• Lambert Responds to Critics on Early Show
• Tom Petty Looks Back: Q&A
• John Mayer’s Battle Studies Wins Number One
• Dead Weather on “Expansive” Next Disc
• Meet the Teen-Angst Guru Behind TWLOHA
• Fall Out Boy, Anthrax Unite in New Band
• Beach Boys, Doors Songs Join Grammy Hall
• Rihanna on Love of Mariah and Whitney
• Lambert Unveils “For Your Entertainment” Clip
• New Music Report: White Denim
• Weekend Rock List: Food Songs
• News Ticker: Beyoncé, Coldplay
• New Moon’s Taylor Lautner: The New Issue
• Lambert Loses GMA Gig Due to Racy AMAs
• Vote for the Best Music of 2009
• Bob Dylan on Christmas, Hip-Hop
• 1,500 Complain Over Lambert’s AMAs Set
• Lady Gaga Brings “Bad Romance” to Leno
• Paramore Dig a Grave in “Brick” Clip
• Pixies’ Minotaur Set Unveiled
• Fricke’s Picks: O’Rourke’s Long Song
• Rihanna Brings Her “Umbrella” to GMA
• Lambert Breaks Down AMAs “Controversy”
• Springsteen Wraps Epic Tour in Buffalo
• U2 to Headline Glastonbury 2010
• Can Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Rescue Sound?
• Grammys: Gaga Won’t Compete for New Artist
• New Reviews: Lambert, Gaga, Rihanna

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Tonight’s Kiss concert is playing live on the Web thanks to Ustream. Tune in at 9 p.m. PT for the show, and check out our other Kiss features here:

• Sparks Fly and Blood Spews as Kiss Alive 35 Tour Hits Cleveland
• Red Hot Chili Peppers, LL Cool J, Kiss Lead 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees
• Kiss Cap Explosive “Letterman” Gig By Licking the Host
• The Kiss Merchandising Machine: Kollectibles from M&M’s to Mr. Potato Heads

Jamie Tworkowski was a music-loving surf kid with a winning smile when he stumbled into the salvation business — he tried to help an addicted, suicidal teen, blogged about the experience and whipped up a batch of T-shirts featuring a phrase he’d penned (”To Write Love on Her Arms”). An old pal, Switchfoot singer Jon Foreman, wore one of the tees at a concert and before he knew it, Tworkowski was the leader of a teen-angst movement on MySpace, where his organization TWLOHA, has the largest audience of any nonprofit.

Read our full story from the current issue, plus watch video from our photo shoot, where TWLOHA devotees flocked to be near Tworkowski:

• Surfer to Savior

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We’re eating light lunches at the office today in preparation for tomorrow’s Thanksgiving feast, so this four-day weekend’s Rock List will be dedicated to Food Songs. Tell us your favorite songs with an edible title, and on Monday after the long weekend, we’ll reveal the readers’ list of Food Songs. Check below for an appetizer of some of our picks:

• The Rolling Stones – “Brown Sugar”
• Led Zeppelin – “Custard Pie”
• Kelis – “Milkshake”
• Prince – “Cream”
• The Beatles – “Strawberry Fields Forever”

Rolling Stone recently had a kind of stream-of-consciousness backstage chat with the Dead Weather where Jack White and Co. tackled topics ranging from time travel and geography to the art of picking band names and avoiding being sued (for instance, White insists, the Arctic Monkeys added the “Arctic” to sidestep the legal wrath of the Monkees). We also quizzed the band on who would win in a supergroup slugfest, the Dead Weather or Them Crooked Vultures. Watch White’s response in the video above.

Check out hot live shots of the Dead Weather.

