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Greta Van Fleet has confirmed that the band is working on its second full-length album and hinted at its direction in a new interview with NME. Guitarist Jake Kiszka explained, “There’s a little evolution, I suppose, with everything. We’re working on something quite different, I suppose. It’s interesting, ’cause we never know exactly what an album’s gonna look like; it can only be so premeditated.”
The new disc may arrive before the end of the year and will follow up the quartet’s full-length 2008 debut, Anthem Of The Peaceful Army. Kiszka continued, “As it sort of unfolds now, it’s an example of where we are musically right now. So it’s definitely much different than Anthem Of The Peaceful Army would have been.”
Bassist Sam Kiszka added, “I think it’s really the next step in the evolution of what we want to do . . . just incorporating more sounds, more tones, more styles of music, perhaps, and kind of taking a step in the cinematic direction.”
The band, one of the breakout rock success stories of the past few years, has been criticized for sounding very similar to Led Zeppelin. Jake told us not long ago that the quartet’s main influences go back further than that: “Blues is that glue that bonds us, you know. I’m a guitarist, so I have to have influences from people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Hendrix — he’s another good one — yeah, like, a lot of the British blues players and even the American blues players like Elmore James. And yeah, so, a lot of blues for me — well, for all of us.”
Anthem Of The Peaceful Army landed at Number Three on the Billboard 200 chart in July 2018 and spawned the rock radio hits “When The Curtain Falls” and “You’re The One.” The band’s first huge hit, “Highway Tune,” emerged the year before.
The first full trailer for Rob Zombie‘s new film, Three From Hell, has been released. The two-minute teaser seems to indicate that the movie kicks off almost directly following the climax of Zombie’s 2005 effort, The Devil’s Rejects, in which the sadistic Firefly family were cut down by police in a hail of bullets.
The trailer, however, seems to show that Otis, Baby and Captain Spaulding — played by Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie and Sid Haig — have somehow survived the shootout. After an escape from prison, it appears that at least Otis and Baby are set loose to wreak havoc on the world again, joined by Richard Brake as Foxy.
Zombie told us a while back where the inspiration for the Firefly clan came from: “My mom’s side of the family were pretty interesting because she grew up in the traveling carnival business, so they were like carnies and bikers and they would always fight with each other — like brutally, physically with each other. But as soon as someone else stepped in, they were united. ‘We can hate each other but you can’t get in the middle of it,’ and that’s what I wanted with these characters. They’re always fighting and they seem to hate each other but they like each other when someone else steps in. It was that weird conflict that you would see with those sort of families.”
Lionsgate and Saban Films will screen Three From Hell in nearly 900 select movie theaters on September 16th, 17th and 18th, 2019 through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network. Fathom will broadcast the unrated version to theaters along with unique bonus content.
The Black Keys lay out unreachable career goals, show off their expensive guitars and tell fans they’ll never be as talented as the Keys themselves as they offer unhelpful advice to aspiring musicians in a hilarious Funny Or Die trailer for a fake musical “MasterCourse.”
The clip opens with singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach describing why he writes songs as he strums a guitar, with Auerbach explaining, “Every song on a record is trying to accomplish something. That song, in particular, was trying to get me a new pool.”
Auerbach also instructs students to take inspiration from their surroundings as he humblebrags, “I wrote that song while eating caviar with Michael Jordan in Paris,” adding that the basketball legend “cheats at blackjack.”
Drummer Patrick Carney says about his craft, “It means a lot to be a drummer. One of the things it means is that you’re not a good guitar player — or as good as someone else that you know who’s in your band.”
The duo released their ninth studio album and first in five years, “Let’s Rock,” last month. They’ll embark on a North American tour this fall in support of the LP, starting September 21st at Life Is Beautiful in Las Vegas.
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators will release the live concert document Living The Dream Tour on DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2 CD, three-LP black vinyl, limited-edition three-LP red vinyl, digital video and digital audio on September 20th.
Living The Dream Tour was shot on location on February 20th, 2019 at London, England’s Eventim Apollo. It features Slash and his longtime solo band roaring through a two-hour set of tracks from all four of Slash’s solo albums, including hits such as “Call Of The Wild”, “Driving Rain,” “Back From Cali,” “World On Fire” and “Anastasia.”
Earlier this year, Slash told Loudwire about the London concert at which the set was filmed, “Very rarely do you plan to do a live record and it’s the most magic show of the whole tour . . . It was one of the best London crowds that I played in front of with the Conspirators, for sure. It was a really great, great, great live (experience).”
Even after more than 30 years of performing live with Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver and his solo band, Slash told us he still gets nervous before every show: “I get butterflies going onstage every night. I mean, I can be going up and jamming at a local bar with 80 people in it, or going up in front of 80,000 people. It’s the same. It’s that pre-show anxiety of just wanting to do a really good job, and I think that’s what it is, ’cause I can’t understand any other reason, any other way of explaining it.”
Slash and the Conspirators were scheduled to kick off a new North American headlining tour on Monday night (July 15th) in San Francisco. The trek next stops in Seattle on Wednesday (July 17th) and will last through mid-August.
Finally, we want to wish a Happy Birthday to Live singer Ed Kowalczyk, and SOiL singer Ryan McCombs! Have a great day!
