Ahead of next week’s kickoff of Duff McKagan’s Lighthouse Tour ‘24, the Guns N’ Roses icon has unveiled two new tracks, a soulful cover of David Bowie’s all-time classic “Heroes” and a glam-rock original titled “True to the Death Rock N’ Roll Ballad.”
Stream the former above, and the latter below.
“We thought it was good idea to put out a couple of fresh songs right here on the eve of the Lighthouse tour,” McKagan commented. “Choosing David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ seemed to be a natural subject matter for me (I am of course, a massive history nerd)… star-crossed lovers in the shadow of the mid-Seventies Cold-War era Berlin Wall. To try and compliment this era, I chose a sort of Seventies glam-rock song that I wrote some time last year, ‘True to the Death Rock N’ Roll Ballad,’ another lyric where love and lust and time are the central figures. We hope you dig this ‘single’ and thank you all for just being you!”
The Lighthouse Tour ‘24 kicks off September 30th at Dublin, Ireland’s The Academy, with U.S. dates launching November 4th at Boston, MA’s Paradise Rock Club. Check out the full itinerary below.
McKagan’s latest solo album, Lighthouse, is out now and you can pick up Revolver‘s exclusive “emerald green” vinyl variant — limited to 300 copies — over at our shop.
Duff McKagan Lighthouse Tour ‘24:
OCTOBER
2 – Glasgow, Scotland – The Garage *
3 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy 2 *
5 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall *
7 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg *
8 – Cologne, Germany – Die Kantine *
9 – Munich, Germany – Freiheitshalle *
11 – Brno, Czech Republic – Sono Centrum *
13 – Warsaw, Poland – Klub Stodola *
14 – Berlin, Germany – Heimathafen Neukölln *
16 – Milan, Italy – Magazzini Generali *
17 – Solothurn, Switzerland – Kulturfabrik Kofmehl *
19 – Liege, Belgium – OM *
20 – Paris, France – La Trianon *
22 – Stockholm, Sweden – Nalen *
NOVEMBER
4 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club †
6 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge †
8 – Chicago, IL – Outset †
10 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater †
13 – Los Angeles, CA – El Rey ^
18 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater +
20 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox +
* w/ James and the Cold Gun
† w/ Lee Ving’s Range War
^ w/ Grace McKagan
+ w/ Joey “Sh*thead” Keithley