On January 2nd, 2012 journalists beyond New York accustomed an allurement to a abstruse Van Halen accident at New York's Cafe Wha?, a basement club in Greenwich Village that seats a simple 250 people. It was initially anticipation to be a columnist appointment announcement their aboriginal anthology with David Lee Roth aback 1984, but anon abundant chat leaked out that Van Halen would in actuality be performing.

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On January 5, the night of the show, a band continued bright down the block, and the club bound abounding up with almanac industry bigwigs, bedrock writers, radio association and a scattering of actual advantageous Van Halen fans. "Welcome to Occupy Van Halen," Roth told the arranged crowd. "The endure time I stood on a date this low I had to get the car home by midnight."

The accumulation already had their new LP A Different Kind of Truth in the can at the time of the gig, but the alone "new" song they performed was "She's The Woman." The clue dates all the way aback to 1976, but they did re-record it for the album. The blow of the 11 song set centered about their David Lee Roth-era hits, including "Panama," "Dance The Night Away" and "Jump."

The area fabricated actually no attack to bind cellphone cameras, so every additional of the appearance was filmed from all angles. Here's the aperture leash of "You Really Got Me," "Runnin' With The Devil" and "Somebody Get Me a Doctor." After the additional song, Roth rambled on for 5 beeline account about Lady Gaga and his assignment as an EMT. Near the end, Eddie looked like he was on the border of battlefront him all over again.

Reviews for the appearance were abundantly ecstatic, admitting the anthology got a appealing alloyed reception, as did the consecutive amphitheatre tour. Roth's vocals aren't actually what they acclimated to be, and abounding admirers badly absent Michael Anthony, both for his bass arena and his signature harmonies. Wolfgang Van Halen does his best, but it's just not the same.

Per usual, cipher has any clue what Van Halen's accomplishing next. David Lee Roth has announced about new material, but annihilation has alike and the accumulation makes actually no attack to broadcast advice to their huge fan base. The actuality they had years and years to accomplish the endure anthology and ultimately went after a agglomeration of outtakes from the 1970s seems to advance they're accepting some issues in the songwriting department, but we'll accept to delay and see what happens. 

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Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Frank Sampedro, Lukas Nelson, Neil Young, Eddie Vedder, Gary Clark Jr. and John Doe accomplish as allotment of the Finale at the 26th Anniversary Bridge School Account at Shoreline Amphitheatre on October 20th, 2012 in Mountain View, California.

At about 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, a affiliate of the Shoreline Amphitheatre aegis detail radioed his co-workers to acquaint them that Guns N' Roses' bout bus had accustomed at the venue. Now, Axl Rose isn't absolutely accepted to be punctual, so for him to access at a area with the sun still out, there have to be a acceptable reason. And there was: GNR, forth with Jack White, the Flaming Lips and Ray LaMontagne, up-and-comers like Gary Clark Jr. and Foster the People, and songstresses k.d. lang, Sarah McLachlan, and Lucinda Williams were all appointed to accomplish at the Mountain View area for the aboriginal night of Neil Young's anniversary Bridge School account concert, now in its 26th year of adopting money for accouchement with accent and concrete impairments.

If Rose did access at 4 p.m., he fabricated it in time to see Young himself accessible the anniversary by assuming "Sugar Mountain" to the Bridge School acceptance and their families, who sat in the rafters anon abaft the date for the absoluteness of the about nine-hour show. Young afresh arrive his wife Pegi to accompany him on a poignant, attractive arrangement of "Comes a Time." Eight hours and a dozen acts later, Young, this time abutting by Crazy Horse, would acknowledgment to the stage.

Photos: Live at the 2012 Bridge School Benefit

Gary Clark Jr. had the unenviable role of afterward Young and arena for the masses of concertgoers award their seats or spots on the backyard afterwards the mile-long airing from the parking lot. Afterwards ambience the accent for the night with active performances of "When My Train Pulls In" and "Don't Owe You a Thang," Clark's set was abominably cut abbreviate afterwards three songs due to the bound scheduling. Foster the People acceptable encountered the aforementioned bearings if their about-face accustomed afterwards on: They performed a scattering of tracks, including the hit "Don't Stop (Color the Walls)," but "Pumped Up Kicks" didn't accomplish the cut.

After four hours of music – including an alluring and funny set by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers – it was time for the Flaming Lips, who would conceivably be the a lot of abandoned by the Bridge School's all-acoustic doctrine. No matter, Wayne Coyne had a abstruse weapon: Actor and animal exhausted box Reggie Watts, who replicated every abysmal bass, 808, and absent complete aftereffect on "Fight Test," "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots," and "It's Summertime." To abutting out their set, the Lips abashed the army with a awning of the Beatles' ballsy "A Day in the Life," featuring Coyne and Watts administration articulate duties (with the actor aboveboard account the lyrics off his corpuscle phone).

Next up was Jack White and his all-female abetment band, who helped accomplish the Blunderbuss-heavy actual complete as admitting it was getting interpreted by the Rolling Thunder Revue. White captivated up his 30-minute set with a brace of White Stripes classics: A rollicking, country-fried adaptation of "Hotel Yorba" and the breakable "We're Going to Be Friends."

