Archive for August, 2009
Pearl Jam have a habit of handpicking various indie rock underdogs as their opening acts, like Ted Leo, who was set to open the first stop on the Seattle band’s North American tour Friday night in Toronto. Sadly, weather prevented Leo from making his 7:30 P.M. set time. No worries. Pearl Jam had an excellent back-up opening band on hand: Pearl Jam.
Or, rather, a coffeehouse open-mic version of Pearl Jam. In lieu of Leo, PJ frontman Eddie Vedder took the stage by himself, treating early arrivals to a pair of Neil Young covers (”Sugar Mountain” and “The Needle and the Damage Done”), followed by a two-song solo set from guitarist Mike McCready, and a Johnny Thunders tribute courtesy of Stone Gossard, who contributed a folkie overhaul of the late New York Doll’s junkie hymn “You Can’t Put Your Arm Around a Memory.”
To read the complete article visit SPIN
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler recently released a statement thanking police and others who came to his aid after he fell off of the stage while doing the “Tyler Shuffle” at the Famous Buffalo Chip campground during the Sturgis Motorcyle Rally.
It was the tumble that tumbled the tour. Tyler’s injuries resulting from the fall, including 20 stitches to his head and a broken shoulder, caused the band to cancel the rest of its tour. In addition to thanking police, Tyler also thanked the band’s crew and helicopter flight crew “for getting me outta there before I bled to death” as well as the doctors and nurses who treated him at the hospital.
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Pop-turned-country star Michelle Branch has a good attitude. When she discusses the break-up of The Wreckers, her duo with Jessica Harp, she sighs, but quickly returns to form.
The result is Branch’s forthcoming album, “Everything Comes and Goes,” which will hit stores this fall. It is her first solo album in six years. The first single, “Sooner or Later,” surfaced on country radio Aug. 11.
Branch, 26, spoke to LiveDaily about the new album, touring with Chris Isaak and her positive attitude.
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Okay, KISS Army… the 11-year wait is over! Here’s the first radio track from SONIC BOOM. KISS’ “Modern Day Delilah” hits radio stations everywhere today.
To hear the new track visit KISSONLINE.COM
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has allegedly fallen off the wagon. His recent tumble from the stage and subsequent injuries were the result of heavy drinking, it is being claimed. The frontman has apparently become “a liability” – and the rest of Aerosmith are going on strike until he recovers.
To read the complete article visit CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE
Tributes to Michael Jackson have come by the barrelful in recent weeks, but rarely from a source as unexpected as Pearl Jam.
Wrapping their five-date European mini-tour last night at London’s O2 Arena, the same venue where Jackson was to have performed his 50-date headlining run this summer, Eddie Vedder launched into a short but heartfelt ode to the King of Pop. The singer performed a quick version of “Ben,” Jackson’s chart-topping 1972 single from the soundtrack to Williard, a film about a killer rat, before launching into Pearl Jam’s own “Rats,” whose final verse pays homage to “Ben”: “Ben, the two of us need look no more.”
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