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MUSIC NEWSLoretta Lynn Story Shaken Up by Age Revelation
19 May 2012. Last updated: 21:07PM
A dramatic element of Loretta Lynn's autobiography has been called into question following a discovery by the Associated Press that the country legend is actually three years older than she had claimed Lynn's birth certificate which the AP found on file at the state Office of Vital Statistics in Frankfort Kentucky...
Protests Greet Lady Gaga's Arrival in the Philippines
19 May 2012. Last updated: 18:54PM
Hundreds of young Christians took to the streets Friday and Saturday in protest as Lady Gaga arrived in Manila for the latest leg of her Asian tour the Associated Press reports The protesters members of a group called Biblemode Youth Philippines are calling for the cancellation of the pop star's concerts...
String Cheese Incident Stage Ticketing Coup at the Greek
19 May 2012. Last updated: 15:55PM
Earlier this year the String Cheese Incident announced that they would offer an allotment of tickets to their summer shows directly through their official website without any kind of service charge In a generous gesture to their fans the band even agreed to eat the credit card processing fees themselves...
Dave Grohl Makes His 11th Appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' Tonight
19 May 2012. Last updated: 14:29PM
Dave Grohl will make his 11th appearance as a performer on Saturday Night Live tonight when he and the Foo Fighters join Mick Jagger for a performance of well who knows? This puts Grohl in a firm lead over nine-time performer Paul Simon as the most frequent...
Tom Morello Gets Fired Up at Chicago Nurses Rally
18 May 2012. Last updated: 23:05PM
"I'd like to make a suggestion to President Obama " Tom Morello bellowed to the capacity crowd gathered for the National Nurses United rally at Chicago's Daley Plaza on Friday afternoon "If he doesn't have the courage to close Guantanamo Bay how about he takes some of those Wall Street...
St. Lucia Perform 'Closer Than This' at Spotify House
18 May 2012. Last updated: 21:45PM
Brooklyn-based electro-pop group St Lucia recently performed a sunny version of their catchy track "Closer Than This" at the Spotify House in Austin They recall of the show "We've done a couple of acoustic recordings but not in front of an audience so this was quite nerve-wracking" The smaller more...
Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Disco Song of All Time?
18 May 2012. Last updated: 19:30PM
Donna Summer the singer known to her fans as the Queen of Disco died on Thursday at the age of 63 Summer along with the producer Giorgio Moroder was at the forefront of the disco movement in the Seventies expanding and transforming dance music by mutating strains of R&B funk...
John Mellencamp: 'I Write About the Human Condition, I Paint About the Human Condition'
18 May 2012. Last updated: 19:15PM
John Mellencamp may have made his name cutting heartland hits like "Jack and Diane" and "Pink Houses" but he also turns to painting to express himself "It's my hobby" Mellencamp tells Rolling Stone on Thursday at a gallery reception in Nashville where Nothing Like I Planned The Art of John...
Premiere: Amon Tobin, 'Lost and Found'
18 May 2012. Last updated: 18:00PM
Producer Amon Tobin is bringing back his wildly successful ISAM Live show an immense audio and visual performance this year with some slightly new looks Along with more tour dates the avant-garde producer is also set to release a box set with seven CDs and two DVDs filled with rare...
New Order: Life After Death
18 May 2012. Last updated: 16:05PM
This story is from the September 15th 1983 issue of Rolling Stone May 19th 1980 was no ordinary Monday for the members of Joy Division Bags were packed and goodbyes had been said They were ready to leave for America on their first rock & roll tour abroad They had finished...
SONG REVIEWS"Breathe"
16 May 2012. Last updated: 14:00PM
Smooth and warm-hued this monster ballad – from the Avengers soundtrack – could be a fossil encased in amber In fact it's an ode to numbness "You erase away the black and white" Weiland croons over cock-rock guitar It's almost heartbreaking Related• Scott Weiland Talks 'Avengers' Tune STP Anniversary Tour
"Okay Cupid"
15 May 2012. Last updated: 18:05PM
High school-age mall employee and avowed Justin Bieber obsessive Kitty Pryde is this millisecond's internet-rap brush fire But the Floridian's debut single is arresting well beyond its novelty appeal Over a sumptuously screwed beat from Lil B and A$AP Rocky producer Beautiful Lou she floats a drowsy giggly love letter...
