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3/11/2010
Legendary Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has unveiled the lineup of his touring band, which will take to the road this spring in support of Slash's self-titled debut solo album. Joining previously announced vocalist Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge will be rhythm guitarist Bobby Schneck, who's toured with Weezer and Green Day, Alice Cooper and Vince Neil drummer Brent Fitz, and Big Wreck bass player Dave Henning. The band's first confirmed gig is at Ohio's Rock On The Range festival in May, with more dates to be confirmed soon.
Slash told us that he's really pleased to ...
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3/11/2010
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and producer Don Was talked about the upcoming expanded reissue of the Rolling Stones' 1972 watershed release, Exile On Main Street. The reissue will feature four outtakes from the original sessions -- including one called "Following The River" which Jagger recently wrote lyrics to and recorded the song's first set of vocals. Jagger explained the process, telling Rolling Stone, "I just started from nothing on that. The core tape of it was the piano and the drums, bass, and guitar. There was no top line or lyric. I started from scratch -- I mean, that's what ...
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3/11/2010
Coming on March 29th is The Very Best Of Free & Bad Company Featuring Paul Rodgers. The 15-track British import will also be released as a 26-track expanded iTunes version featuring solo tracks along with those by the Firm -- Rodgers' 1980's band with Jimmy Page, and the Law -- his 1990's short-lived team up with the Faces and Who drummer Kenney Jones. The full 26-track online version marks the first time Rodgers' entire career has been chronicled on one collection.
The full iTunes tracklist for The Very Best Of Free & Bad Company Featuring Paul Rodgers is: Bad Company: ...
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3/11/2010
Kiss is partnering with E1 Entertainment in Canada to produce and all new comedic TV series, according to The Canadian Press. Both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley will serve as executive producers on the project. Stanley said in a press statement, "Coupling E1's successes and ingenuity with the global force of Kiss guarantees an express pass into the homes of our youngest Kiss Army members with a show of superior quality."
Stanley admits that he's never surprised by how deep Kiss' fan devotion continues to run worldwide: "It really for me, resoundingly once again, I guess validates for me why ...
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3/11/2010
Puddle Of Mudd has announced a new string of tour dates slated to begin on April 1st in Anaheim, California, with the trek extending deep into May. Dates are even beginning to pop up in late June for the group, with frontman Wes Scantlin telling us that he has no idea when he might get a break: "I do not know. All I know is I'm on, you know, this bus becomes my life and I look at the schedule and all these shows just keep getting stacked up and stacked up. And everybody calls me and wants me to ...
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3/11/2010
Saving Abel has set Miss America as the title of the band's sophomore album, according to Tunelab Music. The record is set for a June 8th release, with the Mississippi-based rock band starting a new U.S. tour on Thursday (March 11th) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. More dates are penciled in for April, May and June, with information about a first single also on the way.
Drummer Blake Dixon told us that fans can expect the band to have progressed lyrically and musically after two straight years of full-time touring: "You know, it's kind of hard to write about pest control ...
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3/11/2010
Ringo Starr revealed that for his latest album, Y Not, he actually recorded the songs from the ground up by creating the tracks alone on synthesizer. Ringo mainly recorded the new collection at his home in L.A. taking a more active production role than in recent years.
We asked him what prompted the welcomed twist on record making: "Y'know the creative brief was that I was sitting at home with nothing better to do in L.A., and I had Pro-Tools and I had a few synthesizers in one of the bedrooms we sort of transffered into a studio -- 'cause ...
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3/10/2010
Out now is the new Jimi Hendrix vault collection Valleys Of Neptune which features previously unreleased tracks recorded by the guitarist between October 1968 and 1970. The 12-song, 60-minute set also features covers of Elmore James' blues classic "Bleeding Heart," Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love," as well as such Hendrix originals as "Ships Passing Through The Night," "Lullaby For The Summer" and the original undubbed Jimi Hendrix Experience rendition of "Hear My Train A Comin'."
Hendrix's step-sister, Janie Hendrix, the CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC, says that fans can look forward to many more Hendrix releases in the future: "At ...
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3/10/2010
Are Guns N' Roses playing three private shows in South America? According to reports published on Billboard.com and other outlets, they are. But according to Blabbermouth, spokesperson Fernando Lebeis, son of Axl Rose's personal assistant Beta Lebeis, has denied the reports, saying they're not.
Promoter Jamison Ernest announced on Monday (March 8th) that the band would play secret gigs in Brazil and Argentina this Thursday (March 11th) and on March 20th, with a third Brazilian show also in the works. Each venue was slated to hold about 150 people, according to Reuters, with the locations being kept under wraps to ...
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3/10/2010
The soundtrack to Tom DiCillo's upcoming Doors documentary When You're Strange will be released on April 6th, three days before the film opens. When You're Strange features never-before-seen footage of the band -- including band rehearsals, live concert and TV appearances, and digitally-remastered clips from Highway - An American Pastoral, a 1969 art film made by and starring Jim Morrison.
The When You're Strange soundtrack includes live performances from the Doors' 1967 Ed Sullivan Show appearance, as well as their legendary set at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival. Johnny Depp, who narrates the film, is featured reciting Morrison's poetry.
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