Projects, Releases, Signings, etc…
Foghat’s Best Of CD was recently certified Gold (500,000 copes sold.)… Clutch’s Strange Cousins From The West will be available on July 14 as will Judas Priest’s A Touch Of Evil – Live … Bullet Boys’ 10 Cent Billionaire is out now… Chickenfoot’s self-titled debut album debuted on the Billboard charts at number 4… Megadeth has announced Endgame as the title of their new album due in Sept… Hatebreed will release a self-titled album this fall…
Kittie’s next album, In The Black, will be released via E1 music on Sept. 15… GWAR is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year with the release of Lust In Space… The Black Crowes’ Before The Frost… Until The Freeze hits stores on Sept. 1… Alice In Chains’ Black Gives Way To Blue is due to arrive Sept. 29…Mushroomhead has begun work on their seventh album, due this summer or fall via Megaforce / Sony Music…
Porcupine Tree has signed to Roadrunner Records… Ratt’s new album will be released through Roadrunner… Eddie Van Halen married Janie Liszewski, his girlfriend of three years, on June 27. Ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli was said to be in attendance. Street Sweeper Social Club is Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello’s new band…
Tours…
The Vans Warped Tour swings through the Superpages.com Center on July 5… Candlebox will be at the House Of Blues the same evening… Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire stop at Nokia Theater on July 11… L.A. Guns plays The Rockstar Sportsbar on July 13… Clutch completely levels the House Of Blues on July 14. Baroness opens.
Yes and Asia grace the stage at the Bass Performance Hall on July 15… Aerosmith and ZZ Top play the Superpages.com Center on July 19… Pro-Pain will be at Lola’s on July 20… See Threat Signal at The Ridglea on July 22… Tool plays Nokia Theater on July 25, while Rod Stewart is there July 26… Rick Springfield is at Billy Bob’s on Aug. 1… Motley Crue, Charm City Devils, Godsmack, Drowning Pool and Theory Of A Deadman are at Superpages.com Center on Aug. 8…
Judas Priest and Whitesnake swing through Nokia Theater on Aug. 13, with Priest playing British Steel in its entirety and wearing costumes from that era. (Not sure that’s a good thing.)… The Rock Star Energy Mayhem festival hits Superpages.com Center on Aug. 15. This year’s installment features Slayer, Trivium, Cannibal Corpse, Killswitch Engage, Bullet For My Valentine and The Black Dahlia Murder, among others….
Def Leppard, Cheap Trick and Poison play the same stage on Aug. 21… DragonForce is to embark on a month-long headlining US tour this fall with Sonata Arctica and Taking Dawn as support…
To close things out…
In the days before we went to press, we lost three major entertainment icons in Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and perhaps the biggest, Michael Jackson. With the exception of Farrah, I was never much of a fan. Still, it’s really kinda sobering to see just how broad and far-reaching MJ’s influence was. While his personal actions made him creepy, to say the least, you have to respect his musical ability. Any music fan that claims they weren’t impacted by him in some form is full of crap.
See ya next month!
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