Alice Cooper Too Sick To Rock

Cooper is out on the road with his "No More Mr. Nice Guy" summer tour, which launched May 12 and runs through August. The tour runs through South America May 25-June 3, and England & Europe June 7-July 16, before they return to North America again for the month of August. more on this story

Bob Seger Retiring?

(Gibson) Perhaps old time rock and roll can only soothe the soul for so long. Bob Seger has said he might be hanging it up when it comes to touring and recording. The 66-year-old rocker is closing in on the end of a 27-date tour.

"I've been doing this a long time," he told Billboard.com. "I don't know if I want to do this when I'm 67, you know?"

But fear not, Silver Bullet Band fans. Seger and company are considering a final fall tour to hit some of the regions they missed on this spring's trek. "We didn't play anywhere in Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Kentucky... I could go on and on," he said. "There were states we never even got to... And it's going so well and everybody is so positive on it, we are considering maybe two months, like late October to late December, just before Christmas." more on this story

George Clinton Hospitalized

(TMZ) Legendary funkmaster George Clinton -- leader of the Parliament-Funkadelic -- is being hospitalized for an infection in his leg ... TMZ has learned.

Clinton's rep tells us ... 69-year-old George went to see his doctor for a routine check-up when the decision was made to keep him in the facility so Clinton could receive proper treatment for an infection in one of his legs.

The rep adds, "He will be just Fine. Thank You for all your prayers and concern." more on this story

Ozzy Talks Possible Black Sabbath Reunion

(Gibson) As he's said previously, Ozzy Osbourne is hopeful to take part in a Black Sabbath reunion. But, in a new interview, he said he's not sure if it will happen.

"I haven't got a clue," he told QMI Agency. "If they want to call me, they can call me. I never say never. If it works, fine. If it don't, I'll move on. It ain't the end of the world. I ain't gonna get a box of Kleenex and cry my eyes out for the rest of my life."

Still, Ozzy seemed optimistic when talking about the possibility of joining up with Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. "I mean, I would love to do a great album with Black Sabbath. I would love to get the credit we so roundly deserve," he said. "At the same time, the pressure would be really intense. I could go tomorrow and make an album with them, but it wouldn't necessarily be something I would be proud of." more on this story

Judas Priest Won't End With Farewell Tour

(Gibson) The members of Judas Priest met with the press at the Renaissance Hotel at Highland and Hollywood in Lost Angeles this week to announce the band's upcoming Epitaph U.S. tour and formally introduce 31-year-old guitarist Richie Faulkner (Lauren Harris, Dirty Deeds) to the public.

While the tour had been billed at Judas Priest's "farewell tour," members are shifting from that absolute: "It's not the end of the band, by any means," Glenn Tipton said, as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net. "It is our last world tour. It takes a big chunk of your life – 18 months, really, of being out there. We've been doing it for nearly 40 years now. It's not to say that it will be our last shows, and we certainly will [be] – and have been – recording, so chances are that there will be a [new] album as well next year. We would never turn down the appropriate date if we were offered it at some point in the future, but it will be our last world tour…"

When asked about Richie Faulkner's addition to the band, Tipton replied, "…if we hadn't found Richie, I don't think we would be going out [on tour] right now." more on this story

Lenny Kravitz Sets New Album Release

(Gibson) For Lenny Kravitz fans who have eagerly awaited post-It Is Time for a Love Revolution tracks, the wait is over.

Kravitz has announced that his ninth studio album, Black and White America, will drop August 30. The funk-flavored album is Kravitz's first on Atlantic Records/Roadrunner Records, and the disc's first single, "Stand," will hit radio June 6. Kravitz produced, wrote and arranged the 16 songs on the release.

Kravitz has also confirmed a series of concerts in conjunction with the release of Black and White America, including performances on the Toyota Concert Series on NBC's Today Show on September 2, The Late Show with David Letterman on August 30 and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on September 1. That's not to mention a pending world tour later this year and dates with U2 beginning on June 4, playing stadiums on the West Coast. more on this story

Guns N' Roses: Gilby Clarke Vs Axl Rose

(RockAAA) Former Guns N' Roses and Supernova guitarist Gilby Clarke admits he was shocked and hurt when Axl Rose left his name off the credits for the band's live album which was released a few years ago – and he says it felt like a personal slight.

