Monthly Archives: September 2009

Season 5 finalist Bucky Covington has released a new single, “Gotta Be Somebody.” The song is a #1 hit for Nickelback, written by band members Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake, along with co-producer Joey Moi. “Gotta Be Somebody” is the new single from Bucky’s upcoming sophomore album, I’m Alright, releasing spring 2010. The music video for the single was shot during Bucky’s recent hometown concert in Rockingham, North Carolina. The music video should also be available online and on TV video outlets within the next month.

We caught up with Bucky last week. He opened up about the Rockingham concert, his upcoming album, and “Gotta Be Somebody.” Read the full interview.

View photos of Bucky performing on Season 5 of American Idol.

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Rock reminder: Dave Matthews Band, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pearl Jam and dozens more megastars are shipping down South this weekend for Austin City Limits. Rolling Stone will be on the ground with live reports, backstage photos, interviews and video — but before we touch down in Texas, we’ve plotted out the ideal schedule, hour by [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Brecheisen/WireImageNeko Case’s Middle Cyclone tour makes ground fall again this November, the Fiery Furnaces trade in their Blueberry Boat for a tour bus with an autumn jaunt and Staind’s Aaron Lewis embarks on a solo acoustic trek in 2010. All the details for all three acts, after the jump.
Neko Case
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Rappers testing their mettle in the sports world isn’t new (remember Master P’s brief attempt to break into the NBA with the Hornets?), but DMX’s sojourn into the world of athletics might be the most intense yet. X will head to Alabama in December to step into a cage for a mixed martial arts fight. [...] Continue reading →

Season 7′s fourth place finalist, Jason Castro, just announced his national mall tour to promote his upcoming album. The “Jason Castro Live” tour kicks off on October 12 in Minneapolis, MN and ends on November 15 in Ontario, CA. The cross country trek will be supported by Akoo, an interactive music television network reaching 868 million annual viewers across 150 top shopping malls.

At the shows, Jason will perform and sign autographs. The performances are free and will give fans a sneak peek at Jason’s upcoming debut album which includes the single “Let’s Just Fall In Love Again.”

Here is where Jason will be playing:

October 12: Minneapolis, Minn. (Southdale Center)

October 13: Chicago, Ill. (Gurnee Mills Mall)

Oct 15: Cleveland, Oh. (Great Lakes Mall)

Oct. 18: White Plains, N.Y. (Galleria at White Plains)

Oct. 19: Freehold, N.J. (Freehold Raceway Mall)

Oct. 20: Washington, D.C. (Potomac Mills Mall)

Oct. 23: Atlanta, Ga. (Discover Mills Mall)

Oct. 27: Orlando, Fla. (Paddock Mall)

Oct. 28: Tampa, Fla. (Gulf View Square Mall)

Oct. 29: Miami, Fla. (Sawgrass Mills Mall)

Nov. 3: Houston, Tex. (Katy Mills Mall)

Nov. 4: Dallas, Tex. (Grapevine Mills Mall)

Nov. 12: Denver, Col. (Colorado Mills Mall)

Nov. 15: Ontario, Calif. (Ontario Mills Mall)

View photos of Jason performing on Season 7 of American Idol.

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Rolling Stone’s Kevin O’Donnell spotlights the Avett Brothers’ major-label debut, I and Love and You, in this week’s roundup of essential new releases. The North Carolina trio get an assist from Rick Rubin on the disc, which results in polished songs including upbeat jams and pretty piano ballads, like the title track, which shows off [...] Continue reading →

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Adam Lambert’s debut album isn’t due out until November 24th, but already the RS cover star is Number One on Amazon.com. Four days after the pre-order option was made available on Lambert’s still-untitled disc, or New Album 2009 as Amazon calls it, the American Idol runner-up is tops on Amazon’s Bestsellers list, ahead of [...] Continue reading →

“I listened to Fat Joe’s records. It hurt. I told you people not to listen to his music. Some people didn’t listen, and look what happened: Young Buck tried to ride his motorcycle [while] listening to Fat Joe, and look what happened! Fat Joe’s record is the worst thing that ever happened to hip-hop. I [...] Continue reading →

It looks like that Target deal paid off, as Pearl Jam have found their way to the top of the Billboard 200. The band moved 190,000 copies of their latest album Backspacer, which was available exclusively at Target stores (as well as on iTunes and via the band’s Web site), in its first sales week. [...] Continue reading →

By Elliott Wilson, Founder and CEO of RapRadar.com
They say persistence overcomes resistance, and never has that been more evident than in the case of Fabolous. BK’s finest young rapper has spent most of his career being overshadowed by rap heavyweights like Jay-Z, but it’s his consistency that has kept him in the conversation for the [...] Continue reading →

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For five years, Metallica’s own LiveMetallica Website has offered up high-quality downloads of the band’s concerts spanning from 1982 to their current World Magnetic tour. However, fans were only able to purchase concerts as a whole, as opposed to the a la carte song options popularized by iTunes. Perhaps the Rock and Roll Hall [...] Continue reading →

Who: A crew of country roots-rockers led by 27-year-old Cory Chisel, a Wisconsin-based singer-songwriter who croons like Nebraska-era Springsteen, dresses like a Deadwood extra and recorded his first EP in his family’s Minnesota cabin.
Sounds Like: Chisel’s Death Won’t Send a Letter is filled with woozy gospel organs and broadly strummed acoustic guitars, and a [...] Continue reading →