After White's set, there was a longer-than-usual breach afore the next appointed act, Guns N' Roses. The crowd, already afraid from the arctic weather, was growing restless. Some admirers associates audibly wondered whether Axl was about to demolition the Bridge School account with his now-infamous antics. However, the adjournment was due to what concluded up getting the night's better surprise: an abrupt achievement by Pearl Jam frontman and Neil Young acolyte Eddie Vedder.

The admirers anon access into revelry. "This is the endure abode I anticipation I'd be if I woke up today . . . aperture for Guns N' Roses," Vedder joked afore ablution into "Last Kiss," which he said was a admired of one of the Bridge School students. He followed that up with "Elderly Woman," and with the army now in agitation from his abruptness performance, he bound exited to let GNR yield the stage.

If an all-acoustic concert seems like the absolute ambience for GNR to focus on the aback bisected of their EP Lies, that aforementioned angle didn't escape Axl: Three of the seven songs GNR performed were adopted from that disc: Set opener "You're Crazy" (with Axl bottomward the F-bomb in foreground of an admirers of accouchement no beneath than 5 times), "Used to Love Her," and "Patience." The butt of the set was angled out by exhilarating, beginning takes on Appetite for Destruction's three better singles, "Welcome to the Jungle," "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Paradise City." Credit aswell has to go to GNR's army of guitarists – abnormally DJ Ashba and Bumblefoot – for involving the Bridge School kids in the performance.

Finally, it was time for the Godfather of Grunge, Neil Young. Like the majority of shows on this accepted Young trek, the Bridge School set account focused on actual from his accessible Psychedelic Pill, admitting in acoustic form, from the autobiographical "Born in Ontario" to the Dylan/Grateful Dead accolade "Twisted Road" and a tight, truncated arrangement of the behemothic "Ramada Inn." Alongside old favorites like "Powderfinger" and "The Needle and the Damage Done," Neil did bandy some ambit balls: The unreleased "Singer Without a Song," featuring Young on piano, resurfaced already again, and Crazy Horse bankrupt out "Like a Hurricane," which hadn't been played at the Shoreline Amphitheatre for about a decade.

That clue set the date for the evening's final performance, the acceptable all-star jam. Vedder, White, Coyne, Watts, Foster the People, everybody – except Axl – abutting Young for a activation arrangement of "Rockin' in the Free World," its mantra alveolate in the active of bags of annoyed music admirers as they journeyed aback against the parking lots, acquisitive to acquaintance the accomplished accident afresh on Sunday.

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Last week, we asked Rolling Stone readers to name their atomic admired awning song of all time – and we aggregate the votes into a top 10 list.

This anniversary we crunched the numbers to actuate the accepted King of Hip-hop. Now it's your about-face to decide: Who is your King of Hip-hop? Unlike our list, which was based on abstracts from the accomplished two years, you can feel chargeless to vote for any rapper from any era you like. (You can vote for changeable rappers, too – afterwards all, we had Nicki Minaj in the mix for the Kings feature.)

You can vote actuality in the comments, on facebook.com/rollingstone or on Twitter with the #weekendrock hashtag. Voting will abutting at apex on Monday.

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Dana Distortion Atoms for Peace accomplish at Austin City-limits Limits Music Anniversary in Austin, Texas.

Kendrick Lamar asked that the army at his Saturday night set at the Austin City-limits Limits music anniversary abound from an "8.5" babble akin to a "10." Afterwards the barrage he appear with pride that Austin hit an aberrant "15."

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Lamar is still bleared hot from endure year's afire absolution good kid, m.A.A.d city, and his achievement at the 12th year of ACL represents an affirmation of his abode in hip-hop and the action of both the artisan and the anniversary that appointed him. Some agitation greeted the advertisement that Austin's a lot of acclaimed alfresco anniversary would aggrandize to two weekends in 2013, admitting it charcoal to be apparent whether or not it was Lamar's adulation that echoed the loudest.

FridayLocal Natives accept a pale in both absonant and slower soul-bearing numbers, and the accretion ability from 2009's admission Gorilla Manor to this year's Hummingbird (produced by the National's Aaron Dessner) is axiomatic in their reside performance. Newer advance "Colombia" and "Mt. Washington" – the closing about L.A., but committed actuality to Austin – soared, and a awning of the Talking Heads' "Warning Sign" featuring an a cappella three-part accord was a anniversary highlight.

Vampire Weekend accomplish at Austin City-limits Limits music anniversary in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Dana Distortion)

Across the park, Vampire Weekend played to a adolescent army who took the band's winking Ivy League artful as a not-so-subtle affairs suggestion. "Since the endure time we saw you we got a mirror," said advance accompanist and guitarist Ezra Koenig of his band's rather ample date prop, "and appear a new album." This year's Modern Vampires of the City is beneath abased on the band's agoraphobic yield on apple music that sprung them into stardom, instead featuring a added palette of sounds. Live, the cyberbanking "California English" was rendered faithfully, as were aboriginal favorites "Oxford Comma" and "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa."

Depeche Mode accent Friday night with a 90-minute set that featured continued explorations of fan favorites and a scattering of new material. Advance accompanist Dave Gahan strode the date with aggressiveness and fearlessness, casting his microphone angle and angle his attenuate anatomy in every administration like a goth Iggy Pop. While Gahan was the lightning rod of the performance, guitarist Martin Gore's about-face singing "Shake the Disease" with just piano accessory was an acclaimed and acceptable yield on the familiar.

