{"id":974411,"date":"2020-01-14T10:27:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=937432"},"modified":"2020-01-14T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:27:05","slug":"joe-satriani-announces-new-album-shapeshifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/joe-satriani-announces-new-album-shapeshifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Satriani Announces New Album \u2018Shapeshifting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/JoeSatriani.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s already a big year for guitar wizard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/joe-satriani\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joe-satriani\" data-tag=\"joe-satriani\">Joe Satriani<\/a>, but, Tuesday, it got even bigger. He announced <em>Shapeshifting<\/em>, his 18th studio album \u2014 release date forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>In April, he\u2019s also heading on his <em>Shapeshifting<\/em> tour, which begins with 42 dates in Europe, and will hit the U.S. in the fall. His band will include fellow virtuosos bassist Bryan Beller, drummer Kenny Aronoff and keyboardist Rai Thistlethwayte.<\/p>\n<p>More details are on the way, but Satriani has plenty to do before then. Wednesday, he\u2019s going to be inducted into the Metal Hall of Fame by his friend Steve Vai, joining Mot\u00f6rhead, Randy Rhoads, Judas Priest, Ronnie James Dio and others.<\/p>\n<p>Satriani\u2019s latest release was an archival one: late last year he reissued his 1987 career-making album <em>Surfing With the Alien<\/em>, with a bonus disc featuring all the guitar solos removed.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining his approach, he said in a release: \u201cWhen I build a track from scratch it\u2019s a kind of musical alchemy, a mixture of voodoo, mojo, blood, sweat, tears, prayers\u2026 and a lot of hard work. I cherish them because of this\u2026 it\u2019s no wonder I\u2019ve been reluctant to release them (stripped).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Satriani also dropped <em>What Happens Next<\/em>, a stripped-down soul album for which he collaborated with Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One project that Satriani fans may need to hold their breath on is , his supergroup with Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith. The band has not released an album since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure that can happen,\u201d Satriani <a href=\"http:\/\/inrock.ru\/interviews\/joe_satriani_the_squares_2019_en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cBut we\u2019re always hanging out with each other and talking a lot. So there\u2019s always that chance. It\u2019s one of those things about Chickenfoot, you never know what\u2019s going to happen \u2026 To tell you the truth, I think Sammy Hagar wants to retire. I don\u2019t think he wants to tour anymore. He\u2019s got a TV show and his liquor business that, I think, are more important to him at the moment. \u201c<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/joe-satriani-shapeshifting-937432\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s already a big year for guitar wizard Joe Satriani, but, Tuesday, it got even bigger. He announced Shapeshifting, his 18th studio album \u2014 release date forthcoming. In April, he\u2019s also heading on his Shapeshifting tour, which begins with 42 dates in Europe, and will hit the U.S. in the fall. His band will include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 21:54:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}