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15/05/12
Slash Premiere’s Video for ‘You’re A Lie’ Today
Today Slash has premiered the new video for ‘You're A Lie’ and you can view it below. The hard-charging song is the first single off the iconic, Grammy-winning rock guitarist and songwriter's forthcoming second studio album 'Apocalyptic Love' and is available to buy everywhere and on iTunes now!
Apocalyptic Love features Slash and his bandmates Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators - Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums) and Todd Kerns (bass) - and will be released May 21st (UK) on Slash’s own label DikHayd International and distributed through Roadrunner Records in Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
As previously reported, in the UK the album will be released on May 21st in exclusive Classic Rock Fan Pack form – providing a unique collectable package containing the studio album with bonus tracks alongside a specially created magazine with unseen behind-the-scenes content put together by Classic Rock. The Fan Pack format will also come with free gifts including a pin badge & artwork poster and will be available to buy via more than 2000 retail outlets on newsstands nationally as well as the traditional high street and online music retailer. The Fan Pack is available for pre-order now at www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/slash-fan-pack. Roadrunner Records will simultaneously release the record digitally. The standard physical release of the Slash album will follow through Roadrunner Records on June 18 2012.
The full track listing for Apocalyptic Love is below. All the songs were written together by Slash and Myles Kennedy.
1. Apocalyptic Love
2. One Last Thrill
3. Standing in the Sun
4. You’re a Lie
5. No More Heroes
6. Halo
7. We Will Roam
8. Anastasia
9. Not for Me
10. Bad Rain
11. Hard & Fast
12. Far and Away
13. Shots Fired
In the UK the Classic Rock Fan Pack release will also feature two extra exclusive bonus tracks:
14. Carolina
15. Crazy Life
Twin Atlantic has announced a 10 date UK tour this autumn. The tour will follow a UK arena tour with blink-182 in June and a 4 week run on the Van’s Warped Tour in the US. The band will also be performing at this year’s T In The Park, Reading and Leeds Festivals.
The full dates for their headline Autumn tour are as follows:
October
27th - Glasgow, Barrowland
29th - Aberdeen, Music Hall
30th - Edinburgh, HMV Picturehouse
November
1st - Newcastle, O2 Academy
2nd - Manchester, Academy
3rd - Birmingham, O2 Academy
5th - Norwich, UEA
6th - Bristol, O2 Academy
7th - Southampton, Guildhall
8th - London, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Tickets go on sale Wednesday May 16th at 9am. Buy tickets online at www.seetickets.com
In other news, ‘Free’ is currently climbing the US alternative rock charts and this week is at number 33 - the highest placed British artist behind Coldplay, Florence and the Machine and Bush. This past week also saw the band celebrate the year anniversary of their album release in the UK and it was also their biggest album sales week since release, catapulting the band back into the iTunes top 10 and number 1 on the rock chart.
Tickets go on sale at 9am GMT Friday May 18th 2012 priced at £60/£75 (subject to booking fee) and will be available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk and www.livenation.co.uk
These are the first UK dates since the band brought their 3 ½ hour Time Machine Tour in May 2011 – the tour was met to widespread critical acclaim and included a sold out date at London’s O2 Arena.
10/05/12
Lostprophets New Single & UK Tour Announced
Having stormed back onto the UK charts with their top ten album ‘Weapons’, Lostprophets will release their new single ‘We Bring An Arsenal’ on June 4th. Lostprophets have also announced a massive UK tour for later this year following their sold out April/May tour.
Guitarist Mike Lewis says: “‘We Bring An Arsenal’ is about us as a band, our gang mentality. We’ve always had that, even before we formed Lostprophets. When we were just mates growing up, we had that us vs. them, underdog mentality. That song is about that – whatever you throw at us we’ll come back with more.”
As well as being confirmed for Radio 1’s Hackney Weekender in June, Lostprophets will also be playing the following venues this November:
NOVEMBER
1st – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
2nd – Preston, 53 Degrees
3rd – Sheffield, O2 Academy
5th – Edinburgh, HMV Picture House
6th – Inverness, Ironworks
8th – Manchester, O2 Apollo
9th – Portsmouth, Guildhall
12th – Norwich, UEA
13th – Lincoln, Engine Shed
14th – Newport, Centre
‘Iron Man: The Best of Black Sabbath’ is a 14 track collection of classic tracks from across Black Sabbath’s first eight albums – including tracks from 1970’s debut ‘Black Sabbath’ and follow up ‘Paranoid’, 1971’s ‘Master Of Reality’, 1972’s ‘Volume 4’, 1973’s ‘Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ and 1978’s ‘Never Say Die’.
The album, released through Sanctuary on June 4th 2012, brings some of the best loved and most influential rock songs of all time together on one album. See full track listing below.
