The HotRats @ l' Album de la semaine Canal+ Paris Feb 8th 2010

The HotRats @ L' Album de la Semaine, Canal+
Paris Feb 8th

Setlist

The HotRats featuring Gaz Coombes & Danny Goffey from Supergrass have just released an album " Turn ons" consisting of only covers.
They were promoting it tonight @ famous Canal+ tv show L' Album de la semaine.
Dressed as 'sailors' with black & white stripes t-shirts, Gaz on guitar & vocals and Danny on drums & vocals are having fun
Oh yeah first it's another another duet, lots of people are doing it now guitars & drums, nothing new but it gives an extra flavor.
In this case too bad they don't have a third musician as they're using tapes for the bass ( or the Piano).
Hey guys if you're doing a duet you have to keep it RAW, what's the point of additionnal sounds on tape ?!?
Anyway it's straight rock'n roll with covers from The Doors, Roxy Music, The Beat, Elvis Costello, early Pink Floyd, David Bowie , Beastie Boys ( hard to recognize this one : " fight for your right" ) & a couple of others I could not put a name on it.
9 songs set in front of less than 200 people.
Cool !!!
They're playing tomorrow @ Point Ephémere.

Next week:
On Feb 15th @ L Album de la semaine is Lee Phields ( bookings only)
On Feb 16th Local Natives (@ Album de la Semaine ) bookings only, ckeck website
On Feb 13th Emmanuelle Seigner @ Fnac Forum 4:00 PM ( free entrance )
On Feb 16th Corinne Bailey Rae @ Fnac Forum 5:30 PM ( Free entrance )
On Feb 17th Micky Green @ Fnac St Lazare ? PM ( free entrance )
on Feb 18th The XX @ Fnac Forum 5:30 PM ( Invit only )
on Feb 19th : Chokebore ( feat Troy Von Balthazar ) @ Maroquinerie
& MUSE secret show in a Parisian Theatre ??? CANCELLED

The Who Live @ Superbowl Half time 2010

Here it is:

AND...

Jane's Addiction is writing new material with...Duff McKagan ?

Jane's Addiction is back, well... not yet
They are working on new material.
Once again Eric Avery has left the band and is working on his second solo album ( He also played with Garbage a few years ago ).
Perry farrell, Stephen Perkins & Dave Navarro are writing new songs with... Duff McKagan ( former Guns 'n Roses & Velvet revolver ).
They have a new song so far called " Top Dog".
Yeah that's the word out on the town but take it easy nothing's confirmed yet.

Norah Jones Private gig @ espace Pierre Cardin, Paris Feb 10th 2010

Norah Jones will play a private gig ( "concert tres tres privé" ) for RTL2 radio @ Espace Pierre Cardin on Feb 10th 2010.

It will be her second private gig for a radio in Paris in 2 months after the concert she did for Radio France on Dec 7th 2009 ( click for Pics, setlist & review ).
Thanks to Stéphane D. for the info

Leonard Cohen's European Tour 2010 postponed

Leonard Cohen @ Paris Bercy July 7th 2009

After hurting is back recently Leonard Cohen has decided to postpone the whole European Tour 2010 that was to start next month.
The tour is push back to september.

Check our review of his last show in Bercy on July 7th 2009 ( with setlist, Pics & Videos ).

Here are the new dates:

15 septembre : Zénith de Caen

17 septembre : Palais des Sports de Grenoble

19 septembre : Zénith de Strasbourg

21 septembre : Dôme de Marseille

23 septembre : Parc des Expositions de Tours

25 septembre : Zénith Grand Palais de Lille

Johnny Depp filming a Keith Richards documentary in L.A.

Johnny Depp on the set with Keith & Patti on Jan 30th 2010
© Charlimoon @ Shidoobee

Johnny Depp is in L.A. filming a Keith Richards ( Rolling Stones) documentary " Happy".
The documentary is beeing shot at the Los Angeles Theatre, guests includes Patti Smith & Norah Jones

More Pics from the shooting HERE

People in my Head @ Truskel Paris Feb 4th 2010

Lo-Phi Phil is organizing rock concerts @ Truskel. All musicians are what we call now in Paris babyrockers as they've barely 18 years old.
Tonight People in my Head is headlining, quite a surprise they're no posers like most of the other bands , no boots , No slim trousers and No shitty attitude.
They know how to play, a blues - garage influenced rock reminding me of the early Led Zep, Flaming Groovies & Fleshtones.
Check them on their Myspace , they have an EP out.

