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Daily Music News Report for 06/03/2016


Day in Rock Part 2



AC/DC Release Preview Video For U.S. Tour With Axl Rose

(hennemusic) AC/DC have released a video preview of their fall US tour with Axl Rose. The ten show run on the Rock Or Bust tour, originally set for spring, was postponed in March when singer Brian Johnson was advised by doctors to stop performing immediately or risk total hearing loss.

Rose stepped in to assist the band and the pairing launched AC/DC's European tour in Lisbon on May 7 to rave reviews worldwide. The fall US dates start August 27 in Greensboro, NC and will wrap up in Philadelphia, PA on September 20.

"We're all looking forward to getting out there and playing," says guitarist Angus Young. "It's part of the whole tour; we're going to have a real blast. We'll probably have a few surprises, a few different songs when we do tour through America.

"The best thing about being in the band is the challenge of doing it again, getting out there and playing in front of people. Each show gets more and more exciting" Watch the video here.

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Axl Rose Explains Why He Has Stopped Signing Autographs

(hennemusic) Axl Rose says he won't be signing autographs for a while after being hounded on AC/DC's European tour by professionals who resell the pieces on auction sites like eBay.

"Can't take da ebayers so un42nutzly I's won'tz b signing things 4 awhile," tweeted Rose. "Much Love 2 the real fans!!" Professional autograph sellers frequently harass celebrities for signatures purely as a profit source at the literal and figurative expense of real fans, which causes artists like Rose and others to take the position that no signings will happen at all.

Rose made his AC/DC debut in Lisbon on May 7 and will play 13 dates on a spring run that has seen the band extend their Rock Or Bust setlist from 20 to 24 songs with the rotation of new additions representing classic tracks from Bon Scott-era: "Dog Eat Dog" from 1977's "Let There Be Rock", "Rock 'n' Roll Damnation" and "Riff Raff" from 1978's "Powerage", and "If You Want Want Blood (You've Got It)" and "Touch Too Much" from 1979's "Highway To Hell."

"With Axl, we've been able to mix up quite a few songs, do a few older ones and put them, which we haven't done in a number of years," guitarist Angus Young tells Planet Rock . "We always used to kind of get a setlist, and that would be it for a tour. So now we've got a lot more adding and putting in different tracks, and the fun part is when we get there on the stage, and seeing it come to life in front of the audience and seeing the reaction." Watch the video here.

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Ricky Warwick & The Fighting Hearts Announce UK Tour

(Classic Rock) Ricky Warwick & The Fighting Hearts have announced a UK winter tour. The Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy mainman is heading out on the road in support of his recently released album When Patsy Cline Was Crazy (And Guy Mitchell Sang The Blues).

Support on all non-festival dates will be provided by Vice Squad - and Warwick reports he's excited for the shows to begin. He says: "We can't wait to get back out there and play a full-length set, and I am delighted that my old friends Vice Squad will be special guests.

"I've been a fan of Beki and the boys since their debut album No Cause For Concern. It's gonna be a helluva of an evening." Check out the dates for the trek here.

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Crown The Empire Announce New Album 'Retrograde'

(TeamRock Radio) Crown The Empire will release their album Retrograde on July 22. The Texas metalcore outfit last reissued their second album The Resistance in October last year. They also released a video for track Cross Our Bones.

Vocalist Andy Leo says: "This album has been an accumulation of ideas, lessons and observations about who we are as a band and how we see the world.

"It's taken 5 years for us to grow and really nail down a sound that doesn't fit the status quo of what people are expecting from us. We've reinvented ourselves and we hope you enjoy the ride."

A teaser, artwork and tracklist for Retrograde can be viewed here.

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Charlotte Carpenter Releases 'Burn' Video

(The Blues) Rising-star British blues artist Charlotte Carpenter has premiered her video for Burn with The Blues. It's the last track on upcoming EP How Are We Ever To Know?, which will be released on June 10 via Let It Go Records.

Carpenter recently said she'd been inspired by "teenage angst" to start writing music. She told M Magazine: "I was at school and beginning to feel quite different to my friends, beginning to enjoy different music to them.

"I guess in some ways I was shaping into more of a self-assured young woman, and I wrote about that. My first-ever song was called See Me Fly - it sounds like something from a Disney film."

She describes her music as "emotional and honest" and adds that it might appeal to people who like "songs with twangy guitars and too much tremelo." Watch the video here.

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