The track was produced by Ozzy Osbourne‘s Ordinary Man collaborator Andrew Watt, who’s also worked with artists including Miley Cyrus, Post Malone and Dua Lipa.
You can download “Long Way” now via digital outlets. It will also be available as seven-inch vinyl single including another new Vedder solo tune, “The Haves.” A lyric video for “Long Way” has debuted at Vedder’s official YouTube channel.
Along with the new song, Vedder has also announced the title of his next solo record: Earthling. The album is Vedder’s first full-length solo effort since 2011’s UkuleleSongs.
More recently, Vedder contributed new music to the film Flag Day, which premiered in August. The soundtrack also includes the debut songs from Vedder’s daughter, Olivia.
Foo Fighters have announced an intimate, surprise show in Washington, D.C.
Dave Grohl and company will play the 1,200 capacity 9:30 Club tomorrow, September 9, in celebration of the legendary venue’s re-opening week. Tickets went on sale Wednesday morning and sold out immediately.
The Foos were scheduled to play a much bigger D.C.-area show last summer at FedExField to celebrate the band’s 25th anniversary on July 4. However, that concert, along with the rest of their 2020 plans, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year, Foo Fighters have been touring in celebration of their 26th anniversary. Following the D.C. date, the tour will continue September 15 in Syracuse, New York.
After postponing a series of U.S. concerts because founding members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons both tested positive for COVID-19, KISS has confirmed that it will relaunch its End of the World farewell tour with a show this Thursday, September 9, in Irvine, California.
According to a statement from the band, doctors advised that the trek was safe to resume after Stanley and Simmons quarantined for 10 days.
Meanwhile, five of the postponed shows have been rescheduled for late October at the tail end of the 2021 U.S. leg of the outing.
An August 29 concert in Atlanta has been moved to October 10; an August 26 show in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, now will take place on October 13; a September 1 performance in Clarkston, Michigan, has been moved to October 15; a September 4 gig in Tinley Park, Illinois, has been rescheduled for October 16; and a September 2 concert in Dayton, Ohio, has been rescheduled for October 17.
Two other concerts delayed because the KISS members’ COVID diagnoses, originally scheduled for August 28 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and September 5 in Milwaukee, will be made up sometime in 2022, as will an August 22 concert in Hartford, Connecticut — a date that was postponed because of the effects of Hurricane Henri.
Tickets that were purchased for the postponed concerts will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Additional details will be emailed to ticketholders.
Visit KISSOnline.com to check out the band’s full schedule.
The Black Crowes will wind down their 30th anniversary Shake Your Money Maker tour later this month, and the veteran rockers will follow the trek with a special two-night Las Vegas engagement on November 18 and 19 at the House of Blues.
The residency shows, dubbed The Black Crowes Present: Shake Your Money Maker, will feature the band playing its 1990 debut album in its entirety, along with select hits and other tunes from the group’s back catalog. The Black Crowes’ other 30th anniversary concerts have featured a similar set list.
Tickets for the Las Vegas shows go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets for a Black Crowes band pre-sale are available now, while a Live Nation pre-sale starts on Wednesday, September 8, at 10 a.m. PT.
Shake Your Money Maker was released in February 1990 and peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200. It featured two top-40 hits — a cover of Otis Redding‘s “Hard to Handle” and the original ballad “She Talks to Angels” — as well as fan favorites “Jealous Again” and “Twice as Hard.” The album has sold more than five million copies in the U.S. A deluxe, expanded reissue of Shake Your Money Maker was released in February.
The Black Crowes’ current tour is mapped out through a September 25 show in Bethel, New York. Visit TheBlackCrowes.com for the band’s full schedule.
Soundgarden‘s Kim Thayil and Alice in Chains‘ Jerry Cantrell are taking part in the latest edition of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp.
The special seminar, dubbed “Sounds of Seattle,” is set to take place February 17-20, 2022, in Los Angeles. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from and jam with Thayil and Cantrell, who will prep you for public performances at the iconic Viper Room and Whisky a Go Go LA venues.
“The past few years have been unusually difficult and at times truly bizarre for the nation and world in general, and for the music industry and rock bands in particular,” Thayil says. “I am super excited about the opportunity to connect and re-engage with fellow musicians and fans at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp.”
Thayil and Cantrell will also be joined by another grunge mainstay, original Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen. Additionally, artists including Jane’s Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins, Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger, and Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra are among the camp’s guest mentors.
Pop star Selena Gomez isn’t the only chart-topping musician in the new Hulu seriesOnly Murders in the Building: Sting also has a role. In fact, the former Police frontman rock legend is starting to look like the prime suspect in the murder that the characters played by Selena and her co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short are investigating. But despite the fact that they’re both musicians, Selena said talking shop with the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer was the last thing on her mind while filming the show.
“Oh, gosh, no, no, no!” Selena tells ABC Audio when asked if she and Sting discussed collaborating. “But I will say this: [There] was a very cool moment.”