"That Laughing Track"
14 May 2012. Last updated: 14:00PM
From the dudes behind that toasty remix of Kid Cudi's "Day 'N' Nite" comes this electro-house ruckus Built around insane laughter and rubbery beats it targets that wee-hours moment in the club when you think your head might explode Then the DJ drops this and it does Listen to Crookers feat...
"Youth Without Youth"
11 May 2012. Last updated: 14:00PM
Glam sugar with a bitter core Perennial indie crush Emily Haines drops a wasted-youth anthem with scarred poetry like "We played blindman's bluff till they stopped the game" over a bleak- bubblegum stomp Listen to Metric's "Youth Without Youth" Related• Metric Play Acoustic 'Youth Without Youth'
"Blue Jeans (Smims and Belle remix)"
10 May 2012. Last updated: 14:00PM
The original was a nice idea – ZZ Top's "Sharp Dressed Man" made into a trip-hop ballad even if Del Rey is too thin a singer to pull it off This remix proves you can save anything with the right flavor of disco thwump and a tight freestyle – in...
"45"
09 May 2012. Last updated: 14:00PM
Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem has been in a kind of Tom Waits-meets-Billy Joel phase of late especially in his side band the Horrible Crowes But the title of the Jersey group's new single suggests Gaslight's forthcoming album will be a return to their sincerity-drunk heartland-hardcore basics "45" is...
"Breath of Life"
08 May 2012. Last updated: 14:00PM
Inspired by Charlize Theron's evil-queen character in the new Snow White movie this song from the film's soundtrack is Flo at her most toweringly gothed-out All doom-drum rush and endless-midnight orchestral sweep it sounds like it was produced by Sauron the Dark Lord of Mordor – but in a good...
'Elegia' (long version)
04 May 2012. Last updated: 14:00PM
"Elegia" first appeared in 1985 as a majestic five-minute waltz The full version is a 17-minute-plus epic that threatens to fade rebuilds around tortured guitar bursts and gives up the ghost in a final feedback gasp Unintelligible voices flicker but what's being expressed is clearly beyond words Listen to New Order's...
ALBUM REVIEWSTrespassing
15 May 2012. Last updated: 04:25AM
So here's the great pop album everybody was hoping Adam Lambert would make ever since he ran wild on American Idol three years ago It wasn't just Glambert's dynamite-with-a-laser-beam voice that got him into our national knickers It was his warmth his humor his burlesque bravado His 2010 debut For...
Heroes
15 May 2012. Last updated: 04:20AM
On his millionth album give or take Willie Nelson is his usual self loping through a set of well-chosen originals and unlikely covers (Coldplay's "The Scientist"!?) with casual virtuosity This time Nelson has packed his recording studio with friends and family including his son Lukas who sings on nine songs...
Rize of the Fenix
15 May 2012. Last updated: 04:20AM
The first full-length album in six years from Jack Black and Kyle Gass' comedy-cock-rock duo is chock-full of swaggering pomposity But too many of its gags sound like they've been festering since the Pick of Destiny days; perhaps all the dick jokes here are meant to distract you from the...
Bloom
15 May 2012. Last updated: 04:15AM
Beach House records live up to their name They're cozy retreats where you can curl up in warm droning reverb-drenched tunes and watch jellyfish bob in the surf But on Bloom the Baltimore duo's fourth album there's a bitch of a storm blowing in "What comes after this momentary bliss/The...
Go! Pop! Bang!
15 May 2012. Last updated: 04:05AM
The exclamation marks in the album title only hint at the emphatic nature of the debut album from longtime MIA sidekick Rye Rye The Baltimore rapper is a spaz extraordinaire – a party girl smack-talker and dance-floor commandant whose unflagging energy lifts even the least of her material Not that...
Storm & Grace
15 May 2012. Last updated: 04:00AM
"I"m a bit transgressive and suppressive as well" sings Lisa Marie Presley on "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" shouting out an identity crisis her third LP fully owns The daughter of Elvis and ex-wife of Michael never jelled as a pop-rock diva (see her 2005 duet with Pink "Shine") Here...
Nootropics
10 May 2012. Last updated: 15:15PM
As you might guess of a gal who titled her 2005 solo album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom Lower Dens frontwoman Jana Hunter has some goth in her "Mutate deface The whole shithouse goes up in flames" she sings over gorgeous synth drones on "Nova Anthem" an interstellar dirge that...
