Staind - “14 Shades of Grey” (Elektra)
Staind follows 2001’s multi-platinum “Break the Cycle” with a new 14-track set, the first pressing of which will include a limited-edition, bonus DVD. The new set includes the Top 10 single “Price to Play,” and “Layne,” a tribute to late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, who last year died of a drug overdose.
Staind follows 2001’s multi-platinum “Break the Cycle” with a new 14-track set, the first pressing of which will include a limited-edition, bonus DVD. The new set includes the Top 10 single “Price to Play,” and “Layne,” a tribute to late Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley, who last year died of a drug overdose.
Staind’s website features streaming samples of all of the album’s cuts, as well as a streaming version of the “Price to Play” music video.
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Deftones - “Deftones” (Maverick)
The Deftones’ fourth full-length features the group’s new single, “Minerva.” That track and its companion music video are streaming at the band’s website. The group is in the midst of a promotional club tour that wraps up in Sacramento on Tuesday night (5/20), and will return to the road in July as part of Metallica’s Summer Sanitarium Tour.
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Weird Al Yankovic - “Poodle Hat” (Volcano/Jive)
The musical satirist sticks to the formula that made him rich: goofy takes on popular songs. The lead track is titled “Couch Potato,” and is performed to the tune of the Eminem hit “Lose Yourself.” Backstreet Boys and Billy Joel songs are also targeted, and the obligatory accordion medley “Angry White Boy Polka” tackles The White Stripes and Rage Against the Machine, among others.
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Live - “Birds of Pray” (MCA)
For Live’s sixth album, the group turned to producer Jim Wirt (Hoobastank, Incubus). The lead single, “Heaven,” was inspired by the birth last year of frontman Ed Kowalczyk’s daughter. A limited-edition DVD packaged with the CD includes Live’s set at the 2002 Pinkpop Festival in Holland. A North American tour in support of the album is expected to get underway this summer.
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The Thorns - “The Thorns” (Aware/Columbia)
This trio features successful-in-their-own-right singer-songwriters Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge and Shawn Mullins. The group got together as an experiment in the spring of 2002, and came up with a batch of acoustic-guitar and harmony-driven songs that owe more than a little to Crosby, Stills & Nash. Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Nirvana) produced.
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Sammy Hagar - “Sammy & the Wabo’s Live Hallelujah” (Sanctuary)
Things that Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth’s 2002 co-headlining summer tour didn’t result in: the two historically incompatible singers becoming close friends (in fact, they found out that they really don’t like each other after all). Things that the tour did result in: this live album that features material from Hagar’s pre- and post-Van Halen solo catalog, as well as several of his Montrose-era and Van Halen-era hits. The Van Halen cut “When It’s Love"--from 1988’s “OU812"--was recorded during Hagar’s Boston-area performance last August, and features Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, ex-Van Halen singer Gary Cherone, and Cherone’s former Extreme--and current Tribe of Judah--bandmate Pat Badger.
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