Artists to Watch: Seven Acts Who Are Defining Rock, Soul and Hip-Hop in 2008
2008-03-21 15:00:14.898365
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Growing up on the Greek island of Karpathos, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis watched his father and other local men perform...
Chris Rock Isn't Laughing
2008-03-21 15:00:15.152276
Click href="http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/chrisrock/articles/story/19400269/video_gallery_chris_rock" target="blank">here to watch Chris Rock's greatest film and stand-up moments.
Here in the Time of Rock, wherein Christopher Julius Rock III rules again as he has ruled before, but only more so — international sweep! colossal forums! better transportation! — promptness counts for much. "There's no such thing as early," Rock himself will tell you, just as his late heroic father often impressed upon him under threat of belt strap. "There's on time and late. I'm always on time." Unsurprisingly, then, he has made it a point to be on time for his Time, which is a very good thing for a dire populace that suddenly seeks racial clarity with historic fervor (no mortal, of course, sifts matters of class and skin divide with sharper acuity than Rock, who is black but sometimes employs the term "a fine mocha" because he is just that precise.) Moreover, he concedes that seizing this seismic American...
Video Gallery: Chris Rock
2008-03-21 16:00:17.78301
Click href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/19551925" target="blank">here for an excerpt of the Chris Rock cover story.
Though Chris Rock had minor success on Saturday Night Live and with the HBO special Big Ass Jokes, his true breakout came in 1996 with the premiere of Bring the Pain. The stand-up special (and subsequent album Roll With the New) introduced the world to a number of instant-classic Rock bits, including "Niggas vs. Black People." The controversial routine is everything that's great about Rock: it's honest, insightful, vulgar and above all hilarious.
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Why Can't Adam Duritz Get Any Respect?
2008-03-21 19:00:25.219677
For half a second, Adam Duritz is airborne — and then he comes down hard. It's early February, during the second song of a rare Counting Crows small-club show in New York, and a moment ago, Duritz was teetering on a monitor speaker at the edge of the stage. Now, he tumbles backward, dreadlocks flailing, and his head collides with a piano. It looks painful. But Duritz springs back up, not missing a note — though his voice seems to quaver even more than usual as he sings, "Have you seen me lately?"
Then he climbs up onto that same speaker, again and again, like a man who has everything to prove. And maybe he does. Duritz is all too aware that some people hate him. They say his voice is whiny. They say his dreads are fake (which they are). And they don't like his band, either. "For some reason, everyone decided we were a piece of shit," he says a few days after the concert, describing a low point a couple of years back. "So the only thing to do was to go out there and show we weren't."
..."La Vie en Rose" singer steps into spotlight (Reuters)
2008-03-21 21:00:14.360071
By Ann Donahue 40 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - When Marion Cotillard won the best-actress Academy Award in February for her portrayal of singer Edith Piaf in "La Vie En Rose," Jil Aigrot, at home in the South of France, became "very emotional.""I was so very, very, very happy for all the team," Aigrot says, speaking as her daughter, Caroline, acts as a translator. "A lot of people worked hard for that movie."
Among them was Aigrot, who performed many of the vocals that Cotillard lip-synched to in the film, under guidance from the actress and director Olivier Dahan.
And while Cotillard may have received the bulk of the...
Beatles Meets Guitar Hero? Discussions Underway... March-19
2008-03-21 07:00:12.885077
Is a Beatles-branded Guitar Hero in the works?? Sony/ATV Music Publishing chairman and chief executive Marty Bandier apparently likes the idea, and is pursuing the possibilities with Guitar Hero creator Activision.? 'It's something we have talked about
Beatles sue to block 1962 tapes' release (AP)
2008-03-21 20:00:16.688866
By MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Writer 46 minutes ago
MIAMI - Lawyers for the Beatles sued Friday to prevent the distribution of unreleased recordings purportedly made during Ringo Starr's first performance with the group in 1962.The dispute between Apple Corps Ltd., the London company formed by the Beatles that helps guard their legacy, and Fuego Entertainment Inc. of Miami Lakes stems from recordings the Fab Four apparently made during a performance at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany.
