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Van Halen Finish Recording Comeback Album
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Many fans eager for news of the outfit's long-awaited comeback will be disappointed to speculate that bassist Michael Anthony is still being treated like he was never there.
"The new Van Halen record has been recorded and we're all excited. We've just started mixing the record," Hogarth tells Ultimate Guitar. "it's the killing side of Van Halen at the top of their game again with Diamond Dave, and the band on fire.
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McCartney and Ringo Forming New Beatles?
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When asked on American television if he'd be appearing, he nodded, before saying, "I hear there's a rumour that I might be involved." Referring to The Beatles, he said, "I hear they're planning this sort of music."
British newspaper The Sun has gone a step further, with an unnamed source reporting: "The organizers want the music legend to appear alongside other big British acts. And they also want Ringo on stage as well to make it extra special."
And that's not all. The paper suggests that McCartney and Starr might join the children of the late George Harrison and John Lennon to perform in a Beatles reunion.
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Motorhead Star Died With A Laugh and a Drink
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The ex-axeman, 61, passed away on Saturday after having lived with cardiomyopahty, a disease of the heart muscle, for a number of years.
The band say: "We are greatly saddened to confirm our long-time friend and comrade died at his home. Wurz was pouring a Guinness and cracking a joke when he succumbed to a heart attack. At least we know he went with a smile."
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Motley Crue 'Too Stupid To Do Anything Else'
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"It's a cool thing for me," Mars told Birmingham Weekly "People are there holding up their kids. Our fans are growing up and have kids and it's cool to see that."
When asked how the band have managed to keep it together all these years, Mars waxed philosophical. "Because we are all too stupid to do anything else," he laughed. "I don't know�it's 30 years' worth of stuff and it's like a family. We have our spats, just like any other family kind of thing. It's like Thanksgiving�everybody can argue about how the turkey is cooked. That gives you an idea of how things can get petty. You go off for a month and then you start talking, it's that kind of a deal. It's not a big deal at all."
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Iron Maiden Singer Rejects TV Show Offer
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"That show sounds so crap and demeaning to everyone involved, I took great delight in turning the BBC down," he said. "The X Factor is appalling enough, it's no better than Opportunity Knocks."
The BBC is attempting to rival The X Factor with The Voice, which was a hit show this spring for NBC. On the U.S. edition, the judging panel was made up of Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.
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Slash Goes Disney
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The Chapeaued Shredder revealed to Blabbermouth that he recently wrote and performed a song for the Disney Channel original movie, Phineas and Ferb: The Movie�Across the 2nd Dimension. He admitted that the show is a "guilty pleasure." The Velvet Revolver guitarist also revealed that he will appear in an animated video in conjunction with the movie, which he called "very rock and roll, even for a cartoon."
Phineas and Ferb: The Movie�Across the 2nd Dimension will be released as a two-disc DVD set on August 23.
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Arctic Monkeys Announce New North American Tour Leg
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The new leg is set to kick off on September 28th in Vancouver, BC and will run through mid October and will feature support from Smith Westerns.
Before co-headlining Hollywood Bowl with TV On The Radio on September 25th, they will be joining the Brooklyn band for two newly announced shows in Las Vegas and San Diego.
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Weezer and The Flaming Lip To Play Side By Side At Upcoming Shows
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Scoop sent over the following details about the gigs: With their respective gear set up side-by-side, Weezer and The Flaming Lips will literally share the stage together on Thursday, July 28th in New Jersey and Friday, July 29th in New York.
Weezer and the Flaming Lips will trade off songs back and forth for the entire length of each concert, allowing them to take turns playing a few songs each in one big exciting set. Yeasayer will open each show.
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LaBrie Says Dream Theater Are Better Without Mike Portnoy
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The drummer made his surprise decision last year while he was touring with Avenged Sevenfold. Dream Theater replaced him with Mike Mangini, with whom they recorded upcoming album A Dramatic Turn of Events. They're now touring with Mangini � and LaBrie tells Prog Sphere the difference is clear.
"We were talking about how everything is much more balanced and everyone is in their role or their position," says LaBrie. "It's where things should be on stage where it's not somebody in the background trying to grab the limelight, when maybe they should just be grooving or whatever.
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Judas Priest Planning New Classic Metal Album
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"Of course, we will continue to record as well� we have already written an album's worth of material," he said. "Three songs are properly recorded and roughly mixed."
So what does the new stuff sound like? "It's gonna be a great album and it's gonna carry on from where Angel of Retribution left off," Hill said. "We got Nostradamus out of our system and now we are heading towards classic Priest metal� the screams, the fast, the slow and the heavy! A little bit of everything."
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The Strokes and Elvis Costello Duet To Be Released
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Nevertheless, the album has had legs, bolstered by high-profile festival gigs in the U.S. and U.K. And it should get a similar push with news this week that the single, "Taken for a Fool," will feature a B-side duet version of the song with the legendary Elvis Costello.
