| Quick Hits: Alice In Chains, Green Day, Ozzy, Methods Of Mayhem, Pavement, The E Street Band, Weezer, Devo, Peter, Paul & Mary |
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September 17, 2009
Alice In Chains |
For fans having a hard time waiting for September 29 to arrive, Alice In Chains has posted an album preview of Black Gives Way To Blue on YouTube, featuring clips from all 11 songs. Meanwhile, fans can also watch the video for "Check My Brain" on aliceinchains.com, and the band will perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live on release night. Furthermore, don't miss FMQB's radio special, Inside Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue, which will air on radio stations nationwide from September 25 to 29. It features the band being interviewed by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich of Metallica.
Sirius XM's On Broadway channel will broadcast an interview with Green Day about the recent world premiere of their musical, American Idiot. The interview will air on Saturday, September 19 at 8 p.m. ET, with an encore broadcast on Sunday, September 20 at 12 p.m. ET on Sirius channel 77 and XM channel 75. During the interview, the trio will discuss how the creation of the musical American Idiot came about, including what it was like working with director Michael Mayer, as well as their individual responses to seeing the musical. The members of Green Day will also share with listeners how they were inspired by Broadway when writing the 2004 album American Idiot and reveal a list of their favorite Broadway shows.
Ozzy Osbourne will be presented the Legend Of Live award at the 2009 Billboard Touring Awards on November 5 in New York. The Billboard Legend of Live award recognizes an individual who has made significant and lasting contributions to live music and the touring business, and acknowledges the recipient's commitment to the art of performing live and reaching fans through the concert experience. Previous recipients include Sir Elton John and the Allman Brothers Band.
Methods Of Mayhem has crafted a truly interactive concept for an album collaboration, in which the Tommy Lee-fronted band is inviting fans, musicians and anyone with a great idea to help record their upcoming album. Participants will also have a chance to perform with the band at their record release show. The album, entitled Public Mayhem, is set for release in early 2010. Starting on October 5, isolated instrument tracks, or stems, will be posted on the website thepublicrecord.com. Participants can download the stems and add their own musical ideas, including original recordings, song mixes, arrangements and more. Following the launch, video and sound updates will be posted at ThePublicRecord.com featuring submission highlights and weekly giveaways for the best audio and video entries. Also, a charitable donation will be made on behalf of all participants to the MusiCares Foundation.
Seminal indie rockers Pavement have announced plans to reunite in 2010. The band, which amicably split in 1999, will get together for a world tour next year. The only concert announced so far is at Central Park in New York on September 21, 2010. Pavement guitarist Scott "Spiral Stairs" Kannberg told Rolling Stone they will probably end up playing more than one show at Central Park and "there's festivals and stuff that we’re talking to, like Coachella. After that, anything that happens in the future is in the future." A best-of compilation is expected to be released in 2010 as well.
After a three-year run of two albums and worldwide tours, the members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band are expecting a long break when their current tour ends on November 22. "We are gonna take, I don't know how long -- a year, year and a half, two years," guitarist Steven Van Zandt said during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. "Up to now we've been working a lot, and it's great... It could be the last show, could be the last tour. You never know. We do every show like it's our last show, anyway. But don't wait around; if you're waiting to come see us, come now. This is a good time to see us." In the meantime, the band still has a lot on their plate. They will do front-to-back- performances of Born To Run in Chicago on September 20 and in Nashville on November 18, plus five final shows at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary concert on October 29 in New York City.
Weezer is the latest band to sell official live bootlegs of their concerts. The band has begun selling the boots via weezer.com, starting with their August 27 show from Camden, NJ. The Weezer bootlegs are available as digital downloads, as a CD and download or as a deluxe package including a CD, download, t-shirt and digital photos.
Devo has signed a 360 deal with their original label home, Warner Bros. Records. The label will reissue deluxe CD and limited-edition colored vinyl versions of Devo’s 1978 debut Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! and 1980’s Freedom of Choice, as well as a seven-inch vinyl single of "Jocko Homo/Mongoloid," on November 3. That same day, Devo will launch a series of live performances in select markets (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Washington D.C., New York and Toronto), during which they will play back-to-back nights in each city. On the first night, the band will perform Are We Not Men? in its entirety; on the second night, they will perform Freedom of Choice in its entirety. Next year, Devo plans to release a new studio album and do a proper world tour.
Mary Travers, one third of the folk trio folk Peter, Paul and Mary, has died due to complications from chemotherapy associated with a bone-marrow transplant she had several years ago after developing leukemia. Travers passed away at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut at the age of 72. Peter, Paul and Mary were hugely popular throughout the 1960s with albums like A Song Will Rise, See What Tomorrow Brings and Album 1700, but they broke up in 1970. Travers embarked on a solo career, releasing five albums, and the trio reunited to perform at a benefit opposing nuclear power in 1978. After that they kept to a limited schedule of world tours. Her cohort Peter Yarrow released a statement on Wednesday saying that Travers’s singing style was an expression of her character: "honest and completely authentic." Paul Stookey said that "her charisma was a barely contained nervous energy — occasionally (and then only privately) revealed as stage fright."
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