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Pierce the Veil
They'll play the Slam Dunk Festival in the UK (May 25 - 27), alongside All Time Low, Deaf Havana, Four Year Strong, Wonder Years, Memphis May Fire, Sleeping With Sirens, and Polar Bear Club.
Bart Mendoza
The June 20 release party at Soda Bar for the new Bart Mendoza and True Stories CD Comet's Tomorrow (mostly recorded by Rolling Stones producer Alan Sanderson at Analog Chew) will include L.A. singer/songwriter Adam Marsland, who amongst other things was in the reformed Standells.
Erika Davies
The June 3 release party for her Part the Sea album at the Old Town Theatre will include Jessica Annette of locals Cathedral X, who will will dance and perform to a flipped-backwards, pitch-altered, tempo-slowed, and remixed version of Davies' album.
Static Halo
A one-off reunion set happens June 20 at the Soda Bar, their first show since 2008.
Patric Petrie
The Skelpin fiddler's debut full-length Pocket Venus, produced by Alan Sanderson (Rolling Stones, etc.) with a guest appearance from Flogging Molly’s Matt Hensley, drops May 31 at the Mingei Museum in Balboa Park. “Pocket Venus refers to a woman who is petite in height, yet voluptuous and curvy at the same time,” says Petrie of the album title.
King Kruk
The Elvis impersonator took second place honors (and a $300 dollars prize) at the Las Vegas Ultimate Elvis contest, where judges included Elvis' one-time girlfriend Linda Thompson and her brother, Elvis bodyguard Sam Thompson.
As I Lay Dying
“Tim never had the intention to harm his wife,” says singer Tim Lambesis’ defense attorney of the charges accusing his client of ordering a hit on his wife. “This whole thing was a set-up by a scumbag snitch, and then law enforcement ran with it.” Lambesis’ bail was lowered to $2 million on May 17, with his next court date on May 29.
Mike Pinto
He’s touring in support of his new album Truthful Lies with Hawaiian sons Natural Vibrations and Philly’s Three Legged Fox, making 48 stops including the Cali Roots Festival and the Rockin' Roots Festival.
blink-182
Their only California show of 2013 will be at X-Fest, happening September 20 at Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Chula Vista.
The Truckee Brothers
“The Truckee Brothers broke up quietly,” Patrick Dennis confirms for the Reader. “Everyone are in other bands and living their lives beyond what the Truckee Brothers were, but the band no longer exists. We didn't feel it anyone's business at the time, and none of us have exploited it to help our subsequent projects.”
Roundabout
The Yes tribute's singer Jon Davison, a member of the actual Yes since replacing Benoit David (who replaced founding vocalist Jon Anderson) in early 2012, may record on a new Yes album next year, keyboard player Geoff Downes recently told Bravewords.com.
Dave Mustaine
The 2013 edition of his Gigantour will feature Megadeth, Black Label Society, Device, Hellyeah, Newsted, and Death Division, kicking off on July 3 in Gilford, NH and concluding August 11 in Toronto.
Stone Temple Pilots
Robert and Dean DeLeo and Eric Kretz will perform for the first time since firing singer Scott Weiland at the ninth annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert, taking place May 30 at Club Nokia in L.A.
Tom Waits
He joined the Rolling Stones on stage in Oakland on the second stop on their 50 & Counting arena tour, performing “Little Red Rooster” as a duet with Mick Jagger, who also played the harmonica on the tune.
Candye Kane
Her new CD Coming Out Swingin' is engineered and co-produced by Thomas Yearsley and Laura Chavez.
Iron Butterfly
Live in Texas, a concert album recorded in 1973 featuring Captain Beyond, co-founded by former Iron Butterfly guitarist Larry 'Rhino' Reinhardt and bassist Lee Dorman, drops May 21 on CD and double-disc vinyl via Purple Pyramid Records.
Johnny Vernazza
His upcoming full-length Lions and Thieves (dropping June 4 via local Blindspot Records) features originals, tunes written by friends, blues standards, and a cover of “Black Coffee” by Humble Pie. Contributors and players include Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, Charlie Daniels, Albert Lee, and famed L.A. Wrecking Crew producer Don Peake.
Scott West
The Scott West Band's longtime guitarist and musical collaborator Perry Clark picked up his second Emmy Award for his work with NBC's production of the London Olympics.
Stephen Pearcy
The Ratt singer says his book Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll: My Life In Rock (due May 23) does not bash his bandmates, unlike drummer Bobby Blotzer's 2010 book Tales Of a Ratt. “There was no reason to do that,” he told Guitar International. “Unfortunately, our drummer bad-rapped his own band in his book, not knowing the consequences.”
Gary Ràchac
He'll produce an upcoming NYC radio show hosted by John Lennon's “lost weekend” mistress May Pang, and he's narrating the Raul Sandelin documentary film A Box Full of Rock: The El Cajon of Lester Bangs, profiling the writer’s 1968-1973 period spent in east San Diego.
Craig Goldy
The Dio concert film Finding the Sacred Heart — Live in Philly, 1986 will be released for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray on May 28, filmed at the Spectrum in Philadelphia during the second leg of the Sacred Heart tour and featuring Goldy, then new to the group, on guitar.
Mike Keneally
His guitar can be heard on the new Joe Satriani full-length Unstoppable Momentum, and on the soundtrack for the ten-episode web series Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, a prequel to the TV show set in the tenth year of the First Cylon War.
Rocket from the Crypt
They'll play the two-day Orion Music + More festival created by headliners Metallica that takes place June 8 and 9 at Belle Isle in Detroit. Other acts include Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rise Against, Deftones, Dropkick Murphys, Gogol Bordello, and an Infectious Grooves reunion.
Erleen Nada
She shot a music video featuring Jello Biafra (ex-Dead Kennedys), as well as doing the layout design for posters, T-shirts, CDs, and LPs related to Biafra's new full-length White People and the Damage Done.
Scott Weiland
The drummer of his backing band the Wildabouts has quit the group in the middle of Weiland's solo tour. Danny Thompson posted via Facebook “I have just officially quit the Scott Weiland solo band...it's a matter of self worth. Not going to elaborate.” Weiland's next dates begin May 29 at the House of Blues in Hollywood, with stops in Arizona and Nevada.
Megadeth
They'll play seven shows with Iron Maiden beginning in Raleigh, NC on September 3 and concluding with the Battle Of San Bernardino on Friday the 13th, which also features Anthrax, Testament, Overkill, and Sabaton at the San Manuel Amphitheater. Their full-length Super Collider, recorded in San Marcos, drops June 4 via Dave Mustaine's label Tradecraft (distributed by Universal).
The Wrong Trousers
The charismatic cult trio's “indefinite hiatus” will end with a reunion performance at Lestat's in Normal Heights on July 5.
