Today's Day in Rock Stories

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The event will be taking place on April 14th in Cleveland and David Bryan tells Billboard that Such and Sambora are expected to play "a couple songs" with the group at the induction.

The new effort will be entitled "Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino" and was produced by James Ford and Alex Turner and recording in Los Angeles, Paris and London.

The frontman gave Billboard the following updates: "The guys are writing tons of music and I've written lyrics to almost all of it. We're going to start trying to put together demos here and there with the time off that I have and really try to get ahead of the curve as far as what happens next."

The event will be taking place in Buena Vista, CO on Aug 31st through September 2nd will feature Bentley taking the stage several times along with additional performance from acts like Miranda Lambert, Brothers Osborne, Elle King, LANCO, Del McCoury, Sam Bush and The Cadillac Three.

More acts are still to be announced. Dierks had this to say, "This is a dream come true for me. It's no secret that I love everything about Colorado�the fans, the venues we've played and of course, the landscape.

The band recruited Mark Klasfeld to direct the new visual which comes as the band prepare to launch a North American tour on May 1st in Atlanta that will feature support from The Bronx, Palaye Royale and 68 on select dates.

LaBrie broke the news in an appearance on the Lead Singer Syndrome podcast and also said that he is working on some new material for a brand new solo album.

The fourth single issued from the group's tenth album, "Hardwired�To Self-Destruct", hit No. 2 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart while the project has sold more than 1 million copies in the country to date.

The Vienna show is part of Metallica's current arena tour of Europe, which wraps up in May and will be followed by a June 14 ceremony in Stockholm where they'll receive Sweden's prestigious Polar Music Prize.

The band will be recognized alongside fellow laureates Afghanistan National Institute Of Music (ANIM) and Dr. Ahmad Sarmast with the award, which celebrates the power and importance of music and is given to individuals, groups or institutions for international recognition of excellence in the world of music.

The honor will be presented by His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. "We are in awe of the distinguished, diverse group of laureates we will be joining," says Metallica, "including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Chuck Berry, Sonny Rollins, Yo-Yo Ma, Dizzy Gillespie, Isaac Stern and Ennio Morricone just to name a few of the previous award recipients."

The band just wrapped up a series of shows in South America last month, which saw them play Lollapalooza festivals in Chile, Argentina and Brazil, as well as a headline concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

According to the announcement, the name of the EP comes from their foosball obsession - which dates back to their first European tour and is still played in their current practice space.

The special will be filmed during Ann's concert at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, IL on April 11th. Details such as an air date for the special are still to be announced.

It will be broadcast in connection with the release of her new album "Immortal" which will be hitting stores this summer and will include Wilson take on some her favorite songs from artists that have been lost such as Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me," Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black," and The Eagles' "Life in the Fast Lane" in honor of Glenn Frey.

The Cars' zero-to-platinum popularity came amidst the final fizzle of the mid-Seventies Punk Rock sparkler, and the sound and attitude that survived by Spring 1978 was labeled by at least one rock writer as the nebulous one-size-fits-none term New Wave.

The drivetrain of the five man Boston band was always powered by the songs of Ric Ocasek. Growing up in the Otcasek household (Ric(k) later would also drop the "t" from his surname), early 1960s Sputnik paranoia and Telstar technology mixed with Cold War James Bond spy intrigue for Ric, courtesy of his father.

The Cars' test track where they had tuned up their sound was the mid-Seventies Boston club scene, and the first recording to roll off the assembly line,"Just What I Needed", contains every musical hallmark of their identifiable style: the catchy simplicity of Ocasek's songwriting; the half-spoken halting unconventional lead singing by both Ric and bass player Benjamin Orr, allowing The Cars to be a versatile hybrid crossover with all-terrain vocals; the insistent industrial beat by former Modern Lovers drummer David Robinson; the quirky, campy, reedy organ and synthesizer of Berklee School of Music grad Greg Hawkes; and the melodic yet economical lead guitar of Elliot Easton.

