Good morning! So happy it’s FRIDAY! Here’s what’s up: Alice In Chains has finally revealed the release date for their album on May 14th. It’s the band’s fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here. The cover art for the disc has also been posted online. The track list for the record includes “Voices,” “Low Ceiling,” “Stone,” “Hollow,” “Lab Monkey,” the title track and five others. The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here follows up 2009’s Black Gives Way To Blue. Check out the cover art at http://tinyurl.com/acttmkd (Blabbermouth)… Slash has officially begun work on his third solo album, posting a tweet on Wednesday (March 20th), “Started the demo process for the next (Slash with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators) record last night. Lots of material to work up. It’s going 2 be good.” The new project follows 2012’s Apocalyptic Love, which peaked at Number Four on the Billboard 200 album chart and yielded four singles. (HenneMusic)….Pop Evil and 10 Years will appear at the 2013 ShipRocked Summer Camp, scheduled to take place on June 14th thru 16th at Club Getaway in the Berkshire Mountains of western Connecticut. Attendees at the event will stay in cabins featuring air conditioning and private bathrooms, and there will be buffets, barbecues and dinner cuisine prepared by chefs from the Connecticut Culinary Institute. The location will also feature waterskiing, wakeboarding, kayaking and sailing, along with cycling, zip-lining, rock climbing and other activities. For more information go to http://www.campshiprocked.com/2013/ (Loudwire)…HARDDRIVE LIVE TOUR mates Halestorm has been confirmed to play at the 2013 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally as part of the lineup of the event’s Buffalo Chip Music Festival. The annual South Dakota event — now in its 32nd year — runs from August 2nd through the 11th, with Halestorm scheduled to open for ZZ Top on August 4th. Other artists also confirmed for the rally include Kid Rock, Queensryche, Sublime With Rome and Toby Keith, with more acts expected to be named in the coming months….Pulse Content reports Alter Bridge plans to release a new box set on May 14th, according to a message posted by the group at its website. The band has also launched a separate site for the package itself, although all that features at the moment is a countdown clock and a video teaser trailer. There’s no word on what the box set will contain, although it will likely include the band’s three previous studio discs or at least selections from them, along with a live disc released in 2011….Now I get it. Rob Zombie has posted a lyric video online for “Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown,” the first single from his upcoming album Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor. Being a Zombie video, of course, it’s not just words on a screen, as spinning records, large rats and other bizarre visuals accompany Zombie’s equally stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Zombie told us what actually inspired the tune: “I like listening to rock radio. So I was listening to the radio and I realized that every song they were playing was by somebody who was dead. And it just kept going. It was like, ‘Here’s Hendrix,’ you know, and ‘Here’s AC/DC but wth Bon Scott!’ and ‘Here’s Lynyrd Skynyrd!’ — they weren’t doing it on purpose, it was just, I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ And I thought about all the acts that they were playing and I go, ‘Within about 10 more years, every single act on the radio will be by people that are dead.’ That’s really kind of disturbing, and that’s what gave me the idea.”….Happy Birthday today to John Otto of Limp Bizkit who turns 36, Bill Shatner turns 82!!! (can that be right???)…Have a great weekend! See ya Monday!