Clarke joined GNR in 1991, at the peak of their powers, as a replacement for rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin and toured extensively with the band on their global 'Use Your Illusion' tour. But despite several of the songs from that tour appearing on the final double album, both Clarke and drummer Matt Sorum, who had also joined the band in the midst of their rise a replacement for Steven Adler, were left off the sleeve note credits.

"I think it is personal actually. I was very surprised when I first saw the record, as I hadn't seen it until it was done, that they didn't credit myself or Matt as band members." Clarke told Dani Buarque of the Lokaos Rock Show. "So yeah I think that was something he (Axl) was trying to say to us. You know it's funny that all through the years we were band members, and we were a band, but as soon as things went sour we weren't a band anymore. It's just the way it is." Also find out why Gilby would never join Velvet Revolver

Iron Maiden Giving Away Free Downloads

(RockAAA) Iron Maiden's new "best of" collection, "From Fear To Eternity: The Best Of 1990-2010" is a double-CD set spanning twenty years and will be released June 6 (UK, June 7 in US).

A special two-track promo-only CD single is being made available featuring "The Wicker Man," which was a UK Top Ten hit that originally appeared on the 2000 album "Brave New World," and "The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg," which was the lead track from 2006′s "A Matter Of Life And Death" album.

Both tracks are now available for free download until June 22, with sign-up at Maiden's facebook page. more on this story

New Slash Coming- Roger Daltrey Cancels Shows- John Elway Vs Elway- American Idol A Dream Come True for Judas Priest- Aerosmith in the Studio- more

(SleazeRoxx) In an exclusive interview with Planet Rock Slash has revealed that his second solo album will be released next spring. Speaking to Nicky Horne he revealed "Myles and I have been writing all throughout the tour so we've got a lot of material, and at this point we're probably gonna start a little bit of pre-production in June and then do the tour in July. In September we're going to [do more] pre-production and the album is slated to come out in March or April." more

(Jam!) The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has been forced to call off three summer gigs in his native Britain due to poor ticket sales. Simon Fishwick, general manager of the historic Powderham venue, explains, "It's all to do with poor ticket sales, I'm afraid. "more

(NME) Lenny Kravitz has been cast in new futuristic teen movie The Hunger Games. more

(BW&BK) Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford spoke with MTV about their appearance on American Idol, "Because we've lived so long and done so much stuff in heavy metal and we've seen so many crazy things and heard so many crazy things, when we heard this we went, 'F**k! That's incredible, man. Let's do it, you know? This is insane. That's just amazing,' " He explained of their reaction to getting Idol exposure. "So as it progressed from 'Another Thing Coming' till this point now, when we're on the carpet and we're about to do the show, it's just a dream come true for Priest, for metal and, mostly, for James Durbin." more

(Punknews.org) Two-time Super Bowl champion and Denver Broncos great John Elway has apparently been made aware of the existence of Ft. Collins, CO-based outfit Elway, and his legal team has sent the band a document requesting that they change their name, though it's important to note that the band hasn't yet been sued yet nor served with a cease and desist letter. Elway guitarist/vocalist Tim Browne was kind enough to offer Punknews.org a statement here

(The 1st Five) H2O are set to enter the studio to record an all-covers album. The album titled Don't Forget Your Roots, will pay homage to the bands that have influenced and inspired H2O. more

(BW&BK) Aerosmith members Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer will be guests on In The Studio this week talking about the 35th anniversary of their landmark album, Rocks, with professional radio broadcaster and rock musician interviewer Redbeard. more

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Puddle of Muddy Covers

(Gibson) Puddle of Mudd have announced their next album will be a collection of cover songs from a hand-picked list of artists – everyone from AD/DC to the Steve Miller Band to Elton John.

The set, titled re:(disc)overed, will drop August 2. The collection is the follow-up to 2009's Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate. While the band set out to record an album of new material, the toll of the road pushed them to do a covers collection instead. "Since we started we've been non-stop – make a record, go on tour, then right into rehearsals and the next record, then back on tour...," guitarist Paul Phillip told Billboard.com. "We were really burned out, and when we started trying to write again it just wasn't time yet. And we had been doing [AC/DC's] 'TNT' and [the Steve Miller Band's] 'The Joker' and had so much fun with those that one thing led to another and we decided to make a covers record. It was just something fun to do, and we had a blast."

