Monthly Archives: March 2009

Buy plenty of bottled water! Say goodbye to your loved ones! Go on a shopping spree you’ll never have to pay off! It’s “Top Downloads Night” on “American Idol.” Contemporary music on “Idol?” CLEARLY the end of the world is near!! This very well could be our final “American Idol” live blog together!


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This week in New Reviews, we have not one but three new albums from Prince: LOtUSFLOW3R, MPLSoUND and Elixer by his protégée Bria Valente. First, LOtUSFLOWER finds the Purple One embracing his inner-guitar god. “Whether it’s the spare funk of ‘Wall of Berlin,’ the metal grind of ‘Dreamer’ or the hazy cover of ’Crimson and Clover,’ [...] Continue reading →

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The Allman Brothers leave the Beacon and schedule a summer trek with Widespread Panic, the Hold Steady map out five June dates after the release of their live CD/DVD A Positive Rage and Grizzly Bear celebrate the release of Veckatimest with a summer on the road. Full dates for all three tours, after the [...] Continue reading →

The Breeders‘ limited-edition EP Fate to Fatal comes out April 21st, and as Rock Daily reported in our preview, the Deal sisters shot the video for the title track at an usually athletic location: a St. Louis roller derby. Now we’re happy to bring you Skate to Fatal, the making-of video that takes you behind [...] Continue reading →

This year’s “American Idol” has already seen some serious star traffic thanks to return engagements from three of the show’s first four winners: Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard and Carrie Underwood. This week, last season’s champ, David Cook, is dropping by to sing his new single.
Last week, we asked you who you’d like to see back [...] Continue reading →

By Matt Harper
Asher Roth is a true man of the people. A few weeks ago, the young MC hinted that he was going to start a revolution down at South by Southwest — and Asher did not disappoint.
After his packed performance at Club de Ville, Asher took to the crowded Austin streets with our MTV [...] Continue reading →

When Rolling Stone hit Austin’s South By Southwest Music Festival a week ago, we handed Semi Precious Weapons‘ outrageous frontman Justin Tranter a Flipcam and a simple set of directions: film yourself doing what you do before, during and after gigs and hand over the footage. We wound up with two days’ worth of video [...] Continue reading →

After a successful one-night-only reunion concert last year, the members of ’70s supergroup Bad Company will once again come together, this time for a run of summer 2009 shows. According to a press release, the band’s founding members — singer Paul Rodgers, guitarist Mick Ralphs and drummer Simon Kirke — are all on board for [...] Continue reading →

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When Rock Daily first saw the trailer for The Osbournes: Reloaded, which debuts tonight on Fox, we dismissed it as a “debacle” that paints the legendary Black Sabbath singer as a clown — a show unbefitting the Prince of Darkness. We may have predicted the show would get canceled after a handful of airings, [...] Continue reading →

By Melanie Wolfson
This past weekend, I put friends (and a term paper) on hold, because one of my favorite bands — the Gaslight Anthem — was in town … twice. Sort of.
After seeing my fellow New Brunswick, NJ natives perform time and time again since their debut in 2007, it was a no brainer that [...] Continue reading →

The 1967-68 outtakes on The Place and the Time (Sundazed) were first
released as bonus tracks on 2007 reissues of Moby Grape’s Columbia LPs,
including withdrawn versions of 1967’s spectacular Moby Grape and ’68’s Wow. Here, on one CD, these rarities — among them rowdy audition tracks and Moby Grape outtakes — are a dynamic alternate portrait [...] Continue reading →

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Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo will release a live CD and DVD documenting his in-store performance at the Fingerprintz record store in Long Beach, California, according to the official Weezer site. Recorded in December 2008 while Cuomo was promoting his Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, the set features a mix of Weezer songs [...] Continue reading →

Sean Connery is a legend. He’s Indiana Jones’ dad. He’s Bond, James Bond. And my interview with him from last night left me both shaken and stirred.
When I arrived at Dressed to Kilt — a Scottish benefit for American veterans — here in New York on Monday night, little did I know that by 8 [...] Continue reading →

Dear Billy,
So I heard you’re looking for a new drummer. And in a manner befitting of a guy who called his last album Zeitgeist, you’ve taken to the Internet to find this person. This is a very big deal to me, as I have always been a die-hard Smashing Pumpkins fan (despite writing this column [...] Continue reading →

By Kathleen Newman-Bremang and Talia Manzo
Miley Cyrus hasn’t won an Oscar in her short career, but she has delivered an emotional acceptance speech. The teen queen tells MTV why she broke down at the Kids’ Choice Awards.
Who’s your favorite “American Idol” hopeful? Can’t decide? Neither can Jordin Sparks! Jordin told MTV she’s still a fan [...] Continue reading →

