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Rolling Stone: Music News -
2 days and 12 hours ago
Layoffs and the business' decline have scattered thousands of employees ? so where are they
now?
The major record labels have laid off more than 5,000 employees since CD sales began plunging in
2000 — and that's not counting all the people who ran screaming from the music business on
their own. All asked themselves the same question: Now what? "When you've spent 20 years in the
music business, you don't have that many real-life skills," says Debbie Southwood-Smith, a
laid-off Interscope Records A&R executive. The answer: teacher, nurse, financial consultant,
door captain,...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
2 days and 14 hours ago
John McCain can't stand sucking up to the Christian right. Is this the end of the GOP's
unholy alliance?
Phoenix, July 13th, Sunday morning. Thank God John McCain has declared that he wants to wallpaper
the continent with new nuke plants, because now the chances are better that this wretched slab of
hot, birdshit-covered asphalt they call a state will be blown to hell in an accident someday. I
hate this place. Once the sun comes up on an Arizona weekend, nothing moves except the occasional
elderly-piloted Buick floating boatlike in the direction of some hideous megachurch.
This morning...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
2 days and 14 hours ago
Guitar Hero, Rock Band sign Hendrix, Aerosmith, G n' R and the Who
Aerosmith don't have a new album out, but the band still scored the biggest sales week of its
38-year career in early July, thanks to the fastest-growing new business in rock: video games.
The new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith — which lets fans use the franchise's familiar plastic
guitar controller to play 25 songs from "Sweet Emotion" to "Love in an Elevator" — sold
over 567,000 copies in its first week, grossing more than $25 million, at $50 a game. In
contrast, the band's last studio alb...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
2 days and 22 hours ago
With a wildly popular tour and a new record expected to sell millions, the Jonas Brothers
have gone from Disney novelty to phenomenon. All they want is for you to see them as a real
band
It's nearing 8:00 on a sweltering night in Phoenix, and as the temperature mercifully dips below
100 degrees, a trillion swelling hormones have collected at the Cricket Wireless Pavilion to
experience the Jonas Brothers. Among the undersize pilgrims in attendance are Jordan and Jackie, a
pair of blond preteens from nearby Scottsdale. Moments ago, they met the Jonas Brothers in person
at a "meet and greet" photo op, and now they stand red-cheeked, quivering and sobbing
uncontrollably, as if...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
3 days and 12 hours ago
A new reissue of the Beach Boys drummer's late-'70s album serves as a reminder of Wilson's
talent and torment
Hours before an early 1970s Beach Boys concert, the band?s musical director Jim Guercio remembers
drummer Dennis Wilson fooling around on the piano during soundcheck. "I heard these amazing changes
and I said, 'Dennis, is that one of Brian's songs?' " Guercio says. "He said, 'No, It's one of
mine.' "
By 1977 — just six years before he died — the Beach Boys' drummer had released
Pacific Ocean Blue, a stunning, painful solo album that's widely considered the best
Beach Boys project...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
8 days and 14 hours ago
Host, Nashville Star (NBC)
So is Miley still grounded?
[Laughs] In which way? There's two definitions of grounded. One is that your head's on straight.
And the other is that you're in trouble.
I mean the second one.
No, she's not grounded. She never ceases to amaze me. She's made a great album. People are gonna
look at Miley Cyrus and go, "Wow, I didn't know she could do that."
Going back a few months to that hurricane over the Vanity Fair photo — how
did you get through it?
I had to just kind...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
8 days and 14 hours ago
Host, "Nashville Star" (NBC)
So is Miley still grounded?
[Laughs] In which way? There's two definitions of grounded. One is that your head's on
straight. And the other is that you're in trouble.
I mean the second one.
No, she's not grounded. She never ceases to amaze me. She's made a great album. People are gonna
look at Miley Cyrus and go, "Wow, I didn't know she could do that."
Going back a few months to that hurricane over the Vanity Fair photo — how
did you get through it?
I had to just kind...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
9 days and 13 hours ago
Linkin Park's Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell talk about prepping for their Projekt
Revolution tour and great Lollapalooza moments
On the eve of the launch of the fifth Projekt Revolution — the multi-genre tour founded by
Linkin Park in 2002 — Rolling Stone checked in with two of its headliners, LP's
Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell. The pair of famous frontmen chatted about the greatest rock
singers and classic Lollapalooza fests.
How does being around all these different artists on the Projekt Revolution tour inspire
you?
Chris Cornell: Being on tour can sometimes be less complicated than being at
home...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
23 days and 11 hours ago
About an hour before showtime, here's how the four members of Mötley Crüe spend their
time: Singer Vince Neil lifts weights. Bassist Nikki Sixx plays loud music. Drummer Tommy Lee plays
unbelievably loud music. "The music is on 'stun,' " Lee brags. And guitarist Mick Mars meditates as
far away from Lee as possible. "When we all shared dressing rooms, I was a wreck," Mars says. "
'Dude, do you have to beat on the trash can? Let's save the mayhem for the stage.' "
As younger men, M...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
24 days and 15 hours ago
The best tracks inspired by Barack Obama
Song: "Yes We Can"
Artist: Will.i.Am, plus everybody in his Rolodex
Platform: As Will.i.Am explains on the song's official site, the Black Eyed Pea was so inspired by
Obama's New Hampshire primary speech that he penned a simple acoustic melody, used the words from
the speech and got a ton of guests (including John Legend, Scarlett Johansson and Common) to join
him on the video, which has picked up over eight million views.
Awkward Rhyming? None.
Electoral Votes:...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
27 days and 10 hours ago
Popcorn movies, cool beach reads and a scooter that delivers beer: what more do you need
for summer?
