SPIN's 25 Best Summer 2012 Tours
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May 30, 2012 Life doesn't come easy for Laura Marling. On 2011's enchanting, unsettling A Creature I Don't Know, the London singer-songwriter cooed, in hushed, pure tones, hard-won stories of love and loss set to crystalline acoustic guitar-led folk rock. It's captivating stuff, no less so live. (A U.S. …
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May 30, 2012 Be careful about turning up the headphones at the start of Beck's Jack White-produced "I Just Started Hating Some People Today," which as You Ain't No Picasso points out has surfaced on Beck's YouTube page. …
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May 23, 2012 Beck is acting like an active musician this week: Last night he played a Sasquatch! warm-up show at Los Angeles' El Rey Theatre, and today he announced he'll be releasing a single via Jack White's über-inventive Third Man Records. …
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May 23, 2012 Because there are very few, if any, ways to top the weirdness factor of selling your collaborators' blood, the Flaming Lips have announced that they will be pulling a Jack White and taking on a Guinness World Record currently held by Jay-Z. During MTV's upcoming O Music Awards, Wayne Coyne and Co. will attempt to play Most Live Concerts In 24 Hours. …
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May 22, 2012 Austin City Limits' lineup this year looks a little like an all-star team of other '12 headliners: Red Hot Chili Peppers (who also headline Lollapalooza), Neil Young and Crazy Horse (who also headline Outside Lands), and the Black Keys (who also headline Firefly in Delaware, Osheaga in Montreal, and, sorta, Lollapalooza, though RHCP and Sabbath take the tip-top spots there) lead the pack. …
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May 21, 2012 Jack White's brouhaha with the Guinness Book of World Records people has reached a whole new level. Metaphorically speaking. …
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May 18, 2012 Yesterday, Jack White got some sassy return fire from Guinness World Records, who he claimed was an "elitist organization" for allegedly turning down the White Stripes' 2007 bid for World's Shortest Performance with their one-note concert in St. John's, Newfoundland. …
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May 17, 2012 Remember the time Jack White awkwardly chatted with famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin? And how we pulled out all of the best parts of that awkward chat for you? One of those parts, if you'll recall, featured White airing out his resentment of the "elitist organization" that puts out the Guinness Book of World Records — the group that failed to recognize the White Stripes' one-note concert in 2007 as the world's shortest performance. …
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May 9, 2012 First! Carrie Underwood's big arrival on the Billboard 200 this week makes Jack White's personally historic No. 1 last week look slightly less impressive, regardless of how much we loved that album. The American Idol superstar's latest LP Blown Away sold 267,000 copies, nearly doubling Blunderbuss's 138,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
2 Through 10: Norah Jones' ...Little Broken Hearts arrives at No. …
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Red Hare, Nites Of Midnite
Christopher Paul Stelling, False Cities
Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Roomrunner, Ideal Cities
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
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