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News Ticker: Barenaked Ladies, Andre 3000, Fake David Lee Roth

Barenaked Ladies frontman Steve Page was arrested and charged with felony fourth degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. Police allegedly saw Page and a friend doing a large amount of cocaine. Former Mighty Mighty Bosstones guitarist Nate Albert was named VP of A&R at Universal Republic Records. Besides being a Bosstone, Albert also spent time as an artist manager and A&R consultant. Outkast’s Andre 3000, Kanye West and Fonzworth Bentley form the trio Cool Outrageous Lovers of Uniquely Raw Style in this video for the song “Everybody.” The man who has been masquerading around Ontario pretending to be David Lee Roth has been uncovered. Toronto police have identified him as David Kuntz. [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-07-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Fergie, Black Crowes Join Southeast U.S. Festival Circuit

A trio of festivals announced their headliners today as festival season is about to kick off with next week’s SXSW in Austin, TX. The Essence Music Festival in New Orleans revealed that Kanye West will headline this year’s three-day event on the July 4th weekend. Essence also boasts performances by Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Chris Rock and Jill Scott. Approximately 200,000 people attended last year’s fest. In other festival news, Fergie, Sheryl Crow and Santana are among the performers at the 32nd annual Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, TN, on the weekend of May 2-4. Lou Reed, Cat Power, Aretha Franklin, the Black Crowes, Jerry Lee Lewis are also among the sixty acts performing. Sheryl Crow, the Black Crowes and Fergie have also been recruited to play at SunFest in West Palm Beach, FL, from April 30th to May 4th. Also playing: George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Morris Day & the Time, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Academy Is, Natasha Bedingfield and many more. We’ll kick festival season with on-the-spot coverage of SXSW, bringing you the best showcases, hottest new bands and video of live performances and interviews from Austin.

Published: 2008-03-07 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals

Lunchtime Poll: In Which You Save Ska From Itself

Today we are rocking out to this super cool Sire Records boxset, Just Say Sire. When “Mirror in the Bathroom” by the English Beat came on we were reminded of how fucking awesome Two Tone ska was. You are in charge of heading off the tragic downward spiral of one genre. You can, for example, make sure that the English Beat doesn’t give way to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones ten short years later. What musical genre to you save from senseless tarnishing at the hands of misguided zeitgeist-chasi

Published: 2007-05-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Lunchtime Poll

Celebrity Birthdays, June 22

Happy Birthday to "Scrubs" actor Donald Faison (1974), MTV/talk show host Carson Daly (1973), Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page (1970), Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett, "The Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown (1964),[...] Read more!

Published: 2008-06-22 Provider: StarPulse

Rock Band II Track List Revealed; Ratt To Go At Least One More Year Without Starving

The track list for Rock Band II has been announced, and I will say, in addition to coming out just in time to rekindle the interest in the game I never thought I'd lose interest in, they have also fulfilled just about every standard "Rock Band Track List" category, namely: The One That Never Gets Old Foo Fighters - “Everlong” The One That Gets Old Instantaneously Survivor - "Eye Of The Tiger" Don't Care What The Screen Says, I'm Singing The Curse Word (formerly the "Creep" Category) Alice in Chains - “Man in the Box” Do We Need a Video Game For This? Bon Jovi - “Livin’ on a Prayer” Sorry, Person On Vocals Allman Brothers - “Ramblin’ Man” This Is Aweeesome!!!! Um... This Gonna Be Over Anytime Soon? Sonic Youth - “Teenage Riot” The Drunken Karaoke Song Billy Idol - “White Wedding Pt. I” The Drunken Karaoke Song, If You're Me Lit - “My Own Worst Enemy” So Those Were The Actual Lyrics This Whole Time? Pearl Jam - “Alive” Huh? Bob Dylan - “Tangled Up in Blue” Is There A Keyboard In Rock Band II? Elvis Costello “Pump It Up” Are There Trombones In Rock Band II? Mighty Mighty Bosstones “Where’d You Go” Is There An Entire Brass Section In Rock Band II? Steely Dan - “Bodhitsattva” Talking Heads! Finally!! Ahhhh... This One? Ok. [Nerdy 'Beggars Can't Be Choosers' Pout] Talking Heads - “Psycho Killer” Dan, Why Did You Know All Those Lyrics Without Looking At The Screen? Jethro Tull - “Aqualung” The One No One Ever Picks, Ever Norman Greenbaum - “Spirit in the Sky” Really? Awesome! Devo - “Uncontrollable Urge” Really? Ratt - “Round & Round” Why Did This Game Not Exist When I Was In Grade School? The Offspring - “Come Out & Play (Keep ‘em Separated)” ; Soundgarden - "Spoonman" Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle” Never Mind, This Game Will Never Actually Exist. Damn. Guns N’ Roses - “Shackler’s Revenge” (Kotaku)

Published: 2008-07-14 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment

LISTEN UP: iPhone Might Be Too Cool to Hang Out With Me

Apple's iPhone apparently has some good taste in music, sporting the likes of Beck, Lily Allen, Feist, and Nine Inch Nails, among others, in its newest commercial. I wonder if it'll also have my iPod's bizarre sense of humor and go out of its way to play the same three Dinosaur Jr. songs every time I put it on shuffle. (Music For Kids Who Don't Read Good) Extrawack! has an interview with Vince DiFiore, the trumpet player from Cake, along with an mp3 of the band covering Black Sabbath's "War Pigs." Next up on their series of exclusive interviews: the dude from Mighty Mighty Bosstones who only dances. The weather forecast for the East Coast is looking awfully Nico-ey for the next couple days. Prepare your tunes accordingly. (Art Decade) I think listening to The Pipettes and Smoosh back to back might be intensely sugary enough to actually give someone diabetes. In a good way, of course. (Information Leafblower) Finally, Pittsburgh's own Gregg Gillis - aka Girl Talk - throws down this ridiculous remix of a Tokyo Police Club song. I haven't been this proud of a band from my hometown since Rusted Root did that Peter Bjorn & John remix. Man, now I'm kind of wishing that were real. (I Guess I'm Floating)

Published: 2007-06-04 Provider: Best Week Ever Keywords: Entertainment