Happy Monday! Short work week! YEAH!….Dave Grohl will give the key note address to the music conference portion of the annual SXSW (South By Southwest) convention. No doubt the rumors are FLYING around his documentary on Sound City Studios will make it’s debut at the conference’s film festival portion of the event. I have been asked to speak on a panel, and now I am definitely making plans to get down to Austin in March! The documentary is on the famed Van Nuys, CA recording studio that was the facility where hundreds of records recorded by Fleetwood Mac. Tom Petty, Nirvana, tool, A Perfect Circle, nine inch nails, Dio, Metallica, Slipknot, Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Kid Rock, Chili Peppersand many more made recording history with the albums they did in that building. It opened in 1969 and closed several years back. So Dave decided he wanted to interview some of the artists and the former employees of the place. Looking forward to seeing it for sure!….Rock on the Range announced the dates for the 2013 shows: Friday, May 17-Sunday May 19. Cyber-sale on tix Nov 26th. Hit www.RockOnTheRange.com …The Smashing Pumpkins rescheduled some dates affected by Sandy. See the newly confirmed ones in Road Rage….AC/DC‘s new concert album and first one in 20 years, Live At River Plate, is now streaming in its entirety at RollingStone.com. The set was recorded in 2009 during a three-night stand at Buenos Aires, Argentina’s River Plate Stadium in the midst of the band’s Black Ice world tour. Nearly 200,000 fans showed up for the gigs, which have been distilled into a 19-song package featuring AC/DC classics like “Back in Black,” “TNT,” “Shoot To Thrill” and many more. The album is out tomorrow (Nov 19th) as a two-CD set and a three-disc red vinyl package. Check out the stream at http://tinyurl.com/brf8fdk ….Also out tomorrow, Kid Rock‘s great Rebel Soul album and 3 Doors Down’s Greatest Hits package….Happy 41st today to Justin Chancellor of tool and Happy 52nd to Matt Sorum of Velvet Revolver.
Monday, Nov 19
