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The film will include live performance footage that span the legendary band's entire career (not including special reunions) that will be presented in chronological order.
Things will kick off with two performances from the band's January 9th, 1970 performance at Royal Albert Hall: "Communication Breakdown" and "Bring It on Home/Bring It on Back".
Next up will be "Immigrant Song" from Sydney Showground on February 27th, 1972, followed by three songs from July of 1973 at Madison Square Garden: "Black Dog", "Misty Mountain Hop", and "The Ocean".
The film will then jump forward to May of 1975 with three songs from when the band played Earls Court: "Going to California", "In My Time of Dying", and "Stairway to Heaven".
The finale of the film will include songs from the group's August 4th, 1979 appearance at the Knebworth Festival which was the band's second to last live performance in the UK (which was at the same festival on August 11th): "Rock and Roll", "Nobody's Fault But Mine", "Kashmir" and "Whole Lotta Love".
See the full song list here.
The Circle features Hagar along with his former Van Halen and Chickenfoot bandmate Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham, and Hagar's longtime guitarist Vic Johnson.
The tour is scheduled to kick off on April 11th in Las Vegas, NV at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center and will conclude on September 5th in Lake Tahoe, NV at the Lake Tahoe's Outdoor Arena at Harvey's.
The supergroup will be releasing their debut album, "At Your Service", on May 19th. The double live album was recording during the band's first North American tour last year.
See the tour dates and album's tracklisting here.
Lombardo, who split with Slayer in 2013, is one of the people who's been connected with the vacant Megadeth role - although he's previously said no discussions have taken place.
He tells Metal Ireland: "I've been getting phone calls like, 'Are you going to join this band?' No. I refuse to be someone's employee. I want to work on something I'm a part of, not just a guy that receives a pay check.
"I want to be part of the artist development. An artist, not just a hired gun. I've had enough of that - I need freedom." He adds: "Megadeth has its own style. I'm really busy with my own music."
Lombardo discounts an old rumor that he'd been approached about replacing Lars Ulrich in Metallica during the 1980s. See what he said
here.
The cruise on the Norwegian Sky is set to depart from Miami on September 28th and will make stops in Nassau and the Great Stirrup Cay in The Bahamas before concluding on October 2nd.
This year's Motorhead's Motorboat will also feature performances from Motorhead, Suicidal Tendencies, Hatebreed, Exodus, Crobot, Phil Campbell's All Starr Band, Motor Sister, Kyng, Fireball Ministry, Huntress, and more.
Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister had this to say, "And so the Motorboat sets sail one more time - better get your tickets now, or be left sobbing on the dock! Oh - and we promise not to run out of beer this time!"
Slayer's Kerry King adds, "Slayer is crashing the Motorboat party!! I, personally, will be keeping the bar in business. Hell will be coming with us. Light it up!!!"
Find more details and booking information
here.
The tour will be kicking off with a two night stand at Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend, Or on July 21st and 22nd and will conclude with three nights over Labor Day Weekend at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, CO on September 4th, 5th and 6th.
For this year's Magnaball festival, Phish will be returning to the site of their 2011 festival, Super Ball IX, Watkins Glen International in Watkins Glen, NY. The festival will be taking place on August 21st, 22nd and 23rd.
The band has announced that they will be celebrating this year's Record Store Day on April 18th with the release of their very first full-length live vinyl deluxe six-LP box set, entitled New Year's Eve 1995: Live At Madison Square Garden.
See the tour dates here.
The Allman Brothers legend kicks off the tour with an appearance at the Riverbend Festival in Chattanooga, TN, on June 12 and wind up in Saratoga Springs, NY on September 4. The final leg of the tour includes the coheadlining shows with The Doobie Brothers.
The summer trek include a pair of European shows: an Amsterdam date on July 24 and a performance at the Ramblin' Man Fair in Maidstone Kent, UK on July 26.
Allman's touring band has been receiving raves from around the world, and features guitarist Scott Sharrard, Peter Levin on keys, drummer Steve Potts, percussionist Marc Quinones, Ron Johnson on bass and horn players Jay Collins, Art Edmaiston and Marc Franklin. See the dates
here.
No word on whether the duo will perform together. McCartney and Starr have only performed together on rare occasions in the years since the Beatles split up; most recently, they played at the GRAMMY Awards in 2014, and on the following night at The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles.
Other presenters include Stevie Wonder for Bill Withers, Patti Smith for Lou Reed, Peter Wolf of the J. Geils Band for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Fall Out Boy for Green Day, John Mayer for Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, and Steve Cropper of Booker T & the MGs for the "5" Royales. Read more
here.
Holt tells Full Metal Jackie: "The way we make albums is drastically different, because, you know, Kerry and the guys, they just work tirelessly nonstop for months and months on the record. And personally I get real sick of making albums if I spend too long doing it.
