RollnSmoke Scoop

Lil Wayne is scheduled to be released from Rikers prison on November 4th with a notebook full of rhymes for “The Carter IV” to be released later in 2011. Meanwhile, Atlanta MC, T.I., was sentenced to 11 more months in prison for violating the terms of his probation when he and his wife were arrested for possession of ecstasy and codeine cough syrup.

Prince is preparing for a New York residency at the Apollo Theater called “Welcome 2 America,” a series of shows where he will be joined by guests like Janelle Monae, Maceo Parker and Cassandra Wilson. Boston New Wave legends The Cars are reunited and working on their first album in 23 years and are considering touring in 2011. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are half-way finished with a follow-up album to 2006’s Stadium Arcadium to be released in March. And finally, alt-rock icons R.E.M. are also planning to release their 15th studio album this spring.

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Lil Wanye, who is serving 8 months on a weapons conviction, has been sentences to a month of solitary confinement on Rikers Island (NY) for having headphones and an iPod charger in his cell. After being deemed ineligible to run for President of Haiti, Wyclef Jean has been named a visiting fellow at Brown University where he will participate on lectures, classes and faculty conversations about Haiti. Sade will kick off her first tour since 2001 in June, touring at least 35 cities.

Snoop Dogg is planning a sequel to his 1993 debut LP Doggystyle but Dr. Dre will not be the producer – Swizz Beatz will produce this time round. Between now and Christmas, Roll is looking forward to new album releases from Mark Ronson (9/28), KT Tunstall (10/5), Rihanna (11/16), Black Eyed Peas (11/16), Nelly (11/16) and Cee Lo Green (12/7).

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Wyclef Jean’s stab at running for President of Haiti may be over now that the government’s electoral council declared the singer ineligible to run since Jean hasn’t lived in Haiti for the required five consecutive years. Erykah Badu was busted, fined and will serve probation for stripping in public during a video shoot at the site of JFK’s assassination in Dallas. Stevie Nicks has teamed up with Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) for an album to be released early 2011.

RollnSmoke Scoop

Production is to start next year on a biopic film featuring Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia which will trace Garcia’s early, pre-Grateful Dead life. An all-new album featuring 10 un-released songs by the late-great Michael Jackson will arrive on shelves in November. Jay-Z will release his first book – DECODED – in November which tells the story of the rapper’s life through detailed analysis of his most famous lyrics.

Revel without a Pause

PlayList for Revel without a Pause, 3- 5 (MST) August 11, 2010 on KOTO.org ...

1. Concrete Jungle – Bob Marley remixed by Rakim
2. Hello, Good Morning – Dirty Money (Ditty and T.I.)
3. Evil Woman – Mike Posne
4. Fantasy Girl – Baby Bash
5. Rude Boy – Rihanna
6. You Girl – Sam Adams
7. Hold Yuh – Gyptian
8. How I Got Over – The Roots
9. I Don’t Care – Raheem DeVaughn
10. Antennae – Zion 1
11. Like a G6 – Far East Movement feat. The Cataracts
12. Jack Ass Ginger – Poi Dog Pondering
13. One Way Road – John Butler Trio
14. She’s My Little T & A – The Rolling Stones
15. Sick Muse – Metric
16. Africa Must Wake Up – K’naan, Damian Marley
17. Heaven’s on Fire – The Radio Dept.
18. Coast 2 Coast – Sam Adams
19. Girls on Film – Duran Duran
20. Felicia – The Constellations
21. Boogie on Reggae Woman – Stevie Wonder
22. Move n Up – Bono and John Legend
23. Love is a Good Thing – Sheryl Crow
24. The Cave – Mumford and Sons
25. Hollywood Perfume – The Pretenders

RollnSmoke Scoop: Set List from Revel without a Pause

Set List from Revel without a Pause
... a show in support of Proposition 19 in California ...
on KOTO FM in Telluride

