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BackstageAxxesshas
issued a new video interview with Peter Criss. "In
the midst of his current book tour, we at BackstageAxxess were
grateful that we were able to sit down and talk to this legendary
drummer. We talked about his unique relationship with his mom. We
also chatted away about his love of his idol Gene Krupa. In addition,
we talked about what took place when he signed his first record deal
with KISS. Plus much more was discussed as well."
Like
Black Country Communion's previous albums (2010's self-titled debut
and 2011's "2"), "Afterglow" was
produced by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden,
Aerosmith, the Black Crowes), who formed the band after watching
Bonamassa and Hughes perform together at a Guitar Center event
in November 2009.
Afterwards,
Shirley got in touch with Sherinian and Bonham to round out the group
and they released their debut album in September 2010. Classic
Rock Magazine called
it "Possibly the best hard rock album of 2010." A mere nine
months later, the group released their sophomore album "2". Guitar
World named
it #12 in their Top 50 Albums of 2011;Planet
Rock Radio listeners
crowned them Best New Band; in November, BCC scooped up the
Breakthrough Award at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards.
BraveWords.comreports that following
Europe’s interview about the making of "The Final Countdown" of BBC 1 Television’s "The One Show", the band will
start their "Bag Of Bones" UK tour at the Birmingham O2 Academy on
Wednesday, November 21, with special guests Stonerider.
If
you missed Europe’s interview on "The One Show" last night, you can
view it online via BBC iPlayer here. Europe
vocalist Joey Tempest believes that 2009’s "Last Look At Eden" album
was a significant turning point for the band. That album proved to be
Europe’s most important record since "The Final Countdown". Now, with
the release of their current album "Bag Of Bones", Tempest says,
“Europe is ready to do some serious damage.”
UK
tour dates: November 21
- Birmingham, England - 02 Academy 22
- Glasgow, Scotland - 02 ABC 23
- Manchester, England - HMV Ritz 25
- Newcastle, England - 02 Academy 26
- Leeds, England - 02 Academy 27
- Nottingham, England - Rock City 29
- Bristol, England - 02 Academy 30
- Cardiff, England - Coal Exchange December 1
- London, England - 02 Shepherds Bush Empire
Tickets
for the upcoming UK tour can be ordered from www.eventim.co.uk,
www.seetickets.com and www.ticketweb.co.uk or call the 24-hour box
office: 0844 477 2000.
Black
Sabbath today
announced their widely rumored and highly anticipated reunion for
their first Australian shows in nearly 40 years.
Dates:
April 25:
Brisbane Entertainment Centre - Brisbane, Australia 27:
Allphones Arena - Sydney, Australia
May 1:
Rod Laver Arena - Melbourne, Australia 4:
Perth Arena - Perth, Australia
My
Live Nation members can access tickets first, during the exclusive
member pre-sale starting at 9am tomorrow, Friday November 2. Sign up
at Livenation.com.au.
Tickets for these once-in-a-lifetime shows will go on sale at midday,
Thursday November 8.
Here`s the press release from the official Black Sabbath website:
BLACK
SABBATH
Australian
Tour 2013
Original
Band Members Reunite for First Aussie Shows in nearly 40 Years
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 1, 2012 – BLACK SABBATH – the band credited with
creating heavy metal and one of the most influential bands of all
time - today announced their widely rumored and highly anticipated
reunion for their first Australian shows in nearly 40 years.
Original
band members – the Prince of Darkness himself: Ozzy Osbourne,
bassist Geezer Butler and guitarist Tony Iommi will make a thunderous
return to Australia in April 2013 for arena shows in Brisbane,
Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, in their first Aussie shows since 1974.
Tickets
for these once-in-a-lifetime shows will go on sale at midday,
Thursday November 8.