The album packs 15 songs, 11 of which Puddle of Mudd recorded with producer Bill Appleberry earlier this year at Los Angeles' Bomb Shelter, a recording space owned by Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz. The first single, The Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter," is scheduled to hit radio in mid-June. more on this story

Slash Visits South Park Or Does He?

(hennemusic) The guitarist in the hat is everywhere, but he's not real. That was one of the messages delivered on this week's new South Park episode, "Crack Baby Athletic Association," which mixed a sports-themed storyline with rock n' roll guitarist Slash.

In the episode, Clyde and Craig need to find Slash for their boss Eric Cartman so that he can play at the event EA Sports is sponsoring. Clyde calls his parents when he can't find Slash and they explain that Slash is make-believe, that he is actually based on the Dutch legend of the Vünter Slauche.

If you think Cartman and the boys were surprised to hear the news about Slash, imagine what the guitarist must have been thinking, as he posted the following note to Facebook following the program. Find out what it is here

Sebastian Bach Finishes New Album

(hennemusic) Three months and the music is complete. Back in February, Sebastian Bach entered an L.A. studio with his new guitarist Nick Sterling, drummer Bobby Jarzombek and producer Bob Marlette to record Bach's next CD, due this fall via the Italian label Frontiers Records.

"We are DONE mixing the new CD," Bach updated fans Thursday via his Facebook page. "The last song we just completed was 'Awake', which a lot of you know. The melody from Nick Sterling in the chorus is so incredible; tender, heart-wrenching, builds into an emotional crescendo that is so beautiful and heavy to me. After much attention to detail from producer Bob Marlette, Nick, and myself, we now have the 'magic mix' of this track that literally makes me want to rip the skin off my chest it sounds so good."

"Next up we master the CD and vinyl versions of the record at Precision Sound in L.A.," added Bach. "Like my last CD, Tom Baker will master the record, because he did such a perfect job mastering 'Angel Down'." more on this story

Favorite Korny Things

(Gibson) Korn singer Jonathan Davis was recently asked to name some of his favorite things by Spin magazine. It turns out his #1 song of all time is "Love will Tear Us Apart," by Joy Division.

"It's so beautiful and so [expletive] sad at the same time," he said. "As a kid it struck me how many different emotions a single song could evoke, and it changed my view of music forever." Davis also named his favorite album: Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral, which he called "an absolute masterpiece."

The Korn frontman went on to discuss his favorite movie (Dune, "I'm a big David Lynch fan"), favorite food (Japanese) and favorite celebrity (Back to the Future star Crispin Glover). "Is he a celebrity? He's an awesome actor," Davis said. more on this story

Mastodon Surfing

(Gibson) Mastodon are one of the heaviest bands on the planet, but singer-guitarist Brent Hinds is going in a different direction on his upcoming solo double-disc release. Brent Hinds Presents Fiend Without a Face/West End Motel is due out on June 7.

Hinds told Rolling Stone that the first disc takes his music in a surf-rock direction, while the second deals in "boozy poetry." The albums aren't out yet, but the musician is already talking about doing more.

"We're just finishing up anotherWest End Motel album, and then when [Mastodon] get back from Europe," Hinds said, "we're going back into the studio with Fiend Without a Face, and I'm going to have Brann [Dailor, Mastodon's drummer] and Jay Weinberg, Max Weinberg's kid, play on the record – have a rotating door of drummer guests. It'll be a proggy sort of album." more on this story

Pearl Jam Movie Details

The Pearl Jam camp released more details about the upcoming documentary: In celebration of their 20 year anniversary, Pearl Jam is set to release the feature film Pearl Jam Twenty, a definitive portrait of the band as told by Academy Award winning filmmaker and music journalist, Cameron Crowe.

The documentary gives fans and audiences an intimate first glimpse into Pearl Jam's journey culled from more than 1,200 hours of rarely and never-before-seen footage, over 24 hours of recent interviews with the band, as well as live footage of their spellbinding concert performances.

