Music News For The Week Of January 19, 2014!
Steel Panther has released a video for The Burden Of Being Beautiful for their soon to be released album, All You Can Eat on April 1. How appropriate. You can watch it here: http://www.vevo.com/watch/steel-panther/the-burden-of-being-wonderful/GBWWP1300179
Sevendust announced a new album, Time Travelers & Bonfires, to be followed by a tour. The album come out in April. It will be all acoustic and was part of their crowdfunding campaign. Tour dates are here: http://www.sevendust.com/
Tool announced tour dates. You can get them here: http://www.toolband.com/tour/index.html
The Pretty Reckless have announced that their Going To Hell album will be released on March 18. You can get tour info and check out the cool album cover for it here: http://goingtohell.me/hell/
Shinedown members Brent Smith and Zach Myers are releasing a covers EP called the Acoustic Sessions. It will be released on January 28. It will feature 5 tracks. Here is Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay (Otis Redding): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ZWrdQkrmc&feature=youtu.be
David Navarro (Jane’s Addiction) has stated that his Camp Freddy run is coming to an end after 10 years. There were a core of 5 musicians that had mystery guests that performed cover sets. The band was made up of Matt Sorum (Guns And Roses, Velvet Underground), Chris Chaney (Jane’s Addiction), Billy Morrison (The Cult) and the frontman Donovan Leitch. He now says he will be moving on with the band called The Royal Machines, which Camp Freddy evolved too. No word if he is keeping the same members or not.
The Winery Dogs are releasing a special edition of their debut which will be a 2 disc set. The original and Unleashed In Japan 2013. It will also feature some unreleased tracks. There is a box set also coming out that contains these and a diary of the studio sessions by Mike Portnoy. The box set will be called Dog Treats and it will look like a dog treat box. Both to be released sometime in April.
The Beatles have teamed up with Vans shoes to come up with their limited edition shoes. You can check them out here: http://www.vans.com/
U2 will be begin their new album campaign during the Super Bowl on February 2. The song is called Invisible. Right after the commercial airs, you will be able to download it for free for 24 hours. U2 has worked out with Bank Of America that for every download a dollar will be donated to the Global Fund, up to $2 million.
311 will be releasing their new album, Stereolithic, with 15 new tracks on 3/11, How original.
Last week’s Rockucation question was: This album has no official title but is referred to by fans by a particular name. The band wanted to foil the critics who said they sold records because of the hype and not the talent. The band didn’t put their name on it but 4 symbols instead. It was a gatefold album made in the 1970’s. People would hold the album up to a mirror looking to complete a image. There were also various stories surrounding the record, such as by playing a certain song backwards it revealed a satanic message, etc. Who is the group and what is the album? Kamran Khan from Seekonk, MA got this one for us. It was Led Zeppelin’s fourth album known as ZOSO.
Bruce Springsteen released a new video called Just Like Fire Would off his High Hopes album. Pay attention to the video and you will see Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine playing. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ4a_tgJp4I
If you watch tonight’s Grammy’s show, besides seeing Metallica, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr perform together,David Grohl and Queens Of The Stone Age performing together and others. You will also catch the Motley Crue farewell commercial. Yup, that says it all.
If you care, Roger Daltry and Wilko Johnson are working together on a project. Yeah, I didn’t think you did either.
Les Claypool (Primus), Duo De Twang will be releasing their new album Four Foot Shack on February 4. It will be followed by a tour. You can hear a track and get more details here: http://lesclaypool.com/news/
Daughtry released the Long Live Rock And Roll audio from his Baptized album. I like the lyrics but wished the song had a harder edge to it. But I like the ride down memory lane on this one. You can listen to it here: http://www.daughtryofficial.com/us/videos/long-live-rock-roll-audio
Machine Head will be releasing a 10 inch single on Record Store Day which is April 19 by the way. It will feature the demo of Killers And Kings on side A and on side B it will have Our Darkest Days.
Jake E. Lee’s Red Dragon Cartel released a video for Deceived off of their debut. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1zPls_cYc0&feature=youtu.be
Scott Ian is doing a solo gig called Speaking Words. He has a trailer for it and you can also get dates here: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/scott-ian-spoken-word-tour
Motorhead has canceled their rescheduled tour of Europe. This is due to Lenny’s health. He is still not 100%.
Soil released a new video off their Whole album. This one is called Loaded Gun. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmHrmQJR2K0#t=12
Def Leppard have announced they will release a deluxe version of Slang next month. It comes with all the usual unreleased tracks and demos, etc.
Neil Daniels, author of various rock biographies, has launched his own site. You can check it out here: http://www.neildanielsbooks.com/
Ok my friends, I know some of you really like the Blues. I think you need to check out SIMO. They have a refreshing blues sound. You can check out some of their live stuff on YouTube. But go to their website and give them a serious listen: http://simotheband.bandcamp.com/album/simo
This week’s Rockucation question is: This band was formed in 1990. It was basically the foundation of two grunge bands. They put out one album only. It was a tribute to the late Andrew Wood. Who was the band and what band came out of it as well as what other band supplied members to it?