Eight unreleased tracks are said to be among the recordings, including Paul McCartney singing Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues" and McCartney and John Lennon singing "Ask Me Why."
Apple Corps claims that the songs were taped without the consent of the band and that Fuego and sister companies Echo-Fuego Music Group LLC and Echo-Vista Inc. have no right to distribute them.
"This appears to us to be a garden-variety bootleg recording," said Paul LiCalsi, an attorney for Apple Corps.
But Fuego Entertainment says the recordings were legally made. "Don't claim that these were just bootlegged," said Fuego president Hugo Cancio. "It's not like today, that you just go in with a phone or a blackberry and you record."
The lawsuit contends that the recordings are of poor quality and that circulating them "dilutes and tarnishes the extraordinarily valuable image associated with the Beatles."
Cancio said that he had not been served with a copy of the lawsuit, but that the filing demanding at least $15 million in damages was not expected.
"I'm surprised because up to a few weeks ago, we were in good-faith conversations with Apple," he said.
Also named in the lawsuit is Jeffrey Collins, a partner of Cancio who obtained the recordings. It's unclear how Collins obtained the recordings.
Cancio intended to release the songs as "Jammin' with The Beatles and Friends, Star Club, Hamburg, 1962."
"It's unfair to millions of Beatles fans not to allow this recording to be put out. The world deserves to hear these tracks," he said. "The fact is that we have it; they don't, and that is what's bothering them."
...Billboard CD reviews: Gnarls Barkley, Panic at the Disco (Reuters)
2008-03-21 19:00:23.73212
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ARTIST: GNARLS BARKLEYALBUM: THE ODD COUPLE
NEW YORK (Billboard) - If Gnarls Barkley's debut, "St. Elsewhere," was the sound of Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green tinkering around with the creation of their bizarre surf-pop/psychedelic hybrid monster, "The Odd Couple" is the sound of that monster escaping from the lab. It's also about a thousand times darker. Danger Mouse goes from gospel to pop to spooky, often in the same track, and Green sets a new vocal bar on the desolate, acoustic-flavored nightmare ballad "Who Will Save My Soul." Zippy first single "Run" and the vaguely...
Christian Artist Griffith and Company New Single Tell It All Hits the Charts
2008-03-21 09:00:14.441998
Century 2 Entertainment made the decision to conduct an Internet test market of the new single by Griffith and Company, 'Tell It All', before releasing it to radio. In a matter of days Internet music tracking company SoundClick reported that of the
Digital music spells doom for talent
2008-03-21 23:02:23.592288
I remember complaining to friends back in the '90s that Nirvana had killed music. The Seattle-based grunge band itself wasn't to blame, but music labels looking for the next top-ten hit had learned that good music lurked in the average American garage.
Fat Joe vs. the Volcano
2008-03-21 00:00:14.60491
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Jazz grande dame McPartland turns 90 (AP)
2008-03-21 16:00:14.545555
By CHARLES J. GANS, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 21, 7:43 AM ET
NEW YORK - Marian McPartland celebrated her 90th birthday in a style befitting the "Grande Dame of Piano Jazz" with a little help from friends like Norah Jones and Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center."Getting up here is really a job," quipped McPartland, who has been slowed by arthritis in her legs and is recovering from a fractured pelvis, after being assisted onstage.
But the years fell away once her hands touched the keyboard.
She started both sets Wednesday night — on the eve of her actual birthday — with the traditional jazz tune "Royal Garden Blues," which she used to play in the band led by her late husband, cornetist Jimmy McPartland. The British-born pianist met the Chicago jazzman when they were entertaining troops in Belgium in 1944 and he introduced his war bride to American jazz audiences in the late 1940s.
McPartland also included selections from her latest album "Twilight World," showcasing her stylistic range and encyclopedic approach to the jazz repertoire — from solo piano versions of Burt Bacharach's "Alfie" and the obscure Alec Wilder ballad "Blackberry Winter" to avant-gardist Ornette Coleman's twisted blues "Turn Around," performed with her trio.