1. Rebel Music – Michael Franti
2. Listen to the Darkside – Charlie Mars
3. Girl on LSD – Tom Petty
4. Wastin Time – Kid Rock
5. The Way I Am – Eminem
6. Smoke 2 Joints -- Sublime
7. Alfie – Lily Allen
8. Green Grass Vapors – Angie Stone
9. Day n Nite – Kid Cudi
10. Burn One Day – Ben Harper
11. High So High – South Park Mexican
12. We’re Burning – Sean Paul
13. Nickle Bag of Funk – Diggable Planets
14. Stoned – Smashmouth
15. Last Dance with Mary Jane – Tom Petty
16. Bob Marley – Kaya
17. Pass it Around – Donavan Frankenreiter
18. Hits from the Bong – Cypress Hill
19. I’m Your Pusher – Iced T
20. Mary Jane – Coolio
21. Welcome to Tijuana – Manu Chau
22. Like Getting Stoned – Cracker
23. Young Forever – Jay-z
24. Elevate My Mind – Stereo MC’s
25. Shanty – Jonathon Edwards
26. Jimi Thing – DMB
27. Sky High – Goodie Mob
28. Fight for Your Right to Party – Beastie Boys
29. Roll Another Joint – Tom Petty
30. Brad Mehldau – Wonderwall (instrumental)
31. Get Up Stand Up -- Bob Marley
32. I Need a Light – Warren G
33. Fin the Cost of Freedom – CSNY
34. Spiritual High – Moodswings
35. Make You Feel that Way – Blackalicious
36. Fly Away (acoustic) – Lenny Kravitz
37. Joints and Jams – Black Eyed Peas
38. We’re Gonna Get You High – Outkast
39. Free- Cat Power
40. One Good Spliff – Ziggy Marley
41. I’m in Touch with Your World – The Cars
42. Not Fade Away – Grateful Dead
43. Champagne Supernova – Oasis
44. The Times They Are Changin’ – Bob Dylan

Roll takes to the radio airwaves on Sunday afternoon, August 1st, from 2-4 (MST) to as Revel without a Pause on KOTO FM radio in Telluride. Stream live at KOTO.org!!

The whole show is devoted to supporting Proposition 19 in Cali -- Legalize it, Don't Criticize it, mon ...

...Wide open to requests and suggestions ...

RollnSmoke Scoop

The Daily Mirror reports that rapper Snoop Dogg recently attempted to rent the entire nation of Liechtenstein for a music video. The request surprised authorities in the state of Liechtenstein - population 35,000 with an area of 61.7 square miles between Switzerland and Austria. Local property lease agent Karl Schwaerzler said: "We've had requests for palaces and villages but never one to hire the whole country before." He admitted: "It would have been possible." But the deal fell through because Snoop's management "did not give us enough time".

In other news: Calling themselves the Dukes of September, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen are teaming up for a tour that kicks off in August where the trio will play together for the entire show and take turns singing their own hits as well as covers of the Grateful Dead, the Band and Ray Charles.

RollnSmoke Scoop

Phil Collins is scheduled to release a collection of Motown covers in late-September, while Eminem will release his seventh album, RECOVERY, on June 22. LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD, a documentary about George Harrison directed by Martin Scorcese, will hit theaters next year, and Carlos Santana will release an all-covers album (Zep! Hendrix! AC/DC!) in September. Smokin’ hot summer concerts include Jack Johnson (with openers G. Love and ALO), Dave Matthews Band (see them now as they’re taking 2011 off from touring), Jimmy Buffet, Tom Petty and Phish (who will be jamming in Town Park in Telluride in early-August!).

RollnSMokeRecords Presents: Revel without a Pause Set List

Set List
Revel Without a Pause
3/24/2010, 3 – 5 PM (MST)

1. “Redemption Song” – John Legend
2. “Leave (Get Out)” – JoJo
3. “Kids (remix)” – Chiddy Bang
4. “Move Your Body” – Nina Sky
5. “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright” – Fugees
6. “Woman Tonight” – Felt
7. “A Hole in the Bucket” – Michael Franti and Spearhead
8. “Healing Hands” – Citizen Cope
9. “Whatever You Like” – Anya Marina
10. “In her Music Box” – Atmosphere
11. “She Cries Your Name” – Beth Orton
12. “Katmandu” – Cat Stevens
13. “Devotion” – Earth, Wind and Fire
14. “Meet Me by the Back Door” – Charlie Mars
15. “Shed so Many Tears” – TuPac
16. “Treat Yo Mama” – John Butler Trio
17. “This is War” – 30 Seconds to Mars
18. “Steve McQueen” – Sheryl Crow
19. “Symphonies” – Dan Black
20. “Street Talkin’” – Slick Rick and OutKast
21. “Pretty Girls” – Wale, Gucci Mane
22. “Miami” – Will Smith
23. “Get Off” – Foxy
24. “A Little Less Conversation” – Elvis Re-mix
25. “Lingo with the Gringo” -- OMC

