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alternate histories

Ten Artists Who Should Be Very Glad They're Not Axl Rose

The attention the media gives to Guns N' Roses and My Bloody Valentine may give young bands the idea that it'd actually be good for their legacy to record regularly for six years, then hold off for at least another 15 so that fan excitement can build and their myth can blossom. (Hey, if Sting and Joe Strummer had waited that long to record follow-ups to Synchronicity and Combat Rock, maybe people would have cared more about Brand New Day and Rock Art And The X-Ray Style!) So I looked at what would have happened to some of rock's most legendary figures if they, too, had waited 15 years to release new albums once their first six years of putting out records were done—and found that extended absences rarely make later projects look much better. More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jun 30 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,127 views, 20 comments

Latest by DavidWatts: My favorite thing about this post was being reminded of BS 2000. That was back when I was duping CDs from my college radio station and trying to copy the CD art with a Sharpe. My BS 2000 was one more »

defections?

Are The Rolling Stones Going To Spin Off To Live Nation's Geezer-Friendly Stable?

Yesterday the UK's Observer claimed that the Stones were on the verge of walking away from their problem-riddled label EMI and heading over to Live Nation, which has recently gone on a 360-deal-signing binge that is funneling lots of cash toward big-name artists like Madonna and Jay-Z in exchange for the rights to all of their music-related income streams. Like both those artists, the Stones have been hurting on the record-sales side of things as of late, with their newer studio albums being met by ever-greater indifference from the public—but in a twist, the Live Nation-Stones deal reportedly includes the rights for Live Nation to market the band's lucrative back catalog. Stones flack Bernard Doherty told the press that reports of negotiations with Live Nation are false, but come on, what else is he going to say? More »

2:30 PM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
207 views, 3 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm about to get a curly blond wig, a guitar and one of those shirts with blue jean patches and say I'm Peter Frampton. I bet I can a mad deal from Live Nation. Show me the way, baby. more »

documentary evidence

Jonathan Demme Vs. Martin Scorsese: Who's The Best Music Doc Director?

Jonathan Demme is taking over an upcoming Bob Marley documentary for Martin Scorsese, seeing as how Scorsese's busy—there's supposedly a George Harrison documentary in the hopper—and all documentaries about boomer musical legends must be directed by one of the two. Demme will get started on the Marley movie just as soon as he finishes The Neil Young Trunk Show. While I can understand why any older artist would prefer to have their work chronicled by either the guy who did The Last Waltz or the guy who did Stop Making Sense, the aging icon who makes the next one of these might want to liven things up a tad by considering Michel Gondry, or maybe someone who goes by "Spike." More »

1:30 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,076 views, 8 comments

Latest by Luke N Atmaguchi: Just saw "Shine a Light" in IMAX, and (spoiler alert) my fave scene is when Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci savagely pummel the catering manager. They weren't portraying characters or nothin, they were just there at the concert. more »

lol nipples

The Dirtiest, Sexiest Album Covers That Do Not Feature The Female Anatomy

In honor of Madonna's "highly sexed up" cover for Hard Candy, Gigwise put up a list of 50 album covers they consider the "dirtiest and sexiest" ever. Unsurprisingly, naked women outnumber naked men by a rather large margin. But with rare exception, the appearance of a naked man is used as comedy. What, no shirtless Jim Morrison? No I'm In You? Check out what passes for beefcake with these guys (NSFW!!). More »

12:15 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,294 views, 8 comments

endorsements

Keith Richards Makes The "Aged Leather" Jokes A Little Too Easy

rock-critically correct

"Rolling Stone" Shines A Light On Its Inspiration

Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who's contributed to several of those titles—or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the new issue of Rolling Stone: More »

1:00 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Anono-Critic
1,471 views, 13 comments

shine a light (so i can pack this thing)

Keith Richards In "I've Got Some Really Good Hash!" Shocker

Why is Keith Richards having problems writing his autobiography? Because he got high. Why is Keith Richards eating cigarettes on stage? Because he got high. Why is Keith Richards laying on a beach, complaining that he's read every book ever written, so someone better hurry up and make more? Because he got high, because he got high, because he got high. "I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the damn time. There, you've got it," Keef told The Sun in a new interview. "But that's my benign weed. That's all I take, that's all I do. But I do smoke and I've got some really good hash." More »

12:00 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Anthony Miccio
673 views, 7 comments

Latest by Mick Kraut: @Al Shipley: I dont know! Will The Sun tell us? more »

before long, emi will consist of the beatles catalog and mims

The Rolling Stones Look To Escape EMI's Sinking Ship

Let's say you're the Rolling Stones. Your contract with EMI is up in June, and you can take your post-1971 catalog with you wherever you go. So do you stick around and see what happens with the Guy Hands regime, or pack up and get a gigantic deal elsewhere? Yeah, they're probably doing the same thing. More »

