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B Sides for 07/21/2014



Guns N' Roses Spend Second Week At No.1
Guns N' Roses have scored their second week at No. 1 on the Billboard's Music DVD chart for their new concert film "Appetite For Democracy 3D: Live at the Hard Rock Casino - Las Vegas."

As we previously reported, the film was released as a standard 2D DVD and Blu-Ray featuring the 3D and 2D versions. Both the DVD and Blu-Ray feature 5.1 Surround Sound and include bonus interviews with the band.

"Appetite For Democracy 3D" runs just under 3 hours and was filmed in November 2012 when the band launched their first Las Vegas Residency at the Joint in the Hard Rock Casino.

You can order the Blu-Ray here and the DVD here.


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Eric Clapton Documentary Streaming Online
Amazon have premiered a mini-documentary film about Eric Clapton and friend's new album that pays tribute to JJ Cale, "Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze, An Appreciation of JJ Cale," which will be released on July 29th.

Fans can watch the new documentary here. We were sent these details about the album:
Eric Clapton has often stated that JJ Cale is one of the single most important figures in rock history, a sentiment echoed by many of his fellow musicians. Cale's influence on Clapton was profound, and his influence on many more of today's artists cannot be overstated. To honor JJ's legacy, a year after his passing, Clapton gathered a group of like-minded friends and musicians for Eric Clapton & Friends: The Breeze, An Appreciation of JJ Cale. With performances by Clapton, Mark Knopfler, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Derek Trucks and Don White, the album features 16 beloved JJ Cale songs and is named for the 1972 single "Call Me The Breeze."

"I would like people to tap into what JJ Cale did - that's the point. I'm just the messenger; I've always felt that that's my job. I try to interpret things so that the public at large, or at least the people who listen to what I do, will become intrigued about where I got it from," said Clapton.

After years admiring JJ Cale's work and covering several of his songs such as "After Midnight" and "Cocaine", Clapton finally collaborated with Cale for the first time in his career on the 2006 original album Road to Escondido. At the time, Clapton said "This is the realization of what may have been my last ambition, to work with the man whose music has inspired me for as long as I can remember." more.

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Paul McCartney Sings 'Scrambled Eggs' in Minimation Clip
(Radio.com) On Minimation, we comb through the archives of legendary New York radio station WNEW-FM and animate interviews with legendary rock artists. This installment is taken from a 1984 interview with Paul McCartney, who discusses the origins of one of his biggest hits, the Beatles' "Yesterday." This Minimation was created for Radio.com by John Morena.

Most Beatles fans have heard Paul McCartney talk about how the original lyrics to "Yesterday" were "Scrambled eggs/oh baby how I love your legs!" But they've never seen it rendered quite like this.

In 1984, at the time of this interview, Paul was promoting his Give My Regards To Broad Street film and soundtrack album, which saw him re-recording several Beatles classics, including "Here, There and Everywhere," "The Long and Winding Road" and "Yesterday." In the interview, he tells Muni, "When something's just so successful� people often don't want to do the big one."

At that time, McCartney was in the midst of a decade long hiatus from the road, and even when he did tour, he leaned more heavily on his solo catalog - it should be noted however, that he did play "Yesterday," which was included on his classic 1976 live record Wings Over America.

But when McCartney hit the road in 1989 for his Flowers in the Dirt album, he seemed to make peace with his Beatles legacy and in the decades since, has featured lots of Fab Four songs in his sets. However, "Scrambled Eggs" is still a rarity.

Watch a rather psychedelic take on McCartney's interview with legendary WNEW DJ Scott Muni here.

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Young Guns Wrapping Up Work On New Album
Young Guns have revealed that they are putting the finishing touches on their new album, recorded in Bath, England, with producer Steve Osborne (Joy Division, U2, Peter Gabriel) with mixing by Damian Taylor (Arcade Fire, Bjork, The Killers,).

"We're beyond excited," says lead singer Gustav Wood. "We've pushed ourselves hard to become better songwriters and challenged ourselves to be more creative. We're extremely proud of the results and feel this our best work to date."

The yet-untitled disc is due for an early 2015 release, with the band previewing select songs during their upcoming North American tour with fellow Brits You Me At Six.

"The past few years have been amazing for us," says Wood. "We've gone from buying a van on the internet and booking our own shows to having a number one single on American radio. But this is only the beginning for this band. We're excited to return to the States this fall with You Me at Six and begin the next chapter of our story."

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ZZ Top's Billy F Gibbons Tributes Johnny Winter
ZZ Top's Billy F Gibbons has paid tribute to Blues legend Johnny Winter who was found dead in Zurich, Switzerland hotel room last Wednesday (July 16th).

