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Coldplay Gifts Fans With Pretenders Cover, Thom Yorke to Release Remixes, Jay-Z?s ?Gangster? Meets the Real ?Godfather? and More

• With only twelve days to go ’til Christmas, Coldplay has posted an early present on their Web site for their fans: “2000 Miles,” the band’s cover of the Pretenders song. “We love Christmas songs, but every time we try and write one it’s awful,” Chris Martin writes. Maybe Martin could learn a thing or two from the Killers.

• Thom Yorke will revisit his solo career early next year as he releases three 12′’ singles featuring nine remixes of tracks from his debut album The Eraser. Among the remixers are the Field, Burial, Four Tet and Modeselektor.

• The seventh annual Ponderosa Stomp is branching out to include conference panels next year. The American music fest will take place April 29th and 30th in New Orleans and feature performances by Ronnie Spector, Roky Erickson and more.

• To celebrate getting picked up for another season on HBO, or because they’re just overflowing with humor, mock rockers Flight of the Conchords will release a full-length album in April 2008.

• From Broadway to the Mafia way: After Jay-Z’s American Gangster received the show-tune treatment, now DJ Skee has mashed-up Jigga’s new album with the score from The Godfather.

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Dewey Cox: The Rolling Stone Interview

An intimate Q&A with the protagonist of “Walk Hard” Listen to a special audio documentary on Dewey Cox featuring RS contributing editor David Wild. Dewey Cox is one of the legends of rock & roll: the center of seemingly every musical movement from the Fifties…

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The World’s Greatest Heartbreaker

Tales of Ike & Tina Turner, God Knows How Many Ikettes, and the Closed Circuit TV System From Issue 93, October 14, 1971 Walk into what, from the outside, looks to be another well-paid, well-kept home in suburban Inglewood, California, and you’re hit: a huge, imperial oil painting of Ike and Tina Turner, dressed as if for a simple, private wedding, circa 1960, modest pompadour and formal mink. A thriller? The killer, honey … Also in the foyer, under the portrait, a small white bust of John F. Kennedy. Next to him, the Bible, opened to Isaiah 42-A New Song to the Lord….

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Breaking Artist: Gucci Mane

Who: Dirty South rapper Radric “Gucci Mane” Davis, who after spending some time behind bars, has learned to translate a life of crime into lyrical street anthems. Sounds Like: Gucci’s new album Back to the Traphouse finds the Bessemer, Alabama native unleashing crime-thick lyrics with his patented Southern drawl over explosive synth beats and sing-song hooks. The album, a sequel of sorts to his debut Traphouse, features guest spots from Ludacris, Lil’ Kim, Rich Boy, the Game and late UGK rapper Pimp C. Three Things You Should Know: 1. Gucci killed a man — in self-defense. While visiting the home of a female friend in 2005, Gucci was forced to shooter down an intruder after the man (an associate of Young Jeezy, with whom Gucci has an ongoing beef) stormed into the room, guns blazing. While Gucci didn’t serve time for that incident (again, self-defense), he did serve six months in the slammer for beating another man with a pool stick. 2. Gucci passed time in the pen (he was locked-down twenty-three hours a day) writing a screenplay about his life. The son of an Atlanta hustler nicknamed “Gucci Man,” Mane started out on his father’s path by dealing crack at the age of nineteen. After his release from prison, Mane got an important pep talk from another rapper. “Ludacris told me to keep my nose clean,” Gucci says, “I plan on doing that.” 3. He may have a rep as a thug, but Gucci says he’s laid-back and isn’t afraid to show off his sense of humor. He even got his start as a rapper doing comic remakes of hit songs. “I would remake ‘The Humpty Dance’ as ‘The Gucci Dance,’” he says, chuckling. “I was like a ghetto Weird Al.” Get It: Gucci Mane’s Back to the Traphouse hit record stores yesterday. Click above to check out his video for “Freaky Gurl.”
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Hair-Metal Highlights

Wielding guitars, Aqua Net and mascara, they terrorized the land in the late Eighties. The outrageous fortunes of six hair bands. L.A. GUNS HIGH Four years after Axl Rose split from the band to form Guns n’ Roses, the 1989 power wailer “The Ballad of Jayne” hit Number Thirty-three on the Hot 100. LOW Their 2005 album, Tales From the Strip, doesn’t feature the band’s founder Tracii Guns — or any other member of the original group. OUTRAGEOUS MOMENTOriginal vocalist Paul Black got arrested along with G n’ R’s Izzy Stradlin for copping heroin, nearly costing both…

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Madonna, John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen Lead 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees

