Wednesday, March 10, 2010

• Top Stories: March 10, 2010

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  • Actor Corey Haim Dead at 38
  • U2’s Spider-Man Loses Evan Rachel Wood
  • News Ticker: DMX, Lady Gaga, Stars
  • Watch Exclusive New Runaways Clip
  • Beastie Boys Delay Hot Sauce to Late 2010
  • Exclusive Premiere: Yeasayer’s “O.N.E.”
  • MGMT Unveil New Song “Flash Delirium”
  • Smashing Pumpkins Seek Two New Members
  • LCD Soundsystem Debut Greenberg Tune
  • Hear Dr. Dog’s New “Stranger”
  • Samberg, Parnell Revive “Lazy Sunday”
  • RS at SXSW: 100 Tweets, Two Showcases
  • Win a Trip to See STP at SXSW!
  • Coyne Wants Timberlake in Lips Film
  • New Reviews: Broken Bells, Hendrix, BRMC
  • Lil Wayne Begins Year-Long Jail Term
  • T.I. Announces Return With “I’m Back”
  • Foo Fighters Team With Vig For Heavy Disc
  • Crazy Heart Wins Best Song at Oscars
  • Watch Lil Wayne, Eminem’s “Drop the World”
  • Simon & Garfunkel Set North American Tour
  • Vampire Weekend Rock Galifianakis’ Beard Off
  • Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous Takes Own Life
  • Spring Music Preview 2010
  • Top Stories: March 10, 2010

• Actor Corey Haim Dead at 38

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  Actor Corey Haim, who starred in beloved ’80s films including The Lost Boys and License to Drive, died early this morning in Los Angeles of a suspected drug overdose. He was 38. According to reports, Haim was found unresponsive in an Oakwood apartment and taken to Burbank, California’s St. Joseph Hospital at around 3:30 a.m. PST, where he was pronounced dead. Police are calling Haim’s death “accidental,” the Los Angeles Times reports. The actor was reportedly at home with his mother at the time of his death.

  Remember more young stars lost before their time.

  The Canadian-born Haim rose to fame at a young age thanks to a string of hit movies, many with his frequent costar Corey Feldman. His most enduring role came in the 1987 vampire flick The Lost Boys, which has gone on to claim a cult following. Two decades after that film was released, both Haim and Feldman appeared in sequel The Lost Boys: The Tribe in 2008. Haim’s credits also include Lucas, Dream a Little Dream, Fast Getaway and National Lampoon’s Last Resort. He was slated to appear in American Sunset, a film due in January, according to his Website. Watch the film’s trailer below.

  Like many child stars of his generation, Haim wrestled with drug problems after his fame waned, but recently the actor — who started to get steady work again in the latter half of the 2000s — said he was now sober. In 2006, Haim and Feldman reteamed for the reality series The Two Coreys. Haim was also the subject of a 2004 single by the Thrills called “Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?” Haim responded to the Thrills’ question, “I’m clean, sober, humble and happy.”

  Watch a YouTube tribute video to Haim, made in 2008, below:

  Trailer for American Sunset:

  Actor Corey Haim Dead at 38
• U2’s “Spider-Man” Musical Loses Star Evan Rachel Wood

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  The delayed Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway show featuring music by U2’s Bono and the Edge will have to find a new Mary Jane. Producers have confirmed that Evan Rachel Wood, the actress originally cast in the role of Peter Parker’s love interest, has left the musical, Variety reports. Wood exited the production due to a “scheduling conflict”; financial troubles pushed Turn Off the Dark’s opening well beyond its original February 25th preview premiere date. Variety writes that Spider-Man will likely begin its preview run in late summer and open around Halloween, though those dates remain unconfirmed by the show’s production team.

  “She’s the greatest actor of her generation, she’s the one to watch,” Bono said of Wood after her casting was announced. “She happens to sing like a bird, it’s like a true voice. She’s a very pure spirit and a very bright mind and she brings the part of MJ to life, really.”

