Heavy metal legends Iron Maiden have revealed that they will be returning to North America to bring their The Future Past Tour to arenas across the United States and Canada next fall.
The new tour leg follows their triumphant performance at the PowerTrip festival and features tracks from their latest studio album "Senjutsu" as well as their classic 1986 album "Somewhere In Time", along with songs from their storied career.
Things will get underway on October 4th at the North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in San Diego, CA, and will wrap up on November 17th at the Frost Bank Center (formerly AT&T Center) in San Antonio, TX. (continue)
Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Duran Duran have highlighted their new cover The Talking Heads classic "Psycho Killer" featuring Victoria De Angelis of Maneskin as their new album, "Danse Macabre" hits stores just in time for Halloween.
John Taylor says of the collaboration with De Angelis, "The first time I met Vic, I asked her who her bass inspirations were. Right away, she said, 'Tina Weymouth!' I said, 'Me too.' When the idea of covering 'Psycho Killer' came up, I thought, 'I'm going to call Vic'. She loved the idea, naturally!"
Victoria added, "I got a call from John...saying he was working on a cover of Psycho Killer, and he wanted to ask me first about playing on it. It was insane being asked by one of the greatest bass players ever to play one of my favorite songs with Duran Duran. Absolutely insane. (continue)
Motley Crue are streaming a brand new lyric video for "In The Beginning/Shout At The Devil" to mark the release of a limited edition 40th anniversary edition of their acclaimed sophomore album "Shout At The Devil".
The album has been reissued in various formats including a special limited edition Super Deluxe Box Set featuring the newly remastered album on " LP, CD and Cassette. Also included are reproductions of the original 7" singles of "Too Young To Fall In Love" and "Looks That Kill" alongside a Pentagram Seance Board, Devil Board w/Metal Planchette, Metal 7" Adapter, album art lithographs, tarot cards, devil candle holder and more. In addition, 7 rare demo tracks have been resurrected and are included as Shout At The Demos & Rarities," according to the announcement. Order the box set here (affiliate link).
In addition to the box set, the new 40th Anniversary edition is available digitally, as well as the following limited edition formats, Picture Disc, Red/Black Vinyl (Walmart), Ghostly Orange Vinyl (Urban Outfitters), Blood Filled Vinyl (Newbury Comics), LP Replica CD, and Lenticular CD (Walmart). (continue)
Robin Trower and Sari Schorr release the stunning new album 'Joyful Sky' on Provogue. To celebrate they have revealed the video for "The Distance." Trower and Schorr take to the stage on special online concert on November 4th.
The upbeat groove-rocker "The Distance" is about "looking back at when you were younger and how far away that now seems at my great age," says Trower. Schorr adds, "The Distance is a reflective song that expresses the feelings of separation between the past and present. It's natural to feel some nostalgia and longing for the past. This song easily could have been left to feel purely melancholic, but Robin gave it a twist by writing a hopeful chorus. And that is why it is so evocative and why I loved singing it."
Schorr continues, "It's another great song from an album that I think will become a memorable part of Robin's body of work. The song resonated with me, which allowed me to give it an authentic performance. I'm a very nostalgic person. I probably think about the past too much, but it's how I process memories and gain perspective. I think the song will connect with many people because reflection is a natural aspect of the human experience." (continue)
Creed and Alter Bridge star Mark Tremonti has premiered an animated music video for his original holiday song "Christmas Morning", which comes from his forthcoming album "Christmas Classics New & Old".
According to the announcement, the music video is a claymation work of art created by Ollie Jones and follows a father who finds Santa's naughty/nice list and ventures to bring it back to him. The visual masterpiece is the perfect backdrop for song produced and arranged by Carey Deadman.
