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Pearl Jam’s “Backspacer” On Pace For Number One DebutPhoto: Dyson/WireImage Pearl Jam’s ninth studio album, Backspacer, is on pace to become the band’s first Number One album on Billboard’s Top 200 chart since 1996’s No Code. According to Billboard.biz, Backspacer is expected sell in the 175,000-200,000 range, enough to give Pearl Jam their first Number One in 13 years, but not enough to hit the 279,000 the band’s self-titled album sold in 2006 when it debuted at Number Two (Pearl Jam was beaten out by Tool’s 10,000 Days for the top spot). The alb
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Published: 2009-09-24
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Pearl Jam, Rock News
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Live Review: Tool in TorontoTORONTO - Los Angeles alternative prog-metal band Tool dazzled a near sold-out crowd Wednesday night at Toronto's Molson Amphitheatre.
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Published: 2009-08-06
Provider: Canoe
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The 20 Best Live Bands Playing Right NowThis weekend’s rock list, Best Live Band Playing Right Now, got an awesome and terrifying response from you all - thanks for all the nominations. After careful consideration, here is our final list. Now go see these guys! 1. White Stripes 2. Radiohead 3. Pearl Jam 4. Rage Against the Machine 5. U2 6. Metallica 7. Flaming Lips 8. My Morning Jacket 9. The Hold Steady 10. Arcade Fire 11. The Raconteurs 12. Wilco 13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 14. Red Hot Chili Peppers 15. Gogol Bordello 16. Kings of Leon 17. Muse 18. Dave Matthews Band 19. Tool 20. LCD Soundsystem Photo: AFP/STADLER/Getty
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Published: 2007-07-24
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Weekend Rock List: “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero” Greatest HitsPhoto: Getty With Guitar Hero: World Tour finally arriving this weekend and Rock Band 2 finally playable for PlayStation 3, we anticipate spending our entire weekend riffing, drumming and singing along with polygon characters and plastic instruments. Tell us your favorite jams from any installment of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band series, and on Monday we’ll reveal the greatest hits from both games. Before you attempt Van Halen’s “Hot For Teacher” on GH:WT, here’s our picks: Nine Inch Nails – “The Perfect Drug” Danzig – “Mother” Weezer – “Say It Ain’t So” Boston – “Foreplay” Radiohead – “Creep” Related Stories: • Rock Band 2 Reveals 20 Free Downloads • Microsoft Says Rock Band, Guitar Hero Do 3.8 Downloads a Month • Exclusive Video: How Tool Came to Guitar Hero: World Tour
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Published: 2008-10-24
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Rock Lists
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tool’s Stunning Spectacles Score at LollapaloozaKaren O has never been one to make safe sartorial choices, but the outfit she was wearing when she and her band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, took the stage at Lollapalooza was daring even for her. On her head she wore a towering crown made of multicolored cardboard cut-outs of human hands. It was enormous, a towering headdress that flapped and fluttered in the evening breeze. As if that wasn’t enough — she had the cape to match. She was bizarre, entrancing and a joy to watch. In other words, she was Ka
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Published: 2009-08-09
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Lollapalooza
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My Bloody Valentine, Arctic Monkeys Rock All Points West on Moody, Muddy Day TwoPhoto: Busacca/Getty Is there any sight that warms the heart of a rock band more than a sea of upraised middle fingers? That’s the scene that greeted recently reformed British shoegaze pioneers My Bloody Valentine midway through their Saturday night set at All Points West Festival in New Jersey’s Liberty State Park. (Photos live from All Points West: My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more.) Though the gesture was mainly the response of impatient Tool fans reacting viscerally to My Bloody
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Published: 2009-08-02
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, All Points West
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All Points West’s Acts to WatchPhoto: Vasquez/Getty From a band of Strokes proteges to a British synth-rock duo to a seventy-something slide guitarist, the names you’ll be talking about when New Jersey’s All Points West fest ends this weekend: the Postelles, La Roux, Seasick Steve and more: • All Points West’s Acts to Watch Plus, get another look at the best of the lineup, in photos: • All Points West ‘09 Lineup: Jay-Z, Coldplay, Tool and More Bands Taking the Jersey Stage And remember, Rolling Stone will be on the ground at
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Published: 2009-07-30
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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This rocker has no sour grapesIf you know him at all, you probably know Maynard James Keenan as the frontman for the art metal band Tool, renowned for such refined ditties as "Disgustipated," "Cold and Ugly" and "Stinkfist."
