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Rock & Roll News - Rolling Stone
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| Rolling Stone’s Top Stories | | • Beastie Boys Announce Swing State Tour
• Britney Spears’ “Womanizer” Video Premieres
• ?uestlove: “Even Small Activism Is Effective”
• Campaign ‘08: Disgruntled Rockers
• Random Notes: Kanye West, Chris Martin
• Tommy Lee, Slash Jam For The Earth
• Britney To Set Record Straight in MTV Doc
• Grateful Dead Egypt Shows Emerge
• Of Montreal Glam It Up In D.C.
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| Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily | | Photo:QUICLER/AFP/Getty
Madonna brought her candy shop to the U.S., and we were live at her first night at Madison Square Garden. Couldn’t make it? Check out the photo gallery to see all the visual highlights from the Sticky & Sweet Tour, plus check out all the times the Material Girl appeared on the cover of Rolling [...] | | 10/10/2008 6:20:59 PM |
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| Slash, Tommy Lee and ZZ Top Jam on “Battleground Earth” Finale | |
Battleground Earth — the eco-challenge reality show that pits Tommy Lee against Ludacris as they fight to see who can live more environmentally responsible — sadly comes to its end this Sunday. The good news? The episode features a ridiculous jam session with Slash, Tommy Lee and Billy Gibbons, and you can get an early [...] | | 10/10/2008 5:44:45 PM |
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| Random Notes: Chris Martin, Roger Daltrey and the Week in Rock | | Photo:Hogan/Getty
Coldplay’s Chris Martin spent some quality time hanging out with the Who’s Roger Daltrey at an awards show in London this week. In fact, it was a week of friends old and new spending time together, as everybody’s best pal Mickey Mouse wished Miley Cyrus a happy birthday and Kanye West chilled with his new [...] | | 10/10/2008 5:18:17 PM |
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| Rock List: Friend Songs | |
After watching the second presidential debate this week and witnessing John McCain constantly referring to us as “my friends” over and over and over again, it seemed only natural that this week’s Rock List was dedicated to friendship. Tell us your favorite tales of companionship, and on Tuesday we’ll use teamwork to tally the votes [...] | | 10/10/2008 4:51:30 PM |
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| “Stop Using My Song, Republicans!”: A Guide to Disgruntled Rockers | | Photo: Getty
Since 1984, when Bruce Springsteen took umbrage to Ronald Reagan’s use of “Born in the U.S.A.,” there’s been a long history of presidential candidates taking a brow-beating from musicians who don’t want their work used as an endorsement. This election season has been full of rockers getting hot under the collar at the thought [...] | | 10/10/2008 4:33:45 PM |
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| Of Montreal Attracts Football Players, Glam Fans in D.C. | | Photo courtesy of Nestor Diaz/DCist.com
Live shows are a much better fit for Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes’ ambitions. On record, it can seem like he’s determined to re-create the high points of glam rock using just a drum machine, some zithers, and a selection of powered yard-care tools. And while Of Montreal’s stage set is [...] | | 10/10/2008 4:10:56 PM |
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| Comment of the Week: Neil Diamond’s One True Love | | Photo: Getty
Earlier this week, Rock Daily caught up with Neil Diamond in the middle of his super-successful tour. We learned the Diamond is almost painfully humble, doesn’t carry money on stage and has a particular passion for Los Angeles staple In-And-Out Burger. Reader brother love (who we hope is not this guy) recognized the entertainment [...] | | 10/10/2008 3:46:37 PM |
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| Talk Show Flashback: Crispin Glover Gets Banned From Letterman | |
Not only is this a great moment in talk show history, but it’s also one of the finest viral videos of all time. Crispin Glover (who is indeed a musician) shows up on the old Late Show With David Letterman to try to clear up some rumors about him in the press and show Dave [...] | | 10/10/2008 3:33:49 PM |
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Music CD Reviews
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| The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium | |
Artist:
The Clash
Review:
In late 1982, the greatest punk band of all time was in the
midst of a swift, sad decline: Though the Clash had just released
their most commercially successful album, Combat Rock,
they had also just booted longtime drummer and then-smack addict
Topper Headon — a move that, according to late, great
frontman Joe Strummer, sent the band "limping to its death." The
following year would see the departure of singer-guitarist Mick
Jones, and the classic Clash lineup would never cut another...
Rating:
4 Stars
| | 9/29/2008 12:58:40 PM |
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| Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher | |
Artist:
Old Crow Medicine Show
Review:
Old Crow Medicine Show aren't revivalists. They're anachronists.
On their fourth full-length, produced by Don Was, the Nashville
quartet mash up a well-nigh 19th-century sound — hopped-up
folk, bluegrass, country and gospel — with lyrics that are
firmly planted in the 21st century. "Huff paint, cocaine, playing
chicken with a train/Smack dab, meth lab, mellow out, rehab," hoots
Ketch Secor in "Alabama High-Test." Several songs cast a
journalistic eye on hard partying, from the countr...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
| | 9/29/2008 12:44:50 PM |
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| T.I. - Paper Trail | |
Artist:
T.I.
Review:
"Facing all kinda time/But smile like I'm fine," T.I. crows on
"No Matter What." The Atlanta rapper recorded his sixth album while
under house arrest for weapons possessions charges, and he faces a
year-long prison sentence beginning in 2009. But as the plodding
"existential" concept album T.I. vs T.I.P. (2007) showed,
he is a far better braggart than brooder — smiling like he's
fine is good for business. On Paper Trail, T.I. mostly
dispenses with the Tupac-wannabe gangsta-confessor...
Rating:
3 Stars
| | 9/29/2008 1:15:25 AM |
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| Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners | |
Artist:
Graham Nash
Review:
"How do you write about breaking up with Joni Mitchell?" asks
Graham Nash in the liner notes to his first solo album. Good
question. His 1970 split with the willowy Canadian
singer-songwriter was the seed of this modest 33-minute solo debut,
which proves the cliché that unfortunate events can generate
excellent art. The stripped-down piano ballads "Better Days" and
"Simple Man" ("I just want to hold you/I don't want to hold you
down") and the majestic "I Used to Be a King," spangled with
Jerry...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
| | 9/29/2008 1:10:16 AM |
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| Otis Redding - Live in London & Paris | |
Artist:
Otis Redding
Review:
Otis Redding didn't simply "play concerts." The soul giant was a
human Mount Vesuvius: He erupted. Redding was at the height of his
fame in March 1967, when he played these two brief shows in London
and Paris. (He would die in a plane crash in December that year.)
And the audience's reaction is ecstatic — it's a fair bet
that few of these Europeans had ever witnessed a spectacle quite
like Redding and the all-star Stax house band, Booker T. and the
MG's and the Mar-Key horns, tearing into...
Rating:
4 Stars
| | 9/29/2008 1:05:54 AM |
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| Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition | |
Artist:
Johnny Cash
Review:
After years of dwindling sales, Johnny Cash walked into
California's Folsom Prison on January 13th, 1968, and reinvigorated
his career: At Folsom Prison, the live album he cut that
day, went platinum and shored up Cash's outlaw image with jailbird
anthems that vividly evoked prison life with a country-folk sound
that became roughly as enduring as the Bible. This two-CD, one-DVD
reissue includes the set that followed the original recording, plus
songs from openers Carl Perkins and the Statler...
Rating:
4 Stars
| | 9/29/2008 1:02:09 AM |
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