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March 20th, 2010
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- Down at SXSW, Rolling Stone has already caught hot performances by Stone Temple Pilots, Spoon, Broken Bells, the xx and many more up-and-coming acts. Keep it tuned to our SXSW coverage for all the best showcases, and be sure to follow @rollingstone as we continue to tweet 100 SXSW shows.
- Guitar god Jimi Hendrix landed on the cover of the new issue, and David Fricke looks back at the Greatest Guitarist of All Time’s last days and lost music.
- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame welcomed the Stooges, Genesis, Abba, the Hollies and Jimmy Cliff at the 2010 induction ceremony, which featured performances by Phish and more. Be sure to check out our backstage and onstage photos. Plus, two-time Rock Hall inductee Graham Nash visited RS to talk about the Hollies.
- Big Star’s Alex Chilton passed away at age 59. Rob Sheffield paid tribute to the Memphis rock god, and we flashbacked to Big Star covers.
- We took a close-up look at the Best New Bands of 2010 in a gallery of on-the-road photos. We also explored intimate backstage shots of Ryan Adams.
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March 19th, 2010
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March 19th, 2010
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Night two of the SXSW Music Festival featured a trio of big guitar bands with new lineups, playing new — in some cases not even completed — albums. The pressure was on to strike a balance between satiating fans with classics and testing new material without trying their patience.
More SXSW day two guitar rock: full report on Stone Temple Pilots’ set.
The Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers — now without its third singer-songwriter, Jason Isbell — proved the worth of their new album, The Big To-Do, right from the get-go at Stubb’s. Remaining singer-songwriters Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley went back and forth with hardened new songs about old themes, principally boozing (”The Fourth Night of My Drinking”), whoring (”Birthday Boy”), and employment with “fast food wages” (”This Fucking Job”).
Muscle Shoals legend Spooner Oldham joined the band on keyboard for their final song, “Let There Be Rock.” Hood said it was in homage to record stores, where boys and girls learn about music new and old, and about Big Star’s Alex Chilton, who died of an apparent heart attack Wednesday.
Band of Horses followed with their bar-raising stadium rock. Under a crescent moon emblazoned on a blue backdrop projected onto the underside of the stage’s half-shell, frontman Ben Bridwell led his revamped lineup through a stout set including “The Funeral,” one of the great singles of the passing decade. The middle of the set featured two songs — “Factory” and “Compliments” — from the new album Infinite Arms, out May 18th. They may have been working titles but the mechanics therein were anything but in flux. “Factory” was a casual rocker with a punchy refrain and an undercurrent of keys, over which Bridwell sang something to the effect of, “I got to get my shit together and try to find something to sing.”
Headliner Broken Social Scene arrived with as much manpower as the two prior bands combined. Twelve microphones awaited the ever-fluctuating Canadian collective well past midnight. Jason Collett, a former core member participating in SXSW as his own concern, joined the band’s brain trust — Kevin Drew, Andrew Whiteman, and a freshly shaven Brendan Canning — for the intro track, a new one called “World Sick” (hear it here). The song took advantage of the band’s five-guitar assault, its ascending and descending melodies hopscotching gracefully along Drew’s lyrics about the homesickness inherent to incessant touring.
The band played a handful of old songs, among them a “7/4 (Shoreline)” embellished with a seven-person horn section, but mostly they rocked out new songs from the forthcoming Forgiveness Rock Record, out May 4th. “We’re gonna play our guts out,” Drew said, referring to dance- and keyboard-inflected songs like “Forced to Love,” “Texico Bitches,” and “All to All.” “But we’re human beings,” Drew continued, “still trying to figure things out.”
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March 19th, 2010
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Stone Temple Pilots are not a band many could have expected to survive two full decades. Even acts without the internal wounds of serious addiction and ongoing conflict rarely make it this long, but when STP emerged onstage at the Austin Music Hall for a special performance at South By Southwest on Thursday, they delivered like journeyman rock stars with their shit together — tight and focused, and unburdened with the bitterness or bad memories from the recent past.
Singer Scott Weiland shimmied stylishly across the stage in a snug vest, tie and wraparound shades, rasping to an explosive “Vaseline,” as guitarist Dean DeLeo ignited bursts of noise and melody. Bassist Robert DeLeo strutted in a black suit and white patent-leather shoes, and drummer Eric Kretz pounded anxious beats from a gleaming white drum-riser. The 4,400-capacity Austin Music Hall was packed, and during 75 minutes of hits and new songs, the SoCal quartet managed to make the big shed feel as intimate and overheated as a club show.
