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NJ.com reports Grushecky hit the stage at 10:15 p.m. and played three songs before being joined by Springsteen for a mix of covers and tunes by both artists.

The rockers launched into a Gruschecky song before performing three Springsteen tunes from 1978's "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", including "Adam Raised A Cain", the title track and "Racing In The Street."

Among the other Springsteen tunes featured in the set were "Atlantic City", "Pink Cadillac" and covers of tunes he wrote with Patti Smith ("Because The Night") and for Joan Jett ("Light Of Day"), which the singer dedicated to fans listening outside the club.

The band announced on Monday that they will now be playing three shows in the United States; Nashville on November 13th, Dallas On November 15th, and Los Angeles on November 17th, ahead of their Ozzfest Japan appearance on November 21st.

They made the announcement with the following Facebook posting, "You know, we're already playing Japan, and it seems like a waste to do all that practicing for just one show....

The canceled dates include appearances at several music festivals including Heavy Montreal Fest, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Summer Breeze Fest and Germany's Riot Festival, as well as two dates supporting Metallica.

Here is the full statement from the band, "Mastodon regretfully announce they must cancel their upcoming shows that were to take place from August 7th through September 3rd due to a personal family matter.

Simmons was asked by Southern California newspaper The Press Enterprise in a new interview if there is any chance that the band would record new music soon and he contradicted Stanley's recent comments that it was unlikely the band would ever record another album.

Gene said, "Paul (Stanley) may think there's not going to be another record; I suspect there will be. We never force the issue. There is no one to answer to except our own gut.

"I recently wrote a song called 'Your Wish is My Command' and it feels like KISS. It came out pretty easy. When there's enough material, we'll look at each other and say 'you wanna?'"

"Condition Human" marks the group's first release since a public split and two-year legal battle over the Queensryche brand with former singer Geoff Tate.

Vocalist Todd La Torre joined in 2012 was on board for the band's 2013 self-titled effort and live shows, while Tate went on to form Operation: Mindcrime - named after Queensryche's 1988 album.

Mars tells Classic Rock's Dave Ling: "It'll be a hard rock record, but it's tough to categorise. It's not metal. It'll make your hair fly back in the breeze."

He says of the book: "It won't be anything like The Dirt. After 30 years of being suppressed, I'm going to be bringing out a lot of sh*t." The guitarist doesn't think any of his family read the first title. Asked why not, he replies: "When I was sick, everyone but my parents abandoned me. I'm talking about my siblings - I was begging for help and basically they told me to go f*** myself. I haven't seen any of my family in 11 or 12 years, except for my son."

He still has a point to prove musically too. "I feel like I'm the most unpopular person on the planet. Everyone says I can't play the guitar - I'd like them to know that I can.

Haynes recently said of the material: "I've been compiling songs that didn't necessarily fit in with Gov't Mule or the Allmans, or even my last solo album. This record was really a chance to bring a lot of that music to fruition. It's given me the opportunity to take a lot of songs I love, that didn't have a home, and build a home for them."

Weinman tells The Rockpit, "We're well onto a new record and the writing process and we're going into the studio around November so we're already getting it going."

He also discussed the songwriting process. "It's not that collaborative, I've pretty much been the main songwriter from day one and I'm the only original member in the band so it's great to have some of these guys add their perspective and their flavor to it but still have the consistency of the original vision that went into the band. I think that makes it interesting.

"Typically myself and our drummer work and create pretty complex demos before anyone else hears it and then we send it to the guys and they work on it, work on their parts and it's really cool especially to hear Greg (Puciato) our singer to come back and hear his take on it. I think the good thing about him not being part of the process until it's almost done is that he hears it like a fan, it hits him exactly how we intended it to hit somebody.

The band will be playing the full album during the special shows and will additionally perform other tracks from their career as well as new material, according to the announcement.

The tour is scheduled to kick off on November 3rd in Wilmington, NC at Ziggy's and will conclude on November 23rd in Portland, OR with a show at the Wonder Ballroom.

Support on the first half of the trek will come from O'Brother who will be on the tour through the November 9th stop in Washington, DC at The Howard Theater.

The second half of the tour will feature support from Murder By Death who will join the tour beginning with the Irving Plaza show in New York City on November 10th. Aero Flynn will be supporting the entire tour.

Prior to the tour, Minus The Bear will be performing at a handful of music festivals including the Center of the Universe Fest in Tulsa on July 25th, the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle on September 7th and Oaktopia Festival in Denton, Tx in late September.

The announced dates are set to kick off on October 23rd in Temecula, CA at the Pechanga Theatre and so far he has revealed stops in Dallas, Detroit, Westbury (NY), Bethlehem (PA) and Englewood (NJ).

As Foo Fighters fans know, Grohl enjoys a guest or two on stage at their shows. At their Citi Field show in New York last week for example, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith took over drums for Taylor Hawkins for a cover of Faces' classic rock hit "Stay With Me."

The Welsh outfit announced his departure in February during the recording of their forthcoming fifth album Venom and later named Jamie Mathias as their latest member.

Tuck tells Revolver: "We parted ways with him a long time before we announced it. We wanted to make sure we were comfortable making that decision, and comfortable with making that statement publicly."

He says the band were "going through emotional distress" behind the scenes but adds: "We were writing good songs. It probably helped having that distress to bring out that feistiness that the last album lacked."

And because they couldn't see an overview, vocalist Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun had no idea how fans would react to the follow-up to 2013's Vessel.

