Slash has announced an in-store acoustic performance at the Amoeba Hollywood record store in Los Angeles, taking place May 29.
To get tickets, you’ll need to buy a CD or vinyl copy of the Guns N’ Roses icon’s upcoming blues solo album, Orgy of the Damned, in person at Amoeba starting on its release date, May 17.
For more info, visit Amoeba.com.
Slash will launch a full U.S. tour in support of Orgy of the Damned in July.
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A new documentary will give music fans a behind-the-scenes look at Toronto’s 1969 Rock N Roll Revival music festival, which featured John Lennon’s first time performing outside The Beatles.
The documentary, Revival69: The Concert That Rocked The World, details how promoters John Brower and Kenny Walker were able to book Lennon for the show and how his appearance almost didn’t happen. In the end he took the stage for a debut performance of The Plastic Ono Band, which featured Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White.
The documentary also features footage from the festival’s other performers — Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis and The Doors. It includes interviews from The Doors’ Robby Kreiger, Voormann and White, Alice Cooper and Rush’s Geddy Lee, who attended the festival.
The film features archival footage from the late director D. A. Pennebaker, who shot the festival for the 1969 documentary Sweet Toronto.
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked The World will be released in theaters and digitally on June 28.
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While The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood may have been a big partier back in the day, these days, he gets his high in totally different ways.
He tells The Sun that getting to play in front of thousands of fans each night is all the high he needs now.
“The adrenalin high is stronger than any drug or alcohol,” Wood shared. “The natural high is the best one you can have, it exceeds drugs or alcohol.”
The Rolling Stones just kicked off their ’24 Hackney Diamonds tour in Houston on Sunday, April 28, and Wood says it’s important for him to keep a much healthier routine while on the road.
“I like to have my green juices now and I do workouts with my trainer just light workouts and stretches to keep my circulation going, which is what you need when you’re older,” the 76-year-old says.
Wood says being on tour is still “a big party,” but he makes sure to enjoy some “quiet time,” which apparently includes catching up on Netflix. “I’m addicted to Ripley,” he notes, referring to the series based on Patricia Highsmith’s book The Talented Mr. Ripley, which was turned into a movie in 1999.
In the same interview, Wood reveals that Sir Paul McCartney helped the Stones out with the tour, sharing that he came to rehearsals in Los Angeles and “gave us some really nice input.”
“Paul is so great and really supportive. Paul threw me and (my wife) Sally a going away party from L.A. He invited Neil Young as my surprise guest at the dinner,” he says, adding, “It was so lovely.”
The Rolling Stones will play Jazz Fest in New Orleans on May 2. A complete list of tour dates can be found at RollingStones.com.
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Squeeze is returning to the U.S. this summer for a new tour, where they’ll be joined by Boy George.
The tour kicks off August 14 in Eugene, Oregon, hitting such cities as Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Boston, Atlantic City and New York, before wrapping September 22 in Orlando, Florida.
A ticket presale will launch Thursday, May 2, at 10 a.m., with tickets going on sale to the general public starting Friday, May 3, at 10 a.m.
Squeeze previously toured the States in summer 2023 with The Psychedelic Furs.
Squeeze has a pretty busy 2024 ahead of them. Their next show is happening May 30 in Horsham, England, and then they’ll open for Heart in the U.K. starting July 1 in London. They’re also set to launch a U.K. leg of their 50th anniversary tour starting October 4 in Sheffield, England.
A complete list of all Squeeze dates can be found at squeezeofficial.com.
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New York City’s Tribeca Festival has announced a talk with R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, which will be part of their 2024 Storytellers Series.
Stipe is set to appear at the SVA Theatre on June 12. As for what he’ll be talking about, you’ll have to attend to find out, but he has been working on his debut solo album.
The Tribeca event is set to take place one day before Stipe and his R.E.M. bandmates — Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry — will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 13 during a ceremony that will also take place in New York City.
For more info, visit TribecaFilm.com.
