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Meat Loaf Announces Tour Dates

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Meat Loaf will embark on a summer North American tour beginning July 3rd in support of his star-studded forthcoming album Hang Cool Teddy Bear, it was announced today.  Meat Loaf’s new Hang Cool Teddy Bear, whose title was taken from a line in Beyond The Valley of the Dolls, was produced by Rob Cavallo and features guest appearances by Jack Black, Hugh Laurie, Kara DioGuardi, Queen’s Brian May and Steve Vai.  The highly anticipated album is due out May 11th from Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records. Free single downloads from the new album will be included in the price of the ticket in select markets.  The first single from Hang Cool Teddy Bear, “Like a Rose,” debuted on AOL’s Spinner.com last Friday. 
 
The CD’s theme was inspired by screenwriter/director Kilian Kerwin’s story.  A soldier who has been wounded in battle thinks he is going to die.  Instead of his life flashing backward at the prospect, his life flashes forward into what could have been.  The inter-related songs are the different scenarios he finds himself in.  It’s not always the same time or place, but it is always the same woman.  The first video, “Los Angeloser,” tells a tale of a bad significant other who takes advantage of a generous lover.  (Who hasn’t been there?!)
Read on for more information and for tour dates!

“I wanted it big, I wanted it dramatic, I wanted a rock record,” Meat Loaf says.  “Yes, it sounds like a Meat Loaf record.  But it sounds different, too; it sounds new, it sounds fresh.  It speaks to you in a different way.” 
 
For Hang Cool Teddy Bear, Meat Loaf’s creativity was sparked by working with a new collaborator, Rob Cavallo, a lifelong Meat Loaf fan who has worked with some of the most explosive names in rock music: Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Paramore and Fleetwood Mac.  According to Meat Loaf, “Rob is the number one rock producer in the world because he leaves his ego out of the equation and gives an artist his voice, making it sound better than the artist could even imagine.”
 
The first leg of the summer 2010 North American tour begins on July 3rd in Gilford, NH at the Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion. More dates will be announced shortly.
 
TOUR DATES INCLUDE:                                                                                     
July 3 – Gilford, NH – Meadowbrook U. S. Cellular Pavilion       
July 8 – Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion                    
July 10 – Atlantic City, NJ – Atlantic City Hilton                         
July 12 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena                            
July 14 – Wantagh, NY – Nikon at Jones Beach Theater                  
July 16 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center                        
July 18 – Hershey, PA – Giant Center                                 
July 22 – Detroit, MI – MotorCity Casino Hotel                    
July 24 – Sault Sainte Marie, MI – Kewadin Casino 25th Anniversary Festival              
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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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April 9, 2024

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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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