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Ronnie Earl, Guitar

Legendary Blues guitarist Ronnie Earl is a four-time Blues Music Award winner as Guitar Player of the Year (1997, 1999, 2014, 2018), most recently receiving the award on May 10, 2018, in Memphis. He has served as an Associate Professor of Guitar at Berklee College of Music and has taught at the National Guitar summer workshop in Connecticut.

In 1995 Ronnie released Ronnie Earl: Blues Guitar with Soul, an instructional VHS tape rereleased in DVD format in 2005. Earl’s discography includes acclaimed albums on Stony Plain Records, Black Top, Bullseye Blues, Verve, and Telarc. His 1996 Bullseye Blues release, Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads, won Downbeat Magazine’s Blues Album of the Year, and in 2004 Earl’s Hey José won the Best Blues/R&B Song at the 3rd Annual Independent Music Awards. In 2022, Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters celebrate 35 years as a band. The recent releases by Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, Spread the Love (2010), Just for Today (2013), and Good News (2014), Father’s Day (2015), Maxwell Street (2016), and The Luckiest Man (2017), Beyond The Blue Door (2019) and Rise Up (2020) all debuted on the top ten Billboard Blues charts and received wide critical acclaim. Mercy Me (2022) is Earl’s 14th album in partnership with Stony Plain and his 28th career album.

Ronnie Earl has played alongside such legends as Hubert Sumlin, Earl King, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Kim Wilson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band and many others, including, B.B. King, who said about Ronnie, “I feel the respect and affection for him that a father feels for his son. He is one of the most serious blues guitarists you can find today. He makes me proud.”

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Dave Limina, Hammond B3 & Piano

Dave Limina is a Professor in the Piano Department at Berklee College of Music, where he received the Most Valuable Contribution to the Performance Curriculum Award in 2001 for his work in creating and developing the Hammond organ program. As a keyboardist, composer, and arranger, Dave has performed with Gloria Estefan, Duke Robillard, Courage Brothers, Mark Murphy, Lori McKenna, Mighty Sam McClain, Kenny Neal, Catie Curtis, Freedy Johnston, Martha Reeves, Brooke Benton, Toy Caldwell, Felix Cavalieri, Steve Forbert, and The RB Funkestra with Fred Wesley and Eric Krasno. Also Grammy winning songwriters, Robert Lee Castleman, Gary Nicholson, Paula Cole, Mark Walker and Steve Leslie. He has been the keyboardist/conductor for the first national touring company of the Broadway musical Rent. He received Boston Music Award nominations for his work with Courage Brothers, Ronnie Earl, and Mighty Sam McClain. He played keyboards on Michelle Willson’s Wake Up Call, which was a Boston Music Awards winner in 2001 for “Best Blues Album”. He is the author of “Hammond Organ Complete” (Hal Leonard), and the instructional video/DVD “Accelerate Your Keyboard Playing” (Rittor Music).

Diane Blue, Vocals

Boston’s Diane Blue is a soul-stirring vocalist, skillful harmonica player and a crowd-pleasing entertainer. Ms. Blue is the first female member of Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, prominently featured on the band’s albums since 2013, and has received rave reviews on her vocals and performance. Voted “Outstanding Female Singer” in The Blues Audience 2015 & 2011 Readers’ Poll, Ms. Blue is a soulful and sassy performer with a strong and energetic delivery, serving up her own spin on soul, blues and R&B. She won the 2010 Massachusetts Blues Challenge, earning the honor of competing at the 2011 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee. She was nominated “Best Blues/R&B Act” and “Best Female Vocalist” in 2007 by the Providence Phoenix and also nominated “Best Local Blues Act” by Motif Magazine in 2007. Diane has shared the stage with many greats including Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, Irma Thomas, Toni Lynn Washington and the late Big Jack Johnson of Clarksdale, Mississippi who called Diane a “monster on the harp.

