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The album is being offered as a free download to fans in the U.S. via Google Play until December 23rd. The online service is also selling other Linkin Park albums for just $1.99 each during the promotion. You can take advantage of both special deals here.
Many fans outside the U.S. shouldn't feel left out as Google Play are also offering deep discount prices on the band's entire catalog to fans in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, U.K., Germany, Italy, Australia, and France here.
Linkin Park will also be launching their North American The Hunting Party Tour early next year which will feature support from Rise Against and Of Mice & Men.
The arena tour is scheduled to kick off on January 15th in Orlando, FL at the Amway Center and will conclude on February 14th in Edmonton, AB at Rexall Place.
Check out the tour dates here.
The concerts were scheduled to take place tonight (December 17th) and tomorrow night at the O2 Arena but have been rescheduled to March 22nd and 23rd after Daltry was ordered to rest his voice by doctors.
The Who's camp issued this statement, "On medical advice singer Roger Daltrey has been ordered to rest his voice due to a throat infection. The band and their management wish to sincerely apologize to all ticket holders for the inconvenience and disappointment this has caused."
The O2 Arena dates are part of the band's current 50th anniversary tour. They are scheduled to launch the North American leg of The Who Hits 50 tour in mid-April.
Another late rock icon, Lou Reed, who had previously been inducted as a member of the Velvet Underground, will be inducted as solo artist. Other inductees for 2015 include the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Bill Withers, who had a string of hits in the 1970s and 1980s including the No. 1 "Lean On Me" and the No. 2 hit "Just The Two Of Us".
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr will also receive an honor for Award For Musical Excellence and R&B pioneers the 5 Royales will be present with the Early Influence Award.
Nine Inch Nails, who came in second in the public poll with 22.2% of the vote, won't be inducted next year, but Green Day who captured only 2.6% of the vote will. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts came in third in the vote and will also be inducted next year.
Any reconciliation between Danzig and Only looked dead in the water earlier this year when Danzig launched a legal action claiming Only cut him out of profits from the band's merchandise.
But Only now says all hope is not lost, as long as Danzig vows not to bring "the dark stuff to the table." Only tells Loudwire: "The thing is, I have an obligation to our fans. A lot of our fans are young and the thing is, we're a very positive organisation.
"If we bring Glenn back in and he's going to bring that dark, that real black stuff to the table, I don't want that. All the money in the world ain't gonna make me sell out my fans." Read more
here.
"The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame was a great experience for me," Frehley tells VH1. "We could have been inducted fifteen years earlier, but we finally got inducted this year, in April. I know there was a little controversy going on preceding the event. Originally we were asked to perform, and at the last minute Paul and Gene decided that they didn't wanna perform with me and Peter."
"Me and Peter were up for it," he continued. "The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame was insisting that only the four original members perform. Paul and Gene opted not to do it. After forty years, they couldn't give the fans fifteen minutes. Go figure. I think they're gonna regret that decision."
Stanley and Simmons have long maintained a fractured relationship with the music industry insiders who run both Rolling Stone and the Rock Hall, and have always questioned the validity of both brands. Read more and stream video
here.
Guitarist Ben King is to bow out after nine years, while frontman Andy Mitchell and bassist David Smale each end five-year stints. Second guitarist Anthony 'Top' Topham, who originally played with the band in 1963, returned last year.
McCarty says: "The Yardbirds, as a band, has continued to evolve through the years with great musicians playing all around the world. The current lineup will be parting ways at the end of the year. I would like to thank Ben, Andy, Dave and Top for all their support through the years." Read more
here.
The Californian outfit are now heading home - but they've apologized to fans and asked them to keep hold of their ticket stubs, which will be valid for a rescheduled show to be announced soon.
Guitarist Scott Holiday says: "We couldn't be more disappointed - it's the first time we've ever had to do this. We offer our extreme apologies. Jay was at an extreme deficit; just not well. He was completely unable to continue, or we would have." Read more
here.
Bach says his album "sold more" than Ozzy's effort in week one, however according to Blabbermouth, Give 'Em Hell sold 4000 copies while Memoirs Of A Madman sold 4200.
Bach tells the Illinois Entertainer: "My ultimate dream in rock 'n' roll when I was fired from Skid Row in 1996 was to possibly some day be like Ozzy Osbourne, in that he came up with Sabbath and then had a successful solo career.
"Give 'Em Hell sold more copies the first week out than the new Ozzy Osbourne record." Read more
here.
Dubbed "Restoring Force: Full Circle" the foil-stamped digipack will include the original studio album as well as three new tracks and an acoustic version of the hit single "Feels Like Forever."
The band called on David Bendeth (Paramore, Bring Me The Horizon) to produce the new tracks, "Broken Generation," "Something To Hide," "Never Giving Up" and the unplugged version of "Feels Like Forever."
Fans will also be able to catch the band live early next year when they hit the road with Linkin Park for their North American arena tour on January 15th in Orlando, FL.