Christmas Classics New & Old is Mark's interpretation of nine holiday classics and one original penned song from the acclaimed songwriter himself. After the success of his interpretation of songs Frank Sinatra made famous on his album Tremonti Sings Sinatra, Mark decided to partner up with the orchestra from that album to work on the holiday album. From the opening horns of "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" to the slow fade of the Donny Hathaway classic "This Christmas," Mark Tremonti showcases the music that was the bedrock of his childhood holidays. (continue)
Rock legends Queen continue their 50-week-long video series The Greatest Live with this week's brand new episode entitled "A Kind Of Magic". Here is the official synopsis: Queen pull out a classic from the Highlander soundtrack as they rock Wembley Stadium in the summer of 1986. It's another triumphant moment in front of a home crowd - not to mention some very unruly inflatable friends.
Queen might have conquered stadiums around the world, but in the mid-'80s, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor almost seemed like London's Wembley Stadium's house band. While 1985's Live Aid gave them just 21 minutes to steal the show, for the following summer's Magic Tour, the band returned to the North London venue for two headliner nights- and had a few more tricks up their sleeve.
Written by Roger Taylor, "A Kind Of Magic" had first featured on the soundtrack to the 1986 fantasy movie Highlander (the band also contributed fan-favorites including "Who Wants To Live Forever" and "Princes Of The Universe"). But while Brian once described the original's pulsing synth-rock as "quite lugubrious and heavy", Freddie developed a funkier and lighter-footed treatment that would be re-recorded with producer David Richards. (continue)
The Gaslight Anthem have shared a Halloween-themed music video for their song "Spider Bites", that was directed by Kelsey Hunter Ayres, to celebrate the release of their first new album in over nine years, "History Books".
Frontman Brian Fallon said of the album's opening song, "That song came together at a time when so many bad things were happening at once, starting from that first line: 'My teeth are crumbling structures. It's about trying to cope in those moments when it feels like everything's going wrong."
"History Books" follows the band's acclaimed 2014 album "Get Hurt" and was recorded with acclaimed producer/engineer Peter Katis (The National, Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie) and recording at his Bridgeport, CT-based Tarquin Studios. (watch the video and read more)
In This Moment have shared a visualizer video for their song "Damaged" featuring Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills, to celebrate the arrival of their new studio album "GODMODE".
Vocalist Maria Brink said of the collaboration, "We've been wanting to work with Spencer [Charnas] for a while. The back and forth with his vocal is someone actually feeling that they love and understand you, and they want to help you and go through it with you.
"Lyrically and emotionally it comes from a place of me going through a lot of different traumatic things. I suffered from unworthiness. It's a lot to be with somebody who has post-traumatic stress. I have a lot of tics and things, and you can get into the mindset that you should just be alone, so nobody has to deal with it. It's sourcing back to that in my past." (continue)
Indie-rockers Bad Veins, after an 8-year hiatus, just released a nostalgic, camcorder-shot video for lead single "Wendy." To celebrate we asked Benjamin Davis to tell us about the track. Here is the story:
I feel like it can be insanely difficult, if not impossible to explain the lyrics to a song in a way that doesn't in some way destroy it's original intent. You can't dissect something without killing it. I firmly believe in the expression 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder', as overused as it may be, I seem to come back to it again and again. The way a chord changes at the same time that a new perspective is introduced to a narrative, it's impossible to describe, at least for me. It's intuition, instinct, feeling, We make our way through life consuming with all senses, and what comes out in the creative process is nothing more than a soup compiled of collected ingredients, intentional but mostly not. I guess that's a long way of say I'm not saying anything. Or maybe I can't. Maybe it's a cop-out?
The song Wendy is about Wendy, or at least my feelings about Wendy. Sometimes it seems like this world has become hostile to us fools. Where do I begin? Let's take a look at the music. It's imbalanced, like me, along with the lyrics. It's broken. It repeats. It contradicts itself. I have hope but I'm exhausted. My future is twisted into knots. My heart is sore. I believe I am incapable of doing what is asked of me without pulling back the curtain on the premise of the request, or even better the requestor. I'm confident that no one cares what is being said because no one knows who is saying it. Is that what this is for? You can't expect the donkey to give you the best weather report, and yes, though the monkey can dance, he's not the best at typing. Apparently, eventually, Shakespeare is inevitable; a mathematical certainty even. My life, my thoughts, my purpose, undulate through waves of tangible concepts and loops of nonsense. (continue)
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