White also spilled some details about the next Dead Weather album, which the band hopes to finish recording in time for their tour of Australia in March 2010. (more…)

To mark the release of The Live Anthology, a multi-CD boxed set covering 30 years of road work with his band the Heartbreakers, Tom Petty spoke to Rolling Stone for nearly six hours over two days — including his 59th birthday, October 20th — about his rock & roll life. Those conversations, at the Heartbreakers’ rehearsal space in a warehouse in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley and at Petty’s home in Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean, ran the length of rock itself, including the day in 1961 that the young Gainesville, Florida native met Elvis Presley (Petty forgot to bring a record for the King to sign); Petty’s trials and adventures as a long-haired garage-band kid in redneck territory; his rough late-Seventies tours with the Heartbreakers; the musically rich encounters, on stage and in the studio, with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Carl Perkins and Elvis Costello, among many others; and a sneak preview of Petty’s next record with the Heartbreakers.

Looking like a Confederate general with his pointed sandy-blond beard, Petty reflected on his 40 years in music with a laconic wit, deep Southern drawl and constant amazement. “It has been a great journey,” he said at the very end of the second interview. Here, in these outtakes from the published story from the current issue, are a few more reasons why:

• Tom Petty Looks Back

Rolling Stone editor Christian Hoard’s “Christian Rock” new music pick this week is Fits, the latest album from onetime Breaking band White Denim. The Austin trio’s second LP sounds like what you’d get if you locked three skilled players in a garage with a handful of speed: accomplished but raw. Hoard says Fits is more complex than the band’s debut Explosion: there’s free jazz, psychedelic, prog rock and blues rock along with roller-coaster grooves, howling and crooning. One of his favorite tracks is “All Consolation,” which is all distortion and guitar leads with a hazy, wordless chorus. The second half of the album is more songful and jazz rocky — “Everybody Somebody” sounds like it could have been an AM radio hit for a ’60s burnout band and “Painted Yourself” is a bit like a Devendra Banhart tune. Ultimately, though, White Denim’s skill on Fits is throwing a lot of stuff at you in a propulsive, hard-rocking way. Such a busy approach may have sunk a lesser band.

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Earlier this week, ?uestlove broke down some of his favorite musical moments from Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, where the Roots serve as house band. A few of his highlights came when the group pulled a fast one on guests — playing “Loser” when Heidi and Spencer walked out, for instance — in categories he named “Best Snarky Walk-On Songs” and ” ‘Oh No They Didn’t’ Songs.” Conveniently, Fallon himself managed to trick more than a few viewers this week when he impersonated Neil Young … doing a stripped-down rendition of the theme to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Check it out above.

Thanksgiving evening, Rolling Stone contributor Touré’s interview with Rihanna airs on Fuse (November 26th at 6 p.m. ET, to be exact). Here’s a taste of their conversation: Rihanna on the singers she admired as a young girl. “I used to listen to all the divas,” she says, shouting out Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Shania Twain. ” ‘Vision of Love’ is my favorite Mariah Carey song, but they just all seemed so powerful. I remember just watching the videos, and that’s what really sold me.”

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Recordings by the Beach Boys, Bob Marley, the Doors, James Brown and Janis Joplin have been named as 2010 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame. Twenty-five recordings from a variety of genres will be added to the Grammy Hall, which currently includes 851 titles altogether (songs are eligible 25 years after release and the picks are approved by Recording Academy Trustees). The Doors’ L.A. Woman closer “Riders on the Storm,” Joplin’s final album Pearl and the Beach Boys’ classic “California Girls” will be among the recordings added to the collection.

“This year’s Grammy Hall Of Fame inductees highlight a diverse array of masterpiece recordings that have had a profound impact on our musical history,” Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow said in a statement. “The selections are timeless staples that span six decades and represent a wide range of genres from comedy to rock, reggae, jazz and R&B. They all greatly deserve to be memorialized.”

Check out the complete list of the 25 recordings entering the Grammy Hall of Fame below: (more…)

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The Big News: John Mayer proved to be well versed in the art of sales warfare as his Battle Studies slaughtered all of its big-name competitors, selling 286,000 copies to give the singer his first Billboard Top 200 Number One album since 2003’s Heavier Things. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Battle Studies also came in just shy of the 300,000 copies 2006’s Continuum sold in its Number Two debut week, so Mayer has demonstrated he has some consistency in these days of declining sales. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart!! What a way to spend Thanksgiving,” Mayer wrote to fans on Twitter in celebration of his win.

