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Phil Collins became the author of the book about the events in Texas that occurred in the nineteenth century
One of the best drummers of the planet devoted ten years of his life to the study of events in the city of Alamo in 1836, which historians call the "Texas revolution." As a result, Phil Collins wrote the book “The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's Journey”, which was recently published. “I received so many positive reviews that I have never read about my music,” the musician said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Phil Collins said goodbye to the scene during his FIRST Final Farewell tour nine years ago. Despite the fact that few really believed that the famous musician will stop making music, in the last ten years he has not recorded a single album. Phil Collins took part in a brief tour of the reunited Genesisv 2007, and released the album of cover versions called “Going Back”, which was released two years ago. “I do not want to be the shadow of the musician that I was once,” Phil Collins admitted in an interview.
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Photo : Tommy Hultgren © 2012
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The Hives released a new album
Lex Hives was on sale on June 5. Several songs of the album were recorded and produced using Josh Homm (Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures). The album was the fifth studio work of musicians from Sweden, whom many call the most striking discovery in rock music over the past ten years.
Hawlin Pelle Almquist during the concert of The Hive “Studio at Webster Hall”, New York, April 26, 2012
Photo : Griffin Lotz
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John Fruschane recorded a new album
“I call my new work of progressive synth-pop music, which is not suitable for describing how the album actually sounds, but quite accurately determines the purpose with which I started working on it. I combined together different aspects of many styles of rock music, trying to create my own musical form using electronic tools, ”wrote a former participant in Red Hot Chili Peppers on his website. An album called PBX FUNICUlar intaglio Zone will be released on September 25. Before that, namely July 17, John Fruschan will release a mini-album called “Letur-Lefr”.
John Fruschanet during the performance of Red Hot Chili Peppers at the concert "Live Earth"
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Ozzi Ozborn told some details of the future album Black Sabbath
According to Ozzi Ozborn, the group works in the studio without sparing all its forces. “We wrote fifteen new songs, but I'm not sure that they will all appear on the album. We have too many creative ideas for new songs that may appear tomorrow, ”he said. Ozzi Ozborn also said that the name of the album will most likely be related to next year. According to him, the figure “2013” is an important sign for the group, thanks to which the name of the album may appear. Black Sabbath (Ozzi Ozborn, Giser Butler and Tommy Aiommy) with their performance on June 10 will complete the rockLoad Festival rock festival, which will be held in the UK.
ZZ TOP return to the stage
A mini-album called “Texicali”, which will become the first studio work of the Texas group for as many as nine years, will appear on sale on June 5. It will be released on the eve of the new studio album of the group, which should appear in the fall of this year.
ZZ Top
Photo : Courtesy of American Recordings
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Foo Fighters drummer will play a major role in the film about IGGI Pope
Taylor Hawkins will play one of his favorite musicians in the feature film, under the working name “CBGB”. It is not yet known whether Hawkins will play the role of IGGI POI throughout the film, or will play a role regarding the musician’s work in the Stooges group. The film will also be busy actress Miki Sumner as Patti Smith, and Malin Ekerman, who will play the role of Debbie Harry.
Taylor Hawkins while performing with the Chevy Metal group
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Vasily Shumov and Alexander Lipnitsky founded the White Album project in support of the opposition
The White Album will consist of the compositions of musicians who support the opposition and resolutions of protest rallies in Bolotnaya Square and Sakharov Square. The project calls to take part in it of those who require an honest authority, an independent court, an immediate release of political prisoners. “The musicians were not going to arrange a protest walk, since“ Walking of the Writers ”and“ Walk of Artists ”gathered too many characters around them who are not related to the protest“ White Movement ”. The musicians do not walk, they play: after the album release, we are going to arrange a series of living concerts, ”said one of the producers of the project Vasily Shumov. The White Album will appear on the Internet, and will spread for free. At the same time, for everyone who wants to support musicians, a special electronic account will be opened, all the money of which will go to support the “white movement”.
An exhibition of photographs dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the birth of Viktor Tsoi opened
The exhibition of photographs called “Star named Tsoi”, on which 44 portraits of Viktor Tsoi, made shortly before his death, opened in St. Petersburg on Malaya Sadovaya Street. The photos were taken by Sergey Bermeniev using a simple black and white camera. After the end of the exhibition, one of the portraits will be donated to the State Russian Museum. At the same time, Moroz Records, which is the copyright holder of the creative heritage of the Kino group, plans to reprint some albums of the group on the vinyl medium. In June, albums “45”, “Head of Kamchatka”, “Night”, “This is not Love” will be published.
Victor Tsoi
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