Of Mice & Men will also be taking part in next year's Soundwave Festival in Australia and in early March they will head to Europe to kick off their headlining tour in Paris.
Check out the tour dates here.
He argues that his two visits to singer Joe Elliott's studio in Ireland, combined with additional work in his home in the US, provide everything that's needed to complete the project to their satisfaction.
The band's 1987 masterwork Hysteria is thought to have been one of the most expensive recording projects in history on its release. But there's not much chance of the band repeating the feat.
Allen tells The Pulse Of Radio: "I've been to Joe's place on two occasions for extended periods. We've got a good 16 to 17 songs that, when I left, were 80, 85% done. I think I'm pretty much done with my parts."
Asked whether all five members of the band will get together over the final stages, he replies: "I don't think we need to go into that kind of expense. With technology these days, it's fantastic." Read more
here.
"I'm playing guitar at the moment", says Page. "Because I'm getting ready. Whatever I do, I don't want people to have made up their minds before I've done it.
"On the internet, people are telling me, 'you're doing this, and you're doing that', and I'm 'Am I?' Just wait and see what I do. I've got new material, and it will be surprising."
In May, Page admitted that it was time to play live again, and in October hinted that the show night be a career-spanning retrospective. Watch the interview clip
here.
They say: "After years of hits with our other bands, we've joined forces to create exciting new rock music for you. We are recording our debut album with the band this winter and we're set up in a big old house in LA."
Exclusives available include a signed copy of the album, T-shirt and poster bundles, an autographed drum head and sticks, a personal video message from the band and a private martial arts lesson from Rockett, who is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Read more
here.
While the suggestions are light-hearted, they're backed up by a serious study that's found four out of five operations are carried out while staff listen to music.
The report in the British Medical Journal says it "improves communication between staff, reduces anxiety and improves efficiency." And surgeons who listen regularly say it helps them increase performance and helps them focus.
Check out the recommended and the not recommended lists
here.
He tells My Global Mind: "Hopefully in the early spring we can get into the studio and start recording. Nobody has any concepts or anything. Just evolving the Dying Fetus sound a little bit. Not too drastically, but you know - add a couple of new slams into our repertoire and a couple of new technical parts.
"I think our fans know what they're going to get out of us when they buy a Dying Fetus album. You're going to get technical, brutal, slam and death metal with a double vocal attack, and we're going to bring that again." Read more
here.
Caruana has created a mission statement which reads: "We, as friends and lovers of music, have found that we would all like to play shows together again as The Movielife. We bear no news of a new record nor are we planning a six-month world tour. The Movielife is alive."
Caruana tells Noisey: "When me and Brandon spend time together, sometimes The Movielife comes up and sometimes it doesn't - but this time it did.
"We'd reached this point in our lives where we can be at peace and be happy, and we feel right about it for the first time in a very long time." Read more and see who else is involved in the reunion
here.
Items include a Gibson guitar signed by Eddie Vedder and Roger Daltrey and a signed tambourine, both of which come from Eddie's collection and were used on the night.
Other items include a guitar signed by Wilko Johnson and Daltrey, signed programmes, and a Vespa helmet signed by every artist including Liam Gallagher, Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, Tom Odell, Ricky Wilson and Rizzle Kicks. Read more
here.
She tells Carl Begai: "The first time we saw each other again we went out for sushi and the second time we were already talking about doing the anniversary show. It happened all at once.
"And the rehearsals were super weird. I did one rehearsal with them and we did songs like Saturnine and Strange Machines, which I've been doing in my solo shows for the past eight years, but when we did the songs together the guys were playing them and moving the way they did 10 years ago."
here.
Empires Never Last: The Deluxe Edition is accompanied by a seven-song disc called Empires: A Curious Companion, featuring demos, unused ideas and pieces issued as downloads from the Galahad website.
Further releases are planned for 2015. The band report: "We're making good progress re-arranging a section of older tracks to be included on When Worlds Collide - a name we thought very apt as it'll be partly a collision of new recordings of old songs. Recording will commence shortly."
here.
But Singer tells The Cassius Morris Show: "If Gene and Paul aren't in Kiss, I don't think I have much interest in being in Kiss. I'm not saying it's not possible - but I doubt it will be with me. I don't think I would want to do that.
"To me, Gene and Paul have always been the main cogs in the machinery. I've been around this band for 25 years, I've seen fans of all eras and all incarnations of the band. But for me, the one constant has always been Gene and Paul." Read more
here.
He tells CBS: "When I go to see bands perform live, that's when it's hard for me. I look up on the stage and think, 'I wish I was there.' But I did that for 31 years. I gave everything I had to it - I gave myself completely and I just needed to step away for a while. I think I'll sing again."
He gives no indication when that's likely to happen but ruled out a reunion with Peter Buck, Bill Berry and Mike Mills. Stipe adds: "No, it will never happen. There's no point. I love those guys very much and I respect them hugely as musicians and as songwriters. But I just don't want to do that thing that people do. I despise nostalgia."
