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Tho new DVDs from The Who
Posten on: 2007-08-30 19:12:01
British rock group The Who have announced the release of two feature-length DVDs in the US on November 6.The first, 'Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who', chronicles the band's history through interviews with Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey as well as rare concert footage.The second, 'Amazing Journey: Six Quick Ones', is divided into six segments, four of which detail the musical abilities of The Who's band members.The fifth segment is called 'Who Art You' and examines the Mod culture that inspired the band's visuals, and the sixth segment, 'Who's Back', is an account of the recording of 'Real Good Looking Boy' in 2003 -- the band's first studio album in more than 20 years.The DVDs also include bonus material such as a video scrapbook featuring footage from their 2000 concert at Royal Albert Hall with Eddie Vedder and Bryan Adams, as well as a dinner with Keith Moon and the tragic death of 11 of their fans at a 1979 concert in Cincinnati, Ohio.'Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who', will premiere September 12 at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Marillion perform in classic lineup
Posten on: 2007-08-29 07:11:25
British rock group Marillion have performed together on stage for the first time in 19 years in their classic lineup.Fish, the singer of the band, was joined by his former bandmates for a version of their 1982 debut single 'Market Square Heroes' at the Hobble On The Cobbles event in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on Sunday (August 26).With Fish on board, who went solo in 1988, the group scored 11 Top 40 UK hits, including a Number Two for 'Kayleigh' in 1985.The Scotsman described the event to the BBC as "just five guys doing a one-off and having a brilliant time together", and stressed that it would not lead to a full reunion.He added: "It was great. It was just a load of fun. But nothing should be read into it. I think it just proves that we're actually friends."There's always been these rumours that there's some sort of animosity between us but that went a long, long time ago."Guitarist Steve Rothery, bassist Pete Trewavas, keyboardist Mark Kelly and drummer Ian Mosley all took part in the surprise performance.The band kept going after Fish left, with Steve Hogarth replacing him on vocals.Although they never recaptured the commercial success they enjoyed with Fish, they have retained a loyal support and have regularly appeared in the UK Top 40.
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Regina Spektor's American Tour Dates
Posten on: 2007-08-20 07:37:56
Regina Spektor has announced an extensive tour of North America this autumn.The songstress will begin her US jaunt on September 16 at Austin City Limits. She'll play dates in several cities including Boston, New York and Los Angeles before concluding the tour in Richmond, Virginia on November 20.Meanwhile, Spektor will rerelease a "recut" version of her second single 'Better' on colour vinyl in the US on August 28.The tour dates are:Austin, TX Austin City Limits Festival (September 16)Baltimore, MD Ram's Head Live (19)Northampton, MA Calvin Theater (25)Storrs, CT Jorgensen Center (26)Upper Darby, PA Tower Theater (27)Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre (October 1)Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room (2)Cincinnati, OH Bogartıs (3)Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium (5)St. Paul, MN The Myth (6)Milwaukee, WI Eagles Club (8)Detroit, MI State Theatre (10)Toronto, ON Kool Haus (11)Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre (14)New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom (16)Los Angeles, CA Wiltern Theatre (30)Anaheim, CA Grove of Anaheim (31)Salt Lake City, UT In the Venue (November 2)Phoenix, AZ Orpheum Theatre (4)Austin, TX Stubbıs Bar-B-Q (6)Houston, TX Warehouse Live (7)Dallas, TX House of Blues (8)Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre (11)St. Louis, MO Pageant (12)Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium (14)Atlanta, GA Tabernacle (15)Norfolk, VA The NorVa (19)Richmond, VA Toadıs Place (20)
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Dave Gahan to release solo album
Posten on: 2007-08-16 19:56:54
Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan has announced that he will release his second solo album this autumn.'Hourglass' -- the follow-up to 2003's 'Paper Monsters' -- is due out on October 23 in the US. Gahan wrote and co-produced all the songs on the album, and recruited Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, The Kooks, The Fratellis) to mix the album."I feel this record has been an amazing opportunity to push the artist in me," Gahan said in a statement.Gahan also said that the album addresses the theme of time slipping away. "I don't know if it's about age, just getting older...there's no longer the luxury of being able to get blind drunk every night and just hide behind that. My fear is that I've wasted so much time in fear, in fear of diving in. I feel like I'm racing against the clock."The album's first single, 'Kingdom', is due to his US radio stations on August 27.The album tracklisting is:'Saw Something''Kingdom''Deeper And Deeper''21 Days''Miracles''Use You''Insoluble''Endless''A Little Lie''Down'
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Dylan to uncover exhibition in Germany
Posten on: 2007-08-09 08:05:32
Folk legend Bob Dylan has agreed to allow the first-ever exhibition of his work at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in Germany beginning October 28, 2007. Although the artist has been a committed visual artist for more than four decades, this three-month event -- titled "The Drawn Blank Series" -- will mark the first museum showing of his work.Exclusively for this exhibition, Bob Dylan has produced more than 200 remarkably intense color variations on pictorial motifs from a book of drawings and sketches done from 1989 to 1992, which were published in 1994 under the title "Drawn Blank" by Random House.In the book's preface, Dylan explained that these works were intended as sketches for paintings that he eventually planned to complete. These now fully realized works -- photo-lithographs transferred to deckle-edged paper -- have been stunningly reworked by the artist in watercolor and gouache and will be displayed for the first time in Chemnitz.When asked how Chemnitz came to be the venue for "The Drawn Blank Series" exhibition, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Director Ingrid Moessinger explained, "I first came across Bob Dylan's book of drawings at an historical exhibition about Bob Dylan at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York. I went straight out and bought my own copy and immediately began to track down the originals."The artist said, "I was fascinated to learn of Ingrid's interest in my work, and it gave me the impetus to realize the vision I had for these drawings many years ago." He added, "If not for this interest, I don't know if I even would have revisited them."
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