Weekly Music News 29.01.23
Weekly news roundup for the week beginning January 29, 2023
We are excited to launch a new section in "Weekly Music News" in collaboration with the amazing team at "Rocking Israel", bringing you all the latest in Israeli rock and metal.
From now on, our weekly news includes the coming week's events calendar, so you can plan ahead, turn up, show your support and enjoy the parties and shows by the bands you love!!
Singer-songwriter Aviv Geffen releases a new song with Aviv Geffen and The Mistakes: "Mekia Et Hayofi" (Vomiting Up Beauty), which he wrote, composed and produced. It is the first taste of a forthcoming band album. Alongside Geffen, Tomer Tzidkiyahu and Omri Agmon, the recording features the Budapest Art Orchestra. Geffen says: "Mekia Et Hayofi was written after I found myself visiting hospitals too often, encouraging girls and boys suffering from eating disorders, and of course the broken families around them, living in constant worry. This sad phenomenon is part of the signs of our times, when the digital world and social networks crown beauty, thinness and 'the good life', even if that leaves the victims light-years away from their own souls..."
Check this out: a second solo album from "Stein", aka Tal Rubinstein, guitarist of "Telegraph".
An album in the "spaghetti western surf rock" genre. What does that mean? A kind of fictional western soundtrack for an imaginary film.
Wow, just wow... These influential dinosaurs simply refuse to grow old, and what a gift they have for their fans. "The Who" announces its first UK tour in six years, accompanied by a full orchestra, with a set drawing heavily on the classic double albums and rock operas "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia". In March, the band will also release a live album recorded with an orchestra at its 2019 Wembley Stadium show.
All of these shows take place in July:
6 - Hull, Sewell Group Craven Park
8 - Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle
9 - Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle
12 - London, The O2
14 - Derby, Incora County Ground
16 - Bristol, Badminton Estate
19 - Durham, Seat Unique Riverside
21 - St Helens, Totally Wicked Stadium
23 - Brighton, 1st Central Cricket Ground
Speaking of rock operas, the second part of the ambitious "Atum: A Rock Opera In Three Acts" by "The Smashing Pumpkins" was released this week. This is a 33-track concept album completing the trilogy that began with 1995's double album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" and continued with 2000's "Machina/The Machine of God". It is being released in three stages of 11 songs each, forming a three-act rock opera. Act One arrived on November 15, 2022; Act Two came out this week, on January 31, 2023; and Act Three was announced for April 21, 2023, alongside a special-edition box set with all 33 tracks plus 10 additional unreleased songs. "Atum: A Rock Opera In Three Acts" was written and recorded over four years by Billy Corgan and the current band lineup: guitarists James Iha and Jeff Schroeder, plus drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Let's remember how it all began, here:
Guitarist Tom Verlaine of "Television" has died at 73. He died in New York following a brief illness, surrounded by close friends. Verlaine was part of the city's 1970s punk scene and helped create the masterpiece "Marquee Moon", an influential and immense album that goes far beyond the label "punk" and is very hard to pin down stylistically.
A sad and moving statement from Ozzy Osbourne !!
The Prince of Darkness has officially announced that his physical condition prevents him from undertaking his planned European and UK tour. Ozzy says his singing voice is fine, but his body remains weak and he cannot cope with the travel required. He never imagined his touring days would end this way. His team is looking for ways he could still perform without travelling from city to city and country to country.
We are still trying to process the new video from "Falling In Reverse", both musically and visually!!
The new single, "Watch the World Burn", follows "Zombified" and "Voices in My Head". Ronnie Radke, an unusual and controversial figure, displays wild vocal abilities ranging from screams to rap!!
The video hints at the band's feud with Sebastian Bach after it cancelled a show because its laptops had gone missing. Bach argued that a band unable to perform without a laptop is not a band, and a lookalike takes a laptop to the head in the video...
This may sound strange, but we are always happy and excited to see rockers we love appearing in commercials, as we saw with Hayehudim's ads for Cellcom and Quik. It means significant extra income to help them keep making the music we love, while reaching an audience that does not yet know them.
Rock and roller Dave Grohl is setting the internet alight this week with a teaser for a new Crown Royal whisky commercial, due to air during the Super Bowl on February 12.
Here is the teaser...
Symphonic metal band "Kamelot" returns to Israel on the tour for its new album, "The Awakening", with a show on May 6 at Reading 3 in Tel Aviv. The first 200 tickets are priced at NIS 239, with subsequent tickets at NIS 269. Tickets: https://eventbuzz.co.il/kamelot2023
Alongside the news of a "Mr. Big" reunion, guitarist Paul Gilbert announces his 18th solo album, "The Dio Album", dedicated to singer Ronnie James Dio. The album draws on Dio's work with "Dio", "Rainbow" and "Black Sabbath". Gilbert has found an interesting way to promote it. See for yourselves:
Since we have mentioned Paul Gilbert's "Mr. Big", let's also mention the supergroup "Winery Dogs", featuring guitarist Richie Kotzen, bassist Billy Sheehan, Gilbert's Mr. Big bandmate, and drummer Mike Portnoy, whose third album, "III", arrives on February 3.
The band "Ghost" releases a new version of "Spillways" from its latest album, "Impera", with a very special guest: Joe Elliott of "Def Leppard". Joe says "Impera" was his favourite rock album of 2022, and "Spillways" his favourite song on it. He found out Tobias was something of a Def Leppard fan too, making the collaboration feel inevitable.
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