Live Crowes DVD...

From Billboard.com...

Black Crowes Prep Live DVD
Friday, January 20, 2006
The live footage shot by the Black Crowes during a multiple-night August 2005 stand at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium will finally see the light of day this spring. Due March 21 via Eagle Vision, the DVD "Freak 'N' Roll ... Into the Fog" rounds up 19 tracks from those shows, four of which were previously released in their entirety by Instant Live.

Songs are drawn from all the Crowes' six studio releases, from hits like "Remedy," "Hard To Handle," "She Talks to Angels" and "Sting Me" to more obscure fare like "Let Me Share the Ride," "Sunday Night Buttermilk Waltz" and opener "(Only) Halfway to Everywhere." The show ends with a cover of the Band's "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down."

The Crowes have been off the road since their New Year's Eve show at New York's Madison Square Garden, but will return to live duty Jan. 29 in Orlando, Fla. The group will then pause until a March 12 appearance at the Langerado Music Festival in Sunrise, Fla., ahead of a five-date swing through London (March 18-19) and Amsterdam (March 22-24).

Here is the track list for "Freak 'N' Roll ... Into the Fog":

"(Only) Halfway to Everywhere"
"Sting Me"
"No Speak No Slave"
"Soul Singing"
"Welcome to the Goodtimes"
"Jealous Again"
"Space Captain"
"My Morning Song"
"Sunday Night Buttermilk Waltz"
"Cursed Diamond"
"She Talks to Angels"
"Wiser Time"
"Non Fiction"
"Seeing Things"
"Hard To Handle"
"Let Me Share the Ride"
"Mellow Down Easy"
"Remedy"
"The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down"

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The Flaming Lips...

From Billboard.com:

Flaming Lips Reveal "At War With the Mystics" Track List
Friday, January 20, 2006
The Flaming Lips have set the track list for their upcoming album, "At War With the Mystics." Due April 4 via Warner Bros., the 12-track set is led by the single "The W.A.N.D.," which is available now from leading digital download stores.

In terms of an overall sound for the project, Coyne said, "There are some tracks we've delved into production-wise, where we're trying to get some of that heavy rock'n'roll with heavy guitar riffs, but not just to be aggressive. On the last couple of records, we've tried to be more expressive in beautiful ways. But sometimes, volume and intensity are great too."

"At War With the Mystics" will also be available as a special edition with a bonus DVD featuring extra tracks, videos and a 5.1 audio mix. The same treatment is being afforded to the Lips' 1999 album "The Soft Bulletin," which will be reissued Jan. 31 via Warner Bros.


Here is the track list for "At War With the Mystics":

"The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
"Free Radicals"
"The Sound of Failure/It's Dark...Is it Always This Dark??"
"My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion"
"Vein of Stars"
"The Wizard Turns On..."
"It Overtakes Me/The Stars Are So Big, I Am So Small...Do I Stand a Chance?"
"Mr. Ambulance Driver"
"Haven't Got a Clue"
"The W.A.N.D."
"Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung"
"Goin' On"

B.B. King...

Mr. BB King will be launching his last world tour this year according to him and his publicist. Considering Mr. King has been touring every year for sixty years, he might just be due to take some time off. From Yahoo! News:

LOS ANGELES - While other 80-year-olds might dust off their rockers, blues dynamo B.B. King will be rocking and rolling when he launches what he says will be his final world tour later this year.

King will begin an international "Farewell Tour" in March, part of a domestic tour that starts Feb. 16 in Chicago, King's publicist, Jerry Digney, said in a news release Wednesday.

King said he will continue to make U.S. concert appearances after the tour.

"I hardly remember I'm 80 unless I have to run up a hill or stairs," the singer and guitarist said . "As long as people buy my records and come to my concerts, I don't see anything else I'd like to do."

King has toured every year for 60 years, Digney said Thursday.

The musician celebrated his 80th birthday in September and released an album, "B.B. King & Friends — 80," featuring Eric Clapton, Elton John, Sheryl Crow and other musicians.

A $10 million B.B. King museum is slated to open later this year in the Grammy winner's native Mississippi.

"I think the clock is ticking, yes," King said. "In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of (his) years. I think I'm in the November of my years."

"Bloody 'ell"...

Well, it's finally happened. The most overrated band of all time is being inducted in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, The Sex Pistols. Here's their official releases:

-Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

That's it. One record that supposedly "changed music forever". I say that's a bunch of "bollocks". These guys were a manufactured music act with big mouths and little in the way of talent. When you hire a pyschotic bass player (Sid Vicious) based on his "look" and "punk attitude" rather than his playing, I can't take you seriously. They actually had to turn his amp down and sometimes off altogether for live shows. That's how bad he was. It's amazing to me that this band get's any modicum of respect at all. When you consider the late, great Miles Davis is going in to the hall alongside these pretenders, it makes me sick to my stomach. It's a complete slap in the face to all the other real bands that are going in this year, Black Sabbath and Lynyrd Skynyrd among them. To think they'll be honored in a place where Dylan, Hendrix and The Beatles are enshrined is nothing short of a scandal.

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See you in California...

I'm there. From NME.Com today...

Smashing Pumpkins are strongly rumoured to be reforming this summer for live shows - with Coachella touted as their comeback. Singer Billy Corgan has made no secret of the fact he wants to reform his old band, and NME.COM has learned the band are set to make their comeback at the Californian festival on April 30. Writing recently on his webpage, Corgan hinted reformation plans were coming along. "The surprise I have in store for you all will be announced soon enough," he said. "Hold on to your horses. After all, good things surely comes to those who wait....Don't you just love the suspense?"Corgan remains friends with former Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, and is also in contact with the band's second bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, having collaborated with her on her forthcoming second solo album. The first rumours of the band reforming came when the singer took out an advert in the local Chicago Tribune newspaper where he said "his heart" remains with his old band.He wrote: "When I played the final Smashing Pumpkins show on the night of December 2, 2000, I walked off the stage believing that I was forever leaving a piece of my life behind. I naively tried to start a new band, but found that my heart wasn't in it. I moved away to pursue a love that I once had but got lost. So I moved back home to heal what was broken in me, and to my surprise I found what I was looking or. I found that my heart is in Chicago, and that my heart is in the Smashing Pumpkins."For a year now I have walked around with a secret, a secret I chose to keep. But now I want you to be among the first to know that I have made plans to renew and revive the Smashing Pumpkins. I want my band back, and my songs, and my dreams. In this desire I feel I have come home again."Smashing Pumpkins split in 2000 after the release of their final album 'Machina'. Following the split Corgan formed Zwan, who split after one record.