News - PluggedIn.com

Top Story

...Ever. Ever ever ever. In history. At all, hands down, period. Pizz-eriod. (english language edition). And: sidebar; its not Heidi Montag.Ok.I know this blog has addressed this issue before. but seriously. What is REALLY. For reals. For reaally reeeaallly rullz, the worst, worst worstest, most god awful, unforgiveable music video of all time?The reason I ask is because a new video has come up on my radar and it makes Jan Terri sound on key.Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present:T Baby: Its So Cold IN The DWow. Blank stare. Speechless...

Latest News

Browse by: Newest

Photo: Gallay/Getty Stone Temple Pilots extend their reunion tour, Dragonforce break out the guitar solos and Rival Schools get back together for a bi-coastal jaunt. The complete set of tour dates is after the jump. Stone Temple Pilots August 30 - Vancouver, BC @ GM Place August 31 - Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot Festival September 1 - Spokane, WA @ Greyhound Park September 3 - Sacramento, CA @ Memorial Auditorium September 5 - West Sacramento, CA @...

Rolling Stone’s Jenny Eliscu hung out with Cold War Kids frontman Nathan Willett at the Outside Lands festival over the weekend, and he talked about how much he loved the San Francisco weather and his band’s new album Loyalty to Loyalty. But mostly, he talked about hunger. “I want some good food,” he told Eliscu when asked what he was looking for at a festival. “I’m not that excited about seeing bands. I just ...

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released 10 years ago this week and went on to sell more than 8 million copies, win five Grammys and earn a four-star review in Rolling Stone. Mary J. Blige hailed it as “one of the most incredible albums ever made” and the record influenced a generation of soul and hip-hop artists. Miseducation’s liner notes mostly credit Hill with producing, writing and arranging the entire album. It was, i...

Still waiting for those My Bloody Valentine remasters? There’s some good news today, as the recently reunited shoegazers have finally digitally released their Isn’t Anything and Loveless albums. Until today, both records had only been available in partial form. MBV also dusted off their Tremolo EP, giving that four song set its digital debut. Remastered physical versions of the albums were supposed to be released stateside back in Ju...

Photo: Mazel/Sunshine/Retna Five Genesis albums from their Peter Gabriel era are being re-released in a 7-CD/6 DVD box set on November 11th with 5.1 DTS sound and hours of unreleased material. Their landmark 1974/75 “Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” world tour was never filmed, but this collection does have a complete performance from Belgian TV in 1972 and their appearance on Midnight Special in 1973. All of this has circulated within the...

Paul McCartney had Starbucks, the Eagles and AC/DC have Wal-Mart and now country (and chicken) icon Kenny Rogers has linked up with the Cracker Barrel. Starting today, if you’re fortunate enough to reside near one of those Old Country Stores, you can pick up a copy of Rogers’ 50 Years along with their restaurant’s famed “homemade chicken n’ dumplins.” The twelve-song set includes three brand new songs as well a...

Lynyrd Skynyrd are reportedly eyeing an early-2009 release for their next studio album, says guitarist Rickey Medlocke. The band has spent the last year recording with a surprising choice — Marilyn Manson/Rob Zombie guitarist John 5 — and hope to spend the latter portion of 2008 in the studio to finish recording the new album, the band’s first since 2003’s maligned Vicious Cycle. “We’ve been doing quite a bit o...

Ex-surgeon general Joycelyn Elders, the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and about a zillion condoms were among the strange-bedfellows highlights of Rolling Stone’s Democratic National Convention party at the Sherman Center Monday night. Co-sponsored by Trojan Condoms, the event climaxed with a 45-minute stand-up routine by comedian Bill Maher. He won the crowd in his opening minutes with old-fart John McCain jokes — he suggested Obama plagia...

At last weekend’s Outside Lands festival, RollingStone.com’s Pete Maiden caught up with Kaki King to talk about San Francisco and cops on horses. She admits she needs to take a lesson on rock and roll moves, but thinks that former tour mate Dave Grohl takes it a little too far. “He’s got a box full of cheesy rock moves,” the singer-songwriter jokes. “He sticks his tongue out as far as possible any moment he ca...