They dove into STP’s earliest records, with the brooding, sludgy “Wicked Garden” and the aching resignation of “Creep” still tapping into some early-’90s disaffection and gloom, while the slower “Big Empty” floated to Dean DeLeo’s dreamy slide guitar, with sudden thunderous riffs as repeated exclamation points. Stone Temple Pilots were real grunge-era hit-makers for several years, with songs that remain a staple of rock radio, but the band’s renewed drive onstage after reappearing from a half-decade in limbo saved them from becoming mere oldies.
Songs from the band’s upcoming new album were unveiled throughout the set, fitting easily between the hits. “They’re brand new,” Weiland declared, “but they’ll feel like you’ve been hearing them for 20 years.” The self-titled 11-song collection, due May 25th, will be their first since 2001, and includes the riff-raff of “Between the Lines,” which sounded in Austin like sped-up Rolling Stones, with a flamboyant accent of Ziggy Stardust, as Weiland reminisced on the early days of romance with his estranged wife, purring breathlessly: “I like it when we talk about love, even when we used to take drugs.”
The taunting “Huckleberry Crumble” and “Hickory Dichotomy” were ’70s guitar rock with deep blues in their veins, as Weiland vamped center stage. He tossed his sweat-soaked vest into the crowd and promised another fresh new tune, saying “I hope you dig it,” but instead dove into “Plush,” one of STP’s most recognizable hits. The band had barely begun when Weiland held his microphone out over the crowd, which shouted an entire verse back at the stage.
For the band’s two-song encore, STP was joined by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, introduced by Weiland as “a man who was part of the greatest rock & roll group in history,” before diving into a fiery “Roadhouse Blues,” leaving enough room for DeLeo and Krieger to stretch out on dueling leads. The night ended with an intense reading of “Trippin’ On a Hole in a Paper Heart,” another drug tale from 1996.
Earlier in the set, Weiland graciously told fans, “It’s your party, not ours.” But after tumultuous times both together and apart, Weiland and Stone Temple Pilots have learned to make the most of surviving long enough to enjoy it themselves.
Set List:
“Vasoline”
“Crackerman”
“Wicked Garden”
“Hollywood Bitch”
“Between the Lines”
“Hickory Dichotomy”
“Big Empty”
“Sour Girl”
“Creep”
“Plush”
“Interstate Love Song”
“Bagman”
“Huckleberry Crumble”
“Sex Type Thing”
“Dead and Bloated”
Encore:
“Roadhouse Blues”
“Trippin’ On a Hole in a Paper Heart”
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March 19th, 2010
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On day two of SXSW, you could see the mechanisms of the hype machine in full effect. The current crop of buzz bands (the xx, Surfer Blood, Bear In Heaven) packed their rooms wall-to-wall. However, bands who had their moment but still release excellent albums (Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Vivian Girls) had more modest crowds. Maybe it’s the economy of cool, maybe it’s that bands were expected to play 10 day shows in four days and thus spread audiences thin. But however you watched them, there was still plenty to watch.
Christopher R. Weingarten of @1000TimesYes continued his Twitter odyssey yesterday, tweeting about 26 bands in 14 hours for @RollingStone. Relive his epic quest in our TwitterCam (clips range from the woozy indie drone of the Besnard Lakes to the heavy riffage of Howl) and catch up on his 140-character reports here:
Catch up on our day one Twitter marathon.
28) TALK NORMAL: Gritty, seething art-punk polyrhythms still gnarled and mesmerizing in beaming noon sun with breakfast taco in hand.
29) FRIGHTENED RABBIT: Earnest hooks and smirky stage rambles transcend the impersonal, kinda dorky Austin Convention Center Day Stage
30) JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD: Your friendly punk pals find a real soundsystem, walk scrungy line between Melvins and Ramones.
31) SURFER BLOOD: “It smells like sunscreen where I’m standing right now. I love it.” Also I think they dedicated a song to tacos? The band of the hour really leaning into those heavy parts.
