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Delta Spirit Hit SXSW at Breakneck Pace

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:15
By the time SXSW wraps Delta Spirit will have played 16 shows at a rate of about four shows a day "I just eat Halls and drink Whiskey" frontman Matthew Vasquez says of his survival strategyIt's the Brooklyn band's fifth trip to SXSW "The first time was the craziest experience...

Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Bruce Springsteen Album?

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:15
Bruce Springsteen just released Wrecking Ball the 17th album of a career stretching back to 1973 Springsteen has been remarkably consistent over the years continuously pushing his creative boundaries and surprising his audience with brave artistic risks Our question for you this week is What is the best Bruce Springsteen album?...

Exclusive Q&A: Original Beach Boy David Marks on the Band's Anniversary Tour

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:10
When the Beach Boys announced their 50th anniversary reunion tour last year many longtime fans were thrilled to see original guitarist David Marks in the lineup Marks lived down the street from the Wilsons when the group formed in the early 1960s and played guitar on their early albums but...

Bruce Springsteen Brings It Home at SXSW

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:00
At the end of his SXSW keynote address on March 15th Bruce Springsteen left the thousands of aspiring songwriters and performers congregated in Austin Texas for the conference and festival with this message "Young musicians learn to bring it live and bring it home night after night after night Your...

'Jersey Shore' Recap: The Cabs Are Here for Thee

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 09:10
No matter how much we love the boobs eventually they too must leave us strapped into bombshell bras and tube tops in clubs and cities we cannot visit we cannot know at least until MTV decides how to have a Season Six what with Snooki getting her spawn on Is...

'American Idol' Recap: Results Are In

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 09:05
After the expulsion of Jermaine Jones from the ranks of American Idol contestants the fate of the contestants is uncertain Will someone be eliminated tonight or will Jermaine's sacrificial stupidity be enough to sate the ratings gods? Only Ryan Seacrest knows for sure He comes on to reminds us that...

The Temptations File Class Action Royalty Suit Against Universal

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 08:45
The Temptations are the latest act to file a class action lawsuit seeking unpaid royalties on digital downloads The singing group had filed a suit against Universal Music Group in a California federal seeking millions of dollars in revenue for downloads and ringtones claiming that these sales count as licenses...

Roc-A-Fella Co-Founder Pleads Guilty of Drug Trafficking

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 08:35
Roc-A-Fella co-founder Kareem "Biggs" Burke is facing a minimum of five years behind bars for conspiracy to distribute more than 1000 kilos of marijuana The figure was reduced to 100 kilograms as part of a plea deal in which he agreed to forfeit $660000 in cash his house in North...

Win a Fender American Standard Stratocaster HSS

Gearpipe - Fri, 03/16/2012 - 00:33


The guys at Re-Axe products have been giving away their new Axe-Handler guitar stands like crazy. But they’re also leading up to a much bigger giveaway on their Facebook page.

Right now they’ve got about 8,300 fans on their Facebook page, and when they hit 10,000, which will be soon, they are going to give away a Fender America Stratocaster HHS. This is a seriously amazing guitar, and a very generous gesture. Let’s show them some support!

This contest has ended. Check out all current giveaways.
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Keith Richards Apologizes to Mick Jagger

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 23:30
In a new interview conducted for an upcoming documentary chronicling the Rolling Stones' 50-year career Keith Richards addresses the derogatory comments he made about Mick Jagger in his 2010 memoir Life Here is the exchange How have you both found surveying a journey that has already lasted 50 years? It must...

Lionel Richie Duets With Kenny Rogers at SXSW

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 16:35
Lionel Richie may not be a typical SXSW buzz band but the R&B icon used his set at ACL Live’s Moody Theater – where he anchored Billboard’s showcase – to remind the music industry just exactly who he is and where he’s been The performance proved he’s still got some...

