I was planning to post this message tomorrow evening, but as I am typing this note, my internet carrier is having a huge outage in New York, which is reportedly effecting up to 25 thousand customers.
So, while I have a sporadic connection, just wanted let all of you know, that I will be out of town for a few days, starting 9/19 and returning 9/23.
I will be back to reporting music news then, and until that time, I hope you all have a wonderful week.
Bon Jovi will perform four intimate shows in October as part of Tidal X: Bon Jovi. The band will play their new album This House Is Not For Sale in its entirety in historical theaters during the months of October.
Dates and locations are as follows:
1 – Red Bank, NJ
10 – London, UK
17 – Toronto, ON
20 – New York, NY
Bon Jovi will be giving away tickets to these events. Sign up for the mailing list at BonJovi.com to be notified when the giveaway begins.
Bon Jovi will release their new album, This House Is Not For Sale, on October 21st in partnership with Island/UMG. The single is available now via all digital retailers. Watch the video for the title track below.
This House Is Not For Sale is Bon Jovi’s 14th studio album since their 1984 debut. It reunites the band with Grammy Award-winning producer John Shanks, who began working with the band in 2005, for the RIAA platinum Have A Nice Day album, which entered the charts at #1 in 15 countries worldwide.
This will be their first major release since What About Now (2013), which was the band’s third consecutive multi-platinum album to enter Soundscan at #1 (following Lost Highway in 2007, and The Circle in 2009).
This House Is Not For Sale track listing:
1. This House Is Not For Sale
2. Living With The Ghost
3. Knockout
4. Labor Of Love
5. Born Again Tomorrow
6. Roller Coaster
7. New Year’s Day
8. The Devil’s In The Temple
9. Scars On This Guitar
10. God Bless This Mess
11. Reunion
12. Come On Up To Our House
The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund has announced details for the 2nd Annual Bowl for Ronnie bowling event in Studio City, Calif.
The inaugural event held during the fifth anniversary of Ronnie James Dio’s passing was a huge success, with a number of musicians including Tom Morello, Tenacious D, Josh Todd, Lita Ford and more lending their support and forming celebrity bowling teams. There was also plenty of rock memorabilia donated and auctioned off at last year’s event and that will hold true again this year.
Dee Jay and That Metal Show host, Eddie Trunk, will return as the emcee for the evening, and is expected to captain his own bowling team. Meanwhile, Act of Defiance‘s Chris Broderick is already donating a six-string Jackson guitar to be auctioned off. That will be one of many rock and metal items going on the block during the festivities. Though more names will be added, Broderick is expected to attend along with Eddie Money, Rudy and Robert Sarzo, Dio Discipes‘ Bjorn Englen and Joe Retta, Dio‘s Scott Warren and Rowan Robertson, Lynch Mob’s Sean McNabb, Armored Saint‘s Gonzo and Phil Sandoval, Keel’s Marc Ferrari and DC4’s Matt and Shawn Duncan.
“Last year was a blast and we totally sold out the place,” revealed Wendy Dio, co-founder and president of the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund. “We hope everyone will come again this year to have some fun and raise money for a good cause.”
All of the net proceeds from Bowl for Ronnie will go to the Dio Cancer Fund. Most recently, the Dio Cancer Fund presented a check for $25,000 to Dr. David Wong, Director of the Dental Research Institute at the University of California Los Angeles, to further his research into saliva testing for the early detection of cancer. Dr. Wong believes this simple, non-invasive test will be available for medical use within the next three years.
This year’s event will return to the Pinz Bowling Center in Studio City, California on November 4th at 6:30PM. You can currently purchase tickets to attend, be an individual bowler or to register a team for a corporate lane. For more details about the event, visit diocancerfund.org/events. To purchase tickets, go to eventbrite.com/e/bowl-4-ronnie-tickets.
Temple Of The Dog are streaming a demo titled, Angel Of Fire, that was left off of their self-titled 1991 album, listen to it below.
The song will be included on the extended 25th anniversary edition, which also features a remix of Hunger Strike and another demo called, Black Cat. It will be released on September 30th through Universal Music after Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron along with Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Mike McCready won a legal battle to have the master tapes returned. Right now, it is available for pre-order at iTunes.
In honor of this special re-release, the band will be playing a small number of live shows.
“This is something no one has ever seen,” Cornell says of the official reunion. “We wanted to stop and recognize that we did this and pay homage.”
Guitarist Mike McCready recently told Classic Rock, “If anybody wants to start writing for Temple Of The Dog, I will be there to play guitar if they want me. We’re very busy with our band right now and Chris has been on such a long tour, so he’s been very busy. So in terms of timing, who knows, But I hope we can do new songs.”
