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Read more » RUSH's GEDDY LEE To Appear In Next Episode Of CBC Mystery Drama 'Murdoch Mysteries'
RUSH’s Geddy Lee will make a guest appearance in the next episode of the long-running CBC mystery drama “Murdoch Mysteries”. The episode, dubbed “Devil Music”, will premiere in Canada this coming Monday, March 21.
A 15-second clip of Geddy’s appearance in the show is available below.
Set in Toronto at the dawn of the 20th century, “Murdoch Mysteries” is a one-hour drama series that explores the intriguing world of William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), a methodical and dashing detective who pioneers innovative forensic techniques to solve some of the city’s most gruesome murders.
Murdoch’s circle of associates includes Constable George Crabtree (“Jonny Harris”, “Hatching”, “Matching And Dispatching”), Murdoch’s eager and often naïve right-hand man; Inspector Brackenreid (“Thomas Craig”, “Coronation Street”), Murdoch’s skeptical yet reluctantly supportive boss; and the love of his life, pathologist-turned-psychiatrist Dr. Julia Ogden (“Hélène Joy”, “Durham County”), a staunch ally who shares the detective’s fascination with forensic science and innovative ideas. All are valuable allies who help Murdoch solve his varied cases and traverse the many stratums of Victorian-turned-Edwardian society.
As previously reported, Lee will release a memoir in the fall of 2022. The book will be edited Noah Eaker and made available via HarperCollins.
Last September, Lee was honored with a solo Lifetime Achievement Award at the Artists For Peace And Justice (APJ) gala in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Lee was recognized for his “commitment to philanthropy,” including his support of brain cancer research, Toronto Food Bank, Alberta Floods, Doctors Without Borders, Grapes For Humanity, United Way, Canadian Museum For Human Rights and Casey House.
Lee appeared on Dave Grohl and his mother Virginia Hanlon’s series “From Cradle To Stage”, where he spoke about growing up the son of Holocaust survivors with his late mother, Mary Weinrib.
CELEBRATE THE MOMENT. ? ? Next week the one and only #GeddyLee steps into the LIMELIGHT as a guest star on #MurdochMysteries! ? What role do you think this WORKING MAN will play? Find out Monday at 8/8:30 NT only on @cbc and @cbcgem. pic.twitter.com/52BnXnk5Pj
— Murdoch Mysteries (@CBCMurdoch) March 16, 2022
?THIS IS NOT A DRILL? Next week’s episode is going to have you RUSHING to your screen, so make sure to clear your schedule. ? With big things happening and a familiar face, you don’t want to miss this one! ?? pic.twitter.com/pnpXudNILS
— Murdoch Mysteries (@CBCMurdoch) March 15, 2022
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Read more » ALICE IN CHAINS' JERRY CANTRELL Shares Animated Video For 'Siren Song'
ALICE IN CHAINS guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell has released a Nate Merritt-animated video for “Siren Song”. The track is featured on Jerry’s latest solo album, “Brighten”, which came out last October.
Says Cantrell: “I had a great time working with the very talented Nate Merritt and Josh Richman on this video to bring ‘Siren Song’ to life through animation. Nate’s imagery is beautiful and impactful, a perfect visual companion to the music that tells the story I started out with, and travels far beyond it. A true collaborative effort, great work guys.”
Cantrell is preparing to hit the road in North America in support of “Brighten”. The trek will kick on March 24 at the Palace Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota and make stops in major cities such as Toronto, Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Los Angeles, to name a few.
To make this tour even more attractive for fans, Jerry recently announced special VIP event packages at each show that offer fans tiered selections of exclusive experiences. These experiences include a meet-and-greet and photo opp with Jerry, personal autographed items of your choice, premium merch items, and at the top tier, a signed official “Atone” Gibson JC Signature Acoustic guitar. The guitar includes a letter of authenticity. Packages start at $100 all the way to $5,500, which includes the Gibson guitar.
Jerry’s band for the tour will consist of Tyler Bates (guitar), Greg Puciato (backing vocals), Gil Sharone (drums), George Adrian (bass), Michael Rozon (pedal steel) and Jason Achilles (keyboards). The set will include songs from “Brighten” along with favorite hits from Jerry’s catalog.
“Brighten” has received praise from critics, including Kerrang!, which called it a “vivid, contemporary self-portrait of one of the most distinctive voices in hard rock. A long-overdue show of individual brilliance.” Classic Rock proclaimed it “his best yet. The work of a songwriter who is happy within his life, it spans a broad arc of styles.” The Sun commented: “A rich, organic album… ‘Brighten’ is brilliant.”
