Archive for February, 2009

Crüe Fest 2: The White Trash Circus

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Mötley Crüe will reprise their multi-act hard rock tour this summer with Crüe Fest 2: The White Trash Circus.

The Live Nation-produced tour begins July 19 in Camden, N.J., and runs through September 5 in Darien Lake, N.Y. Full tour details, including the line up, will be revealed at a press conference broadcast from FUSE TV studios in New York on March 16, before Mötley Crüe hits the stage across the street at Madison Square Garden that evening.

Crüe Fest 2 pre-sale tickets will be available exclusively to Mötley Crüe fan club members beginning today (Feb. 25).  Beginning on March 2, pre-sale tickets will be available to the public.

Thin Lizzy

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Thin Lizzy, the celebrated Irish hard rock band, returns with “Still Dangerous: Live at the Tower Theater Philadelphia 1977,” a long-lost classic concert recording, on March 3.

Guitarist Scott Gorham,who relaunched the band in 1996 as a tribute to former bass player and singer Phil Lynott,  is hoping the stash of recently discovered tapes that contained the upcoming “Still Dangerous” masters will yield even more archival treasures.

In addition to the vault material, Gorham hopes to record some new Thin Lizzy music to release in the near future. He plans to bring his latest incarnation of the band to North America this year, and he and fellow guitarist and Lizzy alumnus John Sykes hope to hit the studio as well for the group’s first studio album since 1983’s “Thunder and Lightning.”

Faith No More

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Faith No More has announced its first live performances since splitting up in 1998.  The band will play a series of European festival dates this summer, according to a statement from frontman Mike Patton’s publicist.

No North American Faith No More dates are scheduled at this time.

Neither the lineup for the revived Faith No More nor the specific festival dates have been announced.  Patton’s spokesperson Monica Seide said no further details on the band are yet available.

The news of Faith No More’s reunion comes as Patton completes his first film score, for “Crank 2: High Voltage,” which will hit theaters on April 17.

THEORY OF A DEADMAN IN STORE APPEARANCES!

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Theory of a Deadman is about mid-way through their in store appearance dates!  Check out where they are going to be next!

Wednesday, March 4th
Event begins at 2:30pm
Best Buy #571
845 N. Alfaya Trail
Orlando, FL 32828-0000

Don’t miss them at the UCF Arena w/ Motley Crue and Hinder!

Music News

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

An AC/DC concert outside Oslo, Norway ended in rioting on Wednesday night (February 18th). The show reportedly ended with bottles being thrown at the police and some members of the crowd of 23,000 tearing down a fence between the arena and a local road. Several fights were also reported, although there was no official announcement of any arrests or injuries.

GREEN DAY’S earliest album releases will be reissued on vinyl next month. The band’s current label home, Reprise Records, will release 12-inch vinyl versions of the trio’s first two independent albums, 39/Smooth and Kerplunk!, on March 24th. The discs were previously reissued on CD in 2007, but represent the first vinyl editions of the records since Green Day took them back from Lookout! Records in 2005, the label that originally issued them.

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE frontman Gerard Way said in a new interview with MTV News that the punk act is scaling things back on its next album, which will follow up 2006’s heavily produced concept record, The Black Parade. Way explained, “When we had just finished Black Parade, I think doing that record made us feel like we could do everything. And so I think the way to top a record that already kind of does everything is to not do everything.”