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Green Day announces summer tour

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Green Day has announced a slate of 38 summer dates that begins July 3 in Seattle and marks the chart-topping rock band's first full North American tour in more than three years.

The summer trek, which will support the trio's May 15 album "21st Century Breakdown" (Reprise Records), heads clockwise through Canada and the U.S. The band plays Midwest, East Coast and Southern dates before finishing up in Los Angeles on August 25. Venues will be announced at a later date.

The new album, which follows 2004's Billboard 200-topping "American Idiot," was produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). Green Day will celebrate the release with a previously announced show at New York's Bowery Ballroom on May 18.

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McCartney, Morrissey and Leonard Cohen Kick Off Coachella

The 10th annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival got off to a fab start Friday (April 17), thanks to Sir Paul McCartney, who headlined the event with a marathon performance worthy of his long and lauded musical legacy. Proving himself the ultimate showman, Macca played a thrilling 2 hour 45 minute set that included a healthy collection of Beatles, Wings and solo material that kept the crowd of young and old singing along well past Coachella's midnight curfew.

Kicking off with the Wings classic "Jet," the 66-year old McCartney made the most of Coachella's new main-stage soundsystem (its first in six years), and delivered hit after hit to the audience packed onto the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. Contrary to rumors circulating throughout the day, McCartney's set featured no appearances by Ringo Starr nor George Harrison's son Dhani, but Macca, dressed in a crisp white shirt and black suspenders, didn't disappoint Beatles die-hards, as he included anthems like "Drive My Car," "Blackbird," "Back in the U.S.S.R.," "Eleanor Rigby," "Let It Be," "I Got a Feeling" and "Hey Jude" into his 34-song, three-encore set.

Amidst the musical celebration, McCartney took time to poignantly tip his hat to his late collaborators. Macca plucked a ukulele and dedicated a moving rendition of "Something" to Harrison, while John Lennon was honored with a stirring medley of "A Day in the Life" and "Give Peace a Chance." Still, the most touching moment came when McCartney remarked that he was performing on the 11th anniversary of the death of his first wife, Linda. "She loved the desert, she loved music, she loved rock 'n' roll," he said. "She loved it all."

Paul McCartney wasn't the only elder statesman who took the Coachella crowd on a trip down memory lane. 74-year-old Leonard Cohen continued his comeback tour and dazzled the audience on the side stage with an elegant and haunting sunset performance. His set, which climaxed with a stirring rendition of "Hallelujah," hung ominously in the desert air until 50-year-old Morrissey interrupted the calm on the main stage with a thunderous, career-spanning collection of tunes that included Smiths classics like "This Charming Man," "Girlfriend in a Coma" and a surprising rendition of "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others."

While the seasoned performers got top billing Friday, there were still plenty of exciting new sounds for sun-scorched ears to soak up throughout the day. Los Angeles quartet Silversun Pickups closed out Coachella's side stage with a raucous set of grungy rock 'n' roll that thrilled their antsy, energetic crowd. Canadian noise terrorists Crystal Castles devastated their audience with a raw, fist-pumping set of vicious tencho punk in the Sahara dance tent. And breakbeat duo the Crystal Method made a triumphant return to the Coachella with a powerful closing performance in the dance tent that erupted into a full-on rave. Standout appearances by favored indie-rock and dance artists M. Ward, White Lies, Ting Tings, Airborne Toxic Event, Beirut, Girl Talk, Franz Ferdinand and Conor Oberst also gave the massive crowd reason to celebrate under the desert skies.
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts festival is expected to draw close to 150,000 people during the weekend. The event continues on Saturday and Sunday with performances by The Cure, The Killers, My Bloody Valentine, M.I.A., TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Public Enemy, Throbbing Gristle and 80 others artists scheduled over the remaining two days.


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Crosby, Stills and Nash to play Musikfest again

Legendary singer-songwriter trio Crosby, Stills and Nash are returning to Musikfest.

The group will perform at 8 p.m. Aug. 9 at Sands RiverPlace main stage in Bethlehem.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. April 20 to ArtsQuest members and April 24 to the general public.

