Kaki King’s Guide to Dave Grohl’s Rock Star Cliches

Kaki King spent quality time with the Foo Fighters while on tour with them in Australia (she also played on the band’s last record Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace), which gave her particular insight into Dave Grohl’s cheesy rock moves. While conversing with RollingStone.com’s Pete Maiden at the Outside Lands festival this weekend, she broke down the three moves you’ll see at every Foo Fighters show. Click above for her breakdowns of the moves, plus her animated examples and a few clips of Grohl in action. Related Stories: • Kaki King Says Dave Grohl Has Too Many Cheesy Rock Moves • Kaki King at SXSW • Radiohead, Wilco, Beck Top Outside Lands Festival

Publicado: 2008-08-28 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Videos

Wilco Plan Spring ‘09 Release For More-Sculpted New Album

Wilco are eyeing a Spring 2009 release for their next album, Jeff Tweedy told an Albany, New York radio station. Whereas their last album Sky Blue Sky was recorded under almost jam-session circumstances, Tweedy says the band will “allow ourselves a little bit more leeway in terms of sculpting the sound in the studio and doing overdubs and using the studio as another instrument. Last time around, it was more of a document.” Wilco are already performing a pair of new songs live: “One Wing,” which is reportedly reminiscent of Sky Blue closer “On and On and On,” and the looser, riff-driven “Sunny Feeling.” While Tweedy said following the release of Sky Blue Sky that those studio sessions resulted in a number of unfinished songs, it’s unclear whether those tunes will be the basis for the band’s seventh album.

Publicado: 2008-08-18 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

Fleet Foxes modest about being labeled "America's next greatest band"

Music & nightlifeFleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold talks in advance of the Seattle band's concerts at the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Festival, the Capitol Hill Block Party, and shows with Wilco in Spokane and Bend, Ore.

Publicado: 2008-07-11 Proveedor: Seattle Times

Revered rockers return to Americana roots

Music & nightlifeWilco is a Chicago-based band, but one wonders if we might want to offer them honorary Seattle citizenship. Over the course of a dozen concerts...

Publicado: 2007-08-17 Proveedor: Seattle Times

The 20 Best Live Bands Playing Right Now

This 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

Publicado: 2007-07-24 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News

MIND-WOGGLING MUSIC

FEMALE-powered Lily Allen and Feist shows are sold out, but don't cry in your G&T. With the beginning of the summer music season, you may even find a free show. Sometimes Playlist commands thee to don your dancing shoes, but when the Woggles come...

Publicado: 2007-06-08 Proveedor: New York Post Etiquetas: band, show, Park, Wilco, album, deemed, even, free, may, shows, music

WILCO BACK WITH ROAD-TESTED CD

'SKY Blue Sky," out today, is Wilco's sixth studio album, but it feels like the first for the indie rock band's introspective founder Jeff Tweedy. "Many bands come to their first record in a studio after years of playing live and testing songs in...

Publicado: 2007-05-15 Proveedor: New York Post Etiquetas: album, Tweedy, Wilco, band, record, studio, Sky, done, live, songs, today, music

Sky Blue Sky by Wilco

The sixth studio set for the Jeff Tweedy-fronted band is less experimental and adventurous than Wilco's previous few efforts. It is the first Wilco studio album to feature the work of touring guitarist Nels Cline. [Indie, Rock, Alt-Country]

Publicado: 2007-05-14 Proveedor: Metacritic

Listening Station: The Broken West Goes On To Our iPod

We get roughly 37 e-mails per week from struggling, unknown indie bands with some RIYL-ish "if you like Wilco, you'll like us" in the first paragraph. To date, not one single band has actually come...

