Smashing Pumpkins Tour!

Smashing Pumpkins Tour!

That’s right Smashing Pumpkins fans, your favorite band is going on tour and you had better believe that you are not going to want to miss out on this impressive line-up of talent and fun! Due to the fact that there is nothing as much fun as watching your favorite band play your favorite songs while you are surrounded by other fans of that band and by your own set of family and friends, you had better believe that you are going to want to get yourself tickets to see this band perform live, while you still can!

Highlight of the Smashing Pumpkins tour include gigs at such locales as the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Georgia on both November 15 and November 16 as well as the Nokia Theater at Grand Prairie in Grand Prairie, Texas on November 18. The Smashing PUmpkins will also perform for eager fans at newly announced venues including Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria on January 31 and Mancehster Evening News Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom on February 15 as well as the O2 Arena in London, United Kingdom on February 16.

You know you don’t want to miss out on this chance to see your favorite band play live on their tour.

My Bloody Valentine Announce Live Dates

My Bloody Valentine Announce Live Dates

Cult rockers My Bloody Valentine will play their first live gigs in 16 years when they take to the stage in the summer of 2008. Kevin Shields’ British group revealed their tour plans on Thursday, one week after announcing their reunion. The rock icons, which are planning to release a new album before the end of this year, will play gigs in London, Manchester and Glasgow in June and July. The group last played live in 1992, and have been inactive since 1995. They have also been linked to the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California.

Before Long - Maroon 5

Maroon 5’s 2002 debut album, Songs About Jane, was the kind of hit that doesn’t happen often in the new millennium — a genuine word-of-mouth hit whose popularity grew steadily after its release, largely due to the sweet, sunny hit “This Love,” a song sly and catchy enough to stay on the adult pop charts for years without wearing out its welcome.

It Won’t Be Soon Before Long appeals to both audiences with an ease that seems effortless, but like any modern blockbuster, this album was shepherded by several different teams of producers, all brought in to emphasize a different personality within the group. The bulk of the record was cut with Spike Stent and Mike Elizondo — Stent worked with U2, Oasis, Björk, and Gwen Stefani, while Elizondo had produced Fiona Apple and Pink — but Queens of the Stone Age producer Eric Valentine was brought in for a couple of cuts, as was Mark Endert, who mixed “This Love.” There may have been three different sets of producers, but the album is streamlined and seamless, never seeming calculated even if it was clearly made with an eye on mass appeal.

Even the flashiest production-driven tracks here — the opening one-two punch of “If I Never See Your Face Again” and “Makes Me Wonder” — aren’t about feel; they’re about the songs, which are uniformly tight and tuneful, sounding better with repeated plays, the way any radio-oriented pop should. If some of the ballads aren’t as distinguished as the livelier tracks, they nevertheless are as sharply crafted as the rest, and the end result is that It Won’t Be Soon Before Long is that rare self-stylized blockbuster album that sounds as big and satisfying as was intended.

Fightstar, One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours

His latest move is to hire American producer Matt Wallace to produce Fightstar’s second album, the ungrammatically titled One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours. An architect of the nu-metal movement, Wallace’s CV reads something like the pencil case of a lip-studded, angst teen, embellished with names like Faith No More and Deftones. But, even with Wallace calling the shots, One Day Son still feels like a record tugged in too many directions. Radio-friendly single “99” is weighty yet melodic, “You and I” is a ripening attempt at a breathy serenade, while harder tracks like “Tannhauser” throb with well-regimented aggression, threatening to pulverise anyone who might question the band’s rock credentials. One Day Son sees Fightstar attempt many styles – some skillfully; others ham-fistedly – but, as Charlie will no doubt be keen to parrot, at least Busted’s skimpy, faux-punk stylings aren’t among them.

Coheed And Cambria - No World For Tomorrow

Like the Mars Volta, progressive-metal suite freaks Coheed and Cambria are almost too smart and ambitious for their own good –not enough, however, to cancel out the instrumental highs and car-radio-chorus charge of the best songs on their fourth album. No World for Tomorrow is reportedly the concluding episode in a tortuous, apocalyptic libretto by singer-guitarist Claudio Sanchez that connects all of the band’s records. (Coheed and Cambria are named after the lead characters.) But there is more immediate, impressive resolution in the decisive pop arc of the mutating riffs and slippery time signatures Sanchez bundles into “The Hound (of Blood and Rank)” and “The Running Free.” His classic-rock aspirations are all over the razor-guitar hum of “Feathers” (note the shards of Uriah Heep’s 1972 hit single “Easy Livin’ ” rattling around inside) and the harmonized Thin Lizzy-style luster of the guitars and Sanchez’s vocals, like a choir of Geddy Lees, in “Justice in Murder.” Sanchez’s rabbit-hole saga may be over –the album finishes with a five-part, twenty-five-minute exclamation point, “The End Complete” –but there is plenty here that is worthy of rewind.

Shotter’s Nation - BABYSHAMBLES

It has been quite some time since the music of Babyshambles leader Pete Doherty received more notoriety than his drug arrests. That won’t change with “Shotter’s Nation,” though there are a few instances where the songs manage to make the listener forget about the court appearances and remember Doherty’s uniquely skewered way around a guitar line and lyric.

Though there’s nothing here that reaches the highs of Doherty’s work with the Libertines, opener “Carry On Up the Morning” comes close, with its ramshackle guitar opening and the singer’s apparent perspective on his nebulous public persona. But too often the songs sound like half-baked fragments (”Side of the Road”) or third-rate Beatles outtakes (”Crumb Begging Baghead”). Here’s hoping Doherty can overcome his problems and return his focus to songwriting.

Ultimate Santana - Album

Album Name - Ultimate Santana - Billed as the first Santana compilation to span his entire career,
it is true that Ultimate Santana does indeed run the gamut from 1969’s “Evil Ways” to 2002’s “Game of Love,”
but if you think that means it handles all phases of his career equally, you’d be sadly mistaken.
Essentially, this 18-track set plays like a collection of highlights from his Supernatural-era comebacks,
spiked with a couple of classic rock oldies — because that’s what it really is.

My Chemical Romance Singer Battles Depression

Rocker Gerard Way suffers from depression on tour, and uses his favorite book to keep him from falling apart. The My Chemical Romance frontman admits he relies on J.D. Salinger novel The Catcher In The Rye to cheer him up when he’s feeling lonely and down. Being far away from home and loved ones is not that easy all the time, one in a year you could actually like it for a few days, but when it becomes a routine every few months then you get sick. You are earning a lot of money from concerts and tour and live shows that is fine but ultimately you are doing all this for your family isn’t it the case and if you are not with them to share it then it’s not worth the sacrifice you are making. I am not saying this for people who do not care for family values and think that their family could do without them and money is more important and touring is party time. I am speaking for those who love being a close knit family.