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Kiss and Motley Crue to Tour

Posted in Entertainment by sceneandheardblog on March 31, 2012

KISS

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ROCK BANDS ON ONE STAGE

THE TOUR

SUMMER 2012

LOS ANGELES, CA (March 20, 2012) – Rock ‘n Roll doesn’t get any bigger than this! KISS and MÖTLEY CRÜE… On the same stage… On the same night. This spectacle of spectacles announced today, KISS and MÖTLEY CRÜE are uniting to launch THE TOUR of 2012. The summer’s biggest, baddest rock tour will level 40+ cities nationwide starting July 20th. The Live Nation promoted tour will go on sale beginning Friday, March 23rd at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com.   Both bands will have fan club pre-sales beginning Wednesday, March 21st at 10am.

 

Citi® cardmembers will also have access to presale tickets beginning Wedneday, March 21st at 2pm local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com.

 

With combined album sales of almost 200 million, KISS and MÖTLEY CRÜE are more than just iconic; they remain today as the dominant powerhouses of rock music tallying 30+ chart-topping hits, countless sold out tours and awards and accolades from around the world. Known for their elaborate and spectacular stage shows, each band plans to give fans the ultimate summer concert experience with the most impressive lighting and sound production ever and their signature over-the-top pyrotechnics. This is the first time KISS and MÖTLEY CRÜE will share a stage since 1982. 

 

KISS consists of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. MÖTLEY CRÜE consists of Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee.

These veterans of the music business are still at the height of their popularity. KISS is the juggernaut of them all, with 3,000 licensed merchandise products, including the KISS golf course in Las Vegas and a new album. KISS has broken box office records set by The Beatles and Elvis. MÖTLEY CRÜE is the first rock band in history to have just completed an epic sold-out Las Vegas residency at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The band is best known for continuing to reinvent not only their live show (with mind blowing elements such as Tommy Lee’s 360 drum roller coaster) and music (brand new song due out this spring), but remain on the cutting edge via social media interaction. MÖTLEY CRÜE’s New York Times bestselling book The Dirt is currently being adapted into a major motion picture.  Last month, the band was featured in one of the highest rated Super Bowl ads of all time for the KIA Optima.

 

For tickets & VIP packages, including opportunities to meet KISS and MÖTLEY CRÜE, please visit www.KISSonline.com or www.Motley.com

 

KISS AND MÖTLEY CRÜE THE TOUR:

DATE              CITY                                       VENUE

Jul 20              Bristow, VA                             Jiffy Lube Live

Jul 21              Virginia Beach, VA                  Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach

Jul 22              Raleigh, NC                            Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek

Jul 24              Atlanta, GA                             Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood

Jul 25              Charlotte, NC                          Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

Jul 27              West Palm Beach, FL             Cruzan Amphitheater

Jul 28              Tampa, FL                              1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre

Jul 31              Pelham, AL                             Oak Mountain Amphitheatre

Aug 3               Houston, TX                            Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

Aug 4               Dallas, TX                               Gexa Energy Pavillion

Aug 7               Albuquerque, NM                    Hard Rock Casino Presents The Pavilion

Aug 8               Englewood, CO                      Comfort Dental Amphitheatre

Aug 10             Phoenix, AZ                            Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion

Aug 11             Las Vegas, NV                        Mandalay Bay Arts Center

Aug 12             Chula Vista, CA                      Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre

Aug 14             Irvine, CA                                Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Aug 16             Concord, CA                           Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord

Aug 18             Auburn, WA                            White River Amphitheatre

Aug 19             Ridgefield, WA                        Sleep Country Amphitheater

Aug 24             Grand Junction, CO               Rock Jam

Aug 26             Tulsa, OK                                BOK Center (on-sale 3/30)

Aug 27             Maryland Heights, MO           Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Aug 29             Minneapolis, MN                     Minnesota State Fair (on-sale 3/31)

Aug 31             Cincinnati, OH                        Riverbend MusicCenter

Sep 1               Noblesville, IN                         Klipsch Music Center

Sep 2               Pittsburgh, PA                         First Niagra Pavilion

Sep 4               Nashville, TN                          Bridgestone Arena

Sep 5               Clarkston, MI                          DTE Energy Music Theatre

Sep 7               Tinley Park, IL                         First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre

Sep 8               East Troy, WI                          Alpine Valley Music Theatre

