Aerosmith's Original Touring Van
Image: American Pickers About six years ago, the hosts of The History Channel's American Pickers stumbled across Aerosmith's orginal tour bus, in the forest about 175 kilometers west of Boston - where it had been sitting for about forty years. They got to work restoring the 1964 International Harvester Metro van to (al...
May 03, 2024
Here's The New Let It Be Trailer
Image: Apple Records The Let It Be documentary was originally done by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1970. A mob of wizards and magicians at Peter Jackson's Park Road post production lair have painstakingly restored it, and it will premiere exclusively on Disney+ Wednesday May 08. Read more about the resurrection of Let It B...
Apr 30, 2024
The Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds Tour Has Launched
Image: Alec Wilson from Khon Kaen, Thailand, CC BY-SA 2.0 <;, via Wikimedia Commons Last night was a big one in Houston, as the Rolling Stones fired up their Hackney Diamonds tour at NRG Stadium with a setlist full of legendary hits, along with tracks from the new album. Following Gary Clark Jr.'s opening gig, Start...
Apr 29, 2024
Here's A Little Old (Desert) Place Where We Can Get Together
Image: Paul Kaplan Group B-52s keyboardist and vocalist Kate Pierson, who will celebrate her 76th birthday tomorrow, has a little slice of paradise which you can buy. She and her wife Monica Coleman are the owners of Kate's Lazy Desert in Landers California - a five acre compound with six funky Airstream trailers on it...
Apr 26, 2024
In The Q New Music Lab: Green Day - Bobby Sox
Image: Warner Music Canada The latest track from Green Day's Saviors album, which dropped in January, is one of Billie Joe Armstrong's favorites: (Bobby Sox is) "the Nineties song that we never wrote," he says. "It started out being a song I wrote for my wife but as it materialized, I wanted to switch it...
Apr 26, 2024
In The Q New Music Lab: David Gilmour - The Piper's Call
Image: Sony Music Canada David Gilmour's Luck And Strange album, which is his first collection of new material in nine years, will drop Friday September 06; the first single is The Piper's Call. No word if that piper is at the gates of dawn, but I'll launch an investigation. Luck And Strange was recorded over five mon...
Apr 25, 2024
The New Black Keys Documentary
Image: YouTube A new documentary about the Grammy-winning Black Keys premiered last month at the Paramount Theater in Austin Texas, as part of SXSW. This Is A Film About The Black Keys traces the 34 year association of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, from their first recordings in an Akron Ohio basement to their curre...
Apr 24, 2024
Here Comes A New Deep Purple Album
Image: Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0 <;, via Wikimedia Commons This summer, Deep Purple will drop their new album, somewhat mysteriously titled =1. This is the first full length effort since 2021's covers album, Turning To Crime. It's also the first album of original tunes since Whoosh!, which dropped four years ago....
Apr 24, 2024
In The Q New Music Lab: Slash - Oh Well
Image: Gibson Records Back in the Long Ago Before Times (2016), Guns N' Roses called up Chris Stapleton to kick off the Nashville date on their Not In This Lifetime reunion tour. The connection continues on Slash's Orgy Of The Damned album, which will drop Friday May 17: following from the lead single Killing Floor, wh...
Apr 22, 2024
In The Q New Music Lab: Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats - Heartless
Image: Universal Music Canada/Kevin White Album number four from Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats is called South Of Here, and it'll drop Friday June 28 on Stax Records. The album, the followup to 2021's The Future, was tracked at Sonic Ranch outside El Paso Texas. Says Nate in a media release: "These recor...
Apr 19, 2024