Monday, November 7, 2011

Music News For November 7th, 2011

Now the Lennon article was too good to pass up this morning so I had to post that instantly.  But for yo avid followers of AFGM, here is what's been making [AFGM] headlines:


Adam Lambert joined members of Queen on stage last night at the European Music Awards at Belfast's Odyssey Arena:



Lambert performed an eight minute melody featuring The Show Must Go On, We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions.


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In Flames and Trivium‘s (rumored) co-headlining run will have direct support from Veil Of Maya and Kyng. 


Dates for the trek will (apparently) be:

01/12 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
01/13 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
01/14 Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
01/15 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero
01/17 Ybor City, FL – The Ritz Ybor
01/18 Atlanta, GA – Center Stage
01/20 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Ballroom
01/21 Austin, TX – Emo’s East
01/22 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
01/24 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
01/25 Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings
01/27 Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Events Centre
01/28 Calgary, AB – MacEwan Hall Ballroom
01/31 Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
02/01 Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre
02/02 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory Concert House
02/03 Seattle, WA – Showbox SODO
02/04 Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory Concert House
02/06 San Francisco, CA -The Regency Ballroom
02/07 Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theatre
02/08 Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
02/09 Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
02/10 Denver, CO – The Summit Music Hall
02/11 Kansas City, MO – The Beaumont Club
02/13 Cleveland, OH – House Of Blues
02/14 Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
02/15 Montreal, QC – Metropolis
02/17 Worcester, MA – The Palladium
02/18 New York, NY – Best Buy Theater
02/19 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
02/21 Chicago, IL – House Of Blues

An official statement is to be made sometime this week.  Keep checking!



You can grab tickets at the most convenient location... Ticketmaster.


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02/24 Louisville, KY – Expo Five

This is the initial date for the rumored tour of Children Of Bodom, Eluveitie, Revocation and Threat Signal, being planned for early next year.


Keep checking back as we plan to keep an eye on this tour.


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Radiohead have announced dates for the first leg of their tour.  This will mark th first time the band has toured North America since 2008. 


"Other Lives" will be the opening act for this run of shows. While more dates are to be announced, The following dates will go on sale on November 12th.

2/27 Miami, FL - American Airlines Arena
2/29 Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
3/1 Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
3/3 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
3/5 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
3/7 Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center
3/9 St. Louis, MO - Scotttrade Center
3/11 Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
3/13 Broomfield, CO - 1stBank Center
3/15 Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena

You can grab tickets at the most convenient location... Ticketmaster.


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Glenn Danzig is in some hot water from his apparent 'rock star moment' over the weekend.  The front man was set to headline the black stage on Friday night for the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin Texas, but had a long list of complaints to add to the rider.  Here is what FFF Festival organizers are claiming occurred:

"Those that are hating could NOT be more wrong. Yes, someone has your money and ripped you off. His name is Glenn. Stop by his house in LA with some kitty litter in trade for your refund, but we still had to pay him and he didn't deserve it after what he pulled. Here is how it went down...check the timeline:

-glenn flies in this morning and says he has a cold and doesn't want feel like playing the show. he demands french onion soup and vitamins brought to his hotel suite. he wants to soup now and wants it hot. we get it.

-glenn says it's freezing in austin and he can't go on. says it's going to be 28 degrees tonight and he won't perform (keep in mind, it's currently 71 and sunny with a night forecast of maybe 50+). he says we have to move the show/festival inside if we want him to play (obviously, that's not possible).

-we rent stage heaters (no other bands, public enemy, mcd, passion pit, etc need or want heaters on stage...it's warm up there and not cold out) for glenn per demand, as well as bring in an onsite doctor to make him happy and be there if his cold doesn't go away.

-agents and managers assure us he's going to play now.

-glenn's band/crew arrive before him in the afternoon and load gear. they said it all works, they get up the danzig banner, check lights, are happy.

-glenn arrives at 7:45 (half hour before showtime, they go on at 8:15 exactly and have a 90 min set...park curfew by the city/police is 10pm sharp)...when he arrives, he says he's not going to play. says he doesn't like how the banners are hung on stage and doesn't like the lighting or stage size (all this was advanced in email and phone well in advance and the band/crew loaded in mid day and were happy with it and said it would work...stage wasn't small at all). he wouldn't leave his trailer to go look at the stage, though, so the lighting company drew up specs for him to look at of the stage lighting 50 feet from his trailer and brought it to him to look over and prove him wrong. 

-in the meantime, glenn's bodyguard gets pushy (literally) with murder city devils manager and tells them they can't have their friends watch MCD from stage and wants them to cut their set. kicks them off stage and gets physical with the band and stafff....oh, also danzig says he's just as big as slayer and slayer is playing a bigger stage on sunday and that's bullshit and wants to play the same stage slayer is playing...or won't play. makes him look bad.

-it's now 8:15 and time for them to go on. the band is ready, corpse make ups done, guitars tunes. glenn says he's not playing and that it's too cold outside. he said big stages should have windscreen so wind can't blow on him from the side. the stage managers then goes and gets tarps and tarp the entire side of the stage so now wind will hit him.

-it's now 8:40. we explain that it's cutting into the set and he's going to have cut the 90 min set if he doesn't play soon, as park curfew is 10. he says he doesn't feel like playing. says "i got a deathbug. if i go on stage and get sick, i'll die. i'm not getting sicker for this show" (NOTE: he totally looks and seems fine...no coughing, no paleness, no vomiting, just some balding and a gut, from what i can tell). we get the Dr and he says he can do a b12 shot or anything he needs if he feels bad...danzig says he only treats illnesses naturally, so won't do that. we finally get him to agree to play and have already informed his crew that it's only 60 mins (9pm at this point) and they start cutting some songs from the set list, so they can still do misfits, but obviously didn't cut enough. 

-they went on almost and hour late due to the HANDS DOWN biggest rock star moment we've ever dealt with and then he tries to start a riot and blames the fest, the city, the cops and everyone, but himself. goes backstage and tries to fight a few ppl and get in the van and leaves. 
the end....

we're bummed to. we wanted to hear Skulls." -FFF Festival

Now I realize all sides of the story haven't been disclosed yet.  Once we find out from Glenn what his side of the story is, we will post here.

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So some names have started to fly around in regards to the theme song for the newest addition of the James Bond films "Skyfall".  Scheduled for a November, 2012 release, both Adele and Michael Buble have been rumored to be making their vocal appearances in the film.  Not much more information have been circulating about the music so rumors are what we have to go on.  Hopefully, some more details are released soon.

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Looky looky what was announced today as well...AWWWWW YEAH!!!


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