Today's Day in Rock Stories

Pearl Jam Star Not Attending Rock Hall Induction

The band had previously said late last year that they had an entire album's worth of material for the deluxe reissue and they have kept true to the word with the two-disc set featuring the original album and a second disc featuring 11-new songs and an unplugged version of their hit "Bored To Death".

"Immediately following our run of shows opening the new Royal Arena in Copenhagen last month we promised we would be back to Europe this year... and we will!!," says the band. "The WorldWired tour hits European arenas starting in September and doesn't stop until May of 2018! Kicking off on September 4th in Amsterdam (following the rescheduled Copenhagen show on September 2nd) we'll be covering all corners of the continent from Lisbon to Helsinki, Oslo to Budapest and beyond.

"Our Norwegian friends Kvelertak have signed on to take this wild ride with us for the duration of the European portion of the tour," they add. "Please note that no additional shows will be added in this part of the world in the immediate future, so you can plan your own leg of the tour now."

Davies is the latest rock icon to receive the honor in recognition for their contributions to music. Ray had this to say about the ceremony, "It lasted three minutes and it went very well and I said goodbye and went home."

Directed by Robert Schober, the clip for the second tune previewed from the package features drummer Brann Dailor on lead vocals. "When I first heard that riff, I wasn't 100 percent on it," Dailor tells Rolling Stone about the catchy song. "I felt like it was too easy to like or something - which is stupid, but I want to avoid 'easy.' I was wrong about that one."

The Band's Garth Hudson will now be joining Warren Haynes, Dr. John, Jamey Johnson and Don Was during the California and Texas stops of the tour which celebrates the 40th anniversary of The Band's iconic farewell concert.

The studio version of "So Tied Up" also features Briggs and will be included on the band's forthcoming album, "LA Divine" which is scheduled to hit stores on April 7th.

The new video was recorded live at Sonora Recorders in Los Feliz and showcases an alternate arrangement with a string quartet and more prominent vocals from Bishop Briggs.

Nathan Willett had this to say, "Pulling this session together was something of a miracle. We were between tours and I hadn't actually met Bishop in person and the band hadn't worked out any arrangement. We had like 2 hours.

The band had this to say about the new song "We decided to skip spring entirely and go straight to summer. Our new single 'Feels Like Summer' from our forthcoming album (coming this summer) is out now in North America. Ex-US you'll see it up on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. by Friday" Stream it here.

All to often the stars of one decade fade into the dawn of another, but that was not the case for ASIA, a band comprised of Emerson, Lake and Palmer drummer Carl Palmer; YES guitarist Steve Howe; Buggles vid-kid, keyboardist Geoff Downes and King Crimson/ Roxy Music/ UK singer, bassist the late John Wetton. Asia's self-titled 1982 debut featured the # 1 hit "Heat of the Moment" and additional hits "Only Time Will Tell", "Wildest Dreams", "Sole Survivor" and "Here Comes the Feeling". The members of Asia express to In The Studio host Redbeard, in this classic episode, their purpose for forming the band and their amazement at both the critical and commercial response.

Carl Palmer: "The frame of mind I was in, I was hoping that I would enter into a situation that was a song oriented band rather than any long conceptual pieces, because I'd been playing that for a nine year period."

Geoff Downes: "They (British music industry) were much more concerned with the visual image of a band then the musical identity of it. In that respect I think we were against the grain."

The tour is scheduled to kick off on May 9th the famed Webster Hall in New York City and will hit various cities in the U.S. and Canada before wrapping up on May 30th in Mesa, AZ at Club Red-Mesa

"Die Tryin" is the third single from the band's forthcoming album "Experience" which is set to hit stores on May 19th. Check out the stream of the new track here.

The long awaited return to their native Canada will be launching on June 13th at the Distrikt Nightclub in Victoria and will conclude on July 21st in Cornwall at The House.

The new video was directed and produced by David Andersson, Dennis Andersson & Johan Hallman. The lead actor portrayed in the video is Andreas Vrenning.

The band has been on tour across the USA plus Europe with Sonata Arctica in support of the album for last three months. Their shows, April 13th in Calgary at Dicken's Pub, hometown return on April 14th in Edmonton at Starlite Room and April 15th in Red Deer at The Vat will be CD release events for their Albertan fans.

"The lyrical story behind Hard 2 Explain is actually quite easy to explain for anyone who has been through those circumstances before. Your heart is committed, but you are suspicious nonetheless. "

Our song story is for the song "Morphine" which I like to describe as the struggle between restraint and depravity. The lyrics were inspired by a specific incident involving a close friend of mine that ended up being very tragic and traumatic for all involved. Even with this narrative as the jumping off point for the lyrics, the song still manages to tie into the overarching theme of the album, which is that we all hide behind one pretense or another in an effort to make it to the end. And yet we often find ourselves at odds with our inherent nature, instead trying to exonerate our own lack of introspection. Unfortunately, many of us live our entire lives braced for impact or terrified that our deeply guarded insecurities will be the end of us. I'll just leave it at that.

We actually opened our set with this song on our North American tour with Fates Warning last year but it has gone through so many changes, such as the lyrics and even arrangement, that it definitely feels different. I think originally I just wanted to record a song in drop A tuning on this Mayones guitar that Daniel Gildenlow from Pain of Salvation let me borrow. Thank you for that by the way Daniel!

So that's the story of Morphine in a nutshell. If anyone is still reading this, firstly thank you because you don't know me but I like to think that I'm a fairly reasonable person when I'm out in public, though I'll admit that inside my own house I'm more of a domesticated lunatic.

Secondly, be sure to buy our new album Warpaint releasing almost everywhere today, March 17. You can buy it on our Bandcamp or places like iTunes, Amazon and Spotify. We really hope you dig it! Thank you so much.