Jones, who returned to her jazz roots by singing "Blame It On My Youth," "The Nearness of You," and "Yesterdays," recalled she was 13 when she first heard the pianist at a Dallas jazz festival and spent many hours during her high school years listening to bootleg tapes of McPartland's "Piano Jazz," the longest-running cultural show on National Public Radio at 29 years and counting.
"Now thinking back (that) seems cool, but at the time ... you killed my social life," Jones joked. "But happy birthday and I'm so happy to be here and I love you madly."
Marsalis let his trumpet do the talking as he swung his way through Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are" accompanied by McPartland's trio.
Afterward, the pianist remarked: "I first played with him when he was 15. ... He was as good then as he is now, maybe not as cheeky."
Singer Karrin Allyson highlighted McPartland's talents as a composer by performing several of the pianist's original tunes, including "Twilight World" and "There'll Be Other Times."
Other birthday bash guests included violinist Regina Carter, singer Jeanie Bryson, and several generations of jazz pianists — Jason Moran, Bill Charlap and Kenny Barron — who filled in when McPartland needed a break.
The audience shared slices of her piano-shaped cake and her NPR colleagues presented her with a "Marian McPuppet" in her image, which McPartland joked had "the wrong shade of lipstick."
...Junkie XL remixes Madonna single
2008-03-21 10:00:13.002285
Dutch DJ and composer Tom Holkenborg, better known as Junkie XL, has produced a remix of Madonna?s new single 4 Minutes to Save the World. ?She is a pop artist with a really cool edge,? Holkenborg said on a tv chat show on Thursday night. Junkie
Kanye Joins Lil Wayne On 'Tha Carter III'
2008-03-21 18:00:18.259149
Kanye West has joined the roster of contributors to Lil Wayne's long-in-the-works album 'Tha Carter III,' tentatively due in May via Cash Money/Universal. The rapper broke the news this week during an interview with BBC Radio DJ Semtex, saying West
Lawsuit settled over Beach Boys name (AP)
2008-03-21 16:00:14.081778
Fri Mar 21, 7:47 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - Two former members of the Beach Boys settled a five-year legal dispute over use of the band's name, a lawyer said.Al Jardine and Mike Love reached an agreement after a two-day conference in Superior Court, attorney Lawrence Noble, who represents Jardine, said Thursday. Details of the settlement were not disclosed.
"Mr. Jardine feels very happy and feels that this is a friendly settlement that allows them to focus on the talent and future of this American iconic band," Noble said.
Love sued Jardine in 2003, claiming he fronted a group that used various versions of the Beach Boys name. The lawsuit said Love was the sole licensee to perform under the name, and that Jardine was denied use because he did not agree to abide by terms of a proposed license.
Love was seeking $2 million in court costs and $1 million he said Jardine collected from using the name.
A judge ruled in January that the case could go to trial. It was set to begin April 14.
The Beach Boys were founded in 1961 by brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Love and Brian Wilson's friend Jardine.
Dennis Wilson died in 1983 and Carl Wilson died in 1998.
Email Story IM Story Printable View Yahoo! Buzz...Legal deal restores good vibrations to Beach Boys
2008-03-21 00:00:14.603415
(Reuters) - An out-of-court settlement has restored good vibrations among the three surviving original members of the Beach Boys, an attorney involved in the case said on Thursday. The agreement, reached on Wednesday after two days of talks mediated by a
Legal deal restores good vibrations to Beach Boys (Reuters)
2008-03-21 00:00:13.719925
By Steve Gorman 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The settlement of a long legal dispute over rights to the Beach Boys' name has restored good vibrations among the three surviving original members of the famed group, attorneys in the case said on Thursday.The agreement, reached on Wednesday after two days of talks mediated by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, put to rest years of litigation that strained relations among members of the group that defined the California surf sound of the 1960s.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. But lawyers suggested the amicable nature of the settlement could pave the way for a long-awaited reunion of the band's three surviving co-founders...