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“It’s just like playing a three-hour show,” said the Dead’s Bob Weir, backstage at New York’s Angel Orensanz theater, “but it’s broken up by cab rides.” Weir wasn’t joking. To unofficially kick off their spring reunion tour, the Dead had grand plans to play a free concert in a large outdoor venue in New [...] Continue reading →

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U2 will set single-day concert attendance records in three cities with their 360° Tour. With 82,000 tickets at Jersey’s Giants Stadium, 72,000 for Boston’s Gillette Stadium and 65,000 for Chicago’s Soldier Field nearly instantaneously selling out yesterday, second shows were added to each market, Fox Business reports.
Unearthed demos of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s greatest [...] Continue reading →

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Despite reports that Rihanna wasn’t helping the Los Angeles district attorneys prepare their case against Chris Brown, the “Umbrella” singer’s lawyer, Donald Etra, reiterated to Us yesterday, “She will do everything that the law requires her to do… nothing has changed.” A district attorney spokeswoman backed up Etra’s statement, saying, “We deal with her [...] Continue reading →

Jason Newsted’s 15-year stint playing bass for one of heavy metal’s biggest acts came to an end nine years ago, when he exited Metallica for “private and personal reasons and the physical damage I have done to myself over the years while playing the music that I love.” On April 4th, when Metallica are inducted [...] Continue reading →

Jason Newsted’s 15-year stint playing bass for one of heavy metal’s biggest acts came to an end nine years ago, when he exited Metallica for “private and personal reasons and the physical damage I have done to myself over the years while playing the music that I love.” On April 4th, when Metallica are inducted [...] Continue reading →

Britney Brings Her ‘Circus’ To Pittsburgh

We catch up with Britney’s loyal fans on her latest tour stop.

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Like Billy Corgan? Want to be in Smashing Pumpkins? No, these aren’t trick questions. The band — essentially just Corgan at this point — will be holding an open call for drummers on April 10th in Los Angeles. Interested parties should send background info (presumably a brief bio), photographs (presumably of themselves) and performance links [...] Continue reading →

On April 4th, Metallica will march into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when they’re inducted alongside Run-DMC and Jeff Beck. But tonight on Fuse, the band charts its journey to the Rock Hall in a new special called Metallica: In Their Own Words (it airs at 9 p.m.). The doc mixes brutal onstage [...] Continue reading →

The Allman Brothers Band’s return to New York’s Beacon Theatre came to a triumphant end over the weekend, riding the success of 15 shows, over 100 songs played, and a guest list that rivals that of The Last Waltz. The Brothers moved into the recently restored venue March 9th and the critically acclaimed run is [...] Continue reading →

While watching some “Real World” dailies today, I was brought back to that fateful day last year when I gave Real Worlder Chet Cannon lessons on how to be an MTV News correspondent. That experience led me the next week to a visit to the “Real World” house in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where I had [...] Continue reading →

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New Kids on the Block follow up their cruise with another round of tour dates, Judas Priest perform their entire 1980 heavy metal classic British Steel in amphitheatres this summer and Metric set out in June in support of Fantasies. Full dates for all three treks, after the jump.
New Kids on the Block
May [...] Continue reading →

Despite one street team’s attempt to ballot-stuff this weekend’s Rock List, echoing the Great “Killers-gate” of 2008, San Francisco punks and inspirers of musicals Green Day were voted the Best Color Band by the Rock Daily readers, edging out other colorful artists like the White Stripes, Pink Floyd and Black Flag. Our Top 20 reads [...] Continue reading →

With no publicist in sight, the beautiful and charming Whitney Port walked into the penthouse suite of the London Hotel in New York for her interview with us. For any reporter, the lack of a publicist around a celebrity means one thing and one thing only: You can ask anything and everything that you want [...] Continue reading →

Yesterday, Rock Daily was watching the UNC Tar Heels bulldoze the Blake Griffin’s Oklahoma Sooners on their way to a Final Four spot when suddenly a TV time-out led to the above commercial, which left us perplexed for the remaining five minutes of the game. Like previous Guitar Hero ads, famed coaches like Duke’s Mike [...] Continue reading →

By Tamar Anitai
FROM BUZZWORTHY: Around the beginning of March, there was a great and mighty gasp heard ’round the Tokiosphere when, on top of his new black-and-white dreads that replaced his signature lion’s mane, Bill Kaulitz revealed another brand-new look. Gone were the kohl-ringed, heavily lined (and lined… and lined… and lined again) cat eyes, [...] Continue reading →