Archive for September, 2009

A month after DJ AM, a.k.a. Adam Goldstein, was discovered dead in his New York City apartment, the medical examiner has ruled that the celebrity disc jockey died from an accidental overdose of cocaine and prescription drugs, the Associated Press reports.

Toxicology reports released Tuesday found a variety of drugs in the 36-year-old’s body, including cocaine, painkillers OxyContin and Vicodin, sedatives Ativan, Klonopin, Xanax, the antihistamine Benadryl, and Levamisole, a cancer treatment drug also used to cut cocaine.

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform an entire album at each of their five Giants Stadium shows, according to Rolling Stone. Tomorrow Springsteen is set to play Human Touch, followed by Lucky Town on October 2 and then…

Ha! I jest, of course—though not about the Boss’ intention to run through an album on each night. In fact, Springsteen and crew will play Born to Run tomorrow, then Darkness on the Edge of Town (October 2), Born in the U.S.A. (October 3), Born to Run (October 8), and finally Born in the U.S.A. (October 9). These will be the last rock shows at Giants Stadium, which is set for the demolition at the end of the current football season.

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In Friday’s Daily Noise, brought to you by Fuse and Billboard.com, Pearl Jam is poised to score their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in 13 years when the charts post next Thursday. “Backspacer,” which the band released independently, is on track to sell just under 200,000 copies in its first week.

Meanwhile, UK artists including Blur and Radiohead are pushing for three-strikes laws against illegal downloading, and the Silversun Pickups recently produced a shotgun video on a two-day break for their song “Substitution”. The band is currently on tour with Manchester Orchestra and Cage the Elephant.

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The Cranberries will come together for the first time in seven years for a month-long tour of North America this fall.

The reunion outing, which was first announced last month, kicks off Nov. 12 in Baltimore, followed by club and theater gigs slated for 17 major markets through early December. The full schedule is below.

The group’s lineup during the forthcoming excursion will include all four original members: Dolores O’Riordan, Noel Hogan, Mike Hogan and Fergal Lawler. The fall shows will feature performances of songs from O’Riordan’s solo work–including her August release “No Baggage”–as well as hits from the group’s nearly 10-year discography, according to a press release.

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“It’s a bad time/ To be out of your mind,” singer Corey Glover cautions in “Out of Mind,” a brute-metal warning about staying sharp for battle on Living Colour’s most focused record since their 1988 debut, Vivid. To these black-rock fighters, apocalypse is colorblind. The greed and fallout in Vivid’s “Open Letter (To a Landlord)” still run deep in the enraged crunch of “DecaDance” and “Hard Times.” But “Bless Those (Little Annie’s Prayer)” is a hot ball of faith: Guitarist Vernon Reid slices across Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun’s porch-party strut with sacred-steel licks. Reid’s playing is a thrill throughout; his solos sound like a mind blown wide but never to pieces.

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Aerosmith over? Dream on.

The globetrotting Boston bad boys are scheduled to be back in the saddle Oct. 18 and 20 in Maui, Hawaii, and on Nov. 1 at a Formula One race event in Abu Dhabi.

Last week, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry fueled speculation of a breakup after telling The Associated Press of his frustrations with singer Steven Tyler, who forced the band to cancel summer tour dates after injuring himself in a fall from the stage on Aug. 5 in Sturgis, S.D.

Yesterday Perry said that while it is true he and Tyler haven’t spoken in weeks, rumors of the band’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

“We’re getting our visas together and the papers drawn up and everything,” Perry said. “So as far as I’m concerned we’re doing these dates.”

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