Forrest Padgett, Drums

Forrest Padgett joined the Broadcasters August 2016. Forrest is a highly regarded and respected drummer in the Boston area and we welcome him to the group! Forrest has played drums professionally for over forty years, performing with such artists as The Radio Kings, Brain Templeton, Paul Rishell, Duke Robillard, Little Charlie Baty, Charlie Musselwhite, Luther Guitar Jr. Johnson, Lavern Baker, the Radio Kings, East of Eden, and more. He attended Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY, and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He graduated from Framingham State University with a B.A. in English.

Paul Kochanski, Electric and Upright Bass

Paul Kochanski is a Grammy-nominated electric and upright bass player who brings his solid time and feel to the current Broadcasters lineup. He was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where he began his performing career at age 14. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston before becoming immersed in that city’s vibrant original music scene. In 1990, he co-founded the Swinging Steaks – an Americana/alt.country group that landed a recording contract with legendary Capricorn Records, leading to national tours with Los Lobos, The Band and as headliners. Around that time, Paul became involved in the Boston blues scene, where he first had the good fortune to perform with Forrest Padgett, the Broadcaster’s current drummer. As the Steaks’ activity waned, Paul began working as a sideman for many New England-based singer-songwriters, and has recorded and/or performed with over 100 artists including Alastair Moock (with whom Paul shares his Grammy nomination), the legendary “Big Al” Anderson (formerly of NRBQ) and Lori McKenna (appearing with her on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert February 2017). Paul’s instinct to serve the song and remain in the moment makes him a natural fit with Ronnie and the Broadcasters. He had subbed a few shows with the group over the years and was proud to contribute to the band’s “Spread the Love” album, playing and co-writing “Blues for Dr. Donna.” Honored to be including in the elite club of musicians who have been named Broadcasters, Paul looks forward to writing the next chapter in the history of this illustrious band.

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Ronnie took the last name Earl in honor of slide guitarist Earl Hooker in 1971 because Muddy Waters couldn’t remember his name when he’d call the young budding guitarist up on stage. After graduating from Boston University Earl would hang with Muddy and Kings Albert and B.B. at the Jazz Record Mart in Boston. Asked how that experience turned his head, he replies, “I don’t know if I can find the words. It was being baptized, having a rebirth (pause) – the heaviest feeling I ever had.”

Ronnie Earl is first and foremost an iconic blues guitarist, but he’s also a survivor, just as assuredly as his parents. He has bipolar disorder and diabetes, both of which can play havoc on emotions fundamental to the blues muse. Perhaps ironically, the combination of the two disorders can be toxic while at the same time spurring a creative edge.

“I was reluctant for a longtime to say anything about it. It’s still stigmatized, but I feel more comfortable talking about it. It gives me something to look forward to when I have a concert. It gives me hope and positive energy.”

To make matters even more challenging, he’s a recovering alcoholic 30 years sober and considers Stevie Ray Vaughan “a powerful example” in convincing him to come clean.

“Stevie would come and play with me all the time when we were in the same town, and we were very good friends. I knew him before he got famous, and I knew him when he was famous. He was the same person, even more beautiful when he had gotten clean and sober, and I was still using. He was clean at a time we played together. He was a big sign post for me saying, “Hey, I’m clean and sober. He didn’t say anything to me, but he was a powerful example. He was a beautiful human being. I miss him.”

One of the most unassuming and humble blues geniuses in the business, Earl calls himself semi-retired. Be that as it may, he all but stole the show at the Blues Music Awards this year and on August 30th releases a signature 26th album, Beyond The Blue Door .

“I’ve slowed down a lot, and I’m 66. I don’t really have a career anymore. I’m not pursuing a career, just a love, a passion. I live in the country, and I play once or twice a month, tops. And so, my wife comes with me probably 50% of the time. Most of the time I play around the east coast, and I come home after the show.”

