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THE CULT ANNOUNCE DATES WITH GUNS ‘N ROSES, ADDITIONAL HEADLINING SHOWS

The Cult have announced a wide array of summer tour dates including four upcoming stadium shows with Guns N’ Roses, as well as festivals and their own headlining concerts. The iconic band–founding singer Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy along with bassist Grant Fitzpatrick, drummer John Tempesta and keyboardist/rhythm guitarist Damon Fox–is on the road now in support of this year’s Hidden City album.

Hidden City is their 10th studio album and the final chapter of the band’s trilogy of releases which began with 2007’s Born Into This then 2012’s Choice of Weapon. The album has already produced three singles: Hinterland, Dark Energy and Deeply Ordered Chaos.

Of the album and its first single, Astbury told Billboard.com, “Hinterland is a place both real and imagined, a hidden city symbolic of a new Rome. Through the eyes of several witnesses we observe a young woman as she realizes her enlightened self in a dystopian dream world. Hinterland is filled with symbolism, reflecting a new aeon in the shift of human consciousness as we realign with our planet’s natural rhythms.”

The Cult continue to evolve and do things in their own style. Not tethered to the latest hit single or trend. They are a way of life, an ethos. Adventurers more than careerists. As Astbury eloquently puts it, “Our post-modern roots have kept the creative process vibrant, and we continue to evolve.”

Duffy says, “Like all Cult albums–since Ian and I began writing together–we try our best to honestly reflect what we are feeling, doing and listening to. Hidden City is no exception and I’m thrilled to have had a creative part in such a critically acclaimed–but, more importantly–Cult-fan-acclaimed album. The dialogue between us all continues…”

Of the new album, Mojo said it’s “Some of the fiercest, nastiest, most powerful – and also starkly beautiful – music of their career…The album’s extraordinary howls of pain and anger, its dramatic apocalyptic visions and quiet interrogations of the meaning of life and death, align perfectly with the times.”

Watch videos for Hinterland, G.O.A.T and Deeply Ordered Chaos below the tour date list.

The Cult with Guns N’ Roses:

7/27 Atlanta, GA Georgia Dome
7/29 Orlando, FL Camping World Stadium
7/31 New Orleans, LA Mercedes-Benz Superdome

8/3 Arlington, TX AT&T Stadium

The Cult headlining dates:

8/2 San Antonio, TX Aztec Theater

9/16 Hampton Beach, NH Casino Ballroom
9/17 Chester, PA Talen Energy Stadium
9/18 Norfolk, VA Norva
9/20 Raleigh, NC The Ritz
9/21 Charlotte, NC Fillmore Charlotte
9/24 Houston, TX Houston Open Air
9/27 Wichita, KS Cotillion Ballroom
9/29 Kansas City, MO Harrah’s/Voodoo Lounge
9/30 Memphis, TN Minglewood Hall

10/1 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life Festival
10/4 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
10/5 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot
10/7 Fresno, AZ Paul Paul Theater at Fresno Fair
10/8 Primm, NV Star of the Desert Arena

The Cult online:

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Youtube Channel

TEMPLE OF THE DOG REUNITE TO PERFORM A FEW SELECT SHOWS, SPECIAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE COLLECTION TO BE RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 30TH

Temple of the Dog — the Seattle supergroup featuring Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell, Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, and Mike McCready, and drummer Matt Cameron (who plays drums with both Soundgarden and Pearl Jam) — has reunited and will tour for the first time ever since forming in 1990. The band will play five cities, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle, in November. A special ticket pre-sale for fans signed up to the Ten Club, Soundgarden, and Chris Cornell email lists begins immediately and runs through July 27th. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Friday, July 29th, at 12:00 PM local time. $1.50 from each ticket sold will benefit the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation and an additional $1.50 will benefit Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy Foundation.

The tour marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Temple of the Dog’s first and only album, a self-titled set that was released by A&M Records on April 16th, 1991. “We wanted to do the one thing we never got to do … play shows and see what it feels like to be the band that we walked away from 25 years ago,” Cornell says of the 2016 tour.

On September 30th UMe will release a special Temple of the Dog 25th anniversary reissue collection of their landmark album, newly mixed by Brendan O’Brien. The collection will be available in four configurations, including a four disc Super Deluxe, a double LP, a two CD Deluxe, and a single CD. Physical pre-orders are available today along with a detailed list of the contents of each configuration here.

Temple of the Dog came together from the ashes of Mother Love Bone following the death from a drug overdose of its frontman Andrew Wood, Cornell’s close friend and roommate. Cornell wrote future TOTD songs Say Hello 2 Heaven and Reach Down to help process his grief, “but the songs didn’t have any destination,” he says. “I was compelled to write them and there they were – written in a vacuum as a tribute to Andy. My thought was that maybe I could record these songs with the remaining members of Mother Love Bone and that maybe we could release them as a tribute.”

