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“Proper fucking noise!” John Lydon declared with a crooked grin on Tuesday, facing a crowd at Club Nokia in Los Angeles for the opening night of Public Image Ltd.’s first U.S. tour in 18 years. “If you want to be mellow, that’s fine by me. If you want to squeal ...
Just one day after Kevin Eubanks officially announced he’ll be leaving Jay Leno’s Tonight Show in May, the late-night show quickly revealed who will fill Eubanks’ job as bandleader: American Idol musical director Rickey Minor, who will make his Tonight debut on June 7th. Minor becomes Leno’s third bandleader ...
“There is no Relapse 2 ,” Eminem wrote on Twitter in the wee hours of this morning, effectively putting to rest any chance that the promised sequel to his 2009 comeback album Relapse will be released in the near future — if ever. The rapper didn’t indicate whether another ...
“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 ...
American Idol may have generated artists who have sold more albums than last season’s glittery runner-up, but the show has never birthed a star of Adam Lambert’s magnetism. But depending on who you ask, he became the first former contestant invited back as a mentor because he ...
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 ...
Conventional reunited bands give fans what’s expected. The often heavy but always mischievous Bay Area quintet Faith No More launched their first local show in 12 years at the Warfield Theatre last night with an accurate rendering of Peaches & Herb’s “Reunited,” the ultimate disco-era, slow-dance anthem. Their ...
Muse or MGMT? LCD Soundsystem or Echo & the Bunnymen? The end of Pavement’s set or the beginning of Thom Yorke’s set? These are just a few of the grueling decisions festivalgoers will have to make at this weekend’s Coachella festival now that the three-day Indio, California fest has unveiled ...
Just hours after Conan O’Brien made headlines by revealing he’ll join TBS’ late-night lineup in November, The Tonight Show ...
Though he may not legally be able to be funny on television — at least not until his new TBS show premieres in November — Conan O’Brien kicked off his 32-city North American live comedy tour on Monday night with old friends, unexpected guests and a giant inflatable ...
If you missed Cream’s epic reunion shows in 2005, bassist Jack Bruce is the bearer of some bad news. “There’s a new story now — Cream is over,” Bruce told BBC 6Music , effectively crushing any hope of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame trio reuniting once again ...
Recording artist, manager of the Sex Pistols, provocateur, fashion designer, impresario — Malcolm McLaren, who died of cancer April 8th at 64 was all those things. He was also, briefly, the manager of the New York Dolls just before their breakup in 1975. Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain spoke with ...
After a three-day trial that drew friends Willie Nelson and Robert Duvall to a Waco, Texas courtroom, outlaw country artist Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty Friday on charges of aggravated assault for shooting a man in the face outside a Texas bar in 2007. “I am very sorry ...
Lilith Fair has revealed its complete list of dates for this summer’s 36-show trek. The Sarah McLachlan-headlined roving festival will kick off on June 27th in Calgary, Alberta, and hit up every major market before wrapping in Dallas, Texas on August 16th. Rihanna — who announced her ...
Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool were so devoted to making June 8th’s Green Day: Rock Band , the trio let themselves suck — again and again. “We filmed a bunch of animations of the band failing and the crowd booing them,” Harmonix Project Developer Chris Foster tells Rolling ...
Justin Bieber brought My World 2.0 to Saturday Night Live this weekend, rewarding his young fans for ...