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- Rolling Stone’s Top Stories
• Conrad Murray Charged for Jackson’s Death • The Who Rock Super Bowl XLIV With Big Hits • Howard Stern Says He’d Consider Idol Job • Joan Baez Joins White House Concert Lineup • Timberlake Dons Drag for Harvard Honor • Grohl Pulls Double Duty on SNL • Readers’ Rock List: Best Drummers • Fans React to the Who’s Big Set • News [...]
- Tour Tracker: Mastodon, Drake and Arctic Monkeys
Photo: Polk/Getty Mastodon continue to Crack the Skye with a new leg of headlining dates, Drake lines up a tour of college campuses and “private locations” and Arctic Monkeys return in April in support of their third album Humbug. Full dates for all three treks are below. Mastodon Apr. 16 – Charleston, SC @ Music Farm Apr. [...]
- Dr. Conrad Murray Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s Death
Photo: Brown/Getty Nearly eight months after Michael Jackson died due to “acute Propofol intoxication,” the singer’s personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter by the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office for his role in the King of Pop’s sudden death on June 25th, 2009, CNN reports. In a press release, the D.A.’s [...]
- Readers’ Rock List: Best Drummers
Photo: Mayer/WireImage Between Dave Grohl on Saturday Night Live and Zak Starkey filling in for the Who’s Keith Moon during the Super Bowl, drummers were in the spotlight this past weekend, so we asked our readers to tell us the greatest of all time. After counting up the votes, and there were lots of them, [...]
- Howard Stern Says He’d Judge on “American Idol” for $100 Million
Photo: Ufberg/WireImage Last week Page Six stoked a rumor that Howard Stern is a possible candidate to replace the departing Simon Cowell on next season’s American Idol. Today the shock jock addressed the reports on his satellite radio show, admitting the job wouldn’t be out of the question. “There’s not a better job [...]
- Dave Grohl Rocks With Them Crooked Vultures, Crisis of Conformity on “SNL”
A pair of supergroups took the stage on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, and while Them Crooked Vultures were the episode’s musical guest, it was Crisis of Conformity — fake reuniting for the first time in 25 years to play a wedding — that delivered the night’s most memorable performance. Featuring SNL’s Fred Armisen on [...]
- Fans React to the Who’s Super Bowl Halftime Performance
Photo: Martinez/Getty More than 100 million people tuned in to Super Bowl XLIV last night, and it seems like each one of them has an opinion on the Who’s 12-minute halftime performance. Readers flocked to Rolling Stone’s report on the Super Bowl set to leave comments praising and criticizing Daltrey and Townshend’s pyro-packed show. [...]
- Justin Timberlake Dresses in Drag for Hasty Pudding Honor
Photo: Lincoln/Harvard University News Office via Getty Images Justin Timberlake was named Hasty Pudding Man of the Year at a ceremony this weekend at Harvard University, the BBC reports. Timberlake, donning a blonde wig, was roasted by the members of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding theatrical troupe, who poked fun at JT by having actors [...]
- Joan Baez Joins White House’s Celebration of Civil Rights Music
Photo: Gallup/Getty Joan Baez has been added to “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement,” a PBS special airing this Thursday, February 11th. Baez joins a lineup that includes her partner at the 1963 March on Washington civil rights rally, Bob Dylan. Three original members [...]