Gibbons had this to say, " When I first saw Johnny perform, I was, maybe 12 or 13, and he was known as 'Johnny Cool Daddy Winter' and we've always thought of him as exactly that: 'One Cool Daddy'.

"Johnny became a dear and passionate friend as well as the accomplished bluesman we have come to admire. It's now a moment for celebration of his brilliance frozen for all time.

"We've lost another of the gifted guitar greats and a truly soulful spirit."

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Chelsea Grin Release 'Clockwork' Video
Chelsea Grin has released a new music video for the track "Clockwork", which comes off the band's just released new studio album "Ashes To Ashes".

The album was produced by Chelsea Grin and Diego Farias (Animals As Leaders, Volumes, Stray From The Path) and the clock work video was directed by Ryan Sheehy.

Ashes To Ashes debuted at #27 on the Billboard Top 200 with over 10,100 units sold in its first week of release. This marks Chelsea Grin's highest career charting debut and also their biggest U.S. sales week.

The album also enters on a number of other Billboard charts including #4 at Hard Music, #8 at Rock and #16 at Digital. Watch the new video here.

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Weird Al Releases 'Sports Song' Video
(Radio.com) Weird Al Yankovic is best known for his song parodies, which lampoon the popular tunes of the day by adding new lyrics and additionally aping the original's mannerisms. But occasionally, it's forgotten that Yankovic will toss up his own original material on each album too, generally doing these songs in the style of a popular artist or tradition.

In the case of Mandatory Fun, Weird Al took from the styles of Foo Fighters, Crosby Stills & Nash and more - as well as the traditional marching band theme song played at sports games, which is the focus of "Sports Song," his fifth music video in his eight-video series, released Friday (July 18).

"Sports Song" finds Al and his band backed up by an entire army of a marching band, sauntering down the football field as they sing the praises of their team. You know, "their team." The team that's going to kick the butt of your team. Because your team is inferior.

The amusing part of "Sports Song" is how it boils down every fight song you've heard at a sporting event to its most basic parts: we're better than you, our team rules, yours sucks. "We're great, and you suck!" Yankovic sings in the clip, hosted by Funny or Die, as the crowd cheers on, smashing beer mugs and generally having a raucous time applauding their team that - "full disclosure" - might not actually be that great.

Watch the video here.

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Metallica Release Live Orion Video
(hennemusic) Metallica performed "Orion", the instrumental from 1986's "Master Of Puppets" during their July 8th show in Prague, Czech Republic, and the band are now sharing video from the event.

The footage also includes the band warming up in the tuning room, as well as "St. Anger" from the show. Metallica recently wrapped up their "By Request" European tour and will perform at Heavy Montreal on August 9.

"Orion" was the lone instrumental on "Master Of Puppets", the band's third album and final one with bassist Cliff Burton, who died tragically in a tour bus accident in Sweden in September of 1986.

The album peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 on its way to selling more than 6 million copies in the States alone. Check out the video here.

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Motley Crue Preview Rascal Flatts Cover
(hennemusic) Motley Crue are previewing Rascal Flatts' version of "Kickstart My Heart" from the forthcoming album, "Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute To Motley Crue."

"I dig the energy on it," says bassist Nikki Sixx. "It pays tribute to the original, yet I imagine when these guys play this thing live�and their crowd� they're gonna rip it up because it sounds like them. It's their song now."

Due August 19, the tribute project sees a variety of country artists covering Motley Crue tracks, including performances by LeAnne Rimes, Florida Georgia Line, Darius Rucker, Gretchen Wilson and more.

Check out the preview here.

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Van Halen's David Lee Roth Shows Off New Tattoo
(hennemusic) Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth is showing off his latest tattoo in a new video filmed at LAX on Friday. Roth was spotted at the airport after returning from Japan.

X17online reports that Roth recently received the latest in a large catalogue of traditional Japanese tattoos. Roth says the body ink is by legendary horishi tattoo artist, Horiyoshi III, who specializes in Japanese traditional full-body tattoos.

The singer became a resident of Tokyo in 2012; he continues to maintain homes in New York City and Pasadena, California. Check out the video and Roth's tattoo here.

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Full KISS Show From North Carolina Streaming Online
(hennemusic) KISS streamed their concert from the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, NC on Saturday, and video of the band's complete Yahoo! Live webcast is available to stream online.

KISS performed their standard 15-song set as part of their summer tour with Def Leppard, which featured 9 tunes from the band's classic 1970s era. The KISS/Def Leppard run wraps up August 31 in Houston, Texas.

This fall, KISS will follow Guns N' Roses' and Motley Crue's lead and play their first Las Vegas residency. "KISS Rocks Vegas" will see the band perform 9 shows at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino between November 5th and 23rd.

Stream the Charlotte show here.