David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s on the strength of its hits "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," "Teach Your Children," "Our House," "Carry On" and "Southern Cross."

The group previously performed at Musikfest in 2004.

The band first performed together at the Woodstock festival in 1969 and is currently working on a new album.

It will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in June.

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Bernard Butler to produce Tommy Reilly’s debut album

Eminent UK producer Bernard Butler has chosen nineteen year old Scot Tommy Reilly’s debut album as the first project he’ll take on since winning both a Brit and a Grammy earlier this year.

With a long and already distinguished career already under his belt, Butler won Producer Of The Year at the Brits and then went on to win a Grammy for his work with multi-million selling superstar artist Duffy on her debut album Rockferry in early 2009.

Understandably in huge demand, Butler was excited after hearing Tommy’s demos and decided to get involved. He says of the decision, 'I got asked to produce loads of Welsh blonde female singers but I turned them all down for Tommy. It's exciting for me to record with people who are different. A man with an acoustic guitar is a big opportunity in terms of where you can take things.'

The pair are currently holed up in Scottish legend Edwyn Collins’ London studios working on an album due out around June of this year.

Tommy signed to A&M Records (home to Duffy, The Courteeners and Dan Black) late 2008. Since then this nineteen year old singer/ songwriter from Torrance (a small town just outside Glasgow) has cemented his position as Scotland’s freshest young talent with two sold out national tours (including iconic venues like The Garage in Glasgow), a top 20 single debut with Gimme A Call and a nomination for Young Scot Of The Year.

It was this Torrance local’s live set - he sings, plays guitar, piano, drums and harmonica – that helped him win last year’s Orange Unsigned Act and has endeared him to a legion of fans across Scotland and the nation with the Sunday Mail proclaiming him a 'mascot for Scottish music'.

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Metallica’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Performance Plus All-Star Jams Hit the Web

If you missed Metallica’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past weekend — or if your DVR screwed you over and cut off the band’s performance — you can catch it on Fuse’s Website now. The music network just posted highlights from this year’s Rock Hall ceremony from Cleveland (check ‘em out, above) featuring Metallica’s performance of hits “Master of Puppets” and “Enter Sandman” — a set that marked the return of bassist Jason Newsted, who was invited to the ceremony despite quitting the band in 2001. “I’ve been levitating all weekend,” Newsted said during his speech. The father of bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a tragic tour bus accident in 1986, also spoke, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea gave a fantastic induction speech.

Fuse also posted a pair of all-star jams featuring the majority of the night’s honorees: Spooner Oldham, Wanda Jackson, Jeff Beck, Little Anthony, Bobby Womack and many more sang “Jailhouse Rock,” while Metallica, Beck, Jimmy Page, Flea and special guest Ron Wood busted out “Train Kept A-Rollin’ ” for the Cleveland crowd.
Other highlights up at the Fuse site include Beck and Page’s awesome take on “Beck Bolero” and Eminem’s moving introduction speech for Run-DMC.

Rolling Stone was all over the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this past weekend — don’t miss our photos, video and reports from the main hall and backstage. For one last look at this year’s Rock Hall class, including their definitive playlists, their road to fame and their past Rolling Stone cover stories, be sure to check out our Rock Hall hub now.

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The Ultimate Trip: “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” Heads to the Big Screen

Last year news broke that Tom Wolfe’s classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test — the literary legend’s 1968 book examining Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters — would be heading to the big screen. Rolling Stone has an update on the Gus Van Sant-directed film, which is due next year. Check out our story, where Prankster Ken Babbs, Caroline Garcia (a.k.a. Mountain Girl) and LSD impresario Owsley “Bear” Stanley weigh in on the project, and their relationship to Wolfe’s work:

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Jenny Lewis Hopes to Get “Intimate,” Debut Songs on “Acid Tongue” Tour

Jenny Lewis was just in Australia, where she learned that sports stars trump rock stars in the fame game. “We were on an airplane with two rival rugby teams and the paparazzi were waiting not as we got off the plane but as they got off the plane,” she tells Rolling Stone. “Later, on the news, I kind of saw our crew in the background.”