They will play @ Batofar on March 13th.

IGGY AND THE STOOGES @ Olympia July 7th 2010

Stooges @ Zénith, Paris a few years ago

The title says it all
Bookings are opening soon
Tickets between 55 & 60 euros.

Check Iggy & The Stooges LIVE videos from Brasil with new guitar player James Williamson

Slash's "Slash" artwork and tracklisting revealed

Updated: Feb 5th 2010

SLASH' s speaking :"Also, I want to announce that Myles Kennedy [ALTER BRIDGE] is going to be fronting the band for the upcoming tour. Something I'm really stoked about.

"Myles sang a killer track on the record and I think he is by far one of the best rock and roll singers out there today. I'm really honored and proud to be working with him.

"I will announce the other band members shortly.

"Lastly, we're starting to route the tour.

Well he didn't make it with "Led Zep" but now he's in Slash's band

artwork from Ron English & Special "fan Pack" ( only in Great Britain )

Tracklisting:
01. Ghost (Ian Astbury + Izzy Stradlin )
02. Beautiful Dangerous (Fergie)
03. Nothing To Say (M. Shadows of AVENGED SEVENFOLD)
04. Crucify The Dead (Ozzy Osbourne)
05. Promise (Chris Cornell)
06. By The Sword (Andrew Stockdale of WOLFMOTHER)
07. Doctor Alibi (Lemmy Kilmister)
08. Saint Is A Sinner Too (Rocco De Luca)
09. Watch This (Dave Grohl/Duff McKagan)
10. I Hold On (Kid Rock)
11. Gotten (Adam Levine)
12. We're All Gonna Die (Iggy Pop)
13. Starlight (Myles Kennedy)
Bonus tracks: (Fan Pack Only )
14. Baby Can't Drive (Alice Cooper, Nicole Scherzinger)
15. Paradise City (Fergie, Cypress Hill)

Album out in April in U.S.
There will be a special Fan Pack, The album will be bundled together with a highly-collectable special issue of Future Publishing's Classic Rock magazine dedicated to Slash's career. The Slash "Fan Pack" featuring his debut solo album from Roadrunner Records, along with a 132-page "Classic Rock Presents: Slash" special, will have a cover price of £14.99 and will be available on magazine newsstands nationwide, in over 3,000 non-conventionaml music retail outlets such as WHSmith, all supermarket chains and many independent high street newsagents. Out on May 10th for UK.

In other news:
The AEROSMITH SAGA IS ON, The Joe Perry Project will open for Bad Company in England in April 2010.
Joe Perry Would 'Definitely' Consider Getting Female Singer To Front AEROSMITH.

Things are getting ugly:

An attorney representing Tyler sent a letter to AEROSMITH's manager, Howard Kaufman, telling Kaufman to "immediately cease and desist from engaging in acts and conduct to the harm and detriment of your own client, AEROSMITH, and our client who is one of its members," according to Billboard.com. The move was seen as Tyler's way of issuing a warning to the group and its management should they go forward with plans to enlist a new lead singer while Tyler completes a stint in rehab and possibly pursues his own solo project.

Tyler's lawyer, Skip Miller, told Billboard.com that he's called a meeting of what he described as AEROSMITH's "shareholders" for February 9 to discuss recording a new album and touring Europe and South America later this year.

Miller's letter to Kaufman states, "We reserve all of our legal rights and remedies in this matter, including, without limitation, pursuing legal action for damages and other appropriate relief."

Despite this, Miller said, "Steven Tyler does not want lawsuits. We do not want to go in that direction. The direction we want is AEROSMITH, with Steven Tyler, touring in Europe, touring Latin America, releasing a new album . . . It's just amazing to me current management would be taking any other position."
Source: Blabbermouth

Joe Perry also confirmed that Steven Tyler auditioned for "Led Zep" a few months ago. Jimmy Page said that the audition was " Shambolic" that Tyler wasn't familiar with the catalogue and thought he would work on new material.