This week’s big new album releases include a pair of big comebacks lead by B.B. King’s One Kind Favor, the finest album from the blues icon in decades. The T-Bone Burnett-produced album features King’s own versions of blues classics. Mark Kemp says “King is heartbreakingly intimate on standards like Blind Lemon Jefferson’s ‘See That My Grave Is Kept Clean’ and John Lee Hooker’s ‘Blues Before ...

Photo: Vasquez/Getty Andre Young Jr., the 20-year-old son of rap producer Dr. Dre, was found dead in Woodland Hills, California home Saturday morning, the LA Weekly reports. According to the Los Angeles County Coroner, Young returned home around 5:30AM, and when his mother went to check on him at 10AM, he was found unresponsive. The cause of death is still pending completion of a toxicology report, but foul play is not suspected. In a statement, ...

Photo: Getty Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Storm) and his producer partner James Schamus are dialing back to 1969 in their current project Taking Woodstock. Based on a true story, Demetri Martin stars as interior designer Elliot Tiber, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in Woodstock when he offered his family’s Catskills hotel to organizers as a home base, while his neighbor Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy) offere...

After initially lifting their ban of Snoop Dogg, Australia is reconsidering giving the Doggfather a visa as the threat of a looming Snoop/Ice Cube tour Down Under has resulted in public complaints. The drama started last year, when Snoop was denied an opportunity to co-host the MTV Australia VMAs because the island country refused to allow the rapper to apply for the visa. The ban was finally lifted last week by immigration officials, paving the...

Metallica posted another track from their upcoming Death Magnetic, offering a full stream of “My Apocalypse.” The band also hinted that they’ll unveil more songs from the album before its September 12th release. AC/DC’s new album Black Ice will have three different collectible covers in yellow, red and white. Last night at the Hollywood Bowl, Radiohead performed a cover of Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush opener &#...

Last night at the opening festivities of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, John Legend provided some in-house entertainment, taking the stage to debut his new politically minded song “If You’re Out There.” The song’s lyrics closely echo Obama campaign slogans, with lines like “We’ve been looking for the world to change” and “Tomorrow’s starting now” and “No more brok...

I’ll keep this short: That was as impressive as anything Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps or Natalie Coughlin accomplished in the last couple weeks. I’ve followed this campaign as closely as one can from California, and have seen bits and pieces of Michelle Obama. But watching her tonight I was honestly astounded by the deftness of her delivery of a politically challenging, multifaceted speech — weaving her and Barack’s family...

B.B. King is in the spotlight in this week’s New Music Report. The 82-year-old bluesman’s One Kind Favor was produced by T-Bone Burnett and contains mostly blues classics, but how does it stack up to the legend’s finest work? Click above for Rolling Stone Associate Editor Brian Hiatt’s take on One Kind Favor. Related Stories: • Album Review: B.B. King’s One Kind Favor (4 stars) • In the Studio: B.B. King...

Photo: Williams/Getty Brian Wilson’s tour revolves around That Lucky Old Sun, Talib Kweli and David Banner enjoy a co-headlining venture and Billy Bragg brings his socialism to the east coast of the United States. Follow the jump for the complete set of dates for all three treks. Brian Wilson September 5 - Oakland, CA @ Paramount Theatre September 6 - Reno, NV @ Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort and Casino September 7 - Portland, OR @ ...

Photo: Getty Like the Democratic nominee himself, Otep have been relying on first time voters this summer. As recent winners of Rock the Vote and MySpace’s DemROCKracy contest, which kicked off on July 1 and encouraged bands with MySpace pages to have their fans register to vote, Otep was awarded a spot on the bill of Rock the Vote’s Ballot Bash tonight, joining Fall Out Boy, N.E.R.D. and Jakob Dylan on stage at Denver’s Elli Ca...

The last time Ozzy Osbourne hit the screen, it was as the perpetual punchline on The Osbournes, the MTV series that lasted four seasons and made Ozzy and his family the finest and funniest televised counterpoint to the Waltons of all time. But now Ozzy’s son Jack is trying to repair the damage he thinks the show did to his father’s reputation by gathering some friends and executive producing his own Ozzy documentary. According to Jac...

Sources

#	Name
1	Rolling Stone
2	PluggedIn

#	Title
1	The Travers Take Blog
2	The Capri Lounge Blog
3	Features
4	Cover Stories
5	Rock & Roll Blog
6	Breaking Artists Blog
7	National Affairs Blog

Username:
Password:
	Keep me logged in
Log In