In reality, Earl was neither retired nor retiring in his 2019 Blues Music Awards performance. He was one of scores of today’s top artists contributing to marathon six-hour extravaganza in front of an audience of thousands of industry heavyweights, each having little more than 10 minutes to capture the moment. Earl did it with a version of Jr. Wells’ “In The Wee Hours,” first recorded in 1965 on Wells’ game changing Delmark classic Hoodoo Man Blue s album. Earl himself recorded the song on his 2014 Good News album.

In finally choosing “In The Wee Hours,” he created a perfect showcase for artists he felt should be given notice at this premier event. “I talked to a bunch of guitarists who weren’t going to play at the show, and I felt for them, you know? I said, ‘Well, you’re going to come and play for me since you weren’t asked to play at the show.’ I felt bad that they’d come all that way, and that they didn’t get a chance to play, so they played with me.”

His presentation sucked the air out of the Cook Convention Center. His smooth and lilting guitar silenced the constant buzz of the crowd that often competes with the performances. It was as if everyone realized they were experiencing a transcendent moment in blues history.

One by one, three other guitarists on stage with him took more than a thousand people into Earl’s smoky, transcendent journey. Two of the guitarists have a long history of playing with Earl, Peter Ward and Nicholas Tabarias whose been with Earl for four years. The third was Laura Chavez, a BMA nominee in the Guitar Instrumentalist category and former Candye Kane lead guitarist. Dave Limina, a regular in Earl’s Broadcasters band for 18 years played the Hammond B3. His credits include the Mighty Sam McCain and Michelle Willson. Paul Kochanski with the band for two and a half years played bass and Forrest Padgett handled drums. But it was Broadcasters vocalist Diane Blue who influenced Ronnie Earl to pick the Jr. Wells classic for this particular occasion.

“I wanted to make sure I could get Diane up there, because she came such a long way from Boston, and I felt most of the people were familiar with me already, but that they didn’t hear Diane, so I wanted her to be featured on that song, too.”

“I changed my mind about 20 times. We were gonna do a Magic Sam tune, but we decided to do a song that would include Diane’s beautiful singing, and I had the other guitarists up to give all a little taste.”

Dianne Blue first appeared on The Broadcasters’ Just for Today album singing the Etta James classic “I’d Rather Go Blind” and became the first fulltime female member of the band in 2014 on Good News .

“It’s a spiritual thing,” says Earl, looking back on the BMA show. “I bring the band way down and not play a lot of notes. And not loud. Just bringing the audience into the mix at a spiritual level like a church kind of thing. Blues is very spiritual. It comes from the church. I really believe that, and it moves people. I never thought about it as the devil’s music, never in those kinds of terms. To me, it doesn’t apply to music.”

Earl plays frequently at the First Baptist Church in Littleton Massachusetts. “The material world is the Grammys,” he told me in 2015, “and the spiritual world is playing heart to heart for the sake of healing souls and bringing people together. It doesn’t have anything to do with sales and getting further in career and career moves and all that stuff. I’m just very optimistic and try to be positive in all my affairs. Everybody was very nice to me from everyone I worked with and saw and from Big Mama Thornton to Eddie Cleanhead Vincent and everybody in between, all the people I got to play with, and I believe that blues can be very happy music, and very, very deep and spiritual, and it’s very connected with gospel and very connected with jazz. I believe in all of that.”

