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Black Country Communion has released their second album, aptly entitled Black Country Communion 2. The group, which started as a supergroup side project, features bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes (ex-Deep Purple/Black Sabbath/Trapeze), drummer Jason Bonham (Foreigner), guitarist Joe Bonamassa, and keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater). The band has grown closer, saying that the sophomore album is a band album, not a side...

Concord Music Group has once again released re-issues of Paul McCartney‘s archive collection with the remastered deluxe versions of the bassist’s first two solo albums, McCartney and McCartney II. Both projects were supervised by Macca himself, which were remastered at Abbey Road by the same team who recently revamped the Beatles’ catalogue. The records are available in multiple formats. McCartney,...

Hal Leonard has released Avenged Sevenfold: Nightmare, a new book in their Bass Recorded Versions series of transcription books. The 104-page book includes note-for-note transcriptions for all of Johnny Christ’s bass lines from the 2010 CD of the same name. The music is presented in both standard notation and tab. Song list: Buried Alive Danger Line Fiction God Hates Us...

Simon Little has released his second full-length solo bass album, The Knowledge of Things To Come, which the bassist describes as his “continuation of [his] experimentation with live looping technology and ambient music.” All of the songs are live improvisations that Little made using a Looperlative LP1, a Line 6 Pod X3 Pro, and his Warwick Thumb VI. Along with...

We featured a video of the Tedeschi Trucks Band back in March featuring the tasty bass lines of Oteil Burbridge. Now the group has released their debut album, Revelator, with Burbridge anchoring the 12 tracks with his trademark lines. Formed by the husband/wife team of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, the 11-piece band presents a soulful mix of blues and...

The Bass Coalition will be holding its second annual Summer Workshop at Shenandoah University-Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia on July 9th and 10th, 2011. Faculty will include Oberlin bass professor Peter Dominguez, renowned bass educator Inez Wyrick, and Shenandoah Professor and No Treble columnist Dr. Donovan Stokes. The two-day event includes clinics covering classical, jazz and alternative styles, including use of...

Pianist/composer Hiromi Uehara has just released Voice, her latest solo album. Bassist Anthony Jackson, who performed on a couple of tunes on Hiromi’s first two albums, performs on the entire album (excluding “Haze”, the one solo piano track), along with drummer Simon Phillips. “I’ve always been a huge fan of [Anthony Jackson’s] bass playing,” Hiromi said. “I’ve always liked playing...

Pianist Chick Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White are back at it. The trio, who formed the core for Return to Forever decades ago, have decided to revisit the group’s origins with the release of Forever, out today. The two-disc set includes 18 tracks. Disc one features live recordings from Return to Forever’s 2009 “RFT Unplugged” tour, with...

After years of anticipation, we now have a confirmed release date for the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album after Flea broke the news via his Twitter account. “It gives me profound pleasure deep in the fiber of my being to announce the August 30 release date of the new red hot chili peppers’s record,” the bassist announced, later tweeting...

BOSS is once again holding a competition for looping artists with the kick off of the BOSS Loop Station World Championship 2. The contest runs from now until August 31, 2011 and is open to bassists and all other looping artists in the U.S. Entrants must submit a video performance and use one of BOSS’s RC-series looping devices. The company...

This year marks the 55th anniversary of Walter Höfner’s 500/1 Höfner Violin Bass, made famous by Paul McCartney and dubbed by many as the “Beatle bass”. Author Joe Dunn has updated his guide to the bass, with the 2011 edition of Höfner Violin “Beatle” Bass, the only one dedicated to the instrument. The updated edition is an all-color, hardcover book...

Furthur, featuring former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh and guitarist Bob Weir, have announced a summer tour spanning July 14-31. The group will be starting in West Virginia at the All Good Festival, making their way up and down the East Coast, eventually landing at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Georgia. Besides All Good, Furthur will be playing the...