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Paul van Dyk Doesn't Have Time For 'EDM Soup'
(Radio.com) Paul van Dyk doesn't have time for what he calls "EDM soup." The veteran German DJ/producer has been making dance music and spinning at massive events around the world since the mid-'90s, existing in the upper echelon of first-generation "superstar DJs" who can still command headline status in the current whirlwind of EDM in America and beyond.

He's also a GRAMMY nominee, with his 2003 full-length, Reflections, among those that vied for the inaugural Best Dance/Electronica Album prize in 2005, which just so happened to be the first year that award was given out. Unfortunately, he went on to lose to Basement Jaxx and their album, Kish Kash. But, it's an honor just to be nominated.

While some of his contemporaries have stayed relevant by adapting to the changing tides in dance music, van Dyk has remained true to the trance sound he helped pioneer, pushing his music forward without succumbing to traditional pop leanings or catering to radio station formats.

"My look at electronic music comes from a different point," he explained during an interview with Radio.com. "When I started DJing, the DJ was the freak in the corner while other people had fun. It was about the music, and it developed from a small subculture into probably the biggest music culture in the world."

According to van Dyk, what we're seeing now is just an "influx in pop music," a wave of danceable music that has gotten the mainstream audience's attention. But Van Dyk knows how trends work.

"I mean, if one of the big rock bands comes up with a really cool album, then everything is rock driven again," he explained. "I don't want electronic music to die once the EDM hype is over. This music is there to stay forever, therefore we need to focus on artists who made music that lasts longer than three minutes on the radio."

van Dyk's serious passion for electronic music was palpable throughout the interview, with the artist proudly discussing the upcoming third edition of his popular Politics of Dancing series, which will be a mix compilation made entirely from all new original productions.

He's equally ardent about his legendary live shows, where he incorporates an array of instruments and gear to create a unique, one of a kind experience every night, running counter to the perception that DJ gigs are all about pressing play.

"When I'm playing now, I pretty much have a recording studio with me onstage. I have keyboards, computers, custom made mixers, a lot of controllers that enable me to be really interactive and actually play things," he said. "I prefer maybe me pressing the wrong key at some point and still be able to be live than everything being programmed and you just put the USB stick in the CD player, press play and then do this," he added, waving a hand in the air. "That has nothing to do with what electronic music means to me and the real followers of electronic music."

Watch van Dyk, who is on tour all summer, open up about everything from his favorite remixes to the one award that means the most to him in the exclusive video interview clip here.

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Ben Watt Returns With His First Solo Album in 31 Years
(Radio.com) The curse of the second album. It's one many artists, from Guns N' Roses to the Stone Roses, can attest to. A solid debut can take quite some time to follow up. In Ben Watt's case, it took 31 years.

To be fair, in those three decades he founded Everything But The Girl with his then girlfriend, now wife Tracey Thorn, played on Thorn's solo recordings, wrote two books including his latest Romany and Tom: A Memoir, became a club DJ and started a record label, Buzzin' Fly.

But in April, he released album number two, Hendra. And so, the question shouldn't be what took him so long, but why, after all this time, he wanted to make another album at all. And the answer is actually quite simple. "I just wanted to get back to guitar playing," he told Radio.com.

"Bernard Butler, who is my partner on the record, he used to be the guitarist in Suede, and we ran into each other at a party a couple of years ago, and I think we both realized we were in a similar space," Watt said. "I'd been running the label for ten years, he'd been in the studio producing other people for ten years, and we both suddenly thought, 'It'd be great to play guitar again, wouldn't it?' That's kind of how we came together."

Another party led him to meet another guitar legend: Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. It was a party for his book that took place in London before he was scheduled to head into the studio.

"It was mainly people from the [publishing] world, and we were introduced. And he was really friendly, and in the middle of the conversation, completely unexpectedly, he said, 'Would you like to hear my demos?' Which is not what you expect to hear from Pink Floyd's David Gilmour!" Watt said. "But he was serious, and he texted me a couple of days later, and said, 'I'd love to get together and talk about music.'"

Watt went to Gilmour's house and the two spent the day together listening to music over lunch. A couple of weeks later, Watt was working on a song that he thought Gilmour would sound great on. "I just texted him and said, 'How about it?' And he said, 'Sure!' And it was done in a couple of days, no managers."

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Lines West's Brian Larney Releasing New Album This Week
Lines West's Brian Larney will be releasing his sophomore solo album "Jupiter With You" this Tuesday, July 22nd on Nunya Records. We were sent these details:

Produced by Grammy-nominated producer David Mayfield @ Nashville's Toy Box Studio, "Jupiter With You" is a collection of 11 original songs which take the base roots rock feel of his band Lines West and adds gorgeous pop elements as well as an organic vintage feel having recorded the album with classic amps and guitars, tube mics and mono drums.