RollnSmoke Scoop: Set List from Revel without a Pause

Set List: Revel without a Pause
3-18-2010
7:30 – 9:30 PM

1. “Concrete Jungle” – Bob Marley, Rakim re-mix
2. “Morning After Dark” – Timbaland and SoShy
3. “Feel Like Takin’ You Home” – Brendan Benson
4. “Shame On Me” – Amanda Blank
5. “Gold Guns Girls” – Metric
6. “Calabria 2007” – Enur
7. “Give it up to Me” – Lil Wayne and Shakira
8. “Back to the Crib” – Juelz Santana
9. “Change” Daniel Merriweather
10. “I Feel Good” – Mary J. Blige
11. “Bulletproof” – Raheem DeVaughn and Ludacris
12. “A Glorious Dawn” – Carl Sagan re-mix
13. “Big Bad Handsome Man” – Imelda May
14. “She Hates Me” – Puddle of Mud
15. “Step Up” – Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
16. “Ride to California” – Paper Tongues
17. “Looking for Paradise” – Alejandro Sanz and Alicia Keyes
18. “Satellite Heart” – Anya Marina
19. “Wanted” – Jesse James
20. “Don’t Stop the Music” – Jamie Cullum
21. “Sweet Disposition” – Temper Trap
22. “Long Tall Glasses” – Leo Sayer
23. “A Star is Born” – Jay-Z feat. J. Cole
24. “Gotta Move Faster” – Sean Kingston
25. “Fight for You” – Morgan Page
26. “Street Talkin’” – Slick Rick and Outkast
27. “Successful” – Drake and Lil Wayne
28. “Put Your Records On” – Corrine Bailey Rae
29. “Dancin’ in the Moonlight” – Thin Lizzy

RollnSmoke Scoop: Set List from Revel without a Pause

Playlist – Revel Without a Pause on KOTO FM in Telluride
Sunday, March 14, 2 – 4 PM

1. “Positive Vibration” – Bob Marley
2. “Carry Out” – Justin Timberlake, Timbaland
3. “Bang Bang” – K-Naan
4. “Shake Your Booty” – KC and the Sunshine Band
5. “Outta Control” – Baby Bash feat. Pitbull
6. “Hold My Hand” – Sean Paul and Keri Hilson
7. “Young Forever” – Jay-Z, feat. Mr. Hudson
8. “True No. 9 Blues (True Romance)” – The Golden Silvers
9. “Sun is Shining” – Bebel Gilberto
10. “There Goes My Baby” – Usher
11. “Johnny Got a Boom Boom” – Imelda May
12. “Every day is a winding road” – Sheryl Crow
13. “Money” – Matt Morris
14. “Mrs. Cold” – Kings of Convenience
15. “You Gotta Be” -- Desiree
16. “The Bringdown” – Bob Schneider
17. “Slippin’ into Darkness” – Ramsay Lewis
18. “Can’t Hardly Wait” – N’dambi
19. “Champagne Supernova” – Oasis
20. “The High Road” – Broken Bells
21. “Love” – Air
22. “Redemption Day” – Johnny Cash
23. “Di Alma” – Sara Tavares
24. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” – Rhythms del Mundo Soundtrack
25. “Paradise Circus” – Massive Attack
26. “Low Rising” – The Swell Season
27. “First Train Home’ – Imogen Heap
28. “Neopolitan Dreams” – Lisa Mitchell
29. “I Don’t Care Anymore” – Phil Collins

RollnSmoke Scoop

Mary J. Blige will star as Nina Simone in an upcoming biopic. “Playing a character like her is like playing myself,” Blige says. “Because Nina Simone was a manic-depressive, drug addict, alcoholic, cursing wild maniac like I was.”

Upcoming Smokin’ New Releases scheduled for this spring include albums by Tom Petty, Jakob Dylan, Erykah Badu, Nas with Damien Marley, Big Boi, Jamie Foxx, Drake and Jack Johnson. This summer will see album releases from Mark Ronson, Kelis, KT Tunstall and T-Pain.

Thank Ja for the return of Gossip Girl. 3 months going without is a long time.

