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Nov 2005

The Rock Dirt
Published: Weds, Nov 30, 2005
Alice in Chains live in Atlantic City

Heart confirmed that Alice in Chains will join the band on Feb. 17 at Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal to perform as part of VH1 Classic’s “Decades Live” show. The lineup, billed as “Heart and Friends,” will feature original AiC members – guitarist Jerry Cantrell, drummer Sean Kinney and bass player (and current Heart member) Mike Inez. No word on other “friends,” but past Heart guests have also included members of Pearl Jam. www.heart-music.com

Got chops? Damone wants to know. The band is asking potentials to send video evidence that could win the best shredder a brand new Gibson SG ’61 reissue AND a chance to appear in an upcoming video. With the band’s new EP, “Out Here All Night,” out everywhere, Damone is getting ready to set sail on a supporting tour with Less Than Jake. A few chances remain to see them in these parts before then, including Dec. 2 at Plymouth State College and Dec. 7 at the Middle East Club in Cambridge, Mass. www.damone.net

New Tool could get to us as early as Dec. 20. Don’t be fooled, though. It’s not the eagerly anticipated new disc but merely a new DVD, “Schism,” that features the videos for “Schism” and “Parabol/Parabola,” along with a few added extras. Apparently there’s a more anticipated live Tool DVD in the works with a TBD attached to the release date. This’ll have to hold us till the new year.

A super deluxe double disc reissue of David Bowie’s 1975 record “Young Americans” comes out in March. “Young Americans: Collectors Edition” will feature a remastered version of the original eight-song release and three bonus songs. The second disc, a DVD, will feature video of live performances of “Young Americans” and “1984” from Bowie’s appearance on the Dick Cavett TV show some time after the record’s initial release.

Two more. “Welcome to the Jungle: The Very Best of Guns n’ Roses” is scheduled for a Dec. 20 release in a two-disc package. No word on the songs to be included since the “Greatest Hits” retrospective came out just last year.

Godsmack Bless America. Sully Erna will sing the national anthem at the Jan. 1 Patriots’ home game against the Miami Dolphins airing on CBS at 1 p.m. Check your local listings. godsmack.com

Even more cowbell. The Darkness has posted its new disc, “One Way Ticket To Hell . . . And Back” in its entirety at www.myspace.com/thedarkness. It’s out this week.

New Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Stadium Arcadium” – recorded with über-producer Rick Rubin – is due in April.

Indie hero Cat Power releases her seventh record, “The Greatest,” on Jan. 24.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hopeful Patty Smith joined U2 on stage last week at Madison Square Garden in NYC for what was surely a rousing rendition of John Lennon’s “Instant Karma.” The Hall of Fame inductee list is due by year’s end. I’m hoping to see her name on it.

The Rock Dirt
Published: Weds, Nov 23
Sights set for summer's Warped tour, KoRn in Wormtown!

It’s only turkey time but this summer’s Warped tour is taking shape. In fact, organizer Kevin

Lyman announced the first five bands signed on. They include Thursday, Motion City Soundtrack,

Rise Against, From First To Last and NOFX. As for the rest, it seems he sees fit to roll out the

names slowly as not to get anyone’s boxers in a twist. The slow roll out of Warped allows for more

time for Lyman to focus on the winter’s “Taste of Chaos” trek. The lineup for this year – the

second annual, by the way - will include Deftones, Story of the Year and Atreyu. Dates and venues

are forth coming.

www.tasteofchaos.com

Hot off its Saturday Night Live appearance along side desperate hostess Eva Longoria, KoRn will

play what was to be a secret show in Berlin this week. (Not so secret now that I’m writing this).

If you miss that, the band’s one-off November 29 Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City show will

be taped for an MTV 2 special set for air beginning Dec 3 and about 1000 times in reruns

thereafter. Or there’s the Worcester Palladium show on Dec 8! Tickets on sale now.

www.tickets.com

Circling rumors of a possible Cars reunion have turned into reality. Original members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes do have something in the works but with no mention of singer Ric Ocasek’s involvement. Enter superstar-in-his-own-right Todd Rundgren who confirmed his part in the project last week. Todd offered a rather glum explanation of his past year as so as well as why he’d go for this gig via an online post to fans and naysayers. Read it for yourselves.
www.trconnection.com

System Of A Down celebrate the release of “Hypnotize” this week with an in-store signing at the Times Square Virgin Megastore and an MTV $2 Bill show at Webster Hall. The show is being taped for air.
www.systemofadown.com

Cypress Hill plans to celebrate this great feat with “Greatest Hits From The Bong,” set for a Dec 13

release. The collection will include fan faves, "How I Could Just Kill A Man," "Hand On The Pump,"

and "Insane In The Brain" as well as two new numbers, "The Only Way" and "EZ Come EZ Go."

