Puscifer Shows to Feature Gil Sharone

From Headbanger's Blog:

Keenan is also looking forward to the first ever shows by his project, Puscifer, February 13 and 14 in Las Vegas at the Pearl in the Palms Casino. Expect friends and collaborators to include multi-instrumentalist Jonny Polonsky; Stolen Babies drummer Gil Sharone and bassist Rani Sharone; guitarist/Chapman stick player Trey Gunn; King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto; and Primus drummer Tim Alexander. Additional participants may include the inventors and stars of the HBO comedy series “Mr. Show,” David Cross and Bob Odenkirk and “SpongeBob SquarePants” alum Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob and other characters) and Jill Talley (voice of Karen).

“If we pull this thing off correctly first time around it’s gonna open up the door for other people to be involved in the future events,” Keenan says. “We’re gonna be doing some performance stuff in kind of like a ‘Mr. Show’ setting — ‘Monty Python’-style sketches with a band involved. But we know that music and comedy only work to a point. Tenacious D was amazing in a small theater setting. When it went to stadium rock level, you’re kind of like, ‘Well, this is the thing you’re making fun of.’ It works better when you’re in a 300 seater pretending to be in an arena. So, mostly, it’ll be music, and we’re hopefully going to completely reinterpret the songs every night. We’ll sticking to the format for some of the shows, but maybe one night might be completely country and one night might be completely dub. The most important thing is for it to be a different experience every night.”

Sounds pretty cool. Make sure you catch it if you're in the area.

Edit - Here's the tour promo video:

Stolen Babies Mid-November Update

Mid November Update...

Current mood: dirty
Category: Sports

Well we are towards the end of our run with Lordi.
Thanks to everyone that came out so far!
5 shows left...here's a reminder.

Nov 16 2008 8:00P
Glasshouse Music Hall Pomona, California
Nov 17 2008 9:00P
House of Blues West Hollywood, California
Nov 20 2008 8:00P
Gothic Theatre Englewood, Colorado
Nov 22 2008 10:30P
House of Blues Chicago, Illinois
Nov 23 2008 7:00P
House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio

In other news...since plastic surgery and trying to stay young are so in these days...we've succumbed to pier pressure and thought we'd give our myspace and web site a bit of a "face lift." A good shot of Botox right between the eyes! so stay tuned!

Oh yeah...almost forgot to mention new material and the new album! Well there it has just been mentioned. A release date is being planned...keep you posted.
Thnaks!!!

-a member of the band.

Stolen Babies November-December Tour Dates

Stolen Babies are touring throughout November-December this year in the U.S. Make sure you go and check them out. Here are the dates:

Nov 9 2008 7:30P	White Rabbit	San Antonio, Texas
Nov 12 2008 6:30P	House of Blues	Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov 13 2008 7:00P	House of Blues	San Diego, California
Nov 16 2008 8:00P	Glasshouse Music Hall	Pomona, California
Nov 17 2008 9:00P	House of Blues	West Hollywood, California
Nov 20 2008 8:00P	Gothic Theatre	Englewood, Colorado
Nov 22 2008 10:30P	House of Blues	Chicago, Illinois
Nov 23 2008 7:00P	House of Blues	Cleveland, Ohio
Dec 6 2008 8:00P	Macabre-Con Pomona Fairplex	Pomona, California

Gil Sharone Update

From MySpace:

My DVD update and Tour Dates...
Current mood: handsome
Category: Romance and Relationships

HellO Everyone...

Good news regarding my DVD dedicated to Ska/Reggae drumming! I have officially started shooting footage and it's going to be the shit! I got to spend a lot of time with the legendary Lloyd Knibb from The Skatalites this past week and I got some AMAZING footage of Lloyd! Way more than I expected and it was an honor to hang with him. He is a living legend and the godfather of Ska and Reggae! I'll be shooting more in between touring and working around the schedules of people that will be in the DVD with me.Keep chekn for more updates on the video...

Also, Stolen Babies will be out most of Nov. so check out the dates on our page and come out if you can...

More updates soooon....

gi

New Gil Sharone Video

From MySpace:

Got a new video clip up... sorry the sound is so distorted... just pay attention to the playing:



Also, If you're anywhere near Long Beach, CA in Oct... come see Stolen Babies at the Queen Mary for the big ass Halloween event they have called Shipwreck. We play every Fri, Sat, Sun in Oct. playing TWO sets a night..

I'll have some other updates soon...

discuss this

Ben Weinman on Headbanger's Blog

Headbanger's Blog have an audio-interview with Ben Weinman, where he talks about the Suicide Silence cancellation, their drumming situation, plans for the new album, their upcoming DVD, his opinion of deathcore and his new line of heavy metal t-shirt for dogs. You can stream the audio below (and download the file at this location).

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Dillinger Escape Plan: Tour Diary Part 4

Watch the fourth part to The Dillinger Escape Plan's tour diary below, which features live clips, an unplugged version of "Horse Hunter" with Brent Hinds, Maris the Gay Zombie and more!



Previous Tour Diary Entries: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Discuss here.