Publicado: 2007-02-02 Proveedor: Idolator Etiquetas: eric harvey, Mp3, the broken west

News Ticker: Outside Lands Fest, Jimi Hendrix, Coldplay, John Lennon

Lupe Fiasco, the Black Keys, Liars and Kaki King are among the performers that have been added to the inaugural Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco. The fest, to be held August 22-24, already boasts headliners Radiohead, Beck, Wilco, Ben Harper and more. Vivid Video, proud sellers of sex tapes starring Kim Kardashian and Pamela Anderson, are getting set to release a video that supposedly features Jimi Hendrix cavorting with two brunettes. Critics have dismissed the man in the grainy video (selling for $39.95) is Hendrix, while two former lovers of the rocker insist it’s Jimi. As promised, Coldplay are now allowing fans to download the song “Violet Hill,” the first single from the band’s Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends for free free one week. If you don’t want to submit your email info, you can also listen at the band’s MySpace page. John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for “Give Peace a Chance” will hit Christie’s auction block in July. The lyrics are expected to retrieve between an estimated four and six hundred thousand dollars. [Photo: Getty]

Publicado: 2008-04-29 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Rolling Stone’s Top 25 Underappreciated Artists

If you readers had your way, your unsung rock heroes would not stay underappreciated for long. We got a veritable shitload of comments in response to this weekend’s rock list: Most Underappreciated Artists. Now it’s time for us to unveil our official list. With your help we’ve come up with Rolling Stone’s 25 most underappreciated artists ever. Enjoy. 1. Tom Waits 2. The Replacements 3. Cheap Trick 4. Sonic Youth 5. Warren Zevon 6. Big Star 7. The Pharcyde 8. Roxy Music 9. Talking Heads 10. Bob Seger 11. The Hold Steady 12. Fugazi 13. The Cramps 14. The New York Dolls 15. The Band 16. The Cars 17. Pogues 18. Alice Cooper 19. Dinosaur Jr 20. Sleater-Kinney 21. Husker Du 22. Devo 23. Wilco 24. Tom Petty 25. Ween

Publicado: 2007-05-01 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: General

Smoking Section: Jack Johnson on the Beach, Midlake in the Studio and Jimmie Dale Gilmore on Stage

In December, the Smoking Section winged it out to Santa Barbara to hang out with Jack Johnson. Sitting on the rocky coastline with a fat spliff in our mitts watching Johnson shred massive swells was the perfect opportunity to reflect on the wild ride that was 2007. We witnessed amazing performances — Lucinda Williams‘ five-night stand in Manhattan, Stevie Wonder at the Garden, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in the Hamptons, Pearl Jam in Chicago, Wilco at Bonnaroo, The Killers in London and the Foo Fighters in a Vegas hotel room (sadly, we missed Dave Grohl’s “New Year’s Eve Disco Party” in L.A.). We moved into Kid Rock’s Malibu bachelor pad for a few days, tore up Paris with Ben Harper, guzzled absinthe at Marilyn Manson’s house and embraced our inner player, cocktailing with Snoop, strip-clubbing with Kanye and l’chaim-ing Jay-Z. It all poured sweet and clear — it was a very good year. * * * * If the SS had one regret from ‘07, it was that we were never in the same city as Midlake. The Denton, Texas, fivesome awed us with the mellow explorations of The Trials of Van Occupanther, and we’re happy to report that they’re home, taking their sweet-ass time on the follow-up. “It will be called The Courage of Others,” reports singer Tim Smith. “I think it will sound darker — not dark like Sabbath, but a little more minor-key.” Whereas Van Occupanther was recorded in their living room (”That was tough, because of roommates”), Midlake now occupy their own studio in Denton, with families and dogs waiting at home. “We’ve been going in at 8 a.m. and we’re done by 5,” says Smith, whose songwriting has been influenced, most recently, by No Other, the mysterioso 1974 solo gem from Gene Clark of the The Byrds. “We were jammin’ pretty hard this morning,” Smith says. “We said to ourselves, ‘No other rock band does this at 9:30 i

Publicado: 2008-01-18 Proveedor: Rolling Stone Etiquetas: Rock News, Smoking Section, Jack Johnson