Weekly Music News 03.11.24
Updated: 3 hours ago
A new single from young rocker Meitav Sherman, "Pnei HaMetziut HaZot". Meitav wrote on social media: "I could write a lot about where it came from and how it was written, but this time I will keep that to myself."
The single comes a few weeks after Meitav celebrated her 26th birthday and decided to set off on a journey around the world.
Talented musician Dana Berger, who celebrated her birthday last week, releases the first single from her new album this week. Her 14th album is due later this year. "This song was written out of my personal struggle with one of this period's challenges: how to keep an open heart even during wartime, amid pain, fear and loss.
How to keep feeling, rather than armoring ourselves and going through the world with a closed heart protected behind a wall.
And most importantly, how to remember to give thanks each morning for the most basic thing we take for granted: our breath, the gift of our lives."
Like the rest of the album, the song was recorded over the past year between air-raid sirens in south Tel Aviv, at the studio of Maor Schwartzberg, who produced the album and the new live show.
Aviv Geffen was detained by the LAPD after raising a sign calling for the hostages' release during David Gilmour's show in Los Angeles. The sign read "Wish They Were Here".
"I said I was from Israel and that it was for the hostages. They asked me to lower it and I refused," said Geffen, who was removed from the show. He was released shortly afterward.
The band "Sleep Token", both mysterious and famous, made a little history this week by taking the stage with a reduced lineup, and an unusual one at that. At a show in Zurich, only the drummer and singer appeared onstage, with prerecorded backing tracks replacing guitar and bass. The band said its guitarist and bassist had felt unwell the day before the show. Believing a show should only be canceled if it is completely impossible to perform, they decided to go ahead with backing tracks for the two absent members.
(Photo: Adamross Williams)
Things turned frightening during a "Morrissey" show in Dallas on Saturday night, when fans rushed the stage, forcing the singer to end the show early. After his initial set, the former Smiths frontman returned for an encore. As he began "First of the Gang to Die", the second single from 2004's "You Are The Quarry", some people in the crowd began climbing onstage and jumping on the singer. First came a woman, then a man, both removed by security. It seemed innocent and harmless at first, but a larger crowd quickly rushed the stage, and Morrissey was hurried off, bringing the show to a premature end.
Heavy-metal guitar legend Tony Iommi is furious with Hard Rock Cafe, which is refusing to return his guitar. For younger readers unfamiliar with it, the restaurant chain is famous for the original rock memorabilia decorating its locations around the world. Tony signed an agreement allowing the company to display his red Gibson SG with the monkey sticker, which he played on several Black Sabbath albums, while retaining the right to ask for it back whenever he wanted. Now he wants it back, but the restaurant company does not want to return it!
(Photo: Gibson Guitars)
Last week we mentioned how many artists had publicly backed a US presidential candidate, something we had not seen so much of before. After Trump's election victory, we noticed many artists expressing their disappointment in dramatic and forceful ways. One striking example was Bruce Springsteen, who supported Kamala Harris and opened one of his shows this week with a "fighting prayer": "Long Walk Home", a 17-year-old song about an America that has changed.
(Photo: Harold Feng)
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