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The band broke the news to fans with the following message on Facebook on Sunday, "Of Mice & Men regrets to announce that the remaining dates of the 'Full Circle Tour' will be cancelled. Therefore, tonight's show at Soma in San Diego and Tuesday's show at El Plaza Condesa in Mexico City will no longer go ahead.
"Lead singer Austin Carlile was admitted to a hospital yesterday morning and per doctor's orders has been kept in overnight for evaluation. The band regrets not being able to perform for their fans and hopes to be back in both cities as soon as possible.
"Refunds for both shows will be available at point of purchase, however Of Mice & Men are planning to reschedule both shows for a later date in the year.
"We will have more news on this in the the coming weeks and tickets holders are welcome to retain their tickets, as they will remain valid for these rescheduled dates."
Visit their Facebook page for the latest updates
here.
Lightning-proof tents were opened for campers to shelter before a second bolt struck at 4am, injuring 25 people in one of the campsites. Local police say the victims were taken to nearby hospitals for observation and no severe injuries were sustained.
Around 90,000 are in attendance at Rock Am Ring, which ended on Sunday with sets from Slipknot, the Foo Fighters, Motorhead, In Flames and others. Read more
here.
He added that the band had remained at their hotel instead of attending soundcheck, calling them "lazy bastards to the end." He then smashed his guitar.
Billboard reports that two shows added to their schedule to make up for previously-cancelled ones will now not be played, and that attempts to record an album have been abandoned. Read more
here.
He's poured scorn on some of the stories Cobain tells in video clips that appear in the movie, and adds that the result adds to the mountain of misinformation shared about the late star.
Osborne says via TheTalkhouse.com: "I went to high school with Kurt and was a big part of all the Nirvana guys' lives before and after they became famous. We were good friends when they were all flat broke, long before they could buy big houses and cars with credit cards.
"My band played with Nirvana at their last show. I was there for the beginning and I was there for the end, for the very good and the very bad." He continues: "People need to understand that 90% of Montage of Heck is bullsh*t. Total bullsh*t. That's the one thing no one gets about Cobain - he was a master of jerking your chain." Read more
here.
The new version of the classic 1973 concept album "Quadrophenia" by The Who, which has been orchestrated by Rachel Fuller, is being released this week (today in the UK and Tuesday, June 9th, in North America).
It appears that Townshend learned that the UK classical chart will not include the release. He posted a series of messages on Facebook in response. He first wrote, "Classic Quadrophenia is not allowed in the UK Classical Charts?! Musical snobbery in the classical elite still alive & kicking then. F*** 'em"
A short time later he added, "There's a huge team behind this, rooted in the practical world of recorded classical music, who deserve better than this petty slap-down."
For his final post, he wrote, "I know I'm a rock dinosaur and I'm happy to be one, but the team behind Classic Quadrophenia are all young, creative and brilliant."
"Classic Quadrophenia" was conducted by Robert Ziegler and recorded at Air Studios in London in October of 2014 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and features vocals from acclaimed tenor Alfie Boe as well as Townshend on guitar and "cameo vocal roles", according to the official synopsis. Read the full description and order the album on CD, digital or vinyl
here.
"I woke up this morning and found that I had more of a similarity with a crooning Kermit than my normal Golden self, so heaps of apologies," says Plant. "It's not my idea of fun to miss a gig."
Tickets will be honored for the rescheduled date of Tuesday, September 15. Support act The Pixies will not appear at the rescheduled date due to scheduling conflicts; a replacement act will be announced at a future date.
The singer's next scheduled show is March 9 at the Meadowbrook Music Festival in Rochester Hills, MI. Read more
here.
The June 17 and June 19 concerts at the Air Canada Centre will mark the first time the band will have filmed in their hometown in almost 20 years with the recording in 1997 at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre on the Test For Echo tour.
Prior to that, the group filmed a concert video and later released an accompanying album for the Grace Under Pressure tour in 1984 at Maple Leaf Gardens.
