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Porcupine Tree are planning a special London show for the Autumn. What makes it so special. Read on…
This date will be at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall on October 14. It’s being billed as An Evening With Porcupine Tree, with the band playing an extended set. Full details will be announced soon.
Tickets are already [...]
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AC/DC and Metallica were among the biggest touring acts of 2009 in North America.
‘DC’s tour grossed $77.9 million, while Metallica pulled in $53.4 million. Both appear in the list of the top 10 biggest live draws of the year.
Also on the list are U2 ($123 million – the biggest act of the past 12 [...]
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It appears Jane’s Addiction are not playing with Guns n’ Roses in Peru.
Just a couple of days ago, Peruvian sources announced that the two bands would be on the bill together at the Monumental Stadium Esplanade in Lima on March 25, with both doing full sets.
Now GNR have posted the following update on their [...]
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Black Label Society are planning to record a new album early in the new year.The band aim to mix this as yet untitled record in April, with a tentative release planned for June.
For further info, go to www.blacklabelsociety.com
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John Mellencamp and Stephen King have been working together on a horror musical – and it will debut in Atlanta during September.Called Ghost Brothers Of Darkland Country, it’s about two brothers who hate each other, and then discover that their father had two older brothers who also loathed one another, and ended up killing [...]
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke is working on a new project with avant-garde composer Philip Glass and Irish singer/songwriter Damian Rice.
The trio are composing the music for a new documentary on Tibet called When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun. Given the dispositions of the three involved, there’s little chance of a party atmosphere on the soundtrack.
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Eddie Vedder is being sued by a songwriter, for changing his lyrics.Canadian Gordon Peterson says that when the Pearl Jam frontman recorded a version of his song Hard Sun for the soundtrack of the 2007 film Into The Wild, he ‘altered certain key lyrics…eroding the integrity of the composition’.
Peterson, who also named Universal Music [...]
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Steeleye Span co-founder Tim Hart has died at the age of 61 after a battle against lung cancer.Hart started the band in 1970, with Maddy Prior and Ashley Hutchings. He remained a member of the band until 1982, before leaving to become a producer.
Hart was forced to give up music in 1988, because of [...]
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Paul Rodgers has teamed up with TourTV and LiveStream for a special New Year’s Eve internet broadcast.
Starting at 8pm PST December 31 (which is 4am GMT on January 1, if you’re wondering), TourTV will be airing, in its entirety, Paul Rodgers New Year’s Eve Live ‘07, which was recorded at the El Dorado Showroon in Reno, [...]
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Former Kansas guitarist and principal songwriter Kerry Livgren suffered a stroke a few months ago. In this update he talks about it for the first time in-depth.
It was a typical Monday morning in late summer. I had started the day with the barn chores and followed with a few hours in the recording [...]