Says Larney: "I wanted to continue the dance somewhere between Indie-pop and Americana but also take this album one step further. The songs themselves feel like finely honed extensions of the songs on the first album, only they're way more relaxed, more at ease, and a lot more "live" sounding. Lyrically, this record is a bit of a departure too. Some of the headier topics on the first have given way to more emotional themes."

Visit his site for more here.

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L.C. Cooke's The Complete SAR Records Recordings Coming
(BM) ABKCO Records have announced that they will be releasing soul/gospel singer L.C. Cooke's The Complete SAR Records Recordings both digitally and on CD on July 29th.

We were sent these details: The vast majority of this historic material has never before been released on these formats. The world will finally have a chance to hear what could have easily been considered a classic album in its day were it not for a set of tragic circumstances that buried the release for more than a half century. L.C. Cooke recorded what was to be his debut album (tracks 1-10 on this collection) during the first half of the 1960s for his older brother Sam's SAR Records, notable for being one of the first artist-owned labels and having a roster that included Billy Preston, the latter-day Soul Stirrers (featuring Johnnie Taylor), and The Valentinos, the secular iteration of gospel's Womack Brothers.

Sam Cooke not only acted as label boss, but also producer and principal songwriter for L.C.'s studio efforts. "Sam had that canny thing about him, where he could just look at you and say, 'I'm going to write something that fits you,'" reminisces L.C., now age 80. However, "Put Me Down Easy," possibly the crown jewel of L.C.'s recorded output, was a song Sam had originally written for himself. "I said, 'That's my song, Sam.' So he laughed and said, 'Oh, you're going to take it just like that, huh?' I said, 'Yeah, I'm taking it.'"

Shortly after Sam Cooke's death in December of 1964, L.C.'s album was shelved. SAR did manage to release the bulk of these recordings on a series of singles between 1960 and 1964, which are all included on The Complete SAR Records Recordings. Along with the projected 10 track album, the release includes alternate takes and unreleased tracks. The set is augmented with two tracks L.C. Cooke recorded for Checker Records in 1959 ("If I Could Only Hear" and "I'm Falling") as well as "Do You Wanna Dance (Yea Man)," recorded and released in 1965 on Destination Records, making it the only post-Sam Cooke track on the collection. Track 13 ("Gonna Have A Good Time (Session Chatter)" offers unique insight into the Cooke brothers' studio interaction and cultural identity, wherein the elder Cooke instructs the younger to pronounce the lyric "before" as "'fore." "Don't forget our heritage," admonishes a mirthful Sam Cooke to his brother from the control room.

L.C. Cooke was backed by numerous talented musicians on the SAR sessions, which variously included Wrecking Crew notables Rene Hall (guitar), Earl Palmer (drums) and Plas Johnson (tenor sax). Label mates occasionally joined in, with Billy Preston on organ, and brothers Cecil and Bobby Womack on guitar.

ABKCO, which stewards the SAR Records catalog, is releasing this 18-track package that includes liner notes from renowned music historian and Cooke biographer (Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke) Peter Guralnick who is also the author of Lost Highway: Journeys & Arrivals of American Musicians. Tracklisting

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MCP Presents and SFX Entertainment
(MSO) Organizers for The Hudson Project festival have announced the details on the refund policy following Sunday's July 13th cancellation of performances due to weather concerns.

The festival was canceled based on recommendations from Ulster County emergency services and the Health Department. The Hudson Project was safely evacuated Sunday afternoon at 4:45 PM (ET) and the festival was ultimately cancelled at 8:00 PM (ET). Both the evacuation and cancellation were based on warnings from the National Weather Service (NWS) with recommendation from Ulster County officials and local authorities due to severe weather in the area and specifically flooding at the festival site.

All primary purchasers will be emailed refund details, as well as the process to follow in order to receive their refund(s). Sunday single-day tickets will receive a full refund; a 50% refund will be given to primary purchasers who bought two-day passes; and a 33.3% refund will be offered to three-day ticket and Onsite Overnight Parking Pass primary purchasers. The email will include a link allowing primary ticket purchasers to submit their refund request by August 1, 2014. Upon verification, eligible purchasers will receive an email confirmation from Flavorus confirming that the refund is being processed and will be applied to the credit card used for purchase within three weeks of submission. Please note: refunds are for face value of the ticket only; there are no refunds on shipping or processing fees or any ancillary tickets or packages (group camping, shuttles, upgrades or parking, etc.). In addition, THE HUDSON PROJECT is unable to refund tickets purchased through third parties.

In the months leading up to the event, festival promoters worked with New York State, Ulster County and Saugerties town officials to develop an emergency plan, including a contingency for weather evacuations.

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