As Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators are in the midst of their 28 city nationwide The River Is Rising U.S. tour, Slash joined comedian and talk show host Conan O’Brien on his award-winning podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” earlier today, Monday February 21st. Listen here as Slash sits down with Conan for an in-depth conversation about his music history and the new studio album 4 from SMKC.
4 is the Best-Selling Hard Rock Album this week, and marks Slash’s fifth solo album and fourth overall with his band featuring Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums), Todd Kerns (bass & vocals) and Frank Sidoris (guitar & vocals); 4 is available everywhere now via Gibson Records (in partnership with BMG), and in limited-edition bundles at this location.
On Wednesday, February 23rd at 1:30pm Eastern, Slash will appear on “Tom Morello’s Maximum Firepower”, hosted by Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello, airing worldwide on SiriusXM Volume, and more. Listening options can be found here.
Remaining dates on The River Is Rising Tour are listed in the official poster below. Get your tickets now at this location.
For 4, Slash and the band traveled across the country together to Nashville, TN, and recorded the new album at the historic RCA Studio A with producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, John Prine, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile), revealing a stunning new sound and style all captured live in the studio. Cobb shared the band’s desire to lay down the tracks live, in the studio including guitar solos and vocals - a first for the group.
4 is SMKC like you’ve never heard them before. A vibrant rock album fueled by memorable guitar hooks and compelling melodies, big choruses, and even bigger riffs, 4 hits on a wide range of sounds, styles, and moods in 10 songs, and does it all with laser-sharp musical focus and a lightning-in-a-bottle sense of immediacy.
The album kicks off with opening track “The River Is Rising”, one of the band’s toughest and most dynamic compositions to date, unraveling via a menacing, tightly-coiled riff and deep-in-the-pocket groove. From the deliberate stomp rock of “Whatever Gets You By”, the bright-toned, heart-on-sleeve pop-rocker “Fill My World”, to the talk box-drenched guitar hooks of “C’est La Vie”, exotica-tinged psychedelic fever dream of “Spirit Love”, the anthemic swell of “The Path Less Followed”, to the cowbell-inflected boogie-shake of “Actions Speak Louder Than Words”, the grimy Aerosmith-esque funk of “April Fool”, to the rampaging attack of “Call Off The Dogs”, and climaxing with the epic, six minute album closer “Fall Back To Earth”, 4 is an album that grabs hold, and never lets go.
"Call Off The Dogs":
"Fill My World":
"The River Is Rising" lyric video:
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