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Aggregated Assault: What The Music Blogs Are Posting Right Now- The Magic Numbers' picture 7-inch that is decorated with--wait for it--a picture of a 7-inch: Stupid, really stupid, or absolutely enraging? [Popjustice]
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Published: 2007-03-23
Provider: Idolator
Keywords: aggregated assault
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On the Charts: Carrie Underwood Rules Debuts, “American Idol” Kingdom The Big News: Carrie Underwood continued her quest to become the most successful American Idol ever, as her new album Carnival Ride cruised to the top of the Billboard charts with 527,101 copies sold in its debut week. By comparison, Kelly Clarkson, Underwood’s closest AI competitor, sold 291,000 copies when My December debuted in June. Underwood dominated her fresh competition, selling 400,000-plus more copies than the number two, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand. Country’s Gary Allan took the third spot, while System of a Down’s Serj Tankian’s first solo album Elect the Dead scored fourth with 65,998 copies. Debuts: Prog-revivalists Coheed & Cambria’s No World For Tomorrow entered the chart at number six with 61,849 units shifted while Neil Young’s Chrome Dreams II grabbed the eleven hole and Say Anything’s double-disc In Defense Of the Genre debuted at twenty-seven with 24,750. Further down the chart, Ryan Adams’ new EP Follow The Lights came in at forty, while Ween’s La Cucharacha came in at a fitting (for the band in question) sixty-nine. RS Breaking Artist Hurricane Chris hit the chart at twenty-four. Last Week’s Heroes: Defending champion Bruce Springsteen’s Magic tumbled on down to twelve, thanks to a thirty-four percent sales drop. Last week’s runner-up, Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus, stayed in the top ten by grasping on to seven. The remainder of the chart, sans debuts, stayed relatively the same, but we expect changes by this time next week, when Britney Spears’ Blackout and the new Backstreet Boys album should factor into the equation.
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Published: 2007-11-01
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Chart Roundup
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Smoking Section: Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews, The Killers, Ben Harper and More Happy sixty-sixth birthday, Bob! That was the idea behind Smoking Section Presents: Rolling Thunder Reborn, a gig we put on at a club in Manhattan’s Alphabet City, featuring a who’s-who of young New York musicians obsessed with Bobby D. Check out highlights on the RS Web site. The S.S. must admit — with corroboration from actor Mickey Rourke, who was also in the house — that we killed it! That said, if you ever want to be humbled by a team of musicians, go see Steely Dan. That’s what we did, catching SD at their two-night blowout at New York’s Beacon Theatre. Backstage, we caught up with our heroes Donald Fagen — the high-tech, bonus-packed box set of his trilogy of solo albums is out in July — and Walter Becker, who’s nearly done with solo album number two. SD will play at least five gigs at the Beacon this year, just a few shows less than the Allman Brothers played there in March. “Eventually we want to have a monthlong battle of the bands with the Allmans,” says Becker. “It’ll be epic, and the loser will be sent back to Swampfuck, Georgia.” Based on the Dan gigs, our money’s on Steely. “Wait, now the Allman Brothers are gonna beat the shit out of us,” says Becker. “When you write this, substitute Toto for the Allmans.” Done! * * * * We are happy to announce that two of our pals — Dave Matthews and Killers frontman Brandom Flowers — are expecting babies (separately)! “It’s a boy,” says Flowers, whose wife is eight months pregnant. “I’m so excited.” Matthews will welcome child number three, sex currently unknown. “We’ll keep the magic of our eyes being the witness,” says Matthews, already a pop to twin girls. How far along is Dave’s wife? “As my wife says,” he tells the S.S., “it’s cooked.” Yesss! * * * * We really dug Ben Harper’s 2006 double di
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Published: 2007-06-02
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Smoking Section