Holly Miranda @ L' Album de la Semaine Paris Feb 2nd 2010

Holly Miranda @ L' Album de la Semaine, Canal+
Paris Feb 2nd 2010

setlist

Holly Miranda is going solo, she's usually playing with The jealous Girl Friends.
Miranda's debut album The Magician's Private Library, is due out February 23.
Many people are talking about her in very good terms.
Music between Cat Power & Feist, she's young and good looking but the music is in fact not that great, hard to single out a very good song.
Could have been better.

Fool's Gold @ C'est Lenoir Black Session #310 Paris Feb 1st 2010

Fool's Gold @ C'est Lenoir, Black Session # 310
Paris, Maison de la Radio Feb 1st 2010

Straight after Canal+, we rushed to the Maison de la radio for this Black session.
I didn't know what to expect at all, I was invited and when the DJ introduced them as playing Western African Music with a Israeli singing in Hebrew, my first thought was that it's gonna be boring.
And I was ... right .
The first two songs were OK but after the 3rd I started getting bored to death.
I hate that shit. So boring I'm a rocker for fuck's sake ;-)

setlist

The Black Box Revelation @ L' Album de la Semaine Canal+ Paris Feb 1st 2010

The Black Box Revelation @
L' Album de la semaine, Canal+ Paris feb 1st 2010

Another duet with just a drummer & a guitar player-singer, this time they're coming from Belgium.
The music is minimalist à la White stripes or Black keys.
Lots of guitars , cool melodies, that's the Rock'n roll I dig.
They've done 7 songs tonight, for this Canal+ TV show, plus 2 they've already done.
Very nice set
Check this official video, they have a new album out:

White Stripes' "Under Great White Northern Lights" @ Grand Rex Paris Feb 27th 2010

The White Stripes new movie to be out on DVD soon will be screen @ Grand Rex in Paris on Feb 27th 2010. ( click on links to get tix )
It will be renamed " Under Parisian lights" for the occasion.
Tickets are now on sale for 17 Euros.

The movie will be play + videos clips from the White stripes and an interview with director Emmett Malloy and producer Mike Sarkissian will be conducted by journalist Oliver Cachin.
Meg & Jack WON'T be there that night

It will be the only screening of the movie in France.

Download ( for free ) a New Smashing Pumpkins song

Smashing Pumpkins, well in fact Billy Corgan & Co has decided to release His new album for free one song after another for the next few months.
44 songs in all.

Here's the second song available for free Widow Make My Mind.

You can download the first song " a song for a son" as well.
For more From the studio click HERE

Orouni @ Oliver Peel session Paris Jan 29th 2010

OROUNI @ Oliver Peel Session # 17
Paris Jan 29th 2010

Orouni @ Oliver's ( & Cecile's )

Even the cat wants to play guitar.

Private gig by french folk artist OROUNI
Ist Oliver Peel session for 2010
Once again cool & relax atmosphere for this session, lots of new faces for this one, french duet Orouni is prividing the music , Folk of course @ Oliver's, with some some musical interludes on Kalimba.
Nice set, & in English please !

The audience, nice red t-shirt Mathilde !

J D Salinger 1919 - 2010 RIP

J D Salinger 1919 - 2010 RIP

He wrote "The Catcher in the Rye".

Mark david Chapman had this book when he murdered John Lennon.

Charlotte Gainsbourg's corporate secret gig for Etam

Charlotte Gainsbourg played a mini (secret ) corporate gig for underwear Cie Etam on Jan 25th 2010 @ Ritz hotel.
She needs money.
After Haiti Maybe we should organise a telethon for Charlotte.
Here's a Pic from the show HERE

Check our review of her first ever show HERE @ Canal+

Enjoy !

Défilé Etam Lingerie 2010 - Natalia Vodianova
envoyé par ETAMdefile2010. - Découvrez plus de vidéos créatives.