SaturdayDespite the accepted address of endure year's icy-pop Visions, artist Claire Boucher – accepted bigger as Grimes – began her set with about 20 account of beat expanses afore the mouse-ear-attired artist advantaged her admirers with the hooks of "Oblivion" and "Be a Body." The advance and cull of apprehension and Boucher's not-so-subtle admonition that Grimes had continued been awe-inspiring afore she was accepted fabricated for a abnormally enrapturing set. Closing with her Blood Diamonds accord "Phone Sex," she appropriately angled both worlds; the admirers befuddled and shimmied, possibly with relief.

The Cure accomplish at Austin City-limits Limits Music Anniversary in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Dana Distortion)

The Cure's headlining set that black wasn't as meandering or all-over active as that of adolescent Eighties stalwarts Depeche Mode the night before. Still, the band's intensive, able arena was aerial by a army who seemed as bugged by angry opener "Plainsong" as they were by the all-over hit and set afterpiece "Boys Don't Cry."

Sunday
The National is a bandage whose attendance in foreground of bags feels natural. Part of their acceptability rests on their athletic reside performances, and on Sunday their calendar aswell featured the casual cool of assumption from two multi-instrumentalists. Those acquisitive to apprehend a new song alleged "Lean," appear to be on the attainable Hunger Games soundtrack, didn't accept that ambition accomplished here, but the bandage angrily lit into advance from this year's Trouble Will Find Me and continued aback to 2005's Alligator for the unhinged "Abel."

The headliners for ACL's final night of music resulted in the odd bond of Atoms for Peace on one end of the esplanade and Lionel Richie on the other. Atoms appearance Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea alongside multi-instrumentalist Nigel Godrich and percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco. The basal end on Atoms' debut, Amok, can be convolute and subtle, but in achievement the bandage places big bass and drums in the forefront. The Afrobeat-inspired quintet detoured from Atoms actual a few times, landing on Radiohead's "Paperbag Writer," Yorke's abandoned amount "Black Swan" and the Yorke/UNKLE accord "Rabbit in Your Headlights."

Moody and mysterious, the beating of Atoms was actual altered from what was accident with Richie's set, area the adept of several decades and abounding agreeable detours performed with a stripped-down bandage that absolute but never overshadowed the singer's apparent tenor. The alternative of Richie as the festival's afterpiece was met with some abruptness – he's added attainable and softer book than accomplished headliners Bob Dylan or Van Morrison. But afterwards a continued anniversary weekend, Richie's openhearted set was acquiescently embraced, and even the hookworm of irony couldn't dig into the affection surrounding the set (and festival) closer, "We Are the World," which he co-wrote with the backward Michael Jackson.

The success of ACL as a two-weekend anniversary will be argued even afterwards the allotment accept appear in and the esplanade cleared. But in the army (and counting) of change, Richie's set and the weekend of music as a accomplished are a admonition that even amidst crisis and transition, "we" as an abstraction and a ambition is just as important to this anniversary as it is to the city-limits that hosts it.

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T.I. was arrested on biologic accuse endure night in Los Angeles, afterwards badge smelled marijuana afloat from the rapper's Maybach during a cartage stop on Sunset Boulevard. Afterwards analytic the vehicle, badge answerable T.I. and his wife Tamika "Tiny" Cottle with control of a controlled substance, TMZ reports. Bail was set for $10,000, and the brace was appear aboriginal this morning. It's cryptic which controlled actuality led to the arrest, but Los Angeles sheriff's agent Mark Pope told the AP that a "narcotics analysis ensued" afterwards badge smelled the marijuana.

T.I., who was appear from bastille just seven months ago, afterwards confined about a year abaft confined on federal weapons charges, is on three years' probation. He has had a cord of drug-related accuse in the past, including a 1998 arrest for breaking Georgia's controlled actuality law and addition acquittal abuse over control of marijuana. As allotment of his appeal accord stemming from the federal weapons charges, T.I. was appropriate to allege to acceptance about the dangers of accoutrements and drugs.

T.I.'s latest arrest comes just canicule afterwards Takers, a break-in blur in which he starred, topped the weekend's box office. T.I. is aswell at plan on his new anthology King Uncaged, which he told Rolling Stone was "the a lot of cogent acknowledgment from incarceration that the bold has had back Tupac Shakur's All Eyez on Me." The album's new individual "Pledge Allegiance to the Swag," featuring Rick Ross, leaked just hours afore T.I.'s arrest.

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Outside of a 2006 win for Outstanding Comedy Series and a few abstruse awards, The Office went abundantly disregarded if it came to Emmy awards – and Carell was no exception, although he was nominated six times for bringing bumbling bang-up Michael Scott to life. (Though the amateur did nab a Golden Globe in 2006.) He wasn't the only Dunder Mifflin agent who came abroad empty-handed: Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer never got any Emmys acceptance either.

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Courtesy of the U.S. NRC Inside the reactor barge breadth at the partly congenital Bellefonte nuclear bulb in Hollywood, Alabama.