“Brighten” is Jerry’s first project without ALICE IN CHAINS in 19 years. Co-produced with film composer Tyler Bates and Paul Fig (longtime engineer), the LP got its beginnings just before the pandemic hit. They welcomed a dynamic cast of supporting players, including Duff McKagan (GUNS N’ ROSES) on select bass tracks, Puciato contributing to backing vocals and drummers Sharone and Abe Laboriel, Jr. (Paul McCartney). Joe Barresi (TOOL, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE) handled the mixing of “Brighten”.
Jerry’s new effort marks his first full-length release since “Degradation Trip”, the epic solo album he made in 2002 with future METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo and FAITH NO MORE drummer Mike Bordin.
Jerry’s career outside of ALICE IN CHAINS has consisted of two previous solo albums and contributions to major film soundtracks. Cantrell’s first solo album, “Boggy Depot”, was released in 1998, followed by his second album, the aforementioned “Degradation Trip”. In addition to his solo artist work, Jerry has released music on soundtracks for several films, including “Spider-Man”, “The Cable Guy”, “John Wick 2”, “Last Action Hero” and “The Punisher”.
ALICE IN CHAINS regrouped in 2006 with William DuVall joining the band, and released its third LP with DuVall in the lineup, “Rainier Fog”, in August 2018.
Read more » MACHINE HEAD To Be Rejoined By Guitarist LOGAN MADER For 'The More Things Change…' 25th-Anniversary Play-Through
MACHINE HEAD will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the band’s second studio LP, “The More Things Change…”, with a special full-album play-through this coming Friday, March 18 at 3:00 p.m. PDT. Joining MACHINE HEAD’s Robb Flynn and Jared MacEachern for the event will be original “The More Things Change…” guitarist Logan Mader.
MACHINE HEAD said in a statement: “To make this landmark anniversary extra special, we’re delighted to announce that Robb and Jared will be joined by original guitar player, Logan Mader, for a not-to-be-missed full play-thru of the band’s second album. Join us live at 3 PM, Pacific on Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube. Please double check your local time zone as USA has now switched to daylight saving hours. Beers UP!!”
Released in 1997, “The More Things Change…” was MACHINE HEAD’s last LP to feature Mader, and the first to feature drummer Dave McClain. The album reached No. 138 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1997, and as of 2002 had sold over 115,000 copies in the United States. In 2020, it was named one of the 20 best metal albums of 1997 by Metal Hammer magazine.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Flynn has been staging “Acoustic Happy Hour” solo sessions every Friday, during which he has performed a number of MH tunes as well as covers of other artists’ songs.
Flynn told Kerrang! magazine about “Acoustic Happy Hour”: “It’s just basically a free show on Facebook. I try to learn two new songs every Friday. I take requests, and I try to play MACHINE HEAD songs that have never been played live acoustic. Last week I covered MUSE, TOOL and LYNYRD SKYNYRD. It’s been fucking awesome. The first three or four were horrible — I knew they were — but I knew that if I kept sucking for six weeks I would get past it.
“For the first 20 years of my career, I never took singing lessons,” he continued. “Then I did some about 10 years ago. With these acoustic shows, I’ve been back in contact with my old singing teacher to try and figure out why I can do a three-and-a-half hour MACHINE HEAD show, but this clean singing is kicking my ass. It’s been an opportunity to un-learn all the wrong shit and get an opportunity to do things right.”
MACHINE HEAD recently completed work on a new full-length album for a tentative summer release. The follow-up to 2018’s “Catharsis” will include the three songs that were featured on last summer’s “Arrows In Words From The Sky” single: “Become The Firestorm”, “Rotten” and “Arrows In Words From The Sky”. Much of the new MACHINE HEAD LP was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California with producer Zack Ohren.
In November 2020, MACHINE HEAD released a single, “My Hands Are Empty”, via Nuclear Blast. The song marked the first musical collaboration between Flynn and Mader in 24 years.
“My Hands Are Empty” was just one in a line of singles to be released by MACHINE HEAD, which issued “Do Or Die” in October 2019, “Circle The Drain” in February 2020, and the two-song digital single “Civil Unrest”, consisting of “Stop The Bleeding” and “Bulletproof”, in June 2020. “Stop The Bleeding” featured guest vocals from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach, and was written and recorded just days after the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.