"We made that first record in twelve days," remarks The Cars' driving force Ric Ocasek in this IN THE STUDIO classic rock interview. What is even more remarkable is that The Cars would accelerate from regional Boston appeal in May 1978 to parked on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine by the following January with the headline "Best New Group", eventually to sell seven million copies of that incredible debut album.

The Cars surprise hit debut (#16 on Rolling Stone magazine's Top 100 Debut Albums of All Time), the torque of the Cars' "Good Times Roll", "My Best Friend's Girl", "Just What I Needed", "You're All I Got Tonight", "Bye Bye Love", the mesmerizing "Moving in Stereo", and the plaintive lead vocal by the late Benjamin Orr "All Mixed Up" all propelled the cross-legged Woodstock generation off of their butts and back onto the dance floor. The sleek polished chrome and glass produced sound by Journey/ Queen veteran Roy Thomas Baker combined distinctive instrumental arrangements from rock and roll's past in a way that, paradoxically, sounded cutting edge modern.

"We played these songs a lot more on stage," explains singer Neil Fallon, "and came in very well prepared, so it went very quickly and it's a much more live-sounding record because of that."

"I think one of challenges of being in Clutch is trying to record material that comes close to the energy that happens when we play live," adds drummer Jean-Paul Gaster. "While we were compiling this material, we would often talk about how we wanted to record, where we wanted to record, and who we might want to record with. We put a lot of thought into it, and over the course of a few weeks, Vance Powell's name kept coming up."

Powell - who has worked with Jack White, Chris Stapleton, Buddy Guy and Kings Of Leon, among others - began his career mixing live sound as a front-of-house engineer, so his preference is to capture the essence of a concert performance in the studio.

The 3-week, 11-date tour is scheduled to kick off in Luxembourg on November 12 and will hit nine countries by the time it wraps up in Oslo, Norway on November 29.

The new record was Produced by Zack Ohren (Machine Head, Fallujah, Suffocation) at Sharkbite Studio and set to hit stores on June 8th and will be entitled "The Sound Of Steel".

Still On The Run: The Jeff Beck Story documents the history of a musical maverick and true innovator, delving below the surface to shed light on the circumstances, inspiration and technicality behind the man and his music. The film features extensive interviews with Jeff both at home and in his workshop, as well as interviews with Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, David Gilmour, Ronnie Wood, Slash, Jan Hammer, Joe Perry, Beth Hart & many more.

The new clip was filmed by Chase Krueger and was shot in the garage of the band's bassist Brandon Cromer, in Watervliet, MI over the course of about 7 hrs.

This song is among the first ones for this upcoming album Palo. The story of the main riff goes back to 1990 or 1991 when Kalmah predecessor Ancestor made up a demo which name I cannot recall anymore. But the song back then was called Thread of Life. Anyways that riff had haunted me since then and for this album I decided to tune it up a little bit. With a slight change I made it to as it is now in this very song.

As soon as the riff was there it was all about start to wrap the song up and catch some nice melodies here and there. As always when there is a solid riff or melody I have already the feeling that this turns out well as it did with Evil Kin. The chorus melody hit my mind while picking cloudberries on a Finnish swamp very early morning. There is basically just sounds of mosquitos and you are in the middle of nowhere just pure nature around you. That is the very source of inspiration to me always. The melody hit my mind and I played it in my mind several times writing the song at the same time. As soon as I got back home I remembered it and recorded it to my computer. If I hadn't remembered it then I know it wasn't good enough. This time I did and that tells me the melody is longlasting.

After that it was just putting all pieces together and dump the song for other band mates for a listen. They liked it from the start. That is the point our songs get "validated". The song itself represents the old Kalmah mixed with our music of today. We didn't get the recording deal with that demo back in 1991 but now we can show that our material back those days was and is still strong. For me thinking about the process of this song is a so called work-win. I have always wanted to reborn it and now finally made it. Hope you enjoy!