Tours
UFO is at the Ridglea, July 9… Bang Tango, Faster Pussycat and L.A. Guns stop by Firewater on July 11… Night Ranger is at the Glass Cactus, July 12, with Loverboy there Aug. 13… George Michael hits American Airlines Center on July 13…. Motley Crue, Sixx A.M, Buckcherry, Papa Roach and Trapt stop by Superpages.com Center on July 24… The Romantics, Missing Persons and Tommy Tutone play the Glass Cactus on July 25, while Slipknot, Distrubed, Dragonforce, Mastodon and others are at Superpages.com that same night.…
Foreigner and Bryan Adams play Superpages on July 26…. Journey, Heart and Cheap Trick are there July 27… “Weird” Al Yankovic plays the Nokia Theater on Aug. 6… Ozzfest swings through Pizza Hut Park in Frisco on Aug. 9. This year’s package features Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Serj Tankian, Cavalera Conspiracy, Drowning Pool, Hellyeah, Rigor Mortis and In This Moment among others…
Sheryl Crow is at the Superpages.com Center on Aug. 15… Nine Inch Nails plays American Airlines Center Aug. 18… Extreme and King’s X make a stop at the House Of Blues on Aug. 20… Steely Dan is at Nokia Theater on Aug. 21… Testament, Motorhead, Judas Priest and Heaven And Hell descend into Superpages.com Center on Aug. 22. Word is that Judas Priest is playing the entire Nostradamus double album live. (Yawn.) Boy George is at the House Of Blues on Aug. 23…
Opeth was forced to cancel some recent Swedish gigs when leader Mikael Akerfeldt came down with chicken pox… Carcass has reunited and is currently weighing touring options. They’ve already played a few European festivals and have booked some Canadian dates…. Van Halen’s recent US tour grossed $93 million….
It’s reported that Cinderella’s Tom Keifer’s left vocal cord hemorrhaged, thus forcing the band to cancel all summer US tour plans. Here’s wishing Tom a speedy recovery… Ace Frehley recently jammed with Pearl Jam on “Black Diamond” at the band’s June 25 Madison Square Garden show… Y & T is currently lining up a US tour…
Lawsuits and awards
Poison has filed a lawsuit against their record label for breach of contract, claiming Capitol Records underpaid them royalties for years. They also claim they were shortchanged by EMI Music Marketing over a deal they made in 2005 for their greatest-hits album, The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock, which featured a new cover of Grand Funk Railroad’s “We’re an American Band.” Poison is seeking damages in excess of $25,000.… Testament has won the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Award for Album of the Year for The Formation of Damnation. They beat out these other worthy contenders in their category: Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Children Of Bodom and Down.
Releases
The name of Metallica’s next album is Death Magnetic, with a planned Sept. release... Judas Priest’s Nostradamus is now out, as is Motley Crue’s Saints Of Los Angeles… MSG’s In The Midst Of Beauty is now available, as are Million’s brilliant Thrill Of The Chase and Jorn’s Lonely Are The Brave… Destruction’s Schmier has reformed Headhunter and released Parasite Of Society… Iced Earth’s I Walk Among You debuted at #2 on Billboard Maxi Singles Chart and at #3 on the Billboard Top Singles Chart…
Venom’s next one is simply titled Hell… Grave Digger’s new album is written. The band will enter the studio in Aug… Yngwie Malmsteen’s new album has been pushed back to Aug. and features former Judas Priest / Iced Earth singer Tim “Ripper” Owens… Edguy’s next album will be Tinnitus Sanctus… Candlemass has recorded an EP called Lucifer Rising…
Extreme’s reunion album is Saudades De Rock (Pronounced saw-dodge, a Portuguese word meaning longing.) The album hits US shores on Aug. 12… Motorhead’s Motorizer arrives Aug. 26… On July 1, Slipknot, the Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum nine man hard rock enigma, will unveil their new imagery in an exclusive partnership with AOL Music, the web’s most trafficked online music destination. All Hope Is Gone is set for release on Roadrunner Records on Aug. 26…
Sweden’s Evergrey has signed with SPV Records for the Sept. release of their new album, Torn. The deal also covers the reissue of the band’s entire back catalog… Steelheart’s Good 2B Alive is due Sept. 15… Former Cro-Mags frontman John Joseph has released an autobiography called Evolution Of A Cro-Magnon.
Quote of the month
“That’s fu*king stupid. It’s never going to happen. It’s silly, you know? It was just a slow news day,” laughed Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilminster when asked about the petition going around the UK to see him knighted.
See you next month!
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