"And Exodus, we build our own studios all the time. We'll do the drums in a proper studio and then we recorded everything else on the goat ranch where Tom lives.
"And Slayer set up shop in a top-flight studio and set up shop there for a long time. The Slayer album is killer, though. People are gonna be blown away." Read more
here.
Killswitch Engage and Mushroomhead have also recorded tracks for the collection, which features samples of audio used during season four of the massive HBO hit series. Season five airs from next month.
In January, Anthrax's Scott Ian revealed his band sacrificed a track from their upcoming album for the release, while Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach reported that his band's contribution featured "massive riffs" and he was "pretty stoked" with the result.
Mastodon were confirmed as contributors earlier this month. Download "Catch The Throne: The Mixtape Volume 2"
here.
The follow-up to 2012's The Parallax II: Future Sequence is described as "once again, an ambitious concept album" that follows the story of a man in a coma who journeys through his past lives.
The band say: "Each songs is its own episode of The Twilight Zone - the man enters each world and he's offered a choice: stay, or move to the next in search of something more 'perfect.'"
In January frontman Tommy Rogers said the band's material "pushed and challenged" their own boundaries more than ever before, adding: "It's a perfect representation of where we stand as musicians , and as people." Read more
here.
Drummer Kirke said: "Andy didn't think of himself as a bass player, more a musician who could play anything to 'get the thing going.' When I last saw him he took me for a spin in his car, while he played some tracks he'd written.
"He'd played everything, but it was his singing that surprised me the most. He was a consummate musician. A unique player. We will never see his like again."
Singer Rodgers said simply: "Losing Andy is very personal. No words. Sad day." Quireboys frontman Spike, who was planning to work with Fraser on a project, also discussed Andy
here.
Asked on Facebook whether Martucci is a full-time member, Stone Sour reply simply: "Yes." The comment has since been removed but Blabbermouth have a screengrab.
Root and Corey Taylor continue to work together in Slipknot. The frontman last year admitted there had been some "confrontation" over the situation but it was resolved before work began on .5: The Gray Chapter. Read more
here.
Ahead of the guitar's release, Iommi will make a special appearance at the Epiphone Booth to sign autographs during the Musikmesse Trade Show in Frankfurt, Germany.
The guitarist will appear at the event on Friday, April 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Hall 4.0 Booth J60. Iommi previously teamed with Epiphone for the Tony Iommi Signature G-400 model. Read more
here.
"It's kind of like a turbocharged 5150III," he explains, "and some people are like, 'Huh?' because the standard 5150III is a mega-beast to begin with� but it's even hotter."
To fully show the capabilities of the 5150IIIS Stealth, Van Halen himself ran the gear through a thorough demonstration, putting its deep bass contour and seamless switching to the test. And he did so with some of his most beloved riffs, including the ones from "Hot for Teacher" and "Dance the Night Away." Read more and watch the video
here.
Carrying over its unique appointments from the Private Stock Alex Lifeson acoustic, this model features a thinner body depth than PRS's standard Angelus model and the "Birds in Flight" inlay design.
"I was very pleased when PRS presented me with my SE Angelus acoustic, a beautiful guitar of stunning quality," says Lifeson. "It was in response to the challenge of building a guitar that shared the integrity and attention to detail that the Alex Lifeson Private Stock Angelus possesses in a package more broadly accessible.
"The SE Alex Lifeson Thinline is that model. Carefully selected materials, expert craftsmanship and a smart approach to concept resulted in a guitar that is beautiful to look at and rewarding to play." Read more and watch the promo video
here.
Joining Def Leppard to perform on the finale are Kelly Clarkson, Melissa Ethereidge, C�ur de Pirate, Louis-Jean Cormier,Jeab Leloup, Patrice Michaud, Ariane Moffatt and Alex Nevsky.
Hosted by Charles Lafortune, the program sees singers mentored by coaches �ric Lapointe, Marc Dupr�, Isabelle Boulay and Pierre Lapointe. Read more
here.
Kelly says: "I had at one time in France considered the end. This was not a first-time thought, but it was becoming overwhelming. My sister took herself out in 2004 and occasionally I can feel her reaching for me.
"When I am in, I am all in 100%, holding nothing back. I take things very seriously and this time it nearly took me out for good. I had to let them go and for both our sakes. May seem dramatic - to me, it was life and death. I chose life."
He adds: "When I made my decision to step away from Flotsam, life was crushing me and my family." Read more
here.
"It's a tribute. A homage," explains Coverdale. "It's a huge thank you from me to Deep Purple for the opportunity I was given over 40 years ago. As I said to Ritchie, you guys set me on an incredible journey that continues today and I couldn't have asked for better teachers."
