Tours
You can tell summer’s coming, ‘cause there’s a ton of cool shows on the way. Here’s a not-so-comprehensive look at some of those hitting town. The Black Crowes are flying in to the Taste Of Addison festival on May 10… Pat Benatar and Everclear blossom at the Wildflower Arts Festival in Richardson on May 16, while Blue Oyster Cult, Bret Michaels, Firehouse and America are there on May 17… Death Angel and God Forbid swing through the Ridglea Theater May 17… Radiohead is at the Superpages.com Center on May 18…
The Police and Elvis Costello stop by the Superpages.com Center on May 21. Type O Negative, 3 Inches Of Blood and Hatebreed are at The Palladium on May 27… Joe Cocker and Steve Miller drop by Superpages.com on May 30… Firewind plays The Door with Dark Tranquillity on June 5… Candlemass (with Solitude Aeturnus singer and local boy Robert Lowe) descend into Lola’s on June 7…. Joan Jett, Cyndi Lauper and The B-52’s are at the Superpages.com Center on June 22…
June 24 sees Boston, with new singer Tommy DeCarlo — who replaced Brad Delp (RIP) — making a stop at Nokia Theater… Stone Temple Pilots, featuring the recently-sentenced-to-eight-days-in-jail-for-a-DUI Scott Weiland, are also playing Nokia on June 29… Bang Tango, L.A. Guns and Faster Pussycat hit Firewater July 11…
Night Ranger comes to the Glass Cactus on July 12… At The Gates, Darkest Hour, Repulsion, Municipal Waste and Toxic Avenger play the House Of Blues on July 19… Motley Crue, Sixx A.M., Papa Roach, Buckcherry and Trapt all head for Superpages.com Center on July 24…
Releases and signings…
Glenn Hughes has released First Underground Nuclear Kitchen (otherwise known as F.U.N.K)… In related news, Hughes has begun re-mastering Deep Purple’s classic Stormbringer album from 1974… The reissue of Keel’s Lay Down The Law debut is available now, as is In Flames’ A Sense Of Purpose… Def Leppard’s Songs From The Sparkle Lounge is out now... Whitesnake’s Good To Be Bad is available through SPV… Children Of Bodom’s Blooddrunk debuted at #22 on Billboard’s Top 200… Sevendust’s Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow is out, as is Rage’s Carved In Stone…
Crimson Glory’s self-titled debut along with Transcendence and Strange and Beautiful have been reissued… Michael Schenker’s In The Midst Of Beauty is due May 13. The album features vocalist Gary Barden, who also sang on the first two MSG albums… Tiamat is streaming their entire new album, Amanethes at www.myspace.com/tiamat. The album is due out through Nuclear Blast on May 27…
To honor Earth Day 2008, Testament donated a portion of the proceeds from pre-order sales for the recently-released The Formation of Damnation to Greenpeace. Speaking of Testament, they’ll be the Superpages.com Center with Motorhead, Judas Priest and Heaven And Hell on Aug. 22… Night Ranger’s Hole In The Sun hits stores July 1 through VH1 Classic… Warrior is recording a new album… Satyricon has finished recording a new one called My Skin Is Cold…. BulletBoys have signed with Chavis Records… Alice Cooper has signed with SPV…
Get well soon…
Carl Dixon, lead singer of ‘80’s Canadian rockers Coney Hatch, was very seriously injured recently in a head-on collision in Australia. By all accounts, it seems Dixon is very lucky to be alive. Speaking via phone from his hospital bed in Australia, he had these inspiring words to say: “The most amazing thing, beyond surviving what I cannot remember, is the outpouring of goodwill, love and affection since the accident. It’s been truly uplifting,” he added. “I have absolutely no recollection of the accident. It was obviously just one of those moments. I was trapped for a long time, apparently. I’ve got both legs in casts but not suspended. Right hand broken, right eye badly damaged... probably weeks before I can even try to get on my feet. Everything will eventually heal, except the eye, which I will probably lose. Other than that, I feel blessed.”
New additions and endeavors…
Thomas Gabriel Fischer has left Celtic Frost. (Doesn’t that mean Celtic Frost is finished? Didn’t he start that band? Just a thought.)… Singer Eric Wagner has left Trouble. The band has hired former Warrior Soul singer Kory Clarke to take his place… Anthrax’s new singer is an unknown named Dan Nelson… Metallica’s recently announced web site is MissionMetallica.com, where the band says it will offer fans a chance to “experience the new Metallica album before it’s done.” It’s scheduled to go “live” on May 12…
Random quote of the month…
“I feel really bad for new musicians.” Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. (The rest of the story can be read at www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=96180.)
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