“THE MORE THINGS CHANGE” 25TH ANNIVERSARY PLAY-THRU (FEAT: LOGAN MADER) Come join the boyz this Friday to celebrate 25 years of “The More Things Change” on Electric Happy Hour.
To make this landmark anniversary extra special, we’re delighted to announce that Robb and Jared will be joined by original guitar player, Logan Mader, for a not-to-be-missed full play-thru of the band’s second album.
Join us live at 3 PM Pacific on Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube.
**Please double check your local time zone as USA has now switched to daylight saving hours.
Beers UP!! ????
Posted by Machine Head on Tuesday, March 15, 2022
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Cradle of Filth Stream Their Full “Dusk…and Her Embrace” Set This Weekend
Cradle of Filth revisit their landmark Dusk…and her Embrace album with a special performance streaming on the Spring Equinox.
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Former MEGADETH Guitarist CHRIS POLAND's OHM Signs With M-THEORY AUDIO
Heavy progressive/fusion band OHM has signed with M-Theory Audio. The power trio — whose lineup in 2022 consists of guitarist Chris Poland (ex-MEGADETH), bassist Robertino “Pag” Pagliari (Uli Jon Roth, Frank Gambale) and new drummer Carlos Cruz (WARBRINGER, MACHINE HEAD, POWER TRIP) — will enter the studio this summer to record its as-yet-untitled new album. In the meantime, the band have unveiled a visualizer video for “Exit Stage Left”, their first new studio recording since 2012.
Says Poland: “OHM is ecstatic to announce our signing with M-Theory Audio! It’s been a very long time since the release of our last album and with the passing of our previous drummers, David Eagle and Nick Menza, I’m truly grateful to share our new sound alongside bassist, Robert ‘Pag’ Pagliari and drummer Carlos Cruz. We’re excited for all to hear the new dynamics of our instrumental/fusion, especially the heavier elements brought in by Menza and continued by Cruz! Thank you to everyone involved for having us enter a new year with a new label team and to all who continue to support OHM!”
Poland and Pagliari first crossed paths in 1977, when they formed Los Angeles-based rock band THE NEW YORKERS with Gar and Stu Samuelson. Poland and Gar Samuelson were then recruited by MEGADETH, where they played on the band’s first two records, “Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good!” and “Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?” Poland departed MEGADETH shortly after the release of the second album, and would go on to play bass for the CIRCLE JERKS and release his 1990 solo record, “Return To Metalopolis”. Poland — with his brother, drummer Mark Poland — soon co-founded the progressive-metal trio DAMN THE MACHINE, which released one self-titled album on A&M Records in 1993.
Chris Poland and bassist Pagliari reunited in 1997, forming OHM. Poland and Pagliari took the early sound of OHM into a direction that was more influenced by progressive/fusion and jazz, and throughout four albums and dozens of live performances over the next fifteen years were augmented on drums by a variety of multi-talented musicians, including acclaimed jazz drummer Koko Bernejo, Kofi Baker (EXTREME CREAM, Uli Jon Roth, Vinnie Moore), Joel Taylor (Herb Alpert, Al Di Meola, Allan Holdsworth), Frank Briggs (Cirque Du Soleil, FIVE FOR FIGHTING), and David Eagle (Tina Turner, OINGO BOINGO, Gary Hoey).
OHM was joined on the drum kit by another MEGADETH alumnus, Nick Menza, in 2015, after the passing of Eagle. The next year of live performances and jam sessions saw the musical chemistry between Poland, Pagliari and Menza evolve into a heavier metallic direction while retaining the progressive/fusion roots that OHM had established with its blueprint. This lineup began to firmly establish its groove, before a heart attack during a live performance with OHM on May 21, 2016 at the Baked Potato in Studio City, California tragically claimed the life of Nick Menza at the age of 51.
The musical direction that Poland and Pagliari had been pursuing with OHM since the addition of Menza continues on in 2022. Carlos Cruz joined the band in 2018, bringing with him an expansive heavy metal drumming resume bolstered by hundreds of live performances with bands such as WARBRINGER, HEXEN, EXMORTUS and POWER TRIP. Early live performances from this new iteration of OHM have seen the band continuing to infuse their progressive/fusion blueprint with more overtly metallic chops, while remaining a spectacular display of precision musicianship.
OHM 2022 is:
Chris Poland (guitars)
Robertino “Pag” Pagliari (bass)
Carlos Cruz (drums)