Wolfmother is back with sharpened chops, and the band will preview new material on the road this summer, including a run of shows with the Killers. The Sydney, Australia, rockers have joined on as the main support for six shows in the Northeastern U.S. and Canada, where they’ll unveil the songs they’ve spent months recording in L.A. Tickets are now on sale for the following dates:
Mon-Aug-31 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
Tue-Sep-01 Wantagh, NY Jones Beach
Wed-Sep-02 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Fri-Sep-04 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden
Sat-Sep-05 Montreal, QC Quai Jacques Cartier
Sun-Sep-06 Toronto, ON Molson Amphitheater
Fans in L.A. can experience the whole album set to mind-blowing visuals on July 27 at the Laserium CyberTheater at the historic Vine Theater in Hollywood. Wolfmother also plays August 22nd at KROQ’s Epicenter ‘09 festival at the Fairplex at Pomona in California.
The Grammy-winning four-piece recently dropped teaser track “Back Round” on iTunes, MySpace.com/wolfmother and wolfmother.com. And the foot-stomping, fuzz-drenched song will soon challenge players of Activision’s Guitar Hero 5. Wolfmother is also opening for AC/DC on its “Black Ice Tour,” beginning in February in 2010. The down-under tour, featuring two groups of Sydney’s finest sons, sold out faster than any in the Australia’s history.
Led by hirsute shredder Andrew Stockdale, the band cooked Cosmic Egg for three years, taking time to lock in a permanent lineup and build on the self-titled album that gave the world the insta-classic track “Woman.” They recorded over the course of two months with heralded UK producer Alan Moulder (Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers, My Bloody Valentine). His sweeping and storied career as an iconic record-maker coupled with Wolfmother’s immortal song craft add up to nothing short of a rip in the time-space continuum. But each one of these face-melting tunes was written to be played live and loud.
Wolfmother plans to headline a U.S. tour after the album’s release later this year.
Australian trio Sick Puppies are gearing up to release Tri-Polar, their second major label album, and follow-up to Dressed Up As Life. Like their freshman release, new album, Tri-Polar will feature producer credits in Rock Mafia’s Antonina Armato and Tim James. Together they’ve created a sound that reflects the past four whirlwind years spent in the rock and roll fast lane, on the grueling tour grind, honing their chops until they were a finely tuned powerhouse ready to let loose with the anger, frustration and triumphs built up from all that road work.
Songs like the storming first single, “You’re Going Down,” which is being used as the theme song for the WWE’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view broadcast, and “Street Fighter War,” which was used as part of the national marketing campaign for the popular video game Street Fighter IV, distill all that energy into high-powered festival anthems. “There was plenty of fuel, a lot of hard times, strain, personal problems and all that jazz,” says Moore of the creative process, “and we just put it all into the record. There’s no way you can prevent it from flooding into the music.”
Sick Puppies’ Tri-Polar hits stores on July 14th.
Sick Puppies on Tour
July 8 Glass House - Cromwell Pomona, CA
July 9 Jerry’s Pizza & Pub - Bakersfield, CA
July 10 The Rock - Tucson, AZ
July 14 Sokol - Omaha, NE
July 15 Cain’s Ballroom - Tulsa, OK
July 16 Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City, OK
July 17 House of Blues - Dallas, TX
July 18 House of Blues - Houston, TX
July 19 Highline Ballroom - New York, NY
July 19 Midnite Rodeo - Abilene, TX
July 21 Remington’s - Springfield, MO
July 22 The Blue Note - Columbia, MO
July 23 House of Blues - Chicago, IL
July 24 The Rave - Milwaukee, WI
July 25 Piere’s - Fort Wayne, IN
July 26 The Machine Shop - Flint, MI
July 28 The Crofoot - Pontiac, MI
July 29 The Intersection - Grand Rapids, MI
July 30 Headliners - Toledo, OH
August 1 The Altamont Fair - Sugar Altamont, NY
August 2 Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA
August 4 Crocodile Rock - Allentown, PA
August 5 The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY
August 6 Higher Ground - Burlington, VT
August 7 The Station - Portland, ME
August 8 New York State Fair - Syracuse, NY
August 12 The Note - West Chester, PA
August 13 Recher Theatre - Towson, MD
August 14 Hooligans - Way Jacksonville, NC
August 15 Amos’ Southend - Charlotte, NC
August 18 Headliners - Columbia, SC
August 20 House of Blues / Orlando - Lake Buena Vista, FL
August 21 State Theater - St. Petersburg, FL
August 22 Respectable Street Cafe - West Palm Beach, FL
August 24 The Swamp - Fort Walton Beach, FL
August 25 Varsity Theatre - Baton Rouge, LA
August 27 62 Event Center - Fayetteville, AR
The video is for the first single from the new album, Black Ice, called “Rock and Roll Train”. Classic AC/DC:
The new song is called “War Machine” and can be found at their MySpace Page
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According to Blabbermouth.net:
XM’s Boneyard/VH1 Classic host Eddie Trunk revealed a rumor on his “Friday Night Rocks” radio show on New York’s Q104.3 FM earlier tonight (Friday, March 28) that Australian hard rock legends AC/DC will embark on a “farewell” tour later in the year once the recording sessions for their new album have been completed.
AC/DC bassist Cliff Williams told Spinner.com last month that AC/DC would enter the studio March 1 to begin recording its first new album in eight years. The web site caught up with Williams at the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles, where he said, “God I’m ready.”
As for touring, however, Williams was less sure about the group’s intentions. He explained, “If we go out again or when we go out again, you just never know. We’ve been around a long time, so we’re going to get together and get in the studio and I fully expect we will (tour). I don’t mean to be so negative about that.”
The band itself is now international, with members scattered across the globe. Malcolm and Angus Young divide their time between Britain and Australia (with Angus also spending time in the Netherlands because he has a Dutch wife). Singer Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams are based in the U.S., while drummer Phil Rudd lives in New Zealand.
Reports surfaced in January that AC/DC was nearly finished recording its next album, but a spokesperson for the band’s Australian label, Albert Records, denied the story.
AC/DC’s last all-new set, “Stiff Upper Lip”, came out in 2000.
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