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Blink-182 Cancel May Dates

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 05/10/2012 - 08:50

Blink-182 announced on their Facebook page yesterday that they have scrapped a run of tour dates including a headlining performance at the Bamboozle Festival so that drummer Travis Barker can recover from an emergency tonsillectomy The Bamboozle Festival announced yesterday that My Chemical Romance will be taking Blink-182's place on...

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Florence and the Machine Return to 'Letterman'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 05/10/2012 - 08:45

Florence and the Machine returned to the Late Show With David Letterman last night to perform "No Light No Light" a dramatic rocker from their most recent album Ceremonials Before they went on Letterman joked that the last time the group came through Florence Welch was forced to perform solo...

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Report: Britney Spears Signs On for 'X Factor'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 05/10/2012 - 08:35

Britney Spears has officially signed on to become a judge on the next season of X Factor Us Weekly confirms Spears has been negotiating with the show's producers for the past two months and reports last month suggested that the pop star would join the program for $16 million though...

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How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 05/10/2012 - 08:00

Two years ago when he signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act President Barack Obama bragged that he'd dealt a crushing blow to the extravagant financial corruption that had caused the global economic crash in 2008 "These reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history" the...

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Win a PRS Guitar Pack or Sonor Drum Kit

Gearpipe - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 23:44

It’s guitarists vs. drummers over at DPS Music. Actually, there seems to be more than enough gear to go around, so the fighting can probably stop.

Enter this gear giveaway and tell DPS if you’d rather win a PRS guitar pack or Sonar drum kit.

The PRS Guitar Pack Includes:

PRS SE Custom Semi-Hollow Vintage Natural Electric Guitar
Planet Waves American Stage 20ft. Instrument Cable
48 PRS Premium Celluloid Picks
PRS Custom Gig Bag

The Drum Kit Includes:

Sonor Safari 4-Piece Shell Kit
Gibraltar 5600 Hardware Pack
Gibraltar 9708-SFT-BTS Drum Throne
Sabian Xs20 Power Rock Cymbal Pack
Evans Drumset Survival Guide
DPS Music Cymbal Care Kit
Vic Firth Drumsticks

Enter Here

Entry Deadline: When the DPS Music Facebook Page hits 25,000 fans
Eligibility: US-only 18+

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Inside Louisiana Rapper Lil Boosie's Grisly Murder Trial

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 17:20

The murder trial against Baton Rouge Louisana rapper Torrance Hatch better known as Lil Boosie is currently underway in the city's 19th Judicial District Courthouse Hatch is charged with first-degree murder in the 2009 death of Terry Boyd According to opening statements delivered on Saturday afternoon by the prosecutor Assistant District...

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High and Tight: Our Rock & Roll Baseball Experts Discuss Uniforms – the Good, the Bad and the Fugly

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 17:15

Over a month into the 2012 season it's still more than a little jarring to watch Miami Marlins home games on television The fluorescent green walls of the new Marlins Park are rough enough on the eyes as is the ballpark's tacky light-up fish-and-fountains "home run feature" But throw in...

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OFF! Launch New Album With Explosive L.A. Show

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 14:40

There was no entourage in sight when the four members of OFF! arrived onstage last night at the Whisky a Go Go for a party to celebrate their first official LP OFF! released yesterday on Vice Records Each player took turns checking his gear – singer Keith Morris unfurled a...

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Sinead O'Connor Explains Canceled Tour in Open Letter

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 14:20

In a lengthy letter posted on her website Sinead O'Connor explained the reasoning and events that led her to cancel all of her remaining 2012 tour dates In the letter O'Connor describes her battle with bipolar disorder and splitting with manager Fachtna O'Ceallaigh and she suggests that nixing the tour...

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Florence and the Machine Stumble at Radio City Music Hall

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 14:15

Florence and the Machine should be at home in a classy historic venue like Radio City Music Hall Lead singer Florence Welch has a bold brassy voice that is flattered by large echoey halls and her band's music is a fine balance of delicate textures and bombastic rhythms ideally suited...

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'Glee' Recap: You're Insecure, Don't Know What For

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 14:00

As I watched "Prom-asaurus" last night I kind of felt like Rachel did at the top of the show "My dreams are smaller now Maybe more real" she reflected Except that Rachel was referring to the aftermath of choking at her NYADA audition while I was thinking about my (perhaps...

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VH1 to Honor Whitney Houston With 'Divas' Installment

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 13:30

According to Billboard VH1 plans to pay tribute to the late Whitney Houston with a new installment of VH1 Divas Houston's longtime musical director Rickey Minor will be the executive producer Houston's family and label Sony have already expressed their support of the project The performance will be taped in...

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Inside Transgender Singer Tom Gabel's Rolling Stone Interview

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 13:05

Last night Against Me! fans learned that the group's singer Tom Gabel plans to begin living as a woman and will eventually take the name Laura Jane Grace The full story will appear in the latest issue of Rolling Stone on newsstands this Friday (May 11th) We spoke to contributing...

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On the Charts: Carrie Underwood Blows Away Norah Jones

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 13:04

WINNER OF THE WEEK Carrie Underwood The onetime American Idol queen's album Blown Away hits Number One on Billboard's albums chart and it's the kind of country album that might follow the Lady Antebellum-Eric Church-Zac Brown Band slow burn into millions of sales Singles-wise "Good Girl" has been only somewhat...

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Premiere: Mates of State, 'Unless I'm Led'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 12:40

Indie-pop duo Mates of State often inject their tunes with an uplifting dose of whimsy In the video for "Unless I'm Led" married members Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel playfully frolic across an outdoor expanse in a single take singing to the camera as they walk across flaming logs release...

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Gaslight Anthem, GLAAD Support Tom Gabel Coming Out as Transgender

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 12:35

The Gaslight Anthem are speaking out in support of Against Me! singer Tom Gabel who comes out as transgender in the new issue of Rolling Stone In a Tumblr post written shortly after news broke last night the band defended Gabel's decision to live as a woman and chastised...

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Beach House Unveil New Material in Miami

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 12:25

It was cool gloomy and quiet on South Beach Tuesday night hardly anyone's idea of Miami in the spring Appropriate weather though for the arrival of Beach House the Baltimore duo whose slow-simmering melancholic indie pop is far better suited to such sepulchral conditions than the sunny days its name...

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Premiere: Glenn Frey Covers 'Route 66'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 10:00

Eagles founding member Glenn Frey is set to release his sixth solo record After Hours on May 8th through Universal Records The album consists of covers of classic tracks inspired by Frey's love of artists such as Tony Bennett Nat King Cole and Dinah Washington along with renditions of contemporary greats...

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'The Voice' Recap: Jermaine Paul Wins Season Two

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 10:00

"This is my childhood dream and I'm standing here now" Juliet Simms says just before the moment of truth on The Voice Who among us has never dreamt of standing amid giant stone-carved peace-sign hands like the alien foot monument from Lost awaiting judgment? Sadly for us all Juliet is...

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Premiere: Gym Class Heroes Play Acoustic 'Fighter'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 05/09/2012 - 09:00

Gym Class Heroes and OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder team up for this outdoor unplugged rendition of "The Fighter" a cut from the rap-rock band's fifth album The Papercut Chronicles II Even with the stripped-down sound – punctuated by knee-slap percussion from Tedder – GCH frontman Travie McCoy and guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo maintain the song's anthemic quality "We...

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