Liam Gallagher opened the star-studded Wembley Stadium show fronting Foo Fighters with 2 Oasis hits, and guests also included members of Queen, AC/DC, The Police, Oasis, Supergrass, The Pretenders, reunions of Them Crooked Vultures and The James Gang, and more.
Special guests are set to include Travis Barker, Liam Gallagher, Joshua Homme, Chrissie Hynde, John Paul Jones, Geddy Lee, Krist Novoselic, Nile Rodgers, Mark Ronson, Supergrass, Lars Ulrich, Wolfgang Van Halen, and more.
“‘Becoming Led Zeppelin‘ is a film that no one thought could be made,“ says director Bernard MacMahon. “The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually undocumented. Through an intense search across the globe and years of restoration of the visual and audio archive found, this story is finally able to be told.”
This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Mark Lanegan, I Break Horses and Melenas, plus The The reissue a rare early cassette, and new UK shoegaze band bdrmm.
Mark's new album, Straight Songs of Sorrow, features appearances by Greg Dulli, Warren Ellis, John Paul Jones, and more, and was directly inspired by stories from his upcoming new memoir Sing Backwards and Weep.
The Dream Syndicate, , who released How Did I Find Myself Here? last year, will release a new EP for Record Store Day titled How We Found Ourselves...Everywhere! that features three unreleased songs from the album's sessions (including one with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones on lap steel), and three live songs from their 2017 tour...
Diamanda Galas and Jon Stewart who rarely turn in up in the same sentence, actually crossed paths back in 1994, when Diamanda gave a great, intense performance of "Skótoseme" from her collaborative album with Led Zeppelin legend John Paul Jones on Stewart's old talk show...
Bonnaroo went down over this past weekend with sets from Ice Cube, Kanye West, Sam Smith and so much more.
As always, legacy acts enjoyed a good showing at the festival...