Def Leppard back to rock of agesWhen British rock legends Def Leppard take to the MTS Centre stage next Wednesday, they'll be less than two weeks away from the April 29 release of their ninth CD, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge.
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Published: 2008-04-10
Provider: Canoe
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Even after 30 years, Def Leppard 'Sparkles' on new studio CD"Songs from the Sparkle Lounge"
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Published: 2008-04-29
Provider: Canoe
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Tour Tracker: Against Me! Moonlight, Radiohead Pick Cities, Carrie Underwood and More Against Me! plot a trio of charity gigs between opening Foo Fighters shows, Radiohead announce what North American “markets” they will visit (with no dates or venues yet), Def Leppard bring Styx and REO Speedwagon along for a monstrous good time and Carrie Underwood hits the road to reclaim her throne as American Idol’s biggest star. Full dates for all four after the jump. Against Me! January 15 - Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds January 18 - Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club January 24 - Little Rock, AR @ Juanita’s Radiohead Atlanta Boston Charlotte, NC Chicago Cleveland Dallas Houston Indianapolis Los Angeles Miami Montreal New York Philadelphia San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara, CA Seattle St. Louis Tampa Toronto Vancouver Washington DC Def Leppard/Styx/REO Speedwagon March 27 - Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum March 29 - Hollywood, FL @ Hard Rock March 30 - Estero, FL @ Germain Arena April 1 - Greenville, SC @ Bi-Lo Center April 3 - Reading, PA @ Sovereign Arena April 4 - Atlantic City, NJ @ The Borgata April 6 - Manchester, NH @ Verizon Wireless Arena April 8 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena April 9 - Providence, RI @ Dunkin’ Donuts Center April 11 - Quebec City, QC @ Colisee Pepsi Arena April 12 - Ottawa, ON @ Scotiabank Place April 13 - Hamilton, ON @ Copps Arena April 16 - Winnipeg, MB @ MTS Centre April 18 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena April 19 - Detroit, MI @ Joe Louis Arena April 22 - Boise, ID @ Idaho Center April 23 - Spokane, WA @ Spokane Arena April 25 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl April 26 - San Diego, CA @ Coors Amphitheatre Carrie Underwood January 31 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena February 1 - Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena February 2 - Rochester, NY @ Blue Cross Arena February 13 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden February 14 - Hershey, PA @ Giant Center February 15 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Boardwalk Hall February 16 - Roanoke, VA @ Roanoke Civic Center February 18 - Wilkes-Barre, PA @ Wachovia
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Published: 2008-01-09
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, On Tour, Against Me!, Radiohead, Carrie Underwood, Def Leppard
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Tour Preview: Def Leppard Admit “If You Play New Songs, The Audience Walks Out” For the first time in six years, Def Leppard are hitting the road armed with new tunes, and guitarist Phil Collen is pragmatic about how people treat new work from a veteran band. “You’d really like to go out there and play all your new shit off the new record, but you can’t do that, because they’d walk out,” he says. “It’s like when you go and see the Stones and Keith Richards starts doing a couple of songs, and everyone goes and buys a T-shirt.” The tour, which kicks off this week, will serve to warm up audiences for the forthcoming Songs from the Sparkle Lounge, the band’s tenth studio album. Collen acknowledges that the album’s title — derived from the band’s backstage rehearsal area, where the songs were hashed out — doesn’t quite have the pop of Pyromania or Hysteria, but it gets the job done. “[The title is] not very rock & roll, but for some reason, we don’t really care anymore about that. ‘Oh, it has to be cool, this has to be a strong title.’ Fuck it. This is very relevant for what it is, and that’s why we’ve done it.” New songs like “Go” and “Nine Lives” (which features Tim McGraw on its studio incarnation) will be sprinkled amongst the stadium staples “Rock of Ages,” “Pour Some Sugar On Me” and “Armageddon It.” When it comes to giving the old songs a run-through before the tour, things are decidedly more relaxed than in the early days. “We actually sat around on the couch watching football, and we’d play through tiny little amps and have this little Roland drumkit that would go through speakers, and we’d rehearse the whole set like that,” Collen says. “It’s a real drag rehearsing these songs we’ve done a million times, and there’s no audience there, so it’s a bit like pulling teeth.” As usual, the band
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Published: 2008-03-27
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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