Weekly Music News 23.04.23
Weekly news roundup for the week beginning April 23, 2023
Finally, after a long wait, "Structural" releases the first single from its forthcoming album, "Decrowned"! "This song is called 'Your Damnation', and we cannot wait to hear what you think of it and the songs still to come."
The band "Neolia" releases a special new video for "Karma", featuring Ran Yerushalmi of Walkways.
The video was filmed in the Nitzana hills and central Israel, and features dancer Sophia Irovich.
German metal legends "Rage" will perform in Israel for the first time on May 24 at Gagarin in Tel Aviv. Rage formed in 1984, part of the second, or perhaps third, wave of German heavy metal, if the Scorpions were the first and Accept the second. They began as Avenger, releasing their first album and an EP in 1985. They then changed their name to Rage and released their debut under that name, "Reign of Fear", in 1986. A very active and varied band, they play heavy and power metal, sometimes adding speed and thrash. They have released 25 studio albums to date, the latest in 2021. Their anchor is undisputed leader Peter "Peavy" Wagner: bass, vocals, writing and production.
Guest bands: "Desert" and "Serpentale". Tickets here:
This is moving... Neil Young, 77, took the stage this week for his first full set in four years, reuniting with his friend Stephen Stills to honor their friend David Crosby, who died earlier this year. The performance was part of the "Light Up the Blues 6" benefit concert in Los Angeles, organized by Stephen Stills and his wife. Young played an 11-song set, joined by Stills for several songs, including Buffalo Springfield classics. Graham Nash also joined the event via a video message paying tribute to his friend David Crosby.
Israel celebrates 75 years of independence.
Ronen Lalena, one of Israel's important pioneering music photographers, will mark the country's 75th birthday with "Orot Gvohim" ("High Beams"), a series of stamps he designed from his iconic photographs, paying tribute to musicians and bands whose contribution to Israeli culture has been immense.
The project will be shown as a 360-degree video projection in the patio at Teo Center in Herzliya on May 11, 2023. Admission is free. The exhibition will feature around 50 stamps with Lalena's photographs from 1992 to 2018, when he took his last photograph and retired from photography because of a rare eye disease.
Artists and bands whose images will appear include: Berry Sakharof, Eviatar Banai, Mashina, Hadag Nahash, Eifo HaYeled?, Girafot, HaMechashefot, HaYehudim, Gilad Kahana, the late Ahuva Ozeri, Efrat Gosh, Algir, Mooki, Amir Lev, Monica Sex, Knesiyat HaSekhel, Kobi Oz, Corinne Allal, Yermi Kaplan, Shabak Samech, Iggy Waxman, the late Inbal Perlmutter, Aviv Guedj, HaBiluyim and Boom Pam, and more...
Pictured: Orit Shahaf and Tom Petrover of HaYehudim
Young hard-rock band "Plush" releases a new single!!!
The single arrives two years after the band's self-titled debut album.
Last week brought news of a new single and album from "Foo Fighters", and this week guitarist Chris Shiflett releases a new single, "Dead and Gone". Written in 2020 during the pandemic and recorded in Nashville, the song pays tribute to the people of his hometown, Santa Barbara. Shiflett says: "My hometown was an odd mix of luxury paradise and working-class grit and continues to be a bottomless pit of lyrical inspiration." Shiflett also promises a full solo album later this year.
The band "The Damned" releases its 12th album, "Darkadelic", today. On February 3, the band announced the album with its first single, "The Invisible Man", the opening track, showing it remained true to its punk-rock roots. Today brings the full 12-track album, its first since "Evil Spirits" five years ago.
Listen on: Spotify
Also, "Crown the Empire" releases a new album, "Dogma", today. It is the Texas metalcore band's fifth album, and we have already heard five singles since 2021. It began on August 12, 2021, with "In Another Life", featuring Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante, followed on October 29 by "Dancing with the Dead", and on December 1, 2022, by "Immortalize". On February 23 the band released the title track, then on March 22, a month before the album, it unveiled fifth single "Black Sheep". Now you can hear the complete ten-track album.
Listen on: Spotify
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