The Rilo Kiley singer isn’t fading into the crowd on her Acid Tongue headlining tour, a trek that has her hopping from giant festivals at Coachella and Bonnaroo to smaller club shows, which the singer admits she prefers. “In the club setting, you get to perform your intimate material. I’m hoping to do a little acoustic section within the show, but I don’t think that will necessarily work at an outdoor free show or Bonnaroo.”

Lewis’ band on Acid Tongue — her boyfriend (and fellow Laurel Canyon resident) guitarist Johnathan Rice, lap steel guitarist Farmer Dave Scher, drummer Barbara Gruska and bassist Jonathan Wilson — will back her on the road, and the singer-songwriter is eager to already start work a new LP. “I’d like to have the opportunity to play a couple new songs as I write them along the way on the new tour and dip into my old songs from many years ago and try to rework songs from Rabbit Fur Coat and Acid Tongue,” Lewis says of the acoustic set, which might also include reworked versions of Rilo Kiley songs. Fans of her band with Blake Sennett do come out to her solo shows: Lately, they’ve been screaming at her lap steel player to play the triangle. “They were going ballistic and sort of making a triangle with the shape of their fingers. A ‘More Cowbell’ sort of thing,” she laughs.

After road-testing the songs on Acid Tongue while touring for her debut solo album Rabbit Fur Coat, Lewis decided to document the laborious process of tinkering and perfecting the songs in the studio. The result is her first documentary Welcome to Van Nuys, which Lewis admits was inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil, which tracked the Rolling Stones’ long road to recording the titular song.

“We set up three cameras in the studio during the entire recording process and we kind of left them rolling and over the past year. It’s taken me about a year to sift through all the footage,” Lewis says of Van Nuys. “One time, my dad stopped by to play on my record and he brought with him this harmonica synthesizer called the Millionizer. We were also rolling when Elvis [Costello] came down to sing with us, which was really exciting, to kind of see us all nervously waiting for him to get there.”

As far as Acid Tongue’s next single, Lewis says “See Fernando” is an option. “I’m not really single-minded,” she admits. “But it’s upbeat so I guess it makes sense, it’s not a total snooze. We performed it on that children’s show called Pancake Mountain, but the song is about a dope dealer. It was actually a joyous performance, the kids were dancing like maniacs, they loved it.”

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Guns n’ Roses’ “Chinese Democracy” Coming To “Rock Band” April 14th

Get ready to sing like Axl and emulate whichever guitarist is in Guns n’ Roses these days: Gn’R debuted their song “Shackler’s Revenge” on Rock Band 2, and now Axl Rose will bring the rest of Chinese Democracy to the music video game on April 14th as a new batch of downloadable content. Thirteen tracks off Chinese Democracy — Rock Band is assuming you’ve already beat enough challenges to add “Shackler’s Revenge” to the in-game track list — will be available both in bulk and as individual tracks for Playstation 3 and XBox 360, while the Wii will only sell CD as individual tracks.

At least Axl is finally doing something to promote this album after failing to tour (so far) or give interviews through conventional channels or even release that video for “Better” that’s just sitting on a editing dock somewhere. As the album has failed to reach sales expectations since its release as a Best Buy exclusive on November 23rd, making the entire LP available to players might expose Axl’s long-in-the-works Chinese Democracy to a larger audience, ingraining itself into the skulls of users who might not have cared for “Street of Dreams” at first listen. Plus, people seem to use the Rock Band and Guitar Hero series as a way to discover new music. We have a friend who had never heard the Cars’ self-titled album until it became available in its entirety on Rock Band 2 in May 2008. Rock Band is the new MTV.

While tracks like “Better” and “Scraped” seem almost tailor made for a Rock Band release, we’re curious how the ballad “This I Love” will make the jump to Rock Band as it’s all piano and vocals until the guitar solo kicks in around the three-minute mark. Chinese Democracy was ranked Rolling Stone’s 12th best album of 2008. Gn’R become the latest band to have an entire album playable through RB, joining the Pixies, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Megadeth, Judas Priest and more.

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