Earache Records Presents 'Smell the Glove' Tomorrow Night at St. Jerome's (155 Rivington)

Earache Records and Brooklyn Ski Club present "Smell The Glove" tomorrow night - the second installment of NYC's only hair metal, hard rock, and glam punk party. The party is at St. Jerome's (155 Rivington) and starts at 9PM. Admission is free - 21+ to drink.

The evening starts at 9PM with free PBR and a listening party for the new disc from Ratt, Infestation (which hits stores tomorrow). There will also be giveaways, go-go girls, DJs (with Cauldron and White Wizzard on the playlist) and more.



Links:
Smell the Glove @ Twitter

Ratt Releases New Single "Eat Me Up Alive" As A Free Download / Show at Irving Plaza on May 10th

The surviving members of Ratt reunited in 2007 (without bassist Juan Croucier) and went into the studio last year for their first new studio album in 11 years. The new disc, Infestation, will be released on April 20 via Loud & Proud/Roadrunner. The disc is available for pre-order on iTunes and includes 4 bonus tracks. Roadrunner is also taking pre-orders which come with an autographed CD booklet.

In a recent interview with Icon vs Icon, Bobby Blotzer had the following to say about the new disc: "I definitely think it’s in the same ballpark as Out of the Cellar and Invasion (Invasion of Your Privacy), I’d put it in between those two records. This is a good thing. I’m definitely not one to tell people “Oh, this is the best thing ever.” if it’s not great. I’m not going to just hype it up. I’ll do interviews for it, like the last one that we did. I liked that record. Do I think it was a great RATT record? No, I didn’t think it was a great RATT record."



Ratt is heading out on a cross-country April-May tour that stops at The Fillmore at Irving Plaza on May 10th. Tickets for the Irving Plaza show are $28.50.

Here are the upcoming tour dates:

Apr 15, 2010 -- Arizona Bike Week @ Handlebar Saloon, Scottdale, Arizona
Apr 17, 2010 -- The New Oasis, Sparks, Nevada
Apr 20, 2010 -- Key Club, Los Angeles, California
Apr 30, 2010 -- Pechanga Casino Resort, Temecula, California
May 06, 2010 -- Ram’s Head Live, Baltimore, Maryland
May 08, 2010 -- Theatre of Living Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 10, 2010 -- Fillmore New York @ Irving Plaza, New York
May 12, 2010 -- House of Blues, Cleveland, Ohio
May 13, 2010 -- Cubby Bear, Chicago, Illinois

Links:
Ratt

Vains of Jenna Play Don Hill's This Monday (July 2nd)

It is somewhat worrisome that this show isn't listed on the band's main website or MySpace page. Call the club before heading out...

Vains of Jenna replaced Tramp's White Lion on the current Poison/Ratt tour and have been getting good reviews thus far. While the band is Swedish, they have been drawing a lot of comparisons to 80's-era Guns N' Roses and Faster Pussycat. The band isn't playing many headlining shows while on the Poison/Ratt tour so this should be a good night. A number of the other bands on the bill are strong rockers as well. Tickets are only $10.

Links:
Vains of Jenna's Main Website (link)
Vains of Jenna's MySpace page (link)
Pictures from previous appearance at Don Hill's (link)

Tramp's White Lion off Poison/Ratt Tour -- Replaced by Vains of Jenna

After White Lion guitarist Vito Bratta "surfaced" last month on Eddie Trunk's radio show and took the stage both nights at the L'Amour reunion, I think a number of people were hoping for a White Lion reunion. Bratta even said "[h]e never ruled out a White Lion reunion, just was not able to do it when Tramp wanted to due to family obligations and tending to his sick Dad who passed away 2 years ago." Bratta also said that "[h]e is not happy that Tramp does different versions of White Lion and says that hurts his desire to work with him again. He'd like it to stop and said it's like a girlfriend cheating on you." (quotes from www.eddietrunk.com)

It doesn't sound like a White Lion reunion will take place anytime soon as a threatened law suit by Bratta got Tramp's White Lion dropped from the Poison/Ratt tour.

"On behalf of myself and WHITE LION, I would like to clear up the many misperceptions and rumors that have been created by Live Nation's decision to withdraw WHITE LION as the opening act of the summer 2007 POISON tour. While we are limited in what we can say about the issue because of pending litigation, we can inform everyone that Live Nation's decision was not based on any controversy over whether Mike Tramp has the legal right to perform as WHITE LION. Our information is that Live Nation's decision was based upon a threatened lawsuit by former WHITE LION guitarist Vito Bratta. Even though Live Nation believed Vito's lawsuit to be frivolous and had confirmed that Mike Tramp has the legal right to perform as WHITE LION, they did not want to spend 'one dollar' on litigation. Faced with the cancellation of a tour that was to begin within weeks, our attorneys went the extra mile to work out a deal with Vito Bratta to drop his threatened lawsuit but even with the threat of litigation eliminated, Live Nation continued on their ill-informed course of dropping WHITE LION from the POISON tour. Like myself, I know that there are many fans across the United States who are extremely disappointed by Live Nation's decision and we intend to use all options to fight this arbitrary and misinformed decision. Hopefully, there will be a day when decisions about staging a rock n' roll tour will be more about pleasing the fans and less about conservative and baseless corporate decisions. Unfortunately, as has been the case far too many times, instead of playing rock n' roll as planned, we are going to end up in court."

Vains of Jenna will be replacing White Lion on this tour. VoJ have a good reputation as a solid Guns N' Roses style punk/metal band so they should be a welcome addition to the tour. Vains of Jenna is also headlining a show at Don Hill's on July 2nd.