Lee’s brother, Chris Rauch, announced the news in a Facebook post on Friday, June 23, sharing that Lee “was a very strong man of faith so I know he is with God now.”
Lee helped launch Megadeth by playing drums on their 1984 demo tape, Last Rites, but played in the band for only one year. He was also part of the rare live lineup that featured Slayer guitarist Kerry King alongside frontman Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson.
“His heart was set on making it big and came very close numerous times,” Chris writes of his brother. “Lee was a very loving and giving individual who was extremely hard working, he continued to play drums later in his life for the church which made him happy. He was a loving son and a very honorable man.”
After a 471 day closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Broadway theaters finally reopened in New York.
The first official show was a performance of Bruce Springsteen’s critically acclaimed Tony-winning show, Springsteen on Broadway, at the St. James Theatre, which featured The Boss telling his life story through his songs.
This was the second Broadway run of Springsteen on Broadway. It initially opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre on October 12, 2017.
Proceeds from the post-COVID opening night were donated to various charities, including the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund.
The Baseball Project, the supergroup featuring R.E.M.’s Mike Mills and Peter Buck, The Minus5‘s ScottMcCaughey,The Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn and Filthy Friends‘ Linda Pitmon, will release their fourth studio album, Grand Salami Time!, on June 30.
It’s been almost 10 years since their last album, 2014’s 3rd, and McCaughey tells ABC Audio it’s something they’ve been “trying to do for a long time.” But due to other commitments and the COVID-19 pandemic, it took longer than expected. They worked on the new record with Mitch Easter,who produced R.E.M.’s debut EP, Chronic Town, and their debut album, Murmur.
McCaughey says of the album, “We got a little bit of the R.E.M. magic maybe in there, and I think it came off really, really well.”
As with previous Baseball Project albums, the songs all have baseball themes. McCaughey admits it got “a little harder” to do that by the fourth record. “I mean, the first one was so wide open. You could just write about 150 years of history in baseball,” he explains. But, he says, with baseball “new things come along.”
To record the album, the band decided to get into the studio together. “I prefer being in a room working,” Buck says. “What I like about music as a listener is the interplay of the musicians.”
But is it much different for Peter to be in the studio with these musicians as compared to R.E.M.?
“Things are different. You know, with R.E.M., there were four of us and it was a democracy and democracies don’t really work in a way,” he says. “But we’re older … No one’s really uptight about it.” He adds that since he’s known his current bandmates for a long time, “it felt pretty familiar.”
Not content to just play a surprise show with Foo Fighters at Glastonbury 2023, Dave Grohl also made a few extra appearances at the famed English festival.
The “Everlong” rocker hopped onstage during Guns N’ Roses‘ headlining set on Saturday, June 24, joining Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan on guitar and backing vocals during a closing rendition of “Paradise City.”
“We’re gonna bring out a friend … Mr. Dave Grohl,” Rose told the crowd in introducing the Foo frontman. “Because there’s never such a thing as too many guitars!”
Earlier Saturday, Grohl showed up during Pretenders‘ performance. While they missed a chance to play “The Pretender” with Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde and company invited Grohl up to play drums during “Tattooed Love Boys,” which also featured Johnny Marr.
Foo Fighters’ surprise Glastonbury set, which was billed as “The Churnups” leading up to the show, took place on Friday, June 23. The performance ended with a rendition of “Everlong” dedicated to late drummer Taylor Hawkins.
(“Paradise City” video contains uncensored profanity.)
Elton John headlined England’s Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, June 25, a performance that is expected to be his final U.K. show ever.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer drew a massive crowd to his closing set on the main Pyramid Stage, opening the show with his 1975 cover of The Who’s “Pinball Wizard,” which, according to SetList.fm, was the first time he performed the song since 2009
Elton also brought out some special guests, although despite rumors, Britney Spears wasn’t one of them. Instead, he was joined by The Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers on the classic “Tiny Dancer,” and also brought out Jacob Lusk of Gabriels, Rina Sawayama and Steven Sanchez.
Other songs in the set included such classics as “Benny and the Jets,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” ”Your Song,” ”I’m Still Sanding,” “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” which he dedicated to the late George Michael on what would’ve been his 60th birthday, and more. He ended the set with his hit “Rocket Man.”
Elton still has a few more shows left of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour. Next up he plays Paris, France, on June 27 and 28, and wraps the whole tour with two nights in Stockholm, Sweden, on July 7 and 8. A complete list of dates can be found at EltonJohn.com.
The latest single from the metal legends to conquer the ranking is “72 Seasons,” the title track off their new album. “72 Seasons” is the 12th Metallica track to hit #1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay, tying them with Foo Fighters and Godsmack for fifth most in the history of the chart, which began in 1981.
Incidentally, it was a Foo Fighters song, “Rescued,” that “72 Seasons” knocked off to grab #1.
The album 72 Seasons was released in April. Its lead single, “Lux Æterna,” also reached #1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay.
Metallica recently wrapped the first European leg of their M72 world tour in support of 72 Seasons. The U.S. leg kicks off in August.
The Definitive 24 Nights is made up of six hours of music from Clapton’s historic 24-night run at London’s Royal Albert Hall in 1991, which broke his own record for the longest run of concerts at the venue. During the run, Clapton performed with three lineups — a rock band, a blues band and an orchestra; “Crossroads” was part of the rock set.
The Definitive 24 Nights is available now as a six-CD or eight-LP set. There are also standalone versions of each genre —24 Nights: Rock, 24 Nights: Blues and 24 Nights: Orchestra.
Music fans will soon be able to enjoy some classic albums like never before.
Rhino is set to release several iconic 1970s albums in quadraphonic sound, or 4.0 surround sound. The latest are Black Sabbath‘s Paranoid, Alice Cooper‘s Billion Dollar Babies, The J. Geils Band‘s Nightmares…and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle and Jefferson Starship‘s Red Octopus.
All four have been transferred from the original four-track quad mixes, marking the first time they’ve been available in quadraphonic audio in almost 50 years. They are available to purchase on Blu-ray both separately and as a four-album bundle.
This isn’t the first time Rhino has reissued albums in quadrophonic sound. It previously released The Doobie Brothers: Quadio in 2020 and Chicago Quadio in 2016.
Music fans will soon be able to enjoy some classic albums like never before.
Rhino is set to release several iconic 1970s albums in quadraphonic sound, or 4.0 surround sound. The latest are The J. Geils Band’s Nightmares…and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle,Jefferson Starship’s Red Octopus, Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid.
All four have been transferred from the original four-track quad mixes, marking the first time they’ve been available in quadraphonic audio in almost 50 years. They are available to purchase on Blu-ray both separately and as a four-album bundle.
This isn’t the first time Rhino has reissued albums in quadrophonic sound. It previously released The Doobie Brothers: Quadio in 2020 and Chicago Quadio in 2016.
Foo Fighters are confirmed to play a surprise set at Glastonbury.
Dave Grohl and company had been heavily rumored as the true identity of The Churnups, a mystery band scheduled to perform Friday, June 23, on the famed English festival’s main Pyramid Stage ahead of Royal Blood and headliner Arctic Monkeys. Theories only intensified when Grohl wrote in a letter to fans, “It feels good to see you, churning up these emotions together.”
Now the Foos revealed that they are indeed The Churnups in an Instagram post featuring a photo of a sign reading “Churn it up,” as well as #Glastonbury2023.
Foo Fighters previously headlined Glastonbury in 2017. At the 2022 festival, Grohl made a surprise appearance during Paul McCartney‘s headlining set, marking his first public performance since the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins.
