

Inside Club Nokia, the night began with Moby spinning beats as everyone settled in. On the red carpet prior to the event, I spoke with some of the attendees about their best piece of advice and music that comforts them. The night's honorees - Alice In Chains vocalist/guitarist Jerry Cantrell and certified interventionist and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Senior Consultant Neil Lasher - were in the company of many saved musicians. How do we persevere in such a toxic environment? The answer for many is MusiCares [ On May 31 the 8th Annual MusiCares MAP Fund benefit concert was held at Club Nokia in Los Angeles in an effort to raise money for a great cause: musicians helping musicians grasp a hold on sobriety, and save them from the dark depths of addiction. I love a genre in which some of its most celebrated music was created in drug-addled states.
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And if you like what you read, we'll even let you know where you can catch the artist on tour. Our bloggers will do their best to provide you with every detail of the show, from which songs were on the set list to what the artist was wearing to which out-of-control fan made a scene. Here you'll find the latest concert recaps for many of your favorite, or maybe not so favorite, artists. Co-produced by Angell and Martin and mixed by Seattle veteran Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden), Walking Papers features 11 tracks spanning punk, blues, rock, and ambient music, including the hard-rocking single " The Whole World's Watching." Walking Papers are currently scheduled to perform on the Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival tour with Alice In Chains beginning Aug. Angell and Martin subsequently began recording together and later recruited McKagan and Anderson to form Walking Papers. Walking Papers was initially conceived in 2012 after Angell and Martin shared a bill at a local Seattle venue while performing with the Missionary Position and the Barrett Martin Group, respectively. And I haven't done the van thing since the punk rock days."

Cool enough, in fact, for me to sit in a van and go. "And after recording and hearing the final mixes, I knew this was something really special and cool. "I remember sending me the MP3 for a song called 'Your Secret's Safe with Me' and thinking it was just majestic," said McKagan. Ahead of the album's release, has your exclusive first listen to eerie rock track "Your Secret's Safe With Me." Walking Papers, a Seattle super group featuring keyboardist Ben Anderson and vocalist/guitarist Jeff Angell (the Missionary Position), drummer Barrett Martin (Mad Season, Screaming Trees), and bassist Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses, Loaded, Velvet Revolver), are set to release their debut self-titled album on Aug.