Marley Biopic: No Music No Cry? (E! Online)
2008-03-21 13:00:14.831771
Josh Grossberg Fri Mar 21, 5:17 AM ET
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Is this love? From the looks of it, maybe not.The late Bob Marley's heirs are jamming the Weinstein Company from licensing the music of the reggae icon for an upcoming movie about his life and career that his widow, Rita Marley, is executive producing.
The reason for the snub, per the Hollywood Reporter: The clan's Tuff Gong Pictures is backing another project—a documentary by Martin Scorsese about Marley.
The family had already agreed to license the musician's hit-laden catalog for the Scorcese film—the first time the estate has granted such blanket rights—and is concerned that the Weinstein's biopic, set to unspool in late 2009, would conflict with the documentary's release in February 2010 around Marley's birthday.
"Martin Scorsese doesn't want to go out with a competing project, and [producer] Steven Bing has made deals with companies [that are now compromised]," Blue Mountain Music head Chris Blackwell told the Reporter. "The Weinstein project has put the documentary into jeopardy."
Blackwell founded Island Records, the label responsible for bringing Bob Marley and the Wailers as well as reggae in general to the masses, and now runs Blue Mountain Music, the "Stir It Up" singer's music publisher.
Marley's son, Ziggy, an executive producer on the untitled Scorsese expose, added that he and other family members' main priority is protecting his father's legacy.
"All our efforts and support are currently directed toward the documentary," Ziggy, a reggae star in his own right, told the trade. "We believe that this project is the best way to represent our father's life from his perspective, and any other film project pertaining to our father will be empty without his music to support it."
The problem for moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein is that they apparently were willing to get up, stand up for the story, but failed to get music rights.
"When I sold the film rights to my book [to the Weinsteins], the contract did not include any rights to use my husband's music," said Rita Marley.
Neither a rep for Tuff Gong Pictures nor the London-based Blackwell was available for comment.
...Music fans prefer Wikipedia to MySpace (Reuters)
2008-03-21 22:00:12.43167
By Antony Bruno 29 minutes ago
DENVER (Billboard) - Search for an artist on any of the popular search engines, and the top three results are practically guaranteed: the artist's official Web site, Wikipedia entry and MySpace page -- often in that order.But while artists and their handlers devote massive attention to the Web site and MySpace, the Wikipedia page is often overlooked. Recent data suggests they may want to reconsider their priorities.
According to data provided to Billboard from Yahoo -- the second-most popular search engine on the Web after Google -- those searching for artist information are selecting the...
Music rights flap jamming Bob Marley biopic (Reuters)
2008-03-21 12:00:13.152707
By Gregg Goldstein Fri Mar 21, 2:59 AM ET
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - The family of Bob Marley has refused to license any of his music for an upcoming Weinstein Co. film drama about the late reggae star even though his widow, Rita Marley, is its executive producer.The reason? There is a competing Martin Scorsese documentary being produced by the Marley family-owned Tuff Gong Pictures and Steven Bing's Shangri La production banner, the first theatrical documentary to license Marley songs.
The family members involved in the Scorsese documentary say they were unaware that the Weinstein project would be unveiled so soon and believe that its projected late-2009 release date...
Nada Surf and MySpace Team Up
2008-03-21 21:00:14.794132
Monster social networking site MySpace has revealed Nada Surf as the featured band for the second installment of MySpace Transmissions, a music program that provides artists with a unique platform to distribute audiovisual streams directly to fans. Nada
Odd Nosdam Pretty Swell Explode Remix&Rarities Album Coming
2008-03-21 02:00:11.534772
Odd Nosdamhas remixed everyone over the last few years, inbetween his work in (the defunct) cLOUDDEAD and of course his solo albums (Burner, No More Wig for Ohio, Level Live Wires). Now on April 29th, Anticon are to release a two-disc compilation of some
Opera star Florez cooks "Shrimp a la Pavarotti" (Reuters)
2008-03-21 00:00:14.601649
Thu Mar 20, 8:48 PM ET
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - World-famous opera tenor Juan Diego Florez, visiting his native Peru before his wedding next month, made his cooking debut with a Peruvian-Italian fusion dish called "Shrimp a la Pavarotti."Dressed in a white chef's shirt at a restaurant overlooking Lima's Pacific Ocean waters on Wednesday, Florez whipped up a shrimp flambe in a sauce of orange juice and balsamic vinegar to pay homage to the late opera great Luciano Pavarotti.