Pearl Jam Twenty will enjoy a unique, simultaneous worldwide theatrical release in select cities and venues in September and thereafter will roll out in an accelerated fashion. Abramorama, headed by Richard Abramowitz, who steered the theatrical campaigns for Anvil! The Story of Anvil and the Oscar-nominated Exit Through The Gift Shop, is releasing the independent film in the U.S. with Arts Alliance Media, best known for their deft handling of Iron Maiden's award-winning documentary Flight 666 and, more recently, Foo Fighters Back and Forth, handling the theatrical release overseas.

The film's U.S. television premiere will be Friday, October 21st at 9 p.m. (ET/PT), as part of the prestigious PBS "American Masters" series, airing during the first-ever PBS Arts Fall Festival. more on this story

Jon Anderson Recruits Musicians Via Web for New Album

Jon Anderson of Yes, Vangelis, Kitaro fame has set a June 6th release date for his new album, 'Survival & Other Stories' and best part is he collaborated on the album with musicians from around the world via the web.

"About four years ago I just put in an ad on my website: 'Musicians Wanted'... This is the result. Writing the songs for 'Survival & Other Stories' was uplifting for me on many levels, I was working with musicians from around the world Via the Internet, it's a new world, music is a healing energy, I had a tough 2008, through illness, and the Music I've been writing since is a celebration of life on many levels...I hope you get the chance to hear the album..Big Love..Jon." 'Survival & Other Stories' is the first of three albums to be released by Jon Anderson in the next two years.

Jon recently completed a successful east coast tour of the US, An Acoustic Evening With Jon Anderson, which featured and exciting mixture of material from Jon Anderson's prolific solo career, collaborations with Vangelis and classic YES songs, along with new compositions from his new CD 'Survival & Other Stories'. Jon will be performing select shows throughout this summer in the US and Canada. More info on the album and a preview

Opeth Set New Album Release

Roadrunner have set a September 20th release date for Opeth's brand new album Heritage. Here is info they sent over:

Opeth frontman and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt weighed in on Heritage, saying, "It will be our 10th album/observation. I dig it; we all do. In fact, it feels like I've been building up to write for and participate on an album like this since I was 19."

Åkerfeldt went a little deeper and described the music contained within Heritage, saying, "It's quite intense at times in some 'old' murky way, and quite beautiful and stark at times, if I may say so myself. It's obvious I'm going to say nice things about it since I wrote basically the whole piece, but I guess it will raise a few eyebrows and it certainly is an acquired taste. I think you'll need a slightly deeper understanding of our music as a whole to be able to appreciate this record. I've realized my influences for this album are so diverse that I can't really say what it sounds like. If I can compare it to any other band, it would have to be Opeth, but it's different from the stuff we've done before. I've listened a lot to Alice Cooper for the last year, yet I can't say it sounds like 'No More Mr. Nice Guy.' I hope you'll like it once you hear it." more on this story

Jimmy Buffett Plans Margaritaville Video Game

(Gibson) Jimmy Buffett and THQ are working to bring a Buffett-themed video game to Facebook, iPad, iPhone and iPod this fall. Margaritaville Online will present an interactive experience to fans of Buffett's music and books and for people who play social Facebook games like FarmVille.

"The Margaritaville laidback state of mind is inherently social, and THQ has captured the spirit of that lifestyle in this game," said Buffett, according to Billboard.com. "With Margaritaville Online, fans across the globe can party together any time and any place."

That's right, Parrotheads will be able to hang out in 3D environments, listen to Buffett's full catalog, interact with characters from his novels, play mini-games and even start their own bands. It's quite possible that players also will be able to enjoy virtual cheeseburgers in the virtual paradise. more on this story

Rare Diary Era Ozzy Osbourne Recording Goes Online

(The Metal Den) TMD has obtained rare enhanced concert audio of Ozzy Osbourne performing "Over The Mountain" in Stadhalle, Offenbach, Germany on November 9, 1981.

This audio comes from one of only three Ozzy shows "known to exist" that was bootlegged during the entire European leg of the Diary of a Madman tour.