Mother Love Bone’s Gossard and Ament began playing with McCready, and they brought in Soundgarden’s Cameron to drum on demos. Because this was a collaboration, and a tribute, there was no commercial expectation for the Temple of the Dog album. It would be, Gossard would later observe, “the easiest and most beautiful record that we’ve ever been involved with.” Adds Cornell, “Temple was about making an album simply for the joy of doing it. We weren’t concerned what anyone outside of our group of friends would think of it. It was the first and maybe only stress-free album that we all made.”

Gossard, Ament, and McCready were also simultaneously forming a new band, which more than six months later would be known as Pearl Jam. A singer from San Diego named Eddie Vedder, who was vying to lead the project, came into the studio to sing background vocals on three of the Temple songs. When Cornell thought another song, Hunger Strike, needed a duet, Vedder was enlisted. Hunger Strike became a hit single, peaking at No. 4 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Temple of the Dog performed live only a handful of times, most notably in Seattle, in November and December of 1990. Those shows have become some of the most legendary Seattle concerts of all-time. Their 2016 shows mark the first time the band has ever toured. (Cornell joined Pearl Jam in 2014 at the Bridge School show and for two nights at PJ20 in Alpine Valley, WI, and the Temple line-up played Reach Down and Call Me a Dog at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall in January 2015.)

“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.”

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

SINGER IAN GILLIAN TO RELEASE “THE VINYL COLLECTION 1979-1982” ON SEPTEMBER 23RD

Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan will release The Vinyl Collection 1979-1982, from his self titled band, on September 23rd.

The box set from the Deep Purple frontman contains five albums across seven LPs, including 1979’s Mr. Universe, 1980’s Glory Road on 2LP with bonus disc For Gillan Fans Only, 1981’s Future Shock, 1981’s Double Trouble on 2LP and 1982’s Magic.

Gillan tells TeamRock, “My abiding memories from that time are the great musicians that came and went, fun times at Kingsway Recorders – my studio in London – fantastic tours and audiences, and wonderful support from Virgin Records. But, most of all, the beginnings of a long relationship with my incredible manager, Phil Canfield.”

He adds, “It’s a wonderful thing, vinyl. Best held in two hands and and treated with respect, as you place it carefully upon the turntable. You just bought something significant, not easily disposable. Read the lyrics and enjoy the artwork, while you are in the groove. No computers involved in the making of this music – enjoy.”

Gillan’s The Vinyl Collection 1979-1982 can be pre-ordered at Amazon UK.

Gillan Vinyl Collection 1979-1982 tracklist:

Trouble tracklist:

Side A:

1. I’ll Rip Your Spine Out
2. Restless
3. Men Of War
4. Sunbeam

Side B:

1. Nightmare
2. Hadely Bop Bop
3. Life Goes On
4. Born To Kill

Side C:

1. No Laughing In Heaven
2. No Easy Way
3. Trouble

Side D:

1. Mutually Assured Destruction
2. If You Believe Me
3. New Orleans

Future Shock tracklist:

Side A:

1. Future Shock
2. Night Ride Out Of Phoenix
3. The Ballad Of The Lucitania Express
4. No Laughing In Heaven
5. Sacre Bleu

Side B:

1. New Orleans
2. Bite The Bullet
3. If I Sing Softly
4. Don’t Want The Truth
5. For Your Dreams

Glory Road tracklist:

Side A:

1. Unchain Your Brain
2. Are You Sure
3. Time And Time Again
4. No Easy Way
5. Sleeping On The Job

Side B:

1. On The Rocks
2. If You Believe Me
3. Running White Face City Boy
4. Nervous

Side C:

1. Higher And Higher
2. Your Mother Was Right
3. Redwatch
4. Abbey Of Thelma
5. Trying To Get To You

Side D:

1. Come Tomorrow
2. Dragon’s Tongue
3. Post Fade Brain Damage
4. Egg Timer
5. Harry Lime Theme

Magic tracklist:

Side A:

1. What’s The Matter
2. Bluesy Blue Sea
3. Caught In The Trap
4. Long Gone
5. Driving Me Wild

Side B:

1. Demon Driver
2. Living A Lie
3. You’re So Right
4. Living For The City
5. Demon Drive Reprise

Mr. Universe tracklist

Side A:

1. Second Sight
2. Secret Of The Dance
3. She Tears Me Down
4. Roller
5. Mr. Universe

Side B:

1. Vengeance
2. Puget Sound
3. Dead Of Night
4. Message In A Bottle
5. Fighting Man

source: Classic Rock via teamrock.com

KISS’ GOD OF THUNDER, TAKES A TUMBLE

KISS bassist Gene Simmons took a tumble while performing with the band in Bozeman, Montana, at the weekend.