"I've liked to cook since I was a child," Florez, 35, told journalists.
The event was part of a push by Peru to showcase its diverse cuisine, which includes rich seafood, ingredients from...
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Q&A: Stipe, R.E.M. take rougher-edged approach (Reuters)
2008-03-21 20:00:16.231693
By Jessica Letkemann 15 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Think fast. R.E.M. has banished the quiet, dream-like mood of their last two records and is about to unleash the hard, sharp-eyed "Accelerate," their first album in four years.As Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills follow the first single's edit-it-yourself video with the album's launch on iLike and a worldwide tour, frontman Stipe spoke to Billboard.com about the set's "really fast, really raw" take on politics, teenage geekdom and the media; and how he and his bandmates "worked really hard to try to upset the things we had gotten bogged down in."
...REM - Accelerate: Pop CD of the week
2008-03-21 23:02:23.593958
REM's new album, reviewed by David Cheal, is the best of this week's releases REM Hooray! After more than a decade in the doldrums, during which REM have released a series of well-intentioned but increasingly dull albums, they've come up with a corker.
Richards: 'Stones band together for Jagger'
2008-03-21 06:00:12.560527
The Rolling Stones make an extra effort to pull together to ensure frontman Sir Mick Jagger feels confident enough to take to the stage, according to his bandmate Keith Richards. The legendary rockers let Jagger choose which songs they play at their gigs
Rights Flap Jamming Bob Marley Film
2008-03-21 13:00:12.82832
The family of Bob Marley has refused to license any of his music for a biopic that the Weinstein Co. is prepping -- despite the fact that his widow, Rita Marley, is its executive producer. The reason? There is a competing Martin Scorsese documentary
Rio Ferdinand - the Simon Cowell of hip-hop?
2008-03-21 14:00:11.204017
'The TV, the music, the fashion - it all goes to make up Rio Ferdinand.' Thus spake Rio Ferdinand not so long ago, and his efforts to cast himself as some kind of Renaissance man creative continue apace. According to reports, the Manchester United
Rod Wants Out of Son's Spat (E! Online)
2008-03-21 18:00:20.592428
Gina Serpe Fri Mar 21, 7:10 AM ET
Los Angeles (E! Online) - Spare the Rod, do what you want with the child.So, more or less, say lawyers for Rod Stewart as they seek to get the sexagenarian rocker removed as a defendant on a lawsuit filed against his trouble-prone adult son, Sean.
In the court documents, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the elder Stewart's legal team claims that there are no grounds on which the "Forever Young" crooner can be named in the assault, battery, false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress suit filed against his 27-year-old spawn.
Stewart's lawyers are demanding that the British rocker's name be struck from the suit—or at least that hard facts be presented to back up his alleged connection to the more than two-year-old incident that sparked it—as well as the dismissal of what they claim are baseless punitive damages and attorneys' fees for the alleged victim.
The complaint was first filed against Sean and two unnamed defendants in July of last year by Daniel Refoua. Rod Stewart was eventually fingered as one of the defendants in court papers submitted Dec. 4. The other was identified in the same filing as Rod's bodyguard, James "Country" Davis.
The lawsuit itself stems from a January 2006 physical altercation outside the Hollywood nightclub LAX.
While both sides have offered up conflicting reports about who initiated the knock-down incident, both sides agree that it took place and that Refoua wound up with a fractured nose and related injuries. The Sons of Hollywood heir, however, claims he was simply acting in self-defense. Refoua was subsequently ejected from the club.
