Weekly Music News 26.6.22
A roundup of music news for the week beginning June 26, 2022.
The man who refuses to grow old, Paul McCartney, brings Dave Grohl onstage for Grohl's first live performance since the death of Taylor Hawkins. At Glastonbury, the two performed garage-rock versions of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" and Wings' "Band on the Run".
"Alter Bridge" are holding a listening party for their upcoming seventh album, due on October 14 this year.
We are waiting eagerly...
Remember the "Bat Incident", when the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, bit a live bat? Now, forty years later, he is baring his teeth to protect bats, seeking to make amends by installing bat boxes at his English estate. Ozzy has even submitted a special application for the boxes, which will help preserve the bat population.
After an ugly split between Tommy Vext and "Bad Wolves", accompanied by public social-media clashes and disagreement over the reason for his departure, with the band denying it was because of his political views, he is releasing a second single this week as Tommy Vext/The Lone Wolf. And it sounds goooood!
A "Rammstein" show in Coventry, England, could be heard far and wide! Numerous residents living more than sixteen kilometers from the stadium called to complain about the loud noise coming from it!
It is coming, and demand is apparently so high that it has made the news! Not in Israel, of course...
Funko Pop! has announced that a Rob Halford figure will soon be available, depicting Rob in his early Judas Priest years.
Singer Alanis Morissette paid tribute to drummer Taylor Hawkins during her June 28, 2022, show at London's O2. As Morissette sang one of her biggest hits, "Ironic", footage of Hawkins onstage and backstage played on the giant screens behind her. After the song, one screen displayed the words "In Memory of Taylor Hawkins".
Facial-recognition software has identified Holocaust-era photographs of Geddy Lee's mother in Yad Vashem's photo collection. Lee's mother, Mary Weinrib, is a Holocaust survivor who was held at Bergen-Belsen, among other camps. Facial-recognition software on the website "From Numbers to Names" found a photograph of Mary Weinrib from her time at Bergen-Belsen. This led Geddy Lee to find more photographs of his mother's extended family in Yad Vashem's collection.
Vancouver radio station KiSS 104.9 FM played "Killing in the Name" by "Rage Against the Machine" on repeat for hours after hosts were laid off. It prompted speculation about a protest, but by the next day it had emerged as a marketing stunt ahead of the station's switch to Sonic Radio. Even listeners' requests for a different song did not change the playlist.
"Pink Floyd" will finally release the remixed version of "Animals" on September 16. The 2018 remix, whose release was delayed by a dispute between David Gilmour and Roger Waters, will also arrive in a deluxe edition on October 7. It will be available in several formats, including a 32-page book, and this will be the first time the album is available in 5.1 surround sound.
The "Kiss World" museum has opened in Las Vegas, featuring instruments, vinyl records, video games, clothing, comic books, trading cards and more from fifty years of Kiss. The museum is part of "Kiss By Monster Mini Golf" at the Rio Hotel in Vegas.
"Shinedown" are releasing their seventh album, "Planet Zero", after production problems delayed it by roughly three months. Written and recorded during the pandemic, the album was produced and mixed by bassist Eric Bass.
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