King's X: Live Love in London DVD for October

International music critics and rock gourmets agree: King’s X is among the most unusual acts in the history of rock music. Their technical skills are above reproach, and their creativity has impressed fans and media alike. Next to Rush, there is currently no other rock trio capable of producing such a dense and at the same time transparent sound. The much anticipated double CD/DVD set, Live Love in London, showcases prime examples of King’s X’s incredible live show of classic groove rock featuring great melodies with vocal harmonies, driving rhythms and tough guitars. The album is set for an Oct. 26th release through InsideOut Music and will be available as a deluxe DVD+2CD edition in a special embossed package, as well as a 2CD set. A standard DVD-only version will also be available exclusively through CMDistro.com (http://CMDistro.com). Live Love in London is the first official DVD release by a band renowned for just such a transcendent rock show! The King’s X trio of Ty Tabor (guitars, vocals), Dug Pinnick (bass, vocals) and Jerry Gaskill (drums, vocals) have spanned continents and decades together, honing their craft, welcoming their fans in to experience inspired performances that come from their hearts.

Live Love in London was shot in January of 2009 at the Electric Ballroom in London, UK, because, as Tabor states, "London was the first place that accepted King's X. It has always been my favorite place to play." Pinnick recalls, "We were touring the US, playing for very small crowds, then we went to London; it was the Marquee and it was sold out!" Gaskill agrees, “London was the first place to make me feel like we might actually be a valid band.”

The band are also extremely excited to embark on a co-headlining run with metal legends Accept, which kicks off on Sept. 23rd. Either see below or head over now to http://www.kingsxrocks.com or http://www.facebook.com/kingsxfanpage to view their touring itinerary. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for samples of new music from Live Love in London and pre-order package info.

King’s X w/ Accept
9/23 The Chance, Poughkeepsie, NY
9/24 Ram's Head Live , Baltimore, MD
9/25 The Starland Ballroom , Sayreville, NJ
9/27 B B King's, New York, NY
9/29 Showcase Live, Foxboro, MA
10/1 The Silo, Reading, PA
10/2 The Emerald Theatre, Mount Clemens, MI
10/6 Scatz, Middleton, WI
10/8 The Agora, Cleveland, OH
10/9 The Arcada , Saint Charles, IL
10/12 House of Blues, Dallas, TX
10/13 House of Blues, Houston, TX

From.UZ new DVD trailer

The following are trailers (officially posted, hence me including it here) for From.UZ's newest release, the concert DVD Inside Seventh Story:

I will be posting a review of this new release, along with the studio album this material is drawn from, very soon. Stay tuned!

New Glass Hammer DVD Available to order

Glass Hammer
Live At The Tivoli
NTSC Region Zero (Region Free)
5.1 Surround DVD


Featuring:
Steve Babb: Bass guitar
Fred Schendel: Keyboards
Matt Mendians: Drums
David Wallimann: Electric guitar
Carl Groves: Vocals
Susie Bogdanowicz: Vocals
Bethany Warren: Vocals
Flo Paris: Vocals

with:
The Adonia String Trio
Rebecca James: Violin
Susan Hawkins: Viola
Rachel Hackenberger-Beckman: Cello

and:
150 singers of The Lee College Choral Union
and The GPS Girls Choir


Set list:
Eiger Dreams
Run Lisette
The Morning She Woke
A Cup of Trembling
Lirazel
Heroes and Dragons
Longer
The Knight of the North
Beati Quorum Via
Having Caught A Glimpse
South Side of the Sky


You can check out a teaser/preview HERE.

Dream Theater: Chaos in Motion DVD/CD sets forthcoming

From the press release:

Few bands inspire such fanaticism among their fans as Dream Theater. The best way to satiate this dedicated legion is to provide them with even more material to devour and Dream Theater are doing just that this September. The band will release Chaos In Motion 2007/2008, which documents their "Chaos In Motion" world tour, which kicked off June 3, 2007 at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Milan, Italy and concluded almost a year to the day later on June 4, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It's essentially a travelogue of their most recent touring experience and it hits shelves on September 23. Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 will be available in two configurations: as a double DVD set and as five disc collector's set which includes two DVDs and three CDs, containing 14 live tracks featured in the DVD set and expanded artwork.

