Right? It feels like a Monday! LOL And I would like to start today with a comment on an entertainment news story I just saw. British pop singer Adele scolded a fan at one of her recent shows who actually had to balls to bring a TRIPOD and a video camera to record her show. What is it coming to? Fans making DVD’s of shows? I mean, come on people! I guess we’re ALL guilty of holding our cellphones up to take pictures and video songs of some of our favorite bands, but 9 times out of 10, when you look back at the stuff, the quality is lousy. And is it something you ever watch a second time? No! We usually delete, correct? What ever happened to going to a show, ENJOYING what you see and hear, and calling it just that, an experience!
Metallica
Well, this is great news! The Pulse Of Radio reports Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said in a new interview with Metal Forces June will be a decisive month for the band’s long-awaited 10th studio album. Ulrich revealed, “We’re now coming towards the end of the musical creative process and we’re starting to look ahead and the process of how we’re gonna share this record with the universe. The month of June is basically when we’re gonna sit down and figure what we’re gonna do with it all; what we’re gonna call it and what’s gonna be on it.“
Ulrich cautioned fans, however, that he is not sure if it will actually be released this year. He explained, “If the record doesn’t come out this year then it won’t be because it’s not done. It will be because there’s some sort of cosmic reason that it would be smarter to hold onto it until next year. But the record will be done this summer.”
The group has been recording at Metallica HQ in San Rafael, CA with Greg Fidelman, who was the engineer on the band’s last studio album, 2008’s Death Magnetic. The band has one live date on its schedule at the moment, at the new U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on Aug 20th with Avenged Sevenfold and Volbeat.
ROCK IS NOT DEAD, despite what some would like to make us think……
Meanwhile, on a positive note, speaking of the recent swell of destination festivals, read this fantastic article from Billboard magazine. They posted a positive story on heavy metal and hard rock making a resurgence. Thank you!
Still can’t believe Chino is a blond! (Photo credit: Suzy Cole)
Deftones have chosen “Phantom Bride” as the second single from the band’s recently released eighth album, Gore. The track features a cameo from Alice In Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell and will impact at rock radio on June 7th. The song will follow up the band’s first single off Gore, “Prayers/Triangles,” which made it into the Top 10 at rock radio.
Deftones drummer Abe Cunningham explained in an interview with North Carolina radio station WXQR how Cantrell came to contribute to the song, saying, “We had this song. It was pretty much done. It could have been left as is, but it sort of had this big kind of a gaping hole in the end, like a gap, that could have just been or we could have filled it up with something . . . we started brainstorming: ‘Man, what if we got someone to play a badass solo on that?‘”
Cunningham added, “(Jerry’s) a good friend and we just kind of rang him up and he was with it. And he came and hung out with us. And we were barbecuing still, and he joined the barbecue and went in there and he kind of banged it out and it was a lot of fun.”
The drummer continued, “(We had) tears of joy when he was laying it down . . . When he plays, you know immediately it’s him, and that’s a rarity.”
Gore came out in April and debuted at Number Two on the Billboard 200 album chart. It is the band’s highest-charting effort since their self-titled fourth album reached Number Two in 2003. The first single from the new disc, “Prayers/Triangles,” is Number Eight on the rock radio chart. Deftones will be touring Europe throughout June but will kick off a new round of North American dates on Jul 31st in Buffalo, NY.
I wanted to share this little ditty from Hollywood Vampires from their recent show in Finland. Yes, the band with Alice Cooper, Joe Perry of Aerosmith and Johnny Depp, some actor, I think. LOL Here they are, joined by drummer Matt Sorum and bassist Robert Deleo of STP who is filling in for Duff McKagan who is off touring with some new band, Guns N’ Roses. ;> Here’s their cover of The Who‘s “My Generation.” Enjoy!
I love the guys in Disturbed. Here’s a great interview David Draiman did with Cameron Buchholtz from our affiliate Rock 100.5 The KATT/Oklahoma City from this weekend’s Rocklahoma!
This week, Nonpoint join me in the hardDriveRadio studios here in NYC. They are promoting their upcoming album, The Poison Red.
Gotta dash. More tomorrow!