With the trek beginning in that fine city on the 28th of this month, The Police have converged on Vancouver(left coast what up) to prepare for the slavishly-anticipated reunion tour. Guitarist Andy Summers says the setlists will lean heavily towards the hits. So there you go. [Billboard]
Using only analog equipment(how very very retro), and recording in Gay Paree(that's 'Paris'), Ben Harper and his Innocent Criminals recently worked up the next album, called Lifeline. It'll be out in August.
Hooray for radio-industry websites, with bytes like this: apparently Calgary's New Energy 101-5 was the first to play the latest Kelly Clarkson single 'Never Again' on April 11th(little out of date, but it gets funnier!) - and were promptly served with a ceast-and-desist order from RCA Records for playing the tune ahead of its designated radio debut later that week. Ah, eager radio beavers. [MMU]
Canadian sat-radio company Sirus is partnering with Universal Music Canada and a bunch of rock stars to compile Borrowed Tunes II, a collection of Neil Young covers, featuring the likes of Finger Eleven, Barenaked Ladies, Hawksley Workman, Our Lady Peace's Raine Maida and more. The comp will be in stores at the end of summer, with proceeds benefiting Young's Bridge School efforts.
Killswitch Engage guitarist/producer Adam Dutkiewicz will once again sit out on tour recovering from back surgery last fall. Never fear- he's expected to be rockin' hard in short-shorts all summer long on the Warped Tour. [punkbands]
Innnnnteresting, given that I keep my own private cache with Photobucket - tech websites are gossiping that PB was bought out a couple of weeks ago by MySpace, following concerns that their pictures were being blocked by the number-one social-networking site in history ever. I just wanna be able to still have my pictures. Please don't destroy them. Thank you.
Posted by mike at May 8, 2007 09:39 PM