The Chaos in Motion Tour was a trek that found the band traversing the globe, playing 115 shows in 105 cities in 35 countries on five continents to hundreds of thousands of fans. It also included the first annual Progressive Nation Tour, an idea that the band had kicked around for a few years and finally launched into action this past spring.

Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 is the latest in a series of DVDs from the band and it features performances captured throughout the entirety of the tour, unlike their last three RIAA-certified Platinum DVDs, Metropolis 2000: Live Scenes From New York, Live at Budokan and Score, all of which focused on as single concert event.

Drummer and DVD creative director Mike Portnoy plumed his personal archives for footage in order to provide fans with the ultimate tour souvenir. He assembled over three hours of complete live performances, taking footage from shows in Rotterdam, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Boston, Bangkok and Vancouver. The tracks were mixed and effectively brought to life by Kevin Shirley. The second disc is packed with bonus material, including promo videos, live screen projection films, a photo gallery and a 90-minute documentary that'll make you feel like you're riding in the passenger's seat of the band's tour bus, as it takes you on the road and behind the scenes with the band and crew. It's like a virtual backstage pass that grants fans further unprecedented access.

The official content and tracklisting for the DVD are as follows and are subject to change:

Double DVD Set

Disc One:

“Around The World In 180 Minutes” Live Concert Footage

1. Intro/Also Sprach Zarathustra
2. Constant Motion
3. Panic Attack
4. Blind Faith
5. Surrounded
6. The Dark Eternal Night
7. Keyboard Solo
8. Lines In The Sand
9. Scarred
10. Forsaken
11. The Ministry Of Lost Souls
12. Take The Time
13. In The Presence Of Enemies
14. Medley: I. Trial Of Tears II. Finally Free III. Learning To Live IV. In The Name Of God V. Octavarium

Disc Two:

“Behind The Chaos On The Road” Documentary

Promo Videos: Constant Motion, Forsaken, Forsaken (In Studio), The Dark Eternal Night (In Studio)

Live Screen Projection Films: The Dark Eternal Night (N.A.D.S), The Ministry Of Lost Souls, In The Presence Of Enemies Pt. 2

“Mike Portnoy Stage Tour"

“Mike Portnoy Backstage Tour”

Photo Gallery

Deluxe Collector’s Edition 5-Disc Set

Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 Double DVD Set PLUS:

* 3 CD’s containing the live 14 tracks featured in the DVD set
* Expanded artwork and more

Opeth, Spock's Beard and Neal Morse updates

OPETH have announced their Fall 2008 UK tour dates:

Nov 17 - ABC, Glasgow
Nov 18 - St Vicars, Dublin, Ireland
Nov 19 - Academy, Birmingham
Nov 20 - Shepards Bush Empire, London
Nov 21 - Academy, Bristol
Nov 22 - Rock City, Nottingham
Nov 23 - Academy, Manchester



NEAL MORSE has announced the release of his new DVD, Sola Scriptura & Beyond, to be released on 15 July on the InsideOut label. The concert covers the ? and Sola Scriptura albums, along with selected tracks from One, Testimony, Spock's Beard and Transatlantic. Tracklisting is as follows:

DISC ONE:
1 The Creation
2 The Good Don't Last/Open Wide The Flood Gates
3 The Door
4 The Conflict/The Conclusion
5 Question Mark Medley
6 Testimedley
7 We All Need Some Light
8 Wind At My Back

DISC TWO:
1 Behind The Scenes
2 Bridge Across Forever (acoustic)
3 Question Mark Live at Columbia Park, Berlin 2006 (Full concert)



Finally, the new Spock's Beard DVD release, SB Live, is imminent. My promo copy has arrived, so you should expect some thoughts and a review soon. Many thanks and bouquets of Martian Fire Flowers to Jon Freeman at SPV for getting this blogger/reviewer taken care of...

Spock's Beard live release info

The long-awaited Spock's Beard live DVD and 2 CD set are now available for pre-order...

Release dates are Germany, Austria & Switzerland on June 13, the remainder of Europe on June 16 and North America on June 24, 2008.

