Beck, Black Crowes to Headline San Diego’s Street Scene

Beck and the Black Crowes will headline the twenty-fourth annual San Diego Street Scene, to be held on September 19-20. Also among the thirty bands that will rock four stages throughout San Diego’s East Village neighborhood are TV On the Radio, Tegan and Sara, Justice, Spoon and Cat Power. Tickets for the festival are on sale now. Check after the jump for the complete Street Scene lineup. The 2008 San Diego Street Scene Beck The Black Crowes Justice STS9 Michael Franti & Spearhead The National Spoon TV on The Radio Atmosphere Cat Power Hot Chip Tegan and Sara The New Pornographers X Vampire Weekend The Hives Cold War Kids Ghostland Observatory Spiritualized Antibalas Man Man The Mother Hips Tokyo Police Club DeVotchKa The Night Marchers Nortec Collective presents Bostich + Fussible Does it Offend You, Yeah? Del The Funky Homosapien Eagles of Death Metal Foals The Muslims Dengue Fever MGMT Sea Wolf West Indian Girl Chester French [Photo: Getty]

Published: 2008-06-17 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals

Festival Roundup: Bumbershoot, Virgin Calgary Announces Lineups

Another pair of summer festivals unveiled their lineups yesterday, and strangely neither included Jack Johnson. At Seattle’s three-day Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, to be held August 30-September 1, the headliners are Beck, the reunited Stone Temple Pilots, Lucinda Williams and Neko Case. Also on the bill are Jakob Dylan, Lee “Scratch” Perry, the Walkmen, Ingrid Michaelson and more. Tickets are on sale now for that event. A few hundred miles northeast in Calgary, the city’s version of the Virgin Festival will feature headliners STP and the Tragically Hip, with the Flaming Lips, the New Pornographers and a parade of Canadian bands round out the bill. Tickets for that fest, which will be held June 21 and 22, go on sale Saturday. It was previously announced that the Baltimore Virgin would get the Foo Fighters, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails and STP, while Toronto’s headliners were Oasis and Spiritualized. The lineup for Vancouver’s Virgin Festival still has yet to be announced. Related Stories: Virgin Festival Recruits Foos, STP, NIN, Kanye and Jack Johnson Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West Lead Full Lollapalooza Lineup Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Fergie, Black Crowes Join Southeast U.S. Festival Circuit

Published: 2008-04-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Festivals

News Ticker: Madonna, Matador Records, Portishead, Prince

Madonna will make her new album Hard Candy downloadable to European owners of Vodafone cell phones a week before the album is due to hit stores on April 29th. The Material Girl, who in the past has shunned iTunes, will be the first artist to release their album via cell phone before the actual release date. No plans have been made yet for a similar release in the U.S. Matador Records have posted their Spring ‘08 Intended Play sampler for free download. The sampler features cuts from Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Cat Power, the New Pornographers and more. Check out the video for Portishead’s “Machine Gun,” the first single from the band’s upcoming and long-awaited third album Third. The video is the band’s first in nine years. The LA Times revealed, and then retracted, a report that Prince will perform at this year’s Coachella festival during the April 25th weekend. Festival organizers said those reports were “absolutely not true.”

Published: 2008-03-19 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup, Madonna

"Challengers" by The New Pornographers

It still seems strange that The New Pornographers are more than one album into their career. 2000's Mass Romantic was so of its moment—a Canadian supergroup (a supposely one-off project of A.C. Newman, Neko Case and Destroyer's Dan Bejar) that took a mad scientist's approach to the indie-pop hook, sewing vocal and instrumental hooks into a single verse. But the group has been going strong for seven years now, and The New Pornographers continue to refine their approach on Challengers, their fourth and most cohesive album of accomplished, dynamic pop-craft yet. Challengers builds upon the melancholy that lurked behind 2005's Twin Cinema. Standout track "All the Old Showstoppers," with its careful acoustic chords and breathtaking melodic centerpiece, reads like a nostalgic glance back at the band's older songs, each of which seemed precision engineered to be as hands-in-the-air catchy as possible. Today's Pornographers are

Published: 2007-08-22 Provider: Artist Direct

Rilo Kiley Admit to Becoming Amateur Pornographers for “Moneymaker” Video

Be careful which porn flicks you audition for — you might inadvertently wind up in a Rilo Kiley video. The band’s indie pinup of a frontwoman, Jenny Lewis, has revealed the casting process for the band’s provocative clip for “Moneymaker,” the first single from Under the Blacklight, out August 21. “We told people they were coming in and auditioning for a porno,” the singer recalls. “We sat them down and asked them about their experiences. … We met some really interesting, nice people.” The whole process allowed Lewis to indulge one of her new interests: exploring her own increasingly loose attitudes about sex and music. “As a woman, the older I get the more comfortable I feel writing about sex and singing about it,” she explains. “Now I feel comfortable enough where I can start writing about sex — not necessarily about my own experiences, but the sexual lives of others. And the somewhat deviant sexual lives of others.”

