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Pre-recorded parts are being played along with the band during their performances of Samurai Son, one of two songs they recently recorded with Japanese pop outfit Momoiro Clover Z. But Kiss say in a tweet: "Recorded Samurai Son for Japan. To reproduce production here, we play live with extra tracks. Nothing to hide."

The former Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist and his solo band have added the following new stops to the trek: New Orleans (April 28th), Sioux City (May 19th), Austin (May 21st), and Dallas (May 24th).

As we reported earlier this month, the tour will be kicking off on April 25th in Orlando, FL at the Central Florida Fairgrounds and the tour includes appearances at several music festivals including Welcome To Rockville on April 26th, Carolina Rebellion on May 3rd, Rise About Fest on May 9th and Rock on the Range on May 15th.

Slash and the band are currently Down Under playing a series of dates in Australia and New Zealand including appearances at this year's Soundwave Festival as well as few headlining shows.

Following those dates the band will kick off a South American tour on March 4th in Santiago, Chile at Teatro Caupolican. That tour leg will conclude on March 28th in Monterrey, Mexico.

The band broke the news to fans via a Facebook post on Tuesday (February 25th). At press time they have not announced if they will be forced to miss any more shows on their current tour with Suicide Silence.

Here is the message, "It's with a heavy heart I must inform you Emmure will not be performing at The Aggie Theatre in Fort Collins tonight (and possibly tomorrow night). I experienced a major tear in my vocal chords and my only chance in finishing the tour is to sacrifice getting to see all of our supporters tonight.

"I am already on my way to quick recovery and once again deeply apologize for anyone let down by the news. We love you all...this does not put the breaks on our current or future obligations but...I am human...these things happen."

The band will be kicking off the North American trek on September 10th in Boston at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion and concluding the tour leg on October 2nd in Inglewood, Ca at the Forum.

The tour leg includes stops in New York State (Brooklyn), New Hampshire (Gilford), Ontario (Toronto and Windsor), Quebec (Montreal), Ohio (Columbus and Cleveland), Illinois (Chicago), and California (San Jose and Los Angeles area).

The new album will be released in March and the band will be kicking of the supporting world tour in China on May 1st with an appearance at the Chang Jiang Music Festival.

From '72 thru '74 Bowie's Ziggy Stardust character fascinated the rock music world by leading the Glam trend, and pioneered the ever-increasing importance of visual fashion elements to popular music. However, the success of Ziggy was also its downfall. David Bowie remarks, "I had this terror in my mind that I was going to be trapped with Ziggy and the Spiders... There was no way I was going to be trapped in that character for the rest of my life."

While setting up camp in New York City during the height of Ziggy-mania, Bowie found himself drawn to the mecca of American soul music, the Apollo Theater in Harlem. The musical acts he saw there truly inspired Bowie, and new musical relationships were conceived including the introduction to guitarist and future Bowie collaborator Carlos Alomar, saxophonist David Sanborn, and unknown singer Luther Vandross. David shares with InTheStudio host Redbeard the powerful effect American soul music had on him creatively.

"It was very hard for me to actually process that the music we were listening to (growing up in London) was associated with a lifestyle. Very naive, but true. It just came out of space! This stuff came from AMERICA... Coming to America, the impact was that this was real music coming from a way of life, and a lifestyle actually. It really came home in full force and I got completely overwhelmed by it , as I usually do by new experiences. I was just swept away with it, and I wanted to soak it up and then express it my way."

Bowie would score a Top 10 album with Young Americans in February 1975 fueled by the # 1 hit single "Fame", co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar. Young Americans would begin the transition of Bowie into his next formidable character, the Thin White Duke.

He bowed out last May, just as the group started work on what will be their 12th album. Before that he'd been a member of the band for all-star Las Vegas musical Raiding The Rock Vault, and he was also recording with supergroup Revolution Saints.

Aldrich started working with Coverdale on his days off from the musical, and believes they were "accomplishing a lot." But he adds: "I think David wanted me there full-time like I'd always been before. I was going to be, I wanted to be, but he wanted it now.

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And he says he sensed that guitarist Chris Broderick and drummer Shawn Drover, who quit Megadeth last year, were interested in taking on a new musical venture - a move he says he can relate to because of his eight-years out of the band.

Ellefson tells Maximum Volume: "I did sense that a change was coming, especially when they both did it together. It was sort of like, 'Okay, they're obviously musically on to something else. And sometimes people do need to walk away and move into a different chapter of their lives in order to be clear and focused and give a new endeavour their 100% attention.

He tells Metal Shock Finland: "I've already written all the songs and we just finished tracking the drums. So once I go back home from this tour, I'm going to go straight back in the studio and start working hard on the guitars. We're aiming to finish it by summer.

But Whitford tells The Morning Call: "We're not currently in the studio or anything. We're not quite sure when we might get back. Steven is working on a solo album that he's been wanting to do for the last 20 years. I think a good deal of inspiration may come out of that - he may want to continue to write."

"Well, here it is, the brand new video of the lead track from our new album," says singer Steve Overland. "It's called Diggin' Up The Dirt and it's about sleaze and the gutter press, and how they're not really interested in real news, just celebrity. It's a real FM rock anthem and we had great fun making the video. We hope you enjoy it."

FM announced new album Heroes And Villains earlier this month, and head out on tour in May. The band will also play at HRH AOR in March, and at the TeamRock-sponsored Ramblin' Man Fair in July.

The album is set to be released via Mascot Label Group on March 30, also including guest spots with Warren Haynes, Sonny Landreth and Tyler Bryant.

Ford recently explained: "The rule was to have no lid on things. I've worked very hard to master my craft as a musician and a songwriter - but other than relying on my strengths in those areas, I made sure there was room for new ideas and everything my collaborators brought to the music.

