Wavves Flip the Script on New Hip-Hop-Inspired Album
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"This past year has ruined my liver" Wavves frontman Nathan Williams tells Rolling Stone looking back on the boozy sessions that produced the lo-fi noise-punk outfit's as-yet-untitled fourth album "I drank more during the recording process than I've ever drank" he adds proudly Williams 26 says he's admittedly anxious for fans...
Win a Smashing Pumpkins ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ Deluxe Box Set
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The Smashing Pumpkins' 1995 double album opus Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness has been fully remastered as part of a series of reissues from the band's catalog One lucky RollingStonecom reader will win the deluxe box set edition which includes • 5CD +DVD• Physical tracks 106 digital tracks 92 • Original album remastered...
Alicia Keys Finds Liberation in ‘Brand New Me’ Clip
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Alicia Keys takes a triumphant turn at reinvention in the new clip for "Brand New Me" a song from her latest album Girl On Fire The video opens with a quiet discomforted Keys getting her a massive mop of curls prepped before a shoot the director offering her half-hearted "It looks...
More Coachella Lineup Rumors Include Daft Punk, Phoenix
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The Coachella 2013 rumor mill continues to churn out possible headliners for next year's festivities with Pretty Much Amazing posting a screen-cap of an e-mail from the social concert-calendar site Songkick which added Daft Punk Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Phoenix to speculation that has already included the Rolling Stones Coachella 2012 Rolling...
Michael Buble, Dave Matthews Hum for the Holidays on ‘Fallon’
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It seems like everyone has released a holiday record featuring their versions of seasonal favorites but only Michael Bublé hums them The signer gamely donned a red blazer last night on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to debut his supposed new Christmas album There's No Place Like Hum for the Holidays...
Band to Watch: FIDLAR
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Hometown Los Angeles Backstory Elvis Kuehn was working as an intern at LA recording studio Kingsize in summer 2009 when he stumbled upon a path for his future – namely Zac Carper who worked (and slept) at the studio as an engineer for producer Rob Schnapf After an impromptu jam session...
2 Chainz Rolls Into ‘Kimmel’ With ‘I’m Different’
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Rapper 2 Chainz rolled into Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to perform "I'm Different" from his Grammy-nominated official solo debut album Based on a TRU Story Leather cap pulled low over his eyes 2 Chainz jumped and swiveled to the sparse beat and eerie single-note piano lines supplied by a...
Patti Smith Offers New Details on Next Book
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The follow-up to Patti Smith's award-winning 2010 memoir Just Kids will broaden her focus to music and her life with Fred "Sonic" Smith the MC5 guitarist and her late husband the singer told Billboard Just Kids an account of her relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethrope won the National Book...
Q&A: T Bone Burnett on ‘Nashville,’ Elton John’s Comeback and Retiring as a Producer
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T Bone Burnett boasts a cache of credits that include albums by Elvis Costello Los Lobos Roy Orbison Counting Crows and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – not to mention the acclaimed soundtracks for Cold Mountain Crazy Heart The Hunger Games and O Brother Where Art Thou? The Grammy and...
‘I Didn’t Realise (Part Time/Alle Norton/UB40 Mashup)’ by Jonny Pierce – Free MP3
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Artist Jonny PierceSong "I Didn't Realise" (Part Time/Alle Norton/UB40 Mashup)Album Jonny Pierce Remixes "I consider Part Time the best band around right now and also one of the most underrated and overlooked I asked them to do a remix and I just got the response 'Do you like UB40?' He ended...