Costello performed the song onstage with the band earlier this year at Madison Square Garden after appearing as their unlikely support act. The performance was recorded and is set for release with the single on July 26, according to ClashMusic.
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Chickenfoot's Michael Anthony Can Still Get High
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"For some reason, my voice doesn't age," he told Joe Bosso of Music Radar. "I can still hit those high harmonies just like I did back in the day� My wife likes to say I act like a kid, so maybe that's why I sing like one!"
Anthony said that cutting out smoking has greatly improved his singing with Chickenfoot, who also include Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani and Chad Smith. "For one thing, I want to live a long life and try to grow old gracefully, so that's a good reason to quit," he said. "But I found that my singing improved dramatically. I've always been a natural singer on stage and in the studio � never had a vocal lesson in my life. But by trying to take better care of my voice, I can really feel and hear the difference. I'm pretty proud of my singing on this new album."
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Classic-Era Dokken Members Rockin Without Don Dokken
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George Lynch has told Classic Rock Revisited that he has formed a new band with Dokken alumni Jeff Pilson (bass) and "Wild" Mick Brown (drums) called Tooth and Nail, named after a Dokken album. "That's Dokken without Don," Lynch explained. "The record is called Dump the Chump."
Pilson, who now plays in Foreigner, is a very capable vocalist, taking the mic for the brilliant Lynch/Pilson album Wicked Underground in 2005. "When the Dokken reunion was not going to happen we just said, 'Why don't we just do this? This is way cooler,'" Lynch told Classic Rock Revisited. "Many years later, we are doing it and it is just for fun. It is half new material and it is half old Dokken material."
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Alkaline Trio Release New Album and Hit The Road
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These shows feature both intimate acoustic renditions as well as a full volume electric portion.
Alkaline Trio will be joined on the tour by Smoking Popes who will open the west coast dates and mewithoutyou who will play the east coast shows. Smoking Popes will also be perform in their home city of Chicago.
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R.E.M. Working on New Album
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Images from the sessions can be seen on the website of Stipe's friend Jane Pratt, a radio host and founder of Sassy magazine. The pics can be found in the "Jane's Phone" section of her website. Look for the "Michael's Phone" pics. Images posted so far include some words of inspiration on the music biz courtesy of Hunter S. Thompson, and a sign.
R.E.M. decided not to tour on the back of Collapse into Now, with guitarist Peter Buck telling NME the band felt it had already toured a lot over the past eight or 10 years. "You just don't really want to repeat yourself in that way," he said.
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3 Doors Down Guitarist Talks Time of My Life
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The new album, Time of My Life. This was the first time 3 Doors Down have worked with Howard Benson. What was that like? Yes, we kind of use a different producer on almost every different record, so we basically find whoever is in touch with the project. We interview at least a dozen producers, and Howard has talked with us before on past records, and he was in touch with what we wanted to do with this. So, it was a great experience.
What was the writing process like for, Time of My Life? Most of the time what happens is the music comes first. I'll sit down and write a guitar riff and bounce it off the other guys and develop music, or Chris [Henderson, guitarist] will come in with guitar riff and give it to me. The melody and music get built, and then Brad [Arnold, vocals] comes in and writes the lyrics. Sometimes he writes the lyrics and melody first, but most of the time, the lyrics come at the end.
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Sebastian Bach New Album Details
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The recording features guitarist Nick Sterling and drum pro Bobby Jarzombek (Halford, Riot, Iced Earth), as well a guest appearance by noted guitarist John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) on "TunnelVision".
The album will be available in three separate configurations: jewel box CD, deluxe digipak with bonus track and bonus DVD and double LP gatefold vinyl.
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Fair To Midland Streaming New Album Online
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The new album hits stores today and is the follow up to their 2007 release "Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True," you can stream the new effort here
Fair To Midland will be supporting The Damned Things and Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster on a tour this summer. "We're very excited about being a part of this tour, says bassist Jon Dicken. "We're fans of all the bands involved and are looking forward to hitting the road with them for what looks like should be a fun summer. It's a great way to kick off the release of our new record."
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Epicenter Lineup Explands
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Set for Saturday, September 24 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, CA, the day-long rock festival will feature headliners Limp Bizkit in their first Southern California show in over a decade and their first American live performance of 2011.
Epicenter will feature 12 hours of music with performances from over a dozen bands on two stages, including: Limp Bizkit, Staind, Five Finger Death Punch, Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Skillet, Puddle Of Mudd, P.O.D., Everlast, Asking Alexandria, Redlight King, Middle Class Rut, Crossfade and Drive A.
