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Rock singer Scott Weiland said yesterday (Nov. 18) that he has a publishing deal to write an autobiography, but is feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of chronicling his eventful life to date.

“It’s a weird thing,” the Velvet Revolver frontman told reporters backstage at the American Music Awards. “You make a lot of records, write a lot of songs, but all of a sudden you go into a whole different vein, and it’s a little bit scary to dive into.”

Weiland, 40, said he would collaborate on the project with David Ritz, the “Sexual Healing” lyricist who has co-written autobiographies for the likes of Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and most recently Don Rickles.
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Magnetic Fields have announced details of a new album. ‘Distortion’, the band’s eighth album and first since 2004.

The record will be out on January 14.

Magnetic Fields’ Stephen Merritt has indicated that the album will be louder more gentle previous work.

“I don’t know if anyone has done feedback piano before,” he said in a statement about the album. “The whole record has feedback acoustic piano.
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Before he had hooked up with Clive Davis to transform himself into a dubious version of Tony Bennett…many MANY years before…Rod Stewart was a seriously good rock singer. I don’t mean to imply that his raspy pipes are now shot to hell or anything like that. Rather, I mean that the material he covered, the style of his music and his attitude, made Rod The Mod a force to be reckoned with all those years ago.
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Paul Motian has been a constant and essential feature of the American jazz scene for many years. From his early days as drummer with the Bill Evans Trio through to the mid period of his career, as one third of the Paul Motian Trio he has constantly shown touch and perception in his choice of material and playing partners.

This album, Bill Evans: Tribute to the Great Post-Bop Pianist, recorded in 1990 on Winter & Winter, when he was approaching his sixtieth birthday marks perhaps a highlight in a career that has many highlights.

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People should just know better. In this day and age, you might be able to get away with faking something's provenance for a little while, but with information being so readily accessible and data so easily checked you're going to get caught out one way or another. What's amazing about the circumstances surrounding the supposed lost Luther Allison recording Underground is how close they did come to getting away with it.No one is pointing any fingers at anybody, and maybe it can all be put down to an honest mistake, but recordings claimed to be from a private session Luther Allison did in 1958 seem to really have been made at least ten years later in 1968-69.
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Hailing from the remarkable Nashville rock scene, Framing Hanley debuts their full length CD The Moment. The young rock band may not have been around for long but any listener could be fooled from what they hear. Formed by high school friends just a couple years ago, originally as Ember’s Fade, the band became noticed on the local rock scene and soon were picked up by indie label Silent Majority Group.

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Dr. Donda West, Kanye’s mother, was eulogized and lauded by friends and former colleagues Friday afternoon (November 16) at a memorial service held at Chicago State University, where she was on the faculty for 24 years. Praising her as a mentor, colleague and friend, West — who died on Saturday following surgery — was remembered as an inspiration during a lively event that featured gospel singing, heartfelt reminiscences and pleas for some traditional call-and-response from a colleague who doubles as a preacher.

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Rolling Stones: Under Review 1967-1969 is a 90-minute documentary film that chronicles the turbulent times in which the Rolling Stones transformed from a good cover band into an international sensation. During the second half of the 1960s, the sound of the Rolling Stones changed dramatically with the rise of the songwriting team of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. It also marked the decline and eventual death of co-founder Brian Jones.

» Read the full DVD Review: Rolling Stones - Under Review 1967-1969 article…

A music store not far from me used to put on clinics featuring various rock musicians. It was really a great deal, because your ten dollar ticket could be redeemed for store merchandise. At the time, I was playing in a band and was going through a couple of sets of guitar strings each week. At separate clinics, for slightly more than the price of two packs of Ernie Ball Regular Slinky's, I got to see Blues Saraceno, Carl Palmer, and Terry Bozzio.

» Read the full The Friday Morning Listen: Terry Bozzio - Solo Drum Music article…

Since the dawn of “Pong,” one of the greatest kisses of death for a video game has been the dreaded “inspired by (insert name of popular musical act here)” tag line. This is mainly because popular musical acts don’t know much about making video games, despite what they might think, and despite what everyone close to them might tell them. So they go all-in and dream up a usually convoluted plot in which they a) save the world through the power of their music; b) battle an omnipotent, unilateral government hellbent on destroying their music; or c) take on mystical, supercharged and/or anthropomorphic personae inspired by their music.

» Read the full Wu-Tang’s ‘Shaolin Style’ To Kiss’ ‘Psycho Circus’: Five Awesomely Bad Music-Inspired Video Games article…