Blog Posts by Greg Prato

  • Lou Barlow Planning New Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr. Music

    By Greg Prato | The Rolling Stone Blog – Fri, Mar 25, 2011 9:38 AM EDT

    Sebadoh singer/guitarist has a big few months ahead of him: Wednesday night the band kicked off an East Coast tour in New Haven, Sub Pop is releasing a double disc expanded version of the band's underrated 1994 album Bakesale in June and in June and July, Barlow will get back together with his former Dinosaur Jr. bandmate J Mascis for a series of shows based on the third Dinosaur record, Bug.

    Barlow and Mascis plan on playing Bug in its entirety at each show. "We'll do that for a month, and then I'm going to continue to do Sebadoh after that. Then at the end of the year, there's talk of getting back together and starting to piece together a new Dinosaur record."

    J Mascis, Black Angels and More Rock at Rolling Stone SXSW Showcase

    But before that, Barlow is planning to work on some new music on his own. "I'm not going to work for two months and just write songs, and see what I come up with," he tells Rolling Stone. "Hopefully, that will be fodder for a Dinosaur Jr. record, maybe a

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  • It's shaping up to be a busy year for veteran desert punkers the Meat Puppets. First up will be the release of a new studio album, Lollipop, on April 12th via Megaforce Records. Then the group will perform their classic 1985 album, Up on the Sun, in its entirety at All Tomorrow's Parties in England (which runs from May 13-15, and is curated by Animal Collective), before hitting the road in the U.S. this summer.

    All of the group's albums from the Eighties will also be reissued once more on CD next year, and will include video and bonus tracks in the form of rare live footage. And starting this summer, certain Puppets albums will be reissued on vinyl, including the aforementioned Up on the Sun.

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    Singer/guitarist Curt Kirkwood spoke to Rolling Stone about the Puppets' latest effort, penning a song in Acapulco and what fueled the recording of the classic Meat Puppets II.

    Lollipop is the third album since Cris [Kirkwood,

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  • Original Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan may now be a financial guru, but that doesn't mean he's stopped making music: On April 19 he'll release The Taking, the third album from his current band Loaded. A vinyl version will precede it by a week, while proceeds from downloads of the track "Fight On" will be donated to the Puget Sound Healthcare System Veterans Administration. He recently talked with Rolling Stone about the new album, his fight against addiction, playing Scrabble on the tour bus and the making of a madcap movie based on the band whose plot involves a kidnapped drummer, a goat and a Ponzi scheme.

    Let's talk about the new Loaded album, The Taking.  

    It was the first record that Loaded's ever done coming off a tour. I think a lot of bands, when you go out and tour - at least bands I've been in - the songs you just recorded on the record, you always play them heavier. Coming off of that Sick record, we played a s**t ton of gigs, and just got heavier and louder. We were

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  • Exclusive: Soul Asylum Plot New Studio Album

    By Greg Prato | The Rolling Stone Blog – Fri, Mar 4, 2011 9:45 AM EST

    Soul Asylum has performed consistently in the last few years, but the group hasn't issued a new studio album since 2006's The Silver Lining. That should change this year, as the band - which features longtime members Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy, alongside bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Michael Bland - say they're getting ready to release their still-untitled 10th studio album.

    "I just sent some music out to the rest of the guys," Pirner tells Rolling Stone. "I'm waiting to hear back. At that point, we'll go about finishing up." Song titles for some of the completed tracks include "Gravity," "Into the Light" and "The Streets." And according to Pirner, the completed album should arrive "within the next six months."

    The album will likely also include contributions from sometime fill-in bassist Pete Donnelly (who is a multi-instrumentalist and plays with Soul Asylum when Stinson's gig with Guns N' Roses heats up from time to time), and a label should be announced shortly.

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  • NYers furious over photos taken through windows

    NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.

  • 'Iron Man 3' races past $1 billion dollar mark on monster foreign take

    By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Iron Man 3" was soaring past $1 billion at the worldwide box office Thursday, in a display of world domination that would make one of Marvel's super villains proud. The box-office bounty - roughly $700 million from abroad and $300 million domestically - is a major triumph for Disney, which bet big on comic book superheroes when it bought Marvel Studios for $4 billion in 2009. And its decision to bring aboard a Chinese partner for "Iron Man 3" and focus the Disney marketing machine on the booming foreign market looks pretty good right now, too. ...

  • Denmark favorite to win Eurovision Song Contest

    MALMO, Sweden (AP) — An ethno-inspired flute and drum tune from Denmark is the bookmakers' favorite to win this year's Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, which also features a bizarre opera pop number from Romania and an Armenian rock song written by the guitarist of Black Sabbath.

  • Native American actress proud to walk Cannes red carpet

    By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - Native American actress Misty Upham never dreamt she would be walking the red carpet at Cannes to showcase a film shot on her reservation. Upham features in "Jimmy P. Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian", focused on the relationship between World War Two veteran Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot, and Georges Devereux, his psychoanalyst. Upham said like Picard, played by Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro, she is Blackfeet, the largest tribe in Montana state. ...

  • Paul McCartney kicks off "Out There" tour in US

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Paul McCartney is kicking off the North American leg of his "Out There" tour in Orlando.

  • NYC artist's secret photos raise privacy issues

    NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.

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