Month: October 2023

Code Orange have announced a 2024 North American tour in support of their new album The Above. Serving as support on tour are Teenage Wrist and Soul Blind on all dates, with Spy and Gridiron on select shows, plus one more act to be announced.

The Above, which includes the track “Take Shape” featuring Billy Corgan, was self-produced by Jami Morgan and Eric “Shade” Balderose with engineering by the legendary Steve Albini.

The band’s 2024 North American tour launches February 13th in Austin, Texas, and runs through March 17th in Los Angeles. General ticket sales start Friday (October 20th) at 9:00 a.m. local time. For tickets to Code Orange’s 2024 tour, head here.

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The Rolling Stones’ official apparel store, RS No.9, is set to open in Japan, becoming the second such store in the world after the first opened in London’s Carnaby Street. RS No.9 is The Rolling Stones’ official flagship store, which opened on September 9, 2020 at 9 Carnaby Street in London’s Soho district as ‘RS No.9 Carnaby’, and it will now open its second shop in Harajuku, Tokyo on October 20, with a full range of exclusive RS No. 9 products in stock.

RS No.9 will be a full-fledged apparel store with items ranging from embroidered and vintage processed items, T-shirts to jackets, expressing the artist view of The Rolling Stones and incorporating many elements of fashion trends. The store has a wide variety of products that are available in London, including hats, socks, umbrella, bandana and more. The shop also sells original Japanese products, which are sold exclusively at the shop.

The Tokyo store is being launched along with Hackney Diamonds, The Rolling Stones’ first new studio album in 18 years, which is set for release on the same day. To stream Hackney Diamonds, head – here.

The Rolling Stones expand RS No 9 retail pop-up shop

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Wolfgang Van Halen and his fiancée Andraia Allsop are married. The 32-year-old frontman of Mammoth WVH (and son of the late Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli) exchanged vows with Allsop, a software engineer and photographer, at their Los Angeles home in front of 90 guests.

The ceremony included several touches that honored loved ones, including Van Halen’s late father.
Wolfgang walked down the aisle with his mom to an instrumental song that his father wrote for him, titled “316,” telling People magazine: “It’ll be a nice way to include my dad.” After exchanging wedding vows in their living room, the couple hosted a reception in their backyard. Said Allsop: “Our goal was just to bring all of our closest family and friends together. The past few years, not only with the world, but also with personal tragedies, haven’t been the easiest, but we wanted to create this wedding as a celebration not only just for us to get married, but a celebration for the people we love.”.

The couple reserved an empty chair at the ceremony in honor of the late Van Halen, and Allsop wore a necklace Eddie Van Halen once gifted to Bertinelli, who lent her the piece for the occasion. Bertinelli said: “Ed would’ve been absolutely beaming and so, so proud of the man Wolfie has become and is becoming and so happy that he has found Andraia, someone who really understands Wolfie, who he is and who he wants to be and supports him wholeheartedly.”

Van Halen and Allsop were engaged last July after seven years of dating, and their wedding day marked their eight-year anniversary.

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Coldplay is countersuing their former manager, Dave Holmes, for $17 million in damages. Variety revealed in August that Holmes had filed a lawsuit in London’s High Court against the band for over $12 million worth of unpaid commission related to their tenth and eleventh (unreleased) studio albums.

Holmes managed Coldplay for over 20 years before they parted ways last year. Preceding Holmes’ lawsuit, Coldplay had threatened in legal letters to file a “significant counterclaim” along with any defense. Coldplay accusing Holmes of allowing their ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour to spiral out of control, citing $10 million spent on bespoke stage pylons that were unusable and a screen that was too big. The countersuit also claims that Holmes borrowed $20 million from tour promoter Live Nation which he used to fund a property development in Canada.

A rep for Holmes told The Sunday Times: “Coldplay know they are in trouble with their defense. Accusing Dave Holmes of non-existent ethical lapses and other made-up misconduct will not deflect from the real issue at hand — Coldplay had a contract with Dave, they are refusing to honour it and they need to pay Dave what they owe him.”

Coldplay Countersue Former Manager For $17M, Citing Useless Bespoke Pylons

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Disturbed will launch their 23-date Take Back Your Life North American tour in 2024, scheduled to kick off in Peoria, IL on January 19th. The tour will feature support from Falling In Reverse & Plush.

Disturbed’s recent 2023 summer tour was the group’s most successful, selling 336,000 tickets and making 2023 the biggest touring year of the band’s career.

Presale tickets are on sale beginning Tuesday, October 17th at 10 am local time. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale starting Friday, October 20th at 10 am local time. For ticket information, head to disturbed1.com/tour.

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A new visualizer for the remastered version of Nirvana’s ‘Dumb” has been released, just weeks before the release of the 30th-anniversary reissue of the band’s third and final album, In Utero, dropping  October 27. Originally released September 21, 1993, In Utero was Nirvana’s first album to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and was the band’s final album before Cobain’s death nearly seven months later in 1994.

The 30th-anniversary reissue also features five bonus tracks, along with B-sides, and dozens of other previously unreleased tracks. The deluxe set also includes two full concerts recorded during the In Utero-era tour, including ‘Live In Los Angeles’ from 1993, and the band’s final performance in Seattle, ‘Live In Seattle’ from 1994.

The psychedelic visual for the track, which was originally written by Kurt Cobain during the summer of 1990, was created by RuffMercy using hand-painted Super-8mm film and offers more visual texture to the track. Cobain said of ‘Dumb’ at the time: “That’s just about people who’re easily amused, people who not only aren’t capable of progressing their intelligence but are totally happy watching 10 hours of television and really enjoy it. I’ve met a lot of dumb people. They have a sh**ty job. They may be totally lonely, they don’t have a girlfriend, they don’t have much of a social life, and yet, for some reason, they’re happy.”

Take a look the remastered visualizer for ‘Dumb’ – here.

Nirvana shares ‘Dumb’ visualizer

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