February 2022 News

By Radio Today UK




A feature-length documentary on the launch of Z100 in New York will feature in a special Movie Night at Radiodays Europe.

Z100 - Worst to First - will show for the first time on Sunday 15th May at MalmoMassan, Malmo, Sweden ahead of the annual conference.

The screening will take place with some special guests joining for a Q&A at the end of the film.



In 1983, Z100 launched from the swamps of New Jersey, where no artist would venture, and the DJs had to buy their own records just to have music to play on air.

Fun, poignant and aspirational, the film features Scott Shannon and several other Hall of Fame radio personalities as well as industry legends like Clive Davis and Elvis Duran.

Iconic artists who got their start on Z100 such as Jon Bon Jovi, JOAN JETT, Nile Rodgers, and era superstars, Debbie Gibson and Taylor Dayne all share their personal stories of the importance of the station, their love of radio and passion for performing music.

Capturing the times, personalities and music of the era, WORST TO FIRST portrays the ultimate David and Goliath story that built the foundation for the world’s biggest radio station and the people behind the legacy that endures and continues to grow, reaching eight-digit audiences daily, and continuing to influence the face of media and entertainment.

RadioToday is proud to be Media Partner for the event and will be reporting from the event in Sweden from May 15th to 17th 2022.

By CSRA NEWS




AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS are making their way to Augusta at the Bell Auditorium on June 4, 2022.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 25th at the SRP Box Office at James Brown Arena and online.

The Multi-Platinum artist formed her band "The BLACKHEARTS" back in 1979, and since then she's had nine Top 40 singles, including including the classics "Bad Reputation," "I Love Rock 'N' Roll," "I Hate Myself For Loving You," and "Crimson and Clover."

From music, to film, to television and Broadway, JOAN JETT has had an exciting career, and will surely bring an entertaining performance to the Garden City.

Tickets start at $46.50. For more ticket info CLICK HERE.

By JACOB UITTI | Photo by Thos Robinson/Getty Images for USO of Metropolitan New York




Famed rocker JOAN JETT announced a handful of new dates added to the forthcoming The Stadium Tour, which features a number of big-name rock legends from Def Leppard and Motley Crue to Poison and Jett along with her group The BLACKHEARTS.

Jett took to social media to announce the news, writing on Twitter to her 250,000-plus followers, "The Stadium Tour is ON. Starting this June with five new dates on sale Feb 25th: 08/08 Toronto, ON 08/16 Indianapolis, IN 09/02 Vancouver, BC 09/04 Edmonton, AB 09/09 Las Vegas, NV."

Jett, who is featured in the January Legends print issue of American Songwriter, has announced a number of ventures lately, including a signature Epiphone electric guitar.

The guitar maker announced, "The new @Epiphone@joanjett Olympic Special is a no-frills firebreather, just like her beloved beat-up stage guitar. Its PowerHammer PRO pickup, volume knob + kill switch offer simple control, and its wraparound bridge ensures easy intonation. Learn more

And late in 2021, Jett announced the release of a new acoustic version of one of her biggest hits, "Bad Reputation." Jett shared the news on Twitter, writing, "New track "Bad Reputation" (Acoustic) Listen everywhere

Jett's tour mates, Motley Crue, have also been in the news of late with the recent release of the now-popular Hulu series. Pam & Tommy, which chronicles the story behind Motley Crue's drummer Tommy Lee and actress Pamela Anderson's now-infamous sex tape.

In other Motley Crue news, the band's co-founder and bassist, Nikki Sixx, recently got into a war of words with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder.

By JACOB UITTI




Captivating rock star JOAN JETT thinks about her legacy, but not in the way many others might. Hers is a nuanced perspective in which she hopes her name can help carry on her music and the important songs and messages she's been a part of. Yet, at the same time, Jett works to consciously sever herself from the potentially egotistical sensibility that somehow the musical sun could ever rise and fall at her behest.

In truth, Jett is, of course, a legend. She's rebellion personified, which is and was no easy task to achieve. But to let in the various permutations of what that word-legend-means it can cloud or blind one to what's important. Namely, maintaining a personal openness to the world and to others. Instead of living starry-eyed, Jett wants to live a philosophically-minded life, to be one of those people who leans into encouragement and not dismissal. She wants to tell others: Go for it!

