• Them Crooked Vultures Rock NYC Debut
• Watch Jack White Dance in “Buffalo” Clip
• Behind All-American Rejects’ “I Wanna” Video
• Weekend Rock List: Flying Songs
• Peter Criss Reveals Breast Cancer Scare
• Ask Paramore Your Burning Questions
• Is Jim Morrison Haunting a Photo?
• Alicia Keys, David Bowie: Black Ball Photos
• Britney, Led Zep, Jay-Z Get Remixed
• News Ticker: Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks
• Exclusive Look at Wild Things Music, Visuals
• Gaga, Beyoncé Team for “Video Phone”
• Lady Gaga Announces The Monster Ball Tour
• Corgan Talks Smashing Pumpkins’ Plans
• Chuck Berry Rocks St. Louis Restaurant
• Tour Preview: The Used
• Weezer’s Cuomo Teams With Katy Perry
• Reality Show May Feature MJ’s Children
• Blur Join LEGO Rock Band: See It!
• Madonna Looks Back: The New Issue
• Lambert’s 2012 Song to Debut With This Is It
• Dylan Celebrates Sexton’s Return to His Band
• Michael Buble Outsells Kiss on the Charts
• Kings of Leon Confirm Live DVD Details
• Breaking: Dead Man’s Bones
• Britney Spears’ “3″ Heads to Top of Charts
• John Mayer Debuts “Who Says” Video
• Starbucks “Disappointed” By Carly Simon Suit
• Chairlift and Passion Pit Swap Remixes
• Def Jam’s 8 Most Slept-On Records
• Paul Anka Strikes Deal for “This Is It”

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• The Material Girl made her twelfth appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone as Madonna looked back at her historic career. We celebrated Madonna with her most Iconic Moments, took a tour of her RS covers and reminisced with photos from her Sticky & Sweet Tour.

• “I think Lady Gaga is great… She’s got something,” Madonna said of her recent SNL co-star, and this week alone RS‘ Hot Diva revealed the tour dates for her “pop-electro opera” The Monster Ball, shot a video with Beyoncé, filmed a cameo for Gossip Girl and scored three AMA nominations.
• On the live front, Them Crooked Vultures made their explosive New York debut, Bob Dylan welcomed back guitarist Charlie Sexton with an electrified set in Los Angeles and Chuck Berry rocked out at his 149th monthly show at St. Louis’ Blueberry Hill.
• With less than two weeks to go until the Michael Jackson documentary, the film’s title track “This Is It” hit the Web. Perhaps the only person happier than King of Pop fans to hear the unreleased song was Paul Anka, who scored 50 percent of its royalties. Also, Adam Lambert’s “Time for Miracles” video will debut before This Is It in theaters.

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Never-ending house parties, camera phones, lawn animals, inflatable pools and jock-strap bathing suits — they’re all key ingredients in the All-American Rejects‘ video for “I Wanna,” the latest clip from their third album When the World Comes Down. “This video is crazy. The premise is there’s been a party that’s been going on for days and days and days, and in walks this little vixen with this alpha-male,” Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter tells Rolling Stone. “So she walks in, and throughout the video, it’s this sort-of give and take of memories we’ve had in the past juxtaposed with this trick that we do with these camera phones.”

Go behind the All-American Rejects’ “I Wanna” video shoot in exclusive photos.

Yes, lots (and lots) of LG camera phones. Ritter knows exactly what you’re thinking. “At first glance, you might be like, ‘Well, that’s a little whorish,’ but it’s kind of a neat trick,” Ritter says, and he has a point: the camera phones do add another dimension to the action and propel the plot. “We’re a band that’s always used tricks in our video,” Ritter says. ” ‘Dirty Little Secret’ was a little trick with the postcards and ‘Move Along’ was a little trick with the camera and ‘Gives You Hell’ was a little trick with me playing two people, I feel like this is the timeline trick with the camera phone.” (more…)

We were saddened this week by the news that WWE wrestler Captain Lou Albano, a familiar face to music fans thanks to his appearances in Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “The Goonies R’ Good Enough” videos, passed away at the age of 76. In this week’s Flashback, Lauper visits wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper’s Piper’s Pit for an interview that eventually leads to fisticuffs between the She’s So Unusual singer and the rubber band-bearing Albano that played the overbearing father in the “Girls Just Want” video. It’s kitschy smackdown fun only the WWF of the early-’80s can provide.

