2009 June at Shred Guitar Now!

Arcade Fire?s Butler on New LP: ?Things Are Coming Together? June 30, 2009

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Win Butler says the Arcade Fire have begun songwriting sessions for their next record, the NME reports in the issue on stands now. “Before Funeral, me and Régine had this big room to rehearse in… People would come by and work on a song,” Butler tells the U.K. mag. “Now the guys are calling and […]

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Adam Lambert on Getting Jackson News: ?Everybody Just Stopped?

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Photo: Walter/Getty(Jackson), Merritt/Getty(Lambert)As tributes to Michael Jackson pour into Rolling Stone — be sure to keep an eye out for our special issue, out next week — recent cover star Adam Lambert shared his memories of dancing around his parents’ house, lip-synching to “Beat It.” His early childhood was also heavy on “Thriller” (he cites […]

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Mariah Carey Dresses Like a Mock Eminem In ?Obsessed? Video

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Photo: Devanney/WireImageNeeded more evidence that Mariah Carey’s “Obsessed” is about Eminem? Photos from yesterday’s video shoot for Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel’s first single is all the proof you’ll need. In the pics, Carey — playing a dude thanks to some major league help from the make-up department — is seen donning Eminem’s trademark hoodie-and-hat […]

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Tour Tracker: Daughtry, Alice in Chains and Andrew Bird

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Daughtry’s plan to Leave This Town includes an August full of club dates, Alice In Chains hit the road in support of their upcoming first album in 10 years Black Gives Way To Blue and Andrew Bird plots a jaunt that spans from July 10th to October 28th. Full dates for all three treks, after […]

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Michael Jackson ?Desperately? Sought Sedative, Nutritionist Says

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In the months leading up to his sudden death last week at age 50, Michael Jackson was “adamant” about receiving a powerful intravenous sedative called Diprivan or Propofol, nurse/nutritionist Cherilyn Lee, who treated the star, tells the AP. And just four days before he died, one of Jackson’s aides placed a desperate call to Lee, […]

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U2 Reveal Innovative Stage Design as First 360 Tour Gig Kicks Off

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Photo: Hogan/Getty More than 90,000 fans have piled into Barcelona’s Camp Nou stadium tonight for the kick off of U2’s 360° Tour. The biggest stadium in all of Europe is bearing witness to the Irish rockers’ first gig performing songs off their latest album, No Line on the Horizon, as well as getting a look […]

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New Reviews: Latest Albums From Wilco, Rob Thomas and Moby

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Wilco return with their seventh album, the almost-eponymous Wilco (The Album) this week. Now seven years removed from their 2002 breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Jeff Tweedy and crew obliterate all the experimental vestiges from that disc for an album that finds the band channeling George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Kraftwerk. “Wilco’s seventh studio album is […]

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Hear Levon Helm Return to Real Rock With ?Tennessee Jed?

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Levon Helm kicks off his new album Electric Dirt with the Dead’s “Tennessee Jed,” and it’s a fitting opener to the legendary Band drummer’s first proper rock & roll record in ages, writes Will Hermes in his four-star review. Helm returned from throat cancer with 2007’s mostly acoustic Dirt Farmer, and on Electric Dirt — […]

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