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Bassist Jason Newsted toured, recorded and partied with Metallica 24-7 for some 13 years. After quitting the band in February, at least partly because of a ban on side projects, he suddenly found the flexibility to work on multiple projects with different artists. Newsted, 38, is producing an album by punk-metal behemoth Speedealer and anticipating the major-label debut of his trio EchoBrain. Toward the end of the year, he’ll begin producing New York noise-metal band Dragpipe before entering the studio with Voivod to play bass on the band’s allegedly final album. And if he has time, he’ll play drums with… Read more »

Los Lobos have entered the studio with legendary producer John Leckie to record their eleventh studio album and their first recording of new material since 1999’s This Time. The group plans to release the record in early-2002, to coincide with their twenty-fifth anniversary. The past year has found the group looking backwards with the reissue of Del Este de Los Angeles, their 1977 debut recording of traditional material and their second retrospective, El Cancionero: Mas y Mas, a four-disc compilation that spanned their career. The new album will be the group’s first recording without the production team of Mitchell Froom… Read more »

There might be a better setting for a Tool concert, but it doesn’t exist in waking life: The prehistoric, rugged beauty of Red Rocks Amphitheater felt almost threatening when serving as the physical backdrop for the band’s volcanic performance on Friday night, which opened a brief tour with prog-rock veterans King Crimson. Flanked by rock formations pushed up from the bubbling earth more than 60 million years ago (and donning a bald head, sporadic body paint and a black leather bodice), Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan looked like an androgynous ambassador of the apocalypse. Judging by the capacity crowd –… Read more »

The first-ever live album from Simon and Garfunkel’s heyday as a duo will be released next year. The untitled collection was initially planned as a single-disc that compiled a series of 1967 concerts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, but plans for the album may now extend into 1968 with some additional shows outside Simon and Garfunkel’s hometown. The material falls between Simon and Garfunkel’s third release, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966) and Bookends (1968), which proved to be their second-to-last release, before they split in 1970. Eleven years later, they reunited for a concert… Read more »

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are helping assemble the first live album from Simon and Garfunkel’s prime years. The album, tentatively titled Live From New York City and due early next year, was recorded in 1967 at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center while the duo were supporting the 1966 record Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. Both Simon and Garfunkel are involved in choosing songs for the disc, and while there’s no track list yet, it will likely contain such folk-rock hits as “The Sounds of Silence,” “I Am a Rock” and “Homeward Bound,” a spokesperson for the project said. Simon… Read more »

Synonymous with the name, Dead Kennedys have always been controversy – beginning with their moniker and continuing with their vigorous punk activism that was an authority in the early San Francisco punk scene. However this time around, the controversy concerns not strife with the government, but a battle between the former bandmates themselves. An upcoming release of live Dead Kennedys’ recordings called Mutiny on the Bay has exacerbated the punk pioneers’ state of mutiny from outspoken ex-frontman Jello Biafra. While Kennedys’ guitarist East Bay Ray, bassist Klaus Fluoride and drummer J.H. Peligro are endorsing the latest goods, Biafra is in… Read more »

For the first time in almost four years, one of Australia’s most successful rock bands, INXS, is playing a few shows in North America. But the crowd at their recent Los Angeles stop consisted of about 70 Rhino Records employees and a few reporters, just two of the band’s six members were on stage, and the bespectacled singer looked nothing like Michael Hutchence, the group’s charismatic vocalist. Hutchence committed suicide in November 1997, and his bandmates are having a hard time deciding whether to carry on. In the meantime, they have released a two-CD anthology, “Shine Like It Does,” via… Read more »

Ben Folds fans will want to circle September 11th on their calendars. The same day the expatriate piano-man drops his solo debut, Rockin’ the Suburbs, will see an augmented reissue of his ex-outfit’s biggest record. Whatever and Ever Amen, originally released by the Ben Folds Five in 1997, is getting a fresh pressing replete with four rare gems, two from the ill-fated final BFF sessions. The album spawned the band’s biggest hit with the reflective ballad “Brick.” Those two tracks, one penned and sung by bassist Robert Sledge (“Prince Charming”) and the other written by drummer Darren Jessee but sung… Read more »

Pete Townshend has wrapped work on the third installment in his Scoop series of demos and outtakes. The Who guitarist has sent the recordings to be mastered by Jon Astley, who co-produced Who Are You as well as several Who reissues and has also done production work for Eric Clapton. The two-disc set is “less really old demos than usual perhaps,” Townshend wrote of the album on his Web site. “There is a lot of music from the last ten years.” Townshend also calls Scoop 3 the “only new creative release I’ve completed since Psychoderelict in 1992.” He claims that… Read more »

To commemorate their 20th anniversary, Pet Shop Boys will reissue five of their original studio albums – “Please,” “Actually,” “Introspective,” “Behaviour” and “Very” – on July 3, 2001. Each has been re-mastered and will be accompanied by a bonus CD in a custom slipcase. For the five bonus CDs, each titled “Further Listening,” the British duo have compiled a compelling selection of mixes, hits, previously unheard versions and b-sides that, together with the re-mastered studio albums, documents their career from 1984 until 1994. In addition, each album comes with a bonus 36-page booklet featuring full lyrics, rare archive photographs and… Read more »