Bonus Flashback: Like Jesse “The Body” Ventura, Albano is one of those wrestlers that we won’t even remember for wrestling. Instead, we’ll never forget his tenure dressing up as Super Mario and how us how to walk like the Nintendo hero, like in this end-credits clip from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! below: (more…)

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For the past six years, Keep a Child Alive has brought out big names in music for its annual Black Ball gala. This year, the Alicia Keys-hosted bash drew Chris Martin and John Mayer to the stage (and David Bowie to the scene). Check out photos from the event here:

• The Star-Studded Black Ball 2009: Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, John Mayer, David Bowie and More

If you watched the Jack White-directed video for the Dead Weather’s “I Cut Like a Buffalo” two weeks ago and wished the clip had more footage of White busting out his dance moves, the White Stripes frontman has heard your pleas. MySpace Music posted Version II of the “I Cut Like a Buffalo” video, and it’s just one long shot of White and a masked belly dancer swaying to the Horehound cut for four minutes.

Check out photos of the multitalented, multitasking White in his various guises. (more…)

Here’s one for fans of the late, great Unsolved Mysteries (and the still-crankin’, not quite as great Ghost Hunters): A photograph taken in 1997 at the French cemetery where Doors frontman Jim Morrison is buried features a ghostly apparition that appears to be Morrison. Are you with us? We may lose you here: the photo has been deemed authentic, the U.K.’s Daily Express reports (via Spinner). The snapshot shows rock historian Brett Meisner standing next to Morrison’s grave at the Pere Lachaise cemetery, and in the background, there’s a white figure with its arms seemingly outstretched. Apparently, Morrison did break on through to the other side.

The Doors’ lasting legacy: photos.

The ghostly image went unnoticed by Meisner until 2002, when he spotted the strange blur and had the photo analyzed. (more…)

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“It’s a lot of new music,” said Them Crooked Vultures frontman Josh Homme onstage at the Roseland Ballroom for the New York debut of his supergroup with Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones last night. “It’s not often you get to hear a bunch of music that you have no idea what’s gonna happen.”

Supergroups supergallery: Cream, Audioslave and more.

Debuting in public seems like a coup in the age of instant leaks and message board spoilers. And Them Crooked Vultures got nothing short of a hero’s welcome for a show where the only material anyone knew was from spotty camera phone YouTubes and exactly 137 seconds of studio music floating around. They packed the enormous Roseland on name alone with tickets that went for $54.50; they sold tons of merch without a single leaked song to their name; they had a father and son team already running around in matching Them Crooked Vultures T-shirts.

Check out photos of Them Crooked Vultures and more acts from Austin City Limits. (more…)

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Former Kiss drummer Peter Criss has revealed that he was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 but treated the disease before it could spread and is now cancer-free. To help bring awareness to National Breast Cancer Month, Criss talked about his scare with CNN and admitted that he didn’t even know that men could get breast cancer until he was diagnosed. “So many people must die from this,” Criss said. “Somebody has to step up to the plate and say something to get them aware of how dangerous this is. Lots of men die: They wait, they don’t go in, they put it off.”

In 2007, Criss noticed a painful lump in his chest while working out. Because his wife was battling another form of cancer at the time, he didn’t hesitate to get checked out. In February 2008, doctors removed what they believed was a harmless nodule from Criss’ chest, but tests revealed that nodule was breast cancer. “I flipped out. I just couldn’t believe it. It’s a nightmare,” Criss told CNN. Another surgery in March 2008 removed the cancer, and thankfully the cancer had not spread, meaning Criss didn’t need to undergo chemotherapy.

Look back at classic Kiss photos. (more…)

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• Fire up the Kanye jokes! Taylor Swift will host Saturday Night Live November 7th. “There are definitely some hilarious things that have happened to me over the past couple of months that I think will be pretty substantial skits,” the singer told the AP.