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Talking With The Beatles’ Ringo StarrFor our fortieth anniversary, the editors of Rolling Stone have interviewed twenty artists and leaders who helped shape our time. We’ve been debuting exclusive audio clips from the Q&As, giving you unparalleled access to some of the most important personalities in history. Today we present Fab Four drummer and “Octopus’s Garden” inhabiter Ringo Starr. Starr’s imprint on rock & roll history is unmistakable: As the drummer of The Beatles, he supposedly inspired more people to become drummers than anyone else in history, he captained the Yellow Submarine, and he was the catalyst for millions of Pete Best punchlines. Sitting down with Anthony DeCurtis for our fortieth anniversary issue, Starr talks about his dabbles with drugs, his favorite new music and dealing with the loss of fellow Beatles John and George. Listen to six excerpts from that interview, and for the entire Ringo profile, get your copy of our fortieth anniversary issue, on stands now. Ringo is convinced Kurt Cobain was a hippie: “Kurt Cobain was really powerful. He had great songs that were about the time he lived in. And that attitude…. Though he was this kid, this angry motherfucker, I never felt that. I always felt that inside he was a really loving guy.” Starr talks about some of the new bands that he loves: “Last year, the Magic Numbers were my band. I love them. Amy Winehouse has a really cool sound. There’s a lot of people out there, but most of them only get a chance to make one CD….” Ringo jokes about the last time he saw The Rolling Stones live: “Mick got us the tickets, and we had great seats, but we were watching the screens the whole time. I thought, ‘Well, I can watch this on TV.’ So I haven’t been to a stadium show since….” And the last time he saw Bob Dylan live: “Some days, he gives you very clear Bob, and some days he gives a Bob that doesn’t want you to understand what he’s saying….” Ringo discusses the
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Published: 2007-05-08
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Audio Interviews, 40th Anniversary
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by: Mickey M. Wright Jr. In this day and time if you rely on a major record label to do your ground work for you then you're probably the same type of person that would stay living in his or her mama's house well into adulthood. So its finally time to head to MIA to get Asia Cruise in the studio with Danja and T-Pain. After that I'll just be waiting for the magic to happen. Still pushing her first single “Selfish” from her debut album Who Is Asia Cruise? which is presented by HiTz Committee! This album is going to be so unexpected from a predominantly rap label like mine but, I like to consider myself a music man and Asia Cruise is as talented as they come so please be ready for some- thing NEW when you pick this album up!!! Whenever I go to Miami, I can't help but want to RELAX, so that makes me believe that if you're from or live in Miami, and are doing big things, then you’re a real deal HUSTLER about yours, because how can anyone think about work when you live in a place that looks and feels like this? As for me, I definitely have to go into another level of concentration and focus when I touch down in MIA. If I didn't I'd probably think I was on vacation. The music business has definitely taught me some vital lessons on staying relevant in this tough and competitive industry and the one I want to pass onto any listening ears is: simply believe in what you believe in. Everyone has opinions like they got nostrils ya dig. Everyone wants to tell you that maybe you shouldn't believe in something so hard if they don't, but I couldn't possibly explain to you the satisfaction you get from proving them wrong. So as my big brother Diddy would say "Watch out for the BITCHASSNESS," because that mess is all around you all the time. Congratulations to Rick Ross on his number one album last week. His album Trill is the shiznit!! His song “Maybach Music” with Jigga definitely inspires me to go harder or go home, and it also let me know that we (the south
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Published: 2008-04-04
Provider: VIBE
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Google Street View Magic! Introducing The Sixty-Second Rock and Roll Tour Across AmericaLike much of the nation, we can’t get enough of Google Map’s awesome new Street View feature – in fact, we look forward to never actually leaving the house again. Now, Rolling Stone has harnessed this new technology to deliver you some of our favorite rock landmarks, available in seconds. We hope this saves you from a long, sweaty pilgrimage to Graceland with that buddy you’ll lose touch with in five years. Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique, Ludlow and Rivington Streets, New York, NY The cover of the Beastie Boys 1989 masterpiece Paul’s Boutique folds out to a near 360 view of the intersection of Ludlow and Rivington Street in New York’s East Village. The Paul’s Boutique was airbrushed in later, but a restaurant named Paul’s Boutique is currently in that building. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Building, 94/96 St. Mark’s Place, New York, NY These two buildings that grace the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 double LP Physical Graffiti have changed little in the intervening twenty-seven years. It does, however, now house a clothing store called Physical Graffiti. Mick Jagger sits on one of the building’s stoops in the Rolling Stones video for “Waiting On A Friend.” Grateful Dead House, 710 Ashbury, San Francisco, CA (on the left) The Dead lived and wrote music in this communal home from 1966 until 1968. On October 2, 1967 eight narcotics officers broke the door down and arrested Pig Pen and Bob Weir on drug charges. “That’s what ya’ get for dealing the killer weed,” one of the officers told the group. The Dead moved out the following year. The house was in bad shape for a number of years, but the current owners have restored it to its former glory, according to Bob Weir. Site of Tupac Shakur Murder, Intersection of Koval Lane and East Flamingo, Las Vegas, NV On September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight were on their way from a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand to Club 662 when