Read more and stream the video interview
here.
"Spoiler alerts," he said. "I knew what was going to happen. So I would only try to read my part." As he's previously noted, when taking the role, he did so knowing it'd make his father happy, since he was a fan of the show.
"I thought the show is so much about that father-son relationship and I just wanted to do something to make my dad happy, and I just thought I was gonna get a song on the show," Manson said, noting that his mom had died shortly after the news. But Katey Segal, wife of showrunner Kurt Sutter, had other plans.
"She said, 'Do you want to act?' and I said, 'yeah, that would be amazing,'" Manson recalled. "That was earlier in the meeting, when I was sort of worried about my father because he was also ill and I was trying to cheer up my dad. This is before my mother had died. So I went to Ohio because my mother had died and I got the phone call that I was going to be on the show. I said, 'Dad, guess what, I'm going to be on the show. Guess what, I'm going to play the head of the Aryan Brotherhood. Guess what, I get paid for it. Guess what, I'm in every scene, every episode that I know of.'"
Read more
here.
"I think more than ever, this tour I'm looking forward to it a bit more than, I think, any other," Johnson tells BBC Radio 2's The Chris Evans Breakfast Show.
"I don't know if it's 'cause of my age and just enjoying things that I maybe took for granted once, that you just know it's a special time. It's been 40 years, and just to get out there again, and see if you can do it. You've gotta prove it to yourself that you can do it."
Angus Young had this to say, "Yeah, I do. I enjoy it. Probably, for myself, 'cause I was very young when I started. I'm just used to it. It's the life I know."
The band recently revealed the first series of dates for the trek, with a European run set to launch May 5 in Arnhem, Netherlands; a mix of arena and stadium shows are scheduled into late July with more dates expected to be announced soon. Stream the full interview
here.
Boyd went on to claim the title as fans voted him the winner of the show's latest season, finishing ahead of finalists Matt McAndrew, Chris Jamison and Damien.
The finale featured guest performances by Fall Out Boy, Jennifer Hudson, Jessie J, Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars, Hozier, Ed Sheeran and Meghan Trainor.
Boyd's win delivers coach Blake Shelton his fourth title in seven seasons. Check out video of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Boyd's performance
here.
Seger joined the host for a chat before playing "All Of The Roads" from his latest album, "Ride Out." Seger's first studio album in 8 years is the follow-up to 2006's "Face The Promise."
The Detroit rocker will wrap up the first leg of his North American tour in support of the project on Friday with a show at New York's Madison Square Garden; the second leg launches January 20 in Toledo, Ohio.
Check out video of the interview and the performance
here.
Set for release on 12th January 2015, _Monsters Of The Universe; Come Out & Plague _will be available via Cargo Records on both CD and double vinyl. As well as a new album, Wednesday 13 and his cohorts are touring the UK in March next year.
Speaking about the forthcoming tour, Wednesday 13 says: "We have re-vamped and re-charged everything that had become Wednesday 13 over the years, especially for this new tour. The look, the stage and the sound will be on a new level this time around.
"Along with all of this, we have added an additional member to our live show too, keyboardist/percussionist, Kyle Castronovo. I really can't wait to get out and play this new album live! We are so proud of it, so get ready earthlings... the Monsters are coming!"
Watch the video and grab the tour dates
here.
Ad Astra explain: "Although we're still having a relaxed songwriting and gig free period, we've finished the video. The audio track receive a facelift in terms of vocal, sound and mastering to make it heavier than ever before."
Sledgehammer, from Gabriel's So album, reached number one in the US and Canada, and number four in the UK. Its memorable animated video won a string of awards, including nine gongs at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards.
Check out the video
here.
The band have designed the pairing so that their music and plot aren't over-simplified by trying to compress too much into one record. They recently explained: "Although the albums are split in two physically, the story is only complete when the albums are digested consecutively. This allows the listener to recognise and hear the lyrical and musical overlapping themes."
Periphery return to the UK for three shows with Devin Townsend in March, followed by their own headline show in London. Check out the tour dates and stream the new song
here.
The Spanish instrumental outfit's eight-track record tells the story of two foxes escaping from a forest fire, as a metaphor for humanity's effect on the environment. Oro Rojo ("Red Gold") is the final piece.
They say of Jorge Garcia Escalona's video: "We always thought the track would be a good for a video, and we're huge fans of Jorge's work. We knew he was the perfect person to envision what we had in mind - and it's obvious we were right."
Check out the video
here.
Titled Il Paese Del Tramonto ("The Country Sunset"), it's to be launched on January 15 via AMS Records. The follow-up to 2013 debut La Crudelta Di Aprile ("The Cruelty Of April") is their first with new drummer Andrea Gardani, who replaced Federico Bedostri in September.
Earlier this year the band launched a crowdfunding appeal to help support a European tour - and although it fell short of its target they've lined up five dates across mainland Europe starting in February. More shows will be announced in due course. Check out the video
here.
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