Zombie Nuclear Bulb Lives!One affair you can say about nuclear power: the humans who accept it is the argent ammo for America's activity problems never accord up. Consider the case of Bellefonte 1, a nuclear bulb in Alabama. It was bankrupt 23 years ago. It's spun in spider webs and locations of it accept been awash off for scrap. But now the buyer of the plant, Tennessee Valley Authority, is because spending $5 billion to accompany the barbarian aback to life. TVA advisers anticipate that if atramentous plants get shut down and accustomed gas gets expensive, the bureau could use the old bulb to accomplish bargain electrons for a few decades. "Why nuclear?" says Thomas Kilgore, the authority's admiral and arch executive. "Once you get the assemblage built, you've got aggrandizement bound out." In added words, if TVA has a nuke and cipher abroad does, Kilgore thinks he can accomplish big money and attending like a genius. But at atomic one industry analyst disagrees: "Based on cost, I in fact anticipate you can say it's crazy." [NYT]

All Our Chickens are Rhode Island Reds2011 is abstraction up to be the year that the media abstracts out that hamburgers don't abound on trees. In contempo months, there has been a abiding beck of new advertisement about the evolving all-around aliment crisis –higher prices, impacts of droughts and floods on aliment supply, crumbling productivity. One aspect that has been overlooked: how the alleged "Green Revolution" in agronomics has abundantly bargain the assortment of our aliment crops and animals and abundantly added their vulnerability to ache and altitude change. The solution? Locally able foods of the past. [National Geographic]

March to Stop Mountaintop Removal The action adjoin Big Atramentous got cranked up a cleft as activists staged a 50-mile continued advance to Blair Mountain, the website of a celebrated activity action in the 1921. Aback then, Atramentous was King and 10,000 miners marched for the appropriate to adapt unions in West Virginia mines. Last week, the marchers numbered in the hundreds and the ambition was to bottle Blair Abundance as a actual website and to alarm absorption to the adverse convenance of mountaintop-removal atramentous mining. Among the marchers was Robert Kennedy Jr, who alleged Blair abundance "the Gettysburg of the abutment movement." Kennedy, who just appear the anti-mountaintop-removal mining documentary The Last Mountain, said West Virginia politicians are too bound to Big Coal. "Everything this industry does is illegal, it's a bent enterprise," he said. "If you came to the Hudson River and you approved to ample 25 anxiety of a Hudson River tributary, we would put you in jail, I agreement it. If you approved to draft up a abundance in the Berkshires, the Adirondacks, or a abundance in Colorado, California or Utah, you would go to jail." [Charleston Gazette]

Geoengineering Goes PrimetimeFor a lot of environmentalists and apple-pie activity activists, the chat "geoengineering" is a lot like the chat "pedophile": it gives them a assertive adventure to say, if abandoned because the angry it suggests is so pure. Well, not any more. Geoengineering – the large-scale, advised abetment of the earth's altitude to abate risks of all-around abating – took a big bound advanced this anniversary if the Guardian appear that the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Altitude Change alleged for a abstraction on geoengineering to be included in its next report. Among the account to be studied: whitening clouds to reflect sunlight, spraying sulfate particles in the stratosphere, architecture machines to blot carbon dioxide out of the air. Outrage from ecology groups has already amorphous – adapt for lots of knee-jerk belief about the airs of scientists and the absurdity of aggravating to arbitrate in a arrangement we almost understand. [Guardian]
Big Solar Trumps Big Animate One of the pillars of astern cerebration in America is the abstraction that you can accept jobs or you can accept apple-pie air and water, but you can't accept both. That allegory has been bankrupt a thousand times, but still it lives on. Well, here's added myth-busting evidence: with almost 93,500 absolute and aberrant jobs, the American solar industry now employs about 9,200 added workers than the U.S. animate industry, according to 2010 Bureau of Activity Statistics. In Germany, it's a agnate story: There are now added than 100,000 workers active in the German solar photovoltaics industry alone. [Climate Progress]

Rupert Murdoch's 102 Year-old Mom Blows Hole in Fox News Propaganda Machine
The action to put a amount on carbon abuse in Australia is accepting added heated, acknowledgment in allotment to a abounding cloister columnist from Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Altitude activists accept recruited a amount of top contour supporters recently, including extra Cate Blanchett. Now Dame Elizabeth Murdoch, Rupert's 102 year-old mother, has added her name to a accessible letter arguing that a amount on carbon is bare now to ''build a better, cleaner and added acceptable future, for the account of our accouchement and grandchildren'' and allurement ''all Australians to appeal administration on this so calm we can yield the aboriginal accomplish appear a low-carbon future.'' Now, if abandoned she would belt her son and yield abroad his media toys, that low-carbon approaching ability in fact accept a chance. [Sydney Morning Herald]

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When Pete Townshend heard the adverse account of the nine admirers dying at Pearl Jam's achievement endure Friday at the Roskilde anniversary in Denmark, the algid faculty of déjà vu accept to accept been inescapable. The abashed associates of Pearl Jam declared the adventure as a "horrible nightmare" -- a daydream Townshend and the blow of the Who accept accepted all too able-bodied themselves.

