| 07/26/2008 12:00 PM
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Rolling Stone’s Top Stories
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• Pemberton Festival: Interpol, Nine Inch Nails
• Nine Inch Nails Tour Preview
• Random Notes: Billy Joel, Feist
• Rolling Stones Sign Deal With Universal
• China Puts Up Roadblocks for Rock Tours
• Weekend Rock List: Sibling Bands
• XM/Sirius Merger Nears Completion
• Miley Cyrus’ Today Concert Biggest Ever
• Video Flashback: Joan Rivers Meets GWAR
• Rolling Stones Publisher Sues [...]
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| 07/26/2008 11:00 AM
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Pemberton Day 1: Interpol, Nine Inch Nails Light Up the Great White North
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If Rothbury is set to be the next Bonnaroo, then the first annual Pemberton Festival will gladly take the title of next Glastonbury. Similarly isolated, sprawling and boasting acts as far flung as Tom Petty and Jay-Z, Pemberton’s organizers clearly had its British brethren in mind when concocting this fest. After some typical first-day mayhem [...]
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| 07/25/2008 04:30 PM
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Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily
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The Jonas Brothers made the leap from puberty to Rolling Stone cover boys this week. We went behind-the-scenes of the band’s cover shoot, put the group’s short history in photo gallery form, excerpted the cover story and even delved into their secret love life.
Nas celebrated Untitled’s chart victory in typical Nas fashion: By protesting and [...]
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| 07/25/2008 04:09 PM
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Comment of the Week: Rick Ross’ Secret Past
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While everybody agreed that the Smoking Gun’s revelation that Rick Ross spent some time as a Florida corrections officer was a tempest in a tea cup, that didn’t stop reader Spunky from wishing the investigation had gone further:
“The Smoking Gun failed to come up with some other past history of Rick Ross. He grew [...]
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| 07/25/2008 03:44 PM
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Random Notes: Billy Joel, Paul McCartney and the Week in Rock
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In a nod to the Beatles’ concert at the venue over forty years ago, Paul McCartney helped Billy Joel bid goodbye to Shea Stadium in New York during one of Joel’s historic concerts. It was a big week for history, as Amy Winehouse became immortalized in wax and Nas stood up to Fox News. Click [...]
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| 07/25/2008 03:17 PM
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Weekend Rock List: Sibling Bands
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We’re going to see Ween tonight at Brooklyn’s McCarrren Pool, and while Dean Ween and Gene Ween aren’t actually brothers, but with the Jonas Brothers on the cover, it got us thinking about the best bands that do have siblings in them. Whether they’re leading the charge like the Gallagher boys in Oasis or setting [...]
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| 07/25/2008 02:48 PM
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Lil’ Kim and Foxy Brown Start Beef with Simon & Shuster
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They’ve had a rivalry that dates back to the 90s, but Foxy Brown and Lil’ Kim finally have something in common: Both female rappers are being sued by book publisher Simon & Shuster after failing to make good on their respective book deals. Both women received tens of thousands in advance money for books that [...]
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| 07/25/2008 02:20 PM
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Talk Show Flashback: GWAR Confuses Joan Rivers
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Today begins the launch of a new feature here on Rock Daily: the weekly Talk Show Flashback, where we’ll find a fantastically strange moment from the crossroads of chat-based television and rock and roll. Today’s opening installment is a doozy: a clip from one of the many iterations of The Joan Rivers Show in which [...]
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| 07/25/2008 01:44 PM
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XM/Sirius Merger Nears Approval Today
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The merger between satellite radio companies Sirius and XM is reportedly on the verge of approval. FCC commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate is expected to vote in favor of the merger today, giving the deal a majority approval vote. The voting body is currently split 2-2 as it awaits Tate’s opinion. FCC chairman Kevin Martin and [...]
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| 07/25/2008 01:10 PM
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Tour Preview: Nine Inch Nails Power Up the “Lights”
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The Forum used to be the home arena of the Los Angeles Lakers, but last Saturday, it hosted a very different type of drama: 500 invited guests in a largely empty building got to see the dress rehearsal for Nine Inch Nails’ “Lights in the Sky” tour debuting tonight at the Pemberton Festival in British [...]
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