Music Bender

J.GEILS BAND TO REUNITE

The rumors are true. The J. Geils Band will reunite to perform during the opening week of the new House of Blues in Boston at 8 p.m. Feb. 19.
It’ll be the first time the band - Peter Wolf, Magic Dick, Seth Justman, Danny Klein and Jay Geils - has played together in 10 years.

Calling it quits in 1985, they’ve performed at a handful of charity events over the years such as at a benefit for the Worcester firefighters at the Orpheum Theatre as well as a benefit for the Cam Neely Foundation.

Tickets for the show are $45, $125 and $160 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 30 at livenation.com, hob.com/boston and Ticketmaster outlets.

SPINAL TAP TO RECORD AGAIN

Just found out the legendary Spinal Tap is gonna release new music later on this year!

The new ‘Tap material is expected to be made available for download later this year with a physical release (one that presumably won’t look like a black mirror) expected to appear shortly afterwards.

Bassist and owner of the finest facial fuzz to ever grace rock music Derek Smalls (aka actor Harry Shearer) told BBC Radio Five Live “It’ll be for download as well as on conventional media later this year. We’ve never recorded the song we did at Live Earth, ‘Warmer Than Hell’,” he continued. “I think (Spinal Tap) are trying to revisit their old success.”

“Not that they were ever popular, maybe in their own universe. We’ll do a song called ‘Gimme Some More Money’, probably with some dubious results.”

Stay tuned, yardbirds … sounds like the rock is startin’ to get very interesting!

See ya on the flip side …