Weekly Music News 02.07.23
The band "Scalar" releases an incredible, wild new single and video!!
According to the band, the new song captures its essence: a blend of aggression and softness, simplicity and complexity, hope and fear. Joining all this is a guest especially dear to us and the band, Ran Yerushalmi of Walkways.
We cannot wait to hear more from this band!!!
The band "Nothing But Thieves" releases its fourth album, "Dead Club City"!!
We have personally been waiting so eagerly for this much-loved band's fourth album, following 2020's "Moral Panic". As we told you when the first single arrived, this is a concept album, accompanied by a new media campaign, that draws listeners into Dead Club City. It blends rough-edged, pop-inflected rock with 1980s electronic elements and, of course, singer Conor Mason's unmistakable voice.
Let's get this party started... Ninet gets up to dance with her sixth album, her fourth in Hebrew, "Kamti Lirkod" ("I Got Up to Dance"). It features collaborations with Shalom Hanoch, Dudu Tassa, Tuna, Assaf Amdursky, Gilad Kahana, Garden City Movement and more... Ninet calls it her happiest album.
"I dived deep into the feeling that allows me to be happy without guilt. I wanted this to be an album you can put on in the car on the way to the beach or a party, and let everyone who hears it simply feel happy, shout, let it out and laugh. There are deep dives too, of course, because how can we know what height is without understanding depth? You could say this is my happiest album. It is fun when it is fun."
We are excited to share that "Hotbox" has signed with US booking agency TKO Booking, one of America's major agencies, which works with many big artists, some of whom have influenced the band members. The band moves into its next chapter by relocating to the US this August, and we wish this wild, talented bunch every success!! Two months before the move, they are playing their last Israeli show for a year.
The band "Bring Me The Horizon" continues its run of collaborations, this time with CORPSE!!
Get your calendars out: Raven Music brings German metal giants "Blind Guardian" to Reading in Tel Aviv, with the first 200 tickets available at a special price here. Blind Guardian formed in 1985 in Krefeld, West Germany. Its debut full-length album, "Battalions of Fear", came out in 1988. Since then, it has released a string of studio albums, most recently "The God Machine" last year. Blind Guardian first visited Israel in 2017, and its support act on the current European tour is none other than Israeli band "Scardust".
Guitarist George Tickner, a founding rhythm guitarist of "Journey", has died at 76. Brought into the band by manager Herbie Herbert, Tickner played on its 1975 debut before leaving to study medicine at Stanford University. His songwriting contributions also appeared on the next two albums. He co-wrote three of the debut's seven songs, including its wonderful opening track, "Of a Lifetime". Keyboardist Gregg Rolie, who founded the band with Tickner and guitarist Neal Schon, once said Tickner brought a different approach to the guitar: "He came up with chords I'd never heard. He had huge hands, and he would detune his strings and come up with these sounds nobody else could"...
As he does every year on his birthday, Ringo Starr sends a message of "peace and love" and asks fans to join him in a peace-and-love celebration at exactly noon. Read our feature about him and join in...
This week's events, in collaboration with "Rocking Israel"
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