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Drake Lands Consulting Gig With NBA Team

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 15:30
Drake is taking his love for his hometown to the next level he's signed on with the NBA's Toronto Raptors as a "global ambassador" The Canadian rapper will be in charge of launching a Raptors clothing line as well as consulting on a redesign of the team's appearance as part of...

Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry Stands Up Against Misogyny

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 15:15
Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry has taken a defiant stance against internet misogyny in a new blog post for The Guardian The singer for the Scottish trio wrote about having to deal with hostile and sexist messages sent to the band through social media sites One specific incident occured last week when Mayberry...

Lady Antebellum Avoid Preaching on New Single 'Compass'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 15:15
Back in May Lady Antebellum notched another number one record with their fourth LP Golden The album's first single "Downtown" had already topped the Country airplay charts and a smart saucy jam like that doesn't suddenly disappear once summer comes But the band opted out of hitting the road Instead with...

Farewell 'Breaking Bad': Earth Below Us, Drifting Falling

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 13:45
Walt White's old adversary Mike Ehrmantraut put it best "You know how they say 'it's been a pleasure'? It hasn't" After five agonizing seasons Breaking Bad finally reached Miller Time with last night's finale caper using Badfinger's bleakly romantic "Baby Blue" as a last word as Walt White tears down...

Paul McCartney Responds to Lost Fan Letter, 50 Years Later

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 13:30
Two women in England were pleasantly surprised to receive a reply from Paul McCartney 50 years after sending him a fan message Barbara Bezant and Lyn Phillips recorded a message on a reel-to-reel tape in 1963 and sent it to the Finsbury Park Astoria in London where the Beatles were...

'Inside Llewyn Davis' All-Stars Honor Greenwich Village Heyday

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 13:00
At New York City's Town Hall on Sunday night Patti Smith had the best line of the night Glancing at a chorus line of musicians behind her Smith admitted "I don't even know who they are half of them" The audience laughed and Smith courteously added "But I'm pleased to...

Flashback: 'Breaking Bad' Immortalizes Badfinger's "Baby Blue"

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 12:32
On last night's series finale of Breaking Bad Walter White's final moments were soundtracked by a song befitting for the mastermind behind the blue meth UK power-pop band' Badfinger's lilting lulalby "Baby Blue" a song that hints at both reverence ("I would show the special love I have for you my...

Peter Hook: Joy Division Masters Hung Up in Legal Wrangling

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 12:20
Peter Hook is the first person to tell you that he is not a singer The Joy Division and New Order bassist who's no longer on speaking terms with former bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris has been playing selections from his complete discography in sequence and in their entirety...

Flaming Lips Wield 'Peace Sword' on New EP

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 11:55
The Flaming Lips are preparing to put out an EP based on the themes from Ender's Game The band had previously signed on to write a song for the film adaptation of the popular novel by Orson Scott Card and decided to extend the project to a full-length album Stereogum reports  The...

My Morning Jacket, Grizzly Bear Set for CBGB Salute

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 11:40
My Morning Jacket and Grizzly Bear will take over New York's Times Square with a massive free show on October 12th They'll be joined by the Wallflowers and Spoon singer Britt Daniel's Divine Fits along with a DJ set by DFA Records honcho and former LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy Where Does...

Moby, Lorde, Zedd Help Ring in Decibel Festival’s 10th Year

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 11:40
For a decade Seattle's Decibel Festival has been expanding across the venues of the city drawing renowned DJs experimental electronic artists and up-and-coming producers to venues more closely tied to the launch of grunge and alt-rock In 2013 the iconic chart-topping talent that flocked to Seattle and the fans that...

David Bowie Re-Release Includes James Murphy Remix

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 09:55
David Bowie is expanding The Next Day his first album in a decade with extra songs videos and new remixes including one by former LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy Bowie will release the three-disc collector's edition The Next Day Extra on November 5th The new edition will include the original 14-track album a...

Matt Nathanson Falls in Love With 'Kinks Shirt' - Premiere

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 09:30
Matt Nathanson's catchy homage to a wild tattoo-covered stripper with a Ray Davies fixation is fleshed out with the help of this video helmed by actor/comedian turned director Bobcat Goldthwait Lifted from his eighth and latest studio album Last of the Great Pretenders Nathanson's clip for "Kinks Shirt" takes some unexpected...

Lissie Bares Her Soul on 'Back to Forever' - Album Premiere

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 09:00
Lissie is as earnest as they come – and on her second studio album Back to Forever the singer-songwriter bares her soul even more Opener "The Habit" builds with alluring piano and charging bass drum erupting into a swift chorus of dancing hi-hats and churning guitars The Illinois native shows...

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Cover 'I Saw Her Standing There'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 09:00
"There is a whole audience born around 1990 that knows the Beatles but is wholly unfamiliar with their writing" says music executive Owen Husney To solve this all but unimaginable problem Husney teamed up with a small music publisher to produce Beatles Reimagined an album of Beatles songs as reinterpreted by...

Katy Perry Makes Angels Cry on New Single 'Walking on Air'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 08:55
Katy Perry shared her latest single "Walking on Air" off upcoming album Prism at midnight last night The retro-inspired song has Perry describing a transcendent kind of attraction "There's disco paradise even heaven is jealous of our love / Yes we make angels cry raining down on earth from up...

Pussy Riot Member Hospitalized on Hunger Strike

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 08:45
Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been hospitalized a week into her hunger strike According to the punk activist's husband Tolokonnikova was moved to a prison hospital on Sunday night The Associated Press reports Tolokonnikova began a hunger strike last week to protest inhumane working conditions in the Russian penal colony where...

RJD2 Shows Ambition on 'More Is Than Isn't' – Album Premiere

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 08:30
RJD2 has a resume as eclectic as his music He's worked as a DJ produced tracks for hip-hop artists (like DOOM) and recorded genre-blurring electronic music on his own  Who are the 25 DJs That Rule the Earth? On October 8th he'll release his fifth LP More Is Than Isn't A reliably adventurous outing...

Five Revelations From the Near-Perfect 'Breaking Bad' Finale

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 08:00
Breaking Bad premiered its first episode on AMC in January 2008 Five years five seasons and 62 episodes later one of the greatest television dramas of all time came to an end last night as Vince Gilligan's landmark series took its final bloody bow In a TV landscape that has...

'Smilin’ (While You’re Crying)' by Poets of Rhythm - Free MP3

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 09/30/2013 - 08:00
Artist Poets of RhythmSong “Smilin’ (While You’re Crying)”Album Anthology 1992 – 2003"Some of us felt what I would call a 'paranoiac two-faced reality' emerging especially in the world of media politics and in the development of the music industry" Poets of Rhythm vocalist Bo Baral tells Rolling Stone "A person would tell you something...

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