"Fans who have their coveted tickets to the sold out shows in Toronto,' says the band, "are encouraged to represent and wear Rush shirts, bring signs and come ready with their 'outside' voices." Read more
here.
Richards told Rolling Stone, he'd like to see his band release an album real soon. The band hasn't released a new LP since 2005 with A Bigger Bang. "Funny you should mention that," Richards told Rolling Stone about a new album. "Just last week, the word 'studio' popped up while we were rehearsing. I said, 'Well, let's find a time. I'm ready!'"
Though he'd like to see a new album come out sooner or later, it may be later being that the band is on their current tour until July and is reportedly mulling over a South American tour this fall.
The good thing is, the band seems to be in high spirits with Ronnie Wood telling the mag they're in a good place as a band, saying it's the "best vibe ever within the band." Read more
here.
Pink Floyd fan site Brain Damage reports Gilmour and wife/author/lyricist Polly Samson were featured guests at the 2015 Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas in Carlow, Ireland, where the pair were on hand to discuss their relationship as songwriters, which dates back to Pink Floyd's 1994 album, "The Division Bell."
The guitarist previewed snippets of two songs, including "Boots On The Ground" and "Girl With A Yellow Dress", a track that featuries a guest appearance by former Squeeze keyboardist and late-night UK TV host Jools Holland.
Samson described the theme of the album as 'Carpe Diem', seize every moment, look to the future, 'Just Do It' and don't be afraid or hold back. Read more
here.
He formed Heaven under the name Fat Lip in 1980 and moved to Sydney shortly after, changing the name in the process. They went on to released three albums Twilight Of Mischief (1982), Where Angels Fear To Tread (1983) and Knockin' On Heaven's Door (1985) and toured with artists including Dio, Kiss, Judas Priest and Motley Crue.
In a 1999 interview, Fryer said: "AC/DC were interested in trying me out - I just dropped everything. They took Bon's voice out of the tapes on songs like Whole Lotta Rosie, Shot Down In Flames and Sin City. They shoved me in them." Read more
here.
Frontman Randy Blythe recently said of the album: "I didn't set out to write this record about my perception of how people handle difficulties - but as I was writing, it started coming to me.
"It's been a stressful f***ing time for my band, the last few years. Hard times make for good metal." He added that the work was "less schizophrenic" than previous releases. Read more including the track details
here.
Tremonti tells Kerrang: "I think Scott just thought that we'd get back together with Creed and we'd forget about Alter Bridge. He doesn't understand how hard we've worked to build Alter Bridge.
"When you singlehandedly bring a band to its knees like he had done, and we all split up, and then you build something, you're not all of a sudden going to just jump back to the other band and forget what you've built.
"I think he took all his frustrations out on me. We were having lunch in catering. He was like, 'Hey man, what are you doing in January,' and I'm like, 'I'm going to the studio with Alter Bridge, we've talked about this.' He's like, 'Really?' From then on we didn't speak. On tour. On stage. Didn't speak." Read more
here.
Mo', full name Kevin Moore, tells the Alaska Dispatch News: "We're doing original material. I've been working on it since November and it probably won't be done until fall."
He also reveals that he was so insecure about his musical future that, even after his career took off, he clung to a regular club gig in Santa Monica, California - even though he'd moved out of the area.
Mo' says: "For the first two years I kept calling them and saying, 'I'll be back'. It took four years for me to realize this might be working. I've seen so many flashes in the pan." Read more
here.
He pulled the plug in January after the trio toured with replacement drummer Joey Castillo - and the move appeared to come as a surprise to young guitarist Andrew Watt, who said: "I put everything I had into this band."
The frontman and bassist, who was a member of Black Country Communion alongside Bonham before their acrimonious split in 2012, has returned to his solo career and tours Europe this summer with ex-Whitesnake guitarist Doug Aldrich at his side.
Hughes tells MyRockWorld: "When Jason left I had a decision to make - to fold the band completely and walk away with Jason, or continue with Andrew.
"The reason I chose to stay was because tickets were already on sale. I'm the kind of person, if someone has bought a ticket to see me, I'm going to show up.