  As Rolling Stone previously reported, a “cash flow problem” temporarily shut down production on Spider-Man in August, just two months after it was revealed that Wood, who previously worked with Turn Off the Dark director Julie Taymor in Across the Universe, would play Mary Jane and Alan Cumming had been cast as the musical’s villain, the Green Goblin. Singer Reeve Carney of the band Carney was later added to play Peter Parker, or Spider-Man without the mask on, in the show.

  The budget for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has reportedly grown to about $50 million dollars, making it one of the most expensive shows in Broadway history. The official Spider-Man on Broadway site hasn’t been updated yet to reflect Wood’s departure. Fans who previously bought tickets to Spider-Man’s received refunds after the show was delayed.

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  U2’s “Spider-Man” Musical Loses Star Evan Rachel Wood
• News Ticker: DMX, Lady Gaga, Stars, The Doors

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  • DMX was arrested for violating the terms of his probation, admitting he’d used cocaine over the last nine months, Reuters reports. The rapper is currently in a Phoenix jail.

  • Lady Gaga is coming to Rock Band: the pop star’s first track pack includes “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Monster” and “Poker Face” — and as a special bonus, the version of “Poker Face” Eric Cartman made famous on South Park will also be up for sale in the game’s Music Store next week.
  • Canadian rockers Stars will return with their fifth album, The Five Ghosts, on June 22nd. The band will perform the new disc in its entirety during a U.S. tour this summer.
  • The soundtrack to the Doors documentary When You’re Strange, due April 6th, will include Jim Morrison’s poetry as ready by Johnny Depp, who narrates the film. Rhino will also reissue the band’s Absolutely Live and Live in New York as 180-gram double-album sets on March 16th.
  News Ticker: DMX, Lady Gaga, Stars, The Doors
• Tour Tracker: Black Eyed Peas, Hot Chip and Melvins

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  Black Eyed Peas reveal the second North American leg of their The E.N.D. jaunt, Hot Chip add some April dates to their One Life Stand tour and Melvins plan to hit the road this June in support of their upcoming album, The Bride Screamed Murder. Full details for all three treks, below.

  Black Eyed Peas
  July 27, 28 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
  July 31 – Montreal, QB @ Bell Centre
  Aug. 1 – Ottawa, ON @ Scotiabank Place
  Aug. 3 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden
  Aug. 4 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center
  Aug. 6 – Hartford, CT @ XL Center
  Aug. 7 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Boardwalk Hall
  Aug. 10 – Baltimore, MD @ 1st Mariner Arena
  Aug. 11 – Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena
  Aug. 13 – Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena
  Aug. 14 – St. Louis @ Scottrade Center
  Aug. 18 – Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre
  Aug. 20 – Saskatoon, SK @ Credit Union Centre
  Aug. 22 – Calgary, AB @ Pengrowth Saddledome
  Aug. 23 – Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Place

  Hot Chip
  Apr. 16 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
  Apr. 19 – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
  Apr. 20 – Toronto, ON @ Koolhaus
  Apr. 22, 23 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
  Apr. 24 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
  Apr. 25 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of the Living Arts

  Melvins
  June 1 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
  June 2 – Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
  June 3 – Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad
  June 5 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
  June 7 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
  June 8 – Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
  June 9 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
  June 10 – Birmingham, AL @ Bottle Tree
  June 12 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival
  June 14 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club
  June 16 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
  June 17 – Philadelphia, PA @ TLA
  June 18 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
  June 19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
  June 20, 21 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
  June 23 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
  June 24 – Detroit, MI @ Small’s
  June 25 – Chicago, IL @ Double Door
  June 26 – Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
  June 27 – Des Moines, IA @ House of Bricks
  June 29 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
  July 2, 3 – Calgary, AB @ Sled Island Festival
  July 5 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
  July 6 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox at The Market
  July 7 – Eugene, OR @ John Henry’s
  July 9 – San Jose, CA @ Blank Club

