Retirement isn’t easy for anyone, especially when you’re giving up thousands of screaming fans and touring the nation. It seems like every year there is another tour announced that makes
“The only thing I’ve heard from ’13’ is maybe 40 seconds of the first song, and then I turned it off,” Ward says.
Black Sabbath meets Carl Palmer? It almost happened.
13 is a classic Sabbath album in every sense of the word. The recording features eight songs that come in at just under, sixty minutes, just like a record from the golden age of rock. The album features a blues drenched metal sound that is the closest sounding recording to the band’s first album, that the group has ever produced. Harkening back to the American black blues sounds of the fifties and sixties that influenced all of the top English rock bands (The Stones, Led Zeppelin) of their generation, there is even a bit of harmonica on one track. But make no mistake this is a heavy metal album in every sense of the word
The Roots drummer will teach a course at NYU.
Jimmy Coulas survived the evacuation and filed this report from Chicago’s Lollapalooza festival.
Jimmy Coulas lists five bands Lollapalooza attendees need to see.
Each week we round up tour date announcements from the past seven days in this handy column.
Osbourne, Iommi, Butler and Ward bring back Black Sabbath.
Cover Wars March Madness rolls on. We’ve had our play-in round and our first full round of 32 covers and we’re left with our Sweet 16. We are in our third year of this tournament and we have just now done the obvious, we have generated an actual bracket so you can visualize how this is all going to go down. Have a look and be sure to vote in all eight matchups.
Matchup #1
Phish debuted this cover at Alpine Valley in the Summer of 1998. As most Phish fans know, there has been one other performance ever and it was the following week at Vernon Downs where the band paired Ramble On with their own Slave To The Traffic Light to close the first set. There are some killer Ramble On Teases in the Slave jam. Source: 8-1-1998
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UPDATE: The text in all the descriptions for Cover Wars March Madness are taken from the original editions which at times – are out of date. As one of our readers pointed out in the previous round – Phish has since performed one more partial performance of Ramble On, and yes – it was pretty terrible.
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Wilco recorded this cover for the 2006 Big Star covers record Big Star Small World. Though never played live by Wilco, the song has made at least 11 appearances at Jeff Tweedy solo shows.
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