And I wouldn’t be here and I’d like to thank my record company ’cause he (Holger Petersen at Stony Plain) is more than a record company. You know I was sick for a long time with bi-polar disorder, and I say that to you because it’s not something that needs to be stigmatized anymore. (Applause)

“The love of the blues community and my wife, my (folks?) healed me, and I’m here tonight because I’m better. I’m actually happy. I’m a happy man. (Applause)And I want to thank my brother Anson Funderburgh because we came up together, and I love him so much. Anson, I love you, and I love all the other nominees. Music is not sports, and all the guitar players, blues musicians, I love you all, and I want to thank Bob Margolin who took me in when I was a very young man, taught me and introduced me to Muddy Waters, and he’s a beautiful person and one of my teachers. You know I come from Otis Rush. I come from the land of Otis Rush. He’s like – him and Hubert (Sumlin) and Robert Jr. (Lockwood), they’re my teachers, and I’m very moved. I’m just very moved, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul. Thank you! (thunderous applause)”

The agony and ecstasy of the creative process is brought into acute focus in artists whose medical issues become emotional triggers that activate the creative muse. Bipolar disorder and diabetes are both diseases that cause broad mood swings. Together, they have the potential of turning the host into an emotional rollercoaster. But isn’t that what much of blues is about, tension and release, emotional upheaval and catharsis? Raw emotion is fundamental to the genre’s definition. Becoming a blues artist is an obvious career choice for anyone with those issues seeking a creative release.

The process of exorcising such fluid emotions through music becomes therapy. And in its highest form, the music that results offers a catharsis to both the artist and the fan. Ronnie Earl’s genius is refined and focused by an awe-inspiring 45-year career with the crème de la crème of blues giants, but it’s also an example of someone whose diabetes and bipolar conditions activate and accentuate his muse with exceptional results.

Earl bought his first guitar, a Martin, in 1973 and traded it in the next day for a Fender Stratocaster. Two years later he graduated Boston University with a degree in education and special education. His first professional gigs were with Otis Rush and Big Walter Horton in ’75, when he made two trips on a Greyhound to Chicago to check out that scene with Koko Taylor. “She took me to all the blues clubs, and it was dangerous. I mean she took me to see Jr. Wells and The Aces, Louis Myers and Sammy Lawhorn. She was like my mother.”

He recorded first in 1979 with Sunnyland Slim and joined the 10-piece Roomful of Blues for a nine-year tenure. While still with Roomful of Blues, Ronnie recorded with vocalist Kim Wilson, Darrell Nulisch and Sugar Ray Norcia, releasing Smokin in 1983 and They Call Me Mr. Earl for Black Top Records. Kim Wilson remains a close friend today and appears on the new Beyond The Blue Door CD.

“I love Kim. He’s my brother, and so is Bob Margolin, and they came before me, and I love honoring people who came before me. I met Kim in ’75 in Boston. Then I went to Texas in ’78 and lived with him for a while. So that was pretty amazing. He’s just the most incredible harmonica player, him and Little Walter and Big Walter, that I’ve ever heard in my life, and he’s such a great singer and songwriter. He’s my brother. I’d loved him even if he didn’t pay. He’s been so nice and kind to me, and that goes a lot further than anything else.”

Earl has recorded several albums with various iterations of The Broadcasters beginning in 1988 including Father’s Day dedicated to his dad, the year after he died and Maxwell Street , a nod to Chicago’s Maxwell Street, once the gathering place for Sunday morning jams and to the late David Maxwell, Earl’s soul brother.

Beyond The Blue Door is a 15-cut tour de force album, seven of them originals. In spite of a 5-piece core Broadcasters band and 10 special guests including such high-profile roots artists as David Bromberg and Kim Wilson, the leather and lace arrangements are delicate without ever being light.

“I feel like a lot of the musicians today, it’s too many notes, and that’s not a criticism. It’s an observation for me because I learned how to play less notes and to bring it down and that was a big thing for me to learn.” The album demonstrates the cache of a master. Without ever stepping on the other musicians, he weaves through these songs with a brain surgeon’s precision.

The standout cut is “A Soul That’s Been Abused,” an original you-done-me-wrong song featuring three saxophones (Mario Perret, Scott Shetler and Greg Piccolo). David Bromberg in the liner notes says, ‘“A Soul That’s Been Abused’ is one of Ronnie’s songs. Diane sings it soulfully; Ronnie plays beautiful solos and fills as does Greg Piccolo. There’s a great bit of conversation between Ronnie and Greg before the last vocal.”