My
Live Nation members can access tickets first, during the exclusive
member pre-sale starting at 9am tomorrow, Friday November 2. Sign up
at www.livenation.com.au
Hailing
from Birmingham, England, Black Sabbath released their self-titled
debut album on February 13, 1970. Their follow up album, the seminal
masterpiece, UK #1 album Paranoid, - featured the all-time rock
anthems War Pigs and Iron Man as well as the title track, Paranoid.
Black
Sabbath has sold in excess of 70 million records worldwide. More than
40 years on, this Iconic band continues to be held in the highest
regard:
“Greatest
Metal Band of All Time” – MTV
“Amongst
the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time” – Rolling Stone
“Iron
Man…One of the Greatest Metal Songs of All Time” – VH-1
“Paranoid
is the birthplace of heavy metal” – Time Magazine
Black
Sabbath was honoured with an induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame
in 2005, followed by the US Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006,
where they were inducted by Metallica’s James Hetfield and Lars
Ulrich.
In
June 2012 Black Sabbath memorably headlined the 10th Download
Festival at Donington before a crowd of 100,000. They followed that
show in August with a much talked about headlining set at 2012’s
sold-out Lollapalooza Festival in Chicago.
Black
Sabbath is currently recording their first new studio album in more
than 33 years, helmed by seven-time Grammy winning producer, Rick
Rubin. The album is due for release in April 2013.
Prepare
to be blown away by these living Rock Legends:
BLACK
SABBATH. Never Say Die!
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Ian
Gillan did an interview for Michigan radio station WJRW.
They have talked about the new album, the Ron’n'Roll Hall of Fame
induction, the late Jon Lord, Jesus Christ Superstar, and some other
things. You can listen to the interview online.
Deep Purple and Journey have announced more shows on their Australasian
tour which commences at the Vector Arena in Auckland on Sunday
February 24, 2013. Complete
dates include: February 24
- Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand
26
- Brisbane Entertainment Centre - Brisbane, Australia
March 1
- Rod Laver Arena - Melbourne, Australia 2 - Sydney
Entertainment Centre - Sydney, Australia 4 - Adelaide
Entertainment Centre - Adelaide, Australia 7 - Perth Arena -
Perth, Australia
According
to Faster
Louder,
a Black SabbathAustralian
tour announcement on Halloween seems imminent as a mysterious video
posted by promoters Live NationWednesday
morning (Australian time) suggests that the reunited band could be
announcing a tour. The seven-second video (which has since been
removed from YouTube) promises that "darkness descends"
tonight at 10:00 p.m. (Australian time) before directing fans towards
a collection of Sabbathclips.
A Black
Sabbath Australian
tour announcement on Halloween seems a little too perfect to be true,
but a mysterious video posted by promoters Live Nation this morning
suggests that Ozzy
Osbourne and
co. could be announcing an imminent tour.
The
seven second video (watch below) shows a heaving crowd of punters in
black. It promises that “darkness descends” tonight at 10pm
before directing you towards a collection of Sabbath clips.
This
driving rocker is an echo directly from Aerosmith's earliest
hit-making years, and could arguably fit easily on any of their
classic Seventies albums. A collision of guitars erupts behind an
excited Steven Tyler, who rips through an avalanche of innuendo and
explicit sexuality: "You get a thrill from the smell of her
hair/You get a high from the taste of her wet/It's certified,
bu-bu-bu-but chu ain't getting there yet!"
It
begins with a false start and a groan from drummer Joey Kramer, then
dives in without a break until it crashes to a shriek and a close.
It's the kind of sound many fans have expected to come with the
return of producer Jack Douglas, chief collaborator on Aerosmith's
first decade of career-defining work. (Douglas also plays some
percussion on "Lover Alot.")
Never
tired of the road, Saxon announce the UK leg of their Sacrifice World
Tour in support of the upcoming album of the same name. The New Wave
of British Heavy Metal legends will play 9 dates in April 2013 and
they can’t wait to share their new material on stage. Throughout
the years, Saxon have been touring relentlessly and earning an
excellent reputation for the quality and energy of their
performances. This is documented in their "Heavy Metal Thunder –
The Movie", which is released on 7th December. As UK fans await "Sacrifice" with the same anticipation reserved for Saxon’s
previous work, they know the spring shows will be - as always - a
treat not to be missed.
