Scott Weiland has announced a string of solo dates to support the release of his mo solo album, coming out November 18.
�??Happy In Galoshes�?? will be released via Softdrive Records, and was produced by Weiland and Doug Green, as well as a number of tracks produced by Steve Albini.
The dates are:
N. Kansas City, MO Voodoo Lounge @ Harrah's Casino (November 11)
Minneapolis, MN First Avenue (12)
Chicago, IL Cabaret Metro (14)
Detroit, IL St. Andrew's Hall (15)
Boston, MA Wilbur Theatre (17)
New York, NY Fillmore @ Irving Plaza (18)
Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts (21)
Washington DC Lincoln Theatre (22)
Norfolk, VA The Norva (23)
Atlanta, GA Centerstage (25)
Houston, TX Wherehouse Live (28)
Dallas, TX Granada Theatre (29)
Denver, CO Gothic Theatre (December 1)
San Francisco, CA Grand Ballroom (4)
--By our New York staff.
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Friday 29 August 2008
Radiohead Still Oddly Silent Over Beefs With Hold Steady and Silver Jews
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On Sunday, bespectacled, cirrhosis-livered Hold Steady guitarist Tad Kubler set off a music-blog firestorm by brutally slagging off Radiohead during an interview with BBC's Radio 6. "I think they've lost the plot," he said. "I like them as a rock band, all the buttons and sequencing and stuff like that I don't really care for. I'm a fan of rock music, and what they're doing now I don't think is very good." But Kubler wasn't the only boozy indie-rock titan to weigh in with a negative opinion of Radiohead this week! On Monday, Silver Jews leader David Berman told Pitchfork, "You can go through the whole new Radiohead album and try and tell me what they're saying, and all you'll get over and over again is things are miserable, don't try, things suck � Never before has there been a 'greatest band in the world' who had so little to say about anything."
The list of things Radiohead have nothing to say about evidently includes the Hold Steady and Silver Jews, as neither Thom Yorke nor any of the various Greenwoods have responded to either attack. There's currently no mention of any beef on the band's official blog and a search on Hype Machine indicates that no dis tracks have yet been recorded. Are they simply too big for this? Or are they holed up in Oxford right now putting the finishing on a Nigel Godrich�produced ironic cover of "Chips Ahoy!"? God, we hope so. Come on, guys, it's the slowest news week of the year!
Steady vs Radiohead [BBC]
Interview: Silver Jews [Pitchfork]
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Saturday 9 August 2008
Bow Wow Films Sex Scene With Porn Star For Entourage
Rapper/actor BOW WOW is set to raise temperatures after denudation off to shoot a sex scene with an adult film star as part of his raw role on TV serial ENTOURAGE.
The hip-hop star, real discover Shad Moss, has landed a parting as a stand-up comedian on the hit U.S. show.
He is convinced his female admirers will love the steamy scenes - only he confesses he can't even recall his sonsie co-star's make.
He tells MTV.com, "I know the girls, they're going to go wild when they see it. The ladies are gonna go crazy when they see Bow Wow's first base sex scene...
"It was with a porn headliner. I don't know her name. She probably watching this wish, 'What? I did a scene with him, and he doesn't remember my name?' Nah, I don't think back her name, but she was defective though. She was baaaaad!"
And the 21-year-old had no problems shedding his clothes to bed the porn superstar - because the scene wasn't also different from his own bedroom antics.
He adds, "I was cool. I was comfortable with it. I was definitely comfortable with it. It is what it is - normal stuff that happens. It's crazy 'cause for me, it was normal. It was normal, merely I know when I look back at it, when I see it, I'm gonna be like, 'Damn! Look at this. This is crazy!' I stun myself sometimes, I can't even front (pretend)."
The fifth season of Entourage debuts in the U.S. in September (08).
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
CBS Films takes scribe's 'Seminar'
Story of parents who mess with kid's minds
Anyone can merely ground a troublemaking kid -- but it takes macabre ingenuity to hire people to literally screw with his mind.
CBS Films has pre-emptively purchased Richard D'Ovidio's spec screenplay "The Seminar" in a low- to mid-six-figure deal.
The script combines elements of "Disturbia" and "The Game" to tell the story of an 18-year-old whose parents engage a mysterious consulting firm to mess with his reality.
Production executive Mark Ross brought the project into CBS.
D'Ovidio is repped by ICM and Media Talent Group.