As Selena recalls, “There was a piano on set and I was just playing piano and all of a sudden I hear Sting playing exactly what I’m playing, on the guitar! And I’m like, ‘O.K., this is a surreal moment I’m going to remember for the rest of my life.’ ‘Cause…like, I don’t bother [other stars] with anything; I just wanted them to have a great experience.”
More about Sting and his motivations will be revealed in the fourth episode of the show, which arrives today on Hulu. It’s called “The Sting,” and in it, we’ll find out that there’s a definite connection between the rocker and the victim, Tim Kono, played by Julian Cihi.
Like Selena, Sting has had an acting career running parallel to his music career for years. But according to Entertainment Weekly, the reason Sting is in Only Murders is because he’s been friends with Steve Martin and the show’s casting director, Bernard Telsey, for a long time.
Foo Fighters have announced a new batch of West Coast headlining tour dates.
The outing includes two shows in Las Vegas, taking place December 2 and 4, as well as stops in Sacramento and Fresno, California, on December 7 and 9, respectively.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 10, at 10 a.m. PT via FooFighters.com.
The newly added dates continue the Foos’ ongoing 26th anniversary tour. Dave Grohl and company had planned a 25th anniversary tour for 2020, but those shows were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new official Led Zeppelin documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin got its premiere at Italy’s Venice International Film Festival over the weekend and, according to Variety, guitarist Jimmy Page was on hand to take part in a press conference celebrating the film’s debut.
During the event, held Saturday, Page noted that before agreeing to participate in this film, he and his surviving band mates had turned down many previous requests to do what he described as “miserable” documentaries about Led Zeppelin.
“[T]hey’d want to be concentrating on anything but the music, and consequently I would recoil immediately from that sort of thing,” Page explained.
Jimmy noted that Becoming Led Zeppelin was “everything about the music and what would make the music tick. And it’s complete versions of song, not just a little sample and then talking heads. This is something in a totally different genre.”
As previously reported, Becoming Led Zeppelin features new interviews with Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, as well as archival interviews with the group’s late drummer, John Bonham.
The film, which was directed by Bernard McMahon, follows the individual paths of Led Zeppelin’s members through their various groups and musical endeavors en route to becoming part of one of the biggest and most influential rock bands in the world. The documentary ends in 1970, at the height of Led Zeppelin’s meteoric rise.
Page said that the movie focuses on the early period of Led Zeppelin’s career, during which the band released its first two albums in the same year, 1970, and toured the U.K. and the U.S.
“The momentum was absolutely…I was going a million miles an hour,” Jimmy noted. That’s what they’ve managed to capture.”
According to Variety, all 12 scheduled festival screenings of Becoming Led Zeppelin were sold out.
Last month, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood revealed to The Times of London that he and his old Faces band mates Rod Stewart and Kenney Jones had been collaborating on new music together, and now Jones reportedly has shared some new details about the project.
Contact Music reports that in a new exclusive interview with BANG Showbiz, Kenney revealed, “We’ve done about 14 songs, it’s a mixture of stuff we never released which is worthy of releasing and there’s some new stuff which is really wonderful. Rod is writing the lyrics and he’s really keen on it.”
Jones, who is The Faces’ founding drummer, also says the band is planning to play a number of major concerts, including shows at London’s O2 arena, New York City’s Madison Square Garden and “some other big venues in America.”
He adds, “Nothing elaborate on stage, just bring back The Faces live.”
Kenney also reportedly tells BANG Showbiz that he and Wood have been looking through the Faces archives for unreleased recordings that they hope to put out.
“Ronnie has found around 90 pieces of music and I’ve found around 50 pieces of music,” Jones notes, “some are whole tracks, some are not, some are just bits.”
Jones, Wood and Stewart are the last surviving original members of The Faces. Bassist Ronnie Lane died in 1997 and keyboardist Ian McLagan passed away in 2014.
Jones, Wood and Stewart last performed together as The Faces in February 2020 during the finale of the Brit Awards, the U.K. equivalent of the Grammys.
Take me down to BottleRock Napa Valley, where the rock stops promptly at 10 p.m.
Guns N’ Roses learned that the hard way during their headlining performance at the California festival over the Labor Day Weekend. Halfway through their rendition of “Paradise City,” which featured a surprise appearance by Dave Grohl on guitar and backing vocals, the power on stage was cut because the set had passed BottleRock’s strict 10 p.m. curfew.
Being that Grohl once finished a Foo Fighters show after falling off the stage and breaking his leg, he wasn’t about to let a lack of electricity end the party. So for the last three minutes of the song, GrohlN’R jammed “Paradise City” in the dark, with only the sound of drums and un-amplified vocals reaching beyond the stage.
You can watch fan-shot footage of the performance now via YouTube.
According to The Mercury News, artists including Neil Young, The Cure and Foo Fighters have been cut off at past BottleRocks after hitting the curfew.
Foo Fighters also headlined BottleRock this year. Additionally, Grohl and producer/songwriter Greg Kurstin performed a set a covers from their The Hanukkah Sessions series.