Biff Byford says “People have been
asking me if this is going to be our last album and tour - we don’t
know yet we’ll see how it goes.”
Full details
are:
18.04.2013 UK Leamington Spa - Assembly 19.04.2013 UK
Nottingham - Rock City 20.04.2013 UK Newcastle -
Academy 21.04.2013 UK Glasgow - ABC 23.04.2013 UK Manchester -
Ritz 24.04.2013 UK Leeds - Academy 26.04.2013 UK Wolverhampton
- Wulfrun Hall 27.04.2013 UK London - Shepherd's Bush
Empire 28.04.2013 UK Bristol - Academy
Tickets for all
venues are priced at £18.50 except for London* where they are £20.00
(all subject to booking fee). Tickets available at Kililive.com Tel:
0844 871 8803 and usual outlets. Doors for all venues open at
7pm.
After more than 35 years and 13 million albums sold
worldwide, Saxon are still relentless and passionate as they were
back in the days of ‘Wheels of Steel’ and ‘Denim and Leather’.
The influential heavy metal outfit has been an inspiration for the
likes of Metallica and Megadeth and a front-runner for the New Wave
of British Heavy Metal sweeping the nation in the late 70s-early 80s.
New Studio album "Sacrifice" out on February 25th, will be album
number 20 in their stellar career, and fans are as excited as they
were when Saxon first made their initial impact on the metal scene.
Steven
Tyler and Carrie Underwood performed a duet this year on a Country
Music Television special and rocked Aerosmith's classic "Walk
This Way" and her hit "Undo It" together at the 2011
Academy of Country Music Awards. Since graduating from Idol,
Underwood has been awarded a pile of Grammys and platinum records as
a country pop singer, but she's also become a true believer in brand
Tyler, even performing a cover of Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion"
on her current tour.
The
two sings duet on "Can`t Stop Loving You" on the new Aerosmith album.
Find out what what Steven thinks and listen to the song here.
Peter
Mensch, the manager of Led Zeppelinguitarist Jimmy
Page, told the U.K.'s Sunday Timesthat
the legendary axeman is holed up in a west London studio "remastering
every Led Zeppelin LP."
It is believed that the new remasters, which are tentatively due next
year, will possibly include alternate takes and unreleased material
as well. Pagerecently
told Mojomagazine
that there are plans to release each Zeppelinstudio
album as a box set with additional material from each LP. In
addition, it was revealed in an article in The Australianthat
artistShepard Fairleyhas
been tapped to re-design the artwork for the upcoming
reissues. Pagerecently
told a British radio station that he is working on new music, which
might be released before the end of the year. During a chat with BBC
Radio, Pagesaid,
"I'm just looking forward to making some music and surprising
people with it. It won't be just teaming up with lots of people who
are [big] names. I've got an idea of something which I've had for a
long time and now's the time to do it." Pageremained
ambiguous when talking about the still-unnamed project, saying: "I
have got other ideas that have been nagging at me for a long long
time, I think the way to present music is same picture different
frame, and sometimes this frame is quite radical."
Professionally
filmed video footage of Metallica's October 27 performance at
the Voodoo Music + Arts Experienceat
New Orleans City Park can be seen below. The band joined the festival
billing as the replacement for Green Day, which canceled
its Voodooappearance
two weeks ago, presumably due to frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's
onstage breakdown and subsequent rehab enrollment. Metallica's
setlist:
01. Hit
The Lights 02. Master
Of Puppets 03. Holier
Than Thou 04. Harvester
Of Sorrow 05. Of
Wolf And Man 06. Welcome
Home (Sanitarium) 07. All
Nightmare Long 08. Sad
But True 09. Fade
To Black 10. Orion 11. One 12. For
Whom The Bell Tolls 13. Blackened 14. Nothing
Else Matters 15. Enter
Sandman 16. Creeping
Death 17. Battery 18. Seek
And Destroy
On
Saturday, October 27, Ritchie Blackmoreand
his wife, Candice Night, spoke to 103.9 WRCN-FM, Long
Island's classic rock radio station, about Ritchie's
distinguished career and their medieval/renaissance
group, Blackmore's Night. You can now listen to the 36 minute chat in
the YouTubeclip
below:
In
their early years, KISSreleased
a total of 29 singles on seven-inch 45 RPM records for
the Casablancalabel.