It sometimes seems like singer, producer and Auto-Tune aficionado T-Pain has been around a lot longer than he actually has. But his first music only came out back in 2005, and the guy is only 26 years old. He’ll almost certainly be spending his birthday — which is today — in style, as it seems [...] Continue reading →

Want to see Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Stevie Wonder, U2, Aretha Franklin and others celebrate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 25th anniversary with two all-star concerts? The festivities are happening at New York’s Madison Square Garden in just under a month, and Rolling Stone has one pair of tickets to give away for the [...] Continue reading →

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz,” the landmark 1939 film that launched the career of Judy Garland and gave songs like “Over the Rainbow” a permanent place in the American songbook, Netflix threw a party in New York’s Central Park. There was a screening of the film (newly remastered thanks to [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Winter/Getty Last night Paramore kicked off a month-long North American tour at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California, and though most of the band’s fans already knew that Hayley Williams had gone blonde thanks to a performance Monday on The Tonight Show, the formerly flame-haired frontwoman had another surprise up her sleeve: She’d lost [...] Continue reading →

Fashion Week in Milan was full of forward-looking clothes and stunning looks, but perhaps the most amazing accessory worn by anybody during the event came courtesy of Kanye West’s girlfriend Amber Rose. She accompanied West to the amfAR event that was hosted by Janet Jackson (and where West got into a bidding war with a [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Nedertigt/AFP/GettyThe Big News: As expected, Pearl Jam’s ninth album Backspacer stormed to the Number One spot on this week’s Billboard Top 200, selling 189,000 copies according to Neilsen SoundScan. While Backspacer gave Pearl Jam their first Number One since 1996’s No Code, the album sold roughly 90,000 less copies than its predecessor Pearl Jam [...] Continue reading →

Adam Lambert’s album won’t be available in stores until November 24, but you can already pre-order the record on Amazon. It currently sits at the top of the Amazon sales charts, which is not necessarily unusual for a pre-order (especially one as high-profile as an “American Idol” runner-up), but it’s a slightly more amazing feat [...] Continue reading →

“I Can Transform Ya,” Chris Brown’s first single reportedly off his upcoming Graffiti — and his first official new song since he assaulted Rihanna in February — was revealed yesterday on the singer’s Mechanical Dummy Website. Officially, it’s credited to Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz, but the producer and Weezy practically overpower [...] Continue reading →

Photo: LaVeris/FilmMagic “I Can Transform Ya,” Chris Brown’s first single reportedly off his upcoming Graffiti — and his first official new song since he assaulted Rihanna in February — was revealed yesterday on the singer’s Mechanical Dummy Website. Officially, it’s credited to Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and Swizz Beatz, but the producer and Weezy [...] Continue reading →

It’s only the second week of the season, but there are already some slight upsets flying around the set of “Dancing With the Stars.” After Monday night’s episode resulted in a great deal of parity among the dancers, there was no clear frontrunner nor obvious choice for a dismissal, so when Kathy Ireland was given [...] Continue reading →

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It’s tradition for Phish to cover another artist’s classic album in its entirety on Halloween — and for fans to furiously debate which LP the band will choose in the weeks before the big show. This year, the Vermont quartet is playing along by teasing its devotees with a gallery of album covers on [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Phish.com
It’s tradition for Phish to cover another artist’s classic album in its entirety on Halloween — and for fans to furiously debate which LP the band will choose in the weeks before the big show. This year, the Vermont quartet is playing along by teasing its devotees with a gallery of album covers on [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Mazur/MPL/WireImageEarlier this summer, Paul McCartney christened Citi Field, the new home of the New York Mets, with a sold-out three-night stand in Flushing, Queens. Those shows will be the focus of an upcoming 2CD/1DVD set titled Good Evening New York City. Each night’s 33-song, two-hour-and-40-minute hits-filled set was filmed with 15 high-definition cameras, plus [...] Continue reading →

When Danger Mouse and the Shins’ James Mercer met backstage at Denmark’s Roskilde festival five years ago, the unlikely duo quickly discovered a mutual fandom. “As soon as I heard the Shins, I wanted to do something with James, no matter what,” Danger Mouse explains. Their partnership took time to develop, but in March 2008, [...] Continue reading →

The image of a young male movie star dying before his time has happened so often that it has become a cliché. The landscape is littered with heartthrobs who have run headlong into tragedy and caused heartbreak for friends, family and fans. But the icon who originally set the tragic precedent was James Dean, who [...] Continue reading →

The image of a young male movie star dying before his time has happened so often that it has become a cliché. The landscape is littered with heartthrobs who have run headlong into tragedy and caused heartbreak for friends, family and fans. But the icon who originally set the tragic precedent was James Dean, who [...] Continue reading →

Amy Winehouse hit the studio with a friend named Zalon and broke out in a few rap that was thankfully captured on YouTube. Rhymes include, “I know I would never wear my hair out, unless I am with the best.” Check it out above.
The holidays will come a bit earlier for Citibank users enrolled in [...] Continue reading →

Photograph by Sam Jones; Digital imaging and logo treatment by Splashlight
The numbers associated with the U2360° Tour are staggering: a 170-ton stage rightfully dubbed “the spaceship,” 200 trucks carting it around, 250 speakers, nearly 400 employees and $750,000 a day in overhead. But the band’s stadium show is more than a fantastic spectacle — it’s [...] Continue reading →