STARBREAKER/ex-TNT vocalist Tony Harnell has scheduled two acoustic shows in early July:
July 11 - New York City, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall
July 13 - King of Prussia, PA @ Upper Merion Township Building Park (King of Prussia Summer Concert Series)
WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale has contacted UK's Classic Rock magazine to set the record straight about his band's so-called plans to go on tour with LED ZEPPELIN.
Earlier in the week Coverdale was quoted as saying: "I'm expecting a call from Jimmy [Page] any day asking my band WHITESNAKE to support them on their world tour. Am I on board? You bet. Probably worth billions.”
Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen is confirmed to play the London Guitar Show, part of the London International Music Show, on Saturday, June 14.
In association with Marshall amps, the critically acclaimed , Grammy-winning Malmsteen will join a lineup for the show which includes Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Phil Hilborne, Billy Sheehan, Guthrie Goven, Ritchie Kotzen and Jamie Humphries... surely shredding heaven for any guitar fan.
Eric Tucker of The Associated Press reports that several foam manufacturers have agreed to pay $30 million to settle lawsuits brought by survivors and family members of those who died in a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people, according to court papers filed Monday.
TESTAMENT lead guitarist Alex Skolnick was forced to sit out the band's May 9, 2008 performance at the Rock Hard Festival at the Gelsenkirchen Amphitheatre in Gelsenkirchen, Germany due to scheduling conflicts (he was in the middle of a short Yamaha-sponsored acoustic guitar clinic tour in the U.S.). As a result, the band changed its setlist to include a lot of the older songs which cointained fewer or no guitar solos.
Reactivated Massachusetts rockers EXTREME will make their much-anticipated return to the stage this summer in support of "Saudades de Rock" (pronounced "sow-dodge"), their first studio album in thirteen years. The multi-platinum, Boston-bred band's 2008 "Take Us Alive" world tour gets underway on July 29 at The Chance in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and will be anchored by a hometown gig two days later at the Bank of America Pavilion. In advance of the tour, EXTREME will be a co-headliner on July 11 at the five-day Rocklahoma festival in Pryor, OK.
Southern California-based female-fronted band IN THIS MOMENT will enter a Las Vegas studio on June 1 with producer Kevin Churko (OZZY OSBOURNE's "Black Rain") to begin recording its sophomore album, tentatively due late 2008 via Century Media Records. Among the tracks set to appear on the CD is "Forever", which the band recently recorded with Churko at the helm. The recordings sessions for the new album are expected to be completed by July 1.
Mirror.co.uk reports that LED ZEPPELIN is ready rock again to mark its 40th anniversary this year.
Fans have been calling for ZEPPELIN to tour after their successful gig at London's 02 Arena last December, which saw Jason Bonham on drums in place of late dad John.
STARBREAKER/ex-TNT vocalist Tony Harnell will perform a special acoustic show on Sunday, July 13 at the Upper Merion Township Building Park (175 W. Valley Forge Road) in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania as part of the 2008 King of Prussia Summer Concert Series. A New York City concert is in the works for the same week as Pennsylvania.
Heavy metal musician and journalist Chris "Professor" Black, perhaps best known as the frontman of SUPERCHRIST and as a longtime contributor to Metal Maniacs, has confirmed the first two releases for his new label, appropriately named Planet Metal.
KID ROCK and LYNYRD SKYNYRD will be making headlines and turning heads this August as they team up for their first ever tour together. Hitting sheds across the country and Canada, the team of hell-raisers will be bringing the best party in years to fans of all generations for what is sure to be the best tailgate and show experience of recent years.
Long-running UK extreme metallers BENEDICTION are putting the finishing touches on their new album, "Killing Music", due before the end of the year via Nuclear Blast Records.
KAMELOT and MAEDER have been confirmed for the Metal Rock Fest, a brand new two-day event set to take place August 15-16 in Lillehammer, Norway. Meanwhile, WARRIOR has pulled out the event.
The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:
According to Planet Rock, DEF LEPPARD is rumored to be planning a tour of Australia in November, to be announced in the coming weeks.
DEF LEPPARD scored its 11th consecutive Top 20 album in the U.S. yesterday with the bow of "Songs from the Sparkle Lounge" (Island/UMe) at No. 5 with 55,000 units. According to Billboard.com, the band started its Top 20 streak on The Billboard 200 back with 1983's "Pyromania" when it peaked at No. 2. Since "Pyromania", every DEF LEPPARD album has reached the Top 20.
According to Heavy-Metal.it, MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman Vince Neil is scheduled to play a solo concert on October 23, 2008 at Estragon in Bologna, Italy. It is not presently clear if Neil's Italian date will be part of an extensive European tour.
TESLA guitarist Dave Rude will play a solo acoustic set on Wednesday, May 7 at On Telegraph in Berkeley, California as part of KGE's (Kid Glove Entertainment) 14-year anniversary show. Also scheduled to appear are 3RD RAIL, THE AGENCY and ADAM ELIOT from South Africa.
The revered punk band BAD RELIGION is set to reissue last year's acclaimed "New Maps of Hell" with expanded features and bonus material on July 8. Lifelong dissenters and noted critics of the current administration (2004's "The Empire Strikes First" was a direct critique of Bush's pre-emptive policy), the band's 15th release ironically, but coincidentally, comes out just days after the 4th of July.
German power metallers HELLOWEEN — who were recently forced to cancel two shows on the Mexican leg of their "Hellish Rock Tour" — in Guadalajara (May 4) and Chihuahua (May 5) — due to an acute inflammation of singer Andi Deris' vocal cords — have issued the following update:
Maryland rockers CLUTCH have issued the following update:
"We have started our own label called Weathermaker Music. Look for ALL future CLUTCH and THE BAKERTON GROUP (the instrumental project featuring Mick Schauer, Tim Sult, Dan Maines, and Jean-Paul Gaster of CLUTCH) releases on Weathermaker! Look for the first release in late summer 2008 — our first live DVD and a live CD both released the same day! Exact release date to be announced soon."
RHINO BUCKET, the Bon Scott-era AC/DC sound-alike band that recorded two albums for Warner Bros./EMI back in '90 and '92 and an independent album in '94 with former AC/DC drummer Simon Wright, is currently in the studio recording a new CD for a late summer release via Acetate Records. The group is working with producer Stefan Sigerson, who previously worked with RHINO BUCKET on its last CD, "And Then It Got Ugly", in 2006.
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