Judas Priest Announces North American “Firepower” Tour Dates For 2019
With Judas Priest’s latest studio album, Firepower, confirmed as one of the most successful of the band’s entire career – landing in the “top 5” of 17 countries, including their highest chart placement ever in the U.S., at #5, demand to see the legendary metal band in concert is higher than ever.
And North American headbangers will get their chance to experience the legendary band on a nearby concert stage this coming spring/summer, when Priest will tour throughout the continent – with the classic metal band Uriah Heep as support.
Kicking off on May 3rd at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and wrapping up on June 29th at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, fans will get an opportunity to catch Priest at the height of their concert powers on any one of the tour’s 32 dates.
There are few heavy metal bands that have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest have during their nearly 50-year career – responsible for issuing such all-time classic albums as British Steel, Screaming for Vengeance, and Painkiller, as well as the anthems “Breaking the Law,” “Living After Midnight,” and “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming.”
And Priest’s presence and influence remains strong, as evidenced by the chart performance of ‘Firepower’ and its glowing reviews, a Grammy Award win for ‘Best Metal Performance’, plus being a VH1 Rock Honors recipient and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination. Also, Priest can be credited as being one of the first metal bands to pioneer wearing leather and studs – a look that would eventually be embraced by metalheads throughout the world.
Undoubtedly, Judas Priest’s upcoming North American tour will only add to their ever-growing status of heavy metal legends.
North American Firepower tour dates 2019
May 3 – Hollywood, Fla. @ Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
May 6 – Nashville, Tenn. @ Nashville Municipal Auditorium
May 8 – Atlanta, Ga. @ Fox Theatre
May 9 – Biloxi, Miss. @ Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
May 12 – Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
May 14 – Huntington, N.Y. @ The Paramount
May 15 – Huntington, N.Y. @ The Paramount
May 16 – Uncasville, Conn. @ Mohegan Sun Arena
May 18 – Albany, N.Y. @ Palace Theatre
May 19 – Albany, N.Y. @ Palace Theatre
May 22 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Riverside Theater
May 23 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Riverside Theater
May 25 – Rosemont, Ill. @ Rosemont Theatre
May 28 – Austin, Tex. @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater
May 29 – Austin, Tex. @ ACL Live at The Moody Theater
May 31 – Dallas, Tex. @ The Bomb Factory
June 1 – Little Rock, Ark. @ First Security Amphitheater
June 3 – St. Louis, Mo. @ Stifel Theatre
June 5 – Colorado Springs, Colo. @ Broadmoor World Arena
June 8 – Saskatoon, Sask. @ SaskTel Centre
June 10 – Lethbridge, Alta. @ ENMAX Centre
June 11 – Edmonton, Alta. @ Rogers Place
June 13 – Dawson Creek, B.C. @ Encana Events Centre
June 14 – Prince George, B.C. @ CN Centre
June 16 – Kelowna, B.C. @ Prospera Place
June 17 – Abbotsford, B.C. @ Abbotsford Centre
June 19 – Airway Heights, Wash. @ Northern Quest Resort and Casino
June 21 – Kent, Wash. @ Accesso Showare Center
June 22 – Portland, Ore. @ Moda Theatre of the Clouds
June 24 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Warfield Theatre
June 25 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Warfield Theatre
June 27 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Microsoft Theater
June 29 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel
Congratulations to Toronto’s York University Professor of Music Rob Bowman, nominated for a Grammy Award
On Friday December 7th York University Professor of Music, Rob Bowman, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Historical Reissue category as co-producer for the Numero Group’s 2017 two disc compilation Jackie Shane: Any Other Way.
This is Bowman’s sixth Grammy nomination and second as a producer. In 1996, Bowman won a Grammy in the Album Notes category for the 47,000 word essay he wrote to accompany The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Vol. 3: 1972-75.
In addition to co-producing Jackie Shane: Any Other Way, Bowman penned the 20,000 word album notes that are included in the package which tell the incredible story of the enigmatic soul singer. Jackie Shane was born in Nashville as a boy in 1940. At the age of 13, Jackie told her mother that she was a woman in a man’s body and began wearing makeup to school in the segregated Jim Crow south. Six years later she came to Canada as part of a travelling carnival, becoming a star first in Montreal and then in her adopted home of Toronto. In 1963, Shane had a number 3 hit on Toronto radio with her brilliant cover of William Bell’s “Any Other Way.”
While never dressing as a transvestite onstage, Shane wore makeup and effeminate clothing and, given that the word transgender was virtually unknown in the 1960s, was understood by her audience as a gay man. Her impact on many people in the then largely underground Toronto gay scene was immense. In December 1971, Shane mysteriously left Toronto and never recorded or performed again. Revered for decades among soul music collectors around the world, copies of her original recordings regularly sold for substantial sums of money. For years, her fans thought that she had died but instead she had deliberately vanished from public view and was living a quiet, private life, at first in Los Angeles and then in Nashville.
In addition to a her extraordinary work as a lead singer, Shane played sessions as a drummer for a number of R&B and gospel records for a range of artists including Sister Edna Gallmon Cooke and Joe Cocker. Friends with Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard, Shane’s story takes a number of wild and unpredictable turns. Prior to Bowman’s work for the Any Other Way reissue, Shane had never done a serious interview. Over a series of three months, Bowman recorded thirty-three hours of interviews with Shane and spoke to her more informally for dozens of additional hours. The resulting essay tells a story that Hollywood script writers would find impossible to conceive.
Rob Bowman has been writing professionally about rhythm and blues, rock, country, jazz and gospel for over forty-five years interviewing extensively several hundred artists ranging from Bob Marley to Mick Jagger. He is the author of Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records (Schirmer Books), winner of the 1998 ASCAP-Deems Taylor and ARSC Awards for Excellence in Music Research. In 2013 Soulsville U.S.A. was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in Memphis.
In the past year Bowman has worked on box sets for Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, and Rush and has just finished working on a three CD set documenting the work of cutting-edge Canadian synthesizer composer John Mills-Cockell. A tenured professor at York University in Toronto, Bowman pioneered the study of popular music at Canadian universities and regularly lectures on popular music around the world.
A Cappella Of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ … Hanukkah-Style!
Is this just fantasy? No, it’s Six13’s Hanukkah tribute to one of the greatest and most epic songs of all time. Ready, Freddie? Kindle the lights, remember the Maccabees, and rock on. CHAG SAMEACH!
David Lynch’s teaser trailer for Michael Jackson’s ‘Dangerous’ album, 1991
This is the trailer for Michael Jackson’s 1991 album Dangerous, directed by David Lynch. Jackson had personally called Lynch on the phone to ask him for the role.
Watched Elvis Costello Perform At His Third-Ever Show In 1974
If this 19-year-old looks and sounds familiar, well, this is just the first filmed appearance of legend-in-the-making Elvis Costello, fronting his first band Flip City, who were active from 1974 through to early 1976. This was their third ever gig. Other highlights in the video include a group of school girls singing in straw hats, young women country dancing, children having their face painted, the obligatory Punch and Judy show, a steel pan band and children bouncing on an inflatable tube, if you’re so inclined.
Erykah Badu: Tiny Desk Concert
The singer’s performance at the Tiny Desk was an almost spiritual experience, leaving many at the NPR Music offices in awe.
Barry White At The Royal Albert Hall,1975
I don’t know who these 140 people are who downvoted this on YouTube, but I doubt they had the sound on.
