Today's Day in Rock Stories

AC/DC Kids Video A Big Viral Hit

McCartney kicked off the tour last April in Fresno, Ca and will be returning to the states this summer for another round of dates that will be launching in Miami at the American Airlines Arena on July 5th.

The promoter will be offering $20 tickets for over 1,000 shows this summer during the special promotion which is scheduled to kick off on May 2nd and run through May 9th.

The viral video surfaced three days ago, and features frontman Thom Yorke enthusiastically shaking his hips and dancing to the iconic single. Since this time, the video has been wildly shared over social media.

The photograph shows members of Queens Of the Stone Age, including main man Josh Homme, guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, drummer Jon Theodore and bassist Michael Schuman standing behind a mixing desk at Lurssen Mastering in Burbank, California with the caption, "an album just got mixed".

The fifth annual event will be taking place in Downtown Las Vegas on September 22nd, 23rd and 24th and will feature headline performances from Blink-182, Muse and Gorillaz.

The band took the stage of The Late Late Show With James Corden and performed their hit single "Where's The Revolution", from their latest studio album "Spirit".

In a new profile by The New York Times, singer Thomas Mars discussed the album's lead track "J-Boy," which he describes as having "a sort of romantic sci-fi feeling I like."

The mini-cars feature designs inspired by the Beatles' 1968 self-titled record (The White Album); Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Rubber Soul; Magical Mystery Tour; and the U.S. edition of the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack.

The new package will be released in various formats including digitally, CD, DVD and Blu-Ray this Friday, April 28th and was captured during a special show in San Diago last October where they performed their 2015 album "Coma Ecliptic" in its entirety.

Bass player Dan Briggs had these comments, "The genesis of the Coma Ecliptic filming was based around capturing the look and feel of the show our lighting director Chris Hill produced for the full album set.

King said, "It's difficult for new bands to establish themselves. That being said, I still go see Judas Priest, you know, bands like Judas Priest, Sabbath, Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Exodus, Testament, I'm sure a million others would go see them forever.

The band's 15-song set at the city's Sportpaleis opened with "If Eternity Should Fail" and included the live debut of "The Great Unknown"; both tracks are featured on the 2015 double album.

The show delivered several Maiden classics and tracks from nine of the group's records, and saw the first performance of 1981's "Wrathchild" since 2014.

When more than one rock critic in 1971 declared that Jethro Tull's international hit album Aqualung was a concept album, band leader and songwriter Ian Anderson, the the 24 year old singer and famously one legged flute player of Jethro Tull set out to purposely confound those pundits with the band's next album.

Unquestionably and uniquely in a category all its own, Jethro Tull's 1972 epic Thick As A Brick is the only album in history to attain # 1 sales on Billboard containing only one song, albeit 43 minutes long! For composer, singer, flautist Ian Anderson, Thick As A Brick's ultimate irony here is that the album was conceived by Anderson as a total spoof of music critics purporting to ascribe imaginary meaning to the band's preceding Aqualung album as well as a send up of rock's progressive darlings at the time. Ian Anderson explains in an interview with IN THE STUDIO host Redbeard.

At the LA Times Festival of Books, the Foo Fighters frontman sat down with her to discuss raising a rock star and writing the book. Dave recalled listening to Slayer and other hard rock acts as a kid, and Virginia said she tried to diversify his listening habits. "We would go to the summer festivals -- We'd go hear the Four Tops and the Temptations, and Aretha Franklin. We'd listen to all of it."

Virginia discussed networking with other rock star moms both socially and for the writing of her book. Specifically, she discussed getting to know Rush bassist Geddy Lee's mom Mary, a Holocaust survivor whose story is included in From Cradle to Stage.

Country music legend Carlene Carter joins Mellencamp on the set, which was recorded at his Belmont Mall Studio in Belmont, IN, just outside of Bloomington.

"Hear Me Out" was one of the first songs written by Narrow Waves. J.R. wrote the original acoustic-only version of the song with " Girl Afraid" by the Smiths in mind.

You can hear the "Girl Afraid" influence in the song structure via the stuttering E-minor chord within the de-facto verses of "Hear me Out."

The Smiths have a cache of songs that sound vaguely "frontier American" in their locomotive-esque churn. The opening chords of "Hear me Out" were written in that style. The repetition at the end of "Some things you ought to know" is also unapologetically Morrissey-esque, or at least striving to be.

The hesitation or stutter in the verse chords fit the words. The words reflect a hesitation to say how one actually feels to another person. The original title was the outro refrain, "Some things you ought to know." The song is saying: I want you to know this, but I'm either afraid to say it or not sure how to- or whether it should be said at all! This obviously also echoes back to the lyrics and characters of "Girl Afraid" by the Smiths.

When J.R. brought the song to the group, Matt added a guitar lick to the beginning so we didn't have to jump right in with open chords. On a totally different and random note, the key chord in the refrain, the unusual modified C, is extracted from Stairway to Heaven.

This song seems to have had a lot of people singing along live, even when they're hearing it for the first time.

Essentially, the song is written in the voice of someone who is surprised by their own feelings for another person - someone who is not accustomed to new romantic feelings, not used to writing songs FOR anyone, and suddenly realizes they are experiencing both of those things.

"In case no one's ever written a song for you," is a way of trying to keep things low stakes, faux casual, despite the reality that unless you're doing satire or whatnot, it's a very rare thing to write a song ABOUT let alone FOR someone without a decent level of emotion behind it.

Hear me out. Every time I'm going all I know is I wish I was staying. That's not like me. That's not like me. I just need a way of saying... When I say goodbye, I don't know what I'm saying or if it will be the last time. That's not like me. Here with you� In case no one's ever written a song for you, I thought perhaps I'd offer up a word or two. Before a choice is made, I'll find a way to say some things you ought to know, so hear me out. Just hear me out. Without my usual withdrawals. Without a hidden score to settle. Without a single string attached. Without my usual backpedal. Some things you ought to know.