Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir will be putting on a very special "one night only" Bob Weir and Friends performance during the D'Angelico's VIP party at this year's NAMM show.
The special jam will be taking place on January 20th at D'Angelico Guitars' Booth 212AB and will feature Weir along with Guns N' Roses' Matt Sorum, The Doobie Brothers' Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, The Rascals' Gene Cornish and Robert Randolph. Read more
here.
The music veteran, who underwent major surgery to remove a malignant mass from his abdomen in early 2015, updated fans on his health status via social media on Wednesday.
"I am disappointed to announce that, on the advice of my medical team, I have to withdraw from Cruise to the Edge, and from the first leg of the Journey tour, March 15 - April 4," Wetton writes. "I will soon be starting a new medical chemotherapy procedure, under which I will not be able to fly. I am grateful to the promoters of the cruise. I wish them pleasant sailing and I know my friends on the cruise, both artists and fans, will have a ball on the ocean wave, I will be with you all in spirit.
"My good friend Billy Sherwood will fill in for me within Asia, keeping my seat warm during the initial 12 Journey dates. While I am naturally disappointed to miss the beginning of what I know will be an historic Asia tour, I am intending to return to the stage with Asia later in 2017, dates soon to be announced. I know this decision will be in the best interests of my health and our fans, in the long run." Read more
here.
The band delivered "Now That We're Dead" and "Halo On Fire" as part of an 18-song set as they resumed their WorldWired tour in support of their tenth album.
Dates in China, Hong Kong and Singapore this month follow the South Korean stop as part of the Asian leg of the trek. "Hardwired�To Self Destruct" debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 with opening week sales of 291,000 equivalent album units, of which 282,000 were in traditional album sales. Watch the video clips from the concert
here.
Mastodon's Troy Sanders spoke with Rolling Stone about his latest all-star band Gone Is Gone, which includes QOTSA guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, and while discussing their upcoming EP he let it slip that QOTSA also have new music on the way.
Sanders mentioned how busy every member of Gone Is Gone has been with their respective bands. "For example, Queens of the Stone Age, Mastodon and At the Drive-In have all been recording, and we all have new records coming out this year," he said. "We've all been extremely busy writing and recording, and we're about to get super busy touring the world. So I believe we're all fulfilled to a certain degree with all we have going on." Read more
here.
The Foo Fighters joined the Sex Pistols icon during the Tuesday (Jan 10) broadcast of Jonesy's Jukebox on Los Angeles rock station KLOS-FM and the show is streaming a portion of the appearance here.
Later that night, the punk icon turned radio host held the special book singing and Q&A event to mark the book's release at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles. Read more
here.
Sam Bell (The Cribs, Weezer, Bloc Party, Two Door Cinema Club) produced the new effort and guitarist David Knudson had the following to say about their approach to recording the album, "There was a lot of change and uncertainty. I think the general vibe of emptiness, replacement, lacking, and longing to fill in the gaps was very present in everyones' minds."
The band will be hitting the road to support the new album with a North American spring tour that will be kicking off on March 10th in Boise, ID at the Knitting Factory. Read more including the dates
here.
A long time advocate of artists' rights, Prince left ASCAP in 2014 seeking an alternative to traditional public performance licensing practices. The Estate, represented by Bremer Trust, their music industry advisors, Charles Koppelman and Londell McMillan, and attorney Jason Boyarski, concluded that GMR's philosophy of providing an elite group of writers with heightened customer service and control was most consistent with Prince's values. As of October 1, 2016, GMR is responsible for licensing for all of Prince's catalog --both released and unreleased tracks-- on a worldwide basis. Read more
here.
The band broke the news to fans with the following social media posting:"The post that eventually comes from every band. We are sad to say bt we will be laying Traitors down to rest. These last 3 years have been amazing as a band. Meeting so many new fans, traveling countless times around the U.S with bands we looked up to growing up, we have lived and learned so much along the way.
"We want to walk away from this experience showing every person out there that you can do it. Learn to play an instrument, start/join a band, book a tour and just do it. We all will keep growing, living and learning. It's time we put this down and start the next chapters of our life." Read more
here.
