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Update: Neil Young And Crazy Horse Set U.S. Tour Dates
June 4, 2012 6:35 PM ET| Andy Greene
Neil Young and Crazy Horse will launch a North American arena tour in early October that will run through early December. Ticket prices range from $47.00 to over $255 and go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. Young and Crazy Horse haven't performed a full concert together since their Greendale tour wrapped in March of 2004, making this their longest hiatus since forming in 1969. The group reformed last year to record a series of folk covers for the disc Americana, which hits shelv... | More »
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Azealia Banks Throws a Mermaid Ball in New York
June 4, 2012 2:50 PM ET| Matthew Trammell
Mermaids are awesome. Azealia Banks wants you to know that. On Sunday night, the polarizing 20-year-old rapper transformed Bowery Ballroom into an underwater carnival, complete with floating seahorses, cotton candy, and lots and lots of balloons. The sold-out Mermaid Ball, curated entirely by Ms. Banks and featuring an array of downtown rave staples, was packed with scenesters, models, fist-pumpers, skaters, and drag queens. Ground-level New York DJs the WcKids set the scene, looping frantic ... | More »
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Ted Leo, Moss Icon and More Kick Up Chaos in Tejas
June 4, 2012 11:50 AM ET| Chad Swiatecki
Roughly halfway through his set on Thursday’s opening night of the Chaos In Tejas festival, indie punk rocker Ted Leo took a moment to pay a sort of tribute to the Mob, the cult British punks who were slated to play after him. A longtime fan of the band, Leo told the crowd at Austin’s Mohawk club that while touring England in 1997 he spent weeks traveling in a van looking forward to a show he and his band were sharing with The M.O.B. Turns out punctuation is important. "My bandma... | More »
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Nas and Lauryn Hill Rule Summer Jam in Nicki Minaj's Absence
June 4, 2012 10:53 AM ET| Jeff Rosenthal
Nicki Minaj had big plans for Hot 97's Summer Jam. Mere hours before she was slated to headline the show at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium stage on Sunday – for a hometown crowd of 80,000 – she tweeted in excitement, "History will be made @ Hot 97 Summer Jam tonight. I really hope you're there to witness it." That was before Lil Wayne pulled his Young Money star off the bill, before the night was thrown into a shredder, lit on fire, and then reconstructed with spit an... | More »
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Slipknot to Launch Own Music Festival, Knotfest
June 4, 2012 9:00 AM ET| Steve Baltin
Slipknot will hold their first-ever Knotfest with two day-long events, one August 17th in their home state of Iowa and the other August 18th in Somerset, on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota. The shows will find Slipknot joined by the Deftones, Lamb of God, Dethklok, Serj Tankian, the Urge, Cannibal Corpse and more. "It's all about having fun and bringing something to the world of rock & roll, bringing it to the standard it used to be," Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" ... | More »
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Nicki Minaj Skips Hot 97 Summer Jam Performance
June 4, 2012 8:55 AM ET| Rolling Stone
Nicki Minaj was a no-show for her Hot 97 Summer Jam set in New Jersey yesterday, following a dis from Hot 97 DJ Peter Rosenberg. While introducing upcoming Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, Rosenberg said, "We're all about that real hip-hop, not 'Starships,'" referring to Minaj's current pop-oriented single. Minaj's YMCMB label leader Lil Wayne quickly took to Twitter to say, "Young Money ain't doing summer jam." Minaj soon followed on her Twitter, saying, "Wow. U n... | More »
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Lauryn Hill Returns to New York
June 3, 2012 10:35 AM ET| Matthew Trammell
"Once the band is done setting up, we’ll bring Ms. Hill to rock the stage, for real!" the DJ promised Saturday night at New York City’s Highline Ballroom while fading between syrupy reggae cuts. Fans were skeptical – it wasn’t the first time they’d heard that line. "You know what that means," one nearby patron groaned, echoing the sentiments of the crowd. This is the reputation that precedes Lauryn Hill live: after years away from the public eye and a slew of la... | More »
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Setting the Soundtrack for the MTV Movie Awards
June 2, 2012 3:20 PM ET| Steve Baltin
Like any big cinema production, tomorrow night's MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles will feature a soundtrack. This one comes courtesy of DJ Martin Solveig, fun. with help from Janelle Monae, Wiz Khalifa and the Black Keys, who will serenade MTV Generation Award Winner Johnny Depp with a new rendition of their single "Gold On The Ceiling." (Depp's award will be presented by Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.) Rolling Stone caught a sneak peek at rehearsals yesterda... | More »
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Tour Alert: Mumford & Sons Plot 'Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers'
June 1, 2012 9:55 AM ET| Rolling Stone
Mumford & SonsU.K. folk band Mumford & Sons will play four "Gentlemen of the Road Stopovers" in August to promote their upcoming second LP, due out in September. Each performance will have the feel of an outdoor festival, with local vendors and a lineup of supporting acts unique to each date and curated by the band – from St. Vincent and Dawes in Portland, Maine, to Gogol Bordello in Monterey, California. Tickets for all four dates will go on sale for $69, with no hidden fee... | More »
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Madonna Kicks Off Tour in Tel Aviv
June 1, 2012 8:45 AM ET| Rolling Stone
Madonna kicked off her 'MDNA' tour yesterday in Tel Aviv, bringing some dark, occult imagery and plenty of eye-popping outfits for the first show. But despite the intense look and feel of the stage, Madonna took the opportunity to address the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and make a plea for peace. "I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason," said Madonna. "As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been o... | More »
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