They’ve taken their fair share of critical digs in their home and native land over the years. But Windsor-reared rockers The Tea Party have always been curiously huge in Australia where, perhaps not coincidentally, singer/songwriter and guitarist Jeff Martin currently makes his home.
Now, as the reformed prog-rock trio prepares its 13th tour of Down Under, they are engaging in an intriguing and potentially lucrative experiment: asking their Aussie fans to underwrite a double-live album via pre-order which will be recorded during July concerts.
It’s no secret that current and former members of Guns N’ Roses – particularly singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash – harbor acrimonious feelings, but this seems extreme: Britain’s NME is reporting that fans attending GN’R’s current tour wearing Slash T-shirts are being told by security to either remove the shirts or are denied entry to the show.
Great news, Beatles fans! The whimsical, colourful and classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine starring the Beatles, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray and is hitting shelves June 5 with the film’s repackaged soundtrack reissued on the same day.
We here at InMusic count ourselves among the planet's biggest fans of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, so we are thrilled to be able to share four promotional videos as we count down to the release date. Check them out below. Be sure to share a link on Facebook!
It appears to be a bad week to be a keyboardist in a rock and roll band.
On the heels of news that Procol Harum leader Gary Brooker suffered a seriously fall in South Africa earlier this week, leading to cancelled shows, comes new that Michael Bluestein, keyboardist with arena-rockers Foreigner, has been diagnosed with cancer.
Finally, a voice of reason amid all this sudden – and for my money, crazy – talk of reviving dead performers using hologram technology. Olivia Harrison, wife of late Beatles star George Harrison, has said she would not consent to allowing the technology to bring her husband “back to life” for live shows, Beatles reunions or otherwise.
Once again we are left to ask: is there anything Steven Tyler can’t do?
The Aerosmith rock god, American Idol judge, memoirist and fashionista is now set to add voice-over artist to his resume with news that he will join an all-star cast including Beyoncé Knowles, Pitbull, SNL star Jason Sudeikis, Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried and Jackass Johnny Knoxville in a new animated movie from 20th Century Fox, called Epic.
Anyone who listens to classic rock radio will instantly know the mournful, organ-drenched ballad "Whiter Shade of Pale" from 1967 and likely also "Conquistador" from 1972, both mega-hits from famed British prog rockers Procol Harum, who continue to tour.
The band has just been forced to cancel the remainder of its "British Invasion Tour" of South Africa along with the Moody Blues and 10cc after founder and frontman Gary Brooker injured himself. The fall came on Brooker’s 67th birthday (May 29).
Anyone who saw the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster knows Metallica have a highly developed whiny side, a collective trait that also spurred their embarrassing and ultimately pointless assault on file-sharing company Napster at the dawn of the 00s. But this latest claim will strike most folks as beyond the pale even for the Bay Area rock brawlers.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, guitarist Kirk Hammett claims the quartet can't afford not to tour because they don't make enough money from royalties. Hammett added that, although the band would like to be able to spend more time with their families, they simply can't afford to.
It was only a matter of time before the bright lights over at Funny or Die got around to skewering the celebrity judges on American Idol, The Voice and X Factor. But who knew they'd command such talent to do it?
Witness as classic rocker Meat Loaf, alt-rockers Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction) and Serj Tankian (System of a Down), pop stars Debbie Gibson and Natalie Imbruglia and YouTube phenom Rebecca Black poke fun at Steven Tyler, Randy Jackson, Adam Levine and the rest.
If old age was created for nurturing regrets, then Irish-born musician and activist Bob Geldof is well on his way to embracing his destiny.
The 61-year-old former Boomtown Rats crooner and Live Aid founder says he is convinced he could have enjoyed a solo career on the scale of Sting and Paul Weller if his commitment to fundraising hadn't got in the way.
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