Dude.

Travis 06. Brit darlings Travis have some 20 new songs in the can for a new record being recorded

under the tutelage of producer Nigel Godrich. Only one is a left over from sessions the band did

with Brian Eno last year.

If its too loud. San Francisco City officials were inundated with noise complaints from residents after the sold-out Rolling Stones' show there. The bill featuring the Stones and Metallica (I don’t know why either) left windows and floors of nearby homes rattling.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Thank you for your continued support.

The Week in Dirt
Posted: Weds, Nov 16
Coldplay across America, genesis of Genesis returns

Coldplay announced details of the second leg of its current road trip the band's calling the “Twisted Logic” tour. With Fiona Apple scheduled to warm up the first half running through March 5 in Tampa, former Verve singer Richard Ashcroft will join on for the second leg starting March 20 in Cleveland. Coldplay, with Ashcroft in tow, touch down at Manchester’s Verizon Wireless Arena on April 3. Tickets are on sale Nov 19.
www.ticketmaster.com

With the recent success of classic rock band reunions like Cream and Pink Floyd, is Genesis closer to getting the original band back together? Seems vocalist Peter Gabriel, the lone hold out in any reunion, is coming around to the idea. In a recent interview, Peter reportedly said about the band, “we're going to have the conversation." It has been a long time coming. Aside from a one-off 1982 show, Peter has not been on stage with the band since its 1975 “Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” tour wrapped. Drummer-turned-lead singer Phil Collins has expressed much interest in a reunion and is happy to resume his place behind the kit for Peter to be up-front once again. We’ll see.

White Stripes will issue new EP, “Walking with a Ghost," named after the Tegan and Sara song they cover. Live versions of previously unreleased songs, "Screwdriver," "The Denial Twist" and "As Ugly As I Seem," also appear. The “Ghost" is now available for download via iTunes. The EP is available everywhere Dec 6.
www.itunes.com

Speaking of iTunes, the recent David Bowie/Arcade Fire live teaming from the September Fashion Rocks concert at Radio City Music Hall is available for download for this week only through iTunes.

Korn is getting ready for the release of new disc, “See You On The Other Side,” with some December shows including two dates on the “Masters of Horror” tour along side the likes of Mudvayne, Sevendust, and 10 Years on December 17 and 18 in Texas. “See You On The Other Side” drops on Dec 6.
www.korn.com

What’s left for a massive rock and roll star like Sir Paul McCartney? Space. Sir Paul delivered the first-ever live music wake-up call to the International Space Station crew located some 220 miles above Earth on Sunday (Nov 13). The set list, so to speak, included "Good Day Sunshine" and "English Tea."

One of Iceland’s most amazing exports, aside from Bjork of course, Sigur Ros kicks off its North American tour on Feb 6 in Portland, Maine. The very next day, Feb 7, the band plays the Orpheum in Boston. I’ll be there.

Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy! That’s what the Queen of England will be shouting on Nov 21 when Ozzy Osbourne performs at this year's Royal Variety Performance at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre. He’ll surely be on his best behavior!

tHe RoCk DiRt
Nov 9, 2005
Jack White teaching the world to sing

Coke and a Smile. Jack White of the White Stripes has in deed been commissioned to write a jingle for Coca-Cola. He told British magazine “NME,” I've been offered the opportunity to write a song in a way which interests me as a songwriter. I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial."

Dammit, grown up. Its celebrity and maturity that has torn Blink-182 apart. Tom DeLonge cites each as the cause for the band’s indefinite hiatus. That and they realized they were in Blink 182. The band’s presumed swan song, “Greatest Hits,” dropped this week and features the new song "Not Now."

Andrew W.K. has a pantload of new material ready for a new record. Problem is has no one to put it out since he and former label Island went their separate ways last year.
W.K. DVD "Who Knows?" drops Jan 24.

