I just did my daily search over at www.blabbermouth.net and came across a handful of interesting stories that I thought I’d share with you. The Canadian Progressive Rock band Rush may have new music on the way. System of a Down may or may not be coming back soon and VH1 is bringing back the popular program “Behind the Music.”
RUSH:
Rush drummer Neil Peart has announced via the The Canadian Press that new music from Rush may be on the way, but that it probably won’t be in the traditional form of an album. With the exception of a few of us, nobody is buying albums any more. We’ve heard bands like Metallica, Rob Zombie and Megadeth, to name a few, mention that the traditional album may already be dead and that their next efforts will probably not albums.
Now you can add Rush to the mix. Peart went onto say that he’s already writing lyrics for a new project. I think it’s pretty cool for Rush to be the band that starts this trend, especially since they’re one of those bands that made great albums flow together beginning to end, with great art work and concepts. So look for new Rush music soon.
Twitter = Reunion News?
Is Twitter the new news breaking site, or is it just a place for rumors to get started? January 12th System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian asked on his twitter page “are u guys ready for System?” System of a Down fans got excited about the potential comeback of System of a Down. Just two days later via twitter Shavo wrote "About my 'are u guys ready for System?'... I'm not sayin we are back but, if so, U guys ready? Sorry for gettin u guys amped. I'm just seeing."
In more concrete/impressive reunion news, Soundgarden will be reuniting in 2010. Chris Cornell via his twitter page has announced that “The 12 year break up is over & school is back in session.” Cornell also provided a link to the following website: http://www.soundgardenworld.com/.
VH1’s “Behind the Music."
The popular VH1 show “Behind the Music” is back and is revisiting past episodes. Metallica, Motley Crue, Judas Priest and Def Leppard are among the bands included in the reboot of the popular TV show. VH1 Classic will air 8 new half hour episodes that will pick up where the original episodes left off. New episodes will begin airing on February 6th at 9 pm eastern time.
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