For the Who, the abhorrence came on the night of Dec. 3, 1979. Before the bandage even took the date of Cincinnati, Ohio's Riverfront Coliseum, eleven humans had been trampled or suffocated to afterlife if admirers surged through the doors of the amphitheatre in a mad blitz for accepted acceptance spots in foreground of the stage. For Pearl Jam, it came during their performance, appropriate in foreground of their eyes, as the alfresco anniversary army of 50,000 apprenticed beyond a addled acreage to get afterpiece to the stage. Eight humans died the night of the concert; a ninth anesthetized abroad from injuries abiding in the adventure Wednesday.

The Who adventure in Cincinnati has connected been advised one of rock's a lot of abominable moments, accepting afresh been arbitrary in a "Concerts Gone Bad" adventure of the VH1 alternation Rockstory and continuously cited whenever a crowd-related tragedy of any consequence rears its animal arch at a concert. But accustomed Pearl Jam's -- and decidedly Eddie Vedder's -- acclaimed access by the Who (expressed throughout the years in interviews, covers songs and a lot of afresh via Vedder's performances with Townshend endure year), the hotlink amid the Roskilde and Cincinnati tragedies seemed decidedly eerie. Townshend ashen little time in extensive out to Pearl Jam to action his support.

"I batten bygone to Eddie Vedder," the guitarist writes in a account access on his Web site, www.PeteTownshend.com. "I don't wish to say any added than that. I anesthetized on what I knew the Who had done amiss afterwards the Cincinnati adversity -- in a nutshell, I anticipate we larboard too soon, and I batten too angrily to the columnist and after able application of the actuality that the humans who adapted account were the asleep and their families.

"Luckily Pearl Jam and their administration accept backward in Denmark, and annulled consecutive shows," Townshend continued. "Other bands aswell apparent some account by abnegation to play. If you accept a faith, amuse adjure for the victims and their families, and for anybody who was involved. It was a alarming acquaintance for them."

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Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures 'The Dark Knight' cine poster.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier hit theaters all beyond America today, and so far it's becoming a appealing absorbing 87 percent approval appraisement on Rotten Tomatoes. It's assertive to accomplish a ample affluence over the next few weeks, appealing abundant guaranteeing that a new Marvel cine will be fabricated from now until the end of time.

Readers' Poll: The 25 Greatest Movies of the 1980s

Now we accept a catechism for you: What is the greatest superhero cine anytime made? Any cine counts as continued as it appearance a appearance with cool powers, finer taken from a banana book or clear novel. These movies accept been fabricated over and over, so amuse be actual specific if you vote. 2002's Sider-Man is altered than 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man. There accept aswell been a ton of Batman and Superman flicks over the years ,not to acknowledgment all the sequels. It ability just advice to cover the year if you vote, but we'll leave that up to you. Also, amuse alone vote already and alone for a individual movie. We'll apperceive something is up if we see 15,000 votes for 1984's Supergirl. 

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BY Peter Travers   |  April 24, 2014

A guy in a BMW. Alone. Talking on the wireless. Choir on the speaker. He's Ivan Locke, a Brit, active from Birmingham to London. In absolute time – 85 minutes. No flashbacks. Just this guy. Juggling crises. Don't aberration out. Locke alone sounds like a trap. It's a assertive of claustrophobic anxiety and angry emotion, mostly because Tom Hardy, best accepted as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, is a afire admiration as Locke. Writer-director Steven Knight has accustomed Hardy the assignment of captivation us agape as Locke, a bedmate and father, drives abroad from his better job anytime as a architecture administrator and into the accoutrements of a one-night angle who's about to accept their baby. The choir of bang-up (Ben Daniels), aggregation arch (Andrew Scott), lover (Olivia Colman), wife (Ruth Wilson) and sons (Tom Holland, Bill Milner) babel in Locke's head, and ours, as he makes his life-changing journey. Hang on.

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During his Best Amateur accepting accent at this year's Oscars, Matthew McConaughey slipped in a attenuate allusion to David Wooderson, the abiding slacker he played in Richard Linklater's 1993 classic Dazed and Confused: After absorption on the ability of getting one's own hero, the amateur assured his accent with a boastful "All right, all right, all right," referencing a archetypal Wooderson arena (the one area he flirts with red-head Marissa Ribisi in a drive-thru).

Now, acknowledgment to Canadian allocution appearance host George Stroumboulopoulos, McConaughey admirers apperceive the accurate afflatus abaft the line: It's a nod to Doors frontman Jim Morrison.

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Stroumboulopoulos uploaded the aloft account with McConaughey from a 2011 adventure of his show, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. In the clip, McConaughey gives some amusing accomplishments on the now-iconic byword and its benumbed origins.

Before cutting his "first arena anytime on film," he was cranking a "live Doors album" and begin himself taken ashamed by an epic, between-song bluster in which Morrison ashamed off four after "all right"s. Inspired by the frontman's conviction, McConaughey started cerebration added anxiously about Wooderson's motivations, which he bankrupt down into four capital categories: "his car, gettin' high, bedrock & cycle and pickin' up chicks."

The amateur again fabricated a broiled affiliation amid those four motivations, Morrison's four "all right"s and the arena at hand: "I'm in my car; I'm top as a kite; I'm alert to bedrock & roll," he says. "Action! And there's the banty – 'All right, all right, all right!' Three out of four!"

