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• Green Day Record “21 Guns” With Idiot Cast • Rihanna’s Cabin Fever Led Her to Rated R • Maroon 5’s Levine on Jason Segel as a Rocker • New Anthology for Critic Robert Palmer • Site Selling Beatles MP3s Shut Down After • Lady Gaga Meets David Bowie in Mashup • News Ticker: Chris Brown, Roger Daltrey • Bruce News: Darkness [...] […]

In 1980, music journalist Robert Palmer was invited to drop by the sessions for John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy in New York. When Palmer arrived, Lennon was adding background vocals to “(Just Like) Starting Over.” Palmer noted that Lennon had sung his parts perfectly in key. Lennon, impressed by Palmer’s ear, said, “You’ll [...] […]

Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Jason Segel made a surprise appearance at the Swell Season’s November 18th concert at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, entertaining the ladies in the audience with a love song featuring his phone number as the chorus. In case anyone in the crowd couldn’t make out the digits, as evidenced by the [...] […]

Lady Gaga vs. David Bowie, “Let’s Just Dance” [Mashup] DJ Terry Urban treats mashups like Cage treats composition, dropping just a micro-fragment of Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” behind Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” — to startling effect. This also marks the first occasion for either artist where subtlety has served as an asset. Kids in the Hall vs. Grizzly [...] […]

A federal court has issued a preliminary injunction against the digital music vendor Bluebeat after the site offered up high-quality MP3s of the Beatles’ catalog without permission. According to the Los Angeles Times, the judge overseeing the case, which came after EMI Music and Apple Corps. issued a copyright infringement lawsuit against Bluebeat, said ther […]

We were absolutely thrilled when the dudes from Deer Tick recently dropped by the S.S. The quartet from Providence, Rhode Island -- led by John McCauley -- released Born On Flag Day in June, and it's definitely one of our favorite records of the year.For your pleasure they treated us to a cover of Eddie Cochran's '58 classic, "Summertime […]

Photograph by Dustin Rabin During Lollapalooza weekend in Chicago, most of the hottest shows in Chicago haven't been in Grant Park, but rather in the Chi-town clubs.Like Saturday night, when we made our maiden voyage to Schuba's Tavern, where Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach slayed a lucky crowd with tunes from his solo debut, Keep It Hid.B […]

Poster by Joe NewtonWe are so goddam psyched to officially announce PETTYFEST '09!!! It's coming on September 3rd!!!This is our second annual PettyFest, which we added last year to compliment our annual DylanFest. In 2008, the inaugural PettyFest performance at Mercury Lounge was such a spectacle that this year we've been upgraded to Manhattan […]

We caught up with Kid Rock yesterday, who told us that wherever he goes, people are screaming "Twitter is gay"!!!If you have no idea what we're talking about, here's the story: In the last issue of Rolling Stone -- with MJ on the cover --- we did a Q+A with Kid, in which we discussed his huge summer tour, and his two humongous gigs at Det […]

We were extremely psyched that Sara Watkins -- the gorgeous voice and killer fiddle that makes Nickel Creek -- stopped by the Smoking Section to perform a few tunes from her solo debut album. But we almost lost it when we spotted Sara's keyboard player... the Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench!!!!!!! Holy shitballs! Tench sits in with Watkins on many of […]