Black Sabbath's Iommi and Deep Purple's Gillan Releasing Album
(Gibson) Last year, rock heavyweights Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) and Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) teamed up to form WhoCares and release a pair of songs to raise funds to rebuild a music school in Armenia. Now, the guitarist and singer have set a release date – June 22 – for an entire WhoCares album, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.
The album will feature the two WhoCares tracks (which also feature Jason Newsted, Nicko McBrain, Linde Lindstrom and Jon Lord), along with rareities from Iommi and Gillan's vaults. Other songs include a Deep Purple studio jam, an unreleased song from Gillan's band Repo Depo, two unreleased songs from Iommi and Glenn Hughes, b-sides and radio performances.
"As I said once in the song 'Razzle Dazzle' – 'It's a real fine line between an orgy of destruction and a wonderful time,'" Gillan said. "The destruction of conformity in this case: Some of these pieces never really fit into their contemporary program and got sidelined or forgotten, and some of the album tracks never had much exposure. As the tracklisting for this album came together I noticed many of the titles had character similarities; a combination of freshness as they finally felt the sun on their backs and rebellion in a 'yeah told you so' kind of way. And that adds up to a wonderful time. And that adds up to more money for the music school we are building in Armenia." more on this story
Aerosmith Film New Video
(hennemusic) Aerosmith's Steven Tyler continues to juggle his American Idol gig with his band duties.
Tyler was on hand for both Idol shows last week, as usual, but his weekend plans were focused on Aerosmith, according to a tweet by the rocker late last week. "Shooting our first video (in a while) tomorrow," Steven wrote, as the band were set to team up with director Casey Patrick Tebo on Friday.
Tebo got in the act, as well, expressing his thoughts via Twitter: "Huge shoot tomorrow with @IamStevenT @JoePerry @joeykramer @THaerosmith. Gonna show the world who's still the baddest band in the land." more on this story
Coldplay's Chris Martin Has Hearing Disorder
(Gibson) Coldplay's Chris Martin has revealed that, like fellow rock star Pete Townshend, he's been suffering from a hearing disorder for the past 10 years.
Gwyneth Paltrow's rocker husband told the Daily Mail that he suffers from tinnitus (a ringing sensation brought on by loud noises damaging cells in the ears). And he wants to warn others of the danger of loud music. "Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.
"I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse – touch wood. But I wish I'd thought about it earlier." more on this story
Video of Slash Debuting New Song Is Posted Online
(hennemusic) Slash launched his US tour Thursday in Baltimore; the trek is in support of his new album, "Apocalyptic Love," which is due May 22.
The 20-song set at Rams Head Live! featured a cross-section of tracks from Slash's career, including his new single, "You're A Lie."
The show also featured the live debut of "Standing in The Sun," a tune from the forthcoming release. Check out video here.
Ska Pioneer Lloyd Brevett Suffers Fatal Stroke
(Gibson) Lloyd Brevett, who co-founded the influential ska band, The Skatalites, died Thursday (May 3) at age 80, BBC News has reported. The legendary double bassist passed away in his native Jamaica after suffering a stroke.
Formed in 1964, The Skatalites forged ska from elements of R&B, jazz and mento (a Jamaican brand of folk music). The distinctive style, for which Brevett provided the backbone, laid the groundwork for reggae.
Spokesperson and friend Maxine Stowe told the Jamaican Observer that Brevett's health had deteriorated rapidly following the tragic death of his son, Okeene Brevett, in February. The younger Brevett was shot and killed outside the family home, just hours after accepting a Jamaican music industry award on his father's behalf. more on this story
Black Sabbath Sell Out Home Town Show in 10 Minutes
(hennemusic) On Saturday, May 19, the mostly-reunited Black Sabbath will play their first hometown show in 13 years at Birmingham's 02 Academy.
The date serves as both a warm-up for the band's June 10 date at Download, while also helping deliver proceeds from the event to the Help for Heroes project.
The Sunday Mercury reports the heavy metal legends sold out their homecoming show in 10 minutes. more on this story
New Song Didn't Come Easy For Soundgarden
(Gibson) Soundgarden Frontman Chris Cornell told The Hollywood Reporter that "Live to Rise," from the soundtrack to the film, The Avengers, the band's first new song in 15 years did not come easily.
"This song came arduously," he said. "It's different, because it has to be a Soundgarden song. It has to resonate with every band member. Writing a song for the Avengers film, it has to be lyrically not specific to the movie or the story, but it has to work with it. It wasn't so easy. But it turned out absolutely a Soundgarden song."
Cornell went on to explain the impetus behind writing songs for films. "In this day and age, you don't have the monolithic record company with seemingly limitless resources and multimillion-dollar profits," he said. "They don't exist. Which is why a partnership like this exists. The movie company does have that, and they will promote it." more on this story
South Park's Matt Stone Give Rush Canadian Honor
(hennemusic) Rush were among the honorees at the 20th Anniversary Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Gala in Ottawa this weekend.
The Ottawa Citizen reports South Park co-creator Matt Stone took to the stage to recognize Rush members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart. Stone grew up in Littleton, Col. idolizing the rock band from "this far off land called Canada."