Tracklisting:
1. Paranoid
2. Iron Man
3. Changes
4. Fairies Wear Boots
5. War Pigs
6. Never Say Die
7. Children Of the Grave
8. The Wizard
9. Snowblind
10. Sweet Leaf
11. Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games)
12. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
13. Black Sabbath
14. N.I.B.
Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler recently announced they are reuniting as Black Sabbath and recording a new album. They are scheduled to perform a headlining slot at the Download Festival on Sunday June 10th. For more information and tickets please see www.downloadfestival.co.uk. The band are also playing a sold out warm up show at the Birmingham 02 Academy on May 19th.
Bristol Institute of Modern Music Launches the Peter Grant Memorial Scholarship
The Peter Grant Memorial Scholarship has been created by the Bristol Institute of Modern Music in collaboration with the Peter Grant Estate. It will be linked to their Music Industry Management BAHons qualification being run at BIMM Bristol from September 2012.
Peter Grant, best known as the manager of Led Zepplin, also worked closely with Bo Diddley, The Everly Brothers, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, and the Animals, to name a few. In 1996 The Music Managers Forum (MMF) Award for outstanding achievement in management was renamed the Peter Grant Award in his honour.
The course, as with all BIMM programmes, is vocational and designed to act as a springboard into employment.
Mark Clayden, BIMM Bristol College Manager, explains, "We have designed the Music Industry Management BAHons degree to support up and coming young professionals eager to make their mark in the music industry. Training students in all areas of this ever changing industry including: Live Event Management, Retail, Promotion, Record Labels, A&R, Working With Musicians, Finances and Music Law."
Peter Grant's daughter, Helen Grant, added, "My father would have been both touched and honoured that this scholarship has been created in his name. He was a great inspiration to many people in the business, not only on the management front, but in the way he looked after his artists in his own, infamous way! A charismatic personality coupled with great humor, means he is never far away. This is a long overdue accolade. Never forgotten."
The Peter Grant Memorial Scholarship will cover approx £16,000 of course fees across the three year undergraduate programme.
INDUSTRY QUOTES ON BIMM'S MUSIC INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT COURSE:
Craig Jennings (Manager: You Me At Six, Twin Atlantic, Bullet For My Valentine, Kids In Glass Houses) "BIMM have designed this course to make sure that you will explore all of the possible career opportunities that are out there today. Once you know which route is for you, you will get hands on work experience on the front line. The BIMM Music Industry Management course gives students the chance to become fully skilled, trained and able to deal with anything that they may come across once they get out there into the industry."
Miles Leonard (President of Parlophone and Virgin Records) "The BIMM Music Industry Management Course provides an in-depth insight and valuable hands on experience into all facets of our fast moving industry from A & R and live event management through to finance and emerging business models. It's a really solid grounding for anyone looking to work in the music business. If I was starting out, it's where I would be. "
Canadian rockers Art Of Dying are currently out on the road Stateside supporting their debut album Vices and Virtues. They're good hearted Canadian boys with a weakness for BBQ, cigars, Jack Daniels, hockey and females. We here at Rock & Rose love them, and if you are lucky enough to be able to attend any of the shows we highly recommend you check them out!
May 2012
4th - Virginia Beach, VA - Farm Bureau Live - WNOR Lunatic Luau 2012
6th - Alpharetta, GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - WKLS Project Cinco Party
8th - Nashville, TN - Exit/In
9th - Little Rock, AR - Rev Room
12th - Kansas City, MO Liberty Memorial Park - KC Rockfest
13th - Boone, IA - Central Iowa Expo - KAZR Lazerfest
15th - Minneapolis, MN - The Brick [with Shinedown]
16th - Chicago, IL - House of Blues [with Shinedown]
18th - Scranton, PA - Eleanor Rigby's
19th - Hartford, CT - The Comcast Theatre - WCCC Big Gig
20th - Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club
22nd - Atlantic City, NJ - Starland Ballroom
23rd - Pittsburgh, PA - The Altar Bar
25th - Sauget, IL - Fubar
27th - Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma
In preparation for their hugely anticipated headline performance at this year’s Download Festival, Black Sabbath have announced an intimate homecoming show at the O2 Academy, Birmingham on Saturday, May 19th. The show will be the band’s first in Birmingham for thirteen years. A donation to Help for Heroes will be made from the proceeds of the show - ticket details below.
Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler return to their hometown for this exclusive show following November’s momentous announcement that the band are currently working on their first studio album in 33 years with seven-time Grammy winning producer Rick Rubin. It will be their ninth studio album together and their first since 1978’s ’Never Say Die!’
Love & Death Featuring Former Korn Guitarist Release EP
Love And Death, the new band led by former Korn guitarist Brian Head Welch, have just released their new EP ‘Chemicals’. The EP can be streamed in its entirety at AOL Music. ‘Chemicals’ features the US #1 radio hit ‘Paralyzed’.
