Hey-o, kids. How goes? It's almost Friday- and that means Saturday Night Karaoke is almost here! Don't forget to join us for all the fun at the Iron Horse Tavern in Norcross.
On the last day of New York Comic Con, IDW Publishing announced the upcoming graphic novel 'Lennon,' which follows the John Lennon's life story.
The comic book biography adapts French author David Foekinos' 2010 novel which told Lennon's story through imagined sessions between Lennon and an therapist (see what I did there?).
The book will be released in May 2017.
Depeche Mode will be hitting the road next year in support of their new album, 'Spirit'
The album is set to be released early next spring and the tour kicks off May 5 in Stockholm. "We’re exceptionally proud of Spirit’s sound and energy, and we’re excited to get back on tour to share it with our fans around the world," said frontman Dave Gahan.
The band will also headline Portugal's Nos Alive festival on July 8. Tickets for the tour go on sale tomorrow, but no US dates have been announced.
I did a triple take at the radio this morning after hearing the headline on the BBC that Bob Dylan was this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The announcement marks the first time the prize has gone to a musician- a man who the Swedish Academy credits with "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
"Most song lyrics don’t really hold up without the music, and they aren’t supposed to. Bob Dylan is in the 2 percent club of songwriters whose lyrics are interesting on the page, even without the harmonica and the guitar and his very distinctive voice. I think he does qualify as poetry," said poet Billy Collins
Literary scholar Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Nobel Academy, called Dylan "a great poet in the English-speaking tradition."
Rosanne Cash tweeted: "Holy mother of god. Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize."
Not everyone was quite so thrilled, though. Novelist Rabih Alameddine said on his Twitter account that "Bob Dylan winning a Nobel in Literature is like Mrs Fields being awarded 3 Michelin stars. This is almost as silly as Winston Churchill."
Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh tweeted that he was "a Dylan fan, but this is an ill conceived nostalgia award wrenched from the rancid prostates of senile, gibbering hippies."
On the heels of his successful performance at last weekend's Desert Trip festival, Roger Waters has announced new tour.
The tour will be Waters' first since 2013 and starts in May of next year.
Waters has christened this the "Us And Them," and will stop in over 30 cities across the US and Canada.
"I was listening to [the song] the other day. There's a line which goes, 'With, without, and who'll deny that's what the fighting's all about?' And the answer to the question is this: Almost everyone. Almost everyone will deny that 'with/without' is what the fighting's all about. My contention is that it is. That's why my new tour is going to be called 'Us and Them.' It's specifically about that line."
The tour kicks off May 26 in Kansas City and wraps up next October in Vancouver- and includes a July 16 stop at the Infinite Energy Center here. Tickets go on sale October 21.
Birthdays today include: Marie Osmond; John Ford Coley of England Dan & John Ford Coley fame, Sammy Hagar; Robert Lamm of Chicago; and Paul Simon. #MusicalBirthdays
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