RollnSmoke Scoop

There’s a jumbo-bonanza hip-hop trifecta heading towards Boston at The House of Blues on April 1st featuring K’naan, Wale & John Forte. Down!

Rumors abound that emo-rockers Fall Out Boy may be breaking up, especially given that Patrick Stump is off working on a solo project and that they’ve been on hiatus since wrapping their tour last October and Pete Wentz is featured in duet on the new ALMOST ALICE soundtrack (which, by the way, sounds pretty good after a preliminary listen ...)

RollnSmoke Scoop

Quote from 1984 regarding Def Jam Records: “The purpose of this company,” said a young artist manager named Russell Simmons. “Is to educate people to the real value of real street music by putting out records nobody in the business would distribute but us.”

Thanks the LORD that Gossip Girl episodes resume Monday, March 8!!

Feist, Devo and The Roots are all scheduled to perform this Friday evening during the Olympic ceremonies.

RollnSmokeRecords Presents: 52nd Annual Grammy Award Wrap

52nd Annual Grammy Awards Wrap-up: GaGa sucks, as I knew she would. Beyonce, on the other hand, steals the show with her inspiring performance of “If I Were a Boy” – with a dash of Alanis Morisette tossed in as she covered “You Oughta Know” -- yum! One more scoop, please. And there’s her boy-toy, Jay-Z, in the front row, clearly diggin’ his lady.

Pink’s performance is startlingly pretty, accompanied by her wet, air-cascading-water dance. “I’m gonna be” wearin’ what Fergie’s got on -- even better than Cat Woman’s body-suit! – and way the hell better than the Black Eyed Peas’ actual performance. In contrast to last year at this time, it’s good to see Rihanna alive and well in the audience. Norah Jones is certainly a class act as presenter for Best Record, which goes to the four drunk brothers that comprise the Kings of Leon. Zac Brown strums the hell out of that gui-tar of his!

For all the kudos, Taylor Swift is awful and way out of tune during her medley performance. Thank Ja Stevie Nicks is there to keep her afloat. The 3D Michael Jackson tribute is bizarre and trippy (but that Carrie Underwood sure has got a set of pipes!) especially with the weird parading-out of Michael’s two children, Prince-Michael-Jackson and Paris-Michael-Jackson. A refreshing shot of old school when our lady Roberta Flack joined Maxwell to singing “Where is the Love.” Nice surprise cameo by newcomer Irish lassie Imelda May, singing a Les Paul tribute.

Big Award of the Night -- Best Album of the Year = Taylor Swift (where's Kanye tonight?) for FEARLESS.

RollnSmoke Scoop

2010 is shaping up to be a banner year for new releases … Massive Attack will release a new album in February. In March Natalie Merchant, Jamie Foxx, Drake and Gorillaz will all drop new albums. April will see new albums released by Kate Nash, Kylie Minogue, Devo, J. Lo and Maroon 5. Other albums to be released this spring include work by Kelis, Avril Lavigne, U2, Keri Hilson, Goo Goo Dolls, Jack’s Mannequin and Kid Rock.

RollnSmoke Scoop

Bottom Line for 2009: Best-Selling Artist = Michael Jackson; Top Selling Album = Taylor Swift’s FEARLESS (followed by Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle); Biggest Tour = U2 (followed by Madonna and Bruce Springsteen) and Biggest New Artist = Lady Gaga. The decade saw a 45% decline in U.S. CD sales.

50 Cent and Val Kilmer will star in “Gun,” a movie drama about drug dealing based on an original story by 50 Cent. Lady Gaga – talented, vulgar and exhausting – wore a red-latex , puffy-sleeved dress with a 20-foot train when she met The Queen of England recently. On March 15 The Stooges, Genesis, Abba, The Hollies and Jimmy Cliff will be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Guitarist John Frusciante has (once again) quit the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Lil Wayne will put out another record in February, around the time his jail term for gun possession begins.

Lilith Fair is back! And this summer’s new version will feature some of the original ladies in amphitheaters across the nation including Sheryl Crow, Indigo Girls and Sarah McLachlan. Also onboard to add a cross-section of musical style to the shows are Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Tegan & Sara, Emmylou Harris and Colbie Caillat. Also on the road this summer – two giants of 70’s rock – The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac – together, on a joint-tour.