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Paul McCartney Takes Over 'Colbert Report'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 06/13/2013 - 08:10
Nothing is too over-the-top for Stephen Colbert who last night featured Paul McCartney on a special one-hour episode of The Colbert Report which opened with a segment titled "Stephen Colbert's Tribute to Having Paul McCartney on His Show Featuring Paul McCartney With Special Guest Stephen Colbert" And what a show it...

'Man of Steel' Composer Hans Zimmer Offers Glimpse of Creative Process

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 06/13/2013 - 08:00
Film composer Hans Zimmer offers a peek in this exclusive video into how he created the score for Man of Steel the new Superman movie that opens Friday "After finishing my adventures on Dark Knight I decided we needed to go in a completely different direction" Zimmer says as part of...

Brandon Boyd Discovers 'Where All the Songs Come From' - Song Premiere

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 06/13/2013 - 08:00
Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd is breaking out on his own with a new project called Sons of the Sea He's set to release a four-track EP Compass on June 25th on Avow Records Now you can take an exclusive first listen to "Where All the Songs Come From" which...

Vince Gilligan on Final Season of 'Breaking Bad': 'There Will Be Blood'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:40
Vince Gilligan promises in a new interview that the upcoming final season of Breaking Bad will feature plenty of blood tension and psychological unraveling "There will be antagonistic relationships aplenty" the creator and showrunner told Entertainment Weekly recently adding that the show's protagonist meth king Walter White (Bryan Cranston) has "plenty...

Bloc Party Going on Indefinite Hiatus

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:30
Bloc Party will go on an indefinite hiatus after they perform at Latitude Festival on July 19th marking the band's second lengthy stint apart since 2009 "Definitely after we finish the festivals in the summer we'll be taking some time off At least six months maybe a year maybe two...

Dave Matthews Band Announce First South African Tour Dates

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 17:15
Dave Matthews is bringing his band to his homeland South Africa for the first time in their two-decade-long career On November 30th Dave Matthews Band will make their debut in Cape Town at the Grand Arena GrandWest hall Dave and the boys will also hit his hometown Johannesburg on...

Mayer Hawthorne Flips the Script on New Album 'Where Does This Door Go'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 16:30
"It's not a little bit different" Mayer Hawthorne says of his forthcoming album Where Does This Door Go "It's a lot different" For his latest effort out July 16th the neo-soul singer tells Rolling Stone he threw out all of his previously self-imposed rules The result is a radical left...

Sharon Jones Recovering After Surgery

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 15:55
Soul singer Sharon Jones tweeted that she is feeling fine and recovering well after undergoing surgery on a stage one tumor in her bile duct "Out of surgery and I am feeling better than I ever expected" Jones wrote "The nurses at the hospital are taking care of me and I...

The Beatles Sign Merchandise Deal With Universal Music

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 15:55
Getting tired of all your old Beatles shirts? Well you're in luck Universal Music Group announced today that they acquired the rights to the Fab Four's merchandise in North America The Beatles' business firm Apple Corps partnered with Universal's Bravado division to license a new line of the band's products Ringo Starr...

Is Kanye West Really The Next Steve Jobs?

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 14:45
In a far-reaching interview with The New York Times published on Wednesday Kanye West said "I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means" The recording artist continued "I am undoubtedly you know Steve of Internet downtown fashion culture Period By a...

ZZ Top Go 'Back to Square One' in New Box Set of First 10 Albums

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 14:25
Click to listen to ZZ Top's Tejas ZZ Top's 1983 album Eliminator introduced the Texas blues-rock trio to an entirely new generation of fans but it also caused a rather inadvertent problem "After that album you had to divide the fans up between ones we had before it came out and...

Ringo Starr Opens Grammy Museum Exhibit

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 14:05
Ringo Starr had a reunion with his past yesterday when he got his first look at "Ringo Peace & Love" an exhibition of vivid artifacts from his life and career opening today at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles Gathered along the walls and within glass cases is Starr's personal collection...

Myspace Relaunches, But Does It Have a Chance?

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 14:00
Myspace – the pioneering social network that was all but left for dead at the dawn of the Facebook era – is relaunching today with a splashy new design emphasizing artists and musicians backed by a $35 million investment from partners led by Justin Timberlake The redesign has a strikingly modern...

Lady Antebellum On Going 'Downtown' While Being Knocked Up

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 13:52
Lady Antebellum have been enjoying the spunkiest and sauciest hit of their career with the chart-topping single "Downtown" even as the videos and promotional appearances for it feature Hillary Scott looking ever-so-more pregnant As the band takes the stage for an exclusive Yahoo! Music performance the average viewer might not...

Blake Shelton 'Dying to Tour'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 13:25
After last night's episode of The Voice Blake Shelton has a 67 percent chance of winning his third consecutive edition of the NBC hit show with both the Swon Brothers and Danielle Bradbery joining Team Usher's Michelle Chamuel in the finals Shelton's "iconic summer" kicked off at the recent CMA Fan...

'Game of Thrones' Star Maisie Williams Answers Fan Questions

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 13:10
The third season of Game of Thrones ended on a rather somber and particularly stab-y note for Arya Stark but that doesn't mean actress Maisie Williams has to be down in the dumps (she certainly wasn't after Arya's mother and brother bit the dust) A few days back the Stark girl teamed...

'This Is the End' Cast Spoofs 'The Real World'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 12:30
What happens when six people who mostly know each other stop being polite and start being real and it's also the apocalypse? You get The Real World This Is the End edition a spoof of MTV's reality show by James Franco Seth Rogen Danny McBride and Jay Baruchel Their send-up...

On the Charts: Queens of the Stone Age Assume the Throne

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 12:20
WINNER OF THE WEEK Queens of the Stone Age Could the veteran rock band's first Number One album ( Like Clockwork with 91000 sales) portend a long run on the charts? Not even remotely possible! The band's first single "My God Is the Sun" has already peaked at...

Rogue State: How Far-Right Fanatics Hijacked Kansas

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 11:50
For the past 12 years the Kansas State Capitol has been under constant renovation Most recently its grand dome which towers majestically over sleepy downtown Topeka sprung leaks forcing repair crews to cage the entire building with a blocky ramshackle grid of scaffolding From a distance it looks like painful...

'America's Got Talent' Hopeful Travis Pratt Proposes to Girlfriend at Audition

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 06/12/2013 - 11:45
Travis Pratt had himself a pretty good audition on last night's episode of America's Got Talent First the Georgia singer stunned the crowd and judges with a performance of operatic proportions that showcased his hair-raising falsetto Then he got engaged After his audition Pratt said the song was one he...

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