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Category Archives: Videos
New Music Report: Kate Nash
Christian Hoard’s “Christian Rock” new music pick this week is Kate Nash’s My Best Friend Is You. The 22-year-old British singer’s 2008 album went platinum in the U.K. and showed off her cockney accent, witty piano pop and general English cheekiness. The new album is more expansive, confident and simply better. Nash is a tuneful [...] Continue reading
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Watch Jeff Beck and Alice Cooper Explore the Yardbirds’ Impact
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Jeff Beck will release his new album Emotion & Commotion next Tuesday, April 13th, and as an extra incentive to purchase Beck’s first studio album in seven years on iTunes, the digital music service is offering up an exclusive 30-minute interview between Beck and Alice Cooper. The two [...] Continue reading
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Jakob Dylan Performs With Neko Case, Talks “Women & Country”
Last week, Jakob Dylan dropped by the RS offices to preview tunes from his new disc, Women & Country, a collection of country-roots ballads that address love and American life in times of economic and political uncertainty. He also came prepped with some A-list backup, bringing along singers Neko Case and Kelly Hogan to perform [...] Continue reading
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“Window Seat” to “Justify My Love”: A Short History of Nude Music Videos
When Erykah Badu stripped down to nothing in the middle of Dallas for her “Window Seat” video, the neo-soul singer not only raised eyebrows of the Dallas PD but also entered the pantheon of great and provocative music videos that push television censors and NSFW to the max. Matt & Kim’s nude run through Times [...] Continue reading
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“Window Seat” to “Justify My Love”: A Short History of Nude Music Videos
When Erykah Badu stripped down to nothing in the middle of Dallas for her “Window Seat” video, the neo-soul singer not only raised eyebrows of the Dallas PD but also entered the pantheon of great and provocative music videos that push television censors and NSFW to the max. Matt & Kim’s nude run through Times [...] Continue reading
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SXSW 2010’s Best Video: Court Yard Hounds, Free Energy, More
Nearly 2,000 bands invaded Austin for rock’s annual Mardi Gras SXSW earlier this month, and Rolling Stone was on the scene, bringing you reports from the biggest shows (Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Muse) and 100 tweets about up-and-comers to watch. RS also hosted our first-ever showcases at the festival — be sure to grab our [...] Continue reading
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First Look: Watch a Clip From New Doors Doc “When You’re Strange”
A new documentary on the Doors called When You’re Strange is hitting theaters April 9th after opening to acclaimed reviews at Sundance 2009. Since its debut last year, director Tom DiCillo has added a megastar to narrate the film — Johnny Depp — plus tightened up the film’s editing to better tell the story of [...] Continue reading
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Breaking: Love Is All
Who: Heavy Swedish pop outfit fronted by manic 34-year-old singer Josephine Olausson, a fierce frontlady who has a fan in Karen O. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer likes the band so much it inspired her song “All is Love” on the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack.
Sounds Like: The band’s insanely catchy new disc [...] Continue reading
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New Music Report: Cornershop
Rolling Stone contributing editor Christian Hoard’s “Christian Rock” new music pick this week is Cornershop’s Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast. The band — one of the great alt-rock bands of the ’90s — is led by Anglo-Indian frontman Tjinder Singh and mixes drones, Velvet Underground-style guitars, sitar, bits of electronica and dub. The new [...] Continue reading
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Video Roundup: New Clips From Weezer, MGMT and Kelis
Weezer unveiled the clip for “I’m Your Daddy,” the latest single from Raditude, on MySpace Music and Weezer.com today. While Rivers Cuomo and gang have relied on YouTube all-stars, doppelgangers and Muppets in the past, “I’m Your Daddy” finds just Weezer themselves rocking out onstage and hanging out backstage in handheld footage and fan animation.
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Iggy Pop’s Last Stand: Watch His Final Stage Dive at Carnegie Hall
Iggy Pop’s already legendary closing set at the Tibet House benefit concert on February 26th will go down in the annals of rock history in another way: The recent Hall of Fame inductee has gone on the record saying that the infamous dive off the Carnegie Hall stage will be his last. “When I landed, [...] Continue reading
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Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” Video Inspired By Matt & Kim, Kennedy Assassination
Leave it to Erykah Badu to merge one of the most popular music videos in recent memory with one of the most infamous moments in American history: In “Window Seat,” the second video off her New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh), Badu combines Matt & Kim’s stripping-in-Times Square clip for “Lessons Learned” with [...] Continue reading
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Live at Rolling Stone: Watch Butch Walker’s Acoustic Set
Butch Walker, “one of America’s best singer-songwriters,” according to Rolling Stone’s review of latest disc I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart, recently stopped by the RS offices to perform a stripped-down set of songs from the album with bandmate Fran Capitanelli.
Walker, whose producing credits include Pink, Katy Perry and Dashboard Confessional, says [...] Continue reading
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Beck Covers INXS’ “Kick” With Liars, St. Vincent and Os Mutantes
Beck’s Record Club — his running series of quickly made cover albums featuring a rotating cast of collaborators — has returned with a satisfyingly surprising choice: INXS’ 1987 hit album Kick. This time around, the Modern Guilt singer recruited Liars, St. Vincent and Os Mutantes’ Sergio Dias to join him in the studio.
