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FOZZY's 'Across America' 30-Minute Documentary Now Available Online

On October 14, 2017, FOZZY became the first rock band to play three shows in three different time zones in one day, in celebration of the release of its latest album, “Judas”. A 30-minute documentary chronicling the experience received its world premiere last month during FOZZY‘s “Capturing Judas” livestream and can now be seen in its entirety below.

“Fozzy Across America” – October 14, 2017: Three Cities, Three Shows, Three Timezones, One Day!

Ft Myers, FL – WRXK 96K-Rock
The Ranch
9 a.m. Showtime – All Ages
Post Show VIP Meet & Greet – www.rockeventsonline.com

El Paso, TX
KLAQ 95.5
Star City Studios
3 p.m. Showtime – All Ages

Las Vegas, NV
KOMP 92.3
Hard Rock Cafe
11 p.m. Showtime – 18+

FOZZY spent the last few months putting the finishing touches on its new studio album for a 2021 release.

According to FOZZY frontman Chris Jericho, the band’s next LP will contain 12 songs, including one cover.

This past May, Jericho told Australia’s Triple M radio station that FOZZY has “so many great songs” written for the new LP that “it’s gonna be hard to pick the singles.”

Guitarist Rich Ward and producer Johnny Andrews are once again “doing the lion’s share” of the songwriting for the new LP, which is being recorded primarily in Atlanta, Georgia.

Released in August 2019, “Nowhere To Run” was FOZZY‘s third single to hit Top 10 on rock radio, following “Judas” and “Painless”.

In addition to producing “Judas”, Andrews previously co-wrote FOZZY‘s “Lights Go Out” track back in 2014. He has also written songs with the likes of ALL THAT REMAINS, THREE DAYS GRACE and HALESTORM.

FOZZY is Chris Jericho (vocals), Rich Ward (guitars, vocals), Frank Fontsere (drums), Billy Grey (guitars) and Randy Drake (bass).

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FOZZY's 'Across America' 30-Minute Documentary Now Available Online
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RAMMSTEIN's TILL LINDEMANN Collaborates With Violinist DAVID GARRETT On Cover Of 'Alle Tage Ist Kein Sonntag'

RAMMSTEIN singer Till Lindemann has collaborated with violinist David Garrett on a version of the Schlager song “Alle Tage Ist Kein Sonntag” which enjoyed great popularity in the 1920s and 1930s. The track, originally from 1922, was written by Carl Ferdinands and Carl Clewing, and has been performed by the likes of Fritz Wunderlich and Marlene Dietrich.

Due on December 11, Lindemann and Garrett‘s version of “Alle Tage Ist Kein Sonntag” will be made available as a limited CD single in a digipak.

Track listing:

01. Alle Tage Ist Kein Sonntag
02. Alle Tage Ist Kein Sonntag (Bazzazian Remix)

Garrett is one of the most popular classical crossover and pop violinists in the world. He started playing the violin when he was four years old and, when he was thirteen, he became the youngest artist to sign a record deal with Deutsche Grammophon.

The news of Till‘s latest single comes less than a month after it was announced that he had pulled the plug on his collaboration with Swedish producer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, PAIN).

The duo released LINDEMANN‘s second album, “F & M”, in November 2019. The follow-up to 2015’s “Skills In Pills” was once again produced and mixed by Tägtgren.

“Skills In Pills” reached gold status in Germany and was entirely in English. On the second opus, Lindemann went back to singing exclusively in German.

Lindemann and Tägtgren are currently working on a final joint release, a live DVD of their show in Moscow 2020, which will be released in spring 2021.

LINDEMANN embarked on its first tour in support of “F&M”.

The band had received some criticism due to its use of pornography during its second album cycle, with the music video for “Platz Eins” described by one site as “full-on art porn — slick and stylish, weird and experimental, and definitely X-rated.”

