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AC/DC Release Video Recaps Of Two Shows With Axl Rose

The Kingston, Ontario band announced a third show in Toronto and second gigs in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary "due to overwhelming demand" from fans following news that frontman Gord Downie has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

The summer tour in support of the band's forthcoming June 17 album, "Man Machine Poem", will begin in Victoria, BC on July 22 and wrap up in the band's hometown of Kingston, ON on August 20.

A fan club presale for the new dates starts May 31 at 10am EDT via Ticketmaster, with general public tickets for all shows available June 3 at 10am EDT.

Lewis and Guns have announced several reunion shows beginning with a series of South American dates in July and two music festival appearances in the U.S.

The confirmed dates will be kicking off in Buenos Aires, Argentina at El Teatro Flores on July 7th, followed by a show at Teatro Vorterix in Rosario the next night with the final announced South American date taking place on July 10th in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Manifesto Rock Bar.

They have also lined up an appearance at the Hair Nation Rock Fest in Irvine, Ca on September 17th at Irvine Meadows as well as the Rock N Skull Fest in Joliet, IL on October 27th.

Set in the present day, the story follows Daniels' 1960s mod character Jimmy into late adulthood, and it's based on Peter Meadows' novel To Be Someone - which itself was inspired by Quadrophenia.

Director Ray Burdis tells the Mirror: "Pete Townshend has give To Be Someone his blessing, and the mod culture is still a major movement. Now we've got the core cast in place, we're constructing the other characters carefully and slowly. There are more big names to be announced."

This year's show will feature appearances by recent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees Cheap Trick, plus former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora and Orianthi, while Jeff Beck will receive the highest honors. More acts will be announced in due course.

"It's quite an honour to be considered for the first Classic Rock awards in Japan," says Cheap Trick's Robin Zander, "Thanks so much to all our fans in Japan, we can't wait to come back and play for you all."

Frontman Matt Tuck said last year: "The album is hands down the best thing we've ever done. To have that arsenal of weapons now and to be able to play these songs feels sick. It's good to be back.

"That's kind of what happens in our band. Nothing ever stops. Milestone after milestone and cool event after cool event. We don't ever do anything which isn't cool."

The tour will feature direct support from Richie Sambora + Orianthi (RSO) for the full trek with the opening slot being filled by Steve Rodgers or Jasmine Rodgers during alternate stops.

The 8-city tour is scheduled to kick off on October 15th at the First Direct Arena in Leeds and includes stops scheduled in Cardiff, Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Newcastle before wrapping up on October 29th at the O2 in London.

But they'd always known that Megadeth was entirely run by Mustaine, and that a democratic approach wasn't an option. Broderick tells Ultimate Guitar: "There comes a time when you're like, 'I've done this and it's great, but I'm a musician and artist and I need to express myself that way. I need that outlet for myself, and not just do it in support of another person.'"

Jem Godfrey had the following to say about the new video, which was produced by Crystal Spotlight, "Us being us, we wanted to try something a bit different for the Numbers video that would make it more interesting visually than just 4 blokes in a room wobbling about so we shot everything using bit of software called DepthKit via a Kinect sensor.

"This enabled us to create 3d modelled versions of ourselves that could continue to freely be rotated, moved and manipulated even after filming was completed.

"We went about constructing the whole album with the idea of making melodic and catchy songs with an experimental bent," says guitarist/vocalist Ryan Sabouhi. "We chose to incorporate a wide variety of unique progressions, tones, and instrumentation all in the hope that we might build a more multidimensional soundscape."

The album was recorded at Amsterdam's Royal Theatre Carre on November 28 last year and took place as Trout continued his recovery from a liver transplant and toured in support of his 2015 album Battle Scars.

The new live collection was recorded on his 2015 world tour, on which he performed a set of solo material from across his career, followed by a set of Genesis tracks.

Hackett recently said: "When InsideOut told me that I could film a gig on the British leg of the tour, I thought we should do it away from London. I felt doing it in Liverpool had a certain ring to it. Genesis played there a few times in the 70s, and the fans have always been very good to me there.

The album covers the genres of blues, jazz and funk. It includes guest appearances by Joe Bonamassa, Robert Randolph, Bernard Purdie and others.

Popovic recently had the following to say about the project: "All these genres have a huge base in the blues. I wanted to give people a lot of music. It's a very exciting project."

The new album, entitled 'Fragmented Spirit Devils', features a special cover of the Nazareth classic 'Razamanaz' and the band recruited Nazareth's Manny Cahrelton to play a guest solo on the track.

The new album, the follow up to last year's 'Fractured Psyche Demons,' is set to be released in October. Stream the new song here. Fans in the Western U.S. and Canada can catch the band live this month when they launch their 'Demons of West Coast Tour'.

But chief promoter Francis Mace has today admitted that he "made a series of bad business decisions and dealt with the situation very poorly," leading to the withdrawal of the festival's main funding source.

He says he has been riddled with debt since 2015's Temples Festival and could not face a similar hardship this year. Mace says: "My intention was always to setup a unique UK festival which books bands who are rarely seen in the UK, I've tirelessly dedicated myself to this event for a long time now and the decision to cancel this year's event has been unequivocally the hardest call I've ever had to make in my life.

The new "Prison Of Misery" music video was shot in an underground theatre, suggested by guitarist Charlie Wilson after seeing Skepta play the venue year earlier.

Reed's 2014 studio album "Sanctuary" and upcoming follow-up "Sanctuary II" are the Magenta mastermind's personal tribute to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.

They confirmed the run of dates off the back of their appearance at the weekend's Slam Dunk festival, saying: "Europe, it's been so good to be with you Slam Dunk and this fall we're coming back."

The new tour leg is scheduled to kick off at the O2 Academy in Newcastle on October 28th and includes stops in Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Bristol, London, Wolverhampton, Sheffield, before wrapping up in Nottingham on November 9th.

Most commonly when writing a song, I try to capture the theme of the time to make it more visible for myself. For example; just try to look back on a specific time of your life, or one specific year of your life, and see how this time had a certain overall theme-ness. This theme will be an experience, a subtle feeling.

The overall theme of your experience for that year or time will arise in your mind. When looking back, this is not very hard for most people, but to be conscious about overall themes in the present moment is a another story.

When I wrote Intuition Unbound, the big theme was intuition. Going further in my practice, this was something that just started to appear, waiting for me to discover it. I started to do all sorts of tests and a lot of research. For example going on long walks through the city without an idea where to go next, trying to listen to that little voice and find some meaning in what it says.

Turning left here and right there, engage in a conversation with a stranger, or being to shy to do so, just to find myself on a detour because I wouldn't listen. On one of these walks I �accidentally" found the place we are rehearsing in now, so it really started to shift from experimenting to being actually useful.

During and after this process all the parts that make up the lyrics for this song were in front of me, but it was not making sense at all. When we started to work on the song together in the rehearsal room bit by bit things fell in place and the solution to my initial problem just presented itself. A classical Verse/Chorus structure wouldn't work, there had to be two interwoven but kind of separate parts.

The first part represents my then current state of mind, that was kind of lamenting in an almost arrogant way, the second (as soon as the fuzz sets in) can be understood as some kind of message from my future self to keep my feet on the ground