These were available for sale to the public, used for commercial
radio airplay and to promote album sales. Many of these singles had
entirely different mixes, edits and material that didn't appear on
their vinyl albums. Now for the first time, these musical snapshots
of KISS'
formative years, which have never been available in a commemorative
singles edition, entitled "The
Casablanca Singles 1974-1982",
on Mercury/Casablanca/UMe,
will be available in December in two box set configurations:
*
29 Seven-Inch Vinyl *
29 CDs (available through all retail)
In
typical KISSfashion,
these are no ordinary boxes. The sets are housed in a beautiful die
cut shadow box with a limited edition etched silver metal plate and
ribbon pull magnetic closure custom KISS45s
box with 26 collectible picture sleeves from original single releases
around the world, including Japan, Germany, Holland, Spain and
Britain. The vinyl collection also features singles from all four
solo albums in purple, blue, red and green vinyl with a mask picture
sleeve representing each individual member as originally released in
the U.K. Both sets include a booklet which tracks the genesis and
chart history of each single represented in the package. "The
Casablanca Singles 1974-1982"covers KISS'
remarkable eight-year stay on Bogart's
label, from their very first, "Nothin'
to Lose"b/w "Love
Theme from KISS",
from their self-titled debut to their very first charted 45, "Kissin'
Time".
The band's subsequent string of hits included "Dressed
to Kill"'s
live version of "Rock
and Roll All Nite"(#12
on Billboard's
Hot 100), "Destroyer"'s "Shout
It Out Loud"(#31)
and the Top 10 ballad"Beth", "Rock
And Roll Over"'s "Hard
Luck Woman"(#15)
and "Calling
Dr. Love"(#16), "Love
Gun"'s "Christeen
Sixteen"(#25), Ace
Frehley's
solo hit, "New
York Groove"(#13)
and "Dynasty"'s "I
Was Made for Lovin' You"(#11). "Even
I haven't heard some of this stuff, but this is all part of our
master plan to celebrate KISSat
this milestone in our careers," says Gene
Simmons.
"This box set represents us at the very beginning of our career,
and documents the band's early success and subsequent
growth." Adds Paul
Stanley:
"This collection is meant for the true KISSaficionado.
The packaging really captures the development of both our music and
image at a very crucial period in the band's history." The
special set comes out a month after the release of "Monster",
their 20th studio album. Showing the band at the top of its
game, "Monster"embodies
all that is KISSand
the music that first inspired them to pick up their guitars and
flame-throwers and don makeup to entertain millions. Gene
Simmonsand Paul
Stanley,
with longtime members guitarist Tommy
Thayerand
drummer Eric
Singer,
return stronger than ever with their new album to continue the legacy
of the spectacular larger-than-life extravaganza, known
as, KISS. For
more information, go this
location.
"On
Stage" is a live album originally released in 1977. The album was
recorded live over several German and Japanese dates in late 1976
during the "Rising" world tour. Producer Martin Birch spliced many of
the tracks together from different dates. "Long
Live Rock 'n' Roll" is the third studio album released in 1978. This
was the last Rainbow album to feature Ronnie James Dio on
vocals.