MK2 Movie Theater playing rock documentaries in Paris

For the people living in Paris France reading ROCKERPARIS , MK2 Haufefeuille ( Latin district) will be playing rock documentaries every wednesday, saturday & sunday starting this week with

PATTI SMITH : DREAM OF LIFE de Steven SEBRIN on saturday the 30th 11:20 AM
JOE STRUMMER : THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN de Julien TEMPLE on sunday the 31st 11:20 AM

Next movies will be
KURT COBAIN : ABOUT A SON
THE LAST WALTZ
DIG !
SHINE A LIGHT
ONE + ONE

Supergroup BLACK COUNTRY in the studio

Supergroup BLACK COUNTRY featuring Joe Bonamassa on guitar & vocals, Glenn Hughes (Trapeze, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath ) on bass, Jason Bonham ( Foreigner, Led Zeppelin ) on drums a Derek Sherinian ( Dream Theater, Billy Idol, Alice Cooper ) on keyboards has already recorded 6 songs with producer Kevin Shirley.
They will go back in a studio in March and hope to end the sessions by April, for a September release.

In other news:
Wolfmother ( scroll down for Paris' show review with Pics & video ) will be supporting KISS on their German Tour
Joe Perry confirmed today that they're auditioning singers and that Aerosmith has no intention to stop playing, they will keep on with or without Tyler.

AC/DC 's "Shoot to Thrill" Iron Man 2 video trailer

AC/DC new Compilation artwork

AC/DC will have many songs on the Iron Man 2 soundtrack, in fact it's the new AC/DC record, a compilation for a shitty american blockbuster, Sad sad sad:

Trackinglisting

Shoot to Thrill
Rock ‘N' Roll Damnation
Guns for Hire
Cold Hearted Man
Back in Black
Thunderstruck
If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
Evil Walks
T.N.T.
Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be
Have a Drink on Me
The Razor's Edge
Let There Be Rock
War Machine
Highway to Hell

Here's the video

Hot Chip @ C'est Lenoir Black Session # 309 Paris Jan 26th 2010

Hot Chip @ Black Session # 309
C'est Lenoir Paris Studio 105 Maison de la Radio
Jan 26th 2010

First Black session for us in 2010.
After seeing Wolfmother yesterday @ Bataclan, It's a complete different sound tonight : no guitars and lots of keyboards for this dance band.
Not really the kind of music that we like here at ROCKERPARIS, we've heard nice things about Hot Chip , so the best is to judge Live.
Cool band, Yeah it's really a DANCE band , the music is entertaining with some (very) up-tempo songs, it's probably a band you have to see at a festival as the addition of steel drums gives a Carnival flavor to the music but the guys are looking very funny, like your next door college boy.
They attract a very 'male' audience.

SETLIST: ( From Oliver Peel )
01: Thieves In The Night
02: Hand Me Down Your Love
03: Ready For The Floor
04: I Feel Better
05: Alley Cats
06: One Life Stand
07: Over & Over
08: We Have Love
09: Hold On

TicketMaster & Live Nation merger approved by US

Sad news for concert goers everywhere around the world.
The US Justice Department approved the Ticketbastard-LiveNation merger.

I guess that tickets prices for concerts are gonna be even more expensive now as these 2 cies have a total monopoly in that field : ticketing, exclusive bookings,promoter,artist management, radios, venues.
They have EVERYTHING !!!

Read this article HERE

WolfMother & The Black Angels @ Bataclan Paris Jan 25th 2010

WolfMother & The Black Angels
@ Bataclan Paris Jan 25th 2010

Sold-out for the WOLFMOTHER @ Bataclan.

First we have Psyche-rock The Black Angels, it's a really cool set very psyche, the time machine has been set to the end of the 60's. Nice response from the audience.
Sounds a bit like a better version of the Brian Johnstown Massacre.

For WOLFMOTHER the time machine has been set a decade later , right into the middle of the 70's. Between Black Sabbath- Grand Funk Railroad & AC/DC.

From start to finish, no time to think ; we're on a Harley Davidson riding on the freeway at 120 MPH.

Andrew Stockdale is now the leader ( Dictator ? ) of the band and only original member.
Is it still a band ? I doubt so . It's more Andrew & Friends ( well session guys ).
Once again Andrew's guitar is covering everything, the second guitar player is almost hidden on the far right and is completely useless as it's impossible to hear him playing a single note.

The guy is funny on stage and is making the show, he has some funny moves and is the only one allowed to walk that stage , the others are staying where they are for the whole gig.

Even though the music is quite simple it is very efficient indeed.
The kind of heavy rock to headbang to.

Lots of great riffs from Andrew and rock star attitude, maybe a bit too much.
Nice to hear some greasy heavy guitar for more than an hour.

Angus Young has grown up

SETLIST & Merchandising

Some girls