Stolen Babies Update

Stolen Babies (fts. Gil Sharone) have updated their MySpace page with some news, which is as follows (original post here):

Stolen Babies, Halloween & a Haunted Ocean Liner from the 30’s????
Current mood: pirate
Category: Parties and Nightlife

That's right folks...All of your cries and prayers have been answered (at least in southern california).

Back by popluar demand...Stolen Babies will be the resident band at the 14th Annual Halloween Terrorfest...SHIPWRECK at the Queen Mary in long beach, ca.

Shipwreck 2008 Dates - October 2008: 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31 & Nov 1st.

Location:
The Queen Mary
1126 Queens Hwy.
Long Beach, Ca. 90802.
Call (562)-435-3511 for more Information or visit www.queenmaryshipwreck.com

Tour Dates coming soon!

New Interview w/ Gil Sharone

Metal Israel have a new interview with Gil Sharone, which you can check out here. If you have a digg account, you can digg the interview here as well.

Full UVTV Video Up Now *Updated*

The full UVTV video of The Dillinger Escape Plan live in concert (pro-shot footage) is now up. You can access it through the UVTV podcast, or you can watch it below. Note: the video is up on a "very fast server and will work better than uploading somewhere else."



Edit: Unfortunately, the videos have been taken off YouTube due to Copyright Infringement. There is still a slightly better quality clip of "Lurch" on DEP's Facebook page.

Also, if you want to you can download the concert from this location (you can download it without any worry).

Discuss here.

New MySpace Post by Gil

Gil has updated his MySpace blog with a new post, which is as follows:

MD Readers Polls, DVD Project and updates!
Current mood: calm
Category: Pets and Animals

I know it's been a little while since the Modern Drummer Readers Polls were annouced but I wanted to thank everyone that voted for me. I was real pumped on finding out that I got voted in to TWO catagories. I appreciate the support from everyone.

Also, a lot of people ask me about the reggae grooves I play. Well, I have good news for you. I'm going to be working on an instructional DVD dedicated to the Jamaican styles of music from 60's Traditonal Ska, Rockseady, Roots Reggae, 2-Tone Ska, 3rd Wave Ska and Dancehall. I'll post updates as thez come. It's going to be bad ass!!!

I'm on the road with Dillinger through August and then we get a break. Stolen Babies will be working on new material for our next record. Check out the bands page for tour dates, and other news. Stolen Babies has a new merch page too, check it!
www.merchdirect.net/stolenbabies

LateR!

BBC Radio 1 Interview At Download Festival

The following is a BBC interview with Greg Puciato and Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan at this year's Download Festival:

Old and New Scans of DEP Features in Rock-A-Rolla

I just today picked up Rock-A-Rolla Magazine's 14th issue, in which I found a live review of The Dillinger Escape Plan. So I've scanned that, in addition to a Dillinger Escape Plan feature article/interview, review on Ire Works, and the first part of Rock-A-Rolla's top 30 albums from 2007 (in which Ire Works came out at 4th) all of which were featured in Rock-A-Rolla's 12th issue. You can find everything mentioned below and at Flickr.

(click on the images to enlarge them)

Rock-A-Rolla Issues 12 (Scans 1-8) and 14 (Scan 9)

Summer 2008 Tour Diary, Part 2

The following is the second part of an ongoing series of video blogs by The Dillinger Escape Plan, documenting their current tour.



Previous Tour Diary Entries: Part 1

Newer Tour Diary Entries: Part 3

Outernational Debut Featuring Gil Sharone

According to Punknews.org, the band Outernational have signed to Warner Bros. and are working on their debut album with producer Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) and will feature drummers Gil Sharone (Dillinger Escape Plan) and Joe Tomino (Dub Trio).

Gil Sharone: Two Drum Clinics in Australia

Straight from the horse's mouth:

I'll be doing two drum clinics in Australia this month in between shows with Dillinger... One in Adelaide on the 14th at Fowlers Live sponsored by Billy Hyde Music and one in Brisbane on the 18th at the Drum Cartel.
For more info check out www.myspace.com/billyhydeadelaide and www.myspace.com/thedrumcartel
See you thurr!!

New Post on MySpace: Mailing List and Ben Interview

The Dillinger Escape Plan have posted a new post on their MySpace account, which covers a few new things (as well as some things already covered here at SLW, including their Australian tour announcement, their upcoming European tour, the Gil Sharone giveaway and the Peta2 footage). The new things covered in this post include the following:

• With FanBridge, DEP have initiated a mailing list/fan club, which you can right onto at this location.
  
• Ben Weinman has recently conducted an interview with MySpace, which you can view here or below.
  

Win Gil Sharone's Snare!

Drumhead Magazine are currently holding a competition, which gives you the chance to win Gil Sharone's snare (apparently valued at $1435). It's only open to US residents, so if you are one, go here to enter and for more info.

Gil in Modern Drummer *Updated with Scans*

This is already old news, seeing how Modern Drummer are already putting out their May issue, but Gil Sharone was featured in the magazine in April. According to a post on Gil's MySpace account, it consisted of a 10-page feature, which addressed a lot of questions he had been getting at that time. You can view part of it on Modern Drummer's website, and you can also pick up a back issue of the April issue (which has the full article and interview) from this location.

*Update* Goolick33 has uploaded scans of the feature, which you can view below (click on the images to enlarge them).