"When Jason left it really wasn't a band any more. It was based around my thing. So I thought it would be best for me to go back to my solo work." Read more
here.
But with 11 dates still scheduled, Entombed AD have been removed form the tour posters.They say: "Attention US headbangers. We got pulled off the US tour for reasons we don't yet know.
"On our way to Sweden now. Never in 30 years have we experienced something like this. But we will be back soon." Headliners Deicide have made no comment but posted a new tour poster on Saturday, with Entombed AD removed from the listings. Read more and see the posts
here.
It follows the band's live return at last year's Housecore Horror Film Fest. Anselmo says: "We're touring again because we feel like it, it's fun - and we're handsome. And the big plus here is getting to tour with King Parrot and Child Bite, as they're handsome fellows as well as live forces to be reckoned with."
Anselmo also adds: "Leave your corpse paint at home. No image required for this one - bring a date and some sips, and let the music do the rest." Read more and check out the dates and the promo video for the tour
here.
It's released on June 8 via Cherry Red Records. The music was inspired by Strachan-Brain's late husband Ben Brain, who penned the songs before his passing in 2012.
Bevan says: "About a year ago I joined Quill as percussionist. It's great to be doing it live on stage now, and playing drums on some songs too. The lineup has changed since I joined and the band now has a more folk and country rockier edge to it." Read more
here.
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Marsh came to prominence in the 1980s with alt-rock band Flesh For Lulu before becoming part of The Urban Voodoo Machine in 2003. He was also a member of From The Deep with his wife Katharine Blake of Miranda Sex Garden and The Medieaval Baebes.
Marsh documented the early months of his health battle on Facebook. He told Classic Rock in February: "I didn't know how else to approach it really. I just thought, 'Here I am.' Facebook is like an open diary if you want it to be. I just felt like I wanted to do that. I don't know why now." Read more
here.
Metallica also performed a headline concert Saturday evening, with proceeds from the show's download going to assist the victims of the recent floods in Texas.
The band are donating all money raised from the sale of the downloads of the June 6 show to the American Red Cross of Central Texas. All formats of the download - including the high definition versions - are being offered at LiveMetallica.com for a discounted price of $5.00 each through July 15. Check out video of the performance
here.
Dylan paid a financial settlement to Ritchie and gave her co-writing credit for his song Masters Of War, which borrowed heavily from her version of Nottamun Town.
She emerged on the New York folk scene in the 1940s and brought the Appalachian sound to a much wider audience. She sang at the first Newport folk festival in 1959 and won over a new, younger audience with her 1977 album None But One, which was awarded the Critics' Award by Rolling Stone magazine. Read more
here.
The club date presented what the band billed as a "one-time only set" featuring the original "Sticky Fingers" album in its entirety with additional hits.
Jagger tells Rolling Stone that the group put in extra effort in rehearsals knowing that the gig was being filmed for potential release. "We had to revisit tunes that we don't do very often, and we had to make sure they worked really well," he says. "We worked quite hard on 'Sister Morphine' and 'I Got the Blues.' They're not actually that easy to do - it's not simple 12-bar stuff."
"Small gigs in the beginning are almost a tradition to the Stones," added guitarist Keith Richards. "We go, 'Well, we started in places this size. If we can do this, the rest of it is just magnification." Check out the Stones official video report from the show
here.
And he's accused frontman Addi Tryggvason of trying to register the Icelandic band's name behind his colleagues' back after his dismissal. In January the band named Karl Petur Smith as Palmason's replacement, adding: "Gummi will not be joining us on this tour due to personal reasons. We'd prefer to leave it at that and ask that you please respect our privacy in this matter and refrain from all questions, speculations and internet rumours. We will follow up when the time is right."
Now Palmason says in a long statement: "When I woke up on the morning of 20 January I expected to find an email with flight details for the tour that was supposed to start the day after.
"What I found instead was an email telling me I was fired from the band that I've poured my sweat, blood and tears into for the last 20 years, because of communication problems between us that were unjustly being blamed solely on me" Read more
here.