32) HOWL: Blackened sludgers currently trumping everyone in power, volume, intimidation, pain, tightened muscles, sweat, ear damage. “Am I the only one drunk at 2pm?”
33) THE BESNARD LAKES: Montrealites playing indie rock like science: Effortless Low harmonies into effortless Neil Young guitar heroics
34) OH NO ONO: Danish dudes in shawls: part pop band, part noise band, a mystic quirkiness perfect for the rustic walls of the Mohawk
35) THE DUTCHESS AND THE DUKE: With Shayde from the Fresh And Onlys. So fun and cute and intimate that it feels like a soundcheck.
36) VIVIAN GIRLS: Still as infectious, rollicking as ever. Fans clap in joy. Smaller crowd than buzzier bands, though. #hypecyclesucks
37) QUASI: Sam Coomes seems really psyched to play a sunny, gravelly field on a rickety stage. Maybe he hasn’t done it in a while?
38) DELOREAN: Fluffy, intimate, bass-bursting glo-punk party in secluded field within throwing distance of a mile-long FADER Fort line
39) SHABAZZ PALACES: Ex-Digable Planet does impossibly funky, dubby avant-rap with shakers, kalimbas, ideas without boundaries. Truly a unique and wonderful mix that deserves to be one of sxsw 2010’s breakout stars. Get Googling!
40) SHARON VON ETTEN: Desolate, lovelorn folkie haunts the chapel: St. David’s Church. “Thank you for coming to church on a Thursday”
41) DANIEL MARTIN MOORE/BEN SOLLEE: Appalachian folk, sentimental indie, percussive cello, the hippest drummer who actually HAMBONES!
42) PIERCED ARROWS: Scummy-looking dudes screaming “paranoia” is pretty much rock ‘n’ roll, right?
43) U-N-I: Los Angeles rappers are tirelessly cheerful and energetic despite a small crowd. Stuffed tiger, the party animal, in tow.
44) HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Could have been on Sub Pop in the ’90s. Sub Pop signed ‘em last month. Two Vivian Girls singing along in front row!
45) THE MOONDOGGIES: Bearded and unkempt and full of ripping, batter-fried solos. SXSW’s most cerebral bar band?
46) THE LOW ANTHEM: Treating the @rollingstone party to a sound as fragile and warped as a Dylan 45 playing in an aquarium’s jukebox.
47) GUITAR SHORTY: Septagenarian Texas blues-rocker furiously soloing to a diverse, occasionally bearded crowd.
48) MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON: Indie troubador staring at hands and/or barely opening his eyes. Sad? Or just intense?
49) DUM DUM GIRLS: They already sound like a Phil Spector record, but it’s amazing they sound like a Phil Spector record even on stage.
50) GZA: A chest-caving set of Wu-Tang favorites to a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd all throwing up their W’s.
51) BEAR IN HEAVEN: Like a house show: heat, claustrophobia, charming Mohawk interior. Not like a house show: dude sings in tune.
52) THE XX: An unwavering icy cool that makes everyone react differently: Rapt attention, swaying gently, applauding riotously.
53) BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: Half indie affect, half new wave abandon. “We’re Broken Social Scene and we believe in you. Good night.”
More SXSW 2010:
• SXSW 2010 Day One Twitter Marathon: 27 Reports, From Andrew WK to Paul Wall
• Spoon, Broken Bells Grab the Spotlight as SXSW 2010 Launches
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March 19th, 2010
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March 19th, 2010
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This weekend, The Runaways biopic starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie hits movie theaters — Rolling Stone brought you a peek inside the year’s most anticipated rock film, now tell us your favorite rock biopics (and no, Purple Rain doesn’t count). We’ll tally up the votes on Monday; check out five of our favorites for inspiration:
• Sid and Nancy
• 24 Hour Party People
• The Doors
• Walk the Line.
• Ray
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March 19th, 2010
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An appeals court rules against the late star, who had battled over the estate of her oil magnate husband
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March 19th, 2010
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“My husband just freaked out immediately” about her new look, she says
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March 19th, 2010
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Eat, Pray, Love, the big-screen adaption of the 2006 bestselling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, stars Julia Roberts as a lovelorn woman who takes a year off from work to travel and find herself. With gorgeous men — Javier Bardem and James Franco co-star — good food and scenic locales like Italy, India and Bali, the movie’s first trailer hints at a female fantasy come to life.
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