No Rolling Stones Reunion On SNL Finale
When NBC announced that Mick Jagger will both be hosting and performing on Saturday Night Live’s season finale (on May 19th), Stones fans couldn’t help but start hoping for the chance to see the band reunited. But as luck would have it, what the fans got instead was something similar to what Axl Rose did when GNR was inducted into the RnR HoF: a boycott.
In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine, Keith Richards said that he won’t be taking part in the TV show’s special episode. “I spoke to Mick and he said it’s something that he said yes to many months ago, so he’s just doing it,” Richards says. “He’s on his own.”
So is there really no more chance of seeing the two performing together? Well, not that I want to get everybody’s hopes up but there was this moment when Richards suddenly showed up and joined Jagger during a concert in New York back in 2001 without any announcement. So I guess we’ll really just have to wait and see.
Listen to Garbage’s New Album, Not Your Kind of People
After seven long years of being out of sight, alternative band Garbage will finally release their new album. The quartet’s latest LP Not Your Kind of People will be out this May 15. You can stream their new record in Spin.com.
Garbage’s last album release Bleed Like Me was in 2005. The group is composed of Shirley Manson on vocals, guitar, Steve Marker on guitar and keyboards, Duke Erikson on bass and Butch Vig (producer of Nirvana’s Nevermind) on drums and percussion.
Foo Fighters’ Unreleased ‘Million-Dollar Demo’ Songs Leaked
In case some of you missed it, some unheard versions of two of the Foo Fighters’ songs have surfaced online just a little over 3 days ago. The songs Have It All and Come Back were part of the now known discarded album of the Foo Fighters that was dubbed as the ‘Million-Dollar Demo,’ which ended up being scrapped and re-recorded into what then led to One by One, the band’s fourth studio LP.
Fans all over have been exchanging opinions and debating over which version sounded better: the officially released version or the unreleased demo version. Listen to the two songs below and judge for yourselves.
Have It All:
Come Back:
New Alice in Chains Album In the Works; Guitarist Merits a Stevie Ray Vaughan Award in L.A.
Alice in Chains’ guitarist Jerry Cantrell, who will be given a Stevie Ray Vaughan Award by MAP/MusiCares, announces that the band will hit the studio to record new materials for their followup album Black Gives Way to Blue. According to him, the next album will be the band’s next step as the last one was a goodbye to their late frontman Layne Staley.
Says Cantrell, “It‘s time to get to work and the material is really interesting, the body of work that we’ve done”.
Though he’s not sure when will it be out, he’s hoping for a release later this year or early next year.
On receiving the award, Cantrell will join the likes of Alice Cooper, Anthony Keidis of Red Hot Chili Peppers, fellow Seattle rocker Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, James Hetfield of Metallica and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode for the support of MusiCares MAP Fund and commitment to help other drug addicts with their recovery.
No Doubt to Release First Album in a Decade
California-based pop/rock/ska band No Doubt will release their long-anticipated album this September. The upcoming album, which has no title yet, will be the band’s first release in a decade following 2001’s Rock Steady.
The quartet, which led the ska revival in the ‘90s, is formed of singer Gwen Stefani, Tom Dumont on guitar, Tony Kanal on bass and Adrian Young on bass. They started out in 1986 and rose to fame with their hit single Don’t Speak on the groundbreaking album Tragic Kingdom. They’ve been recording handful of tracks since 2011.
Here’s their announcement that will excite all the fans.
