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The Clash booked a seven-night stand at the Bonds nightclub in Times Square in the spring of 1981. It was partially a public relations stunt, since they knew the mad scramble for tickets would make for great press. These were their only American dates of the year, and demand outstripped supply by a huge margin. Fans slept in the streets to score tickets, and that was no fun task in Times Square in 1981.
They opened on May 30th, but the fire chief tried to shut down the gig because the box office was oversold. The news nearly caused a riot in Times Square and the tabloid papers played it up big the following day. “They sold the same number of tickets for a gig that happened the night before with a group called the Plasmatics,” bassist Paul Simonon said. “And they blew up a car on stage!”
The band responded by adding eight additional shows so that all ticketholders could attend a show. The 15-night stand is now seen as one of the finest moments in New York rock history. READ MORE
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-the-clash-take-new-york-in-1981-20130314
In an exclusive interview in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone, Billie Joe Armstrong opens up about his years of alcohol and prescription drug abuse and his road back from his onstage meltdown at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas last September.
“I’d wake up in a strange house on a couch. I wouldn’t remember how. It was a complete blackout.” says Armstrong. He finally confronted his problem after the Vegas radio festival, where the frontman smashed his guitar onstage and shouted obscenities.
“I remember tiny things,” Armstrong says of the Vegas incident. “The next morning, I woke up. I asked [my wife] Adrienne, ‘How bad was it?’ She said, ‘It’s bad.’ I called my manager. He said, ‘You’re getting on a plane, going back to Oakland and going into rehab immediately.’”
Read the full story in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands this Friday.
Green Day’s Chicago performance has been rescheduled to Thursday, March 28 at the Allstate Arena. Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/billie-joe-armstrong-opens-up-about-substance-abuse-20130226
Photo Gallery: As Travis Barker of Blink-182 prepared for his all-star performance at the Grammys last week, he let Rolling Stone behind the scenes to document his day. Click HERE to view life with Travis…
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/travis-barker-a-day-in-the-life-20130211
A newly-identified species of spider living in California’s Joshua Tree National Park has been named after Bono.
Nearly three dozen new species of the cleverly named trapdoor spider, which hides from prey beneath a self-made hatch, have been identified, three of them from Joshua Tree National Park. The female trapdoor spiders live 20 years or longer, while the males live about five years.
Biologist Jason Bond of Auburn University in Alabama recently discovered 33 new species of trapdoor spider. Bond named two of those spiders after Native American tribes and called the third A. bonoi after the U2 frontman.
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See a trapdoor spider in action. Warning: Unlike Bono, IT’S DISGUSTING!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/joshua-tree-spider-named-after-bono-20130119
Green Day apparently misses a simpler, more analog time, judging by their new video for “X-Kid,” a song from the band’s trilogy-closing album ¡Tré! There’s not a lot to look at: the band presses play on a tape and lets it roll. WATCH
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/green-day-roll-tape-in-x-kid-20121221
Here for their annual Christmas single, are The Killers! The band recorded “I Feel It in My Bones” featuring Ryan Pardey on vocals, on a day off during their U.K. tour. The Killers will release “I Feel It in My Bones” on December 4th on iTunes. All sales from the song will benefit RED, a charity to fight HIV.
Hear it HERE!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-killers-rock-for-charity-on-i-feel-it-in-my-bones-premiere-20121201
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Soundgarden’s King Animal marks the group’s return a full 15 years after their initial breakup and, in the video for the album cut “Been Away Too Long,” the alt-rockers rage again with neck-breaking authority. The clip’s story is intriguing, too: a young girl in a straitjacket rises from bones and runs from mysterious men and attack dogs but gets trapped in isolated, snowy buildings. She eludes capture, though she may not be human.
King Animal will be out November 13th. CHECK IT OUT!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/soundgarden-rise-again-in-been-away-too-long-20121109
Metallica will take over Green Day’s headlining slot at New Orleans’ Voodoo Music and Arts Experience later this month while Billie Joe Armstrong focuses on his rehab, festival organizers announced Friday. The Saturday night (October 27th) set will mark Metallica’s first time playing Voodoo.
Guitarist Kirk Hammet told Fuse that Metallica got the call to step in a couple of days ago. “We discussed it between the four of us and we all said, ‘Yeah.’ It would be a great thing for us to do and it would also be great to help out Billie Joe because he’s a friend of ours and we love Green Day. If we can help them out in any way possible, we’re always happy to do it because we love those guys.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/metallica-to-fill-in-for-green-day-at-voodoo-fest-20121013
These gorgeous girls allowed Rolling Stone access to their life recently for a weekend. See what it’s like to hang with Tegan and Sara. Even better? Each photo is captioned by Tegan and Sara. It’s just like being with them.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/a-stylish-weekend-on-tour-with-tegan-and-sara-20121011
Morrissey doesn’t need your help. “It’s my life to wreck my own way,” he crooned languidly on “Alma Matters,” two songs into the kickoff date of his latest American tour in Boston last week.
Contrary to that sentiment, however, the notorious malcontent seemed exceptionally at ease, both with himself and his audience. Over the course of a tidy, 100-minute set that featured 20 songs – five by his former (and evidently never-to-be-again) band, the Smiths – he teased his enraptured fans, whipped up dust devils with his microphone cord, pounded percussion on his chest as if to soothe his heart palpitations, lay down fetally in the spotlight and otherwise thoroughly entertained himself at the lip of the stage, where he was so clearly born to live out his years.
The band – longtime collaborator (“the gorgeous”) Boz Boorer, bassist Solomon Walker, keyboardist Gustavo Manzur, guitarist Jesse Tobias and new drummer Anthony Burulcich (of the Bravery) – took the stage like henchmen in their trademark matching T-shirts, which on this night read “Ringling Beats Animals.” (Earlier this week, when they performed on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, each bore the word “Thug.”)
Not for the last time of the night, “Maladjusted” underscored just how much eerie psychedelia Morrissey’s band can often muster beneath the frontman’s sui generis vocal style. The Smiths’ “Meat Is Murder” came across like an especially bad trip, with Burulcich pounding mallets on a huge kettle drum and Tobias’ guitar mewling like animals in the slaughterhouse while gruesome bits of PETA’s anti-carnivore film “Meet Your Meat” screened overhead.
Morrissey will perform at the Chicago Theater on October 27, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/morrissey-induces-swooning-in-boston-tour-opener-20121006
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