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Europe Tap Kevin Shirley To Produce New Album
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"We still feel we have one hell of a rock record to make" says Europe's singer Joey Tempest. "Kevin's the man for the job. We love his work with Bonamassa, Black Country Communion, and Black Stone Cherry. He's the real deal. We're ready to do some serious damage."
Last week Europe met up with Shirley in Stockholm to discuss the direction of the next album. Based on reactions from the fans and media, Europe's 2009 album 'Last Look at Eden' proved to be the band's most important record since 'The Final Countdown'. "I've been a big fan of Europe's work for many years," says Shirley. "The band is influential and highly underrated. I can't wait to make the upcoming album their most explosive to date."
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Alberta Hunter Downhearted Blues Classic Revisited
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Musicologist Bill Dahl contributed liner notes. (The title was previously available on CD, but has been re-mastered and will now be available on CD and 180-gram vinyl for the first time.) Here is the backstory:
It's difficult to decide which was the most remarkable facet of pioneering blues chanteuse Alberta Hunter's incredible career. Was it her role in the vanguard of the "classic blues" movement of the early 1920s, when she recorded prolifically for Paramount and other labels during the industry's first foray into the idiom? Her entertainment of grateful U.S. troops during not one war, but two? Or her heartwarming late 1970s/early 1980s comeback on the New York cabaret circuit after more than two decades away from singing professionally, when she was well into her 80s? One fact is inescapable: when she died on October 17, 1984 in New York at age 89, Hunter was a genuine star once more.
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Most Unusual One Hit Wonder of Them All
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The space-age theme of technology threatening man's very survival obviously hit a chord in 1969, the era of Star Trek, prototype computers and the U.S. versus the Soviet Union space race. Sung by Zager and Evans, the song, ostensibly a folk protest number, somewhat akin to Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction," warns of what will become to the universe as technology takes over: "In the year 2525 / Your arms are hanging limp at your side, You legs got nothing to do, Some machine's doing that for you"
Timing is everything, and the song was still #1 on July 20, 1969 in the U.S., the date of Neil Armstrong's historic Apollo moon landing. By staying at #1 for six weeks, which was longer than any other song that year, the track won itself the honor of Billboard's #1 record of the year.
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The World According To Richie Sambora
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On whether he ever gets bored playing Bon Jovi's numerous hits� "No, no, no. Rock 'n' roll is a contact sport," he told Musicradar.com. "The rush is to take it in front of 70,000 people and have that happen. That's what makes it great. It's like having sex with your clothes on - it's the best thing you can possibly do.... It's the adjoining of the band and the audience that makes it still really good. And you know what? They're really good songs. Both Jon and I are pretty proud of them. We've discussed it, and we say, 'Hey, people wanna hear those songs? We're gonna give it to 'em.' That's it."
On the Bon Jovi songwriting method� "With Jon and I, the songwriting always starts with a conversation, how we're feeling and what's going on with our families or in the world," he told Star Bulletin. "It's been that way from day one - we sit in the same room with two guitars and a tape player. It's very old-school. Inspiration? There's a story on every street corner, my friends. All you have to do is open your eyes."
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Curtains For Glastonbury?
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"It's on the way out. We've probably got another three or four years," he told The Times. "It is a very scary business. Womad and Latitude are not selling out. Partly it's economics, but there is a feeling that people have seen it all before."
Eavis said that Glastonbury has managed to sell out reliably "because we get huge headliners." U2, Coldplay and Beyonce topped the bill this year. Still, big names and sold-out fests don't always mean profits. "In the year Jay-Z played we nearly went bankrupt," he said. "I don't see the market will be there in the future."
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Guns N' Roses Muse for James Durbin on American Idol Tour
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The top 11 contestants make up the stage show, which hits more than 40 cities across North America between now and September.
Looks like James is performing songs by Muse and Guns N' Roses in his short set, in addition to his duties joining other Idol singers for medleys and various tracks.
Watch videos of James doing GNR and Muse here
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Video of Metallica Playing On The Back of a Truck
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The band did a partial warm up for their headlining slot at the festival by running through a few tunes in the back of a truck outside the press area.
The UK gig was the fourth installment of the current European tour by the Big 4 � Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax.
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Talking Metal Live Special Tonight
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Join both John and Mark for some great fun, interviews (Black n Blue, Killinger and Black Veil Brides) and music.
You can listen to the broadcast on using the LIVE 365 (stream A) player on the left hand side of the official site located
here
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Bush Return With New Album
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Recorded with producer Bob Rock (Aerosmith, Metallica), The Sea Of Memories is first album to be released via their own imprint, Zuma Rock Records, through an exclusive partnership with eOne Music.
On July 21st, the band will perform lead single "The Sound of Winter" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Last week, Bush announced that they'll be playing the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on July 28th and the show literally sold out in under a minute. On Saturday, August 20th, Bush will also be among the headliners performing with the Sunset Strip Music Festival in LA.
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