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"The Beatles: Rock Band" Footage Premieres During McCartney's Coachella Set
April 20, 2009 4:38 PM ET| Daniel Kreps
Festival-goers at Coachella this weekend weren't only treated to Paul McCartney's hits-filled headlining set Friday night; they also unknowingly witnessed the debut of footage from the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band game, due out September 9th. According to MTV's Video Games blog, the footage looked like the standard background performances you'd come to expect from the franchise, except with the members of the Beatles playing their vintage guitars and dressed in the clot... | More »
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On the Scene at Coachella: Fans on What's Hot, Who Fizzled and Surviving the Campgrounds
April 20, 2009 2:26 PM ET| Chris Willman
Attend enough festivals, and eventually you will experience strange occurrences you never would have imagined — like being elbowed and shoved aside by sweaty, half-naked 20-year-olds rudely rushing the stage for a better look at Leonard Cohen. Or the sight of horny young indie-rock couples indulging in deep soul-kissing to the unlikely live accompaniment of "My Love," Paul McCartney's 1973 mush-rock smash. These were just some of the intergenerational incongruities in Indio, Califo... | More »
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Coachella '09 Shows Off Its Eclectic Roots With My Bloody Valentine, The Cure, Public Enemy
April 20, 2009 10:57 AM ET| Steve Appleford
The man in the front row wearing a Trojans condoms T-shirt had just one thing to yell over and over again as My Bloody Valentine unleashed ear-shattering noise and melody on the final night of this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival: "Play louder!" (Plunge into the desert fest in our Coachella gallery.) The hour-long performance by the influential quartet was one of the most anticipated of the three-day SoCal event, and it was plenty loud. The reunited My Bloody Valentine also epi... | More »
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The Killers, M.I.A. and Mastodon Deliver Big Sounds on a Big Scale at Coachella
April 19, 2009 10:26 AM ET| Steve Appleford
Brandon Flowers of the Killers wasn't addressing the entire globe as he paused onstage Saturday at the Coachella Music and Arts festival, but as he watched over a desert landscape of thousands of bouncing, singing, happy fans, it must have felt like the band's own celestial body. As the mainstage's headlining act on Day Two of the epic SoCal fest, the Killers steered the party for two danceable hours. (Check out photos of all the Coachella action.) The Killers represented jus... | More »
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Paul McCartney Pays Tribute to Lost Beatles, Plus Cohen and Morrissey Impress at Coachella
April 18, 2009 10:23 AM ET| Steve Appleford
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos was the first to point them out, as he overlooked the many thousands gathered Friday for the opening of this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival. There in the crush was a young Morrissey fan with "a perfect quiff" pompadour. And front row and center were three older ladies holding up a Beatles banner. Kapranos wondered: "Are they playing tonight?" (Check out photos from the scorching Coachella fest.) Call it the Paul McCartney Effect, as Beat... | More »
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Semi Precious Weapons: On the Road and Out of Control at SXSW
March 31, 2009 3:12 PM ET| Rolling Stone
When Rolling Stone hit Austin's South By Southwest Music Festival a week ago, we handed Semi Precious Weapons' outrageous frontman Justin Tranter a Flipcam and a simple set of directions: film yourself doing what you do before, during and after gigs and hand over the footage. We wound up with two days' worth of video — 250 different clips featuring the outrageous singer bathing, high-kicking, hanging with Perez Hilton, Juliette Lewis, Sylvain Sylvain and Rachael Ray... | More »
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Video: New Music Report: Silversun Pickups, Juliette Lewis Live at SXSW
March 24, 2009 12:00 AM ET
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Perry Farrell Gets Shocked: Jane's Addiction Frontman on SXSW Gig, Reznor Sessions, Lollapalooza
March 23, 2009 7:38 PM ET| Caryn Ganz
It's been 21 years since Jane's Addiction released Nothing's Shocking, and frontman Perry Farrell has finally found a cultural phenomenon that refutes the memorable refrain from "Ted, Just Admit It ..." "The Octo-Mom is shocking, so there you go," he says. "It finally happened. I'm shocked." Hanging out with Rolling Stone the day after Jane's Addiction's triumphant South By Southwest gig at a former supermarket, Farrell says the group kicked the show off w... | More »
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Photos: SXSW 2009 Photos
March 23, 2009 1:10 PM ET
Jane's Addiction, Kanye West, Metallica, Tori Amos, Devo, Glasvegas, Avett Brothers and much more | More »
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