"On
Stage"
Disc
1 Over
The Rainbow Kill
The King Medley:
Man On The Silver Mountain Blues Starstruck Catch
The Rainbow Mistreated Sixteenth
Century Greensleeves Still
I'm Sad
Disc
2 (bonus tracks) – Live Osaka 9/12/1976 Kill
The King Mistreated Sixteenth
Century Greensleeves Catch
The Rainbow Medley:
Man On The Silver Mountain Stargazer Still
I'm Sad Do
You Close Your Eyes (Previously unreleased) Long
Live Rock N' Roll
"Long
Live Rock 'n' Roll" Disc
1 Long
Live Rock 'n' Roll Lady
Of The Lake LA
Connection Gates
Of Babylon Kill
The King The
Shed (subtle) Sensitive
To Light Rainbow
Eyes
Disc
2: Rough Mix's 02/07/1977: Lady
Of The Lake Sensitive
To Light LA
Connection Kill
The King The
Shed (subtle) Long
Live Rock N Roll Kill
The King Shepperton
Studio Rehearsals: Long
Live Rock 'n' Roll Rainbow
Eyes Don
Don
Kirschner Show with Alt Vocals: Long
Live Rock 'n' Roll Kill
The King Long
Live Rock 'n' Roll LA
Connection Gates
Of Babylon
Voivodwill
release their new album, "Target Earth", on January
22, 2013 (one day earlier internationally) via Voivod's own
company, Iron Gang Factory, and Century Media. The CD was
recorded in January at Pierre Rémillard's Wild Studioin
a small town called St-Zénon in Quebec, Canada and was mixed
by Sanford Parker.
The
follow-up to 2009's "Infini"will
contain the band's first music to be written with new
guitarist Daniel "Chewy" Mongrain (Martyr) following
the passing of original axeman Denis "Piggy" D'Amourin
2005. The original art was once again drawn by Voivoddrummer Michel
"Away" Langevinand
features color schemes from each one of the band's previous albums.
The effort will be available as a CD, gatefold double vinyl and a
limited edition deluxe box set.
"Target
Earth"track
listing:
01. Target
Earth 02. Kluskap
O'Kom 03. Empathy
for the Enemy 04. Mechanical
Mind 05. Warchaic 06. Resistance 07. Kaleidos 08. Corps
Étranger 09. Artefact 10. Defiance
The
working title was "Sweet Jesus," but producer Jack Douglas
suggested "Street Jesus." Tyler went with it, inspired by
his frequent sightings of a man well over six feet tall who wanders
the streets of Los Angeles dressed
as Jesus Christ.
In the song, a rushed Tyler sings, "Somebody stole my shoes/
Man, I could smell the booze... After that thief I ran/ Into another
man who had no feet."
"I
sat down, put pad to paper and, before you know it, I had a bunch of
one-liners or 10-liners about a story like that – about the holes
in my shoes and the holes in his hand," Tyler recalls, "teaching
in church what you learn in the street."
The
finished song is the new album's second-longest track. Tyler compares
the tempo and feel to Aerosmith's "Jailbait" from 1982, but
bassist Tom Hamilton looks back further: "Steven nailed the
lyric on it. It reminds me of a classic British thing from the
Sixties."
Deep
Purple kicked off their Russian dates on October 24th in Ekaterinburg
at DIVS Arena. The band hit St. Petersburg (27th), Moscow (28th) and
Krasnodar (30th) on this tour. The
first night set-list was as follows:
'Fireball' 'Into
the Fire' 'Hard
Lovin' Man' 'Maybe
I'm a Leo' 'Strange
Kind of Woman' 'The
Battle Rages On' 'Contact
Lost' Guitar
Solo (by Steve Morse) 'Wasted
Sunsets' 'The
Well-Dressed Guitar 'The
Mule' (with drum solo by Ian Paice) 'Lazy' 'No
One Came' Keyboard
Solo (by Don Airey) 'Perfect
Strangers' 'Space
Truckin'' 'Smoke
on the Water' Encore: 'Highway
Star' 'Hush' Bass
Solo (by Roger Glover) 'Black
Night'