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Deep Purple has shared the first preview of their upcoming album, =1.
The band just dropped the new single “Portable Door,” along with a video that has them performing the track in front of a backdrop of the album’s artwork.
“The new album will reflect what the five of us create in the rehearsal room. Many of the songs, like ‘Portable Door’, were written in the first sessions and literally came together in five or 10 minutes,” guitarist Simon McBride, who joined the band in 2022, shared in a recent interview. “It all was so easy and natural.”
Ian Gillan added, “Throughout Deep Purple’s history, our best songs have always been those that were written in no time at all. We’ve played what felt good and developed songs as we have always done.”
You can listen to “Portable Doors” now via digital outlets.
=1, Deep Purple’s first album of new material since 2020’s Whoosh!, will be released July 19. It is available for preorder now.
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Following their acclaimed performance of “I’m Just Ken” during the Oscars, Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen have reunited onstage.
The Mammoth WVH frontman joined the Guns N’ Roses shredder and his solo band, Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators, for a rendition of AC/DC‘s “Highway to Hell” during a show in Paris on Monday, April 29.
Wolf posted a photo from the live collaboration on his Instagram Story. A full fan video of the performance is streaming now on YouTube.
The Paris show marked the final date of Slash and the Conspirators’ European tour, which Mammoth WVH opened. Slash will launch a U.S. tour in July in support of his upcoming solo blues album, Orgy of the Damned, due out May 17.
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Joni Mitchell is once again revisiting her archives for a new collection coming in June.
The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) will feature remastered versions of four albums: 1976’s Hejira, 1977’s Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter, 1979’s Mingus and the 1980 double live album Shadows and Light.
Fans are getting the first preview of the set with a remastered version of the Hejira track “Coyote,” which is available now via digital outlets.
The collection will feature cover art of a Mitchell landscape painting and include an essay written by lifelong Mitchell fan, Oscar-winner Meryl Streep.
“It’s not just the artifact – music and lyrics – that Joni gives us. Her artistry leaves us, ourselves, changed,” writes Streep. “She has shifted things around inside us. And that’s how artists change the world.”
The Asylum Albums (1976-1980) will be released June 21 in a variety of formats, including digitally, as a five-CD set and as a limited edition six-LP set with only 5,000 copies available. All formats are available for preorder now.
Joni previously released The Asylum Years (1972-1975) in September 2022, which focused on her first four albums with the label. Then in October 2023, she released Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975), featuring never-before-heard demos, performances, and early and alternative versions of songs from three of her albums: 1972’s For the Roses, 1974’s Court and Spark and 1975’s The Hissing Of Summer Lawns.
Joni’s Archives series is set to continue with the next installment, Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 4, which will focus on unreleased and live Joni recordings. More info on the set is expected later this year.
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Nominees for the 2024 Tony Awards were announced on Tuesday, April 30, with The Who’s Tommy and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne both earning nominations.
The Who’s Tommy is nominated in the Best Revival of a Musical category. The 1993 original run won five Tony Awards, including Best Direction for Des McAnuff and Best Original Score for The Who‘s Pete Townshend.
Byrne and Fatboy Slim earned a nomination in the category of Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre for Here Lies Love, about the rise and fall of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines. Also nominated in that category is former Arcade Fire member Will Butler for the Stereophonic.
This isn’t Byrne’s first time being recognized by the Tonys. In 2021, he won an honorary Tony Award for his production American Utopia.
The Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, will air live on CBS on Sunday, June 16, at 8 p.m. ET and stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
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On This Day, April 30, 1977…
Led Zeppelin set a new attendance record when 76,229 fans came out to see them perform at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.
According to Guinness Book of Records, it was the largest attendance to that date for a single act show. It surpassed previous record holder The Who, who set a record with an audience of 75,962 people at the same venue.
The night’s set list featured performances of such Zeppelin classics as “The Song Remains the Same,” “The Battle of Evermore,” “Going to California,” “Kashmir,” “Stairway to Heaven” and more.
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