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 [...]

Starring: Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil Review: Having just won the Academy Award as the year's best foreign-language film, The Secret in Their Eyes has a decent shot at wearing down resistance to subtitled films. Don't be put off. This spellbinder from Argentina will sneak up and floor you. It's that good. Ricardo Darin is brilliant as Benjamin, a criminal-court investigator who is tormented by the unsolved rape and murder of a young bride in 1974, and by the military junta that devastated his country around the same time. We watch as Benjamin and Sandoval (the superb Guillermo Francella), his alcoholic partner, work with the victim's husband, Ricardo (Pablo Rago), to identify the killer. Photos, especially those revealing the eyes of the killer, play a major role in the discovery. In a thunderously exciting chase scene through a... Rating: 3.5 Stars

Starring: Review: A documentary on the art world may strike you as a yawn. No worries. You'll be laughing helplessly at this one. The subject is Banksy, the British graffiti artist who studiously avoids being photographed, the better to launch his illegal bursts of creativity on walls and buildings, soon erased. Shockingly, or perhaps out of a need to see his street art preserved, Banksy lets French videographer Thierry Guetta shoot his work. Then, when Guetta starts making his own art, Banksy switches roles and directs a movie about Guetta. We see Banksy in the shadows, his voice disguised, his amusement uncontained at what the world sees as art and how much they'll pay for it. Exit Through the Gift Shop, a title that tilts wittily at the commercialization of the underground, only sounds nuts. The wild... Rating: 3 Stars

Starring: Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Grace Moretz Review: Youth, danger, fun, rule-busting defiance. That's the juice of rock & roll. It's also the juice in Kick-Ass, a mosh pit of a comic-book movie that dares you to dive into its anarchy. Even when the film swerves off its twisty tracks, there's something potently unslick about the take of Brit director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake, Stardust) on the vision of writer Mark Millar (Wanted). Ever since audiences got a pervy taste of Kick-Ass at July's Comic-Con, tight-asses have been nervously clenching. Peter Travers reviews Kick-Ass in his weekly video podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers." The hate is aimed at Hit Girl, an 11-year-old killer with a Mamet mouth, a Tarantino jones for violence and a vigilante Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) who teaches her to avenge the death of her mother. "OK,... Rating: 3 Stars

• Pavement Rock First U.S. Reunion Show • The Specials Return At Precise L.A. Gig • Inside T.I.’s King Uncaged • Announcing the New Rollingstone.com! • Volcanic Ash May Stymie Coachella Acts • Jay-Z Sues Red Sox Slugger Ortiz • News Ticker: Soundgarden, Rihanna • Type O Negative’s Steele Dies at 48 • Glee Ratings Nearly Double • Lambert Performs, Idol Nixes Two • Wilco, [...]

A volcanic eruption that occurred under an Icelandic glacier on Wednesday, April 14th, has set off a series of unforeseen events that might force a few Britain-based artists scheduled to perform at this weekend’s Coachella festival to cancel their slots. The Cribs with Johnny Marr, Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant and Gary Numan are just a [...]

Photo: Melissa Moore “I’d say it’s nice to be back,” remarked Bob Nastanovich not long into Pavement’s show last night at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California. “But I’ve never fucking been here before!” True enough, Bobby boy. The jocks pumping their fists to “Cut Your Hair,” the chick doing the Phish-fan noodle dance to “Stereo,” [...]

Photo: Nunez/WireImageT.I. is setting the bar high for his post-prison album, King Uncaged, comparing it to Tupac’s 1996 classic All Eyez on Me, which was released months after ‘Pac got out of prison. “This is the most significant return from incarceration that the game has had since then,” T.I. says. “Just given the enormous success [...]

Photo: Rogash/Getty(Ortiz), Trotman/Getty(Jay-Z) The heated Yankees-Red Sox rivalry has branched into the rap game. Jay-Z, a diehard Yankees fan who even wore the team’s cap on the cover of Kingdom Come, is suing Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz for allegedly using the name of Jigga’s 40/40 Club chain for his own nightclub in [...]

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” [...]

Peter Steele, the deep-voiced singer, songwriter and bassist for Brooklyn’s goth-metal outfit Type O Negative, has passed away at the age of 48. In an e-mail to CBS News, the band’s manager Mike Renault confirmed Steele’s death, writing “Peter passed away last night. As of now it appears to have been heart failure. That’s all [...]