• Garth Brooks is ending his hiatus for a residency at Las Vegas’ Wynn hotel. “I am naturally nervous, but it feels good to be out from under the low ceiling of ‘retirement’ I put on myself,” the country star said in a statement.
• NME picked up a story from stamp collecting Website Norvic Philatelics that reports starting January 7th, 2010, a set of 10 stamps depicting famous British album covers will be released in the U.K. The list includes David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, the Clash’s London Calling and Led Zeppelin IV.
• After one final spin around the globe, A-ha have announced they’ll call it quits on December 4th, 2010, the BBC reports. “We are retiring as a band, not as individuals,” the “Take On Me” band said in a statement.

With their historic run atop the Hot 100 finally at an end, the Black Eyed Peas unveiled the newest video from The E.N.D., third single “Meet Me Halfway.” The intergalactic clip finds the Peas traveling to all ends of the universe, with Fergie crooning the chorus while lounging on a planet that resembles Ferngully. Meanwhile, Will.i.am rides an elephant across a Dune-like lunar desert, rapping, “Girl, I travel around the world and even sail the seven seas, across the universe and all the other galaxies. Just tell me where to go, where you want to meet.” It’s five minutes of CGI magic that will no doubt help “Meet Me Halfway” top the charts in the very near future. (more…)

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Lady Gaga will reportedly appear in the new video for Beyoncé’s “Video Phone,” a spokesperson for director Hype Williams confirmed to MTV. Rumors were circulating this week that Gaga was at the Greenpoint, Brooklyn, shoot for the video, even though Gaga herself doesn’t appear on the I Am… Sasha Fierce track. However, Life and Style reports that a new version of the song with Beyoncé and Gaga trading verses will feature in the video.

Check out Lady Gaga’s wildest wardrobe moments.

Not much is known about the video, which was reportedly shot October 7th, but a source tells Life and Style that “the fashion is sick and insane.” (more…)

After testing out songs from their latest album Artwork on European stages, the Used are eager to introduce their new material to their fans back home in the States. Rolling Stone talked with guitarist Quinn Allman on the eve of the band’s American tour, and he told us about how changes in the past few years have helped motivate the band’s new direction.

“Before we started the new album, we parted ways with our management and knew we needed to come together. Just the four of us and no one else,” Allman says. “It helped us to strip things back to what they were in the beginning and what it’s always been about: Bert McCracken’s lyrics and our music.” (more…)

After its lengthy journey that Rolling Stone documented last year, Where the Wild Things Are — the big-screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved children’s book about a kid who escapes his gloomy home in search of an undiscovered island full of wild beasts — finally arrives on the big screen tomorrow.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie in a gallery that compares the book’s original illustrations from 1963 with the filmmaker’s sketches and the final product: the Wild Things.

Peter Travers’ four-star review of Where the Wild Things Are praises director Spike Jonze as a “visionary” who “filmed a fantasy as if it were absolutely real, allowing us to see the world as Max sees it, full of beauty and terror.” Travers notes that the film’s power is enhanced by its songs and soundtrack. Rolling Stone has an exclusive look behind the making of the dreamy score with Jonze and co-composer Carter Burwell (click above to watch the video).

“Nothing that he does is generic. It’s all totally handcrafted to the project,” Jonze says of Burwell, who previously composed for every Coen Brothers film plus Twilight and Jonze’s Being John Malkovich. Burwell kept the music “unsophisticated.” Jonze says he asked for the musicians to play the guitar like a 5th grader would play it, devoid of vibrato and other expert techniques. (more…)

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On Sunday, rock & roll pioneer Chuck Berry will turn 83. It’s a respectable enough age for kicking up one’s heels and taking it easy, but Berry’s got a still-active touring schedule, and the duck-walking octogenarian still performs once a month at Blueberry Hill, a restaurant in his native St. Louis.

Just like clockwork last night, Berry strutted onstage at the stroke of 10 decked out in a sparkly shirt and sailor hat with that famous cherry red Gibson around his neck, nimbly ripping into the opening riff of “Roll Over Beethoven.”

Berry’s shows at Blueberry Hill take place in the restaurant’s downstairs level, a smoky basement called the Duck Room. There are only four rows of seats, making it easy for nearly everyone to be no further than 30 feet away from the man himself. (more…)