3:30 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Dan Gibson
744 views, 3 comments

The Rolling Stones, still pissy over Guy Hands' proposed changes to the old way of ~~flushing money down the toilet~~ business at EMI, are now looking into moving their post-1971 back catalog to Warner Music. [The Set List]

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defections

The Rolling Stones Flee EMI For Universal's Greener Pastures

Guy Hands' plans to slim down EMI are continuing to make artists used to the old rock-and-roll paradigm uncomfortable, and today the label experienced its highest-profile defection yet: According to the Financial Times, the Rolling Stones are putting out their next album, Shine A Light, via Universal, in part "because of their concerns about EMI's new management." The deal only covers the one album, so the Stones' lucrative back catalog will stay put. Which leads one to ask: Is the Stones' defection a bad thing for EMI? More »

6:49 PM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By mjohnston
675 views, 5 comments

Latest by MTS: @blackmailismylife: I'm really looking forward to their version of "Young Lions." more »

"Mick Jagger's son, James, will be asked to play his father in a new film about the Rolling Stones, according to reports." In related news, Salacious Crumb, Jabba the Hutt's right-hand man, is in talks to play Keith Richards. [Gigwise]

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The Rolling Stones winning "most successful music tour" in the most recent Guinness World Records go-round gives Reuters an excuse to list a bunch of wacky factoids, because we all love wacky factoids. For instance: Jamiroquai "performed at 35,000 feet in a specially converted Boeing 737 to an audience of pop competition winners," which I swear is the last time the word "Jamiroquai" will appear on Idolator. [Reuters]

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my iron lung

The Rolling Stones: Old Gods Almost Out Of Newport Lights

Here's a fun game for the afternoon: Count how many news outlets, even playfully, cast the Rolling Stones as avenging rock'n'roll angels because they dared to flaunt a smoking ban at a U.K. show. Christ, I'm a smoker and even I find this shit embarassing. Dear international media: Please don't reduce unkillable zombie bad-ass Keith Richards to the level of Denis Leary tediously sticking it to anti-smokers because Richards was probably too drunk and/or indifferent and/or old to remember that he couldn't smoke on stage. Dear Keith Richards: Just because cancer itself would shrivel and die if introduced into your toxic, possibly irradiated body, don't go teaching the children of Generation Z that smoking is cool. Because it ain't.

Smoking Stones Show They're Still Stage Rebels [USA Today]

3:15 PM on Wed Aug 22 2007
By jharv
332 views, 5 comments

Latest by Big Gray.: @drjimmy11: They still kill it live. more »

Taking it all the way back to 2002: The Rolling Stones' "Miss You" gets mixed up with Dr. Dre, to pretty decent results. How no one has done a remix of either of these songs with YACHT's "See A Penny, Pick It Up" yet is beyond me. [Discobelle]

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A publishing industry insider says that the price for a Keith Richards autobiography has reached "Bill Clinton money," with HarperCollins and Little, Brown tossing around millions of dollars for the Glimmer Twin's life story. I dunno, $7 million seems a small price to pay for what will likely be the first comprehensible things Richards has said in decades. [New York Business via The Daily Swarm]

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Bono Creates A Stink With His Dutch Lovin'

In the good old days of rock-star tax-dodging, anyone hoping to avoid the government simply had to to hole up in a private French estate with a bag of heroin and Gram Parsons. But as U2 and the Rolling Stones have discovered, it's now much easier to ~~launder~~ funnel money through Holland, where the government is eager to set up new "mailbox companies," and where artists can enjoy extremely liberal royalty-tax laws. That's all well and good if you're a greedy git like Mick Jagger, but it's created something of an image problem for saint-in-traning Bono: More »

10:00 AM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Brian Raftery
229 views, 7 comments

Latest by Hamm Beerger: Nicolars - I don't think it's "a bit rich." If Bono keeps his money because his priorities aren't the same as the Irish goverment's then he's not being hypocritical at all. All of this is dependent, of course, on him more »

zune

Mick Jagger Joins Long List Of Zune-Bashers

Even though they've done business with Bill Gates in the past, the Rolling Stones aren't down with the Zune; according to this Newsweek column, you won't be able to share your copy of Goat's Head Soup with fellow Zuneophiles: More »

1:55 PM on Tue Nov 14 2006
By Brian Raftery
186 views, 11 comments

mp3

Leak Of The Week: Special 1972 Edition

An Aquarium Drunkard has a whole batch of alternate takes and demos from the Rolling Stones' everyone-over-50-was-there-when-they-made-it classic Exile On Main St. We're sure the die-hard Jagger junkies out there already have a lot of this stuff, but it's new to us, and it's all worth checking out—especially this nearly seven-minute-long version of "Loving Cup." More »

4:21 PM on Wed Nov 8 2006
By Brian Raftery
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A Long Listmaking Exercise For A Long Weekend

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