While the argumentation of this adventure is a bit cryptic, all that affairs is that it led to time abridged moments in both TV and film.

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"He is a jackass. But he's talented."

President Obama in an account with Atlantic Monthly in April 2012

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Last week, we asked Rolling Stone readers to name their admired Neil Young song of all time – and we aggregate the votes into a top 10 list.

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This week, our catechism for you is: What is the best anthology awning of all time?

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We're traveling on seventeen years, says No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal rather wistfully. To celebrate, the SoCal bedrock accumulation will absolution the four-disc attendant Boom Box on November 25th, featuring its singles, videos and some rarities.

The hits collection, which will aswell be awash alone as a individual disc, focuses on the years back the band's bartering advance in 1995 with "Just a Girl." It includes one new recording, a accommodate of the Eighties Talk Talk hit "It's My Life." Considering the New Wave and dance-pop elements that accept crept into the band's music over the years, it wasn't a abruptness awning choice. (Other songs in application included INXS's "Don't Change" and Depeche Mode's "A Question of Lust.") "We adulation Eighties music," says Kanal. "['Life'] just affectionate of rose to the top of our list."

Box's two DVDs accommodate a 1997 concert, Live in the Tragic Kingdom, and a accumulating of the band's videos. The B abandon disc includes covers of the Vandals' Christmas song "Oi to the World!" and Bad Brains' "Sailin' On," as able-bodied as an Elvis Costello adornment ("I Throw My Toys Around") and a few unreleased songs and alternating versions of anthology tracks.

To mark the best-of release, Kanal hopes No Doubt will go on bout by the end of the year. That will depend abundantly on the availability of advance accompanist Gwen Stefani, who has just able arena Jean Harlow in Martin Scorsese's accessible cine The Aviator. She's aswell started plan on her aboriginal abandoned album. Despite the success Stefani has had alfresco the band, there's no affairs to end No Doubt -- in fact, Kanal has even co-written a few songs for the singer's abandoned debut.

"It's air-conditioned to see everybody do their own thing," he says. "We've already able so abundant together."

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"When I was singing about 'all you charge is love,' I was singing about something I hadn't experienced," John Lennon said in a absolute account activated by PBS' Blank on Blank series. "I'd accomplished adulation for humans in gusts, and adulation for things, trees, things like that, but I hadn't accomplished what I was singing about."

Twenty Underappreciated John Lennon Solo Songs

The episode, "John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love," comes from interviews conducted amid 1969 and 1972 by Howard Smith, and appearance the choir of the Beatle and his apron answer their accord a few years afterwards they had met. The account has been hardly activated by Patrick Smith.

Ono, who was 32 if she met Lennon, appear that she had accustomed up achievement on award absolute adulation and had become contemptuous afore affair the Beatle. For his part, Lennon said that for all his singing about love, he acquainted like he absolutely accomplished it afterwards he met Ono.

He aswell said that one of the things he admired about her was that she had "a active mind," abacus that the "best allotment of getting with the Beatles if they were active was they were ticking, but they began to apathetic down." He said that with Yoko, it's like active with four or 5 people.

The acumen they got married, he said, was because they "turned out to be romantics." Speaking about their accurateness as a couple, Lennon said, "If you adulation somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing. We don't wish to be apart."

More than just animal love, Lennon and Ono aswell talked about their adulation of television. "We don't to go to India anymore," she said. "We don't accept to go anywhere."

In contempo months, Blank on Blank has activated interviews with a advanced ambit of musicians who accept anesthetized on: Tupac Shakur discussed activity and death, Jerry Garcia tripped out on acid, Kurt Cobain condemned sexism, Johnny Cash talked haircuts and Jim Morrison explained why "fat is beautiful." The alternation aswell activated Jimi Hendrix's final interview.

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BY Will Hermes   |  February 22, 2012

Between Daft Punk's astronaut accessory and Air's analog synth-driven Moon Safari, French cyberbanking musicians accept historically apparent abundant homesickness appear the old amplitude age. Continuing the trend is this soundtrack to a marvelously adequate blush adaptation of George Melies' beat 1902 blur about amplitude biking (recently re-canonized in Martin Scorcese's Hugo). At 31 minutes, this set is bifold the film's length, so alongside account instrumentals like the antsy trip-hop adventure "Sonic Armada" is non-film accompaniment like "Seven Stars," a piano-driven admission with Beach House's Victoria LeGrande. Like her collaborators, she sounds like she was weaned on Dark Side of the Moon.

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Danny Mahoney Phra of Crookers

From 2003 to endure year Italy's Crookers were a duo comprised of Phra and Bot. But in October the longtime brace absitively to go their abstracted ways. That hasn't slowed down Phra at all. Carrying on beneath the Crookers name, he's just appear an EP, Giga a Go Go, and he says that is just the beginning.

"The Giga a Go Go EP is just a glimpse of what's in store, and I will be bombarding my admirers with a lot of new originals, collabs and remixes in the abreast future," he tells Rolling Stone. "Hopefully in the abreast approaching afterwards abiding home I will alpha alive on Dr. Gonzo 2."

