- In its final week on the Web, the Rock Daily blog went out with a bang as we checked out four awesome Coachella warm-up reunion shows: Pavement’s first U.S. reunion concert, Faith No More’s powerhouse gig at San Fran’s Warfield, the return of Public Image Ltd. and the Specials in Los Angeles.
- Promptly after killing Relapse 2, Eminem revealed plans to release a new album, dubbed Recovery, on June 22nd. Plus, T.I. talked to Rolling Stone about his upcoming post-prison disc King Uncaged, which Tip likened to Tupac’s All Eyez on Me.
- The heavy metal world lost one of its truly unique voices as Peter Steele, the gargantuan frontman for Type O Negative, passed away at the age of 48.
- The new issue of Rolling Stone gave readers 40 Reasons to Get Excited About Music, featuring the Black Eyed Peas, U2, LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A., MGMT and many more. For more on this issue’s big feature, click here.
- Finally, stick with the new and improved Rollingstone.com all this weekend for your full Coachella coverage, including headlining sets from Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz plus Pavement, Thom Yorke and all the big names in Indio, California.
- Perry Farrell thought he’d scored Soundgarden’s first-ever reunion gig for Lollapalooza, but the grunge vets will actually take the stage tonight at Seattle’s Showbox for a secret show, Billboard reports.
- Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” continued its strong run on the Hot 100, taking Number One for the fifth straight week, according to Billboard. B.o.B.’s “Nothin’ On You” scored second place.
- Tool have begun work on their fifth album, TwentyFourBit reports via the band’s newsletter to fans, which promises they’re working up “intros, progressions, agitatos, con sordinos, crescendos, diatonics, inversions, resolutions, transitions, variations, obbligatos, consonance, and endings.”
- T.I. has confirmed his new album, titled King Uncaged, will hit stores August 24th. For much more on the Atlanta rapper’s return, grab our new issue, on sale now.
On Monday, April 19th, you will be looking at at the new Rollingstone.com — a cleaner, easier-to-navigate site that’ll boost our regular doses of daily rock news, photo galleries and music reviews with new audio and video features. We’ll also be debuting three new blogs: Rob Sheffield on pop culture, David Fricke on music and Matt Taibbi on politics.
We’ll also be introducing “Rolling Stone All Access,” which will give those who sign up full contents of each new issue as it hits newsstands and the key to the entire Rolling Stone archives. You’ll be able to lose yourself in every issue since we started back in San Francisco in November 1967. Every review we ever published, every cover and the deepest, most thoughtful interviews with rock legends, from John Lennon to Lil Wayne, Bob Dylan to Kurt Cobain — and 43 years of journalism that has defined our times, from Hunter S. Thompson to P.J. O’Rourke to Matt Taibbi.
So stay tuned: you’re just days away from the future of Rollingstone.com.
- Ozzy Osbourne debuted “Let Me Hear You Scream,” the first single off his June 15th disc Scream, on last night’s episode of CSI: NY. The rocker plans to announce his 18-month tour shortly, and promises news about Ozzfest will arrive next week.
- Snoop Dogg, MGMT, Willie Nelson and the Flaming Lips have been added to the Glastonbury lineup. The BBC reports that the fest, which runs from June 23rd through 27th, is already sold out.
- While Lil Wayne blogs from jail, the video for “I’m Single” from his acclaimed No Ceilings mixtape will be released to the masses. MTV2 will debut the clip on Sunday, MTV News reports.
- Special edition releases of the all-AC/DC soundtrack for Iron Man 2 will hit stores Monday. The Collectors Edition includes a limited-edition reprint of the 1968 comic “The Invincible Iron Man” and a cartoon drawn by Angus Young, as well as a 50-minute DVD packed with AC/DC footage and an early look at the movie.
