Weekly Music News 10.7.22
Updated: 22 hours ago
A roundup of music news for the week beginning July 10, 2022.
"Disturbed" are releasing "Hey You", the first single from an upcoming album and their first new material since 2018, apart from their cover of "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You". At a recent show in Camden, New Jersey, David Draiman said: "We have a new record coming out soon, and it is about 90 percent heavy." Listen and judge for yourselves...
"Alice In Chains" are celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of their masterpiece "Dirt". This week the band announced an early start to the celebrations with a "Funko Dirt Pop" collection featuring the band members and the album. If you are interested, you can already order it here: https://tinyurl.com/6kyuhbhn
"Mastodon" have released a new video for their single "More Than I Could Chew" from their excellent album "Hushed and Grim". The unsettling clip features distorted versions of the band members, as well as the Devil, in a retelling of the biblical story of Adam, Eve and the Tree of Knowledge.
"Rage Against The Machine" have begun their first tour in eleven years in Wisconsin. But a few days later, during their Chicago show, singer Zack De La Rocha injured his leg. It happened toward the end of "Bullet in the Head", the fourth song in the set. De La Rocha landed awkwardly onstage, hurting his leg. He recovered and limped toward the center of the stage, and much of the crowd initially seemed unaware that anything was wrong. Eventually the pain became too much, and he had to finish the show seated beside a monitor on the right side of the stage.
We have barely recovered from the excellent new single by "King's X", their first in fourteen years, from a new album due on September 2, 2022. Now comes news that they are cancelling all their European shows because guitarist Ty Tabor has been diagnosed with a serious illness. The band said he needs a course of treatment that makes it impossible to undertake the European tour planned for September.
Sanna Marin, Finland's cool 36-year-old prime minister, was photographed attending "Ruisrock", Finland's oldest festival, held this year for the fifty-first time.
We wonder whether she also went to "Tuska Open Air", held a week earlier in Finland, to see, among others, Joe Lynn Turner perform this classic:
He is doing more than having fun with Toyah Willcox on "Sunday Lunch", their entertaining weekly covers series launched during the pandemic. Robert Fripp is bringing together the "Guitar Circle" classes he has taught over the years in his first-ever book, due on September 1 and running to 554 pages. He will also take part in a four-night class in August.
A first single and video from an upcoming album by David Longdon, due on October 14. The late Big Big Train singer worked on this new solo album after recording the band's "Common Ground". On the night of his tragic accident, David had just returned home to Nottingham from an album recording session.
Singer Amy Lee of "Evanescence" surprises us with a new collaboration with violinist Lindsey Stirling: a video for "Love Goes On and On". The song comes from Stirling's 2019 concept album "Artemis", which follows a heroine fighting to bring light back into all our lives.
Musician and songwriter Alan Parsons releases "From The New World" today. His first album since 2019's "The Secret", it features some interesting collaborations, including Joe Bonamassa, David Pack and Styx's Tommy Shaw.
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You have probably already seen plenty of images from the James Webb Space Telescope, which has changed the game in astrophysics and shown our universe as never before. Now those images have a soundtrack. Brian May, himself a doctor of astrophysics who has published two papers on the history of the universe, has joined 10cc co-founder Graham Gouldman for a new song, "Floating In Heaven", inspired by the telescope. "There is nothing more exciting in a world of exploration than going to a place about which you know nothing," May said.
The two surviving members of "Pantera", Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown, have announced that they will reunite for a 2023 tour paying tribute to their former band. Phil and Rex also worked together in "Down". It is not yet clear which guitarist and drummer they will choose to fill the enormous shoes of the Abbott brothers, Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul Abbott. Rumors point to Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and guitarist Zakk Wylde, a close friend of Dimebag Darrell.
Also, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy will reunite onstage for a tour supporting the solo career of John Petrucci. Petrucci will play music from his solo career, particularly "Terminal Velocity", which marked the first time John and Mike had recorded together since Mike left Dream Theater in 2010. Joining them on bass will be Dave LaRue, known for Dixie Dregs and Flying Colors, who also played on "Terminal Velocity".
Had enough headlines about "Stranger Things"? Here is one connected to Marvel's latest film, "Thor: Love And Thunder". To celebrate Rockin'1000's eighth anniversary, the project's organizers paid tribute to Guns N' Roses with a performance of "Paradise City". Reports put the crowd at 50,000, with musicians from 25 countries. And the Marvel connection? The "Thor: Love And Thunder" soundtrack is packed with Guns N' Roses classics, including "Paradise City".
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