New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ d.baron Media) Blaster, the March 31 release from Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, is available starting today for pre-order on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blaster/id957686568. For the next three weeks, fans will receive a free download of "White Lightening" as an instant grat track when they order the first album ever from Weiland and his new band. Weiland describes the track as "a musical homage to the film Lawless (starring Tom Hardy)… It's got a sludgy, bluesy stomp from start to finish yet there are ethereal elements that take you on a journey." Billboard called the track "a gritty, hammering bulldozer of a song." Weiland will be performing at SXSW and at Sundance next week at Sundance's ASCAP
Music Café.
Another chance to preview the new album came earlier this week when Weiland and the Wildabouts launched their page at Pledge Music: https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/scottweiland
It is on the direct-to-fan platform that fans can interact with the band and receive exclusive items and experiences from the legendary songwriter/lead singer whose riveting stage presence one reviewer likened to a "rock God." With each pledge, fans will receive a free download of "Modzilla," an "indie, garage-wrecking track," says Weiland, from Blaster.
Blaster was produced by Rick Parker [Black
Rebel Motorcycle Club] and recorded throughout 2014 at Lavish Studios in Burbank and at The Sandbox in Beachwood Canyon. Blaster features twelve tracks, all but one were written by Weiland. Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts will hit the road in February in support of the new project Additional shows will be added, but the 2x Grammy winning, multi-platinum selling songwriter/vocalist Weiland and his band already have a busy spring, with previously announced shows at SXSW, the Sundance Film Festival and additional festival dates.
Weiland and the Wildabouts' guitarist Jeremy Brown, bassist Tommy Black, and drummer
Danny Thompson, have a comradery fostered by years of jamming and touring together. After touring for several months in 2013, they hunkered down in Weiland's Southern California studio and rehearsal space to write and record what would eventually become Blaster.
"The album has its own distinctive sound," says Weiland, "but it also can entice those
Stone Temple Pilots and
Velvet Revolver fans who have stuck by me. Over the years, I've gone back and forth between art records and being in a band. This is a hybrid. What we've come up with is really heavy, slinky, and sexy. There's a lot of fuzz. The best way to describe it is 'Furry'." I knew I wanted to make a rock record," proclaims Weiland. "It all just came together."
Scott Weiland has cumulatively sold over 44 million records worldwide with
Stone Temple Pilots and
Velvet Revolver. He's garnered two Grammy Awards in the category of "Best Hard Rock Performance"—in 2005 for "
Slither" and in 1994 for "Plush". Stone Temple Pilots' Purple debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 a feat also accomplished by
Velvet Revolver's Contraband. Weiland's voice has driven some of the most recognizable hits in rock 'n' roll history including "Sex Type Thing", "Wicked Garden", "
Creep", "Interstate Love Song", "Vasoline", "The Big Empty", "Sour Girl", "Down", and more. He released his memoir Not Dead & Not for Sale in 2011 to critical applause. Still, his most powerful music is yet to come with the release of Blaster.
TOUR DATES:
2/22/15: Scottsdale, AZ - Pub Rock
2/24/15: Denver, CO - Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
2/26/15: Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room
2/27/15: Chicago, IL -
Double Door
2/28/15: Flint, MI - The Machine Shop
3/2/15: Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
3/3/15: Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
3/6/15: Orlando, FL - The Social
3/7/15: Destin, FL - Club LA
3/10/15: New York, NY - Gramercy Theatre
3/12/15: Philadelphia, PA - World Café Live
3/13/15: Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
3/14/15: Boston, MA - Brighton
Music Hall
Additional festival dates:
4/25/15: Welcome to Rockville - Jacksonville, FL
5/16/15: Rock on the Range - Colombus OH
5/30/15: BottleRock
Music Festival - Napa Valley
For more information please visit:
https://scottweiland.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ScottWeiland
