MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHTS LIVE: 8:30-10PM PST!
ROCKLINE CALENDAR

07.07.08
Projekt Revolution Tour with Special Guest Stars
FEATURING
Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park
Chris Cornell
Alex Varkatzas of Atreyu

07.09.08
Night Ranger

07.14.08
Seether
Special Encore Presentation

07.16.08
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull

07.21.08
Judas Priest

07.23.08
Judas Priest
Special Encore rebroadcast of 7-21 show

07.28.08
Candlebox

07.30.08
The Scorpions

08.04.08
Trapt
CD Premiere and LIVE Performance!

08.06.08
Walter Becker of Steely Dan

08.11.08
10 Years

08.13.08
Great White
Live electric performance: Their turn to speak.

08.18.08
Black Stone Cherry
CD Premiere


08.27.08
REO Speedwagon

09.03.08
Whitesnake

11.19.08
Glenn Hughes
LIVE Plugged-in Performance!
(Rescheduled from August)


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Monday July 7, 2008

Projekt Revolution

What a great way to return from a holiday weekend! There’s nothing more rejuvenating than being offered the opportunity to speak with three bona fide superstars to chase away the “partied too hard” mid-summer bash hangover many of us have each year as an excuse to get trashed to celebrate our country’s independence. We will liven up your July Monday night with vocalists from three of the best bands around from a tour that has become another grand American tradition, the Projekt Revolution summer tour! This will be the fifth year out of the last eight that Linkin Park will headline an eclectic group of performers, carefully selected to satisfy the broadest spectrum of taste, from ultraviolet to infrared and all the shades and hues in between. Joining us for this spectacular Rockline will be Linkin Park’s own Mike Shinoda, solo artist Chris Cornell and Alex Varkatzas of Atreyu. 2008 marks the first time that the tour was taken outside North America.  Performances have already been held in Germany and England, with the UK date boasting the largest attendance for any venue in the tour's storied history. But all of that is indeed history. We’re poised to point toward the future as the fun begins in the Boston area on July 16 and continues for two dozen dates, culminating in The Woodlands just outside Houston on August 24. There are several websites you can visit to glean further information about the show, including LinkinPark.com which will redirect you, and those of other stellar guests on the tour such as ChrisCornell.com and AtreyuRock.com There are also MySpace and Facebook sites available for perusal as well.

Let’s take a moment and inform you about the entire line up for Projekt Revolution. Joining Linkin Park on the Main Stage are Chris Cornell, Busta Rhymes, The Bravery and Billy Howerdel’s new band Ashes Divide. The Revolution Stage will provide plenty of mosh pit action with Atreyu headlining, 10 Years (just scheduled for their own ROCKLINE appearance on August 11, in the midst of the tour), Hawthorne Heights, Armor for Sleep and the Street Drum Corps. We told you there’s something to pique your interest and liven up a summer day.

But the focus for our upcoming show will be on the three gentlemen who will be taking your calls, answering your questions and allowing us to play some of their fantastic music. Each of our guests performs distinct and compelling music and narrowing it down to two songs from each artist will be a delightful challenge. Here’s a little tip, if you want to participate in this show and speak with one of your Rock heroes, call early as we expect this to be a night of heavy phone activity, for very obvious reasons.

Yes indeed, what a way to get back into your weekly rhythm as we offer a chance to join us on the air and connect with artists of the highest caliber, Mike Shinoda, Chris Cornell and Alex Varkatzas and to discuss this newest,  fantastic edition of The Projekt Revolution Tour for 2008. Where? Only on ROCKLINE, of course!

Wednesday July 9, 2008

Night Ranger

Another Night Ranger album?!!!. For goodness sakes, how many do they need to release? Once every 10 years is a bit much don’t ya think? There’s such a thing as overkill, you know.

It really is difficult to believe a decade has gone by since the Bay Area based band graced us with “Seven” in 1998. That was actually a year after “Neverland” from ’97, which briefly put the band in the prolific category. Very briefly. This new CD has been available overseas; most notably in Japan for about a year and now it finally surfaces in their homeland. Break out the cliché catalog, but this collection of a dozen new songs truly was worth the wait. Certain to satisfy the long term fans, it has the potential of garnering some new ones as well. Also included on “Hole in the Sun” are excellent acoustic renderings of two of their classic songs, “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” and their smash hit, power ballad “Sister Christian”. Including those two songs in this collection inadvertently represents the new album. Because there are plenty of patented, bob your head, tap your toes, play air guitar, unmistakably up-tempo Night Ranger rockers and a sprinkling of the Kelly Keagy sung “Sister”-style songs, notably the beautiful, heartfelt, “There Is Life”. That’s a good one to pop in your player after a nice dinner, perhaps splitting a bottle of wine with your sweetheart, because, “As long as there’s love, there is life”. That song will get the job done better than any little blue pill. That soft side is contrasted by the bombast of the drum laden, foot stomping song, “You’re Gonna Hear From Me”, which borrows more from Gary Glitter’s “Rock & Roll Part II” than fellow Bay Area rocker Sammy Hagar did with his song “Mas Tequila”. It’s the first emphasis radio track from the album and when you hear it you’ll definitely know why.

There’s no denying there have been many personnel changes over the years with Night Ranger, but at the core has been a solid, supremely talented group of four with Keagy, Jack Blades, Brad Gillis and the now departed Jeff Watson. The members of the band have been so busy with other projects that it is completely understandable that a decade has slipped by without any new material, but now the time has come and we will make sure we play some choice selections from “Hole in the Sun” as we welcome Jack and Brad from San Francisco and Kelly from Nashville. By the time they join us they will have been on the road for awhile, but will soon after be hopping a plane for their stint at the second year of Rocklahoma, just outside Pryor, OK. For more regarding Rocklahoma, visit their site at Rocklahoma.com and for the full Night Ranger itinerary head on over to NightRanger.com

Something special happens when certain musicians perform together that they cannot duplicate with others. Such is the case with Night Ranger, back after a ten year void and ready to share their excellent new music with you on our next ROCKLINE!


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