Photo: Hill/Getty Wilco, Hole, MGMT and Monsters of Folk are the latest artists to contribute exclusive releases for this year’s Record Store Day, which will arrive at independent music shops this Saturday, April 17th. Wilco will offer up their live album Kicking Television as a deluxe vinyl box set complete with four LPs, eight extra tracks [...]

Glee left the airwaves four months ago as our favorite new cult TV show and came back as a genuine ratings monster. The hour-long musical series nearly doubled its audience upon returning to Fox this week. According to Reuters, 13.7 million people tuned in to Glee Tuesday night, compared to the 7.3 million average viewers [...]

• Lambert Performs, Idol Nixes Two • 40 Reasons to Be Excited About Music • Public Image Ltd. Return in L.A. • Eminem Scraps Relapse for Recovery • Idol Bandleader Nabs Tonight Show Job • Lambert Returns to American Idol • Bieber Tops Charts, Slash Debuts Strong • New Music Report: Kate Nash • News Ticker: Big Boi, Game, Sirius XM • Conan Revives [...]

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 [...]

After American Idol viewers cast 34 million votes — the most so far this season notably came with Adam Lambert’s return to the show this week — Andrew Garcia and Katie Stevens were eliminated last night. Garcia’s exit came as little surprise, and his last words were grateful: “You guys let me experience something that [...]

Modest Mouse return for a July trek, Cheap Trick plot co-headlining dates with Squeeze and Blondie (the schedule varies by city), and Stardeath & White Dwarf help the Flaming Lips perform Dark Side of the Moon before embarking on their own jaunt. Full dates for all three tours below. Modest Mouse July 1 – Broomfield, CO @ [...]

Photo: Tullberg/Getty This morning, Eminem killed Relapse 2. But by the afternoon, he explained his puzzling tweet (”There is no Relapse 2“) by announcing he’s finishing up work on another new album titled Recovery. The follow-up to his 2009 comeback LP Relapse will be released on June 22nd, just over a year after its predecessor hit [...]

Photo: Tullberg/Getty“Proper fucking noise!” John Lydon declared with a crooked grin on Tuesday, facing a crowd at Club Nokia in Los Angeles for the opening night of Public Image Ltd.’s first U.S. tour in 18 years. “If you want to be mellow, that’s fine by me. If you want to squeal like a pig, that’s [...]

Photo: Mazur/KCA2010/WireImageJustin Bieber reclaimed the Number One spot he relinquished to his mentor Usher last week as My World 2.0 ruled the chart despite a 65 percent sales decrease to 102,000 copies, making it the lone album on the Billboard 200 album chart to surpass 100K, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Usher’s Raymond V. Raymond swapped [...]

Christian Hoard’s “Christian Rock” new music pick this week is Kate Nash’s My Best Friend Is You. The 22-year-old British singer’s 2008 album went platinum in the U.K. and showed off her cockney accent, witty piano pop and general English cheekiness. The new album is more expansive, confident and simply better. Nash is a tuneful [...]

Photo: Cohen/WireImage Just one day after Kevin Eubanks officially announced he’ll be leaving Jay Leno’s Tonight Show in May, the late-night show quickly revealed who will fill Eubanks’ job as bandleader: American Idol musical director Rickey Minor, who will make his Tonight debut on June 7th. Minor becomes Leno’s third bandleader in Jay’s tenure as Tonight [...]

• 40 Reasons to Be Excited About Music • Eminem Tells Fans There’s No Relapse 2 • Lambert Returns to American Idol • News Ticker: Big Boi, Game, Sirius XM • Conan Revives Edgy Vibe at First Show • Duff McKagan on the New Jane’s Addiction • Faith No More Return in San Fran • New Review: MGMT’s Congratulations • Coachella Conflicts: Jay-Z [...]

Photo: Polk/Getty“There is no Relapse 2,” Eminem wrote on Twitter in the wee hours of this morning, effectively putting to rest any chance that the promised sequel to his 2009 comeback album Relapse will be released in the near future — if ever. The rapper didn’t indicate whether another fresh album would replace the disc [...]

Big Boi tells the BBC info on OutKast’s upcoming music is “top secret” but allows “something is brewing.” Andre 3000 produces a “crazy, bananas” track on his colleague’s solo disc, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty. Satellite radio company Sirius XM added 171,000 new listeners in the first quarter of 2010, according to [...]

Photograph by Mark Seliger “You hear it all the time: Rock is dead,” David Fricke writes in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on sale at newsstands today. “But the current state of music is the same as it ever was: There is the good and the bad, and there is always plenty of the former, [...]