The band had the following comments about the new clip: "It's been a long time since we've made a one song concert video and we had a great time doing it! 'Rhythm in the Spirit' was our unanimous first choice and we are very happy with how it turned out." Watch the video here.
In other news, European fans will be able to watch the band perform live this summer with their appearance at a number of music festivals including the Ramblin Man Fair, Night of the Prog, Sweden Rock Festival and more. See the dates
here.
The U.S. trek is scheduled to kick off on March 2nd in Salt Lake City at Liquid Joe's and will conclude on April 9th at The Regent Theater in Los Angeles and each show will feature full sets from Dope and Combichrist.
Edsel Dope had the following to say, "We are very excited to get back out on the road. This will be our first time touring with Combichrist & we both have some really cool surprises planned for the tour�If you are a fan of Industrial Metal, this is one show that you don't want to miss.
"In addition to playing the Dope classics, this will be the first opportunity for fans to catch us performing some of the songs off of our new album Blood Money." Read more and see the dates
here.
Pryor had this to say about the new song, "This is a song about not being afraid to die. Well, or more about trying to not be afraid to die," reveals Pryor. "It's something that I am not very good at, I worry about it all the time." Stream the track here.
Matt has also announced that he will be promoting the new effort by hitting the road with Dan Andriano (of Alkaline Trio) for an extensive U.S. winter and spring tour. Read more including the tour dates
here.
The new package, entitled 'Forces Of The Northern Night', is set to be released on April 14th and will feature a historic concert in Oslo where the band was joined by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and a choir.
The second live performance will feature the group's entire set from the Wacken Open Air 2012 that included almost 100 musicians on stage. The collection will also include a documentary. Read more
here.
Apart from producing the effort, Weller also performs on all of the tracks including a lead vocal on a song called 'Your Balloon Is Rising'. Neil Jones explains how the band became involved with Weller, "Paul contacted us at the start of 2016 after hearing our last record.
"He wanted to know if we'd like to get involved with a demo he'd been working on and we obviously grasped the opportunity with both hands. 'The Limit of a Man' was born out of those early exchanges and from that point onwards we never looked back". Read more
here.
The band revealed that the new 10-track album will be released in various formats including CD, vinyl LP and digitally and they are giving fans a preview of the effort with a teaser video that includes a portion of the new track "It Lives". Watch the clip here
They released the following comments about the new record, "We could not be any more excited about this new album. We had a blast writing and recording it and having Ken and Terry as part of the writing process was a very cool experience for all of us."
here.
To assist Graffin on instrumentation, he tapped Social Distortion's Jonny 'Two Bags' Wickersham, Brent Harding and David Hidalgo Jr. Production was handled by long time Bad Religion bandmate, Brett Gurewitz.
But those that expecting more of the same from Graffin should be warned, this is something new. It's, well, Southern California country-rock. 'This feels as exciting to me as when we made the Bad Religion record Suffer," says Graffin of the writing process. "Like everything had been leading up to the songs and they just happened totally organically in this short intense burst. I'm really just doing what I did back then, which is write songs that mean something to me and deliver them in a way that is completely honest."
On Tuesday (Jan 10), Graffin shared the a new track titled, "Making Time," which follows the previously released, "Lincoln's Funeral Train." Listen to both
here.
The single will be released via Holsapple's Hawthorne Curve Records on February 3, 2017. The songs will also be available for purchase as digital downloads on iTunes and other fine services online. We were sent the following details:
"Don't Mention the War" is a look at one man's post-traumatic stress syndrome and how it affects his adoring nephew. With low, somber brass (Mark Daumann on tuba) and echoes of battles past, this is another engaging Holsapple story-song, steeped in dark emotions and vivid character assessment. Read more
here.
Adrian and Ryan Patrick had the following to say about work on their fourth studio effort: "It feels good to finally be surrounded by positivity; it's empowering to know that we can withstand the inferno of our own unbridled passions, to be reminded we have what it takes to pursue transcendence.
"Connecting with Marlette for this next album was an extremely natural process, their visions for the future of Otherwise and what our message represents have only emboldened us in our life's work." Visit the band's Facebook for update on the progress
here.
"We're really looking forward to coming back to the UK to perform songs from the new album to our lovely British blues fans," says Sari. "British blues audiences are the best - they're passionate about their music." Read more and see the dates
here.
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