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Hello again to all of
the faithful Midwest BEAT readers. The
month of May is full of great new releases, so I won’t bore you with
gibberish… here’s the scoop. MAY
6 To lead off this
month, a live effort from Niacin
titled, “Blood, Sweat & Beers” will surface.
The band, featuring Billy Sheehan, recorded the album on their 1997 and 2002
tours… Brit-pop veterans Blur
jump into the “Think Tank” this
month... With a number of
special guests, and some cool bonus materials, “We’ve Come for You All,”
the new Anthrax CD, arrives in
early May. The album features
Pantera’s infamous Dimebag Darrell on a couple of tracks, as well as legendary Who
frontman, Roger Daltrey…
Midwest BEAT’s old buddies – Kentucky
Headhunters will reveal their “Soul”
to us… EMI will re-issue
“Operation Mindcrime,” “Queensryche,” “Rage for Order,”
and “The
Warning” from Washington State’s metal exports –– Queensryche –– all complete with bonus tracks… Look for a new Public
Enemy EP & DVD as well… Faith
Hill reveals what happens “When
Lights Go Down” on her new DVD.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be with her when the lights go down…
Ahhh, to dream…
MAY
13
The big stink of the month is being caused by the release of the
new Marilyn Manson album,
titled “The
Golden Age of Grotesque.”
There will be a “limited edition” release with a bonus
DVD in addition to the regular release… Macy Gray will unveil “The
Trouble With Being Myself”…
“Out
Of The Vein” is the new Third
Eye Blind CD… For the first time on DVD,
the entire first season of “The
Monkees” television show will be available in a box set… A live
DVD from K.C. & The Sunshine
Band will likewise surface… A release that will surely make you scratch your head and wonder –– “Why’d they bother?” –– as it heads straight to the bargain bins is “In Love In Vein” from Frank Stallone. My guess is that album will suck… just a hunch though. MAY
20
Less Than Jake will sing
their “Anthem”
this month… Chicago’s own
funk legends –– Earth, Wind & Fire –– will tell us what “The
Promise” is… The Deftones are baaaaaack!!!
They will release a self- titled album that promises to kick our
ass… Former Megadeth axeman Marty
Friedman will unveil his new solo effort, entitled “Music for Speeding”…
“Birds of Prey,” the long anticipated release from Live will make its way onto store shelves… Southern Rock
perennials, Lynyrd Skynyrd, will
takes us through a “Vicious Cycle”… “Black Like
Sunday” is the new King’s X
album, which will feature newly recorded versions of songs they wrote back
at the start of their career in the early ‘80s.
There will be new “Best
Of...” collections arriving this day from Humble
Pie, Kansas, and Air Supply…
Straight re-issues of seven Pixies
albums will arrive today as well… “Hallelujah” is what Sammy
Hagar & The Waboritas are screaming these days.
No, not because the tour with David
Lee Roth is over, but because they taped shows from that infamous “Sam & Dave” road
show and those tapes have become
the band’s first live album… Powerman 5000 will finally “Transform” this month… Staind turn “14 Shades of Grey”… And another wave of AC/DC re-masters is on the way. This round includes –– “Fly on the Wall,” “Flick of the Switch,” “‘74 Jailbreak,” “Blow Up Your Video,” “If You Want Blood…” and the “Bonfire” box set. MAY
27
There will be a tribute album arriving at the end of May that pays
homage to both Sammy Hagar and David
Lee Roth. This
interesting set of songs is called, “Best
of Both Worlds,” and is a two CD set that features such artists as
–– George
Lynch, Enuff Z’Nuff, (ex-Aerosmith guitarist) Jimmy Crespo, and members of TNT…
Our own Z’Nuff boys are said to be covering Roth’s “Tokyo
Rose.” Vince Neil goes Live at the
“Whiskey: One Night Only!” Likewise,
Brett Michaels of Posion has a solo CD coming out this day… DIO has a new 2-CD retrospective on the way, titled “The
Anthology: Stand Up and Shout”…
The big news of the month I saved for last.
After more than two decades, a collection of live material from Led
Zeppelin will finally be made available.
The first is a 3-CD
set titled, “How The West Was Won.”
The CD’s were compiled from two classic Zep shows from Long Beach
and Los Angeles, CA in 1972, featuring dynamic renditions of many songs
from “Houses
of the Holy,” which had not been released at that point.
The other release is a
self-titled double DVD, taken from four locations. The DVD features footage from Royal Albert Hall in 1970,
Madison Square Garden in 1973, Earls Court in 1975, and Knebworth in 1979.
There now, that should hold you over for a month! |
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