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Published: 2007-06-05
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: General
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Bruce Springsteen Parties Like It’s 1978 During Stellar Long Island Show When Bruce Springsteen came onstage in Hartford last month and opened his 2008 tour with the Born To Run-era outtake “So Young and In Love” it was clear this leg of the Magic tour was going to be different. Since then he’s resurrected “Loose Ends,” “Janey Don’t Lose Your Heart,” “The Detroit Medley” and, thanks to a little girl with a sign in Rochester, “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight).” Last night at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum, Springsteen didn’t debut any new songs or dust off any gems, but he did put on a thrilling two and a half hour show that included stellar versions of “Adam Raised A Cain,” “Incident on 57th Street” and a roof-raising “Jungleland.” With most of the band pushing sixty — and in the case of a certain Big Man, well past it — the cross stage knee-slides and mic-stand acrobatics are a thing of the past. What remains is a level of endurance and a commitment to his craft that remains virtually unchanged since the beginning of his career. It’s hard to imagine how many times he’s sung “The Promised Land,” but it must be hovering somewhere near a thousand (I’m sure a commenter will have an exact number and call me an idiot). He still delivers it with the same passion he did in 1978 — particularly the lines “Blow away the dreams that tear you apart/Blow away the dreams that break your heart/Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and broken hearted.” Missing this leg of the tour is Springsteen’s wife Patti Scialfa (at home with the kids) and founding E-Street organist Danny Federici, still recovering from melanoma. Springsteen told the crowd Danny was doing well and hoped to be back later in the tour. In his place was Sessions Band organist Charlie Giordano. Violanist Suzie Tyrell took Patti’s spot in the front of the stage and contributed vocals on the
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Published: 2008-03-11
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows, Bruce Springsteen
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The Police’s First New York Show in Twenty-Four Years: A Trio Playing In Sync It was obvious from the opening crash and sprint of “Message in a Bottle” — the first number of the Police’s August 1st show at Madison Square Garden — that two ingredients missing from Sting’s solo life for the past two decades have been a drummer that plays too fast and a guitarist with elastic ideas about harmonics and an aversion to conventional chords. There would be no Police reunion this year if Sting had not willed it. The band made him a superstar, and he has never been embarrassed to wield that clout, even as his own records have explored worlds far away, and even a few centuries back, from the lean power-trio dynamics of the Police’s Econoline-van years. But at the Garden, the group’s first New York City show since 1983, Sting was not the main attraction. He was, with drummer Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers, one-third of an extraordinary rhythm-and-hit-chorus machine. Copeland and Summers needed Sting to say yes to this tour. But Sting needed them to make his greatest hits — “Roxanne,” “Can’t Stand Losing You,” “Synchronicity II,” even that maypole-dance hook in “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” — boom and glow like rock again. Frankly, it was hard to tell how much of the new minutaie I saw Sting drilling into the old arrangements, during the Police’s Vancouver rehearsals three months ago, had survived the first two months of concerts. Two songs from early set lists, “Spirits in the Material World” and “Murder by Numbers,” didn’t even make it to New York. But there was no missing the transformative drama of Copeland’s tom-tom bombs in “Driven to Tears” and Summers’ shivering-Hendrix screams in the Jamaican galactica of “Walking on the Moon.” There isn’t much of a song in “The Bed’s Too Big Without You,” just white-reggae anguish and the unison gunfire of
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Published: 2007-08-03
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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