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Published: 2009-06-01
Provider: Journal Sentinel Online
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Maynard James Keenan’s Puscifer: Tool Leader Speaks on Enigmatic Side ProjectWhen you say the name of Maynard James Keenan’s new recording project, Puscifer, it is “Pus as in Puss’n'Boots,” says the Tool singer on a recent afternoon at Electric Lady Studios in New York. “Not as in a boil,” he adds with a dry chuckle. Keenan, working on the record on a rare day away from Tool’s current world tour, explains that Puscifer “is my attempt to make music to inspire people. Heavy rock is sinking, the industry is dying. This is definitely not thinking man’s music” — elliptically referring to Tool’s dense, serpentine metal — “but groove-oriented music that makes you feel good.” The music Keenan previews at Electric Lady is suitably provocative, with a good-time roll. “Queen B” features a bee’s nest of overlapping, processed vocals — including Keenan’s own deep country baritone — over noir-ish hip-hop drumming, like Keenan’s previous side outing, A Perfect Circle, in Tennessee-midnight-radio dub. “Dojo” is marching percussion and sinister electronics with what sounds like the death gulp of a Duane Eddy-treble guitar. “World Up My Ass” is Keenan’s version of the 1980 Circle Jerks song — total psychic collapse as straight-up backwoods fun. “Country Boner” is delightfully offensive and something of an antique — a cover of a song by the Illinois garage band Electric Sheep, which featured pre-Tool guitarist Adam Jones and his high school buddy, Tom Morello, later in Rage Against The Machine. Keenan describes Puscifer as “more of a collaboration” than a group. Contributors include Primus drummer Tim Alexander, guitarist-soundscaper Jonny Polonsky and, on vocals, Lisa Germano and actress Milla Jovovich. And Keenan says the music could end up as more than just an album, which he expects to issue in October. “I’d like to release it in different ways — maybe two songs at a time, every three
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Published: 2007-07-19
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Former Replacements Drummer Chris Mars’ Dark “Tolerance”Photo: Courtesy Jonathan Levine Gallery Chris Mars made a name for himself as the spastic timekeeper in the Replacements, the booze-soaked Minneapolis post-punk band he helped co-found. But with rock stardom in his rearview, Mars has made a second splash in the art world. Tolerance, his first book, collects 159 paintings created between 2000 and 2007. Mars’ work is surreal and gothic, equal parts Tim Burton film, Tool video and demented children’s cartoon, with titles like “Fuck If I’ll Hold My Tongue” and “Miserably Obedient.” Tolerance also includes essays and notes by Mars, which helps to illustrate the evolution of his work from the deeply personal (his early work was inspired by his brother’s schizophrenia) to the intensely political (as the intro to a piece called “The Plea,” Mars writes, “Mother (Cindy) Sheehan at top is represented in all-out anger as her voice and her every breath relases the spirit of her fallen son Casey…Bush, yellow dunce, is at the center of the mess.”). Tolerance is available through Billy Shire Fine Arts Press. Related Stories: • The Replacements Considered Reuniting • The Replacements Announce Reissues • Album Review: The Replacements, Let It Be (Deluxe Version)
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Published: 2008-09-29
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Fricke’s Picks: Motorpsycho “Suite: Little Lucid Moments,” the opening track on Little Lucid Moments (Rune Grammofon), by the Norwegian power trio Motorpsycho, is not little. It is a mini-album in itself, an improbable union over four parts and 21 minutes of Tool, Goo-era Sonic Youth and the ‘69 Yes: angular riffing, volcanic guitar-bass-drums debate and surprising pop-sheen vocal harmonies. The second section is well named — “A Hoof to the Head” — and the gripping tumult in the third stretch, “Hallucifuge (Hyperrealistically Speaking),” explains why Motorpsycho are established prog-metal stars abroad. Bassist-singer Bent Saether and guitarist-singer Hans Magnus Ryan started the band in 1989, taking the name from Russ Meyer’s 1965 biker-gang B movie and throwing caution to the arctic winds over a long discography of hard-rock indulgence, including the two-CD epics Trust Us (1998) and Black Hole/Blank Canvas (2006). Little Lucid Moments — a single disc, and Saether and Ryan’s first album with new drummer Kenneth Kapstad — is pith in comparison, but just barely. The finale, “The Alchemyst,” is a 12-minute whirl of power-pop clang and polyrhythmic jamming with a soft space choir landing at the end. You wouldn’t want it any shorter. [Photo: Anja Basma]
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Published: 2008-06-04
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Fricke's Picks
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Single Minded: Britney Spears, Eagles, Puscifer, Backstreet Boys and Armor for Sleep Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more. Britney Spears, Blackout [Full Album Stream] Well, here it is — after all the head-shaving, car-crunching, baby-bailing, Starbucks-drinking, court-cursing and dance-bungling. The most shocking thing about it? It’s actually pretty good. Backstreet Boys, Unbreakable [Full Stream Album] Somewhere in a dorm room in Okinawa, two college seniors are preparing for the greatest comeback in YouTube history. The Eagles, “How Long” [Official Site] The Eagles’ latest is available only at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club, two places that give new meaning to the phrase “you can check out any time you like / but you can never leave.” Puscifer, V Is for Vagina [Full Album Stream] Maynard James Keenan pairs intoxicatingly bleak art rock with a bunch of lame jokes about genitalia. You know, totally uncharted terrain for a guy who fronts a band called Tool. One day he will meet Kool Keith, and the two of them will form a rap-rock project called Michael Hunt. The universe will explode shortly thereafter. Armor for Sleep, Smile for Them [Full Album Stream] The second song on New Jersey outfit Armor For Sleep’s third album is called “Williamsburg,” which means in five years it’s going to cost them too much to play it.
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Published: 2007-10-31
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Single Minded
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