American Idol may have generated artists who have sold more albums than last season’s glittery runner-up, but the show has never birthed a star of Adam Lambert’s magnetism. But depending on who you ask, he became the first former contestant invited back as a mentor because he energized the series (and raked in big ratings), [...]

Last week when Rolling Stone debated who rocked baseball’s Opening Day the best, we overlooked the fact that Seattle, the home of grunge and the Mariners, didn’t hold their opening day festivities until yesterday. To celebrate their first game, the Mariners welcomed Washington State natives Death Cab For Cutie onto the field pregame to treat [...]

Photo: Van Diji/AFP/Getty Before MGMT’s second album Congratulations even hit stores, it was being hailed as the Most Polarizing Album of 2010. The LP’s aesthetic is a galaxy away from the electro-pop of Oracular Spectacular’s hits “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” — Congratulations finds Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden mining late-’60s psychedelic and folk rock [...]

Conventional reunited bands give fans what’s expected. The often heavy but always mischievous Bay Area quintet Faith No More launched their first local show in 12 years at the Warfield Theatre last night with an accurate rendering of Peaches & Herb’s “Reunited,” the ultimate disco-era, slow-dance anthem. Their suits were so prom-ready that each left [...]

Photo: Truscello/WireImage Muse or MGMT? LCD Soundsystem or Echo & the Bunnymen? The end of Pavement’s set or the beginning of Thom Yorke’s set? These are just a few of the grueling decisions festivalgoers will have to make at this weekend’s Coachella festival now that the three-day Indio, California fest has unveiled its set times. [...]

Just hours after Conan O’Brien made headlines by revealing he’ll join TBS’ late-night lineup in November, The Tonight Show announced its own big news: Bandleader Kevin Eubanks will officially leave Jay Leno’s side on May 28th. As Rolling Stone reported in the weeks before Leno resumed his Tonight Show gig, there was speculation that Eubanks’ [...]

• Conan Revives Edgy Vibe at First Show • Duff McKagan on the New Jane’s Addiction • News Ticker: Grammys, Nas, Supergrass • Conan O’Brien Makes Big Move to TBS • Roger Waters Announces Wall Tour • Green Day: Rock Band: Track List and More • Sylvain Sylvain Remembers Malcolm McLaren • Full Lilith Fair Dates Announced • Jack Bruce: “Cream Is Over” • [...]

This past December, former Guns n’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan was having dinner with Jane’s Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. “He was kind of bummed,” says McKagan. “He had just heard that [original Jane’s Addiction bassist] Eric Avery was leaving the band.” McKagan offered to jam with Jane’s at Farrell’s home studio and within weeks was [...]

The 53rd Annual Grammys will air live on CBS from Los Angeles’ Staples Center on February 13, 2011. Albums and songs released between September 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010 will be eligible for awards. A Los Angeles judge has ordered Nas to pay spousal support to ex-wife Kelis. TMZ reports the MC will pay Kelis [...]

Photo: Buckner/Getty Though he may not legally be able to be funny on television — at least not until his new TBS show premieres in November — Conan O’Brien kicked off his 32-city North American live comedy tour on Monday night with old friends, unexpected guests and a giant inflatable bat. And he was extremely [...]

In what could be the most eclectic Tour Tracker ever, They Might Be Giants plot out a trek around appearances at Sasquatch! and Bonnaroo, Pitbull plans to hit up Six Flags this summer and the Goo Goo Dolls will hit the road in support of their upcoming album Something For the Rest of Us. Full [...]

Last week, inspired by Thom Yorke and Atoms for Peace’s performance of The Eraser in New York, we asked for a rundown of your favorite solo albums by artists known for their work in bands. After nearly 100 votes, many from Pearl Jam fans, Eddie Vedder’s Into the Wild soundtrack beat out Yorke and solo [...]

If you missed Cream’s epic reunion shows in 2005, bassist Jack Bruce is the bearer of some bad news. “There’s a new story now — Cream is over,” Bruce told BBC 6Music, effectively crushing any hope of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame trio reuniting once again to rock “Sunshine of Your Love.” Bruce’s [...]

Recording artist, manager of the Sex Pistols, provocateur, fashion designer, impresario — Malcolm McLaren, who died of cancer April 8th at 64 was all those things. He was also, briefly, the manager of the New York Dolls just before their breakup in 1975. Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain spoke with Rolling Stone about his encounters with [...]