Top Stories: March 10, 2010
• Actor Corey Haim Dead at 38• Kate Nash Talks My Best Friend Is You• OK Go Split With EMI, Form New Label• Faith No More Announce East Coast Show• Lady Antebellum Retake Number One• U2's Spider-Man Loses Evan Rachel Wood• Breaking: Midlake• New Music Report: Gorillaz• News Ticker: DMX, Lady Gaga, Stars• Watch Exclusive [...]
Breaking: Midlake
Who: Pastoral rockers from Denton, Texas, who first broke through with their 2006 track "Roscoe," on which the group's classic-rock-loving frontman Tim Smith sang about life in the 1800s. "I don't do too well in the present," he says. "Not that old times were better, but I'm more romantic about the past."Sounds Like: The band's [...]
Faith No More Announce First East Coast Reunion Show
Photo: Attenborough/WireImageFaith No More have finally revealed their first East Coast U.S. concert in over a decade: Mike Patton and his reunited crew will invade Williamsburg, Brooklyn's Waterfront on July 5th. As Rolling Stone previously reported, after extensively touring Europe in 2009, the band recently announced their first U.S. date, a first-night performance at Coachella [...]
New Music Report: Gorillaz
This week Rolling Stone's Daniel Kreps breaks down the Gorillaz's Plastic Beach in our New Music Report. Kreps admits he didn't immediately hear anything as instantly grabby as Demon Days‘ "DARE" or Gorillaz's "Clint Eastwood" on their new disc — the closest relation here is the single "Stylo," a catchy electro number that features Mos [...]
OK Go, EMI Split Days After Arrival of Video Hit "This Too Shall Pass"
Just two months after OK Go released their new album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky on EMI, the band has announced its split from the label by "mutual agreement." OK Go are creating a new label, Paracadute Recordings, to promote and distribute the disc. "We'd like to thank the people who have worked [...]
Kate Nash Talks "My Best Friend Is You," Announces Spring Tour
After releasing her hit 2007 debut Made of Bricks, Kate Nash got sick of her career. "Touring and doing loads of work all the time was a drag, and I became unenthusiastic about it," says the British indie-pop singer. "I took a lot of time off so that I could do, like, normal things: hang [...]
On the Charts: Lady Antebellum Retake Number One From Sade
Photo: Winter/GettyThe Big News: After spending the last three weeks at Number Two, Lady Antebellum's Need You Now recaptured the top spot from Sade's Soldier of Love in its sixth week on the Billboard 200, selling 126,000 copies to push past the platinum mark. After a three-week reign, Soldier of Love settled into Number [...]
Actor Corey Haim Dead at 38
Actor Corey Haim, who starred in beloved '80s films including The Lost Boys and License to Drive, died early this morning in Los Angeles of a suspected drug overdose. He was 38. According to reports, Haim was found unresponsive in an Oakwood apartment and taken to Burbank, California's St. Joseph Hospital at around 3:30 a.m. [...]
U2's "Spider-Man" Musical Loses Star Evan Rachel Wood
Photo: Parra/FilmMagic(Bono), Honda/AFP/Getty (Spiderman), Walker/Getty(Wood), Ward/WireImage(Cumming)The delayed Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway show featuring music by U2's Bono and the Edge will have to find a new Mary Jane. Producers have confirmed that Evan Rachel Wood, the actress originally cast in the role of Peter Parker's love interest, has left the musical, Variety reports. [...]
News Ticker: DMX, Lady Gaga, Stars, The Doors
Photo: Kempin/FilmMagicDMX was arrested for violating the terms of his probation, admitting he'd used cocaine over the last nine months, Reuters reports. The rapper is currently in a Phoenix jail.Lady Gaga is coming to Rock Band: the pop star's first track pack includes “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Monster” and “Poker Face” — and as a [...]