Hold Steady Singer to Launch Microbrew

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 16:25
Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn is about to launch his own microbrew with the East London company Signature Brew The beer called Clear Heart is a custom craft beer that will be available online and at some retail locations and will feature artwork from Finn's recent solo album Clear Heart...

Bruce Springsteen Delivers South By Southwest Keynote

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 15:40
Right before Bruce Springsteen took the stage at 1230 pm CDT Thursday for his keynote speech at South By Southwest a half-hour later than expected conference co-founder Roland Swanson joked "That's why they call him the boss" As Springsteen himself later said when referencing a Danny & The Juniors hit "Rock...

Joe Pug Brings New Tunes to SXSW

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 15:30
Joe Pug got his start by giving away music If you liked what you heard all you had to do was email the Chicago singer-songwriter through his website and he'd send you a physical copy of his five-song sampler In fact Pug who is set to release his second album...

Sharon Van Etten and Shearwater cover "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"

Sub Pop Blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 15:04

No doubt you guys are all familiar with the very excellent “Undercover” series that the folks over at The A.V. Club put together. Of course you are. It is, after all, one of the 10 or 11 best things on the internet (somewhere just after this).

While on tour together not long ago, Sharon Van Etten (not on Sub Pop, still great) and Shearwater (Animal Joy very recently released on Sub Pop, also great) performed a cover of Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty’s duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” for those guys under the very reasonable name of Shearon Van Ettenwater. We like it a whole lot and maybe you will, too.

So! Watch Shearon Van Ettenwater perform Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.

Postscript:
We have done a not altogether awesome job of telling you guys about the Undercover performances our bands have done. There have been a bunch of them and all of them are really great. F’rinstance…

Fruit Bats did the Hall and Oates song One on One.
And, they came back later and did Loretta Lynn’s The Other Woman.
Dum Dum Girls did a terrific cover of Big Star’s terrific song September Gurls.
Here’s Low doing the Toto song Africa.
And then here Retribution Gospel Choir does Kokomo by the Beach Boys on what we’re going to go ahead and say was the very first installment of Undercover.

I’m sure there are more…

And there are!

Here’s Vetiver doing The Ramones’ Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight).
Iron and Wine took a swing at George Michael’s One More Try and knocked it right out of the f’in park.

Categories: Record Label News

Alabama Shakes Roll Into Texas With Soulful Set

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 14:25
"Hello Austin Texas I'm gonna murder you" huffed Alabama Shakes' singer-guitarist Brittany Howard stomping her feet as the band launched into "Hang Loose" a rollicking tune about living carefree Billed as one of this year's must-see acts at SXSW the group delivered on their hype during NPR's showcase at Stubb's...

@Discographies SXSW Diary, Day One

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 14:15
Anonymous music critic @Discographies (even we don't know who he/she is) has earned tens of thousands of Twitter followers by distilling artists' entire discographies to 140 characters (example Bruce Springsteen 1-5 "You ride the road" 7-8 "until you arrive" 9-10 "or run out of gas" 611-17 "or your country...

Rihanna: I Collaborated with Chris Brown Because He's the Hottest R&B Star

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 13:55
Rihanna says that her recent collaboration with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was motivated mainly by the fact that he's one of the most popular singers in R&B "I reached out to him about doing 'Birthday Cake' because that’s the only person that really made sense to do the record" the singer...

Fiona Apple Previews New Material At SXSW Show

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:15
It takes a lot to stand out at SXSW where any given night offers roughly 8621 bands to see and 367 food trucks at which to refuel between sets But a Fiona Apple show is a draw in any context Until last night in Austin Apple hadn't performed in five...

Taylor Swift, Arcade Fire Talk 'Hunger Games'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:00
Taylor Swift became famous with diary-entry-like songs about old exes and school bullies But for her first new tunes since 2010 Swift is telling stories about a fictional character from the future – The Hunger Games' lead character Katniss Everdeen played by rising star Jennifer Lawrence in the new blockbuster...

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