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RAMMSTEIN's TILL LINDEMANN Collaborates With Violinist DAVID GARRETT On Cover Of 'Alle Tage Ist Kein Sonntag'
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Ex-JOURNEY Singer STEVE PERRY Releases Stripped-Down Version Of 'I Need You' From 'Traces (Alternative Versions & Sketches)'

In the fall of 2018, former JOURNEY singer Steve Perry made his long-awaited return with the release of “Traces”, the legendary musician’s first new album in 25 years. The LP’s personal expression of love, inspiration and renewal resonated with both critics and fans around the world, thrilled to have their “voice of a generation” making new music once again.

Now, on “Traces (Alternative Versions & Sketches)”, due December 4, 2020 via Fantasy Records, Perry revisits several of his favorite tracks, stripping away the grand production touches, taking the songs down to their essence. Presented acoustic and raw (including some in sketch form), tracks like “Sun Shines Gray”, “No Erasin'”, “No More Cryin'” and “Most Of All” take on new and richer meaning. In this setting, Steve‘s voice glides out-front vibrant, clear and warm while the lyrics take on greater significance, even more intimate than before.

Produced by Steve and his longtime collaborator and friend Thom Flowers, “Traces (Alternative Versions & Sketches)” offers a fascinating glimpse into Steve‘s creative process and a deeper understanding into an alredy treasured album.

Steve says: “When writing these songs, the original inspiration is always my first compass — where the songs should go. ‘Alternate Versions & Sketches’ is exactly that, and I’m very excited to have you hear the original seeds of these songs.”

“Traces (Alternative Versions & Sketches)” track listing:

01. Most Of All (Radio Mix)
02. No Erasin’ (Acoustic)
03. I Need You (Acoustic)
04. No More Cryin’ (Acoustic)
05. Most Of All (Stripped)
06. We’re Still Here (Acoustic)
07. You Belong To Me (Stripped)
08. Sun Shines Gray (Acoustic)

The stripped-down version of “I Need You”, taken from “Traces (Alternative Versions & Sketches)”, can be streamed below.

Perry recently told Rolling Stone that he been busy creating new music since the April release of his cover version of the BEACH BOYS classic “In My Room”.

“I have a studio and I’m always writing and always recording stuff,” he said. “I have lots of music, so much stuff.”

Perry‘s first solo album in more than two decades, “Traces”, was released in October 2018 via Fantasy Records (a division of Concord Records/UMG). He credited his late girlfriend, psychologist Kellie Nash, who died more than seven years ago, with helping him want to sing again; she’d made him promise he wouldn’t go back into isolation when she passed.

Last year, Perry told “The Jim Brickman Show” that the response to “Traces” has been “really great. It’s been an interesting experience to release a record in this age that we live in. Meaning, it’s such a different landscape… Now we’re streaming, now we’ve got everything… all this stuff. And so it’s been such an interesting experience to release music into the new landscape of what it all means. We’re streaming, we’re still selling some on iTunes…. Nobody sells records anymore; everybody’s streaming. But I didn’t do this to sell records. If people wanna own it and take it with them, then that’s beautiful. But if you wanna listen to it, that’s also beautiful, ’cause all I wanted to do — and I said this to many of my friends… The reason I make music again was, number one, to keep a promise that I wouldn’t go back into isolation. And number two, I wanted to just see if I was viable as a songwriter, singer, arranger, mixer, producer. I wanted to see if I could even remotely do some sort of creative involvement with all that. And in the beginning, it was challenging, because of the new technologies. But now I’ve embraced the living crap out of all of it. I have a great studio.”

Perry dated Nash for nearly two years before she died in December 2012 after being diagnosed with breast cancer. He mourned for two years, and then began recording again.

Upon its release, “Traces” was met with wide acclaim and tremendous excitement from fans and critics all over the world. The album entered the Billboard 200 Albums chart at No. 6, Perry‘s highest debut as a solo artist and earned the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer his best-ever chart entries in the U.K., Germany, Canada and Japan.

Perry reunited with JOURNEY for the first time in years as they were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in April 2017. The iconic singer appeared onstage with his former bandmates as they each gave speeches, but did not perform with the group later in the event.

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Ex-JOURNEY Singer STEVE PERRY Releases Stripped-Down Version Of 'I Need You' From 'Traces (Alternative Versions & Sketches)'
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