Category Archives: Rock News

Photo: Nunez/WireImageT.I. is setting the bar high for his post-prison album, King Uncaged, comparing it to Tupac’s 1996 classic All Eyez on Me, which was released months after ‘Pac got out of prison. “This is the most significant return from incarceration that the game has had since then,” T.I. says. “Just given the enormous success [...] Continue reading →

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The heated Yankees-Red Sox rivalry has branched into the rap game. Jay-Z, a diehard Yankees fan who even wore the team’s cap on the cover of Kingdom Come, is suing Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz for allegedly using the name of Jigga’s 40/40 Club chain for his own nightclub in [...] Continue reading →

On Monday, April 19th, you will be looking at at the new Rollingstone.com — a cleaner, easier-to-navigate site that’ll boost our regular doses of daily rock news, photo galleries and music reviews with new audio and video features. We’ll also be debuting three new blogs: Rob Sheffield on pop culture, David Fricke on music and [...] Continue reading →

On Monday, April 19th, you will be looking at at the new Rollingstone.com — a cleaner, easier-to-navigate site that’ll boost our regular doses of daily rock news, photo galleries and music reviews with new audio and video features. We’ll also be debuting three new blogs: Rob Sheffield on pop culture, David Fricke on music and [...] Continue reading →

Peter Steele, the deep-voiced singer, songwriter and bassist for Brooklyn’s goth-metal outfit Type O Negative, has passed away at the age of 48. In an e-mail to CBS News, the band’s manager Mike Renault confirmed Steele’s death, writing “Peter passed away last night. As of now it appears to have been heart failure. That’s all [...] Continue reading →

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Wilco, Hole, MGMT and Monsters of Folk are the latest artists to contribute exclusive releases for this year’s Record Store Day, which will arrive at independent music shops this Saturday, April 17th. Wilco will offer up their live album Kicking Television as a deluxe vinyl box set complete with four LPs, eight extra tracks [...] Continue reading →

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“You hear it all the time: Rock is dead,” David Fricke writes in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on sale at newsstands today. “But the current state of music is the same as it ever was: There is the good and the bad, and there is always plenty of the former, [...] Continue reading →

Last week when Rolling Stone debated who rocked baseball’s Opening Day the best, we overlooked the fact that Seattle, the home of grunge and the Mariners, didn’t hold their opening day festivities until yesterday. To celebrate their first game, the Mariners welcomed Washington State natives Death Cab For Cutie onto the field pregame to treat [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Van Diji/AFP/Getty Before MGMT’s second album Congratulations even hit stores, it was being hailed as the Most Polarizing Album of 2010. The LP’s aesthetic is a galaxy away from the electro-pop of Oracular Spectacular’s hits “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” — Congratulations finds Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden mining late-’60s psychedelic and folk rock [...] Continue reading →

Just hours after Conan O’Brien made headlines by revealing he’ll join TBS’ late-night lineup in November, The Tonight Show announced its own big news: Bandleader Kevin Eubanks will officially leave Jay Leno’s side on May 28th. As Rolling Stone reported in the weeks before Leno resumed his Tonight Show gig, there was speculation that Eubanks’ [...] Continue reading →

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This past December, former Guns n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan was having dinner with Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. “He was kind of bummed,” says McKagan. “He had just heard that [original Jane’s Addiction bassist] Eric Avery was leaving the band.” McKagan offered to jam with Jane’s at Farrell’s home studio and within weeks [...] Continue reading →