The Cranberries' European Tour 2012, so far...

The Cranberries are back !

European Tour so far...
June 20 @ Grand Rex, Paris
July 06 @ Zénith , Toulouse Fra.

Mon Jul 09	Barcelona, Spain	Poble Espanyol	On Sale Jan 13
Tue Jul 10	Madrid, Spain	Palacio Vistalegre	On Sale Jan 13

The band will play 8 shows in Australia & New Zealand between March 15 & march 28 2012

Van Halen "Tattoo" video released + Artwork for new album revealed

updated Jan 12

Artwork for new Van Halen album revealed:

Van Halen 2012 (left), Commodores' 1975 album "Moving on" (right)

New video "Tattoo"

Well... They've played a 'new song' @ Café Wha? called "She 's the woman" that is in fact a song they recorded as a demo in 1976 and NOW the new single "Tattoo" sounds like a song they never recorded but that they were playing in 1977 called "Down in Flames" .
It look like Sammy hagar was right when he told Rolling Stone Mag that "they didn't actually write new songs. They took old stuff from previous sessions, I mean stuff from before I even joined the band"

For more info and the new album and their concert @ Café Wha? go HERE

Other news:

• A deluxe 2cd version of KISS' Destroyer will be out late february, this 2012 edition will feature remixes & outtakes plus the original cover that was rejected at the time in 1976 by Casablanca because they thought it was too violent.
• Also out next month (Feb 2012) are the deluxe version of Thin Lizzy's "Fighting" & "Nightlife" and a Live DVD : Live At The National Stadium Dublin 1975.
• Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Dave Grohl, Lemmy, Ian Gillan, Alice Cooper, Glenn Hughes, Sebastian Bach and some others have signed on to be part of the upcoming Ronnie James Dio tribute album which is being assembled by the singer's widow and longtime manager Wendy Dio.

Charlotte Gainsbourg @ MK2 Quai de Seine, Jan 13 2012

Les fans de Charlotte Gainsbourg pourront la rencontrer au cinéma MK2 Quai de Seine, vendredi 13 janvier. L'actrice et chanteuse sera invitée par la salle parisienne du 19e arrondissement pour une séance de dédicace de son nouvel album, Stage Whisper, suivie d'une projection du biopic de Bob Dylan, I'm Not There de Todd Haynes à 20h, pour un tarif de 10,50€.

Tony Iommi diagnosed with cancer

With Heaven & Hell in Paris in 2009 (left & right)

With the news that Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma, his bandmates would like everyone to send positive vibes to the guitarist at this time. Iommi is currently working with his doctors to establish the best treatment plan--the “IRON MAN” of Rock & Roll remains upbeat and determined to make a full and successful recovery.
This comes as Black Sabbath--Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums)--are writing and recording their first album in 33 years in Los Angeles (still set for release this fall) with producer Rick Rubin. They will now go to the UK to continue to work with Tony. Further information will be released as it becomes available.

Soundgarden @ Zénith, Paris on May 29 2012

The title says it all !!!

Other European shows are HERE including Festivals

Pré-vente sur www.gdp.fr Mercredi 11 janvier 2012.

Check our review of Chris Cornell 's last shows in Paris :
@ Bercy opening for Lenny Kravitz in 2009 HERE & Headlining Cigale in 2009 HERE

Rock concerts in Paris for January 2012

Updated Jan 12 : Happy Mondays @ batofar Jan 16: CANCELLED
The Ting Tings has been moved @ La Fleche d'Or (sold out) & private show @ L'Album de la Semaine for Canal+ on Jan 17

Well...it's never been so quiet, these last 3 weeks have been dead concert-wise and so is the next one, That's why we keep on updating the site with rock news ( and lots of Van Halen , I know.)
There are a few shows before the end of the month:

January 14:
The Pains of being pure at heart @ maroquinerie
Jan 16
Chickenfoot @ Olympia °
CANCELLED ***Happy Mondays @ Batofar CANCELLED ***
Jan 17:
The Ting Tings @ L'Album de la Semaine
Jan 18:
Spin Doctors @ Bus Palladium

