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My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way will see his graphic novel The Umbrella Academy on the big screen in the somewhat-near future after reports that Universal has put the Way-penned comic on the fast-track to production. Way and Dark Horse owner Mike Richardson have reportedly already signed off on the deal, with producer Scott Stuber overseeing the “cool and sexy” project. Back in October, Children of Men director Alfonso...

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Billy Joel and Elton John plot out the first three dates of their joint tour, Shwayze map out a very busy December and Britney Spears gets the giraffes ready for her Circus run. Follow the jump for the complete set of dates.

Billy Joel/Elton John
March 2 - Jacksonville, FL @ Veterans Memorial Arena
March 10 - Cincinnati, OH @ US Bank Arena
March 14 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
Britney...

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Metallica’s massive world tour behind Death Magnetic is still in its infancy, but Lars Ulrich has visions of it lasting beyond next year. “We’re booked up through August of next year, and right now we’re sort of laying out Fall of ‘09 and the Spring of ‘10,” he says. “We’re waiting for a few other countries to be actually formalized as nations so we can be the...

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When Coldplay took the stage at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on October 22nd to film a performance for Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music, the 200 fans in attendance found themselves in the midst of an unusually intimate set — the Ballroom usually holds 2,000 or more people, and Chris Martin and Co. were in the midst of an arena tour. The performance and two-part question and answer session premiere online today...

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It’s amazing to consider that Britney Spears has been in show business for two thirds of her 27 years. In that time, she’s been a Disney TV star, a teen-pop phenomenon, a tabloid staple, a tragedy and a comeback queen. With her new album out tomorrow (her birthday!) and a spot back on the cover of Rolling Stone, now is a great time to take a look at Spears’ career in photos. Click below for a...

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Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Police, Queen and Ennio Morricone were among those whose music was inducted into the Grammys Hall of Fame. Specifically, Hendrix’s famed Woodstock rendition of “Star-Spangled Banner,” Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” and 26 more recordings were all honored and will be featured in the Grammys’ brand new Los Angeles...

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In honor of the long Thanksgiving weekend, we asked our readers to tell us which songs offered up the most thanks. We counted the votes, and My Morning Jacket were named your MVP of the turkey holiday, beating out the likes of Led Zeppelin, Dido and Depeche Mode. Check out the list of the top ten thankful songs below.
1. My Morning Jacket - “Thank You Too”
2. Led Zeppelin -...

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The members of Canadian power-pop crew the New Pornographers are keeping plenty busy these days. Singer-guitarist Carl “A.C.” Newman will release his second solo album, Get Guilty, on January 20th. And in March, singer Neko Case will put out her latest set of country-pop tunes. Titled Middle Cyclone, the disc features an all-star crew of guests including the Band’s Garth Hudson, M. Ward and many of...

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Ron Wood has confirmed long-standing reports that the Faces are gearing up for a reunion tour next year. “We had a few fantastic rehearsals last week and we’re ready to go,” Wood tells Rolling Stone. “It’s like no time has passed by.” Rod Stewart’s touring bassist Conrad Korsch sat in on bass, replacing original Faces bassist Ronnie Lane who died in 1997. “There’s a lot of...

Bruce Springsteen has unveiled a new video for “My Lucky Day,” the second song released from his upcoming Working On A Dream. Starting today, you can download the song exclusively through Amazon’s MP3 Store for one week only. Besides being embedded above, the video is also up at Springsteen’s MySpace page, where it’s joined by two minutes of behind-the-scenes footage. Working On A Dream,...

The Hot List has been a Rolling Stone tradition since 1986. All this week, Rock Daily takes a look back at the people and trends that stayed smoking and the ones that cooled off. Today, we flash back a decade ago to 1998.

Hit: The 808 drum machine. Called out ten years ago because of a call-out in the Beastie Boys’ “Super Disco Breakin’” and a swell of underground dance acts like Baesment Jaxx bubbling...

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When Live Nation announced they would be launching their own ticketing initiative, many in the industry thought that would mean the end of Ticketmaster. Instead, Ticketmaster struck back by buying an interest in Front Line Management, essentially putting them in competition with Live Nation not just for concert ticketing but also for album sales, downloads and merchandising opportunities. “It’s a seismic shift, in...

With their big stadium rock blues riffs and no post-Watergate influences, it’s no wonder the Answer were drafted to open AC/DC’s massive world tour behind Black Ice. Their debut EP Never Too Late is chock full of wah-wah riffs and singer Cormac Neeson’s Robert Plant-ian bellow, which has lead to opening spots for the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith as well. “I think they pick us because we remind them of themselves...

Ashley Alexandra Dupre, the “high-priced hooker” at the center of the Eliot Spitzer call girl scandal, has signed with Violator Management as she embarks on the next phase of her career. Violator, led by veteran manager Chris Lighty, has helped steer the careers of rappers like 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes and Mobb Deep. The deal includes Dupre’s anticipated memoirs, which she’s reportedly working on now, and will no...

This year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was Rick-Rolled by none other than Rick Astley himself. As evidenced by the above video, the viral reclamation project surprised the audience by singing his “Never Gonna Give You Up” on a float promoting Cartoon Network’s Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.
Check out Jay-Z’s new “Brooklyn We Go Hard,” featuring Santogold and...

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Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet tour grossed $91.5 million during its recently concluded U.S. run. According to Live Nation, which signed the Material Girl to a massive 360 contract, Madonna’s U.S. jaunt sold about 550,000 tickets over the course of 28 shows. The tour wrapped up its American itinerary last Wednesday with a show at Miami’s Dolphin Stadium. Including the European concerts that preceded the...

The 2008 Rolling Stone Hot List is here, and it’s chock full of smoking new bands, spicy new actresses and scorching trends. But who is hottest right now? It might be Twilight star Robert Pattinson, whose portrayal of “vegan” vampire Edward in the film version of the hit book series has made him an instant star among ladies young and old. Click above for a look at the fervor surrounding Pattinson at a recent event at...

In Rolling Stone’s new Britney Spears cover story, Spears reveals that she thinks her ex-husband Kevin Federline is letting the kids pick up some bad habits. “Preston says the f-word now sometimes,” she says. “He doesn’t get it from us. He must get it from his daddy.” She talks more about her relationship with K-Fed (”I think I married for the wrong reasons”) in the documentary Britney: For...

Here at Rock Daily, there’s plenty of things we’re thankful for. Chinese Democracy. The Jesus Lizard reunion. Johan Santana’s left arm. To pay homage to those pilgrims who came to America to escape oppression and slaughter turkeys, this long weekend’s Rock List is dedicated to “thankful” songs. Tell us which thankful songs you’re most thankful for, and on Monday we’ll work off all those...

Guns n’ Roses are threatening Dr Pepper with legal action over what the band calls “a complete fiasco” of a publicity stunt. Dr Pepper promised every person in America a free can of soda if Guns n’ Roses released Chinese Democracy this year; on November 23rd, the day Democracy was released, fans were told they could get a coupon for a free can at its Website. According to Axl Rose’s lawyer, Alan S. Gutman,...

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