gig Former Kinks frontman Ray Davies took the stage of San Francisco’s soon-to-close Warfield Theatre Friday night with an aquamarine Fender guitar and launched into his self-descriptive “I’m Not Like Everybody Else.” This obscure 1966 B-side suggested that the first of his handful of rare solo shows would neither be focused solely on promoting the preeminent English songwriter’s new album Working Man’s Cafe nor dominated by the Kinks’ most familiar hits. Yet the crowd sang the chorus loudly without much prompting, a sure signal that this audience was comprised of serious Davies/Kinks fans, and that their hero knew just how to reach them. Nearly every Kinks tune from Davies’ two sets — popular or otherwise — was met with a sing-along response that the unrepentant ham onstage was eager to encourage. “Where Have All the Good Times Gone,” “A Well Respected Man” and “Days” were all treated to arrangements that would prematurely stop and then build back up again in order to give the crowd a chance to clearly hear itself and feel the power of its collective voice. Throughout the evening, Davies gesticulated with a vaudevillian broadness that underlines his aesthetic debt to British music hall traditions. During the intro to “The Tourist,” he left the stage to return in a Union Jack sport coat, and when the song finished, he pointedly turned the jacket inside out to reveal an American flag. His four-piece band remained well within its supporting role, leaving the spotlight where it should: on the showman and his keenly observed songs. Whereas the first set wove songs from Davies’ 2006 solo album Other People’s Lives between Kinks cult classics, the second featured a largely acoustic five-song serving from Working Man’s Cafe before climaxing with expected crowd-pleasers like “Sunny Afternoon,” “Lola” and “You Really Got Me.” Although Davie
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Published: 2008-03-31 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows
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SXSW Day One Wrap-Up: The Kills, Peter Moren and Kaki King Follow all of RollingStone.com’s ongoing SXSW coverage here. The opening day of the annual South by Southwest festival is in the books, and while fans, journalists and industry people were still busy arriving and staking out the best spots for margaritas, there were still plenty of parties and showcases to whet the musical appetite. Here are a few highlights from the opening round of what will be a long and fruitful festival. • Kill the Daylight: The line for the Levi’s/Fader house snaked around the block in the moments before the Kills took the stage on Wednesday afternoon. They opened their set with “U R A Fever,” the first single from their new album, Midnight Boom, and picked up steam — and crowd enthusiasm — over the next couple tunes. Oddly, the room was nowhere near as crowded as I expected given the size of the line. Hopefully the Levi’s/Fader folks, who consistently throw one of SXSW’s best daytime parties, will have the kinks worked out by today. • Friends With “P”: Peter Morén of Peter Bjorn and John played a solo gig at the Parish last night, as part of the Almost Gold showcase. I suspect that people eyeballing the festival guide didn’t recognize Morén’s name from his popular indie rock group, because it was a fairly low-key crowd. Morén, meanwhile, seemed slightly uncomfortable onstage without Bjorn and John, but only in between songs when his monologues rambled on and on. The performance itself, however, was lovely in just the way you’d hope: Apparently, Morén decided to do a solo project after having too much extra PB&J material, and the sparsely orchestrated tunes he played last night sounded like they could have easily fit in on Writer’s Block. He definitely needs to work on editing his own banter, though. • King of the Night: Kaki King slayed the crowd at Club DeVille just before midnight. Playing with her full band, the
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Published: 2008-03-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, SXSW
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