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Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

1/25/08, 6:17 pm EST

Radiohead magically appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone this week, and Rock Daily brought you a photo gallery tracking the band’s fifteen-year history and a look at the band’s musical and literary influences.
Roger Waters, Portishead and Jack Johnson were named Coachella headliners; the New Jersey-based Vinelands festival bit the dust after Coachella’s promoters announced their own Jersey fest, All Points West.
After the Writers Guild announced they won’t picket February 10th’s Grammy Awards, Rihanna, Mary J. Blige and Carrie Underwood were added to the show’s lineup of performers.
Everyone who was anyone descended on Utah for the Sundance Film Festival: RS brought frequent updates from our own Peter Travers, a photo gallery of rockers on the scene and a report of the real This Is Spinal Tap: Anvil! The True Story of Anvil.
Peter Travers also said farewell to Heath Ledger, who passed away this week at the age of twenty-eight in his New York apartment. We looked back at Ledger’s 2006 Rolling Stone cover story and examined his apparent Nick Drake obsession.