“Who could turn the world on with her smile?” RIP Mary Tyler Moore. Hey, if it wasn’t for her, you wouldn’t’ve had strong women role models and Hill Street Blues!
Looking forward to new music, aren’t ya Mikey!
My friends Incubus are coming back! The Pulse Of Radio says guitarist Mike Einziger posted some teases for the band’s new album on Tuesday (Jan 24th) via Twitter, according to The PRP, promising fans that the disc is “not mellow” and that he “literally cannot wait to play all these songs for you.” There is no word yet on the album’s title or when it will arrive.
Einziger told Billboard last year the Los Angeles band was looking to go in a “different direction” on its new CD, explaining, “We had a whole bunch of music put together and then we kind of pushed it to the side and said, ‘Let’s just go in a different direction and try new things’ . . . Whatever the album ends up being, it will be great because we have so many songs to work with.”
Einziger told us a while back one of the things he’s most proud of is the diversity of Incubus’ music: “That’s one of the things I personally enjoy about the band that I play in is that each song is actually pretty different from the next, and we’re going to continue to carry that torch.“
The band’s eighth full-length studio effort will follow up 2015’s Trust Fall (Side A) EP as well as its last album, 2011’s If Not Now, When?
Mike Kroeger, Chad Kroeger, Ryan Peake, Daniel Adair….we sell more records that you!
Today I will be on the hotLine with Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. And when you know I am speaking with a rock star that can only mean one thing…..they have music to promote. But my lips are sealed til next week. So you will have to find out more somewhere else. ;> BTW: Nickelback is the 11th best-selling music act and second best-selling foreign act in the U.S. of the 21st century, only behind The Beatles! So take that, haters!
I love Sevendust. I have known them since they started 20 years ago. They headlined a hardDrive Live Tour several years ago. They have been a proponent of hardDriveRadio the whole time. And now it’s time to celebrate their awesomeness! Blabbermouth and The Pulse Of Radio reporting Sevendust will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of its self-titled debut album by performing the record in its entirety at a special hometown show on Mar 17th in Atlanta, according to Blabbermouth. Originally released in 1997 via TVT Records, the disc featured the hits “Black” and “Bitch,” and introduced Sevendust to a national audience for the first time.
Even though Sevendust has been making records since 1997, drummer Morgan Rose told us not long ago he could see the band going on for a while: “We’re like those old vets, you know, that play sports. It’s like, I’m still gonna play up until I don’t think I can play to the level where I feel comfortable. I foresee us definitely doing more records. We love each other, we’re real close right now, and I don’t see us rolling out of here any time soon. I think some of the people that don’t like us are going to be stuck having to deal with us for a little while longer.“
The band’s debut disc has gone on to sell more than 700,000 copies and was certified gold in 1999. Sevendust has recorded nine more studio albums since its debut, with the latest, Kill The Flaw, coming out in 2015. It featured the Top 15 rock radio track “Thank You.”
In related news, I heard Sevendust’s Clint Lowery will do a touring stint with Seether later this year. Clint has also toured with Korn when Head first left the band several years ago.
People still protesting our new regime. Beastie Boys member Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz slammed Donald Trump in a new interview with The Daily Beast, saying he rejects the newly elected President’s vision for America. Horovitz explained, “I get that there’s a large portion of this country that is looking for some f**kin’ racist, sexist, homophobe like f**kin’ awful white dude that they want to be in charge. Okay, I get that there’s a portion of our country that wants that.“
Horovitz continued, “But Trump I don’t get. I can’t wrap my head around it. He is the New York City rich elite. Who got duped by that motherf**ker? I don’t get it at all. People look at him — and us New Yorkers — as awful people, so I don’t get it? He’s a f**kin’ s****ag.”
Horovitz and fellow Beastie Boy Mike Diamond held a rally in Nov at Adam Yauch Park, a memorial to their late bandmate who died in 2012, after it was defaced with swastikas and a message that read, “Go Trump.”
Although Horovitz doesn’t think that members of the nationalist “alt-right” defaced the park, he believes their rise is connected to Trump’s victorious campaign. He said, “I just think it was some kid who thought it was a funny thing to do. But I’ve never seen a swastika on the f**kin’ F train and, on the West 4th Street train station, I’ve seen one four times — just in the last six months. And Trump can’t take 15 seconds to say, ‘I denounce that s**t?’ It’s pathetic.”
Since the Beastie Boys ended in 2012 with the death of Yauch, Horovitz has spent his time scoring films and also starring in movies like 2014’s While We’re Young and 2017’s Golden Exits.
Happy for Art Of Anarchy, the band featuring Creed singer Scott Stapp alongside Disturbed bassist John Moyer and ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal,. They’ve set Mar 24th as the release for its sophomore album, The Madness. According to Blabbermouth, the CD will feature 10 brand new tracks, including “Echo Of A Scream,” “1,000 Degrees,” “No Surrender,” “Changed Man” and the title track, which was issued as a single and video last Oct.
Art Of Anarchy gave its first live performance ever in Oct in New York City. In addition to Stapp, Moyer and Thal, the lineup includes brothers Jon and Vince Votta on guitar and drums respectively. Stapp joined the group in early 2016 after spending much of the previous year recovering from a drug-fueled meltdown in late 2014, after which he underwent rehab and therapy.
The first Art Of Anarchy album, issued in 2015, featured Scott Weiland on lead vocals, but the ex-Stone Temple Pilots singer distanced himself from the project at the time of the record’s release. Weiland died in Dec 2015 while on tour with his band The Wildabouts.
Perry Farrell, Sting, Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott and Bush’s Gavin Rossdale performed on Tuesday night (Jan 25th) at L.A.’s Wiltern Theatre for the “Celebrating David Bowie” show. Billboard reported that in addition to such legendary Bowie side musicians as guitarists Earl Slick and Adrian Belew, pianist Mike Garson, and bassist Gail Ann Dorsey — other guest vocalists included Sting’s son, Joe Sumner, Donovan‘s son, Donovan Leitch and long time Rolling Stones backing singer Bernard Fowler.
Highlights included Sting’s renditions of Bowie’s “Blackstar” and “Lazarus,” with Joe Elliot tackling “Suffragette City” and the Bowie-written and produce Mott The Hoople classic “All The Young Dudes,” and Perry Farrell taking on “Golden Years.” The show, which has already hit London and New York City, played again last night (Jan 25th) at the Wiltern — without Sting — and continues on the road playing on Feb 2nd in Tokyo.
Let’s say Happy 62nd to Edward Van Halen!