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Dream Theater Release Official Video For “The Looking Glass”
Progressive metal band Dream Theater has released an official music video for their track “The Looking Glass”, which comes off their new self-titled album. You can watch the video below as well as check out tour dates for the band’s upcoming “Along For The Ride” tour.
In an interview with Music Radar, guitarist John Petrucci states, “‘The Looking Glass’ has a few different stylistic changes: There’s the RUSH arena-rock major riff, but the verses are tricky as far as time signatures, and the style is a little darker. The pre-choruses are very pretty and flowing — they’re in half-time — and the choruses open up and get really hooky. From verse to pre-chorus to chorus to riff, you’ve got a lot of musical styles, and that helps to keep things interesting.”
Make sure to check out our exclusive interview with Petrucci here.
“Along For The Ride” tour dates:
Mar. 20 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
Mar. 21 – Montreal, QC – Bell Center
Mar. 22 – Quebec City, QC – Pavillon de la Jeunesse
Mar. 25 – Boston, MA – Opera House
Mar. 27 – Upper Darby, PA – Tower Theatre
Mar. 28 – New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
Mar. 30 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount
Mar. 31 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theatre
Apr. 01 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theater
Apr. 02 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Palace
Apr. 04 – Detroit, MI – Fillmore
Apr. 05 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
Apr. 06 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater
Apr. 08 – Minneapolis, MN – Burnsville Performing Arts Center
Apr. 09 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
Apr. 10 – Denver, CO – Paramount
Apr. 12 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Apr. 14 – Seattle, WA – McCaw Hall
Apr. 15 – Salem, OR – Elsinore Theatre
Apr. 17 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
Apr. 18 – Riverside, CA – Fox PAC
Apr. 19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Orpheum
Apr. 20 – Mesa, AZ – Ikeda Theatre
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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