  Tour Tracker: Black Eyed Peas, Hot Chip and Melvins
• New Reviews: Broken Bells, Jimi Hendrix and BRMC

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  Last week RS talked up Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach in New Reviews, so today we’re spotlighting Breaking band Broken Bells, a collaboration between the Shins’ James Mercer and Demon Days producer Danger Mouse. The pairing might seem like a strange match, but as Will Hermes writes in his four-star review of Broken Bells, “It turns out the two pop-science geeks are a perfect match. Danger Mouse pushes Mercer’s gorgeous, existential tunecraft outward with Day-Glo dynamics.” Mercer’s lyrics are at their loneliest while Danger Mouse brings beats that sound like “hip-hop for turned-on shut-ins.” The best tracks here at first single “The High Road” and the bouncy “Vaporize.”

  Also out this week: a collection of some of the final recordings Jimi Hendrix ever made, presented here as Valleys of Neptune. Of all the unearthed songs on Neptune, the title track is a major highlight, along with the bluesy, horns-soaked “Ships Passing Through the Night” and rerecorded versions Jimi classics “Stone Free” and “Fire.” “Are these tracks ‘finished’ as Hendrix would’ve intended?” Hermes asks in his three-and-a-half star review of Neptune. “Probably not. But as a glimpse of the guitarist extending his reach beyond the Experience trio, it’s thrilling.”

  With a new drummer kicking out Zeppelin stomps, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club also return this week with their fifth album Beat the Devil’s Tattoo. BMRC continue their musical odyssey from rock roots to garage goth on their latest disc, which earned a three-star rating from RS. “Devil’s Tattoo is unremittingly grim, and undeniably fun. Few bands wear their frowns so well,” Jody Rosen writes.

  For more on all the albums out now, check out Rolling Stone’s Reviews section.

  New Reviews: Broken Bells, Jimi Hendrix and BRMC
• Rolling Stone at SXSW 2010: 100 Tweets, Two Showcases and More

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  Next week when hundreds of bands head to Texas for the annual South By Southwest Music Festival, Rolling Stone will be on the ground in Austin bringing you incredible photos, interviews, our first-ever SXSW showcases and a special treat: 100 tweeted show reviews @RollingStone by contributor Christopher R. Weingarten, who recently completed his 1000TimesYes project — 1,000 140-character album reviews in a year.

  On Thursday, March 18th, RS will feature Dawes, the Whigs, the Low Anthem, Titus Andronicus, Free Energy and Deer Tick at the Palm Door. The following night, Band of Skulls, Jimmie Dale and Colin Gilmore, Court Yard Hounds, John Doe, Rye Rye and Nneka will take the stage at the same venue.

  We’ll be charting all the festival’s action with one goal: to get a feel for the biggest sets, the smallest parties, the guerilla shows on restaurant patios, the formidable lineups of metal and hip-hop. “By attending 100 shows, big and small, I’m hoping to capture the breadth and depth of Austin and the music industry circa 2010 ̬ all in tweet-sized gulps,” Weingarten says. As for how he’ll survive, Weingarten has a plan. “I figure my tee-totaling ways might put me at an advantage, providing me with the boundless energy I will need. However I do expect my undying love of Salt Lick BBQ and weakness for sweet tea to severely hinder my movements. But I feel truly blessed that RollingStone.com has asked me to do this, since there will be nothing to separate me or distract from experiencing music. It should be every critic’s duty and passion to experience as much music as humanly possible.”

  We’ll be posting daily recaps of Weingarten’s Twitter coverage here on Rock Daily, along with video documenting his journeys and recaps of the festival’s other major events. Get ready for the action by looking back at photos from SXSW ‘09 and entering our sweepstakes to win a trip to the fest to check out Stone Temple Pilots.

  Rolling Stone at SXSW 2010: 100 Tweets, Two Showcases and More