1-3-13. Love it. First off, <a href="” target=”_blank”>Watch this! It’s the fantabulous trailer for Dave Grohl‘s Sound City: Real to Reel documentary. Pulse Content reports The Foo Fighters frontman will unveil a new band called the Sound City Players on Jan 18th at a concert in Park City, Utah during the Sundance Film Festival. Although the complete lineup of musicians has not been announced, the show will feature what a publicist described as “core musicians” as well as “special guests” who appear in Grohl’s new documentary. The film, which marks Grohl’s debut as a feature director, will premiere at the Sundance festival before becoming available in theaters, on DVD and on demand on Feb 1st. The movie chronicles the history of Sound City, a legendary Van Nuys (suburban LA) recording studio where acts ranging from Fleetwood Mac to Nirvana cut some of rock’s most classic albums. In addition to conducting numerous interviews with musicians and producers for the film, Grohl brought together a selection of older and more contemporary artists to create new music together for the movie and its soundtrack. The first of these collaborations, a song called “Cut Me Some Slack,” features Grohl and Nirvana members Pat Smear & Krist Novoselic backing up Paul McCartney. Grohl was inspired to make the film last year after purchasing Sound City’s custom-built Neve 8028 recording console, considered by many to be the crown jewel of analog recording equipment. The film and soundtrack will include contributions from Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor, Rick Springfield, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine, Joshua Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour, and more. I can’t wait to see it!…..Whoa. I didn’t see this coming: Rise Against is joining the list of bands going on hiatus after wrapping up nearly two years of touring last month. Frontman Tim McIlrath told Rolling Stone the Chicago punk act is not going to rush back into the studio to record the follow-up to 2011’s Endgame. He explained, “We’re kind of focusing on recharging our batteries right now . . . We realize we need to invest time into our music and our songs, as well as invest time into ourselves, our lives, so I think for the next few months that’s what we’ll be doing — getting away from it so we get a better perspective on what we want to do and what we want to accomplish when we sit down to write the next record.” McIlrath added he’s satisfied with what the band accomplished during the Endgame touring cycle, saying, “I feel really good about it. The record did really well, the shows did well, we had some great tours, we toured with some great friends of ours and we all feel very proud of what we did these couple of years.” ….Speaking of Corey Taylor, the man is completely off the hook! Workaholic. Supposed non-smoker for 2013. And now GEEK! Check <a href="
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” target=”_blank”>this out! Meanwhile, House of Gold & Bones, Part Deux (that’s 2) is now coming out later than the original Mar 26th date. An April release is now planned, but no specific date has been mentioned. We do know the next single, “Do Me A Favor,” is coming to us radio geeks on Jan 29th. Meanwhile, Stone Sour hits the road with Papa Roach on the 20th…..David Draiman‘s almost ready to start talking about his new project, Device. I have been told we can get him on the hotLine next week. Looking forward to that and listening a second time to the album, which includes a bunch of special guests (I was sworn to secrecy, but initials include LH, MS and GB.) I am excited to finally be able to get in on hardDriveRadio too!….Also ratttling the Alice in Chains camp for a chat with the boys. All good things come to those who wait. Sure!…Tremonti announces another brief run of the U.S. See Road Rage! ….Happy 67th today to John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures. And Happy 87th to Beatles’ producer George Martin.