MOVED @ La Fleche d'Or- The Ting Tings @ Fleche d'Or (sold out)-Moved @ La fleche d'OR

Lara Gibson @ Point Ephémere
Jan 19:
Echo & The Bunnymen @ Bataclan
Jan 20:
Mastodon @ Bataclan°
Jan 21:
Steve Hogarth ( marillion) @ Divan du Monde

Jan 24:
ROCK MEETS CLASSIC with Ian Gillan (Deep Purple), Steve Lukather (Toto) & Robin Beck @ Zénith
Jan 25:
The Black Keys @ Zénith
Jan 26:
Band of Skulls @ Fleche d'Or
Jan 31:
Arctic Monkeys + Miles Kane @ Casino de Paris (sold out ?)°
+ Feb 02 @ Olympia & Feb 04 @ Zénith

REMEMBER: Check availability before going

Van Halen @ Café Wha?, New York City, Jan 05 2011

Contact: irockinparis((a))yahoo((dot))fr

UPDATED Jan 07 with more links to videos and pictures,Artwork of new single "Tattoo"...
Tracklisting of new album revealed + 30 seconds preview of new single "Tattoo".
Stay Tuned we'll get you more soon

Van Halen played yesterday night in New York City @ Café Wha?.

(c) VHND

SETLIST: (click for videos) [° Better quality]

• You Really Got Me°
• Runnin’ With The Devil
• Somebody Get Me A Doctor° (intro David talking)
• Everybody Wants Some (Another version° including "She's the woman")
  
• She’s The Woman (new song)
  
• Dance The Night Away
• Panama
• Hot For Teacher°
• Ice Cream Man (Intro only)
  
• Ain’t Talkin Bout Love
• Jump

Beautiful Girls & Unchained were on the setlist (after "Jump") but not played, as you notice there is just ONE new song: "She's the woman".
Not really a new song as it was on the demo they recorded for Gene Simmons before they get signed for the first album !!??!?? Listen to the original demo from 1976 here.

Pics from the show HERE, review of the show in Rolling Stone with a nice Pic

The American Tour has been announced, all dates are HERE, starting in Louisville KY on Feb 18 ending @ New Orleans on June 26th.

The new album " A different kind of Truth" will be out next month,
new single "Tattoo" will be out next week (Jan 10), here's the artwork above on the right
The deluxe-edition version of the CD will contain a bonus DVD featuring four brand new acoustic performance videos.

Tracklisting: (Thanks to Melodirock)
01. Tattoo
02. She's The Woman
03. You and Your Blues
04. China Town
05. Blood and Fire
06. Bullethead
07. As Is
08. Honeybabysweetiedoll
09. The Trouble With Never
10. Outta Space
11. Stay Frosty
12. Big River
13. Beats Workin'

Lana del Rey signs with Model Agency + New single "National Anthem"

New Pop sensation Lana Del Rey has just sign with Model Agency Next Models.
Her record will be out at the end of the month

Lana Del Ray aslo has a new song out for her single it's "National Anthem":

LDR - NA Vidéo bestofleak sélectionnée dans Musique

Check pro-footage of her show at Chateau Marmont Here
Our review of her show @ L'Album de la Semaine in November 2011

The Last Shadow Puppets to record 2nd album

Miles Kane & Alex Turner to reunite

Miles Kane has confirmed that he will reunite with Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner to record a second album with The Last Shadow Puppets.
A second album for The Last Shadow Puppets may even surface this year. “Maybe the end of this year. Maybe next year,” he says.

Watch the Noise11.com interview with Miles Kane here:

Guns N Roses pro footage of entire Las Vegas concert on Dec 30 available

GUNS N ROSES played two concerts @ The Joint in Las Vegas: first one on Dec 30 and second one on New Year's Eve.

The first show was streamed online via iClips as a pay-per-view event.

