Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators Announce New Album ‘Living The Dream’

North American tour dates also announced

Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
PHOTO CREDIT: GENE KIRKLAND

 

Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators have announced they’ll release their new album titled Living The Dream on September 21 via Slash’s own label Snakepit Records in partnership with Sony Music Australia. Living The Dream marks Slash’s fourth solo album and third with his band featuring Myles Kennedy (Vocals), Brent Fitz (Drums), Todd Kerns (Bass & Vocals) and Frank Sidoris (Guitar & Vocals). Pre-orders for the new album will begin on July 25. The group have announced they’ll kick off a U.S. headlining tour beginning September 13 in Los Angeles. Citi is the official credit card of the “Living The Dream” tour, as such Citi cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, June 19 at 10am US local time through Thursday, June 21 at 10pm US time. For complete details, visit: citiprivatepass.com. Slash fanclub presales will begin June 19 at 10am US local time, with general on-sales starting Friday, June 22 at 10am US local time. Each ticket purchased online to a headlining show will include a digital copy of Living The Dream (September 21); all tickets are available at: http://www.slashonline.com.  The full itinerary (see below), encompasses three festival appearances: Sunday, September 16 at KAABOO Festival, Friday, September 28 at Louder Than Life Festival and Sunday, October 14 at Aftershock Festival.

For Living The DreamSlash and his band re-teamed with producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette (Alter Bridge, Iggy Pop, Incubus); the group are currently putting the finishing touches on the powerful 12 song collection. The band’s previous album, World On Fire entered the Australian ARIA chart at #2 and Apocalyptic Love also debuted at #2 on the Australian ARIA chart and is Gold Accredited. Both albums debuted in the Top Ten on 12 charts globally, spawned three #1 hit singles at U.S. Rock Radio and earned worldwide praise garnering Slash some of the best critical acclaim of his career. World On Fire  and was tagged by Guitar World as another bold and unapologetically riffy statement” and “a varied, immersive and incredibly hard rocking effort” (December 2014). Rolling Stone described Apocalyptic Love–the band’s debut album–as “filled with head bangers and plenty of fancy fretwork” and Revolver declared it “a collection of lean, high-octane rock-and-roll tunes built to be blasted out of open-top sports cars, or more suitably, open-air stadiums” (May 2012).

 

 

TOUR DATES:

Thursday 13 September: Whisky A Go Go – Los Angeles, CA
Saturday 15 September: The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ
*Sunday 16 September: KAABOO Music Festival – Del Mar, CA
Tuesday 18 September: The Depot – Salt Lake City, UT
Wednesday 19 September: Filmore Auditorium – Denver, CO
Friday 21 September: Paradise Cove Margaritaville – Tulsa, OK
Saturday 22 September: WinStar World Casino – Thackerville, OK (Dallas)
Monday 24 September: Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX
Wednesday 26 September: House Of Blues – Houston, TX
Friday 28 September: Louder Than Life Festival – Louisville, KY
Saturday 29 September: Four Winds Casino Resort – New Buffalo, MI
Monday 1 October: Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ
Tuesday 2 October: The Fillmore Silver Spring – Silver Spring, MD
Thursday 4 October: Casino Rama – Rama, ON
*Friday 5 October: Pier 17 @ South Street Seaport – New York, NY
Saturday 6 October: Mohegan Sun – Wolf’s Den – Uncasville, CT
Tuesday 9 October: The Paramount – Huntington, NY
Wednesday 10 October: Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA
Thursday 11 October: House Of Blues – Boston, MA
Sunday 14 October – Aftershock Festival – Sacramento, CA

*Indicates date is already on-sale

 

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