Michal Mierzejewski, who spearheaded the Dream Theater tribute release, now wants to focus on the London prog outfit, and he's launched a pledge campaign to fund it,
He says: "If you're a fan of Haken, if you're a fan of rock and progressive metal and of symphonic, film or classical music, soon you'll have the opportunity to listen to the final result of our work." Read more
here.
Neil joins a list of guests for the October 23-25 convention that also includes Nathan Fillion (Castle), Ian Somerhalder (The Vampire Diaries), Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead), Sean Astin (The Lord Of The Rings) and many others.
Neil and Motley Crue recently completed a tour of Australia and New Zealand and will perform at three European festivals this month: the Sweden Rock Festival, Austria's Nova Rock and UK's Download. Read more
here.
"Hey, it's the Kramedog here," the drummer says in the clip. "Join me and the rest of my guys at a town near you sometime this summer. Get your tickets now!"
"The name Blue Army came from the fact that 'everyone' in our audience from the 70's were wearing blue denim and it looked like a sea of blue, thus The Blue Army," adds guitarist Joe Perry.
Three days after the tour wraps up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Aerosmith will perform on Friday, August 7 at Tom Benson Hall Of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's first-ever Concert for Legends. Watch the video
here.
And along with the two instruments, they're offering successful bidders a pair of tickets for their appearance at next weekend's Download festival - and the chance to meet the rock icons backstage.
Simmons says: "You must always give back whenever you have a chance. Always be aware that not everybody is as lucky as we are, which is why we wanted to donate these signed guitars. Do what you can, help save a life."
Stanley adds: "Teenage Cancer Trust does a much-needed job of focusing attention and assisting teens in their struggles and battles with the devastating impact of cancer. I actively support this much needed cause and ask all to participate in any way possible." Read more
here.
And the band has now confirmed a short run of November dates, staring in Manchester on November 17, which will be part of their 30th anniversary celebrations.
Vocalist Derrick Green says: "We will be playing songs that we normally don't perform so all you hardcore fans will not want to miss the surprises. Come join us and be a part of this special moment in our career. We look forward to seeing you all there." Read more including the dates
here.
Speaking to TeamRock Radio at Camden Rocks last weekend, Tuck said: "The album is hands down the best thing we've ever done. That's not me trying to sell it, because people will have their own opinion anyway.
"But it is the best thing we've ever done - by a mile. So to have that arsenal of weapons now and to be able to play these songs feels sick. It's good to be back.
"That's kind of what happens in our band. Nothing ever stops. Milestone after milestone and cool event after cool event. We don't ever do anything which isn't cool." Read more
here.
ATB say: "We're really excited. We've never done anything like this before - but the vibe is good and we know Will has a great knowledge of what we're going for as far as a sound.
"The songs came very naturally this time around, so recording live drums and guitars makes total sense. We can't wait for you all to hear it." Read more
here.
Speaking to TeamRock Radio at last weekend's Camden Rocks, Ginger says: "I'm doing the Wildhearts thing as a service because the fans want it. I would be happy never doing a Wildhearts gig for the rest of my life to be honest.
"It's something that I did - it's a 90s thing and I'm way more interested in something I haven't done and I want to do. I'm not one of these people who thinks you should be in one band for your whole life - I've got too many ideas." Read more
here.
Frontman Danny Bowes tells UCR: "It's our first album for six years, and our first release in the US for probably 20 years, so it's a very big deal for us. Our next task will be to get over there to play some shows."
Thunder play the Download festival at Donington on June 12 followed by a special guest appearance with ZZ Top at London's SSE Arena, Wembley, on June 24. Check out the lyric video
here.
Max Portnoy says: "You Are Not Me is one of our heavier songs that shows more of a modern metal side. It's also probably one of the first songs in prog metal history to feature a beer keg being hit with a bat!"
The album was produced by Portnoy Sr, who recently said: "I can't stress enough how much of this album is them. I don't want people to get the impression I'm writing anything." Stream the song
here.
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