On May 31st, Legacy Recordings is slated to reissue special editions of both Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman. Both landmark albums took metal in a new direction in the early 1980s... Listen here

Scott Weiland Give Leno Lemons

(Hennemusic) Out on the road briefly this month to help launch his new book, "Not Dead & Not For Sale," Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Thursday night.

Weiland played a cover of "Into Your Arms," originally by The Lemonheads, the Boston-based alt band fronted by Evan Dando; the song originally appeared on 1993's "Come On Feel The Lemonheads."

In the past week and a half, Weiland and his band played the Lemonheads song – and many other covers - during two shows in New York and L.A., which were booked in sync with some in-store book signings in both cities. Check it out

Social Distortion, Sum 41, Bad Religion, Peter Frampton TV Specials

Guitar Center Sessions new season kicks off this Saturday with the first of seven episodes, this week featuring Sum 41.

The season premiere is this Saturday, May 28 at 10pm ET/PT in 2D hi-definition on DIRECTV'S The 101 Network (channel 101) and in 3D on DIRECTV'S n3D powered by Panasonic.

Other upcoming episodes include: Peter Frampton, Bad Religion, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Saint Motel, Social Distortion and the incomparable Blondie. more on this story

Elvis and The Beatles Opens This Fall

(Gibson) A new exhibition based on the relationship between rock legends Elvis and The Beatles will open this fall. Elvis and Us will open to the public on September 28 at The Beatles Story in Liverpool, England.

According to Elvisnews.com, it will be a multimedia, interactive experience filled with music, video and artifacts.

One of the key elements explored in the exhibition will be the night Elvis met The Beatles on August 27, 1965, at Presley's house in Bel Air, California.

The exhibition will include rare artifacts from both The Beatles Story and the Graceland archives, many of which have never before been displayed publicly. Items include the shirt worn by Elvis in the Jailhouse Rock movie, telegrams from Colonel Parker and Elvis to Ed Sullivan, rare video footage from the earliest days of Elvis' career, and the pool table played on by Elvis and The Beatles. more on this story

Paul McCartney's Big Cloud

(Gibson) HP has provided Paul McCartney and his MPL Communications, Ltd. with a private, cloud-based digital library.

McCartney's digitized collection features 1 million-plus items, including photographs, video footage from live concerts, rolls of film, videotapes and reels, music recordings, original works of art, as well as memorabilia.

The library is built on an HP Converged Infrastructure, based on modular building blocks of HP servers, storage, networking and management software. The assets are housed in a private cloud managed from HP commercial data centers. "It's really exciting because even if I'm out on tour anywhere in the world, I will be able to say, okay, 'Wings 1976 tour' and instantly, it will come up. You've got all the information, all the photos from it. And you'll have written accounts – personal accounts and critical accounts – of what happened," said McCartney in a statement. more on this story

Jimi Hendrix and Van Halen Nail Top Cover Songs Of All Time

This week Gibson counted down their picks for the best cover songs of all time. Today they rolled out the Top 10, here are a couple of excerpts including No 1!

9. "You Really Got Me," Van Halen (The Kinks): Van Halen's cover of this Kinks classic was the first thing that most of the rock world ever heard of VH. The year was 1978 and the song's pairing with "Eruption" on the band's self-titled album of that year was one of the most devastating one-two punches ever delivered by four dudes from Pasadena. Opening with Eddie's legendary "brown sound" (augmented by washes of reverb on the opposite side of the stereo spectrum), the guitar was right in your face, the energy was cranked up to burning point, and David Lee Roth's sassy delivery made fans momentarily forget all about The Kinks' version, much to Dave Davies' later chagrin. The guitar solo has it all: syrupy phaser tones, two-handed tapping, wide bends and a cool toggle-switch stutter effect, all topped off with a killer pick slide. The breakdown after the solo would set the stage for future classics like "Mean Streets" and "Panama," and the closing legato and hint of feedback made you hold your breath just in case there was more coming. – Peter Hodgson

1. "All Along the Watchtower," The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Bob Dylan): The ultimate accomplishment for a cover artist is to take a song and, through his own interpretation and arrangement, make it something unique and truly his own. Perhaps no artist has ever done this on the scale of (and with the sizzle of) Jimi Hendrix's fiery take on Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." To take on Dylan would be too intimidating a prospect for most artists, but Hendrix grabbed the John Wesley Harding track and ran with it, firing off one of the most melodic yet biting solos of his career along the way. The ultimate testament of Hendrix's greatness came on subsequent Dylan tours when he began to cover Hendrix's version. In a later interview, Dylan said: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day." – Michael Wright

Check out the full list here and strangely Black Magic Woman didn't make the cut more on this story

Dropkick Murphys Add Dates

(PR) Dropkick Murphys have added some new North American summer tour dates in support of their latest album.

