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NEWS BITES: MEGADETH To Play ‘Rust In Piece’, CONVERGE Goes Down Under and Blink-182 To Record New Album
It has been revealed that to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Megadeth’s “Rust In Peace” they will be playing the album in it’s entirety with a few fan favorites to follow. The tour will also include acts by Exodus and Testament who will be playing “The Legacy” in it’s entirety. The tour begins March 1.
In support of 2009’s “Axe To Fall” Converge is on a mini tour through Australia. Dates and more past the break. 03/12: Auckland, New Zealand @ Kings Arms
03/13: Wellington, New Zealand @ Bar Bodega
03/16: Perth, Australia @ Amplifier w/ Genghis Tron
03/17: Adelaide, Australia @ Fowlers w/ Genghis Tron
03/18: Melbourne, Australia @ Corner w/ Genghis Tron
03/19: Sydney, Australia @ Manning Bar w/ Genghis Tron
03/20: Brisbane, Australia @ Hi Fi w/ Genghis Tron
05/30: Baltimore, MD @ Maryland Deathfest w/ Entombed, Obituary, 16, and more
Converge is currently working on a full U.S. tour and as soon as dates are announced I will have them up.
And finally Blink-182 is getting ready to head back in the studio to record their first album since 2003’s Self-Titled full length. The album is in hopes for a 2011 release through Interscope. Blink-182 plan on touring Europe this summer.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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