DAVID COVERDALE is releasing a new album....try not to break your back falling over backwards on that one. This is the first little piece of information since Coverdale was caught up in the VAN HALEN rumor mill. It seems the upcoming album will now be released under the WHITESNAKE moniker and is due for release sometime in August/September. ..Now that's a shock, isn't it? And here I was, thinking that there were millions upon millions of fans waiting for a new David Coverdale solo disc.
THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES were forced to cancel a performance at the Whisky A Go-Go over the weekend when a water main and sewage pipe erupted in West Hollywood and flooded the legendary club with water. The band, which has just released its newest album, "Pay Attention," was in town to play a special show for Los Angeles radio station KROQ on May 13. That gig has now been rescheduled to May 25 and moved to the Roxy Theater, as the Whisky is already booked for that make-up date. After the Whisky A Go-Go show was officially canceled around 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, the Bosstones stuck around the club, hanging out with the 300 fans that had already lined-up outside the venue and signing autographs.
GENE SIMMONS will produce two films, both thrillers, for Interlight Pictures. The first, The November Files, is about a young lawyer framed for murdering his family who must fight to prove his innocence, and the second is Tennessee Waltz, about a former detective investigating his brother's murder. To early to tell whether Simmons will appear in either of the films. (insert sarcasm here) Personally, I doubt he'll ever achieve the glory he did with his role in the George Clooney epic, Red Surf.
THE LAWNDARTS' "Jersey Shore" is going to be featured on Time Bomb Surfboards' new surf video titled "What Exit?". It features NJ surfers surfing in NJ and around the world. There are other cool NJ bands on the soundtrack, like Stick Figure Suicide, and Blu Channel. Go to www.timebombsurf.com and find out more. Also, "I Wanna Be A Spaceman" is featured on the new Triple X Records punk comp STRANGLEHOLD! 21 cool unsigned bands. Get it online at Tower Records.com for $7.99, or at a store near you, along with their latest release, VOLUME II.
Drummer TROY LUCCKETTA has joined former TESLA bandmate BRIAN WHEAT in SOULMOTOR, now recording album #2 for July release. Also due out in July is the debut from BAR 7, JEFF KEITH and TOMMY SKEOCH's band, entitled The World is a Freak. Pre-orders are being taken now at www.Bar7.com, and the band will be on the road with L.A. GUNS this summer.
MOTORHEAD hits the road to support new disc We Are Motorhead on May 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada with NASHVILLE PUSSY in support. The tour winds up June 28 in New York City.
With SEBASTIAN BACH headed to Broadway, guitarist PAUL CROOK--recently of Bach's band--will return to ANTHRAX for the summer run with MÖTLEY CRÜE and MEGADETH. More importantly, with Sebastian Bach headed to Broadway, are the producers of "Jekyll & Hyde" prepared to start living out of a refrigerator box when ticker sales plummet?
STUCK MOJO's latest CD, Declaration Of A Headhunter, will be released June 13.
After months of relentless touring and virtually no help from mainstream radio or video outlets, the masked metal madmen of SLIPKNOT have hit platinum. The Des Moines, Iowa band's 1999 self-titled debut album was recently certified platinum by the RIAA after selling more than 1 million copies in the U.S. (that doesn't necessarily mean that one million units were sold...because the SOUNDSCAN numbers could be substantially less) While "Rolling Stone" magazine, "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," and other mainstream outlets have picked up on the band, Slipknot owes a good chunk of its swelling fan base to its road work, especially the coming-out party staged on last summer's Ozzfest. However, anyone who has caught the group live knows that the emotional give-and-take it experiences with its fans packs more of a punch than your average rock show. "The way I see it and the way all the guys in the band see it, when you go out and speak to a kid one-on-one and you speak in his language through songs about what that guy experiences day in and day out, that's what I think makes it," says drummer Joey (a.k.a. #1).
BUCKCHERRY is one of the bands on the Road Trip soundtrack, covering DRAMARAMA's "Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)." Also featured on the CD, out May 23: KID ROCK's "E.M.S.P." and TWISTED SISTER's "I Wanna Rock."
Rap-metal hybridists FULL METAL RACKET premiered their Playboy Playmate-decorated video for "Paid in Full," the first video from the American Psycho soundtrack, before their show at Scream in Los Angeles on Monday night. The band will be part of this summer's Warped Tour, which kicks off June 23 in Fresno, California.