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Monday 23 June 2008
Tesla
Artist: Tesla
Genre(s):
Metal
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
Real to Reel
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Into The Now
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Standing Room Only
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Time's Makin' Changes: The Best Of
Year: 1995
Tracks: 15
Bust A Nut
Year: 1994
Tracks: 14
Bonus and Unreleased
Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
Five Man Acoustical Jam
Year: 1990
Tracks: 14
The Great Radio Controversy
Year: 1989
Tracks: 13
Mechanical Resonance
Year: 1986
Tracks: 12
RePlugged Live (CD 2)
Year:
Tracks: 10
RePlugged Live (CD 1)
Year:
Tracks: 10
Although Tesla emerged during the glorification days of haircloth metal, they ne'er totally fit the spirit of the times. Their music was well-produced pop-metal, to be certain, simply they never indulged in the glammed-up excess that made cartoons out of many of their peers. Instead, Tesla's music was bluesy, no-frills, '70s-style hard careen; it concentrated more on solid musicianship than tremendous, arena-ready choruses (or hairdos), and it had a noticeable guts -- not so much the urban tat of Guns N' Roses, merely a grounded attitude and a true affectionateness for old school intemperate tilt. Despite their refreshful want of posturing, Tesla was scarce as hard-hit as the rest of the pop-metal populace when grease wiped out classic-style hard rock music, simply they did produce one of the more healthy bodies of put to work of the geological era.
Tesla was formed in Sacramento, CA, in 1985, out of an sooner, locally popular mathematical group called City Kidd which dated back to 1982. Tesla's card featured singer Jeff Keith, the underrated guitar tandem of Frank Hannon and Tommy Skeoch, bassist Brian Wheat, and drummer Troy Luccketta. At management's suggestion, the band named itself subsequently the character discoverer Nikola Tesla, world Health Organization pioneered the radio set only was given only late credit entry for doing so. After playing various showcases in Los Angeles, Tesla quickly scored a handle with Geffen and released their debut album, Mechanical Resonance, in 1986; it produced a minor hard rock 'n' roll impinge on in "Modern Day Cowboy," reached the Top 40 on the album charts, and finally went platinum. However, it was the follow-up, 1989's The Great Radio Controversy, that unfeignedly stony-broke the band. The first single, "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)," was another hit with intemperate rock audiences, stage setting the phase for the second single, a warm, comforting ballad called "Dearest Song" which substituted a dash of hipster utopianism for the common power ballad histrionics. "Erotic love Song" hit the bug out Top Ten and made the band stars, push The Great Radio Controversy into the Top 20 and double-platinum gross revenue figures; the follow-up single, "The Way It Is," was as well something of a hit.
In retention with their unpretentious, blue-collar roots, Tesla responded to stardom not by aping the glam theatrics of their tourmates, only by uncovering things grim. The idea behind 1990's Five-spot Man Acoustical Jam was virtually unheard of -- a pop-metal band playing loose, informal acoustic versions of their best-known songs in concert, summation a few favorite covers ('60s classics by the Beatles, Stones, CCR, and others). Fortunately, Tesla's music was inflexible enough to hold up when its roots were exposed, and one of the covers -- "Signs," an rarefied bit of hippy outrage by the Five Man Electrical Band -- became another Top Ten hit, as well as the band's highest-charting single. Not only did Basketball team Man Acoustical Jam hit the Top 20 and go pt, but it likewise helped directly inspire MTV's Unplugged series, both with its relaxed vibration and its monitor that acoustic medicine could sound vital and gumptious.
The studio apartment reexamination to The Great Radio Controversy, Psychotic person Supper, was released in 1991 and quickly became another platinum impinge on. It didn't grow whatsoever singles quite as successful as "Honey Song" or "Signs," but it did spin off the sterling figure of singles of whatsoever Tesla album: "Edison's Medicine," "Call It What You Want," "What You Give," "Song and Emotion." Perhaps that was partly because Tesla's workmanlike hard rock 'n' roll didn't good ludicrous if it was played on rock music wireless aboard the fresh crop of Seattle bands. But careless, the winds of change were blowing, and by the fourth dimension Tesla returned with their 1994 follow-up, Fall apart a Nut, those winds had blown pretty much whatever new blue-collar voiceless stone off the airwaves. Rupture a Nut did sell over 800,000 copies -- an exceedingly respectable exhibit, disposed the musical climate of 1994, and a testament to the fan fundament Tesla had managed to crop over the years. But all was non well inside the band. Tommy Skeoch had been battling an addiction to tranquilizers, and his problems worsened to the item where he was asked to leave the band in 1995.
Tesla attempted to continue as a quartette for a clip, but the chemistry had been irreparably neutered, and they stone-broke up in 1996. Most of the bandmembers began playacting with littler outfits, none of which stirred beyond a local layer. When Skeoch's health improved, the banding arranged a modest reunion in 2000, which quickly became full-fledged. In the fall of 2001, the mathematical group released a two-disc live album, Replugged Live, which authenticated their reunion hitch. Into the Now, which was co-produced by Michael Rosen (Will, AFI), appeared in March 2004. A collection of '70s covers called Real to Reel arrived in 2007.
Monday 16 June 2008
Akimbo
Artist: Akimbo
Genre(s):
Rock
Jazz
Discography:
City of the Stars
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Forging Steel and Laying Stone
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Elephantine
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
On Top
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Izzy Stradlin
Wednesday 4 June 2008
Ash Can't, Um, Bump Mariah, Leona or Conchords
A high-profile engagement, endless speculation about major uterine developments and plenty of face time on TV and magazines couldn't put Ashlee Simpson over the top.
As it were,...
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