The reunited Stone Temple Pilots will have their first TV appearance in many years and the episode will air May 2nd on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
From Blabbermouth.net:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=94072
I’ll have to tune into this to see what song they’re gonna do. It wouldn’t surprise me if it would be “Plush” or “Big Empty” so they can let the world know that the band is back.
Kev
The legendary rocker and acoustic artist Neil Young had just announced on his website, he will be releasing yet another new album with his longtime band Crazy Horse, the new album will be titled “Toast”. Back in the year 2000, Neil Young and Crazy Horse recorded in a studio in the south of Market street, the studio was called “Toast” where Young got the album title from. John Coltrane and other jazz greats recorded there. Young and Crazy Horse recorded in that studio over the years, with many of the work has not even been finished yet. The songs on the album are described as “bluesy” and “jazzy”. Young recorded a song with Booker T and the MG’s back in the old days, the song has been resurfaced and he plans on releasing it to the new album.
Neil Young continues to release album after album, year after year, he just never quits and never takes a break. Last year he just released “Chrome Dreams II” with Crazy Horse.
From Neil Young’s official website:
http://www.neilyoung.com/news/index.html
To be honest I didn’t really like “Chrome Dreams II” that much. I hope “Toast” will be a good one.
I still think “Living With War” is his best album ever made and nothing will top that in my opinion.
Kev
Slash recently announced that the band “Velvet Revolver” had kicked lead singer Scott Weiland out of the band. Slash says that the Velvet Revolver is about the fans and the music, but Scott Weiland was not committed to either, so the band was forced to move on without him. Which means they kicked him out. Weiland still seems to be an alcoholic and a drug addict which is probably the reason for his strange behavior.
Weiland agreed to leave the band so he can join the Stone Temple Pilots for a full reunion tour this summer.
MTV.com reports:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1584599/20080401/velvet_revolver.jhtml
The Stone Temple Pilots reunion won’t even last long either, should Dean and Robert trust him after this?
Kev
Chris Cornell the former frontman for Soundgarden/Temple of the Dog/Audioslave recently saw David Cook’s performance of the Chris Cornell version of “Billie Jean”, a Michael Jackson cover on American Idol. Cornell says he was actually impressed with David’s singing and flattered that Cornell got the shout out on Idol. Cornell says that Cook sang the song almost note for note, sang it exactly the same way Cornell sang it. (see the videos below for proof). Cornell goes on saying that he is so proud of his version and wanted to know that he did it first.
Billboard reports:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003782902
I don’t know what Chris Cornell is smokin’, but David Cook’s voice sound nothing like Cornell’s, not even close. I totally agree that Cook sang it “great”, but no where near Cornell’s range.
Cornell should appreciate to what Cook did for him rather than putting him down, Cornell is acting like his version is better.
I dont’ watch Idol anymore but I’ll have to start watching again, I stopped watching a few years ago. I’ve been hearing that Idol has been using live bands and using real instruments more than the “karaoke” thing, which is cool.
Kev
U2 has signed a deal with Live Nation for them to help the band with promotion of concerts and merchandise. It will not affect the band leaving their current label Universal Music Group. This is the same company that pop music queen Madonna will be working for as soon as she leaves Warner Music Group.
Variety reports:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983190.html?categoryId=16&cs=1
Since the band’s last couple of albums “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” and “Atomic Bomb” didn’t sell very big, I can understand why U2 would go for this.
U2 has always been a favorite band of mine since I was a child and still love them today. “Atomic Bomb” was an ok record, I love “Can’t Leave Behind” way more.
I hope their next album will be a great one, they’re currently in the studio recording it.
Kev
Tom Petty just announced the official reunion of his former shortlived band before the Heartbreakers, Mudcrutch with it’s original members. The Mudcrutch lineup includes Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Tom Leadon, and Randall Marsh.
In 1974 Mudcrutch left their hometown of Gainesville, Florida to California in search of a record deal because of Tom Petty’s dream of being signed to a major label. The band had difficulty finding a label that would accept their music and later a label named “Shelter Records” signed the band. They released a single titled “Depot Street” backed with “Wild Eyes” but it didn’t chart. While the band was trying to record their first album back in those days, it didn’t go well and the band disbanded. So their first album never got made.
After all these years, Mudcrutch has finally got the opportunity to get together to make an album (with old and new material) and tour to follow it. The debut Mudcrutch album will hit stores April 29th.
The band Mudcrutch will not do a world tour, they will only play a bunch of dates in California.
