Jukebox – Music News Cuts – 9/20

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Phish

Phish will be performing in Albany on October 25^th, 26^th, and 27^th at the MVP Arena in Albany as a benefit to support Divided Sky, a residential recovery program created by Trey Anastasio and program director Melanie Gulde.

“As a person in recovery, I understand how valuable it is to individuals in early sobriety to have access to an inclusive, welcoming, and supportive community where they can begin to build a solid foundation for their new sober lives,” said Trey Anastasio. “At the Divided Sky Residential Recovery Program, our mission is to deliver supportive and compassionate programming with dignity and respect for individuals and their families affected by addiction. We do this by offering a safe environment for men and women to build the foundation necessary to live a productive, healthy, and sober life.”

Phish has already wrapped up their summer tour. This is in addition.

Morrisey

Is a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Would it? You’ll have to ask Morrisey, formerly of The Smiths. His ongoing feud with bandmate Johnny Marr has taken another turn, with Marr’s successfully trademarking the name “The Smiths,” allowing him to tour as the band with a new vocalist, cutting Morrisey out entirely.

A statement was put out by Morrisey, and it reads like this:

“J Marr has successfully applied for 100% trademark rights / Intellectual Property ownership of The Smiths name. His application has been accepted on whatever oaths or proclamations he has put forward. This action was done without any consultation to Morrissey, and without allowing Morrissey the standard opportunity of ‘objection’. Amongst many other things, this means that Marr can now tour as The Smiths using the vocalist of his choice, and it also prohibits Morrissey from using the name whilst also denying Morrissey considerable financial livelihood.

Morrissey alone created the musical unit name ‘The Smiths’ in May 1982.”

In a Forbes Interview, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons had this to say,

“Get rid of the guitar player and get somebody else. Nobody cares. They just want to hear the songs. I keep saying this over and over again. If you go down the street, and with all due respect to Johnny Marr, you go down the street and ask the general person, “Who’s Johnny Marr?” they won’t know who you’re talking about.

[Hypothetically], saying no to $100 million dollars would be lunacy. What other job would pay you that!? Unless you’re willing to break your back and play football or something…”

The Cure

The Cure is releasing an album, but in true Halloween style, is going with a mysterious, spooky run up. The album, “Songs of a Lost World, are comsidered very doom and gloom, and have seen cool hints like black postcards sent to select fans that have the drop date in Roman numeral only visible in a blacklight.

Two dongs have already dropped, “And Nothing Is Forever” and “I Can Never Say Goodbye.”

“Before I used to write about stuff that I thought I understood,” Smith told NME. “Now I know I understand it. The lyrics I’ve been writing for this album, for me personally, are more true. They’re more honest. That’s probably why the album itself is a little bit more doom and gloom. I feel I want to do something that expresses the darker side of what I’ve experienced over the last few years – but in a way that will engage people…the working title was Live From the Moon, because I was enthralled by the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landing in the summer. We had a big moon hanging in the studio and lunar-related stuff lying around. I’ve always been a stargazer.”

David Gilmour

David Gilmour and Roger Waters have been embroiled in a classic feud, or perhaps what could be considered a cold war. Waters left the group over forty years ago, and the war of words has still gone on strong.

Gilmour sent a tweet calling out Waters’ alleged antisemitism, saying to Mojo, “was boiling up. … It had to come out – and I have no regrets about it. No regrets whatsoever.”

On Waters’ end, he called a Ukraine protest song song released by Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason  “content-less [and] flag waving.”

Gilmour noted that his relationship with Waters was “wearisome” after Waters released a 2023 remake of The Dark Side of the Moon.