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Pink Floyd Snags Our Cover, Justin Likes The F Word, Hates Pop Affiliation, And More

3/21/07, 8:53 am EST

Pink Floyd Cover

  • Check it out: Pink Floyd is our new cover story! The piece, written by longtime Rolling Stone scribe Mikal Gilmore, shows how a history of madness and excess helped destroy the legendary band. Judge for yourself tomorrow, when we’ll post choice details about psychedelic rock founders Syd Barrett, David Gilmour and Roger Waters. In the meantime, tide yourself over with our excellent “Dark Side of Oz” mashup.
  • Seriously, what was up with that sobbing girl they kept gleefully showing on American Idol last night. If you feel like reliving the bizarre spectacle, you can watch it here.
  • Notoriously unhinged powerhouse soul singer Amy Winehouse is set to play a mini-US tour later this spring (dates after the jump).
  • The Traveling Wilburys aka the raddest supergroup ever (the band included Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison) released two studio albums, both of which are currently out of print but will get the re-issue treatment on Rhino June 12th. Awesome.
  • According to Us Weekly, a new interview with Justin Timberlake in Details Magazine reveals the singer’s dislike of his King of Pop title, and his potty mouth.
  • Pitchfork is reporting that Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock may have revealing a penchant for scary self-mutilation onstage in South Dakota. “While performing the Moon and Antarctica standout at Ramkota Exhibit Hall on March 18, Brock allegedly began hitting himself in the face with his microphone, then proceeded to draw a knife and cut his own chest,” the site reports. This is all very sixteen-year-old goth of him, but somebody get the guy some help.
  • R&B singer Luther Ingram, who performed the hit “If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Want to Be Right),” among other noteworthy tracks, has died. He was 69.

Amy Winehouse Spring 2007 Tour Dates

4/26/07 – San Francisco, CA – Popscene – w/The Klaxons, Kaiser Chiefs
4/27/07 – Indio, CA – Empire Polo Grounds
4/30/07 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
5/2/07 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
5/3/07 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
5/6/07 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre Of The Living Arts
5/7/07 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
5/8/07 – New York, NY – The Highline Ballroom
5/9/07 – New York, NY – The Highline Ballroom
5/12/07 – Toronto, ON – Mod Club
5/13/07 – Toronto, ON – Mod Club


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BMS | 3/21/2007, 10:24 am EST

To quote Homer Simpson: “BE MORE FUNNY!” Either that, or just report the music news straight…that’d be a novel concept for a staff of reality-TV wannabes and celebrities’ uneducated offspring.

Mike | 3/21/2007, 10:26 am EST

Leave it to Rhino to be just about the only label that matters… with the occasional exception. Nice to see the Traveling Wilburys albums being reissued.

abandonedstation | 3/21/2007, 10:29 am EST

the ‘legendary band’ band on your cover didn’t make your top 100 artists of all time list. Yet Dr. Dre, Phil Spector, The Kinks, U2, Madonna, The Police, AC/DC, The Stooges, Van Morrison, Eminem, Public Enemy, NWA, Guns n’ Roses, and Roxy Music did. Now there’s a lot of good artists in that list above (and I didn’t list the stellar ones like Stones, Beatles, Jimi, etc.), but certainly Floyd should be among them.

Oh well. The Travelling Wilburys can console me. Overrated bands usually do.

Modest Mouse is just doing some cross-promotion for the new Stooges album. Look for Iggy to do a cover of ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’ to bring awareness to the new Modest Mouse lineup.

Pickles McGee | 3/21/2007, 10:39 am EST

Don’t know about the rest of those Amy Winehouse dates, but the Boulder, Colo., show is already canceled.

Betty | 3/21/2007, 11:07 am EST

Pink Floyd Rocks, why cant there be more bands like them???? There is no talent anymore.

Drugs Delaney | 3/21/2007, 11:31 am EST

Must admit, I’m pretty disgusted with the RS MTV show. I’ve been reading the magazine cover-to-cover for over 10 years, and I get to the article about their reality series and I throw up in my mouth (and skip over it). I wonder if they felt it was necessary to appeal to a younger generation. Either way, it’s so brutal. How did this come up again?

Props to RS for putting those guys on the cover (when you usually don’t give PF any props at all, as mentioned already).