To read more about Temple of the Dog, please click here.
Temple of the Dog’s upcoming tour dates are as follows:
11/04 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theater
11/07 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
11/11 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Center
11/14 Los Angeles, CA The Forum
11/20 Seattle, WA Paramount Theater
additional source: classic rock through teamrock.com
Hotel Diablo’s, Bury You, will be featured in the Upcoming Motion Picture Criticsized. The film, directed by Carl T. Evans, will be making it’s debut this Saturday 9/17 in Hollywood, CA. as part of the 2016 LA Indie Film Fest. For complete info go to laindiefilmfest.com/schedule. Listen to the song below.
Hotel Diablo features guitarist Alex Grossi (Quiet Riot), vocalist Rick Stitch (Ladyjack, ex-Adler’s Appetite), bassist Mike Duda (W.A.S.P.) and drummer Mike Dupke.
The band debuted the video for the track Psycho California to a capacity crowd in Hollywood. The set included appearances by Chris Wyse (The Cult, Owl) and Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses, Rockstar Supernova). The clip, which was shot in December 2012 in Los Angeles, can be seen below.
Hotel Diablo’s The Return To Psycho, California was released in September 2012. The album was produced by Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses, Rockstar Supernova), with additional production by Matt Starr (Ace Frehley, Beautiful Creatures). The Return To Psycho, California is also available digitally through iTunes, Amazon and other online music retailers.
When the members of Slayer were approached by Nuclear Blast America’s General Manager Gerardo Martinez to make a music video for Repentless, the title track of the band’s 2015 label debut, they thought it was going to be a cool, one-off music video. Little did they know. Watch Ton Araya and Kerry King discussion below.
Martinez put the band together with up-and-coming director BJ McDonnell who turned in a storyline that the band really liked. McDonnell made his living as a motion picture and televison camera/ steadicam operator, having worked on features such as Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Interview, and Jack Reacher, and had one directing project under his belt, 2013’s Hatchet III.
“Meeting him, he was excited,” remembers Slayer’s Tom Araya. “He really liked the fact he was working with the band, he was a fan, and his excitement rubbed off because it made me excited. I thought, ‘well this is gonna be fucking great!'”
Repentless was shot on August 25th & 26th, 2016 at the Sybil Brand Institute, a women’s prison in East Los Angeles. BJ and producer Felissa Rose (Camp Dread, the upcoming Death House) put together an all-star cast of instantly-recognizable bad guys: Danny Trejo (Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn), Tony Moran (Halloween’s Michael Myers, American Poltergeist), Derek Mears (Predators, Friday the 13th) Tyler Mane (Halloween), Sean Whalen (Men In Black, Halloween II), Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2, Commando, Weird Science), and Jason Trost (Hatchet III), who starred in all three videos. They then brought in a killer, all-pro crew – stunt coordinator Don Lee (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Star Trek Beyond), director of photography Eric Leach (The Neighbor, What Lola Wants), Special FX makeup artists Tony Gardner and Adrienne Lynn (Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse, Zombieland, The Bad Batch), and editors Ed Marx and Andrea Porter (Hatchet III).
Said Kerry King, “When I saw Repentless, I said ‘that’s the video we should have done 20 years ago. It’s Slayer. That video is Slayer.'”
To date, the “Repentless” video has accumulated more than 10-million YouTube views. Watch it below.
In the late Fall of 2015, Martinez discussed with McDonnell the idea of doing a prequel and sequel for Repentless. McDonnell loved the idea and wrote the treatments. Filming for both videos took place February 1st & 2nd, 2016. You Against You was shot at The Aviation Warehouse, a graveyard of jets, airplanes and helicopters in Calfornia’s Mojave Desert and premiered on March 16th, 2016. View it below.
The snowy mountains of Wrightwood, CA served as the location for the final video in the trilogy, Pride In Prejudice, that made its debut on September 6th, 2016. The video appears below.
Said director McDonnell, “Having the opportunity to write and direct three music videos for a band I’ve always loved was a bucket list dream come true. All of the guys in Slayer made me feel so comfortable and at home. I put them in the worst elements possible and they were always enthusiastic and ready to bring the ‘A’ game. Heat, snow, wind, etc., the band owned it, bringing my vision to life. The band and crew all worked hard to bring this trilogy to life and I’m very proud of what we created.”
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of, Repentless, the release of the trilogy video, and the massive tour that Slayer has embarked on through North America, Nuclear Blast will be offering the album to U.S. customers through iTunes at a sale price from Monday, September 19th through Sunday, September 25th.