Recorded live in Holland in 2007, it Includes:

On A Perfect Day
Mouth of Madness
Crack the Big Sky
The Slow Crash Landing Man
Return to Whatever
Surfing Down the Avalanche
Thoughts (Part 2)
Drum solo
Skeletons At The Feast
Walking On The Wind
Hereafter (Ryo solo)
As Far As The Mind Can See (Dreaming In The Age Of Answers, Here's A Man,They Know We Know, Stream Of Unconsciousness) Rearranged
The Water / Go The Way You Go medley.

The DVD and CD set contain the same songs. Check out the trailer:

Univers Zero updates

Univers Zero at Le Triton November 14 and 15, 2008
These two concerts will be filmed for the DVD release.

Finally an archive CD is coming with live recordings from 1984, 1985 and 1986. It is coming out on Cuneiform Records and will be available (probably) early 2009

UNIVERS ZERO- ARCHIVES 1984/85/86 (NO NAME YET)

from March 31st, 1984 at The Pavillon in Hannover, Germany
L'ETRANGE MIXTURE DU DOCTEUR SCHWARTZ (Daniel Denis)
PRESAGE (Daniel Denis)
PARADE (Daniel Denis)

from October 9th, 1985 at the Centre culturel de Seraing, Belgium
THE FUNERAL PLAIN (Andy Kirk)
HEATWAVE (Andy Kirk)
L'ETRANGE MIXTURE DU DOCTEUR SCHWARTZ (Free version) (Daniel Denis)*

from February 7th, 1986 at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, Germany
EMANATIONS (Daniel Denis)

and a never recorded piece .....from February 25th, 1984 in Dottignies, Belgium
LIGNE CLAIRE (Daniel Denis)

Some notes:

Booklet with new photos and liner notes by Aymeric Leroy and Renato Moraes will probably make part of this wonderful package!

The piece marked with * used to be presented as the encore and sometimes named as L'ETRANGE MIXTURE DU DOCTEUR SPOCK and it is a more weird-free version over the classic DOCTEUR SCHWARTZ!

Andy Kirk thinks this version of THE FUNERAL PLAIN is the best ever performance of this piece! And if you think PRESAGE is energetic enough on UZED, wait to listen to this live version!

Hold your breath!

More concerts to be announced soon!

GENESIS To Return To The Big Screen For Launch Of Upcoming Live DVD

According to Lars Brandle from Billboard.biz, GENESIS is making a return to the Big Screen for the launch of their upcoming live DVD.

The prog-rock veterans, who hit the road for a famous comeback last year on the Turn It On Again tour, will participate in a special Q&A session next month which will be beamed via satellite live into 20 Odeon cinemas across Britain, the band's manager Tony Smith tells Billboard.biz.


On the day, the band - comprising Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks - will take questions from the audience, but will not perform.

The on-screen event is expected to take place May 20, ahead of EMI Records' May 26 release of the David Mallet-directed DVD When In Rome 2007, which captures the tour-concluding July 14 concert at Circo Massimo, which drew an estimated 500,000 fans.

Genesis explored the cinematic route when the Düsseldorf, Germany leg of last year's tour was cinecast live in digital high-definition quality and surround sound to Vue cinemas in the U.K., and a raft of movie houses on the Continent.

"It was very effective for us, and we learned a lot from it," Smith tells Billboard.biz. "If we were to consider doing something else again of a special nature, where we wanted to set up in one place and do an extended run, then that would be a way to go."

The When In Rome 2007 DVD digi-pak will contain a 28-page booklet, and carry more than five hours of content on two concert discs and a documentary DVD.

Soft Machine 1970 on DVD!

At long last the Soft Machine DVD featuring a live performance captured by French Television in 1970 is now available to purchase. The concert was filmed in March 1970 at the Theatre de la Musique in Paris France and features the line up of

Robert Wyatt - drums, vocals
Hugh Hopper - bass
Mike Ratledge - Lowrey organ & Hohner pianet
Elton Dean - alto sax & saxello
Lyn Dobson - soprano sax, flute, voice & harmonica

The set list is below and is certainly one to get long time admirers of this most unique of British bands who are the acknowledged leaders of the "Canterbury Sound."

