Rock Music News
• Video: Stone Temple Pilots Return on Kimmel
• Alicia Keys Seeks Backup Singers Via MySpace
• News Ticker: The Cure, Beyoncé
Top stories from the last three days:
• Interview Paramore at RollingStone.com
• Madonna Plays NYC Club Show; Photos
• Weiland Talks Axl Rose, STP Reunion
• Common Previews Invincible Summer
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Each week on MTV’s Rock the Cradle, the sons and daughters of musical icons compete for the sort of exposure they would have received anyway on the basis of their DNA. Rock Daily sorts through the nepotistic wreckage.
Children’s Story: After getting record scores last week, Crosby Loggins doled out some dull trash talk about getting [...]
It will be a shame if this is indeed the final North American swing for the Police, as the reunited group showed itself to be a joyous arena rock machine that enthralled a sold out Scotiabank Place in Ottawa last night, their first visit to Canada’s capitol since 1979.
Clad in a black suit and [...]
Stone Temple Pilots made their triumphant return last night by playing Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s Pontiac Garage. A non-imprisoned Scott Weiland and his STP mates played two songs, Purple’s “Vasoline” (above) and Tiny Music…’s “Trippin’ On a Hole in a Paper Heart” (after the jump). The band are set to kick off their massive reunion tour [...]
T.I., “No Matter What” [Advance Track]
After the botched confessional T.I. vs. T.I.P., Clifford Harris makes another run at autobiography in this moody track, recorded while he was under house arrest. The results best his last outing effortlessly.
Various Artists, Analog Africa, Selection 1 [Mixtape]
This heart-racer of a mixtape distills the exhilarating African Scream Contest to its [...]
Alicia Keys has joined the many others before her by recruiting talent off MySpace, as the songstress now seeks a backup singer via the social networking site. Keys is asking candidates ages twenty-one to thirty to submit a thirty-second or longer video of themselves singing by May 5th, which is Monday, so you probably should [...]
Starting this month, The Cure will release a new single each month until the September release of their 13th studio album.
Beyoncé is at work in a New York recording studio with producers Chris “Tricky” Stewart (who worked on Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and Mariah Carey’s “Touch My Body”) and Kuk Harrell.
Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger [...]
“I feel like there are only a limited amount of years where you can wear those tight jeans. There comes a point where whether you can wear them or not, you shouldn’t wear them,” Scott Weiland tells Rolling Stone. “And at a certain point, bands that have the ability to mature musically should mature musically [...]
The blockbuster movie season starts this weekend, and Peter Travers is armed and ready with his video review of Iron Man. Click here for the Rolling Stone film critic’s take on that movie, plus his thoughts on the David Mamet mixed martial arts flick Redbelt and the romantic comedy Made of Honor.
Widespread Panic bring chaos for a bunch of post-Bonnaroo shows, the Hold Steady remind audiences to Stay Positive and Fleet Foxes look to prove whether they are Hit or Hype during their summer tour. The full set of tour dates lies after the jump.
Widespread Panic
June 15 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
June 20-22 - Los Angeles, [...]
