Weiland, the estranged singer of Velvet Revolver, has teamed up with members of Army Of Anyone and Bomb Shelter Studios owner Eric Kretz for a tour that will hit more than 50 amphitheaters this summer and fall. And this isn’t the only unexpected supergroup that’s formed from music’s bigger names over the years–other groups have also embarked on tours, while a few have even released albums. Other examples after the jump.
The Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails, and Stone Temple Pilots will headline 1999’s this year’s Virgin Mobile Festival, which takes place at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Aug. 9-10. More »
Confirming reports that have been floating around for a few weeks, today the first date on Stone Temple Pilots’ summer reunion tour was announced: They’ll play the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, Ohio, this May. (Well, provided that frontman Scott Weiland gets out of rehab by that time.) STP will lead a lineup that’s evenly balanced between bands that have had an iron fist-like grip on rock radio since the earliest days of the “post-grunge” movement and acts that have somehow managed to slip into the Modern Rock charts over the past few years:
Because today’s just been that kinda day. AC 2007 Fursuit Meet And Greet [YouTube via Frank Hamilton via Yewknee via hell… More »
Blender‘s Web site recently asked a few of its “favorite musicians” to write a bit about an album that they love that is either terribly uncool or lacking in critical respect. This is all fine, but it operates on the assumption that musicians actually have “impeccable collections”–which may be true sometimes, but anyone who has ever met a musician knows that many of them have really bizarre collections, and tend to get into weird, obsessive jags where they will only listen to, say, dub reggae or The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway for months on end. Anyway, behind the cut we go through a few of the selections, and decide whether or not these artists should feel ashamed of their “guilty pleasures.”