Kim Wilson plays harp and sings on Howlin’ Wolf’s “Baby How Long” and on “Blues with a Feeling” that will take you back to the Butterfield version on his first album.

There’s a Dylan cover of “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” with David Bromberg on acoustic guitar and vocals. “Wolf Song,” Ronnie Earl’s homage to Howlin’ Wolf with guitar, recalls Hubert Sumlin on “Smokestack Lighting.”

On his website, Earl says, “To all my friends throughout the world, I thank you deeply from my heart for all your love and all the prayers that you have shown me. Due to God’s miracle and grace, I am free from my depression. I love all of you and may God bless and keep you!”

To me in 2015 he said, “To me there’s no white or African American. And Duke Ellington said, ‘There’s only two kinds of music, good and bad,’ and that’s what I believe. I’m not really in the blues world. You know, I live in the country, and I listen to a lot of different kinds of music, and like I said, I love Joni Mitchell, and I love Jimmy Cliff and anything that has soul I can feel, and so I’m not in the blues world. I’m not in any kind of career mode or – I just play, and that’s kinda how I look at things.”

At the end of our 2019 interview he said, “I’m sensing your love and I can’t wait to read the story.”

Visit Ronnie’s website at www.ronnieearl.com

Ronnie Wood reunites with fellow rock icons as he takes time out of Rolling Stones tour

The Rolling Stones are currently on their US and Canada tour as Ronnie Wood has shared snaps from life on the road with his family and fellow music stars Mick Fleetwood and Alice Cooper

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Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood has gathered no moss this week as he fitted in plenty of family time alongside the band’s US tour.

At the start of the week he was happy to be hanging out with his old mate Mick Fleetwood in Glendale Arizona, saying: “So great to see my friend Mick and his family before the show.” While in Arizona, Ronnie, 76, and wife Sally, 46 - who are travelling with their twin daughters Gracie and Alice - also met up with rocker Alice Cooper.

In New Orleans, Louisiana, the couple were pictured enjoying “good vibes” with singer/songwriter Neil Young. Once the family made it to Las Vegas, Nevada, they took a shot with the iconic sign before taking in a show. Sally wrote: “We’re back in town! Been here for five minutes and already seen a show and popped to see the sign.”

The show was with magicians Penn and Teller. Sally added: “Legends! The magic continues.” The Rolling Stones are currently touring in the US to promote their latest album Hackney Diamonds. Last month, Mick Jagger, 80, made a heartbreaking confession as the legends took to the stage in Houston.

The start of the US tour, which came an impressive 60 years after they first hit the road in America, marked a bittersweet moment for Mick, Ronnie and Keith Richards, 80. They are missing Charlie Watts, the Stones drummer who died, aged 80, from cancer in 2021. Guitarist Keith said giving up on their music after Charlie’s death was never an option. He said: “Basically, we love each other and we love our music and when you’re doing it, you don’t really think about it.

“But I think with Charlie going, I have realised more and more how special that is. I mean, there is something about the Stones and there is something about us all that sort of says, ‘No, we stick together’. And then you can’t just drop it. You’ve, you got to follow it right down to the end, down the tunnel.”

Steve Jordan has taken Charlie’s place on the drums, and Mick has revealed Charlie was adamant that the group should continue performing live. He shared: "Of course, it’s hard. I mean, it’s all my life ever since I was 19 or whatever, it’s always been Charlie. Of course, it’s emotional, but you have to get past that in life. I love Charlie and all the things, but I still want to carry on making music.” Charlie had been a member of the Stones since January 1963, when he joined Mick, Keith and Brian Jones in their fledgling group.