Sep 11             Allegan, MI                              Allegan County Fair (on-sale 5/5)

Sep 12             Cleveland, OH                        Blossom Music Center

Sep 13             Toronto, ON                            Molson Canadian Amphitheatre

Sep 15             Darien Center, NY                  Darien Lake Performing Arts Center

Sep 16             Mansfield, MA                         Comcast Center

Sep 18             Scranton, PA                          Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain

Sep 19             Camden, NJ                           Susquehanna Bank Center

Sep 21             Holmdel, NJ                            PNC Bank Arts Center

Sep 22             Wantagh, NY                          Nikon at Jones Beach Theater

Sep 23             Hartford, CT                            Comcast Theatre

 

 

About KISS

KISS remains one of the most influential bands in the history of rock and roll.  As one of America’s top gold-record champions, KISS has released 44 albums and sold more than 90 million albums worldwide. Decades of record-breaking tours around the globe have included high-profile appearances at Super Bowl XXXIII, the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the Rockin’ The Corps concert dedicated to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and special guest appearance on the 2009 American Idol finale that boasted 30 million viewers and a 2010 Dr. Pepper Super Bowl commercial and advertising campaign in support of their Hottest Show On Earth tour.

The KISS legacy continues to grow, generation after generation. The unparalleled devotion and loyalty of the KISS Army to the “Hottest Band in the World” is a striking testament to the band’s unbreakable bond with its fans, and just one of the reasons KISS was nominated for induction into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.    KISS is currently in the studio recording “Monster”, the followup to  their 2009 chart topping album “Sonic Boom” and preparing for a soon to be announced major world tour starting in summer of 2012.

For more information, please visit www.KISSonline.com and follow the band: @KISSonline

 

About MÖTLEY CRÜE

Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, the quartet—Vince Neil (vocals), Mick Mars (guitars), Nikki Sixx (bass) and Tommy Lee (drums)—has commandeered the rock pantheon for over 30 years. In that time, they have accumulated worldwide album sales exceeding 80 million, seven platinum or multi-platinum albums, 22 Top 40 mainstream rock hits, six Top 20 pop singles, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Grammy nominations for Best Hard Rock Performance, a New York Times bestselling memoir, and countless sold out gigs across the globe, playing to millions of fans.

For more information, please visit: mailto:www.motley.com

Follow the band:  @thevinceneil, @MrMickMars, @nikkisixx, @MrTommyLand

 

About Live Nation Entertainment:

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and ecommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five ecommerce sites, with almost 27 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 22,000 shows annually for more than 2,300 artists globally. Front Line is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling nearly 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

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NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE RELEASE AMERICANA ON JUNE 5TH

Posted in Entertainment by sceneandheardblog on March 31, 2012

 
 

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE RELEASE AMERICANA ON JUNE 5TH   

 

March 20, 2012 – (Burbank, CA) – NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE will release a very special album titled AMERICANA on June 5, 2012. AMERICANA is the first album fromNeil Young & Crazy Horse in nearly nine years. Crazy Horse is: Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Poncho Sampedro, and Neil Young.

 

As you’ll see from the track-listing, AMERICANA is collection of classic, American folk songs. In their day, some of these may have been referred to as “protest songs,” “murder ballads,” or campfire-type songs passed down with universal, relatable tales for everyman.

 

Some of these compositions which, like “Tom Dooley” and “Oh Susannah,” were written in the 1800s, while others, like “This Land Is Your Land” (utilizing the original, widely misinterpreted “deleted verses”) and “Get A Job,” are mid-20th-century folk classics. It’s also interesting to note that “God Save The Queen,”Britain’s national anthem, also became the de facto national anthem of sorts before the establishment of The Union as we know it until we came to adopt our very own “The Star Spangled Banner,” which has been recognized for use as early as 1889 and made our official national anthem in 1931. Each of these compositions is very much part of the fabric of our American heritage; the roots of what we think of as “Americana” in cultural terms, using songs as a way of passing along information and documenting our past.

 

What ties these songs together is the fact that while they may represent an America that may no longer exist, the emotions and scenarios behind these songs still resonate with what’s going on in the country today with equal, if not greater impact nearly 200 years later. The lyrics reflect the same concerns and are still remarkably meaningful to a society going through economic and cultural upheaval, especially during an election year. They are just as poignant and powerful today as the day they were written.