Six albums managed to surpass 100,000 in sales this week, with five of the six debuts this week. Andrea Bocelli’s My Christmas, apparently the frontrunner for this year’s go-to seasonal album, remained at Number Two for the second consecutive week, while Norah Jones’ The Fall entered the charts at Number Three with 180,000 copies. (more…)

Gary Lucas is a modern guitar miracle, an alchemical soloist with monster technique and a rare collaborative touch. He is especially good with master voices; his work with Captain Beefheart and the late Jeff Buckley is a master lesson in aggressive invention and supportive electricity. That empathy is half the pleasure of Lucas’ Indo-blues venture, Rishte (World Village), with British-born Indian vocalist Najma Akhtar. The other half is the sharp, soaring way she threads his space-fuzz dynamics and pungent Delta settings on National steel. Akhtar, who sang with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on their 1994 Unledded TV special, sounds perfectly at home in Skip James’ “Special Rider Blues,” while Lucas makes the Mississippi ghosts dance.

Adam Lambert grabbed headlines for his racy rendition of “For Your Entertainment” on Sunday’s American Music Awards, and now the American Idol star is giving fans a more PG-13 version of that performance in the song’s video, which debuted on Adam Official. Lambert, his spiked shoulder pads and his cadre of dancers take to a grimy subterranean nightclub for title track from his debut album, and it’s easy to see how the AMAs performance riffed off the clip: some of the choreography is the same, as is the general theme — a sexy Lambert on the prowl after hours. As an added bonus, Lambert brings back the green snake that was his costar on the cover of Rolling Stone.

See photos of the AMAs Glambglory plus more from the big show.

Compared to Glambert’s controversial AMAs set, the “For Your Entertainment” video is pretty tame. (more…)

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There’s another new supergroup of sorts on the horizon: two members of Fall Out Boy are using their time away from the band to provide riffs and beats for a new heavy metal side project called the Damned Things. FOB guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley have teamed with Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano, Every Time I Die’s Keith Buckley and bassist David Karon in the new band, which Ian describes to Rock Sound as “Kyuss meeting Thin Lizzy.”

Check out supergroups from Cream to Them Crooked Vultures.

According to Rock Sound, the Damned Things have already written and demoed 15 songs with the hope of entering the studio in December. “It’s super fun and it’s something that we do totally take seriously because we love the music we’ve created,” Ian said, describing new song “A Great Reckoning” as worthy of “any Thin Lizzy record.” The band’s roots can be traced back to at least October 2008, when the Damned Things’ MySpace page was created. Judging by the comments on that page, a Damned Things song was initially posted there but has since been deleted. (more…)

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Adam Lambert defended his controversial American Music Awards performance on The Early Show this morning, telling host Maggie Rodriguez the AMAs were filled with content that wasn’t kid-friendly. “I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television. Lady Gaga smashing whiskey bottles, Janet Jackson grabbing a male dancer’s crotch, Eminem talking about how Slim Shady has 17 rapes under his belt — there was a lot of very adult material on the AMAs this year and I know I wasn’t the only one.” (Watch his interview below.)

Adam Lambert shocks, Taylor Swift soars: see the 2009 AMAs in photos.

Lambert was the only star to face a major backlash following the ceremony, which aired from 8 to 11 p.m. ET on ABC Sunday night. After ABC received 1,500 complaints over Lambert’s simulated oral sex and make-out session with a male bandmate, the network nixed his appearance on Good Morning America. Lambert argued that female pop stars wouldn’t have received the same scrutiny, and that being gay and a man was a “double whammy” because audiences “haven’t seen that before.” He concluded, “I’m not a babysitter. I’m a performer.” (more…)