Madonna and John Mellencamp will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year, alongside Leonard Cohen, the Ventures and the Dave Clark Five. Philly Soul songwriter/producer team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff will be presented the Ahmet Ertegun Award (previously known as the non-performer category) and blues harmonica player Little Walter will be inducted in the sideman category. This is Madonna’s first year of eligibility; her debut single, “Everybody,” was released twenty-five…

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The 100 Best Songs of 2007

As you may have already noticed, the new issue of Rolling Stone is our special Yearbook 2007, where we chart the year’s best releases, rock-star rants, reunited bands, Amy Winehouse meltdowns, dickheads (according to Bill Maher) and much more. Keep watching this site for all our year-end lists. Up first is the 100 Best Songs of 2007 — from Jay-Z and Rihanna to Feist and Nickelback (seriously), it’s the ultimate 2007 playlist. Click here to check out the list, and listen to (and watch!) the songs for yourself.

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Eddie Vedder, Flaming Lips, Roger Waters Lead Long Short List of Oscar Hopefuls

The committee that hands out Oscars has narrowed down a year’s worth of film soundtracks and end-credit music into a fifty-nine track “short list” of songs that will be eligible for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards. Eddie Vedder, who contributed solo tracks to the Sean Penn film Into the Wild, and Sondre Lerche, who recorded the Dan in Real Life soundtrack, both have three songs on the list. Vedder will most likely get some definite Oscar nod love, as his “Guaranteed” was nominated for Best Song at the Golden Globes this morning (he’s also up for Best Original Score at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s January 13th ceremony).

August Rush leads all films with four potential nominations, with John Legend’s “Someday” the favorite of that bunch. Other interesting inclusions: Roger Waters’ “Hello (I Love You),” which we’re assuming is not the Doors’ song (original music only is considered) from The Last Mimzy, plus there’s the Flaming Lips’ oddball “I Was Zapped by the Super Lucky Rainbow” from Good Luck Chuck and “The Tale of the Horny Frog” from The Heartbreak Kid, and Rufus Wainwright’s “Another Believer” from Meet the Robinsons.

Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger will once again vie for an Oscar statuette, as two of his Wham!-inspired contributions to Music and Lyrics are on the short list. Schlesinger almost took home the Academy Award in 1997 for penning the song “That Thing You Do!” from the film of the same name, but Madonna’s “You Must Love Me” from Evita pulled an upset victory. The upcoming Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story also had three songs on the list, meaning that it’s likely John C. Reilly will have to appear as Cox to perform in front of millions of people Oscar night.

So how does the Academy pick five finalists from this enormous list? The whole thing sounds very complex: On January 15th, they’ll screen clips featuring each song in random order, and then vote. Though a better question may be what happens to the Oscars if the Writer’s Strike keeps going?

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Goldfrapp Talk Lush February Album ?Seventh Tree?

On Goldfrapp’s forthcoming fourth full-length album Seventh Tree, the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory move away from the cold glam of 2005’s Supernature for a more lush, softer sound. Swift genre shifts have become second nature to Goldfrapp, whether it was moving from their ambient debut, 2000’s Felt Mountain to the electroclash of 2003’s Black Cherry. “We’re always searching for different ways to express ourselves. You want to feel like you’re moving on and doing new things,” Alison Goldfrapp tells Rock Daily. “If you keep hanging on to a formula you found, life gets boring pretty bloody quickly.”

From the first note on Seventh Tree opener “Clowns,” it’s clear there’s nothing bloody boring about the duo’s new album. The song trickles in with the gentle plucking of an acoustic guitar (it’s the first time the pair have used the instrument), before Alison’s cooing vocals enter. Soon, walls of strings swell as the group conjures up picturesque images of their native Bath, England, where they record all their albums. “We did want to have a warmer sound, but a warmer sound that didn’t sound too pretty, so that was something we concentrated on quite a bit,” Goldfrapp says.
To accompany the warmer sound, the duo also wrote their most personal batch of lyrics yet. The end result is a cinematic experience, especially on first single “A&E,” which examines “a very desperate situation in a very humorous way.” “A&E,” by the way, does not stand for “Arts & Entertainment” (like the TV channel); Goldfrapp explains it means “Accident & Emergency.” As for the album’s title, Goldfrapp says, “I had a dream about a very large tree. There was beautiful sunshine, and the tree was waving in the wind and said it should be called it the ‘Seventh Tree.’ And you can’t argue with a dream.” Seventh Tree is out February 26th, and Goldfrapp have “a short tour of the U.S. in the spring and a much longer tour in the autumn” on tap.

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