Archive for June, 2010

PARAMORE frontwoman Hayley Williams joined DEFTONES on stage yesterday (Sunday, June 27) at the Rock-A-Field festival in Roeser, Luxembourg to perform the DEFTONES song “Passenger”.

Fan-filmed video footage of her appearance can be viewed below.

DEFTONES’ new album, “Diamond Eyes”, sold 62,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 6 on The Billboard 200 chart.

DEFTONES’ last album, “Saturday Night Wrist”, opened with 76,000 units back in November 2006 to land at position No. 10 on The Billboard.

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Fan-filmed video footage of AEROSMITH’s June 20, 2010 performance in Athens, Greece can be viewed below.

The band’s setlist was as follows:

01. Love In An Elevator
02. Back In The Saddle
03. Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)
04. Eat The Rich
05. Pink
06. Livin’ On The Edge
07. What It Takes
08. Rag Doll
09. Crazy
10. Cryin’
–Drum Solo–
11. Lord Of The Thighs
12. Stop Messin’ Around
13. I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
14. Sweet Emotion
15. Baby Please Don’t Go
16. Draw The Line

Encore:

17. Dream On
18. Walk This Way
19. Toys In The Attic

As previously reported, AEROSMITH is being sued by Keystone Entertainment Group of Canada for $6 million over its canceled tour of the country’s western provinces last August.

The band was forced to scrap five shows there after singer Steven Tyler was injured in a fall during a concert in South Dakota. The group’s new summer 2010 tour only features one Canadian stop, in Toronto on August 17.

Keystone’s suit claims that AEROSMITH breached its contract with the concert promoter by failing to reschedule the 2009 dates, further alleging that the company is out expenses incurred for promoting and producing the canceled gigs.

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Hayley Williams is on the bus, yanking off her fake eyelashes. It’s been a long day for the Paramore singer: up at eight to drive into Manhattan to soundcheck for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, followed by an interview, lunch at a Times Square diner, where she spent much of her meal posing for pictures with fans, the actual Fallon taping, back to Jersey in rush-hour traffic, a quick bite near the Secaucus Hyatt, and finally onto the bus for the band’s next tour stop, the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City — a two-hour trip that, thanks to a new driver and a wonky GPS, is now well into hour three. If ever there were a time to kick back with a nice cold bottle of…

“Do you like chocolate milk?”

That’s guitarist Josh Farro, standing by the fridge. “This is the best chocolate milk ever,” he says, holding a pint. “They make it at a farm near Knoxville. Our friend sent us, like, 20 of them. You gotta try it.”

For the self-proclaimed “five best friends from Nashville” in Paramore — Farro, his drummer brother Zac, bassist Jeremy Davis, guitarist Taylor York, and Williams — this is what the road is all about. They stay up late. They watch Spaceballs and play Yahtzee. They sing Hanson songs, and not even “MMMBop” — we’re talking deep cuts. Their bus smells like popcorn and Twizzlers, and their chief entertainment is a book of hypothetical questions they take turns shouting out answers to. (If you had to be the underwear of someone famous, who would it be? “Jake Gyllenhaal!” blurts Williams.)

But inside this mobile slumber party lies a thriving rock’n'roll empire. The band’s third album, 2009’s Brand New Eyes, has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. The one before that, Riot!, sold two million. In between came their song for the Twilight soundtrack, “Decode,” which clocked over a million downloads and solidified Williams, a 21-year-old dynamo with a voice like a fire truck and hair to match, as America’s leading purveyor of teen-punk angst.

(Speaking of: Team Edward or Team Jacob? “Oh God,” she blushes. “I don’t really like either. I wish she’d date the guy at the school lunch table. The other two seem a little high-maintenance.” Note: Hayley Williams doesn’t do drama.)

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After a sold-out 2009 world tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their influential 1989 album Doolittle, the Boston-bred alt-rockers are extending the party into this coming fall with an 11-city U.S. tour kicking off on September 7 in Philadelphia. England’s two-piece electronic group Fuck Buttons will open each show. Ticket pre-sale begins on June 7 via Pixiesmusic.com.

Each show on the Doolittle tour will be recorded and available to purchase on CD immediately after the gig (wow — that’s fast!), or later ordered online via Doolittlelive.com.

SPIN contributing writer Kevin Bronson reviewed the opening date of the Pixies’ first Doolittle tour last November at the Hollywood Palladium. “[The] alt-rock icons performed the album start-to-finish in the form of an edgy history lesson, with the students devotedly trying to keep up,” he wrote of the sold-out show, which featured an intense light show with gruesome video images to accompany the music. Bronson added that singer-guitarist “Black Francis’ yowl seemed to age in reverse” as the quartet ripped through tracks like “Debaser,” “Tame,” “I Bleed,” and show standout “Here Comes Your Man.”

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