Video footage shows Simmons, 66, stumbling and falling on to his backside as the band run through a performance of Rock And Roll All Nite. It was captured by YouTube user Charlie Mulluk and can be viewed below.

Simmons recently said he would back Apple’s plan to disable iPhone cameras at gigs.

KISS frontman Paul Stanley recently said the band could make a new album, but admitted he knows fans would only tolerate new music rather than demand it.

The band are on the road on their Freedom To Rock tour.

Kiss 2016 Freedom To Rock US tour

Jul 20: Independence Silverstein Eye Centers Arena, MO
Jul 22: Lincoln Pinnacle Bank Arena, NE
Jul 23: Springfield JQH Arena, MO
Jul 25: Wichita Intrust Bank Arena, KS
Jul 27: Sioux City Tyson Events Center, IA
Jul 29: Cheyenne Cheyenne Frontier Days, WY
Jul 30: Minot North Dakota State Fair, ND

Aug 1: Mankato Verizon Wireless Center, MN
Aug 3: Duluth Amsoil Arena, MN
Aug 5: Moline iWireless Arena, IL
Aug 6: La Crosse La Crosse Center, WI
Aug 8: Milwaukee BMO Harris Bradley Center , WI
Aug 10: Green Bay Resch Center, WI
Aug 12: Fort Wayne Allen County Memorial ColiseumIN
Aug 13: Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena, MI
Aug 15: Saginaw Dow Event Center, MI
Aug 17: Springfield Illinois State Fair, IL
Aug 20: Rockford BMO Harris Bank Center, IL
Aug 22: Dayton Nutter Center, OH
Aug 24: Toledo Huntington Center, OH
Aug 26: Youngstown Covelli Centre, OH
Aug 27: Erie Erie Insurance Arena, PA
Aug 29: Rochester Blue Cross Arena, NY
Aug 30: State College Bryce Jordan Center, PA

Sep 1: Allentown Great Allentown Fair, PA
Sep 3: Worcester DCU Center, MA
Sep 4: Portland Cross Insurance Arena, ME
Sep 7: Bridgeport Webster Bank Arena, CT
Sep 09: Richmond Richmond Coliseum, VA
Sep 10: Huntington Big Sandy Arena, WV

additional source: Classic Rock via teamrock.com

MEGADETH RELEASE VIDEO FOR “POST AMERICAN WORLD”

Megadeth have released a video for Post American World from their latest album Dystopia. Watch it below.

The clip features Lamb Of God drummer Chris Adler, who guested with Dave Mustaine’s band for their 15th record – and who’s now been replaced permanently by Dirk Verbeuren.

Muscatine says, “Post American World was an eerie video shoot right from the beginning. Shot in just one day with only our guitars and drums, I knew that this was going to be amazing. There’s something to be said about the simplicity of an artist and only his guitar or drums. This is a less-is-more concept, and director Jake Macpherson nailed it.”

Megadeth have also confirmed a new run of North American tour dates, which also feature Amon Amarth, Suicidal Tendencies, Metal Church and Havok.

The 18-show run begins on September 20th, with tickets going on sale, July 22nd. Megadeth were forced to cancel the last two dates of their current European tour after bassist David Ellefson broke his foot.

Meanwhile, Verbeuren’s former band Soilwork have wished him well with his new position. Vocalist Bjorn “Speed” Strid says, “Together we have created a beast of a band. I strongly believe this is very much a new era for us – and that we still have so much left to say.”

Megadeth North American tour with Amon Amarth, Suicidal Tendencies, Metal Church and Havoc:

Sep 20: Casper Events Center, WY
Sep 22: Las Vegas Joint, NV
Sep 24: Devore San Manuel Amphitheater (Ozzfest), CA
Sep 27: Seattle WaMu Theater, WA
Sep 28: Eugene Matthew Knight Arena, OR
Sep 29: San Jose City National Civic, CA

Oct 1: Bloomfield 1st Bank Center, CO
Oct 3: Council Bluffs Mid American Complex, IA
Oct 4: St Pail Roy Wilkins Auditorium, MN
Oct 5: Chicago Sears Centre, IL
Oct 7: Moline iWireless Centre, IL
Oct 8: Milwaukee UWM Panther Arena, WI
Oct 9: Detroit Loe Louis Arena, MI
Oct 11: Bethlehem Sandes Event Center, PA
Oct 12: Worcester DCU Center, MA
Oct 13: Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena, CT
Oct 14: Newark Prudential Center, NJ
Oct 16: Camden BB&T Pavilion, NJ

additional source: Metal Hammer via teamrock.com