Who doesn’t love an Speedwagon tune from time to time? Beside me. At the risk of becoming the Axl Rose of classic rock (his words), Reo Speedwagon leader Kevin Cronin says the band’s long-awaited studio record, “The Brotherhood,” is due in June 2006.

F**kin Awesome. An independent movie distributor bought the rights to “Awesome: I F**kin' Shot That,” the Beastie Boys documentary filmed in October 2004 at a show in New York. More than 50 fans and friends of the band shot the footage using hand-held cameras. Beasties’ own Adam Yauch acted as director. Its expected to be released spring of 2006.

Depeche Mode was forced to cancel the launch of its North American tour last week in Fort Lauderdale for concerns over power outages and curfew restrictions in the wake of Hurricane Wilma.

Victory Records band Bayside suffered a tragic loss when drummer John "Beatz” Holahan was killed in a van accident in the early hours of Halloween. The band was traveling at around 3am when the van they were riding in flipped over on I-80 outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. www.victoryrecords.com

Staind’s latest “Chapter V” will be reissued in limited edition CD/DVD form on Nov 15 to include five bonus songs: “The Beetlejuice Song” recorded on the Howard Stern Show, “It's Been Awhile" (acoustic), "Novocaine," "Reply," and "Let It Out" as well as a 40 minute bonus DVD with full band documentary and a 36-page book.

What’s that funk? Lenny Kravitz is being sued for an unfortunate plumbing problem at his New York City penthouse. Seems it’s the second time his toilet has become “blocked, clogged and congested." An insurance company is claiming Lenny is guilty of “negligence and carelessness" and owes more than $9,000 for repairs to a loft located several floors below his. Lenny was sued previously for over $300,000 by the insurer of another tenant in the building for water damages caused by the leaky plumbing. That’s some bad ass crap.

The Rock Dirt
Published: Nov 1, 2005
Osbournes to our emotional rescue?

Rock ’n’ roll all-stars unite by way of Eric Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven.” Executive producer Sharon Osbourne rallied a litany of names to donate their vocal stylings to the remake including the following: Ozzy, of course, Steven Tyler, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Pink, Gwen Stefani and Scott Weiland, while Velvet Revolver handles the music. Proceeds from all iTunes downloads will go to the “Save the Children” charity, with all money raised meant for survivors of last December’s tsunami, as well as Hurricane Katrina.
www.iTunes.com

Mötley fans are chomping at the bit as they wait for the movie version of the band’s collective tell-all, “The Dirt.” Looks like the end is nowhere near, as word came that director David Fincher had to drop out of the project. The band forges ahead, determined to make the movie on the grittiest of terms.

Incubus is getting back to business. Work on the follow-up to last year’s “A Crow Left of the Murder” gets underway after taking a much needed respite from the grind of being a platinum-selling rock ’n’ roll band. The band also wants to produce a movie to go along with the new record. What a concept.

Here’s a concept: The Rolling Stones will release a rarities record via Starbucks and Virgin Records next month. “Rarities 1971-2003” is due Nov. 22 in both locations.

Deftones are slaving over a hot console as work on their fifth record continues. Singer Chino Moreno is devoting the next month to recording vocals. Though no word on even a tentative release date, the band is set to headline next year’s “Taste of Chaos” tour. www.deftones.com

Where are they now? Try jail. Bigmouth Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille will spend the next 80 or so days in a Los Angeles jail after pleading no contest to driving while intoxicated. In addition, C.C. (given name – Bruce Johannesson) was awarded five years probation, a $1,000 fine and ordered to give up his license for a year. Nothing but a good time.

As much as I love to report on ’80s metal happenings, this one, not so much. Brent Muscat, guitarist for Faster Pussycat, confirmed that he is suffering from oral cancer. In a post via MetalSludge.com (one of my favorite sites, by the way), he asks, “If you are religious please say a prayer for me, and if you’re not – just wish me well.” And we do. www.metalsludge.com

Gavin Rossdale’s post-Bush outfit, Institute, has gotten the OK from U2 and has been invited to open a series of dates on its current North American tour.

Axl Rose was recently voted as second “Coolest Old Person” in a poll conducted by Ellegirl magazine. Axl’s only about 43, but has been getting on our nerves for what seems like an eternity. When we’ll see that supposed new Guns n’ Roses record is anyone’s guess. Perhaps by then there will be democracy in China.