Published: 2007-07-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Amy Winehouse: Boozy Brit Sensation Graces Next Cover of Rolling Stone

The British diva who’s making major waves in the U.S. will be on the next cover of Rolling Stone. An in-depth profile on the songstress thus far, our story follows her to Florida for her shotgun wedding and reveals which music legends motivate Winehouse to sing. Check back tomorrow for a peek at the exclusive photos. Who wants new music? Check out leaked songs from Ryan Adams (“Everybody Knows”), the White Stripes (“Conquest” & “You Don’t Know What Love Is”), Lauryn Hill (“Lose Myself”), and The New Pornographers (“My Rights Versus Yours”) Justin Timberlake is launching his own record label, dubbed Tennman Records, to be a joint venture with Interscope Records. Although no artists have been signed yet, it’s safe to assume Marilyn Manson wants in. Check out this video of vertigo-stricken Sufjan Stevens performing atop a steep roof in Cincinnati. Britney Spears opens up to her fans in a long, grammatically-imperfect letter posted on her website. Spears pulls at heartstrings as she discusses rehab, her children, and her anxiousness to meet God. So much sincerity, you almost forget the letter resides next to a glamour shot of a topless Britney.

Published: 2007-05-29 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Daily News: In Brief

Tour Tracker: New Pornographers Team With Okkervil River, Saliva Roll With Drowning Pool

The New Pornographers and Okkervil River will embark on a joint tour this spring, while the Decemberists‘ Colin Meloy heads out alone. Neither of those two tours make it a point to stop at Cattle Annie’s Restaurant & Entertainment Club in Lynchburg, VA — but the Saliva/Drowning Pool trek does. Full dates for all three tours after the jump. Okkervil River/The New Pornographers April 9 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Theatre April 10 - Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot Ballroom April 11 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall April 12 - Munhall, PA @ Carnegie Music Hall April 13 - Ithaca, NY @ The State Theater April 14 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club April 16 - Richmond, VA @ Toad’s Place April 17 - Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre April 18 - Nashville, TN @ The Cannery April 19 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant April 20 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera April 21 - Madison, WI @ Orpheum April 22 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Saliva/Drowning Pool February 1 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade February 2 - Huntsville, AL @ Sammy T’s February 4 - Raleigh, NC @ Volume 11 February 5 - Hilton Head, SC @ Monkey Business February 6 - Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend February 7 - Knoxville, TN @ Valarium February 8 - Cookeville, TN @ Sisco’s Mix Factory February 9 - Lexington, KY @ A1A Sandbar & Grille February 10 - Clarksville, TN @ Kickers February 12 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater February 13 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx Niteclub February 14 - Fayetteville, NC @ Jester’s Pub February 15 - Jacksonville, NC @ Hooligans February 16 - Lynchburg, VA @ Cattle Annie’s Restaurant & Entertainment Club February 17 - Huntington, WV @ Huntington Music Hall February 19 - Hattieburg, MS @ Remington’s February 20 - New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues February 21 - Starkville, MS @ State Theatre February 22 - El Dorado, AR @ Municipal Auditorium February 23 - Fayetteville, AR @ George’s Majestic Lounge February 25 - Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note February 27 - Rockford, IL @ Richte

Published: 2008-02-01 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

“Rock Band” Reveals Full Song List: Pixies, NIN, Killers, Metallica, Rush, Clash, Who and More

We’ve spent some time here at Rock Daily gushing about the all-around wonder of Harmonix’s latest music-based video game Rock Band (a.k.a. Guitar Hero for fake drummers, bassists and singers who actually have three other friends to “play music” with). In keeping with its near-perfect gameplay, the folks behind the title have finally revealed its near-perfect playlist. Besides the inclusion of Guitar Hero favorites like Kiss (”Detroit Rock City”), Deep Purple (”Highway Star”) and Nirvana (”In Bloom”), Rock Band also serves up tracks by Radiohead, Iron Maiden, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more for a total of forty-five tunes. For the vocalists, songs like Faith No More’s “Epic” and Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” will probably be the most challenging, and drumming along to the New Pornographers‘ “Electric Version” won’t prove so easy. The game is slated for release on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 on November 20th, and there are a few more surprises in the form of thirteen additional songs that you can unlock as you rock. Check after the jump for the entire game tracklist. From the press release: Rock Band Set List: In addition to the 45 tracks listed below, Rock Band will also feature 13 songs ranging from a variety of established bands to up-and-coming independent artists that can be unlocked as you play through the game. 1960s Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” 1970s Aerosmith “Train Kept a Rollin’”* The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again” Boston “Foreplay/Long Time” Mountain “Mississippi Queen”* The Police “Next to You” David Bowie “Suffragette City” Black Sabbath “Paranoid”* Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear the Reaper” The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” Deep Purple “Highway Star” KISS “Detroit Rock City” Molly Hatchet “Flirtin’ With Disaster” The Outlaws “Green Grass &#

Published: 2007-10-30 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News