Although Refoua's account of the incident takes great pains to implicate Sean Stewart for provoking the fisticuffs, it fails to mention how exactly his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dad came to be involved.
Prior to the elder Stewart's name-check in Refoua's December court filing, the singer was never mentioned in any report of the incident as being present at the time of the skirmish. Davis reportedly was, however, and Refoua seemingly wants the superstar held accountable for those on his payroll.
"The complaint is silent as to how the incident arose, its setting, [Rod Stewart's] specific conduct, or anything else," the latest court papers state. "It is also strange that it took Refoua four months to amend his complaint to identify Rod Stewart as a defendant."
A hearing on the matter is scheduled to take place May 9.
...Soulja Boy headlines spring tour
2008-03-21 15:00:12.509778
Teenage rapper Soulja Boy [ tickets ] Tellem is getting ready to headline the '21&Under Tour,' which is scheduled to roll through North American clubs and theaters beginning next month.After earning his stripes on last year's 'Up Close&Personal Tour'
SpiralFrog Launches Free Concert Ticket Sweepstakes: Enter for Your Chance to Win $5,000 in Concert Tickets
2008-03-21 18:00:18.247918
SpiralFrog Launches Free Concert Ticket Sweepstakes Enter for Your Chance to Win $5,000 in Concert Tickets NEW YORK ( via ) March 21, 2008 -- SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com), the free and legal ad-supported music site, gives music fans the chance to win
Swedish pop star Robyn gets her groove back (Reuters)
2008-03-21 22:00:12.848208
By Mitchell Peters 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Some could label her a rebel, but Robyn might best be described as a teen pop survivor of the music industry.In the years after her U.S. breakthrough in the late 1990s, the Swedish singer had nearly abandoned hopes of maintaining a successful career. But more than a decade later, Robyn will return to the American music scene with a self-titled album that's hits shelves April 29 via Konichiwa/Cherrytree/Interscope.
"It is definitely like getting a second chance," Robyn says. "I had scrapped all my ideas of being an international...
The Raconteurs Drop Track List, Tour Dates
2008-03-21 05:00:23.827627
After surprising everyone with the news that their sophomore album, Consolers of The Lonely will be released in only a week, The Raconteurs have also announced a track list and corresponding tour dates. The tour will kick off a month after the album's
The soundtrack for every rambler
2008-03-21 11:00:13.701472
Why is it that travellers across the globe end up listening to the same music? 'The first time that I heard Clandestino, by Manu Chao, was in French Polynesia - and I freaked out. I got up and asked the barman, 'Who is this? It's amazing!' He told me
Vampire Weekend Are Happy To Wait It Out
2008-03-21 20:00:17.258885
Every year, a few buzz bands spring out of nowhere with a reworked version of a familiar sound and suddenly become ubiquitous. Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Vampire Weekend are that band in 2008. The group's self-titled debut is getting as much attention as the
Video - Slim Cessna's Auto Club
2008-03-21 14:00:11.216802
There's a storm brewing in Colorado. Slim Cessna's Auto Club returned last week with Cipher (revew) from Alternative Tentacles Records. The Denver act continues its roll with a video that sets live footage against an album version of 'Americadio.' It's
ZZ Top gets busy on first album since 2003 (Reuters)
2008-03-21 06:00:13.498948
By Gary Graff Thu Mar 20, 9:44 PM ET
AUSTIN, Texas (Billboard) - With a live DVD, a new album and some touring on the docket, ZZ Top is revving up for a busy year.While he was hanging out at this year's South by Southwest Music + Media Conference in Austin, Texas -- where he performed at Rachael Ray's Feedback party and psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson's annual Ice Cream Social -- the band's guitarist, Billy Gibbons, told Billboard.com that bandmates Dusty Hill and Frank Beard were back in Dallas "in the studio, preparing a new series of sessions of new material" for ZZ Top's first studio set since 2003's "Mescalero."
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