AOR legends Journey have released a video clip for their current single ‘City of Hope’.

The clip features footage of the band in performance and visiting Manila, and can be seen here.

‘City of Hope’ is the lead track from Journey’s fourteenth studio album ‘Eclipse’, released on Frontiers Records in May 2011.  The album has been a relative success for the band, despite many fans bemoaning the absence of long-time vocalist Steve Perry, who provided the voice on all of Journey’s biggest and best known hits, including ‘Who’s Crying Now’, ‘Open Arms’, ‘Any Way You Want It’ and ‘Don’t Stop Believin”.

‘Eclipse’ reached #13 on the US Billboard chart, in addition to hitting the top 40 in the UK and the top 20 in both Germany and Japan.

Read a review of Journey’s ‘Eclipse’ here.

In an interview with the BBC, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has stated that when working on their upcoming album ‘I’m With You’, the band wrote seventy songs for consideration. With regards to only a mere fourteen of those making the final cut, the bassist says: “What was important to us when we put the record together was to make sure that each song filled its own space and was not like another song on the record. We wrote 70 songs, so it’s not even necessarily all the best ones that we put on, but just the ones that occupy their own space.”

The final track listing for ‘I’m With You’ (UK release, 29th August) is as follows:

1. Monarchy of Roses
2. Factory of Faith
3. Brendan’s Death Song
4. Ethiopia
5. Annie Wants a Baby
6. Look Around
7. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
8. Did I Let You Know
9. Goodbye Hooray
10. Happiness Loves Company
11. Police Station
12. Even You Brutus?
13. Meet Me at the Corner
14. Dance, Dance, Dance

Alternative rockers Bush are to release their first album in ten years this coming September.

The British band, who hit the big-time in the US before becoming famous in the UK have been working with producer Bob Rock, whose previous credits include Aerosmith, Motley Crue and Metallica.

‘Sea of Memories’ is due out on September 13th. As yet, no final tracklisting has surfaced.

Cult reggae figure Little Roy has cut an album of Nirvana covers.  ‘The Battle For Seattle’ features old-school reggae renditions of ten Nirvana tunes and was recorded on analogue equipment for a more authentic early 70s reggae sound.

Little Roy has worked sporadically since the late 60s.  His biggest success was in 1969, when he topped the Jamaican charts with ‘Bongo Nyah’, the first song to be sung directly about the Rastafarian movement.  A follow up in 1970, ‘Don’t Cross That River’ was recorded with producer Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and featured musical assistance from the legendary Wailers.

‘The Battle For Seattle’ is released via Ark Records on September 5th 2011.

The tracklisting in full:
Dive / Heart Shaped Box / Very Ape / Come As You Are / Sliver / Polly / On A Plain / About A Girl / Son of A Gun / Lithium 

Listen to ‘Sliver’ and ‘Dive’ by clicking below: