Ann Wilson says she and sister Nancy “don’t see eye to eye” on Heart now, but they’re “working on it”

February 24, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

During a recent interview that streamed on TalkShopLive, Nancy Wilson revealed that plans for a new Heart tour were on hold because she and her sister and band mate Ann were at odds over the musicians who would make up the touring version of the group.

Now, Ann Wilson tells ABC Audio that although she and her sister currently aren’t agreeing about Heart’s direction moving forward, she insists that she and Nancy aren’t feuding, and she feels that they eventually will be able to resolve their differences.

“There’s a lot of myth about what’s going on between me and Nancy, that there’s a feud or something like that. There really isn’t any feud between us personally,” Ann says. “We don’t see eye to eye on the shape that Heart should take. Like…I want to see it continue to evolve and break barriers and be relevant. And she…doesn’t want to try new things that much, you know.”

The singer adds, “I’m not trying to diss her at all, because I think we get a really bad rap for just being at each other’s throats. We’re not. We have a disagreement on who would be in the Heart band is all right now, but we’re working on it.”

In the TalkShopLive interview, Nancy explained that Ann had wanted Heart’s backing group to feature the musicians who make up her current solo touring band, The Amazing Dawgs, who also helped Ann record her upcoming solo album, Fierce Bliss, due out in April.

Nancy, meanwhile, says she wanted to continue with the same musicians who toured as Heart with her and Ann in 2019. Nancy has now launched a new group named Nancy Wilson’s Heart with the latter musicians and former Voice contestant Kimberly Nicole as lead singer.

The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson collaborates with psych-rockers Howlin Rain on two Mott the Hoople covers

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson has teamed with psychedelic blues-rock band Howlin Rain to record covers of two Mott the Hoople songs that have been released digitally and also are available to order as a limited-edition seven-inch vinyl single.

The songs are “Sucker” and “Death May Be Your Santa Claus,” the original versions of which appeared, respectively, on Mott the the Hoople’s early 1970s albums All the Young Dudes and Brain Capers.

The single’s cover art features a cartoonish psychedelic “black light” painting of Robinson and Howlin Rain singer/guitarist Ethan Miller riding reindeer.

You can order the vinyl disc at Howlin Rain’s Bandcamp page. The album, expected to ship this Friday, February 25, can also be streamed and downloaded at the site. A retail version will be available at independent record shops on April 23 as part of the 2022 Record Store Day event.

KISS, Judas Priest, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots part of 2022 Aftershock festival lineup

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

KISS, Judas Priest, Foo Fighters and Stone Temple Pilots are among the many acts that will be performing at the 2022 Aftershock festival, taking place October 6-9 in Sacramento, California.

STP are part of the lineup for the fest’s first day, which will be headlined by Slipknot and also will feature Rob Zombie, Evanescence, Killswitch Engage and Bad Religion, among others.

KISS will headline day two, October 7, which also will see performances by Judas Priest, Lamb of God, Chevelle, GWAR, Helmet, Alice Cooper band guitarist Nita Strauss, Bullet for My Valentine, and more.

Headlining on October 8 will be My Chemical Romance, while other performers that day will include Papa Roach, Halestorm, A Day to Remember, The Distillers and Theory of a Deadman.

Foo Fighters will headline Aftershock’s final day, while the bill also will feature Shinedown, Bring Me the Horizon, The Pretty Reckless, The Struts, Zakk Sabbath, and more.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit AftershockFestival.com.

Green Day shares new “1972” teaser

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

Green Day is continuing to tease new music.

Over the last few months, the punk trio has uploaded various videos showing them in a recording studio, each with the year 1972 prominently featured. That trend continued Tuesday with a new clip, once again with a focus on 1972.

Notably, all three Green Day members — Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool — were born in 1972. In fact, Armstrong just celebrated his 50th birthday last week.

No official details about whatever Green Day’s been teasing have been announced, so stay tuned.