The band have embarked on a 16 date tour across the US and Canada, which supports their album Hackney Diamonds, the band’s first record of original music since 2005. Keith has previously expressed gratitude for drummer Jordan's presence, stating: "He's been a friend of ours so he was a natural progression, it would have been a lot harder without Charlie's blessing." Charlie's cause of death was never publicised but his bandmate Keith Richards revealed in March 2022 that Watts had been battling throat cancer since 2004.

Just three weeks prior to his death, he announced he would be pulling out of the Stones' upcoming US tour. Mick Jagger revealed that the new album consists of 12 tracks, most featuring Jordan, with two tracks recorded in 2019 with Charlie. Original band member Wyman, who served as the bassist for the band from 1962 to 1993, also features on one of the tracks.

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FALLING IN REVERSE Announces New Album 'Popular Monster', Summer 2024 U.S. Headline Tour

FALLING IN REVERSE make anthems that provoke and inspire. Unnervingly ahead of the pack and yet always decisively right on time, their mix of bombastic declarations and intimate confessions connect with diverse crowds worldwide. The rule-breaking, genre-busting, hellraising band delivers raw emotion with double and triple entendre like Molotov cocktails thrown at pop culture.

Since 2017, the band has continued to explode by leaps and bounds. The catalog has clocked billions of streams, several gold and platinum certifications, recognition from top tier press such as Pitchfork , Billboard , The New York Times and Forbes , and several No. 1 radio singles.

FALLING IN REVERSE has announced its new album — and first since 2017's "Coming Home" — "Popular Monster" . It arrives on July 26 via Epitaph Records . Additionally, the band has shared the video for the new single "Ronald (Feat. Tech N9ne And Alex Terrible)" . Watch it below

The two-times-platinum smash "Popular Monster" and the album of the same name couldn't have come from anyone else but Ronnie Radke , who produced the album alongside Tyler Smith . Both Kerrang! and Revolver magazine counted the charismatic Las Vegas-born frontman and bandleader among "the greatest living rock stars." The album arrives with several RIAA -certified singles, which have been released over time since 2018. "Popular Monster" is certified two times platinum. while "Zombified" , "Voices In My Head" and "Watching The World Burn" are all certified gold.

FALLING IN REVERSE 's catalog has accrued 5 billion streams, with 1.7 billion across all the album singles released to date. The catalog streaming remains robust at 35 million per week. Over on TikTok , the band has a stronghold, with 5.7 billion video views, with 4 million creations and a 1.5 billion creator reach.

FALLING IN REVERSE has also announced its summer 2024 headline tour plans, produced by Live Nation . The band will play 7,000-12,000-capacity venues with support coming from BLACK VEIL BRIDES , DANCE GAVIN DANCE and Tech N9Ne . Jeris Johnson and Nathan James appear on select dates. Full routing can be found below.

A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Thursday, May 9 at 10:00 a.m. local time and end on Thursday, May 9 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code "BBM2024" using the ticketing links below to access tickets before the general public. General on-sale will be Friday, May 10 at 10 a.m. local time.

This is the first announced leg of a planned world tour. Additional dates and cities around the world, and their support acts, will be announced soon.

"Popular Monster" track listing:

01. Prequel 02. Popular Monster 03. All My Life 04. Ronald (Feat. Tech N9ne + Alex Terrible) 05. Voices In My Head 06. Bad Guy (Feat. Saraya) 07. Watch The World Burn 08. Trigger Warning 09. Zombified 10. No Fear 11. Last Resort - Reimagined

FALLING IN REVERSE on tour with BLACK VEIL BRIDES , DANCE GAVIN DANCE and TECH N9NE :

