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The Eagles nested on the cover of the new Rolling Stone. Thus, we gathered photos from the band’s thirty-five year career, penned a guide to all their classic albums and posted an excerpt from the cover story. The Eagles also flew onto the fourth installment of Guitar Hero. And you know who probably digs the Eagles? Jason Castro.
We put on our business suits, as the Nine Inch Nails’ manager talked about the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, we examined how high price tickets might hurt the concert biz and analyzed how smart bands make money while CDs don’t sell.
If there was a concert this week, we were there: Our cameras caught Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd at MSG, watched Death Cab For Cutie rock Providence, encountered the B-52’s at a small club in San Francisco, gothed out at the Cure’s tour-opening show in Virginia and witnessed Dizzee Rascal teach Maths & English in NYC. We were also present at the triumphant return of New Kids on the Block.
Metallica mania swept over us, as the band launched “Mission: Metallica,” played a small benefit show in Los Angeles (where James Hetfield revealed new details about the new album), announced they would headline the one-day Ozzfest and Lars Ulrich told us about what the group had in store for Bonnaroo. We even dedicated a Rock List to them.

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Rolling Stone?s 2008 Summer Tour Guide

The temperature is rising and the axles on the tour bus are being greased, so it must mean it’s time for summer tour season. Luckily, Rolling Stone has everything you need to know about big-ticket treks by Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Jack Johnson, Bruce Springsteen and dozens of others. Click below for the lowdown on all the biggest and most anticipated shows and festivals.

• The 2008 Rolling Stone Summer Tour Guide

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Random Notes: Amy & Pete, Metallica and the Week in Rock

Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty had a real meeting of the minds (and the tongues) in London during a week full of surreality, including people dressing up as astronauts, taking off their clothes and duetting with Steven Tyler. Click below for these images plus the rest of the week in photos.

• Random Notes: Amy Winehouse & Pete Doherty, Metallica, Madonna and the Week in Rock

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Weekend Rock List: Metallica!

Here at Rock Daily, we’re getting excited about the new Metallica album. “Mission: Metallica” just launched, the band is playing live gigs again and James Hetfield says it’ll sound like Master of Puppets. To honor the legendary headbangers, for this week’s Rock List we’re asking our readers to tell us their favorite Metallica songs and on Monday, we’ll tabulate the picks and reveal your list. So before you go loading, reloading or riding the lightning, check out our favorites:

“One”
“Wherever I May Roam”
“Fuel”
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”
“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”

Tour Tracker: Ashlee Simpson, The Raconteurs and Crystal Castles

Ashlee Simpson may be taking her honeymoon at theaters across America, the Raconteurs extend their tour with a lot more warning than they gave for Consolers of the Lonely and Breaking Artist Crystal Castles make another go-round in the states in June. The complete set of dates is after the jump.

Ashlee Simpson
June 9 - Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
June 11 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
June 12 - Sterling Heights, MI @ Freedom Hill Amphitheatre
June 16 - Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
June 18 - Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
June 22 - Jacksonville, FL @ Florida Theatre
June 24 - New York, NY @ The Fillmore
June 27 - Hyannis, MA @ Cape Cod Medley Tent
June 28 - Wildwood, NJ @ Wildwood Convention Center
July 1 - Westbury, NY @ Capital One Bank Theatre

The Raconteurs
May 17 - Irvine, CA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
May 18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theater
May 27, 28 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
May 30, 31 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5
June 1 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5
June 3 - Boston, MA @ Bank of America Pavilion
June 4 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
June 5 - Toronto, ON @ Ricoh Coliseum
June 7, 8 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
June 9 - Columbus, OH @ LC Amphitheater
June 10 - Cincinnati, OH @ National City Pavilion
June 12 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
June 13 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Festival
August 1 - Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
August 9 - Pittsburgh, PA @ New American Music Union Festival

Crystal Castles
June 5 – Victoria, BC @ Element
June 6 – Vancouver, BC @ Richard’s on Richard’s
June 7 – Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
June 8 – Portland, OR @ Backspace
June 10 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
June 11 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
June 12 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah
June 13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Modified Arts
June 16 – Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece
June 18 – Chicago, IL @ Double Door
June 19 – New York City, NY @ Studio B
June 21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Popped! Festival