The entire show is now available for you to watch on ROCKERPARIS in 7 Parts:

Part 2 , Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 (click to watch)
The VH new album cover will be "based on" this artwork

Other news:
Van Halen is to play their first show for 2012 in New York City @ Café Wha ? (250 capacity) on thursday. Though nothing is official, word is the band are going to perform a 45-minute set.Van Halen should announce their Tour in a few days. The album will be out in February. For some more click HERE

Guns N Roses performance @ Rock in Rio in Oct 2011 is also available to watch on ROCKERPARIS Here (Also The Los Angeles' Forum on Dec 21)

Check our review of GUNS N ROSES @ Zénith arena in Lille France
GUNS N ROSES @ bERCY pART 1 pART 2 pART 3 (click on all links for GREAT Pictures, setlist, exclusive videos)
GUNS N ROSES @ L'aRC Club pART 1 pART 2

The Best of Street Art 2011

The Best of Street Art 2011

You know how much we love Street Art @ Rockerparis, There is some good shit and some very bad but here's the best of 2011 for you.

We just chose this images randomly there is some AMAZING stuff @ Street of Utopia

Some more HERE too

Steven Tyler performs with Alice Cooper on New Year's eve in Hawaii

Alice Cooper was playing for New Year's eve @ Mala Weilea in Hawaii with Weird Al Yankovic and Doobie Brothers' Pat Simmons & Michael McDonald when Steven Tyler joined in to play The Beatles' "Come Together". Steven also sang two other songs from Aerosmith "Sweet Emotion" & "Walk this way":

This is our first post for 2012.
Hope you like it !

Happy New Year 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

With lots of concerts...

Hopefully Van Halen is back and The Rolling Stones should tour next year with a show @ Stade de France in Paris in September 2012... fingers crossed.

Madonna should also pay us a visit @ Stade de France in July, MUSE is also on our agenda @ SdF next year.

Paul McCartney's new album "Kisses on the Bottom" artwork & tracklisting revealed

Updated Jan 10:

Paul McCartney's new album is called:
"Kisses on the Bottom"

Cover above

Official Tracklisting:

1. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Alhert/Young) 2:36
2. Home (When Shadows Fall) (Van Steeden/Clarkson/Clarkson) 4:04
3. It's Only a Paper Moon (Arlen/Harburg/Rose) 2:35
4. More I Cannot Wish You (Loesser) 3:03
5. The Glory of Love (Hill) 3:45
6. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) (Dorsey/Robertson/Mysels) 3:22
7. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (Arlen/Mercer) 2:31
8. My Valentine (McCartney) 3:14
9. Always (Berlin) 3:49
10. My Very Good Friend the Milkman (Burke/Spina) 3:04
11. Bye Bye Blackbird (Henderson/Dixon) 4:26
12. Get Yourself Another Fool (Forrest/Heywood) 4:42
13. The Inch Worm (Loesser) 3:42
14. Only Our Hearts (McCartney) 4:21

Deluxe CD Album will feature two bonus tracks plus access to a download of an exclusive live show (available from Tuesday 14^th February via paulmccartney.com), plus longer liner notes and expanded packaging featuring three postcards)

15. Baby’s Request 03:30

16. My One And Only Love 03:50

The album will also be available digitally. You will be able to pre-order the album directly from PaulMcCartney.com soon!

The album is set to be released on 7 February 2012 from Concord/Hear Music.
On this album of covers (apart from a couple of songs) Paul McCartney will pay homage to some of the songs that inspired him
New single "My Valentine" fest. Eric Clapton can be listen to HERE

Check our review of Paul McCartney @ Paris Bercy Arena on Nov 30 2011 with lots of Pics from the show + videos, setlist and more links to some more Macca stuff

The Rolling Stones' Full show @ Austin, Texas Oct 22 2006 available

It's still Christmas time so ROCKERPARIS is treating you good with the full show that performed the Rolling Stones in 2006 in Texas

Enjoy !

Artists of the year 2011 for Rockerparis: Anna Calvi & Miles Kane

Anna Calvi is the artist we've seen the most for this year 2011

It started last year when she opened for Nick Cave's Grinderman @ Cité de la Musique on Oct 26.