Welch marks a new beginning with the announcement that his band will now go by the name Love & Death. “I put this band together in 2009” states Welch. “Since then, we've experienced some very intense highs and lows. Michael Valentine, Dan Johnson, J.R. Bareis and myself have toured around the world playing a lot of killer shows, but we've also had some heart shattering difficulties along the way as well. To us, the name ‘Love and Death’ symbolizes everything we've been through as a band over the last few years. We love this band so much and we'll go through hell to connect with our fans. We've proven that to ourselves over and over again.”
Ginger Wildheart remains one of the of the UK’s most prolific singer/songwriter/guitarists. Best known through his work with The Wildhearts, Ginger Wildheart has spent the last twenty years writing and recording some of Britains best rock music and building a fanatical following.
In mid 2011 Ginger Wildheart approached various labels with a typically ambitious triple album project. Unable to gain any interest from labels or distributers to fund the album, Ginger turned to Direct to Fan platform PledgeMusic, which allowed him to work directly with fans to create the album, bypassing the traditional methods of recording and releasing music. The campaign can be seen here.
The target that was set was beaten in 6 hours, and doubled in 24 hours. 6 months later and Ginger has completed 30 songs, and the total stands at 580%! This has been the biggest direct to fan/fan funded album release through any of the DTF platforms (Kickstarter, PledgeMusic, Indiegogo etc..) in the WORLD. EVER.
The PledgeMusic triple album – aptly titled ’555%’ - was played to Pledgers in three weekly instalments during March 2012. The Twitter listening parties took place at 5:55pm every Friday and each week the tag #Ginger555 became the highest trending topic on Twitter in the UK. The Pledgers then voted on their favourite tracks and from those votes the 12 tracks that make up ‘100%’ (the commercial album due for general release on June 4th) were chosen.
The tracklisting for 100% is as follows:
1. Forget About It
2. Internal Radio
3. Lover It’ll all Work Out
4. You’re The One, You’re The One, Yeah, I Know You’re The One, You’re The One (Yeah, I Know You’re The One)
5. It Appears That The Party Is Over
6. Taste Aversion
7. Another Spinning Fucking Rainbow
8. Just Another Song About Someone
9. Westward Ho! (A New Reputation)
10. Beautifully, Blissfully Unsettled
11. We’ve Been Expecting You
12 Time
Brighton based 4 piece band O.W.L.S have announced details of their debut EP 'The Rite Of Spring', released worldwide digitally through In At The Eye Records today. It will be available on iTunes, Amazon, 7 Digital, Spotify and all other good digital retailers.
The Seven track mini-monster was recorded by O.W.L.S long-time friend Michael ‘Padge’ Padget whom you may know as Bullet For My Valentine’s guitarist. The EP was mastered by one of O.W.L.S' other friends Nick Brine who has worked with the likes of Oasis, The Darkness, Ash, and Bruce Springsteen.
Band members Toby Macfairlaine, Richie Edwards, Oliver Wickham & Steven Gilchrist all went to the same school in the olden days. Richie and Toby were in the band, The Stone Gods with The Darkness’ Dan Hawkins.
O.W.L.S are very much influenced by Toby's obsession with the noise that came out of the pacific Northwest of America in the late 80's and early 90's, think Nirvana, Mudhoney, The Melvins, Queens Of The Stone Age and Soundgarden.
Describing their music as "feedback, bang & crash, shouting in tune, no precision solos or fireworks," O.W.L.S are resurrecting the spirit of grunge with smiles on their faces, and what's more they aim to make you smile too!
Catch the band live at Birmingham’s O2 Academy on May 5th 2012.
EP Tracklisting:
01. Only Joking
02. Hurt Janine
03. Leave A Light Over My Grave
04. Vitamins
05. Kibosh
06. One In The Chamber
07. A Day At The Beach
Megadeth, one of the most recognized and culturally significant names in metal over the last thirty years, have announced a very special one-off show at London’s Electric Ballroom on Tuesday 12th June. The show will follow the band’s return to the main stage on Sunday at this year’s Download Festival and tickets go on general sale, tomorrow morning Friday 20th April at 9am.
Megadeth released their 13th studio album ‘Th1rt3en’ in October last year to colossal critical acclaim, and tracks ‘Sudden Death’ and ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ received Grammy nominations. ‘Th1rt3en’ also marks the recorded re-appearance of bassist Dave Ellefson, who was part of the band's classic line-up from 1983 to 2002.
London rockers Skinny Machines will be showcasing their new EP ‘A New Chapter’ at a special show at London’s 229 venue on May 4th 2012. We are told the quartet will also be announcing some pretty exciting news! Be the first to hear it by buying yourself a ticket to the event HERE.
