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Bob Dylan Clarifies Obama Comments On Facebook
If there’s one artist not in the business of clarifying himself, it’s Bob Dylan. He rarely does interviews, and when he does, he ducks and dodges questions as if he was in a boxing match. On stage, he...
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5 Things We Learned From Jimmy Page’s “Rolling Stone” Interview
Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stone magazine have always had an uneasy relationship: although the band dominated the ’70s, they were only on the cover once during that decade. And Rolling Stone didn’t...
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What Does MGMT’s Next Album Sound Like?
If a new writeup from rollingstone.com is any indication, the band is in no hurry to replicate their 2007 hit album, Oracular Spectacular, and really, that became quite apparent when we received “Flash...
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Gary Clark Jr. Modeling with Jimmy Paige?
If you were to put rock and blues guitarists, Gary Clark Jr. and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page in the same room, what do you get: an ad campaign that features Clark and Page for clothing designer, John...
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Mumford And Sons Begin To Plan Their Third Album
Since Mumford and Sons won a Grammy for “Best Album of the Year” and ended up atop the XRT Listener Poll for Babel, the band has been thinking of ideas for a third album. In a recent interview with...
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Brittany Howard & Ruby Amanfu Cover Rodriguez For Third Man Records [Listen]
As the title of this post would suggest, Brittany and Ruby have recorded a Rodriguez song for Jack White’s Third Man Records label. I mentioned this on the radio last week, mostly as an excuse to talk...
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Morrissey on the Life of Thatcher: ‘A Terror Without an Atom of Humanity’
With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, many blogs and publications have been reminding us that several British musicians weren’t huge fans of her policies. Some, like Dave Wakeling, were quick to say...
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Record Store Day Hugely Successful, Again
Sales figures are coming in from this past weekend and things looked pretty good for local record shops. 244,000 vinyl LPs were sold in the week ending April 21, according to Neilsen SoundScan. In a...
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Chicago Representation on Rolling Stone’s List of ‘Best Big Rooms in America’
We’ve all been sucked into lists on the internet. We know what they’re designed to do (generate clicks), but we still can’t help ourselves a lot of the time. We’re curious creatures and even though...
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Moby Chats About New Music, Sobriety and N.Y. vs. L.A.
A Q&A with Moby popped up at rollingstone.com on Tuesday and in the piece Moby talked about what it’s like to release new music in 2013 vs. the 1990s, why people ditch other big cities around the...
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A Walk Through the Wild Side: Lin Remembers Lou Reed [Listen]
Lou Reed left an indelible mark on music and culture that stretched well beyond its home in the New York art world. His influence extends to bands like REM, Nirvana, U2, The Strokes and countless...
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Bowie Produces Video For James Murphy’s ‘Love Is Lost’ Remix
The Next Day Extra will be released next week and one of the bonus tracks is a ten minute remix of “Love Is Lost” done by James Murphy. Bowie himself produced a video for the song using puppets of his...
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Noel Gallagher Complains About Arcade Fire & Miley Cyrus, Praises Bowie & Kanye
In a recent phone interview with Rolling Stone, Noel Gallagher lived up to his reputation as a brutally honest individual that doesn’t shy away from many subjects. He shared his feelings on Bowie’s...
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More Australian Covers From Bruce & The E Street Band [Watch]
Rolling Stone has posted another Springsteen video from Australia. A couple weeks back, Bruce and the band covered Bon Scott-era AC/DC near Bon’s hometown of Perth, and this week in Sydney they took...
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The ‘XRT Morning Show Week In Review
It’s the end of the week, so let’s take a look back at this past week on the WXRT Morning Show with Lin Brehmer and Mary Dixon: The website Concert Hotels dot com compiled a list of pop, rock, country...
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Jack White Apologizes to The Black Keys, Adele, Meg White With Open Letter
By Brian Ives After garnering publicity for comments he made in his recent Rolling Stone cover story, Jack White took to his own website to offer what he titled “An Apology and an Explanation from...
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Interview: KISS’ Paul Stanley Slams Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Patti Smith
By Brian Ives It’s not Paul Stanley who’s been ‘almost borderline racist,’ but that’s just one of a few things the founding member of KISS would like to clear up. Last week, Radio.com posted our...
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Tweedy Share New ‘Low Key’ Track [Listen]
Jeff Tweedy has described the forthcoming release from “Tweedy” as “a solo record performed by a duo.” The other half of the duo would be his 18 year-old son Spencer on drums. Sukierae is the name of...
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WE Care A Lot: Faith No More To Release First Album In 18 Years
Rolling Stone is reporting that legendary Bay Area band Faith No More will be releasing their first album in 18 years sometime next year. Bassist Bill Gould says that the band is free and clear of any...
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Sleater-Kinney Return With New Track, ‘Bury Our Friends’ [Free Download]
Rolling Stone is reporting that legendary indie band Sleater-Kinney have ended their extensive break with a new track, the announcement of a new LP, and a few tour dates to top it all off. Carrie...
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