Click on links for review , setlist, Pics & video for each concert

She has released a great first album and has played many concerts and radio & TV shows in Paris this year:
Black session @ C'est Lenoir on Jan 17
L'Album de la Semaine for Canal+ , Jan 19
Nouveau Casino, Frb 08 (we didn't go to this one)
Trianon, April 22
Fnac Montparnasse, June 16
Rock en Seine festival, August 28
Olympia, for Les Inrocks festival Nov 11

An Amazing 7 shows in Paris in just a few months, we've been to 6 of them out of 7.
She only has one album so each gig was basically the same but each time we were charmed,
when she played the Rock en Seine festival, we thought about staying for a just a couple of songs before moving to the 3rd stage to see the Horrors,in fact it was so good that we stayed even though it was our 5th gig this year. Gig @ Fnac Montparnasse was a free showcase, she was sharing guitar duties with a guy as she had a bandage on her wrist.

Miles Kane is also an artist that we've seen a few times this year and who has released a great solo album. He played a few shows in Paris including
L'Album de la Semaine, March 29
Rock En Seine Festival, August 28
Cigale for Les Inrocks festival, Nov 04

After playing with The Rascals (check their shows @ Fleche d'Or on Sept 05 2008 & @ Maroquinerie on Dec 1st 2008 ) Miles Kane is now going solo with a very good album maybe not as rock as with his previous band but live his new band is smoking.
He will be playing a few shows next January/February opening for Arctic Monkeys @ Casino de Paris, Olympia & Zénith.

ROCKERPARIS ' most exclusive shows we've been to this year 2011

ROCKERPARIS went to some exclusive shows this year: private concerts, club shows by arena size bands.

Nothing could top Guns N Roses playing @ L'Arc Club in 2010 but we've been to some good stuff in 2011, here's the list:

Pj Harvey/ Jamiroquai/ Ben Harper

1) PJ Harvey @ Maroquinerie Feb 14 : First show to promote "Let England Shake" in this tiny 400 capacity club, guests and competition winners only.The show was broadcasted live on Arte TV. She played the whole new album and a few oldies. She would be playing two sold out gigs @ Olympia Théatre a few months later.

2) Jamiroquai @ Olympia March 07 : Private show during the Fashion Week for Paul & Joe.
This fashion brand was celebrating their 15th anniversary and invited Jamiroquai for a short 45 min set. I think it was Jamiroquai first show to promote the new album as the Tour only started one month later. We had a great night : first the fashion show then the concert and afterwards party all night long with DJs, lots of booze and quality food. The best party we've been to this year.

3) Ben Harper & R7 @ Fleche d'Or May 09: To promote "Give till it's gone" album, club show with competition winners, guests and some people who bought their ticket. Great show, broadcasted live on the radio and on the internet for video. Only show in Paris for this tour.

4) Arctic Monkeys @ Album de la Semaine June 16 & @ Cigale June 16 : First was a private show @ Canal+ in front of 200 people, 12 songs in less than 45 min. A let down as the Arctic Monkeys have never been a great live band. It seemed as if they didn't give a fuck.
Second show the day after at the tiny Cigale (1200 capacity) for a proper show opened to the public. 21 songs set. Much better gig but still it could have been better.

Arctic Monkeys / Coldplay/ Red Hot Chili Peppers : all playing La Cigale this year.

5) Coldplay @ Cigale Oct 31: Private show for competition winners & guests before they played a sold out Bercy on Dec 14. They will be playing @ Stade de France in September 2012 and it's already sold-out. Average show too many shitty songs, Bercy was much better in December.

6) Patti Smith @ Eglise St Eustache Nov 04: Patti played a few acoustic shows in unusual places in France on this tour including this one @ Paris in a church. Great show once again. She would be back in Paris later that month for two sold out shows at the Olympia. It's not the first time we're attending gigs in a church with Patti. Last time was for the "Nuit Blanche" of 2008 @ Eglise St Germain des Près where she performed 5 sets between 9:30pm and 4:00am. We've been to all of them.

7) Red Hot Chili Peppers @ Cigale, Dec 19: After seeing them @ Paris Bercy on Oct 19 for their second show in this arena (both shows were sold-out) RHCP are back in Paris for this private show for guests and competition winners. Once again it's broadcasted live on the internet. Better show than the one in Bercy.We were just in front of Flea, second row on the side Great view for a very good gig. Our last for 2011