 

Neil has penned brief historical details about each of the songs on AMERICANA that can be found here. 

 

AMERICANA was produced by Neil and John Hanlon along with Mark Humphreys, and engineered by John Hanlon with John Hausmann and Jeff Pinn. It was recorded at Audio Casa Blanca by John Hanlon.

 

The track-listing is as follows:

Oh Susannah

Clementine

Tom Dooley

Gallows Pole

Get A Job

Travel On

High Flyin’ Bird

She’ll Be Comin ‘Round The Mountain

This Land Is Your Land

Wayfarin’ Stranger

God Save The Queen

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NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE RELEASE AMERICANA ON JUNE 5TH

Posted in Entertainment by sceneandheardblog on March 31, 2012

 
 

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE RELEASE AMERICANA ON JUNE 5TH   

 

March 20, 2012 – (Burbank, CA) – NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE will release a very special album titled AMERICANA on June 5, 2012. AMERICANA is the first album fromNeil Young & Crazy Horse in nearly nine years. Crazy Horse is: Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Poncho Sampedro, and Neil Young.

 

As you’ll see from the track-listing, AMERICANA is collection of classic, American folk songs. In their day, some of these may have been referred to as “protest songs,” “murder ballads,” or campfire-type songs passed down with universal, relatable tales for everyman.

 

Some of these compositions which, like “Tom Dooley” and “Oh Susannah,” were written in the 1800s, while others, like “This Land Is Your Land” (utilizing the original, widely misinterpreted “deleted verses”) and “Get A Job,” are mid-20th-century folk classics. It’s also interesting to note that “God Save The Queen,”Britain’s national anthem, also became the de facto national anthem of sorts before the establishment of The Union as we know it until we came to adopt our very own “The Star Spangled Banner,” which has been recognized for use as early as 1889 and made our official national anthem in 1931. Each of these compositions is very much part of the fabric of our American heritage; the roots of what we think of as “Americana” in cultural terms, using songs as a way of passing along information and documenting our past.

 

What ties these songs together is the fact that while they may represent an America that may no longer exist, the emotions and scenarios behind these songs still resonate with what’s going on in the country today with equal, if not greater impact nearly 200 years later. The lyrics reflect the same concerns and are still remarkably meaningful to a society going through economic and cultural upheaval, especially during an election year. They are just as poignant and powerful today as the day they were written.

 

Neil has penned brief historical details about each of the songs on AMERICANA that can be found here. 

 

AMERICANA was produced by Neil and John Hanlon along with Mark Humphreys, and engineered by John Hanlon with John Hausmann and Jeff Pinn. It was recorded at Audio Casa Blanca by John Hanlon.

 

The track-listing is as follows:

Oh Susannah

Clementine

Tom Dooley

Gallows Pole

Get A Job

Travel On

High Flyin’ Bird

She’ll Be Comin ‘Round The Mountain

This Land Is Your Land

Wayfarin’ Stranger

God Save The Queen

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The OJays Bring Their “Love Train” to Horseshoe

Posted in Entertainment by sceneandheardblog on March 31, 2012

The OJays at Horseshoe Casino

 

Horseshoe Casino Southern Indiana hosted a sold out performance by The OJays on Friday evening. The class of 2005  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members, including founders , Eddie Levert Sr. and lifelong friend Walter Williams Sr. along with Eric Nolan Grant who joined in 1995, sang and danced for ninety minutes covering songs from their fifty year history.  The energetic group was backed by a twelve piece band and tapped many of their 24 top ten hits including “Backstabbers, “I Love Music” and “For The Love of Money”.

The biggest ovation came when sixty-nine year old, Eddie Levert Sr. spoke to the audience about getting the country back on track, telling them to”Pray to God to put down our differences and save the USA”. As many in the audience  shouted in agreement, the group broke into an acapella version of Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready” that flowed perfectly into “Love Train”.

There were times that age stole parts from their range of vocals, however the trio’s solid harmonies, energetic delivery  and love of performing showed throughout the night.

The music was fresh and enjoyable.  It was a tribute to the success of a legendary group who has mastered the art of entertainment.

This band doesn’t rest on their past history. It’s very evident they can still deliver a first class show.

 

The Ojay's , Eddie Levert Sr and Eric Nolan Grant

Walter Williams Sr

The OJays

 

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