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While some admirers accept been aghast the acknowledged duo beggared ways, Phra is actual accessible that the brace weren't the tight-knit accompany anybody assumed. "It's affectionate of harder to admit, but the acumen that maybe some humans had of us accepting best accompany was affectionate of a façade," he says. "I anticipate that was axiomatic to some humans or added artists that we consistently toured around, but about activity afterwards the breach hasn't acquainted abundant altered to me at all."

That is aswell accurate of authoritative new music. "I've consistently been added angry in my plan belief if it comes to flat time, and in the accomplished me and my ex-partner never absolutely formed calm on music in the aforementioned space," he says. "We'd alone absolutely adhere out accepting banquet and arena shows."

Still, he says there's annihilation but absolute memories from his administration with his above agreeable partner. "I can say that in the eight-plus years we were calm we told a abundant story," he says. "Truthfully, I larboard the affiliation with no regrets, and I achievement he did the same."

That's not the alone change that has Phra activity so invigorated. "A new weight has been aerial off my amateur – not just with the separation, but aswell with a lot of my accomplished deals expiring," he explains. "I accept new administration based in L.A., which I acquisition actual beneficial. There are so abounding acceptable things accepting rolling for me."

Case in point: he recently abutting Deadmau5 at the ball music superstar's Grammy-night benefit for Children's Hospital at House of Blues in Los Angeles. The afterward week, Phra was alive deeply with the Roc Nation family.

"Getting to airing to Westlake Studios every day and allotment agreeable account and concepts with the humans who accept contributed to some of the better annal in the endure 5 years is a dream appear accurate for me, and I'm absolutely accessible to accord my allotment to accomplish an banner above 'Day 'N' Night' [the hit remix Crookers did for Kid Cudi] to this accomplished new ball abnormality in America," he says.

His high-profile associations will abide if Crookers hits the road, accomplishing some dates with Skrillex. "I don't absolutely apperceive abounding added data as of now," he says, "but from the whispers that I've heard, the shows are traveling to be crazy."

Phra has a lot of account for Skrillex, with whom he became accompany accomplishing the HARD Ship together. "It's auspicious to see anyone who is absolutely so amorous and blessed about the little things, because how abundant success he's had in the endure brace of years," he says.

One of the things Phra is anticipating if he takes the date afresh is agreeable freedom. "I'm absolutely aflame to apprehension that the kids are starting to move abroad from this accelerating cheese that has seemed to boss the endure few years and are searching for something added beginning or alfresco of what they already know," he says. "Recent fads like moombahton and trap, a part of others, accept accustomed humans added avenues to analyze besides the accepted four-by-four being that humans apprehend if you say you play 'dance music.'

"I'm added aflame than anytime to be as chargeless as I wish during my sets and animation about from one brand to the next and get as awe-inspiring as I want."

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Bradley Kanaris/Getty Eddie Vedder performs on date at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre on March 10, 2011 in Brisbane, Australia.

"I don't wish to jinx it," Eddie Vedder says from a Los Angeles studio, demography a breach from recording Pearl Jam's 10th flat album, which is advancing calm faster than the bandage expected. "But it's on!" At the aforementioned time, he's advancing to absolution Ukulele Songs, a aerial abandoned LP played about alone on the appellation instrument. "There's one song with a cello," he says. "I let that one in beneath the four-string rule." After hitting the alley abaft the anthology in June, Vedder has big affairs to bless Pearl Jam's 20th birthday, including a band-curated concert in Wisconsin over Labor Day weekend and a Cameron Crowe documentary about the group's history that will premiere this fall.

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Why a abandoned almanac now? The ukulele affair started as a autograph exercise that I anticipation would be kept to myself. I've been affectionate of accession songs over the accomplished 10 years, and it wasn't till the endure few that I anticipation of maybe putting this accepting in an album. It's not absolutely my abandoned rec­ord – it's the uke's abandoned record. I was just there to adviser it.

This commodity appears in the June 9, 2011 affair of Rolling Stone. The affair is accessible in the digital archive now.

What fabricated you wish to focus on that one instrument?I just capital it to be the one sound. At aboriginal it was affectionate of a joke, and again it became a little bit of a challenge, a puzzle, to see if I could actualize 11 or 12 songs with just a ukulele. It's like painting with one color. You can ­really acknowledge the subtleties and changes in tone.

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The a lot of memorable bedrock ukulele song is apparently the Who's "Blue Red and Grey," which you've covered.Yeah, audition that song if I was maybe 13 legitimized the apparatus – it was just a admirable section of music.

Did that affect you to play uke on Pearl Jam's "Soon Forget" in 2000?The accessible chords are aboveboard "Blue Red and Grey." After that, I acquainted like I about had to accomplish a accomplished 'nother accumulation of songs to accomplish up for the actuality that that one was 30 abnormal of plagiarizing [laughs]. I thanked Pete [Townshend] profusely, but I should apparently forward him some dough, or a nice ukulele. I anticipate I owe it to him at this point.

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You and Chan Marshall [a.k.a. Cat Power] affiliation on the accepted "Tonight You Belong to Me" on the album. Did you aboriginal appointment that in The Jerk?Didn't we all? Man, there's something about that song that just ashore with me. If I was singing on Chan's [2003 LP] You Are Free, backward one night I asked if she would almanac something that I was alive on, so we did that one. Later, my mom said that she and my dad acclimated to sing that to ceremony added afore I was born, accurately on a cruise through Seattle.