"It's surreal," Jett says. "I use that word a lot. Because I want to remember that I am not this person. It's not me. You've got to be really careful-the me, me, me aspect of it. The 'I'm great, I did all this.' I always try to go back to, 'No, I am just the vessel and where this comes from, I don't really know.'"

Jett's home is on the beach. One wall of her living room shows the ocean. Her two cats, Felicia and Cleopatra, lay about. Felicia was a rescue. There are plants and the walls are colorful. Jett is not a white wall kind of person. She likes variety, things to investigate. She wants her mind occupied so that it does not veer into phony territories. How to step away and "just be the witness." It's a philosophical exercise as much as lifting weights is a physical one. Being who she is, Jett's life has been one of great attention. From starring in the all-girl group The RUNAWAYS as a teenager to fronting her band The BLACKHEARTS and rising up the rock charts while wearing studded leather jackets. But for Jett, it all began with an electric guitar and an incorrect-yet-know-it-all teacher.

"I got such a reaction," Jett says, "when I wanted to learn how to play electric guitar."

Early on in her playing days, recalls Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin), she approached a teacher and said to him that she wanted to learn the instrument. To her surprise, he was flustered and blurted, "Oh, no! Girls don't play electric guitar!"

"He was so taken aback," Jett says, "that I was like, 'Oh my God, what have I hit on here?'"

At that moment, Jett was stunned. In her head, she knew she was just a person-a girl, yes-who simply wanted to learn to play the electric guitar. But the flabbergast, the idea that "girls don't do that," drove her immediately and clearly toward something new.

By Record Store Day




Event: RECORD STORE DAY 2022
Release Date: 4/23/2022
Format: LP
Label: Legacy
Quantity: 6550
Release type: RSD Exclusive Release

Acoustics is the first-ever acoustic vinyl release from JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS. This eight-song collection is made up of five newly recorded acoustic tracks and three previously unreleased acoustic versions exclusive to this Record Store Day 2022 release, including hits "I Hate Myself For Loving You" and "Bad Reputation (Live In Los Angeles)".

Side A
1. "You Drive Me Wild"
2. "You Don't Know What You've Got"
3. "School Days"
4. "Good Music"

Side B
1. "Fresh Start"
2. "I Hate Myself For Loving You"
3. "Androgynous â€" Live in Los Angeles"
4. "Bad Reputation â€" Live in Los Angeles"

By Annie Zaleski




On paper, the movie Light of Day seemed like a surefire hit.

Released in theaters on Feb. 6, 1987, the film featured strong starring performances from Michael J. Fox and rocker JOAN JETT, plus dynamic support from Michael McKean and Gena Rowlands.

At the time, Fox wasn't just starring on the popular sitcom Family Ties. He was a teen heartthrob coming off back-to-back movie hits with 1985's Back to the Future and 1987's Teen Wolf. Jett, meanwhile, was also on an upswing. Among other things, she was fresh off 1986's Good Music, which featured her cover of the Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner."

The film's theme, "Light of Day," was also appealing. Written by then-red-hot Bruce Springsteen and sung in the movie by Jett and Fox, the song was a bar-band rave-up with teeth.



Light of Day stars Fox and Jett as siblings Joe and Patti Rasnick, who perform together in a Cleveland rock band, the Barbusters. Patti is juggling burgeoning musical stardom with being a single mom to a five-year-old son, Benji, and a tense relationship with her religious mother (Rowlands). The balance is rough to come by: On a particularly tough regional tour, Patti shoplifts steaks by smuggling them out of the store via Benji, which angers Joe. At another point, she and her mom clash angrily over her parenting style.

Writer and director Paul Schrader based the script on a real Cleveland band, the Generators. As he said in a 1986 press conference held in the city, the idea for the movie dated back to 1980, when he called up WMMS DJ Kid Leo and "asked him if he could set me up with a bar band in Cleveland that did original material that was good, but whose chances of breaking out were not that strong."

"He said that the best group working at that time was the Generators, so I came here and hung around with them for a period of week. It was from that experience that the script was first written."