Joseph tells Music Feeds: "The record was written on the road, so it didn't feel very universal at the time. It was in the back of the bus or the hotel room and small areas where songs were being written and concepts put together."

Frontman Brendan Murphy last month told Metal Hammer: "This record is a progression in both the band's musicianship and my own personal well-being. The story behind the title is that, no matter who you are or what precautions you take, tragedy will find all of us.

It includes a new version of the band's track Lazarus, and a new edit of Transcience from latest album Hand. Cannot. Erase. The fourth side carries an etching of his handwritten lyric sketches for Happy Returns.

He explained: "All artists are charged with making yet another record, another CD, releasing another download into the massive download universe.

Clifford tells Rolling Stone: "I'm surprised people love that song because it's heavy as hell. I'm so happy that people are supportive of that type of music again - the type of music that we've wanted to make."

Guitarist Kristoffer Andersson had this to say about the new video,
"We have become know for very slick, well produced, big budget videos and while that's not a bad thing, we decided this time to show a very different side of the band".

Kenny Boufadene adds, "Never Fall is a real stripped back video that shows an intimate behind the scenes look at the bands recent highly successful 10 day tour of China.

Kerr tells Vanyaland: "In terms of pressure, playing live is what we really enjoy. There's pressure certainly when you open up for the Foo Fighters - but it's something where we just go out there and put on a show and hopefully people dig it."

They haven't got far with their next album, he admits, and he can't predict when it might arrive. He explains: "We just built a recording setup into our tour bus and we're trying to get some demos done. It's mainly trying to get some ideas down on the road, then we have a couple of weeks off in September where we'll go into the studio."

Shooting will commence soon on Gutterdammerung, with Pop playing a bored angel named Vicious while Rollins plays a puritan priest. Grace Jones and Eagles Of Death Metal mainman Jesse Hughes also star - with more big-name artists to be announced.

Director Bjorn Tagemose explains: "The film is sent in a world where God has saved the world by taking from mankind the Devil's 'Grail of Sin' - the Evil Guitar.

The deal includes recordings plus publishing from Wells' wide-ranging catalogue spanning his early recordings in the 1950s right up until his death in 1998.

Cleopatra also bought various personal items that belonged to Wells, including his harmonicas, show suits, hats, canes, notes, photos and personal journals.

The label's owner Brian Perera says: "We're very excited to enter into this deal and be a part of the one of the all-time icons in American Blues history.

Dave Alvin says: "Big Joe was a friend and musical mentor to us since we were teenagers - so we reckoned it was about damn time we paid tribute to him.

"Former Blaster Gene Taylor is rockin' the keys, I try to replicate the driving Basie horn section on guitar, and my brother Phil sings the big city blues as Big Joe taught him to."

Lost Time follows last year's Common Ground, which saw the Alvins reunite for the first time in years to pay homage to another of their heroes, Big Bill Broonzy.

The show sent over a handful of quotes from the interview: "We didn't have as much money as Poison, Guns N' Roses and Skid Rows of the world, so their flyers were bigger then our flyers.

"So every time we'd try to hang something up, their flyers were bigger so we didn't do that well. So that's why right now those bands can't afford those big flyers, we have much bigger flyers, some people call them posters."

On the group's longevity: "We lasted the longest. We didn't change members, we all like to party and we don't kick anybody out of the band for partying too much"

The group says: "The first single and video from Dreamcrash will be out on July 31. Until then, enjoy this very first taste of the new album, a song we call Crying Wolves.

"Those of you who have seen us live this summer already know this one - it's one of our favorites in all its desperate glory. We hope the song - and the visuals - will take you to a place that is out of your control."

When one hears the words stained glass, they tend to think of the colorful windows that decorate a church. But have you ever tried to look beyond the glass to see what was inside? That was the inspiration behind this song. Not so much the religious aspect of those beautiful works of art�but to look into one's own flaws and realize that what you may find will not scare off those who love and accept you.

This track was actually one we dusted off from some very old demos. I was both elated and disappointed after hearing it. Elated, because I always liked this song, but disappointed because we never gave it a proper recording as a band. Considering how it turned out, I'm glad we waited. In fact, if our drummer, Rich, hadn't brought it to our attention a few years back, I would have forgotten about it completely. Thanks brother!

The acoustic intro of the song was actually something written back in my high school days. I used it at my audition to get into Syracuse University. Luckily they liked it and I got in, but I never really did anything with it until the last recording session. I was inspired to use this piece at the beginning of the song, similar to what Rod Stewart did at the opening of "Maggie May". It has a classical baroque sound to it which I always thought was quite beautiful. Plus, it shows quite the contrast between the preceding song, "Slop Rock", which is all bombast and adrenaline and feedback. After all, we pride ourselves as being a band with many musical styles and influences.

As far as the song itself goes, it's a pretty simple structure with a straightforward arrangement. We recorded it with a classic SJ-200 Standard Gibson acoustic, along with a Fender Stratocaster and Hofner Bass. Add into the mix some rhythmic drums and vocals - lots and lots of harmonizing vocals! - and you have a recipe for a pretty catchy tune. This was the type of melodic song that builds toward the coda, so we thought it was important to layer as many guitars to give it a full orchestral effect, ala Koncrete Kite style!

"Stained Glass" has been a tremendous success for us, staying in the top 20 of the Independent Music Network charts for 18 months and counting. Whether it's the message, or the music, we think we struck the right chord with our fans. It's certainly a departure from the usual guitar-rock fare we put out. Hopefully you'll enjoy it as well.