Joe | 3/21/2007, 11:43 am EST

Heeeeyyyeeaaahh. I wanna shoop baby.

the porksword | 3/21/2007, 12:05 pm EST

Pink Floyd sucks! The most overrated band ever.

fixtheglitch | 3/21/2007, 12:05 pm EST

Is there any particular reason why Rolling Stone chose to put Pink Floyd on the cover now, and not in the 60’s or 70’s or even the 80’s? There’s plenty of other good material to read about this legendary band, so why does this magazine expect anyone to care when they finally decide to acknowledge Pink Floyd? Hopefully the next Rolling Stone cover subject will be Jessica Simpson, since the magazine seems much more in its element when writing about tabloid fodder like her.

Rockstar70 | 3/21/2007, 12:10 pm EST

It’s about time someone good gets a cover!!! I was thinking RS had become TEEN DREAM!!

Paulo A. | 3/21/2007, 12:37 pm EST

Just seeing how long it took for them to be on the cover goes to show what a piece of crap magazine this is.

Morgan | 3/21/2007, 12:51 pm EST

Better late than never I suppose…….. Do you think that the Britney generation you pander to even knows who the fuck Pink Floyd is, or really have any true appreciation for the music? Extremely doubtful. It’s a step in the right place anyway. Those of us born before 1983 appreciate it.

jungleland | 3/21/2007, 1:02 pm EST

Always up for a Pink Floyd story, even if I’ve heard it many times before. Didn’t appriciate them until they were long gone (the Waters version anyway) and I was no longer sick of the 4 songs they play on the radio. Animals is still in my all-time top 20. For younger fans, think of them as Radiohead before Radiohead and don’t lump them in with Styx, Forigner, Kansas etc

the porksword | 3/21/2007, 1:16 pm EST

Yeah, kids…and Radiohead sucks, too…

THX-1138 | 3/21/2007, 2:02 pm EST

Yes, i also believe Pink Floyd’s exclusion from ‘The Immortals’ to be rather egreigous. As much as I love Radiohead, and believe they indeed did deserve to be on that list, without Floyd there would have never been Radiohead, and probably no NIN either. Reznor cites ‘The Wall’ as having a massive influence on his thinking. Just look at ‘Year Zero.’

Stuporfly | 3/21/2007, 2:20 pm EST

Which teenage retard took the time out from creating CDR bootleg sleeves to come up with the graphic design for that cover? Shame Pink Floyd had to wait ages to get on there only to be surrounded by such nonsense.

Dude | 3/21/2007, 3:28 pm EST

How does Pink Floyd get the cover of your magazine but not a spot on your list of the 100 greatest rock artists of all time?

nd | 3/21/2007, 4:04 pm EST

Wow, Pink Floyd, how edgy of you.

AG | 3/21/2007, 4:33 pm EST

I’ve been around since Rock was born and can say there are two bands at the top of the rock. 1st place the Beatles. 2nd Pink Floyd.
How it is that RS passes over the Floyd and the great lead guitar of David Gilmour is beyond understanding. 500plus years from now they will still have fans. Most of the RS picks will be long forgotten.

Bill Kelly | 3/23/2007, 2:52 am EST

Does that say:

“NEW CLUES IN JFK’S MURDER?”

on the cover?

What’s that all about?

No mention of contents on website?

miccc | 3/24/2007, 1:56 pm EST

Good effort ‘AG’, but the correct order is:#1-Led Zeppelin,#2-The Beatles,#3-Pink Floyd.

Anonymous | 3/28/2007, 10:35 am EST

How nice of you guys …to finally place one of the greatest bands of all time instead of 50 cent on your cover. cheers….. at least you are taking a step in the right direction

Pink Floyd Fanatic! | 3/31/2007, 5:23 pm EST

I am inlove with the cover of htis issue. You guys definatly made the best decision possible. I’m going to actually buy another copy… one for reading and one to keep good! Kind of like my floyd albums!

G&S | 4/6/2007, 1:25 pm EST

Certainly, it appears that a bunch of retarded teenagers made your top 100 artist of all time list, pink floyd is the king of all progressive genres, you can’t negate that his albums are immortals, they have sold much more copies than most of the other “best artists”

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