Coverdale was with Deep Purple from August 1973 to March of 1976, following which the group disbanded; the Mark 2 lineup of Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice reunited in 1984 and the group has continued - with lineup changes - to this day. Check out the video and the lead single
here.
Holopainen has explained why working on Our Decades In The Sun, the fifth song on Endless Forms Most Beautiful, proved to be an emotional experience.
Holopainen explains to SpazioRock: "It's a tribute to all of our parents. Maybe the most difficult song to put together because it's so delicate, so intimate.
"The subject of the lyrics is so important to all of us. So there were quite a bit of tears shed while rehearsing and recording it - but it ended up being one of the highlights of the album." Read more
here.
He tells MetalRecusants: "It was automatic, right off the bat. Pepper flew up from New Orleans. He'd been sitting at home listening to stuff and whatever, but the three of us - Mike, Woody and I - hadn't practiced any of the tunes.
"And it was just, like, 'Bam'. We toured so much before, too, and had played together for so long that the 'lizard brain' had started clicking in. But also, Mike Dean, Woody and I had been playing together since we were little kids. We kind of learned how to play music together.
"I'm enjoying the hell out of it, and I think we all are, and I think the audiences are too." Read more and watch the full video interview
here.
The tour dates with Slash will be taking place in May and include stops in Chicago, Austin, Houston and Dallas. Fozzy continue to tour in support of their latest studio album "Do You Wanna Start A War."
As we previously reported, Fozzy will be among the acts that will be taking part in the fifth annual Kiss Kruise that will be taking place from October 30th to November 3rd.
Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho had this to say, "To be invited to tour with both the iconic Slash AND the legendary KISS on their sold out KISS Kruise shows how far Fozzy has come in the last few years...and also makes a few more of our dreams that we had as kids come true!! KISS Alive is my all time favorite album and to be able to see them play it in its entirety while supporting them as invited guests BLOWS MY MIND. And then to get the chance to play with Slash and his drummer....my high school friend Brent Fitz....makes me realize that with hard work and perseverance, Fozzy can do ANYTHING we set our minds to! World domination is next!!"
Jericho and Rich Ward of Fozzy will also be featured on an upcoming episode of this season's "That Metal Show", which will be airing on Saturday, April 4th.
Due April 13 (April 14 in North America), "Heavy Blues" was produced by Kevin Shirley and sees the Canadian guitar legend joined on the project by guests including Robert Randolph and the late Jeff Healey.
Bachman has previously debuted the album's title track with Peter Frampton, "Bad Child" featuring Joe Bonamassa and "Little Girl Lost" with guest Neil Young.
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. See the dates and watch the video
here.
It also features a live track, a live video and an acoustic song. Two versions of Resurrection Day are also included. The track was written by guitarist Luke Morley as a tribute to fellow guitarist Ben Matthews, who was diagnosed with cancer last year and later underwent successful treatment. He was given the all-clear in November.
Another track from Wonder Days, When The Music Played, will be issued on limited edition 10" vinyl for Record Store Day on April 18. Watch the lyric video
here.
The clip is released as Status Quo prepare for the release of Aquostic! Live At The Roundhouse on April 13 in a variety of formats, a release that will coincide with an Aquostic Live 2015 UK tour.
Last week, the band released a version of the track "Whatever You Want" which is featured in the Aquostic! Live At The Roundhouse album. Watch the behind the scenes clip
here.
Kavus Torabi and co are continuing to support second album The Unravelling, released last year. They say: "Thank the fates your favourite psychedelic octet have been coerced into performing a string of dates.
"Comprising an explosive cornucopia of songs from every available release fused with brand new material that nobody, including the band, has yet heard, this spectacle will be 'the goods'. Surely." See the dates
here.
Already announced for the festival are headliners Scorpions and Gregg Allman plus Dream Theater and Blue Oyster Cult, while the Prog stage will play host to Marillion, Camel, Ian Anderson and Anathema.
Other confirmed acts include Saxon, Blue Oyster Cult, Toseland, The Quireboys, Solstafir, Blues Pills, Pendragon, Haken, Alcest, Knifeworld, Anna Phoebe, Unto US, Riverside, The Pineapple Thief, Messenger, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Shooter Jennings, Hayseed Dixie, Aaron Keylock, FM, No Hot Ashes, Bob Wayne, Buck & Evans, Jess and the Bandits, Randy Bachman, Mick Ralphs and VERSECHORUSVERSE.
here.
The event runs from 12noon to 6pm and fans can take guitar and bass lessons with the band and watch an acoustic performance. There will also be a video screening room on site and signing session.
Fans can access all areas at any time, but a sign-up is required for the acoustic performance. Wristbands, issued on a first-come-first-served basis, are available at the Vans website. Read more and see more upcoming dates
here.
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