Both bands are set to perform on the Pit Stage with Refused, according to the BBC's Daniel P. Carter, who broke the news in two posts on the social media site Twitter.

The package features Aerosmith's headline performance on June 15, 2014 as they closed the final night of the Download Festival in Donington Park. "It's always an absolute hoot that leaves me howling at the moon, performing at Donington we couldn't have had a better time on stage that night," says Steven Tyler. "I could feel the vibes of all the greats pulsing through the stage like AC DC, Rage Against the Machine, Metallica and so many more."

"We have played Donington many times but this performance was one of our best," said Joe Perry. "Thanks to our fans who were there who helped us make it a night to remember. We are proud to have it be part of this theatrical series and it will give our fans who weren't there around the world a chance to relive an ass kicking night of rock and roll."

Due April 13 (April 14 in North America), the guitarist is joined on the project by guests including Robert Randolph and the late Jeff Healey. Bachman recently premiered the album's title track, which sees him team up with Peter Frampton, and "Bad Child" featuring Joe Bonamassa.

Bachman is joined on the project by new band members Anna Ruddick on bass and drummer Dale Anne Brendon. The guitarist will launch a North American tour in support of "Heavy Blues" on April 2 in St. Charles, IL.

They say: "We're crazy excited to be attending Comic Con this year. We have a load of new stuff coming this year, from a new comic called The Vigilante to a brand new novel Militia Of The Lost.

"Comic Con is a perfect forum to announce this new work and bring like-minded people a bit deeper into our conceptual side! We'll be doing meet and greets, signing books, and even have some exclusive prints and preview pages from the new comic, not to mention it will be good to reunite with old friends like David Lloyd and the Aces Weekly team!"

The US metalcore act went on hiatus in 2011 and reformed last year. The follow-up to 2009's Congregation of the Damned is now being mixed before it sees an autumn release, although singles and other "titbits" are set to arise over summer.

He tells Music Feeds: "I feel like we have too much of a history to not embrace the fact that we have been around, which we're very lucky for. There's no real agenda other than make music we love and have fun. Music had turned into such a business and such a daily grind.

Guitarist Thomas Youngblood says: "There is a grey cloud that is forming over our world. We are here to find that silver lining with an album that is both dark and melancholy, yet uplifting - and giving the listener a Haven in a world gone mad."

He was inspired by the story of Joyce Vincent, a recluse whose body was found in her London flat two years after she'd died. Neighbours hadn't known anyone lived there and her family assumed she'd cut ties with them, so no one raised the alarm until bailiffs broke in to repossess the property over unpaid rent.

Wilson tells MusicRadar: "I was aware of the background of my character. I had seen a documentary on her, and I was very affected by it. I carried it around with me for some time.

"When I sat down to write new music, I found I was writing about a character based on Joyce Vincent. It wasn't like I made a conscious decision - I just think something about her story stayed with me.

The follow-up to 2012's Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! is their first standard-length studio outing since the late 90s, with the new material clocking in at 40 minutes.
The material is said to offer "a mighty slab of superlative sonics, shot through with all the band's inimitable signposts and touchstones - huge unison riffage, savage noise/drone, oscillating overtones, guitar vs. string counterpoint, inexorable crescendos and scorched-earth transitions."

Some followers have called for a reunion for their upcoming appearance at the TeamRock-sponsored Ramblin' Man Fair. But Anderson says on his website: "I am rather bemused by the fan gossip surrounding who might be, or should be, at my side in concert. All of the musicians in the current band have performed as members of Jethro Tull during the last decade. They are fine musicians, wonderful people and my closest friends.

Mastermind J Willgoose Esq decided to focus on NASA's mission control centre rather than on the spacecraft itself. He says: "The first time I heard the call-outs and the replies, there was such excitement and frenetic-ness to it.

"The finished result is a fiery and confident speed-trial of a track, with an infectious chorus and the most unlikely sing-along dialogue of the year, all counting down to the moon landing itself, when Neil Armstrong utters the relief-filled words 'The Eagle has landed'."

Says vocalist Lawrence Welling: "The release of both the EP and our video for Dead Dreams represents a huge amount of work and determination to create something new and show people what we're really all about.

"With full respect to our past work, this is a new lease of life for our band - the connection between us and our supporters has really grown as we developed during its creation. The UK music community is really shining right now and we're stoked to be part of it. We hope you all enjoy what we're doing."

Frontman Nate Barcalow previously said the group's sound had changed since their last record as they could no longer write material about "stupid stuff."

He said: "We stepped out of it for so long that when we came back, it was like, 'Who are we?' I felt like we didn't know who we were and what we sounded like any more.

She tells Linea Rock: "The core of everything always has to be the music. If someone's in the dark and can't see what we look like, you still want that music to make them feel something and make them have that connection.

They were forced to step back from planned dates with Entombed AD in November after frontman Tomas Hubbard spent three days in hospital suffering from a back problem. But they report they're back on track after a difficult 2014.

They say in a statement: "We are more than excited to be playing shows and to be back on the road in the UK after a tough couple of months.

"Tom is feeling a lot better after his back problems and we are ready to play some riffs! Coupled with that, we are honoured beyond belief to be a part of this historic COC tour.

Her lack of involvement at composition level didn't cause her any ego problems, because she knew the results would be worthwhile. So she was happy to leave those duties to mainman Tuomas Holopainen and bassisst Marco Hietala.

Jansen tells FaceCulture: "This was my first time on an album from scratch, written by mainly Tuomas and Marco. 'This is the vocal line - this is the lyric. Go ahead.'

"One thing that connects all the eras of Nightwish is that particular sound. My little ego is just fine with saying, 'I don't have to write for this. This is going to be awesome anyway.' And it is."