The Los Angeles Lakers have some good things going for them in Game 6 against the Rockets but need to play smart.

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Equal Vision Records, Civilians and Sparta are pleased to present Everything You Say, the latest track to be lifted from the Friday, May 29 release of Cut A Silhouette, the forthcoming album from the celebrated El Paso, TX-based alt-rock band. “The music for this was brought in by Matt [Miller] to the earliest writing sessions […]

Warren Haynes has released a live version of “Banks of the Deep End,” the first preview of his upcoming symphonic album Dreams & Songs, which will be available in the U.S. through Evil Teen Records.

Originally appearing on The Deep End, Volume 1 in 2001, “Banks of the Deep End” has become a staple for Gov’t Mule fans. The new orchestral arrangement was recorded in 2019 at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Haynes’ hometown of Asheville. The performance marked the debut of his Dreams & Songs symphonic show alongside the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and a backing lineup featuring Oteil Burbridge on bass, John Medeski on organ and keys, Jeff Sipe on drums, and Greg Osby on saxophone.

“‘Banks of the Deep End’ is one of the songs that we probably play more than any other,” said Warren Haynes. “Although it doesn’t vary as much on a nightly basis as some of the other tunes, it somehow takes on its own personality just based on the song itself and the lyric and uniqueness of the chord structure and the melody. Playing it with a symphony emphasizes all the dramatic and dynamic changes that song presents, and it’s wonderful hearing it in that light.”

On April 30, the Warren Haynes Band will perform its Dreams & Songs Symphonic Experience with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra at The Orpheum Theater. The show explores music from Haynes’ catalog, including material from Gov’t Mule, The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, and his solo work.

The following night, Gov’t Mule will headline the venue for the final date of its spring headlining tour. After a short break, the band will return to the road in July and August for a summer run featuring headlining shows, co-headlining dates with Joe Bonamassa, and festival appearances.

More details on Dreams & Songs are expected soon.

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Madonna has been ramping up to Confessions II, the sequel to her Stuart Price-produced 2005 club classic Confessions On The Dancefloor. She dropped lead single “I Feel So Free” two weeks back, just before making a surprise guest appearance with Sabrina Carpenter at Coachella weekend 2. Onstage in Indio, they debuted a new collab called…

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Earlier this month, Netflix released the fourth season of Love On The Spectrum, the reality television show about adults with autism looking for love. Last night, the Kid Laroi brought out Connor Tomlinson during his show in Atlanta, where the show is filmed.

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Wendy Dio, widow and longtime manager of the late Ronnie James Dio, confirmed during an April 29 appearance on SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” that Metal Blade has extended an offer to release the long-awaited reissue of Hear ‘N Aid — the 1985 metal all-star charity project spearheaded by Ronnie James Dio.

She said (transcribed by Blabbermouth): “We have been working on that. We’ve had a couple of little things that have happened. But Metal Blade has offered us a deal for this. And hopefully it could come out, yes, soon. And we’re working on a book as well, a Hear ‘N Aid book of photos, because we have so many photos from that time. So, yeah, there’s a lot of Hear ‘N Aid stuff in the works right now. As I said, we have an offer from Metal Blade, and we’ve been working on getting that together. It’s just a lot of stuff, red-tape stuff that has to be done before you can put something out.”

On plans to also record a new version of “Stars” with current artists, Wendy Dio said: “Not at the moment, but I would still like to do that. At the moment, we’re trying to get out the Hear ‘N Aid, the original one, on vinyl and on CD. So we’ve been trying to work with that at the moment, and that is what we will put out. In the future. I would like to do that. Yes, I definitely would.”

On what else the reissue package will contain, Wendy Dio said: “With the book that we’re working on, we are getting people to write, [some of the artists] that were [there], like [Judas Priest‘s] Rob Halford. And [prominent U.K. music writer, journalist, and industry executive] Dante Bonutto, who actually wrote the foreword for the original record, is going to write something for us. So, yeah, we’ve been working on that. It’s been a very long, hard road to get it out, but we will get it out. We never give up.”

On May 20 and 21, 1985, 40 artists from the metal community gathered at A&M Records Studios in Hollywood, California, to record “Stars” under the Hear ‘N Aid banner, raising money for famine relief in Africa and around the world. Participants included members of Mötley Crüe, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Quiet Riot, Twisted Sister, Blue Öyster Cult, and Spinal Tap. Contractual disputes with labels pushed the release to New Year’s Day, 1986 — on vinyl and cassette only, never on CD or digital.

Former Dio guitarist and current Def Leppard member Vivian Campbell told Guitar Interactive magazine in 2023 about the project’s origins. “When we did that, we were at Rumbo Recorders in L.A. recording the [Dio] Sacred Heart album,” Campbell said. “And it was a really dark time for Ronnie and for the band. I mean, nobody wanted to be around Ronnie.”

Campbell and late Dio bassist Jimmy Bain hatched the idea after doing a radio interview on KLOS in Los Angeles. “The DJ asked us, he said, ‘How come nobody from the hard rock world was invited to participate in that?’ And we thought, ‘You know, you’re absolutely right.’” Bain coined the name on the spot, and Campbell spent weeks cold-calling musicians — going through his publicist’s Rolodex, dialing up names like Jon Bon Jovi and Neal Schon — to assemble the roster.

Campbell recalled the day of the recording: “I remember the day we were doing it at A&M, with a film crew in there, and the guys from Spinal Tap even showed up. And that made it great because that brought a little much-needed humor to the whole situation. And all these great guitar players — we had Yngwie [Malmsteen] there and George Lynch and Neal Schon, guys who were blazing guitar [players]. And I just remember I was so busy making sure that everyone had a limo ride, had a flight, had a hotel room, had something to eat. And then, at the end of the day, it’s, like, ‘Okay, now you’ve gotta play guitar.’ It’s, like, ‘What?’”

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If you’ve been craving the cold, grim energy of early black metal, you’re going to want to keep a close eye on Hexbane. This isn’t just some random new project; it’s a proper gathering of titans who have been in the trenches since the genre’s earliest days. The band has just pulled back the curtain … Continue reading Hexbane unveils details for debut EP ‘From Hell’