"I remember buying their cassettes, tearing home on my BMX, running inside and throwing them into my Walkman, and sitting down to my drum set and just destroying my mom's afternoon," Stone recalled. "Rush was definitely the first band I ever loved." more on this story
The Cult To Perform On Jimmy Kimmel
(hennemusic) The Cult return May 22 with their new album, "Choice Of Weapon." On Friday, May 18 - four days before the new project hits stores - The Cult will perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Then...three days after "Choice Of Weapon" is available, the band kick off a North American tour, starting May 25 in San Diego.
The Cult are currently promoting "For The Animals," the new single from the forthcoming album. more on this story
The Black Keys To Play 'Dirtbags' On Comedy Central Show
(Gibson) The Black Keys are set to guest star in a forthcoming episode of Comedy Central's Workaholics. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, the rock duo's Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney will play a couple of "dirtbags" waiting for their case to be heard in small claims court.
Their characters will be fitted with "oddly long ponytails," sources told EW. Auerbach and Carney are fans of the slacker comedy and befriended actor Adam Devine, one of the show's stars.
Devine, in turn, is an avid fan of the Black Keys' music. The duo's song, "Lonely Boy" was featured in an episode last fall. The episode guest starring Auerbach and Carney is set to air sometime this summer. more on this story
Singled Out: CrashScene
Today Jacen Ekstroms and Troy Healy from CrashScene tell us about "I Fall Apart" and "Don't Tell Me What To Do" from their new self-titled album. Frontman Jacen Ekstroms starts us off with the current single "I Fall Apart". Here is the story:
T-Roy went in to the studio early in the day with Jason Darr ( producer) and showed him the guitar riffs and song idea he had. When I showed up later in the day they were working on the chorus, and as fate would have it I had been working on a chorus and some lyrics for another song. The second I heard what they already had I knew this chorus idea I had would work with this song.
The song I Fall Apart is about a relationship that ends abruptly without one of the parties being emotionally ready for it to end, either because of infidelity or circumstance and for that reason one of them have a hard time getting over it. All it takes is seeing that other person out at a club or a Facebook post about them or someone letting you know what they have been doing to make you relapse and puts you back in the messed up state you were in when the relationship ended, like another personality. And as everyone knows the only way to heal a broken heart is time. It will get easier and easier until you no longer "Fall Apart" when their name is on your heart .....
Now guitarist Troy Healy tells us about "Don't Tell Me What To Do":
This song I believe was the identifying moment when Jacen and myself realized that we both jell well together and really compliment each others writing style. This was our first song together. Jacen already had a plethora of songs ready for the record. I wrote the guitar parts in California and then flew to Vancouver Canada to start tracking. Jacen happened to be flying into Vancouver from a Bif Naked tour, so he came straight from the airport to the studio. We started to write the vocal parts and it was going great but the pre-chorus needed some loving. It just wasn't coming together, so we decided to do a complete turn around and came up with that awesome hook. That was a defining moment for that song, and it made all the difference in giving it that creepy crazy out of control vibe that we were looking for right into that big chorus. I Love those moments!
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself as you check out the video fro I Fall Apart right here!
The Day The Rolling Stones Gave Us Brown Sugar
(Gibson) On this day in 1971, The Rolling Stones released "Brown Sugar" in the U.S., where it went to #1. The track, recorded at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama, went to #2 in the U.K. Gibson takes a look back:
"I never would write that song now. I would probably censor myself. I'd think, 'Oh God, I can't. I've got to stop.'I can't just write raw like that." – Mick Jagger to Rolling Stone, 1995
In a songwriting career filled, to that point, with lyrics about spending the night together, trying to "make some girl," little chemical helpers for mother and giving a wee bit of sympathy to old Lucifer himself, this may have been the single where Mick Jagger went too far. "Brown Sugar" hit on everything from slavery to rape to oral sex to BDSM to (then-taboo) interracial sex, but it has somehow managed to endure, nonetheless, as one of the most popular tracks in rock and roll history.
Usually, the Glimmer Twins of Jagger and Richards were true partners at songwriting, with Richards doing much of the music and Jagger the lyrics, though the lines have often blurred in both directions. "Brown Sugar" was different. For one thing, Jagger was half a world away from his counterpart when he came up with the idea. Sitting in his hotel room in Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia, Jagger was nursing a hand injury caused by a backfiring pistol on the set of the film, Ned Kelly. With some discomfort, he began strumming the chords that would eventually form the musical backbone of "Brown Sugar."
The original rough lyrics were about a white woman who has sex with one of her black servants, but Jagger wasn't happy with them. By this point, the Stones had convened at the legendary Muscle Shoals Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. It was early December, 1969 and Jagger was, by now, deeply involved with actress-singer Marsha Hunt. Whether or not she was his inspiration for the lyrics of "Brown Sugar," we may never know (it's also been theorized that the real "Brown Sugar" was the lovely Ikette, Claudia Lennear). Whatever the spark, Jagger wrote the final lyrics in a heartbeat inside the studio
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