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Win a DrumCraft Clear Acrylic Drum Set & Sabian Cymbals

Gearpipe - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 23:15


Each time I see an acrylic drum kit I think of John Bonham. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

In this drum set giveaway, you have a chance to win a killer 5-piece clear acrylic drum kit from DrumCraft. The winner will also score a full set of Sabian HHX Evolution cymbals, plus Evans drum heads and Vater sticks. The total value of this drum giveaway is a whopping $6,219!

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Tom Morello Plans 'Flash Mob Dance Party' For Occupy SXSW

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 18:40
Tom Morello is teaming up with the Occupy Austin movement for a special SXSW showcase this Friday night at the Swan Dive in Austin Texas "SXSW has a lot of specialty shows – record companies vodka companies promoters and things like that" Morello tells Rolling Stone "I thought it was...

New Reviews: The Decemberists Strip Down on Live Album

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 18:30
In this week's slate of Rolling Stone reviews Jon Dolan ponders how the Decemberists' new double live album which features a 16-minute folk- rock opus a yodeling drummer and nautical themed audience participation is somehow relatively "stripped-down" for the "overweeningly theatrical" band Also Rob Sheffield describes Vince Clarke and Martin...

The Black Keys Storm Madison Square Garden

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 14:25
The Black Keys pulled something of a bait-and-switch at their Madison Square Garden show on Monday night they stormed the stage as a quartet with singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney supplemented by two backing musicians The band soon proved that they didn't need the additional firepower though; they...

Jay-Z Takes Over SXSW With Hit-Packed Set

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 13:20
For roughly 75 minutes on Monday night Jay-Z led a New York takeover of downtown Austin The proof came near the end of his special AmEX-Sync concert for SXSW when Jay-Z asked some 2700 fans in attendance how many New Yorkers were in the house before launching into "Empire State of...

Doobie Brothers' Michael Hossack Dead at 65

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 12:05
Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack died at his home in Dubois Wyoming yesterday at the age of 65 He had been battling cancer for some time and succumbed to complications of the disease with his family at his side Hossack was a member of the Doobie Brothers between 1971 and 1973...

'The Voice' Recap: Thinking Outside the Heart-Shaped Box

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 10:10
Sometimes festival programmers present two similar-sounding groups at the same time to make sure the audience is evenly divided The festival-goer must choose between Fleet Foxes or My Morning Jacket and there are so many factors to consider Some of the battles on The Voice can be equally difficult to...

'Smash' Recap: Better Living Through Chemistry

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 09:25
After a bit of a rocky start Smash is finally finding its footing while walking a fine line between drama and camp Things like Julia's unbearably boring adoption quest are out while her juicy affair with "Joe DiMaggio" is in Hallelujah! This week kicks off with Ivy Lynn's voice unexpectedly cracking...

Exclusive Download: Blonds Revamp Radiohead's 'Talk Show Host'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 09:00
Click to listen to Blonds' 'Talk Show Host' New York duo Blonds approached this cover of Radiohead's "Talk Show Host" a b-side from The Bends era best known for its inclusion on the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack with great caution "'Talk Show Host' is my favorite Radiohead song but Jordy [Asher]...

Billy Corgan Rants About 'Posers' at SXSW

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 08:50
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan railed against "posers" in the record industry in a one-on-one interview conducted by author Brian Solis at the SXSW festival yesterday in Austin Texas Over the course of the conversation Corgan lamented changes in the way music is consumed that would've made it impossible for...

Other Music Starts Its Own Record Label

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/13/2012 - 08:45
Other Music one of New York City's best and most enduring independent record shops is about to open its own record label Other Music Recording Co will be an imprint of Fat Possum the label behind Yuck Spiritualized the Walkmen Tennis and Unknown Mortal Orchestra to focus on underground music...

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Live Tweets Jay-Z Gig at SXSW

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 22:25
Jay-Z performed a special concert at the SXSW festival in Austin tonight that was live-streamed through YouTube as an Amex Sync Show The setlist was determined mainly by requests made over Twitter so the show was basically a nonstop hit parade featuring smashes like "Empire State of Mind" "99 Problems"...

LCD Soundsystem Documentary Brings Fans to Their Feet at SXSW

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 17:50
The line to get into the South by Southwest debut of Shut Up And Play The Hits snaked down a city block from a repurposed Spaghetti Warehouse on an atypically cold wet day in Austin Attendees received Nike T-shirts and all the Deep Eddy Sweet Tea vodka they could drink...

Justin Bieber Gives Singer Carly Rae Jepsen a Boost

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 17:05
When Justin Bieber was in his native Stratford Ontario for the holidays last December one song on the radio caught his ear Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" a sugary dance-pop tune (think Taylor Swift meets Robyn) about hoping for a call back from a crush After hearing the song...

Radiohead Show Picketed by Westboro Baptist Church

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 16:50
Radiohead received an ugly reception this weekend in Kansas City Missouri when the anti-gay group Westboro Baptist Church protested their show As Radiohead At Ease reports the hate group picketed outside the group's concert with vitriolic signs slamming the British rockers with homophobic slurs and insisting that God was "their enemy"...

Mark Ronson Discusses Recording New Song With Katy B for Global Olympic Ad Campaign

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 15:40
Mark Ronson and athletics haven’t always mixed well A year after moving from London to Brooklyn the DJ artist and Grammy-winning producer managed to head in the wrong direction at a relay race during fourth-grade field day He spent the final three years of elementary school saddled with the nickname...

Exclusive: Regina Spektor Premieres Cover Art

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 12:30
Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor wanted the cover for her forthcoming album What We Saw from the Cheap Seats her sixth to have a look that "seemed fun and tangible like you could feel like it's been touched by people and drawn on "I didn't want it to be a real font" Spektor...

Emo Kids Targeted in Wave of Iraq Murders

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 12:20
At least 14 young people have been stoned to death in Baghdad in the past three weeks in what appears to be a deliberate campaign by Shi'ite militants against kids wearing clothing and hairstyles associated with the emo subculture in the Western world The subculture is widely perceived in Iraq...

Dave Matthews Unplugs for Charity

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 11:55
Los Angeles sees a lot of parties and intimate performances but John Varvatos' annual Stuart House benefit held at his West Hollywood store and the surrounding street is a special one Held in the daytime with a kids' tent it creates an incredibly relaxed atmosphere one that makes for some...

Exclusive Stream: The Hives Return With 'Go Right Ahead'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Mon, 03/12/2012 - 11:00
Click to listen to The Hives' 'Go Right Ahead' The Hives have been mostly silent over the past five years but the Swedish rockers are ready to make their comeback in June with the release of Lex Hives their fifth studio album "Go Right Ahead" the first single from the album...

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