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2/22/12
The lineup for this year’s Bamboozle festival in Asbury Park, NJ just keeps getting bigger. Event producers have just announced they've added Brand New and Volbeat to the roster which already includes headliners Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, Blink-182, Incubus and Skrillex. Other bands added to the expanded lineup include Buckcherry, Less Than Jake and Datsik, among others.
Three-day packages and single tickets are on sale now for the event, which will take place in Asbury Park, NJ on May 18, 19 and 20. Visit TheBamboozle.com for more information.
More details have emerged about Jack White's upcoming solo debut, Blunderbuss, which will be released on April 24. On Tuesday, White revealed that the album will contain 13 tracks, including the recently-released single “Love Interruption.” Fans will be able to get a taste of the new album performed live when White makes his solo debut on Saturday Night Live on March 3 as the show's musical guest.
Here’s the track list:
“Missing Pieces”
“Sixteen Saltines”
“Freedom at 21”
“Love Interruption”
“Blunderbuss”
“Hypocritical Kiss”
“Weep Themselves to Sleep”
“I'm Shakin'”
“Trash Tongue Talker”
“Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy”
“I Guess I Should Go to Sleep"
“On and On and On”
“Take Me with You When You Go”
Source: Abc ePrep
LARS ULRICH: People Will Eventually Be Able To Talk About 'Lulu' 'Without Hiding Behind Masks'
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich spoke to Roche of the Washington D.C. radio station DC101 earlier this week about the band's next major project, which is its Orion Music + More festival, a band-curated two-day event which will take place in late June in Atlantic City and feature over 20 bands as well as lifestyle attractions and other entertainment. Ulrich also talked about METALLICA's collaborative album with Lou Reed, "Lulu", which came out to poor sales and disastrous reviews last November.
When asked for his take on the fan reaction to "Lulu", Lars said, "You learn along the way to sort of take it all with just a little bit of distance. Obviously, it's fantastic in 2012 that the Internet gives everybody access to voicing their opinions, and I think it's an incredible medium to communicate and to bring the world closer. But, obviously, as an artist, or somebody who is creating something, you've gotta be careful how deep you dive into what everybody's talking about, because it could really screw with your mind. I've always been in a place where I'm pretty thick-skinned, so it doesn't bug me that much. It was difficult for Lou Reed because he takes everything very personally. And I think he was very surprised. We told him all along: 'Listen, there are some very, very, very hardcore metal fans out there that like everything pre-packaged in a particular little box that looks like this, and the minute that you slightly veer outside of that, then they have a hernia.' And that's fine — I'm fine with that. People have to understand, and I think I've been saying this for the better part of 30 years now [laughs], and I'm still trying to come up with different ways of saying it, but it boils down to the same thing, which is that people have to understand that in METALLICA, we sort of need to continue to shake it up for ourselves and to try different things and to try different experiences; that's part of what we need to survive creatively. So, in this situation, when a legend, icon like Lou Reed calls up and says, 'Come and make a record with me,' it's like, Okay. We'll come and make a record with you.' And then you just jump out on that adventure and see where it takes you. You know, that's the great thing about being in METALLICA — we can kind of do that, and we don't have to really answer to anybody and we don't have to go get money from anybody to make it happen, or whatever. So it's a luxury. And I understand that there are some people that resent that, because they want METALLICA to kind of just do what they want METALLICA to do. But I can't live like that. [Laughs] So it was a really, really fun experience to make this record. It was a little difficult, obviously, the reaction to it, because we felt that we really made something that was impulsive and beautiful and had its own kind of thing going. But the interesting thing is, in the last couple of weeks, every couple of, two-three days, I guess Howard Stern started talking about a song on there last week called 'Junior Dad' and about how wrong he was about the record when he first heard it and about how 'Junior Dad' is this incredibly beautiful song and he listened to it the whole week and he advised everybody to go and do the same. And I just saw some piece in, I think it was the LA Weekly or something, somebody sent me, talking about how the actual real album of 2011 was 'Lulu', but nobody is gonna recognize it for another 20 years. So, one by one, they're crumbling. [Laughs] In about 900 years from now, people will be able to talk about 'Lulu' face to face with each other without hiding behind masks. So we look forward to that day. [Laughs]"
"Lulu" has polarized fans around the world and earned METALLICA some of the most scathing reviews of its career. The effort features the former THE VELVET UNDERGROUND frontman's spoken-word poetry and lyrics combined with METALLICA's musical assault for a jarring experience that doesn't sound like anything METALLICA has ever attempted before. A concept album based on two early 20th century plays by German author Frank Wedekind, the CD was co-produced by Reed, METALLICA, Hal Willner — who has produced albums for Reed, Marianne Faithfull, and Laurie Anderson, among others — and Greg Fidelman. Fidelman also mixed the record.
The collaboration between METALLICA and Reed was sparked by their performance together of Reed's "Sweet Jane" and "White Light/White Heat" at the 25th anniversary of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at Madison Square Garden in October of 2009.