From Tom Petty’s official website:
http://site.tompetty.com/lastdj_newsdetail-beta.php?section=announcements&id=9183
Pretty sweet news! I’ll definitely get the Mudcrutch album! Looking forward to hearing it!
Kev
NME, a UK magazine for music news brought up a few good latest news about Led Zeppelin.
The first Robert Plant seems to be in a better mood about playing more shows with Led Zeppelin and seems more positive about it. He says Led Zeppelin will be all up to playing more shows only for the right reasons. Like the last time was a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, “special” reasons would be things like that. They may not go on a full fledge tour but they’ll probably play some more shows. Hopefully they play MSG in New York one more time to relive “The Song Remains the Same” concert in 1973.
http://www.nme.com/news/led-zeppelin/35481
John Paul Jones hinted that Led Zeppelin could go back into the studio again to record a new Led Zeppelin album. For many months now Jimmy Page has been hinting us that he’s working on new music that was meant to be for Led Zeppelin. Lets keep our fingers crossed that there could be a new Led Zep album in the future!
http://www.nme.com/news/led-zeppelin/35482
And the last, Jimmy Page hinted that last year’s December 10th O2 show could be getting released on DVD in the future. He confirmed the show was videotaped but he said creating the DVD of the show would be a lot of hard work. Lets keep our fingers crossed for a DVD release of this show as well.
http://www.nme.com/news/led-zeppelin/35484
This is pretty sweet news here.
If anything, I want a new Led Zeppelin studio album more. I would like to see what new changes and style of music Led Zeppelin would sound like today if they worked on new material. If they work on a studio album and release it, then they can do several more shows to support it.
Led Zeppelin, Guns N’ Roses, Ac/Dc….coming back to music again?
I said it before and will say it again, “We need our rock n’ roll back dammit”. If those three bands come back to the national music industry full time, people can start caring about mainstream music again.
Kev
Well, it didn’t take long for Axl Rose and the new Guns N’ Roses to pick up on the Dr. Pepper offer. Axl Rose wrote about it on the bands “new” official website.
Although Buckethead is no longer in the band, his recordings on the album are still on there, Axl replied back he’ll share his free drink of Dr. Pepper with Buckethead.
Read it here:
http://www.gunsnroses.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080326&content_id=a1&vkey=news&fext=.jsp
But again, he still says nothing about a “release date” and no word about the future of “Chinese Democracy”.
Since Axl seems very happy about the Dr. Pepper offer, maybe he will actually release the album this year.
Lets keep our fingers crossed!
Kev
Well, it didn’t take long for Axl Rose and the new Guns N’ Roses to pick up on the Dr. Pepper offer. Axl Rose wrote about it on the bands “new” official website.
Although Buckethead is no longer in the band, his recordings on the album are still on there, Axl replied back he’ll share his free drink of Dr. Pepper with Buckethead.
Read it here:
http://www.gunsnroses.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080326&content_id=a1&vkey=news&fext=.jsp
But again, he still says nothing about a “release date” and no word about the future of “Chinese Democracy”.
Since Axl seems very happy about the Dr. Pepper offer, maybe he will actually release the album this year.
Lets keep our fingers crossed!
Kev
The soda company Dr. Pepper wants to help Axl Rose and the new Guns N’ Roses release the long awaited album that the public has been begging to get released, “Chinese Democracy”. Dr. Pepper is offering that if Guns N’ Roses new studio album “Chinese Democracy” gets released in the year 2008, every person in America “will” get a free can of Dr. Pepper except for Slash and Buckethead who were former members of Gn’R. NO KIDDING! This is for real!
Guns N’ Roses announced a release date for “Chinese Democracy” hundreds of times but the album never came to us. The latest release date was back in March 6, 2007.
Dr. Pepper soda company is “that” desperate to help Axl Rose out, check out their blog for proof:
http://www.chinesedemocracywhen.blogspot.com/
Billboard reports:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003741826
I truly believe “Chinese Democracy” will be the biggest selling record in music history if it ever gets released. I doubt Axl will give us the album this year. Gn’R still constantly goes on world tours to this day but no new album yet! I will buy the album myself if it’ll ever come out and I’m sure it’ll be a great record, but it definitely won’t be better than the classic “Apetite for Destruction”.
Come on Axl! Stop fuckin’ with us and your longtime fans and put out the album already! We need a true Guns N’ Roses comeback just as much as we need Ac/Dc to comeback to destroy mainstream pop music! We need rock n’ roll back dammit!
Kev
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