Green Day released three new singles in 2021: “Here Comes the Shock,” “Holy Toledo!” and “Pollyanna.” Their most recent album is 2020’s Father of All…

Elton John teams with hot fashion line Teddy Fresh for new collection inspired by his “lust for life”

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

When it comes to fashion, Elton John knows no boundaries. He’s happy to work with Gucci — and does, regularly — but now, he’s also teaming up with a fashion line started by a YouTube star.

Thursday sees the launch of the “Teddy Fresh x Elton John” collection. The Teddy Fresh fashion line is the passion project of Hila Klein, who with her husband, Ethan, is famous for the H3 Podcast channel and h3h3Productions YouTube channel. The line has a devoted following and has already created collections in collaboration with Looney Tunes, Spongebob Squarepants and Care Bears.

The new collab was first announced on Ethan and Hila’s H3 After Dark podcast, during which Ethan said he loved working with Elton because the legendary star is “so gracious, super-nice, and enthusiastic.” Hila, meanwhile, revealed that Elton “personally loved the designs.”

According to the Teddy Fresh Instagram, the new collection is “inspired by the way John has revolutionized music and broken boundaries,” and by his “outlandish style and lust for life.” It features “sequins…intricate patchwork and vibrant fabrics” that convey Elton’s “luxurious and regal taste for fashion and life.”

Some of the designs feature imagery from Elton’s album covers, like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and The One. There’s also a sequined baseball jacket with Elton’s name across the front in a font reminiscent of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Fans are already stoked for the new collection, with one writing, “I’ll never financially recover from this,” and another adding, “obsessed is an understatement.”

Eddie Vedder mourns Mark Lanegan during Seattle solo show: “He’s gonna be deeply missed”

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder took a moment during his solo concert in Seattle Tuesday night to pay tribute to another hometown rocker, Mark Lanegan, who passed away yesterday at age 57.

In fan-shot footage of the show, a clearly emotional Vedder tells the crowd that he’d been feeling “really terrible” before he and his solo band The Earthlings were set to take the stage.

“I think it was because I was having an allergic reaction to sadness,” Vedder said as his voice broke. “Because we lost…there’s a guy called Mark Lanegan.”

“There are a lot of really great musicians, some people know Seattle because of the musicians that have come out of the great Northwest,” the “Even Flow” rocker continued. “Some of those guys were one-of-a-kind singers. Mark was certainly that, and with such a strong voice.”

Lanegan co-founded the band Screaming Trees in nearby Ellensburg, Washington, and helped pioneer the grunge sound that brought fame to the Seattle area in the ’90s.

“He’s gonna be deeply missed,” Vedder said of Lanegan. “At least we will always have his voice to listen to and his words and his books to read, he wrote two incredible books in the last few years.”

Vedder added that he wanted to “let [Lanegan’s] wife and loved ones know that people in his old stomping grounds have been thinking about him, and we love him.”

According to Setlist.fm, Vedder dedicated a performance of the song “Tender Mercies,” which he recorded alongside Glen Hansard for the Flag Day soundtrack, to Lanegan.

Paul McCartney contributes early solo song to new initiative helping homeless people

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

Paul McCartney has contributed his 1970 acoustic song “Junk” to The Man/Kind Initiative for use in a video promoting the charity’s campaign to aid the homeless in the Los Angeles area.

The video features footage of various homeless people, and explains what The Man/Kind Initiative has been doing to help, providing food, shelter and personal care items and more to the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The clip notes that one of the ways that the charity is helping is providing homeless people with temporary mobile shelters called EDAR, which stands for Everyone Deserves a Roof. The The Man/Kind Initiative stocks the shelters with food and personal care items and distributes them to organizations that can provide safe locations, as well as offer on-site sanitation facilities, food services and counseling.

“We’ve all walked past them trying not to notice,” says The Man/Kind Initiative’s founder, Richard Stellar. “I had to find a way to make people see them, to wake them up. We needed to reach millions, and I had to think outside the box on how to make that happen. So, we turned to Paul McCartney, and he delivered. The use of his music may be one of the greatest gifts that a non-profit like ours could get. We now will be able to touch millions with our message, and in turn help tens of thousands of homeless, especially veterans and minorities.”

Visit MankindHomeless.com for more details about the charity.