That album, Going Out In Style CD (Born & Bred Records/ILG), debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200--the group's highest chart debut to date.

The recently confirmed gigs include a performance at Milwaukee's Summerfest, as well as shows in Pomona, CA; Ottawa, ON; Quebec City, QC; Sayreville, NJ; Monclair, NJ; Essex Junction, VT; St. John's, NL; Halifax, NS; Moncton, NS and Montreal, QC. more on this story

Paul Simon Definitive Editions Coming in June

Columbia and Legacy Recordings have set a June 7 release date for the first round of releases in the Paul Simon catalog project with definitive editions of four of the artist's essential solo albums -- Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin' and Still Crazy After All These Years.

News of the Paul Simon catalog releases arrives as Simon, the quintessential American singer-songwriter-performer, tours the United States in May and Europe this summer with an eight-piece band in support of his recently-released critically-acclaimed new album, So Beautiful Or So What on Hear Music.

The new Columbia/Legacy editions of four classic Paul Simon catalog titles marks the first set of releases since last year's historic licensing agreement between the artist and Sony Music Entertainment brought Simon's entire catalog of recordings together under the one roof for the first time since the 1970s. more on this story

Ingram Hill Unplugged

(Rock Ridge) Ingram Hill is set to release an acoustic album, "Blue Room Afternoon," on June 21, 2011 exclusively on iTunes.

Produced by lead vocalist/guitarist Justin Moore, the album is of the "living room sessions" sort – an intimate re-recording of past hits and fan favorites.

"We had always discussed releasing an acoustic album," says Moore, "but for whatever reason had never done it. Our manager, Jason Spiewak, brought up the idea, and we felt now was a perfect time to do it. It was kind of strange recording older songs all over again, but it was fun to be able to approach them differently, and try a few new things with them, which totally gave a fresh feel to songs we've played thousands of times. It's almost a look into what songs sound like when we first wrote them, without all the bells and whistles of a full production record. (Okay, so maybe we added a few bells, and a whistle or two.) We're excited about the album, and we can't wait for our fans to hear our songs in a fashion that is not normally available to them." more on this story

Robbie Robertson Being Honored Today and Going Late Night Next Month

Some big news from the Robbie Robertson. Not only is he going late night but he's receiving a Canadian honor today.

Robbie Robertson will perform with The Roots on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Thursday, June 9th. How To Become Clairvoyant, Robertson's latest album, debuted at No. 13* on The Billboard 200 and entered the Top Current Canadian Album Chart at No. 8.

Today Robertson will be invested into the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest civilian honors. Fans can view a live webcast of the ceremony at www.gg.ca at 10:30 a.m. ET. more on this story

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Announce Dates

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. have announced new headlining dates in support of their forthcoming full-length.

Their full-length debut, It's a Corporate World will be out on Quite Scientific Records on June 7th.

The band will continue to tour throughout the summer excited to announce their first appearances at Lollapalooza this August and Austin City Limits festival in September. more on this story

Nektar, Brainticket and Huw Lloyd-Langton of Hawkwind Expand Tour

(Submitted) Prog/space rock touring trio of Nektar, Brainticket and Huw Lloyd-Langton of Hawkwind have added a few dates to their upcoming American tour.

The three bands will be making stops in Chicago at Viper Alley on August 26th' in Sauget, Illinois at Pops on August 28th and in Los Angeles at the Key Club on September 3rd.

"I almost cannot wait for this to happen and become a reality," said Joel Vandroogenbroeck of Brainticket, whose band has never toured America since their formation in 1969. "We're pleased and excited to participate on this next tour," he added. "Brainticket has not performed since decades and this appears to be a real revival of the once well known group." more on this story