The songs were all written by Reed with extensive arrangement contributions by METALLICA.
Only two songs on the album are under five minutes in length, while two are more than 11 minutes long and the closing cut, "Junior Dad", clocks in at 19 minutes.
Source: Blabbermouth.net
2/21/12
Don’t ever bully anyone around Chris Cornell. According to gossip site PerezHilton.com, the Soundgarden frontman recently spoke up to defend a passenger in the Alaska Airlines lounge of the Seattle airport after he was called “a queer” by another traveler.
“When a guy in a business suit called another man a queer after he overheard him make a pro-Obama statement, Cornell vocally stepped up in the packed lounge and slammed the guy for making anti-gay comments,” a source said. “[Cornell said] you're a prick. You deliberately called him a queer to make him feel uncomfortable in front of a lot of people," noted another passenger in the lounge.
Another source added that airport security asked the man who made the anti-gay comments to leave. Shortly after that, both the passenger who was bullied and representatives from Alaska Airlines thanked Cornell for his assistance.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl recently caught some flak for saying that “the human element of music is what's important” during his acceptance speech for Best Rock Performance at the 54th annual Grammy Awards. While some people have interpreted the statement to mean that Grohl disapproves of any music that’s not traditional rock music, the singer released a statement on Friday to clarify his remarks.
"I love ALL kinds of music," Grohl said in the statement. "Electronic or acoustic, it doesn't matter to me. The simple act of creating music is a beautiful gift that ALL human beings are blessed with. And the diversity of one musician's personality to the next is what makes music so exciting and…human."
Grohl added that the problem lies with artists who use excessive amounts of technology to make their music, not with other styles of music. "That's exactly what I was referring to, the 'human element,'" said Grohl. "That thing that happens when a song speeds up slightly, or a vocal goes a little sharp. That thing that makes people sound like PEOPLE. Somewhere along the line those things became 'bad' things, and with the great advances in digital recording technology over the years they became easily 'fixed.' The end result? In my humble opinion...a lot of music that sounds perfect, but lacks personality. The one thing that makes music so exciting in the first place.”
ROB ZOMBIE And MEGADETH Announce Co-Headlining Tour
Metal heavyweights ROB ZOMBIE and MEGADETH have just announced a co-headlining tour guaranteed to raise the temperature on the planet. The trek, which marks the first time the two bands have toured together, kicks off Friday, May 11 in Holmdel, New JerseyJ and encompasses high-profile appearances at several rock festivals, including M3 Rock Festival, Rock On The Range and wraps Saturday, May 26 at Rocklahoma. ROB ZOMBIE will headline Rocklahoma, co-headline Rock On The Range (with INCUBUS), and will close all shows on the MEGADETH dates. A complete list of dates is below.
This will be ROB ZOMBIE's first concert tour since last summer's "Hell On Earth" co-headline trek with SLAYER. Zombie spent last fall and winter shooting his sixth feature film, "The Lords of Salem" which he wrote and directed and is making with the producers of the "Paranormal Activity" franchise. With principal photography completed, the film is currently in post-production.
Never one to play it safe, Zombie — with guitarist John 5, bassist Piggy D and Ginger Fish on drums — will bring his legendary stage show out in full force on these dates. Audiences will get what they expect from a ROB ZOMBIE show — an amped-up, non-stop barrage of sin, sex and Satan guaranteed to rip your face off, a true rock and roll spectacle at its finest.
Check out ROB ZOMBIE and MEGADETH in the following cities:
May 11 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
May 12 - Scranton, PA @ Toyota Pavilion
May 16 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
May 18 - Grand Rapids, MI @ The Deltaplex
May 20 - Columbus, OH @ Rock On The Range
May 22 - La Crosse, WI @ La Crosse Center
May 24 - Sioux City, IA @ Tyson Center
May 25 - Wichita, KS @ Hartman Arena
May 26 - Pryor, OK @ Rocklahoma
MEGADETH was among the nominees for the 54th annual Grammy Awards, which was held on February 12 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The band's tenth Grammy nomination was for its new single, "Public Enemy No. 1", off MEGADETH's latest album, "TH1RT3EN", which came out on November 1, 2011.
"Public Enemy No. 1" actually marked the second Grammy nomination for music from "TH1RT3EN", as the song "Sudden Death" was first unveiled in the 2010 video game "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock" and received a "Best Metal Performance" nod.
(Source: blabbermouth.net)
New Blur Song with Video!
The song is called Under the West Way and is performed live at the War Child charity gig, 19th February 2012.
Stone Temple Pilots’ Second “Cinnamon” Video Surfaces Online
As previously reported, Stone Temple Pilots created two videos for their single “Cinnamon” in 2010, both of which were scrapped. The first previously unreleased video appeared online last week, and featured clips of the band hanging out and performing the track for an intimate group of friends at a party.
Now, Metacafe.com has posted the second video online. It features frontman Scott Weiland walking around the desert, mixed with the rest of the band performing along with some psychedelic animation.
Source: Abc ePrep
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