Aug. 18 - Nampa, ID - Ford Idaho Amphitheater* ( buy tickets ) Aug. 21 - Airway Heights, WA - BECU Live at Northern Quest* ( buy tickets ) Aug. 22 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre* ( buy tickets ) Aug. 23 - Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater* ( buy tickets ) Aug. 25 - Salt Lake City, UT - Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre* ( buy tickets ) Aug. 27 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater* ( buy tickets ) Aug. 29 - Irving, TX - The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory^ ( buy tickets ) Aug. 30 - Houston, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 01 - Alpharetta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 02 - Charlotte, NC - Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 04 - Raleigh, NC - Red Hat Amphitheater^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 06 - Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 07 - Scranton, PA - The Pavilion at Montage Mountain^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 09 - Boston, MA - Leader Bank Pavilion^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 10 - Buffalo, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 12 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 13 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 15 - Sterling Heights, MI - Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 16 - Indianapolis, IN - Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 17 - Chicago, IL - Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 20 - Franklin, TN - FirstBank Amphitheater^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 21 - St Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 23 - Denver, CO - The JunkYard^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 25 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre^ ( buy tickets ) Sep. 26 - Los Angeles, CA - Kia Forum^ ( buy tickets )

* With Nathan James ^ With Jeris Johnson

"Popular Monster" is a defiant statement and triumphant victory for singer, songwriter, bandleader, and provocateur Ronnie Radke , who invented FALLING IN REVERSE inside a prison cell.

Radke fills the fifth full-length from FALLING IN REVERSE with invincible and irresistible songs that resonate across generations and genres. Co-produced with longtime collaborator Tyler Smyth ( I PREVAIL , LIGHTS ), "Popular Monster" is full of confessional angst, bravado, and clever wordplay.

Ronnie formed a series of pop-punk bands in Las Vegas as a teenager, culminating in the creation of ESCAPE THE FATE . The metalcore group's meteoric rise coincided with the singer's spiral into addiction. By the time he was sentenced to two years in prison, the band he started had moved on without him. Some fans, critics, and industry types figured his story would end there.

They were very wrong.

The gold-certified debut album from FALLING IN REVERSE , "The Drug In Me Is You" (2011),arrived less than two years after Ronnie 's release. Thanks to his formative fascinations with metal, punk, and hip-hop, he almost single-handedly revived rap rock with the ambitious "Fashionably Late" (2013). "Just Like You" (2015),debuted in the Top 5 on the US Rock chart. The grungy and atmospheric "Coming Home" (2017) demonstrated yet another adventurous side of Radke 's self-expression.

"Losing My Mind" and "Losing My Life" surprised the so-called "scene" all over again in 2018 when he became the first of his peers to swerve from the album format to standalone singles. "Drugs" explored the American substance abuse epidemic and channeled Ronnie 's own heartbreak.

The massive "Popular Monster" became Ronnie 's first No. 1 song on the radio and his first platinum single less than two years after its release. It was also the first No. 1 song on Billboard 's inaugural Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, which considers airplay, streaming, and downloads. "Popular Monster" eventually went double platinum in the US and triple platinum platinum in Australia. "Zombified" and "Voices In My Head" went to No. 1 back-to-back. "Voices In My Head" was also the No. 1 Song of 2022 at SiriusXM 's Octane . The unconventional, caustic, and super heavy "Watch The World Burn" dominated rock radio in 2023 and improbably became his first Billboard Hot 100 song.

As with the top-notch producers and directors Ronnie has hired to help execute his vision, he'd regularly surrounded himself with incredible live players, resulting in unforgettable performances with various lineups over the years. Radke owns the stage, whether taking the Warped Tour mantle held by MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE , AVENGED SEVENFOLD and FALL OUT BOY in the tour's final years, performing in prominent spots on every major rock festival, or on massive headlining treks.

"Popular Monster" , the album, marks another chapter in the ongoing story of an artist who continually beats the odds, surmounting obstacles (and adversaries) both within and without.

" Radke stands as one of this generation's most revered rock frontmen," wrote the esteemed Forbes magazine in a 2020 profile. "And maybe even one of the scene's last true rockstars."

