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Libertines Reunite for Reading and Leeds; Guns n’ Roses, Arcade Fire, Blink-182 Set to Headline

Photo: Quinton/WireImageGuns n’ Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink-182 have been recruited to headline this year’s Reading and Leeds Festivals, but the big news for the August 27-29th U.K. events is the reunion of the Libertines, who will perform together for the first time since their breakup six years ago. Weezer, Paramore, Modest Mouse, Queens of the Stone Age, LCD Soundsystem and Phoenix will also rock both Reading and Leeds in 2010. Tickets are available now at the Reading and Leeds sites. The Li

Published: 2010-03-29 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Festivals, Reunions, Rock News, The Libertines

Video Premiere: Karen Elson’s “Stolen Roses”

Karen Elson is making the move from the runway to the recording studio with her debut album The Ghost Who Walks, which was produced by her husband (some guy named Jack White) at their Third Man Studios in Nashville. The album isn’t due out until this summer, but the LP’s title track was released as a single last week through the Third Man store. “The Ghost Who Walks” will be backed by “Stolen Roses,” and Rolling Stone is pleased to premiere a new clip of Elson performing an intimate acoustic tak

Published: 2010-03-22 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Videos

Live at Rolling Stone: Alberta Cross

Breaking artist and unexpected Guns n’ Roses opening act Alberta Cross recently stopped by the Rolling Stone offices to treat us to a trio of acoustic renditions of songs off their debut album Broken Side of Time, which was finally released stateside earlier this year. For this special performance, Alberta Cross scale back on the Brit-pop grandeur and feedback on their debut LP, showcasing the gritty roots rock sound at the heart of frontman Petter Ericson Stakee’s songs. Up top is “ATX,” with “

Published: 2010-03-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Live at Rolling Stone, Videos

Weekend Rock List: Valentine’s Day Mixtape

Photo: Michael Ochs Archive/GettyLove it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. What do you do when the boxes of chocolate are all sold out, the price of roses is astronomical and all the good restaurants are booked? You make a mixtape, of course. For this long weekend’s Rock List, we’re calling upon the Rolling Stone readers to help craft the perfect V-Day mix. Tell us the ONE essential song you’d include, and on Tuesday we’ll dig through the comments to construct the surefire

Published: 2010-02-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction at Twenty: Photo Gallery and Cover Story Excerpt

Want a taste of Rolling Stone’s look back at the making of Guns N’ Roses debut album? Click here for an excerpt of Brian Hiatt’s cover story, and here for a photo gallery that catches Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler behind the scenes throughout their late-’80s/early-’90s heyday.

Published: 2007-07-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum proclaimed Metallica’s anticipated next album “bitchin’.” Devo had a few words for Korn, the other band spouting a theory of deevolution these days. These words included “cretinous” and “smackdown.” Rock Daily explored the concept of selling out, but in a good way. The British named their ideal supergroup. Then everyone else picked that supergroup to pieces and built cooler ones. After teasing you a bit, Rolling Stone revealed that Guns N’ Roses graces the cover of the new issue.

Published: 2007-07-28 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Weekend Rock List: Self-Titled Albums

This weekend’s Rock List is dedicated to all those artists work so hard on their albums, then go the lazy eponymous route when it comes time to name it (we kid, we kid: but thrice, Weezer?). Tell us your favorite Self-Titled Albums, and on Monday we’ll count up the votes to reveal which artist released the best album named after himself/herself/itself. A couple of rules: We lovingly call them the White Album and the Black Album, but they’re really The Beatles and Metallica, so they count. Also, the name of the band isn’t Led Zeppelin III, so only Led Zeppelin applies. Now that that’s all mapped out, check out our picks: • The Beatles • Weezer (Blue) • The Stone Roses • The Clash • Metallica

Published: 2009-03-06 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Weekend Rock List: Best ’80s Hard Rock Single

Photo: Amary/Dalle /Retna Ltd. This week, hair metal staples Poison, stadium-rockers Def Leppard and classic power-poppers Cheap Trick announced they will be embarking on a huge arena tour this summer. In addition, alt-metal weirdos Faith No More announced that they too will be reuniting after 10 years for a trip around Europe. These four bands couldn’t be more different — Def Leppard’s Joe Elliot even takes great pains to distance himself from the frizzy locks of tourmates Poison, telling Rolling Stone, “If we’re hair metal, so are Led Zeppelin.” But all of them made great unforgettable rock singles in the Eighties. Go round and round in your mind, discern what made you feel the noize, and pour some sugar on our comments section. Tell us your pick for best hard rock single released between 1980 and 1989, and we’ll be back (possibly in black) on Monday with the results. For now, our picks: • Guns N’ Roses - “Welcome To The Jungle” • Motörhead - “Ace Of Spades” • AC/DC - “Back In Black” • Living Colour - “Cult Of Personality” • Van Halen - “Hot For Teacher”

Published: 2009-02-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

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.

Published: 2008-06-27 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Morning News Roundup

Weekend Rock List: Coolest Guitar Solos

Surely you’ve noticed Rolling Stone’s appreciation for guitarists lately: We’ve covered Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, gazed lovingly at images of badass hair-metal axes and examined Slash’s ability to play Guitar Hero. So let’s get down to business here: We want a list of the greatest guitar solos of all time. Everyone from classic rockers to jam bands to Nineties alt-rockers to metalheads has contributed a rippin’ solo to our rock canon. Fork over your nominations (and disagree with ours) starting right now. “One” – Metallica “Freebird” – Lynyrd Skynyrd “November Rain” – Guns N’ Roses “Comfortably Numb” – Pink Floyd “Soma” – Smashing Pumpkins

Published: 2007-08-04 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock Lists

Guns N’ Roses Past and Present Plan Appetite Anniversary Celebrations

Looking for a way to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Guns N’ Roses classic Appetite for Destruction? So are the rest of the current lineup and an assortment of former members. Onetime Gun Steven Adler plus former L.A. Gun Tracii Guns will play a show on July 28 at Hollywood’s Key Club with their own bands, Adler’s Appetite and L.A. Guns, to “pay tribute” to the 1987 release. The “new” GN’R will be performing on the actual date of Appetite’s release, July 21, in Osaka, Japan. And of course you could start lining up two weeks early for Velvet Revolver’s August 6 tour date at Verona, New York’s Turning Stone Resort Casino. And if you want to know what Gilby Clarke, Josh Freese, Paul Tobias or Buckethead are doing to commemorate this special anniversary, you’re on your own.

Published: 2007-07-14 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

New Reviews: Cobra Starship, the Stone Roses and Mindy Smith

Photo:Wargo/WireImageWe’re exactly one month away from the release of Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 and the end of the slow summer release schedule, but there are a couple new albums out this week to keep your ears interested until Jigga’s newest LP arrives on September 11th. For starters, there’s Cobra Starship’s third disc Hot Mess, a literal hot mess of chart-topping singles like “Good Girls Go Bad” (featuring Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester) and failed snark in the form of songs called “Pete Wentz

Published: 2009-08-11 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News