1. Summer Movie Showdown: What Can Top Iron Man?
Angelina Jolie, Will Smith and Batman face off
"It's 'no one knows anything' time," Variety editor Peter Bart says of this year's
summer movies, citing screenwriter William Goldman's famous line about how fruitless it is to
predict a Hollywood smash. Indeed, when you consider that an unconventional superhero film
starring a once-incarcerated ex-drug addict is the number-one movie of the season (Iron
Man, at $300 million)...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
30 days and 14 hours ago
Over beer, tea and banana sandwiches, the singer opens up about her jailed husband, her
next record and her unraveling life
It's dawn on a hot sunday morning in June, and Amy Winehouse is inside her North London home,
staring at her reflection in a dark tinted mirror, looking the tiny little body in front of her
up and down, assessing the emaciated tattooed limbs, the jungle of a black beehive weave, the
hallucinatory glow of her transparent green eyes. All around her, Winehouse's home is in
disastrous disarray: Discarded bags of potato chips, crumpled nuggets of tinfoil, beer bottles,
lingerie boxes and scattered...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
30 days and 21 hours ago
The Democratic nominee inspires acts from Dylan to Lil Wayne
The night Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for president, Green Day's Billie Joe
Armstrong found himself experiencing an unfamiliar emotion: hope. "After his acceptance speech, I
have to admit, it took me an hour to get the lump out of my throat," says Armstrong, whose band's
American Idiot was the defining protest album of the Bush years. "Obama inspires people,
and this country needs inspiration. People are jaded, pissed off and embarrassed."
Much as the Bush administration...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
30 days and 21 hours ago
My Morning Jacket on ruling Bonnaroo and going R&B with their killer hit disc "Evil
Urges"
For their 35th and final song at Bonnaroo, as a steady rain soaked Tennessee, My Morning Jacket
eased into a cover of Mötley Crüe's "Home Sweet Home." It wasn't the only special moment
during the four-hour, career-defining set — which included most of the band's new Evil
Urges, killer covers of James Brown's "Cold Sweat" and Erykah Badu's "Tyrone," and a guest
spot from Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett ("an up-and-comer," said MMJ frontman Jim James), who
shredded on the 2003 jam...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
38 days and 15 hours ago
All the band's clips, from "Yellow" to "Violet Hill"
"Yellow" (From Parachutes)
Plot: Martin walks on a beach in a single take and insists that the stars are,
in fact, yellow.
Is The Band In a Remote Location? The remainder of the group is absent and
there's not another soul around Martin, setting up a pattern for future Coldplay videos that
established the band as loners who were constantly fleeing from other people.
Radiohead Reference: Martin's dead-eyed stare into the camera recalls Thom
Yorke's gaze in just about every video...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
38 days and 15 hours ago
"Yellow" (From Parachutes)
Plot: Martin walks on a beach in a single take and insists that the stars are,
in fact, yellow.
Is The Band In a Remote Location? The remainder of the group is absent and
there's not another soul around Martin, setting up a pattern for future Coldplay videos that
established the band as loners who were constantly fleeing from other people.
Radiohead Reference? Martin's dead-eyed stare into the camera recalls Thom
Yorke's gaze in just about every video...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
43 days and 21 hours ago
In the past two years, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has gotten married and had a baby girl. While
living with his wife and in-laws in Japan, Cuomo wrote many of the tracks that ended up on the
band's new disc, Weezer — nicknamed the Red Album for its plain red cover. "I bought
this bicycle," says Cuomo, "and I'd ride to a studio every day, which was inside this surreal,
futuristic mall." With his acoustic guitar, Cuomo would sequester himself, writing tracks like
"Heart Songs," which...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
44 days and 10 hours ago
Band returns to speed metal on new disc with Rick Rubin
This is the advice producer Rick Rubin gave Metallica over two years ago, as the band knuckled down
to write its next album: "I said, 'Imagine you're not Metallica,' " Rubin recalls. " 'You don't
have any hits to play, and you have to come up with material to play in a battle of the bands. What
do you sound like?' "
"It was the obvious thing — that we didn't see," says singer-guitarist James Hetfield.
Rubin, a longtime friend and fan who was producing a Metallica album for the first tim...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
44 days and 11 hours ago
Chris Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview
When Chris Martin emerges from a town car on a quiet west village street one afternoon in May, he's
dressed like a stagehand — black khakis, black hooded top. You'd never notice him, which is
probably the idea. But then he starts singing Talking Heads' "Girlfriend Is Better" loud enough to
be heard from across the street. The guy can't help it: He's a ham. The paparazzi siege that came
with marrying Gwyneth Paltrow and having two angelic blond children with her has forced a certain
...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
44 days and 22 hours ago
How a rock legend and a bluegrass queen became the unlikeliest match in rock & roll. On
the road with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
They are an odd couple as they walk up to their microphones on the opening night of their 2008
tour, at the Palace Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. Robert Plant, in his first concert since his
live reunion with Led Zeppelin in London last year, has seasoned his rock-lord aura with a purple
riverboat-dandy vest and white ruffled shirt. Alison Krauss, the most successful singer and fiddler
in modern bluegrass, looks like she is on her way to a church social, in a long summer dress, her
sharp cheek...
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Rolling Stone: Music News -
45 days and 12 hours ago
David Cook didn't even plan to try out for American Idol - and then he won
Less than a week after winning American Idol, David Cook is sitting in a glitzy restaurant
on the south tip of Manhattan's Central Park. The chef, who proudly says he was among the 55
million who phoned in a vote for Cook during Idol's finals, presents the singer with an
off-the-menu treat — foie gras on toast — that leaves Cook unnerved. "That looks
dangerous," he says. "I'm a little scared." Tossing the bite-size morsel in his mouth, he chews
slowly and quickly lung | |