Blog Posts by Steve Baltin

When a movie includes a scene of a guy sticking his penis inside a roast chicken, you know there's not much held back. Fix: The Ministry Movie,
a documentary snapshot of the band's 1996 tour, is a graphic depiction
of life on the road with the industrial heroes, including frontman Al
Jourgensen's struggle with heroin addiction.

Ex-Ministry bassist Paul Barker admits that the film's candor really
got to him. "It was tough to watch, it felt like I got kicked in the
stomach," he tells Rolling Stone. "I'm not interested in
reliving that era and having it presented to me like that was
historically interesting and I'm happy to put it there and whatever, but
it's tough."

The movie has had its fair share of controversy over the years, with
Jourgensen suing at one point to hold up release due to financial
differences (the suit has since been resolved). In fact, financing was
why the film has taken so many years to see the light of day. Barker
admits that the long delay is another reason that

The night before Bono and the Edge, Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder
and more rocked
the Hollywood Bowl, an invite-only affair honoring President Bill Clinton
and the Clinton Foundation was held at the Hollywood Palladium featuring a
performance by Stevie Nicks.

"When you're President of the United States for eight years and then you walk
away from that you can go, 'I'm going to take all that corporate knowledge and
political knowledge and I'm going to make a foundation and really help people
and I happen to really love rock & roll, so I'm going to contact people and
I'mgoing to gonna bring them in.' All of the musicians have platforms and can
help him, and we're all very willing to help him."

Benji and Joel Madden said they were nostalgic for Clinton's presidency. "I
think we all look back fondly on his presidency because it was a golden era for
us, especially for our generation," Joel said. "I think he was a great president
and obviously he's continued to do really great work."

"I like to

Click to listen to Brian Wilson's 'Bare Necessities'

When Disney approached Brian Wilson about doing an album of songs from classic Disney movies, he jumped right in. "I said I'd love to do it," he tells Rolling Stone. "I flipped."

The result is In the Key of Disney (out October 25th), a collection of songs from The Lion King, Toy Story, Little Mermaid and Wilson's personal favorite, Pinocchio. As fans can hear for themselves on this version of The Jungle Book's "Bare Necessities," which Wilson reinterprets as a Tin Pan Alley track, he brought his own style to the familiar tunes.

"I tried to put the Beach Boys style to it - a combination of Beach
Boys and Disney," Wilson says. The teaming of two landmarks of American
pop culture comes together beautifully on songs like Dumbo's "Baby Mine," a doo-wop song that harkens backs to the Beach Boys' "In My Room."

That said, remaking songs recognizable to generations (that
originally accompanied cartoons) was a challenge even for a certified

Daryl Hall's new album, Laughing Down Crying, is aptly titled. He's enjoying a career renaissance from his Internet series, Live From Daryl's House,
happily married with a family, and finally getting the pop icon
treatment for his work as half of one of the biggest duos of all time,
Hall & Oates. (Plus, he celebrates his 65th birthday today.)

As a musician you've had incredible success, but doing an
Internet show is a whole different world. How gratifying has the
response to the show been - and the fact it's being syndicated?
That
is an amazing thing, I had no idea. The whole point of the Internet, to
me, is it demands a lack of pretension, no bulls**t. And I wanted to
convey an experience that maybe for the first time, on a large scale,
had never been done. It shows what musicians do hanging out together,
with nobody watching, normally, and the stories they tell and the way
they relate to each other when they're not trying to prove anything. And
now of course I'm taking this

"I like to say this is the first new Doors track of the 21st century," Ray Manzarek tells Rolling Stone
of a new song he's recorded with Robby Krieger and John Densmore, as
well as popular DJ/producer Skrillex (Sonny Moore). The recording
session and song are part of a new documentary film, RE:GENERATION,
that recruited five popular DJs/producers to work with artists from
five separate genres and had them record new music. You can get a small
glimpse of the results for the first time in this exclusive world
premiere of the trailer below.

In addition to Skrillex, the project, co-produced by the Grammys and directed by Amir Bar Lev (The Pat Tillman Story, My Child Can Paint That),
brought in DJ Premier to produce a classical track with Nas and the
Berklee School of Music Orchestra; Pretty Lights, who did a country song
with Leann Rimes and Ralph Stanley; the Crystal Method, who headed to
Detroit to spend two days recording a R&B tune with Martha Reeves;
and Mark Ronson, who teamed

Jane's Addiction
returns to Los Angeles' John Anson Ford Amphitheatre for the first time
since 1989 on October 3rd and 4th - and Perry Farrell can't wait.

"I'm pretty psyched about it," Farrell tells Rolling Stone.
The two gigs at the 1400-person capacity theatre are part of a six-show
tour that already stopped at Chicago's Metro and wraps up at New York's
Irving Plaza October 17th and 18th, with stops in between at Florida's
DeLuna Fest and Atlantic City's House Of Blues.

Farrell promises the intimate shows will recall the late
Eighties/early Nineties days of "Juana's Addicion." "This is gonna be
like a low-down, dirty club show for people to see Jane's Addiction up
close," he says.

The October 18th Irving Plaza show coincides with the release of the group's highly anticipated new album, The Great Escape Artist.
The album will get the large-scale live production next year. "I have
the set already in my mind," he says. "It's going to be different than
what we're doing now. And we'll

In the next few months, Sting
will celebrate his 25th anniversary as a solo artist (and his 60th
birthday) with a new box set and theater tour. The biggest party,
though, will be the October 1st benefit
he's throwing for the Robin Hood Foundation in New York, where he'll be
joined by Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, Billy Joel and many more. For
Sting, the show is both a celebration and chance to give back. Rolling Stone spoke
with him backstage at the iHeartRadio festival last weekend about fame,
looking back, current music and the relationships in his life as he
turns 60.

You just released the box set, which meant a fair amount of revisiting your past.
I
was kind of forced to look back, and I was kind of pleasantly surprised
by what I heard. I thought the younger me made some reasonable musical
decisions, there's a reasonable level of musical sophistication and
harmonic knowledge displayed.

Were there any tracks in particular that stood out to you?
What
we did was we remixed a lot

The last couple of years have been beyond turbulent for Aerosmith - but now, Steven Tyler tells Rolling Stone that the new album is almost done.

"Two months doing that and we're almost there," Tyler said backstage
at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas this past weekend. "We're gonna
spend another month in L.A." Is there a release date in mind? "March,
hopefully."

The frontman was in great spirits, and why not? He had just schooled
an audience of 20,000 fans in rock history with the help of guitar god
Jeff Beck. The two of them sounded so good together on songs like "You
Really Got Me" and Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" it seemed a shame to waste that magic pairing on only four songs.

Could there be more collaborations with Beck in the making? "The
rest is yet to reveal," Tyler said. "If I had my way, I'd say yes. We
did 'Cry Me A River' and an Etta James song," he says. "[We] went to
rehearsal to learn these four songs. Two we knew and we