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Bell X1 (And Cases of Whiskey) Warm Hearts at Rolling Stone Party

Nothing goes better with Irish songs than a couple rounds of Irish Whiskey. Last night at Branch Bar in midtown New York, Rolling Stone threw a killer party and stocked it with dozens of bottles of Bushmills Irish Whiskey and cases of Smithwick’s beer. One of Eire’s finest acts, Bell X1, heated things up with killer set of Coldplay-style jams. And after the band wrapped up their set with the funky rocker “Flame” — which singer Paul Noonan categorized as “celtic disco” — his bandmates came out to surprise him with a birthday cake. Sweet!

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News Ticker: Lou Reed, Courtney Love, Dave Matthews Band

This Saturday night, Lou Reed will launch his satellite radio show Lou Reed’s New York Shuffle. According to Reed, the Sirius show will feature “audio from all parts of the world that covers the whole musical spectrum.”
Courtney Love has abandoned Nobody’s Daughter, the album she was working on with Linda Perry and Billy Corgan, and will instead start over.
The Dave Matthews Band is a “long way” from completing their new album, but violinist Boyd Tinsley says they hope to finish it after DMB’s tour ends in September.
Santogold, Pharrell Williams and the Strokes‘ Julian Casablancas have come together to work on a new song for Converse shoes.

Kid Rock, Peter Wolf, Lynyrd Skynyrd Raise the Roof at the Garden

Last night at Madison Square Garden, Kid Rock brought his Rock and Roll Revival Tour north of the Mason-Dixon for a crowd-pleasing review that included guests Peter Wolf, Reverend Run and Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were playing the Garden for the first time in their forty year career. Click below for photos and stories from last night’s gig.

• Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Wolf Lead Rock and Roll Revival Tour at Madison Square Garden

New Kids on the Block Return to ?Today? for First Show in 15 Years

Last month, the New Kids on the Block caused fan mayhem when they resurfaced on the Today show on a windy and rainy New York morning, and similarly dreary conditions awaited the estimated 4,000 who crowded into the show’s plaza early today for the five singers’ first performance together in 15 years. Surrounded by a hysterical throng of fans toting mementos of their adolescent obsession (old tour jackets, photographs, umbrellas and caps), the group played a short medley of their hits from the late Eighties and early Nineties — “Step by Step,” “Hangin’ Tough,” “Please Don’t Go Girl” and “You’ve Got It (The Right Stuff)” — their new single “Summertime” and a song recalling the good old days, “Tonight.”

“It’s a little bit like Al Roker in a hurricane,” joked Donnie Wahlberg, referring to the band’s somewhat awkward attempt at dancing on the wet, slippery stage. Sporting his signature half-cocked baseball cap, Wahlberg went on to say that it wasn’t he who reunited the band, but “the brotherhood … and the friendship” that remained through the years. “If the fans didn’t want it, it wouldn’t have happened.”

The turnout, despite the soggy weather, is one of the largest in Today show history, approaching the massive numbers of fans who flocked to Bruce Springsteen’s performance last September, as well as those at sets by Ricky Martin and ‘NSYNC. However, a spokesperson for the show said she’d never seen fans waiting on the street more than 48 hours in advance as many die-hards did for today’s New Kids show. “The story today is the fans more than it is us.” said Joey McIntyre, who elicited screams when he tossed his old-school wide-brimmed hat into the crowd during his solo on “Please Don’t Go Girl.”

The Today show crew passed out new versions of the oversized NKOTB buttons popular in the early Nineties and white puffy painters’ hats, which came in handy when the rain worsened during the performance. Anyone who dared keep an umbrella up as the group’s performance time approached drew angry shouts from fans and photographers perched in the press pen. While it was hard to hear the songs playing back in the plaza, the telecast revealed a poor vocal mix and a few missed harmonies. Fans, however, did not leave disappointed. “It was completely worth it and I am so excited to go to their concert in September,” said Sarah Shepherd, 25, from Long Island. “They’re coming back at a time when they can really peak. Twenty years off, it’s time for a reunion, and everybody’s ready.”

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