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11/20/2009
Alice In Chains has announced the dates and venues for a new North American tour that will kick off on February 2nd in Vancouver, Canada, wrapping up on March 21st in St. Paul, Minnesota. Tickets go on sale December 4th and 5th, with more info available at the band's official website. This round of dates is the group's latest in support of its first studio album in 14 years, Black Gives Way To Blue, which arrived in September and features the recording debut with the band of singer and guitarist William DuVall.
The tour news also comes as the band ...
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11/20/2009
Chickenfoot's first concert film, Chickenfoot Live, will play a one-night engagement in selected theatres around the country on December 1st, according to Blabbermouth. A trailer for the movie can be viewed online and more information is available about locations where the film will be playing. Although the band's performances in Atlanta on August 30th and Phoenix on September 23rd were both filmed for a possible future DVD release, it is not clear whether footage from these shows are part of the new film.
Chickenfoot is comprised of Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, guitarist Joe Satriani and ex-Van Halen ...
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11/20/2009
Ringo Starr will release his latest album called Y Not on January 12th, with the obvious highlight being his first-ever duet with Paul McCartney on the track "Walk With You." Among the other notable guests on the album are Ringo's brother-in-law Joe Walsh, Gary Wright, Benmont Tench of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Van Dyke Parks, Don Was, Joss Stone, Richard Marx, Ben Harper, Glen Ballard, and Roundheads guitarist Gary Burr, among others.
Starr wrote about teaming up with McCartney on his official website (ringostarr.com) saying, "Paul was doing the Grammys, so he came over to the house and was ...
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11/20/2009
Ray Davies credits the original reviews the Kinks received in 1964 for "You Really Got Me" for his new choral album. Davies, who's teamed up with the Crouch End Festival Chorus for the new The Kinks Choral Collection, has reworked a bunch of the group's greatest hits with a small band, and added a newly-arranged choir accompaniment.
Davies shed light on how 45 years later, the Kinks' first U.S. hit inspired the new solo disc: "I think back to when I wrote 'You Really Got Me.' And then the record came out, many people, critics, whatever, said it was a ...
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11/20/2009
Elton John and Billy Joel's troubled Face To Face tour rolls on with even more postponements -- now due to Billy Joel's unnamed illness. The "Piano Men" have postponed tonight's (November 20th) Salt Lake City show at Energy Solutions Arena until February 19th. Sunday's (November 22nd) Denver gig at the Pepsi Center is now postponed until February 22nd.
Eltonjohn.com posted a message saying Sunday's Denver tickets are good for the rescheduled date, but refunds are also available at the point of purchase. (Pollstar.com)
Phil Collins has become grandfather for the first time at age 58. Collins' 37-year-old daughter Joely Collins ...
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11/19/2009
Slash took to Twitter to defend Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie's vocal performance on a new recording she did with Slash of the Guns N' Roses classic "Paradise City," also featuring Cypress Hill. A leaked copy of the recording surfaced online last week, while Slash is contemplating whether to include it on his new solo album. The former Guns guitarist tweeted, "Until now, not too many people have heard Fergie sing Rock & Roll but she sings it better (than) most dudes I know. She's a screamer at heart."
The record, titled Slash & Friends, is tentatively due out in ...
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11/19/2009
Stone Temple Pilots have postponed their previously announced shows in December and January in order to complete work on their first studio album in more than eight years, according to Blabbermouth.net. The shows, which were slated mostly for Canada and the Midwest, will be rescheduled for sometime next year. The new disc will be the band's first since it reunited in 2008 and follows up its last recorded effort, 2001's Shangri-La-Dee-Da.
Plans for a new STP album were complicated earlier this year by a legal dispute between the band's label, Atlantic Records, singer Scott Weiland and drummer Eric Kretz. Reports ...
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11/19/2009
Paul Stanley says that although Kiss has always been impressed with the band's choices of opening acts, back in the day it was Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band who really gave Kiss a run for their money.
Stanley recalls that during Seger's stint opening for the band in 1976, he set the bar pretty high for Kiss to follow every night: "Bob got his first gold album on tour with us. And there were nights, where I can remember being in the dressing room and listening to the crowd reaction, and looking at the band and saying (laughs) ...
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11/19/2009
Bon Jovi tops the charts this week with its new album, The Circle, which sold 163,000 copies. It's Bon Jovi's second consecutive chart-topper, coming on the heels of 2007's Lost Highway, which sold 292,000 in its first week and marked the first time Bon Jovi ever debuted at Number One on the charts. The group has had chart-topping albums prior to that -- first in 1986 with Slippery When Wet and then in 1988 with New Jersey. Frontman Jon Bon Jovi tells us he and the band have come a long way since scoring their first Number One album: "You ...
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11/19/2009
Don Henley says that he's not sure if in the current political climate real progress can be accomplished in America. When asked by ifpress.com how he feels about the Obama administration, he explained, "In its present condition, with its rabidly partisan, corporate-controlled congress; its biased, infotainment-obsessed, ratings-driven news media -- which is now being supplanted by amateurs on the Web -- and its chronically uninformed and bitterly divided electorate, I'm not sure that the U.S. can be effectively led or governed by anybody, anymore."
When asked if like so many of his peers, he's ever thought about writing his memoirs, ...
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