The Only Place
08 May 2012. Last updated: 20:45PM
Two years ago Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast was just a chill 23-year-old California girl with a cat named Snacks and a record collection full of teenage kicks from the Shangri-Las to Blink-182 But after the LA duo released Crazy for You a massively catchy set of modern beach pop...
AM/FM
08 May 2012. Last updated: 04:20AM
Sensuous US radio hits from the Sixties and Seventies have a surprisingly able proponent in Rita Wilson the LA-born actress and producer who debuts as a singer with this collection Helped by Sheryl Crow ("Angel of the Morning" "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?") Chris Cornell ("All I Have to Do...
OFF!
08 May 2012. Last updated: 04:15AM
"I wanna club you like a baby seal!" hollers 56-year-old Keith Morris formerly of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks in "King Kong Brigade" the climax of this hot new hardcore outfit's full-length debut Morris one of LA's crustiest punks and his similarly ripe crew manage a neat trick sounding...
MOVIE REVIEWSBattleship
17 May 2012. Last updated: 21:10PM
Confession I'm usually in Peter Berg's corner Friday Night Lights The Kingdom and Hancock all show a director with a wild streak Hollywood can't totally tame But Battleship based on Hasbro's naval-combat game shows Berg trying to transform into demon box-office machine Michael Bay Can you aim lower? Battleship is...
What To Expect When You're Expecting
17 May 2012. Last updated: 21:05PM
What's in the Hollywood water supply? First director Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) who should know better clones himself as Michael Bay with Battleship Now Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine) does a Freaky Friday body switch becoming director Garry Marshall with the still-born What To Expect When You're Expecting an...
The Dictator
16 May 2012. Last updated: 17:05PM
Say it isn't so Is Sacha Baron Cohen aka Ali G Borat and Bruno actually starring in a movie with a semi-coherent plot? Seems like it There's not a mock-doc improvised caught-on-the-fly "gotcha!" moment in all of The Dictator Baron Cohen wrote the linear script with Alec Berg David Mandel...
Dark Shadows
10 May 2012. Last updated: 20:40PM
If you're not interested in what Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton are cooking up you're missing out on one of the best go-your-own-way teams in screen history Dark Shadows their eighth collaboration to date doesn't occupy the rarefied air of Ed Wood Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd It's too...
Under African Skies
10 May 2012. Last updated: 20:35PM
By all means check out Joe Berlinger's unmissable Under African Skies a documentary that shows how Paul Simon defied a UN cultural boycott to work in South Africa during apartheid to record his landmark Graceland album in 1985 Simon's virtuosity intensified by a 2011 reunion concert with the South African...
A Little Bit of Heaven
04 May 2012. Last updated: 16:45PM
Kate Hudson whose career has been sputtering on life support for years plays a terminal patient in this droolingly stupid weepieUseful tip The movie dies way quicker than she does
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
03 May 2012. Last updated: 20:15PM
The MTV Cribs peeps are probably not clamoring to see this tale of British retirees seeking a retirement haven in India But screw them if they don't give a damn about watching Brit acting royalty nailing every nuance in this comedy laced with genuine emotion Adapted by Ol Parker from...
The Avengers
30 Apr 2012. Last updated: 16:30PM
Let me sprint right to the point The Avengers has it all And then some Six superheroes for the price of one ticket Iron Man Thor Captain America Hawkeye Black Widow and the Hulk It's also the blockbuster I saw in my head when I imagined a movie that brought...
Bernie
26 Apr 2012. Last updated: 20:25PM
Texas-born Richard Linklater is one of those rare filmmakers whose work never fails to fascinate Unconvinced? Here's a few titles Slacker Dazed and Confused Before Sunrise Before Sunset Waking Life School of Rock A Scanner Darkly Fast Food Nation Me and Orson Welles Now let's get on with his latest...
The Five-Year Engagement
26 Apr 2012. Last updated: 20:20PM
IMAO (that's "In My Arrogant Opinion") actor-writer Jason Segel and director-writer Nicholas Stoller crafted a sublime romantic soufflé in 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall That dream partnership gets dinged a bit in the frustratingly uneven The Five-Year Engagement which drags and sags at 124 minutes Luckily the movie never runs on...