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Ronnie O'Sullivan named World Snooker Tour player of the year after winning five titles during season

Ronnie O’Sullivan has been named WST Player of the Year after winning five titles during the 2023/24 season, including the Masters and UK Championship; it's the first time since 2014 he collects the prestigious award

Friday 10 May 2024 11:12, UK

Ronnie O'Sullivan has been named World Snooker Tour player of the year for the first time in 10 years after winning five titles during the season, including the Masters and UK Championship.

'The Rocket' also won the Shanghai Masters, World Grand Prix and Riyadh Season World Masters of Snooker during a prolific season, collecting the main award for the first time since 2014.

Essex cueman O'Sullivan also won the Fans' Player of the Year and Journalists' Player of the Year categories.

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Luca Brecel joins this elite club having won the World Championship in 2023. Daniel Blunn enters the Hall of Fame as the most successful ever player from the World Disability Billiards and Snooker Tour with 16 titles to his name.

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Ronnie O’Sullivan speaks out on breakaway tour and Saudi Arabia deal

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Ronnie O’Sullivan has encouraged players to accept whatever the best offer is for them, whether that is the World Snooker Tour or other options elsewhere.

Rumours have been swirling over a rival tour springing up next season, with Barry Hearn addressing the speculation during the World Championship in Sheffield.

The Matchroom Sport chairman said he is unfazed by the threat of a potential rival and said players are welcome to leave but would have to re-qualify for the World Snooker Tour through Q School if they wanted to return.

O’Sullivan has recently signed an ambassadorial deal with Saudi Arabia , committing him to play in WST events in the country, so he is not set to be part of any breakaway, but has backed any players that are considering it.

‘Every player has the right to do what they want to do – you see it in other sports like golf,’ O’Sullivan told a press conference on Thursday.

‘It’s just like any other job, if you get a better offer you’re going to go. What is a better offer? For some people it might not be money, it might be a reduced schedule, everyone has to make that decision for themselves. I’m just an open book, I’m here, best offer, come speak to me, you’ll find my contact details on Instagram.

‘The bottom line for me is I just want to play and enjoy snooker but we all have families to feed. Each sportsman is a business whether you like it or not so you have to do what’s right for you, we live in a competitive world, so it’s great that there’s this choice out there.

‘Every person in the world is like that, I’ve got a friend who works for the NHS but has been offered three or four times her salary to go and work in Australia so she’s going to go and do that. She’s just going for the better pay, that’s what happens sometimes.’

On his own future, O’Sullivan said: ‘I’ll go wherever I’m looked after, wherever I feel like I’m valued. I’m valued on this tour, there are tournaments where I get looked after. I go to Asia and Saudi and have a great time.

‘I have a deal with Saudi Arabia and it’s nothing to do with World Snooker. I’m booked to play in a couple of World Snooker events. That’s my policy around the world, if you want me to play in the event, the promoter and my agent get together and we discuss, and first come first served.

‘There’s 128 players and each player has the right to decide how they operate. I’m excited by the future and the things I’m doing. There’s a lot of moving parts, who knows what it’s going to be.’

The 48-year-old says the three-year deal he signed with Saudi came about very quickly and he found the hefty financial offer difficult to refuse.

‘The Saudis are powerful outfit, same as China, they’re serious players so things get done pretty quickly and it’s hard to turn down,’ he said. ‘Look at the golfers, it’s really hard sometimes to say no.

‘For me I just want to play snooker, I want to have fun I want to be looked after, want to be pampered, anyone who wants to pamper me and look after me, I’m your man!’

Asked whether he had any second thoughts or misgivings over Saudi Arabia’s concerning human rights record, the Rocket dismissed the issue.

‘I think we’ve got really serious human rights issues going on in the UK and the US,’ he said. ‘America bombing the hell out of countries. What’s going on in Israel and Palestine, I think we need to look a bit nearer to our own western policies rather than looking to what’s going on around the world.

‘We should be looking at ourselves seriously, I don’t think we have the right to criticise anyone.’

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