Kick was [...] Continue reading
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New Music Report: She and Him
RS‘ Kevin O’Donnell examines Volume Two, the new disc by She and Him in this week’s New Music Report. The unlikely pair — singer-songwriter M. Ward and actress Zooey Deschanel — broke out two years ago with their debut Volume One. At first, it seemed like She and Him would be a one-off project, but [...] Continue reading
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“Weird Al” Gets Serious Biopic Treatment Thanks to Funny or Die
If Hollywood asked us to write a biopic for “Weird Al” Yankovic, we’d likely pen an unofficial UHF sequel packed with parodies, fantastical interludes and a loose retelling of the story of everyone’s favorite accordionist. Thankfully, Funny or Die took a more amusing and unlikely approach with their faux-trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, [...] Continue reading
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Jay-Z Takes Cameras Behind His 9/11 Benefit in “NY-Z”
The new mini-documentary NY-Z captures one of the biggest shows of 2009 — Jay-Z’s September 11th Answer the Call concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden — and the hours leading up to the big performance. Shot in black-and-white like iconic Big Apple odes Manhattan and The Naked City, director Danny Clinch’s short doubles as [...] Continue reading
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The Dead Weather’s Dark “Die By the Drop” Video Surfaces
While it turned out that today was not the release date for the Dead Weather’s new single “Die By the Drop,” as an Amazon page suggested, the first track off Jack White and Co.’s second album Sea of Cowards did wind up surfacing on Metacafe, giving us our first taste of the group’s [...] Continue reading
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Video Premiere: Karen Elson’s “Stolen Roses”
Karen Elson is making the move from the runway to the recording studio with her debut album The Ghost Who Walks, which was produced by her husband (some guy named Jack White) at their Third Man Studios in Nashville. The album isn’t due out until this summer, but the LP’s title track was released as [...] Continue reading
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Graham Nash Reflects on The Hollies’ Hall of Fame Career
Graham Nash is one of the few artists who has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: first, in 1997, with Crosby, Stills and Nash and again at this week’s ceremony in New York, with his first band the Hollies. But when Rolling Stone sat down with Nash to discuss the [...] Continue reading
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Hot Chip Recast as a Boy Band in Clever New “I Feel Better” Video
Hot Chip have established themselves as much for their quirky music videos as their catchy dance pop, so it comes as no surprise that their hilarious vid for One Night Stand’s “I Feel Better” is another must-see entry in their videography. The clip finds the nerdy Hot Chip recast as a boy band and muses [...] Continue reading
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Breaking: Local Natives
Who: A Los Angeles-based art-folk quintet who broke out big at last year’s South by Southwest and are poised to make an even bigger splash when they rock a marathon nine gigs in three days this week at the fest. After SXSW, the group heads out on their first major headlining tour, with stops at [...] Continue reading
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Lady Gaga Talks “Telephone” Clip, MTV Confirms Video Not Banned
Three days after Lady Gaga unveiled her epic nine-and-a-half-minute video for “Telephone,” the clip has blown up online, scoring more than 15 million views on YouTube. Gaga is also managing to spark some controversy over the racy clip, which is packed with campy sex and violence: CNN reported this weekend that MTV had banned the [...] Continue reading
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Pearl Jam, Casablancas Bring Double Dose of Rock to “SNL”
Six months after releasing their latest disc Backspacer, Pearl Jam returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend as musical guest, performing two tracks from the record: the hushed ballad “Just Breathe,” which featured a string quartet, and the up-tempo rocker “Unthought Known” (watch them both after the jump). The band seemed to be in a [...] Continue reading
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Long Music Videos: How Does Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Rank With Michael Jackson, Metallica
Lady Gaga upped the ante for supersized music videos last night with her Tarantino homage “Telephone,” which co-stars Beyoncé in a homoerotic rampage of capitalistic ultra-violence. Gaga’s been down this road before — “Paparazzi” was an eight-minute cinematic epic — but Michael Jackson truly pioneered the long music video with “Thriller,” “Bad,” “Ghosts,” “Black or [...] Continue reading
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Lady Gaga and Beyonce Unleash Orgy of Sex, Violence, Product Placement in “Telephone” Video
Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s anxiously awaited video for their The Fame Monster collaboration “Telephone” has arrived as a nine-minute-and-thirty-second mash-up of lesbian prison porn, campy sexploitation flicks and insidery winks at the two divas’ public personas. If Quentin Tarantino and Russ Meyer remade Thelma & Louise as an orgy of product placement with fiercely choreographed [...] Continue reading
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Video Roundup: Big Boi, She and Him, “The Runaways”
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A whole battalion of new music videos has made their way onto the Web and for your viewing pleasure Rolling Stone has corralled them into this post. First up is Big Boi’s latest single off his much-anticipated Sir [...] Continue reading
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Breaking: Midlake
Who: Pastoral rockers from Denton, Texas, who first broke through with their 2006 track “Roscoe,” on which the group’s classic-rock-loving frontman Tim Smith sang about life in the 1800s. “I don’t do too well in the present,” he says. “Not that old times were better, but I’m more romantic about the past.”
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New Music Report: Gorillaz
This week Rolling Stone’s Daniel Kreps breaks down the Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach in our New Music Report. Kreps admits he didn’t immediately hear anything as instantly grabby as Demon Days‘ “DARE” or Gorillaz’s “Clint Eastwood” on their new disc — the closest relation here is the single “Stylo,” a catchy electro number that features Mos [...] Continue reading
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Exclusive Clip: The Runaways Rehearse to Be “Bigger Than the Beatles”
Early peeks at The Runaways, music video vet Floria Sigismondi’s biopic about the rise and fall of the iconic Seventies girl-punk band, have provided fast-and-dirty looks at the drama surrounding Joan Jett (played by Twilight star Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning). In Rolling Stone’s latest exclusive clip, Stella Maeve as Sandy West and [...] Continue reading
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