The video features segments of “Junk” and the instrumental “Singalong Junk,” which both appeared on Paul’s debut solo album, McCartney.

Foo Fighters book taping for upcoming ‘Austin City Limits’ season

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

Foo Fighters are headed back to Austin City Limits.

The long-running PBS music performance series has booked Dave Grohl and company for a taping to air during its upcoming 48th season. The show will take place on April 27.

The Foos previously rocked the ACL stage twice before. Highlights from those shows were compiled into an hour-long ACL special, which premiered in 2021.

“I’m sure I can speak for every musician when I say that being asked to come play Austin City Limits is practically like getting a medal,” Grohl said at the time. “As a musician it’s something to aspire to and if you actually achieve that then you wear it like a badge.”

Other artists set to tape episodes for ACL‘s next season include Arlo Parks, Japanese Breakfast and Cimafunk.

In addition to their trip to ACL, Foo Fighters will be headed to the silver screen with their movie Studio 666, which premieres in theaters this Friday, February 25.

Rock world reacts to death of Mark Lanegan

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

Members of the rock community have been sharing their tributes to Mark Lanegan following the news Tuesday that the Screaming Trees frontman and Queens of the Stone Age collaborator had passed away at age 57.

The Screaming Trees Facebook shared a post mourning Lanegan as “our true brother.”

“We all truly loved him,” the post reads. “As we say goodbye to Mark, a member of our family, remember he still lives with us all in his music.”

The Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli, who frequently worked with Lanegan and released an album with him as The Gutter Twins, simply posted a photo of the two of them together.

Here are some of the other reactions:

Iggy Pop: “Mark Lanegan, RIP, deepest respect for you. Your fan, Iggy Pop.”

Slash: “RIP #MarkLanegan”

Pearl Jam and Soundgarden‘s Matt Cameron: “RIP Mark [broken heart emoji]”

Lamb of God‘s Mark Morton: “I am so profoundly grateful to have had the chance to make music & become friends with Mark Lanegan. Few artists ever achieve the level of honesty & authenticity that he did. He was absolutely brilliant. Godspeed my friend.”

Ex-New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook: “Mark Lanegan was a lovely man. He led a wild life that some of us could only dream of. He leaves us with fantastic words and music! Thank god that through all of that he will live forever. RIP Mark. Sleep well. Love Hooky.”

Garbage: “Terribly saddened to hear the news of the passing of Mark Lanegan. A very gifted artist blessed with honey dipped tones, gone far too soon.”

Shinedown‘s Brent Smith: “My heart truly aches today, as we have lost an incredible artist…An undeniable pioneer in the late 1980s and early 1990s grunge era, and beyond. A poet, singer, songwriter, author, and creative genius, with a voice like no other. Bless you Sir, and thank you.”

Guns N’ Roses‘ Duff McKagan: “He was such a good man, and friend to my family. RIP Mark Lanegan.”

Against Me!‘s Laura Jane Grace: “Devastating news. What a talent. Will be listening to Bubblegum for the rest of the day.”

Report: Elton John’s plane forced to make emergency landing Tuesday en route to New York

February 23, 2022 by Classic Rock 93.9

Elton John‘s private jet was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday after experiencing technical failure at 10,000 feet, according to various reports.

The U.K. tabloid The Sun reported that Elton was flying from England to New York for a concert when the plane on which he was traveling suffered a hydraulic failure about an hour after takeoff.

The pilot made the decision to return to the U.K.’s Farnborough Airport and declare an emergency landing, it was reported.

Witnesses tell The Sun that the pilot made two unsuccessful attempts to land in winds that reportedly gusted to 80 mph before successfully touching down on the third try.

The legendary rocker, 74, was said to be shaken by the ordeal, but he boarded another flight to New York just hours later to make his gig at Madison Square Garden

Elton made it to New York City safely and confirmed that the show would go on as scheduled, tweeting, “Hello New York! See you @TheGarden tonight.” He also has a second concert scheduled at Madison Square Garden tonight.

ABC has not been able to reach Elton’s reps for comment.

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