More details and a low quality sample can be seen at the website.

This release really is one for the fans of Soft Machine who are universally considered to be the premier group of the Canterbury Scene.

Available for the first time EVER on DVD - never released on before even on VHS the film has many plus points for the long time Soft Machine fan.

* Lovingly restored from the original master
* Sound track re mastered.
* 8 page booklet
* Extensive sleeve notes by Aymeric Leroy
* Approved by the band

http://www.softmachinedvd.com/

Part 1 :
Facelift (18:57)
Eamonn Andrews (7:17)
Backwards / Mousetrap reprise (4:08)

Part 2 :
Out-Bloody-Rageous (15:45)
RW vocal improv (2:53)
Esther's Nosejob (9:53)

EMI to release Fish-era Marillion boxed set

From the official forum:

NOT CONFIRMED STILL BEING JIGGLED SUBJECT TO CHANGE ETC PROPOSED TRACKLISTING:

A Live Anthology 1982 – 1988

CD 1/2: Live - At The Marquee, 30/12/1982
CD 3: Live - At The Reading Festival 27/8/83
CD 4: Live - tbc
CD 5: Live - At Hammersmith Odeon 14/12/84
CD 6: Live - At Wembley Arena 5/11/87
Bonus CD E.P.
DVD: Live & TV performances at the BBC (in CD size mini sleeve)

New Mark Wilkinson artwork

Replica of original an Marquee or similar early Tour Poster
Early replica tour T-shirt

Booklet to feature pictures, memorabilia and memories of each gig by band members and fans.

New Roxy Music DVD

ROXY MUSIC [BRYAN FERRY/PHIL MANZANERA/ANDY MacKAY/BRIAN ENO/PAUL THOMPSON/EDDIE JOBSON et al] - The Thrill Of It All: A Visual History 1972-1982 [2 DVD set] (Virgin/EMI; USA)

38 songs/performances on video, including music videos, concert and television performances from that decade. Much of the footage has never before been released commercially!

Included on the DVDs are the band's 1973 appearance on 'Top Of The Pops', as well as their last filmed performance with Brian Eno at the Montreux Golden Rose Festival [the first six cuts on DVD 1, including the Golden Rose performance of Editions Of You, are all with Eno from '72-'73] Also featured is the band's performance at the 'ABBA In Switzerland' special and four songs from their 1979 concert at the Manchester Apollo.

Disc 1 (1972-1976)
'Re-make/Re-model' 06/72 Royal College Of Art
'Ladytron' 06/20/72 Old Grey Whistle Test
'Virginia Plain' 08/24/72 Top of the Pops
'For Your Pleasure' 11/25/72 Full House
'Do The Strand' and 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' 04/03/73 Old Grey Whistle Test
'Editions Of You' 04/29/73 Golden Rose Festival
'Pyjamarama', 'Amazona', and 'Psalm' 01/23/74 Musikladen
'All I Want Is You' 10/04/74 Top of the Pops
'Both Ends Burning' 10/75 Empire Pool, Wembley
'Love Is The Drug' 10/09/75 Supersonic
'The Thrill Of It All', 'Mother Of Pearl', 'Nightingale', 'Out Of The Blue', and 'Street Life' 01/23/76 Stockholm

Disc 2 (1979-1982)
'Dance Away' 04/16/79 ABBA In Switzerland TV Special
'Manifesto', 'A Song For Europe', 'Still Falls The Rain', and 'Ain't That So' 05/06&07/79 Manchester Apollo
'Angel Eyes' 08/79 promo video
'Trash' 1979 promo video
'Over You' 05/15/80 Top of the Pops
'Oh Yeah!' 08/07/80 Top of the Pops
'Same Old Scene' 11/80 promo video
'Rain, Rain, Rain' and 'Flesh And Blood' 12/19/80 Rockpop In Concert
'Jealous Guy' 02/81 promo video
'The Main Thing', 'While My Heart Is Still Beating', 'Avalon', and 'My Only Love' 08/27/82 Frejus, France
'More Than This' 04/82 promo video
'Avalon' 06/82 promo video

Bonus Track 'The Main Thing' 1982 promo video.