September 9th, 2008 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: Alice In Chains
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You can’t stop the rock reunions. Alice In Chains are the latest act to reform, despite the sticky issue of having a deceased lead singer.
It’s been 13 years since the band’s last album, and 6 since their legendary lead singer Layne Stayley died from a drugs overdose.
In this latest incarnation, Stayley has been replaced by singer-with-a-pulse William DuVall who’s been knocking around the rock and punk scene since the early 80’s.
The idea of rock star as rebel dates at least as far back as Elvis and his girl-baiting hips on the Ed Sullivan Show. As pervasive as the rock and roll badass is, even more prevalent is the rock star decline from badass to mild-mannered musician.
The three band members have been meeting to work on new ideas since Led Zeppelin’s one-off reunion show last December. But lead singer Robert Plant has not been involved in any of the sessions, Bonham told the radio station.
Apologies for the absence of late, dear readers. You might have noticed the minor upgrade we’ve made to the site design…that’s been occupying my time recently :)
Anyway, while I’ve been working out those little bugs in the design, I’ve also been spending birthday vouchers like a man on fire! Well, a man with £25 of Amazon vouchers…
Ryan writes a very good post about the RIAA’s continued campaign to shut down any form of online music sharing. Isn’t music a social phenomenon, don’t we discover new music through sharing it?
This could be the dictionary definition of ‘awesome’, Leona Lewis joining Jimmy Page onstage at the Olympics for a barn-storming rendition of Whole Lotta Love.
It looks like Jimmy’s got tired of the short hair he’s been sporting for the last few years. Is it worth reminding you that we’re among the biggest Led Zeppelin fans on the planet, so just watching Jimmy strut his stuff onstage brings on an attack of the goosebumps!
In what Idolator described as an Aguilera-like performance, Leona Lewis did an awesome performance of the song. OK, it wasn’t quite Robert-Plant-squeezing-lemons quality, but it cements Lewis’s position as a class act. And doesn’t she look hot?
Maybe it’s time to start some rumours about Lewis taking Plant’s place for a reformation of Led Zeppelin? Perhaps we’ll get that world tour after all…
Although the best bit by far was Beckham launching a ball into the audience and knocking over some Chinese audience member!
I mean, some singers defy classification or bleed from one category to another (Liam Gallagher’s both a Pseudo Diva AND a Stoic), but you can pretty much lump most leading men (and ladies!) into one of these categories. Allow me to present you with The Field Guide To The 10 Most Common Frontman Styles.
While Led Zeppelin might be the perfect gateway initiation to rock, there’s no denying their influence - and here are 10 rip-off bands that prove our case.
It shouldn’t come as any surprise considering reports earlier this week, but Wolfmother has called it a day.Andrew Stockdale Bass/keyboard player Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett cited long-standing personal and musical differences as the reason for the split.
AC/DC might actually be on their way to Hell. The group have revealed that their forthcoming album will be available in the US only at branches of Wal-Mart. No independent record shop will carry the CD - in fact, no shop at all will sell it.
We used to cover a lot of new music here on Unreality Music, taking some highly recommended bands on MySpace and reviewing them for your pleasure.
And what with all this talk about the dire state of the Indie scene, we thought it might be a good time to start looking out cool new bands. However, this time we’re not waiting on you guys to make recommendations. Oh no. We’re going on a tour of MySpace, one friend at a time.
Here’s a bunch of cool music-related blog posts I’ve come across recently.
35 Beautiful Music Album Covers
Album cover art is often considered to be one of the extinct fields in modern graphics design. Smashing Magazine take a look at some amazing cover art in music - I’m sure you can think of some of your own favourites.
Was John Lennon’s remark about The Beatle’s popularity more about the waning influence of Christianity in the face of pop culture? This article claims that Lennon was religious, but against the institution of the Church.
Imagine if millions of people had seen you naked before you were old enough to say “embarrassing.” That’s the story of Spencer Elden, whom you may know as the little baby floating towards a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album, Nevermind.
