Night Visions by Imagine Dragons spends its 300th week on the Billboard Album Chart. According to frontman Dan Reynolds, the album took three years to finish, with six of the album’s tracks being previously released on multiple EPs. Night Visions appeared in the Billboard 200 top 10 in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The album became the fourth best-selling album of 2013 in the US.[10] It was nominated for the Juno Award for International Album of the Year (2014) and won the Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Album (2014).
The Rolling Stones Emerge From The Vault with ‘No Security San Jose ’99!’
The newest addition to The Rolling Stones’ acclaimed “From The Vault” series looks back on 1999’s No Security Tour with this release from San Jose, California. It will be available on DVD and SD Blu-ray (both accompanied by 2 CDs with the audio from the show) as well as on triple vinyl on July 13, 2018.
The Rolling Stones’ No Security tour ran from January to June 1999 through North America and Europe. It followed on from the colossal Bridges To Babylon tour and took its name from the “No Security” live album recorded on that 1997/98 tour. In reaction to the huge stadiums played on Bridges To Babylon the conscious decision was made to book smaller venues for the initial North American leg of the No Security tour.
This show was filmed at the San Jose Arena in front of an audience of a little over 30,000 (intimate by Rolling Stones standards!) at the end of the North American run. Previously unreleased, it captures the band in top form playing a set that spans from mid-sixties hit singles up to the then current Bridges To Babylon album.
The set list spans from the mid-sixties hit singles to the Bridges to Babylon album, including a bluesy, dramatic version of ‘Midnight Rambler’, a dark and swaggering ‘Out of Control’, and the rarely performed live, ‘Some Girls’ and ‘Saint of Me’. The show was an electrifying, anthem-packed, cross generational hot ticket, concluding yet another chapter from the band that wrote the book on rock ‘n’ roll.
Wiz Khalifa Takes a Lie Detector Test
Wiz Khalifa takes a lie detector test for Vanity Fair. Does he really spend $10K a month on weed? Who smokes more, Wiz Khalifa or Snoop Dogg? Does he like Biggie more than Tupac? Does he believe in free will? Rolling Papers 2 will be out on July 13th.
The Best End Credit Scene In TV History: Police Squad
Created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin, Police Squad was a spoof of police procedurals, featuring hilarious sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. They also had the best end credit scene in history:
https://youtu.be/lkNVgrOJfl0
The Beatles Walk…Literally…Across Abbey Road In This Trippy Fan-Created Video
The Beatles’ Abbey Road, the most iconic album cover of all time, goes through a trippy journey, in this short 2D/3D hybrid animation created by Pierre Gombaud. As for the music, he used Paul McCartney’s Two Finger Chord & Whistle, followed by a remix of Tomorrow Never Knows that Pierre made from the master tracks.
ABBY_ROWED_1920x1080_24fps_MONTAGE_FINAL from Pierre Gombaud on Vimeo.
Bass Guitarist Covers The Cranberries’ ‘Zombie’
German musician Tommy Lee Depp wrote and arranged and performed an incredible bass cover of The Cranberries song Zombie as a heartfelt tribute to he late lead singer Dolores O’Riordan, who passed away in January, 2018.
Photo Gallery: Kaleo at Toronto’s Rebel
All photos by Mini’s Memories. You can contact her at minismemories@hotmail.com
Funko is releasing a line of breakfast cereals called FunkO’s
Breakfast is fun again with FunkO’s (you guys can use that one). Each cereal will come with sweet box art and a Pop! figure of the themed character. The first batch of FunkO’s will be available this month in a number of stores, including GameStop, Hot Topic and FYE.
Paul McCartney announced the first four dates of 2018 tour, and Canada gets him first
Paul McCartney announced the first four dates of a 2018 tour entitled “Freshen Up,” which will support the release of his new solo album Egypt Station, and all the dates so far are in Canada.
Egypt Station is McCartney’s first solo LP since 2013’s New. “I liked the words ‘Egypt Station.’ It reminded me of the ‘album’ albums we used to make. Egypt Station starts off at the station on the first song and then each song is like a different station. So, it gave us some idea to base all the songs around that. I think of it as a dream location that the music emanates from.”
McCartney also said he’d like to play a bit smaller venues in the future. “It not only takes you back to where you started, but there’s the intimacy in the audience, and you can have a lot of fun. And you sometimes don’t feel like it’s quite so precious. Because if there’s 40,000 people who paid all that money, you’ve gotta think about pleasing them. If there’s only a couple hundred, and we’re all having a party, you just think, ‘We can throw in “Matchbox,”or we’ll throw in an odd number that we’d only do at sound checks or something.’ So they’re good fun for that reason.”
I saw him last summer in New York, and easily one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Good Lord, he’s a Beatle. Go catch him.
Paul McCartney ‘Freshen Up’ 2018 Tour Dates
9/17 – Quebec City, QC – the Videotron Centre
9/20 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
9/28 – Winnipeg, MB – Bell MTS Place
9/30 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
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