That's a little spooky.Yeah – in a acceptable way. It's a acceptable ghost.

You're about to alpha a abandoned bout this summer. Do you get afraid adverse a army by yourself?It makes you absolutely acknowledge accepting in a accumulation and just accepting able to ride with no easily every already in a while. Playing with the bandage is like accepting at a affair and talking absolutely loud – the abandoned shows are like if you acquisition a quiet aback bend to accept a added conversation.

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You've pulled out James Taylor covers at those shows. I was consistently afflicted by the bulk of complete he could get out of a guitar, and the adapted curve he was drawing, like a surfer on a wave, were something to aspire to. At the aforementioned time I was alert to the Sex Pistols and the Clash, I'd still accept to James Taylor, or Rickie Lee Jones or Tom Waits.

Did you adumbrate that ancillary from your punk-rock friends?Oh, I didn't accord a bits at all. Punk bedrock is adage what you wish and not giving a fuck.

There's a lot of Nineties homesickness traveling about – with Pearl Jam's anniversary, are you activity it yourself? I feel like we accept to accumulate our eyes on the road. Accepting cornball is like demography an offramp and accepting a sandwich – and again you get aback on the highway. I don't wish to be spending the blow of my activity at the gas station.

Is that why the bandage is aback in the flat already?Good call, that's absolutely it. That and annihilation else.

Are your kids into your music yet?
They are, and it's amazing what they aces up, like, "Is this the reside version?" We've kept them abroad from Disney pop, but there's one added artisan that they really, absolutely like. All I can say is, it's agitated watching a two-year-old singing, "Let's go all the way tonight/No regrets, just love" [laughs].

From The Archives Affair 1132: June 9, 2011

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Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Clear Channel Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is alone 22, but she's already completed four flat albums and toured the apple abounding times over. She's aswell won over abounding skeptics who absolved her as a prefabricated country amateur if she aboriginal hit the arena aback in 2006. Since again she's confused so gradually from country to pop that abounding admirers almost accomplished what was happening. 

Her new album, Red, hits shelves next week, so we accept a catechism for you: What is your admired Taylor Swift song? Are you into the old-school country songs like "Teardrops on My Guitar," a accoutrement for "Love Story," or the hipster who alone blasts "We Are Never Ever Getting Aback Together" if you anticipate cipher is listening? Vote for whatever song you want, but amuse alone vote a individual time and just for one song.

You can vote actuality in the comments, on facebook.com/rollingstone or on Twitter application the #weekendrock hashtag.

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Absence makes the affection abound fonder. In the Pixies' case, a dozen years abroad from the date has alone helped their fable -- not just a consistently ablaze archive that converts bags of new admirers every year, but the faculty that the Pixies' amazing aftereffect on added bands (Nirvana apprenticed allegiance, for a start) was about to be adored commercially as able-bodied as aesthetically. Instead, the bandage bankrupt up, and while bassist Kim Deal's Breeders and frontman Frank Black's abandoned career did just fine, neither one anytime eclipsed the Pixies, as music or as legend.

"Legendary" isn't absolutely how Black, Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago, or bagman David Lovering appeared at the alpha of their alliance expedition at Minneapolis' Accomplished Line on Tuesday night. Instead, they appeared as harder workers transported by their craft, frequently befitting their active down as they ripped through a career-spanning set, from 1987's "Caribou" through 1991's "U-Mass," demography a detour for Neil Young's "Winterlong." Frank Atramentous (or Atramentous Francis, as he was accepted in his Pixies days), clad in flannel and jeans, scrunched his eyes shut as he hollered blithely at the acme of "Debaser" (the song that got the loudest applause). Deal, all in black, grinned like mad abaft a face abounding of hair. A accomplished and black-capped Lovering appeared -- and played -- like he'd won the rock-drummer lottery. The active Santiago, looked like the Son of Zorro, glanced about the date like a host afraid about authoritative his guests comfortable, while addled out one absolute advance afterwards another.

The best of area ability accept had something to do with that plan ethic. Minneapolis's Accomplished Line houses 800 maximum, a amount the club kept steadily to admitting a bandage of afraid admirers acquisitive to get in. (There were still seventy-five or so even afterwards the appearance -- which awash out in a appear four account -- had finished.) The space's acquaintance could accept accustomed the Pixies allowance to change if they'd wanted, but there was annihilation awkward about the show. They landed on every mark while still appearing casual, and although the bandage didn't allocution abundant amid songs there was a absolute faculty of generosity in the air: twenty-seven songs accoutrement the absolute catalogue. And the admirers shouted forth with abuse abreast everything, giving as acceptable as they got.

Pixies set list:

Bone Machine
Wave of Mutilation
U-Mass
Levitate Me
Broken Face
Monkey Gone to Heaven
The Holiday Song
Winterlong
Nimrod's Son
La La Love You
Ed Is Dead
Here Comes Your Man
Vamos
Debaser
Dead
No. 13 Baby
Tame
Gigantic
Gouge Away
Caribou

Isla de Encanta
Something Against You
Velouria
In Heaven
Wave of Mutilation
Where Is My Mind?
Into the White

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