Gym Class Heroes, Tom Morello Reveal New Album Details

What do Gym Class Heroes and the Nightwatchman Tom Morello have in common? Not much, other than both artists announced new album details today. For The Quilt, the Gym Class Heroes' third album, the Fueled by Ramen band have recruited top-shelf producers like The-Dream, Cool & Dre and Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump. The-Dream produced the album's first single "Cookie Jar," which will be available for digital purchase on July 8th. The Quilt itself is due out September 9th and will feature contributions from guests Busta Rhymes, Estelle and Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates.

Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman, as he's now billed, will release his solo album The Fabled City on September 30th. The Rage Against the Machine guitarist will be joined by System of a Down singer and fellow Axis of Justice member Serj Tankian on the song "Lazarus on Down" and Shooter Jennings on "The Iron Wheel." The Fabled City also reunites Morello with Brendan O'Brien, who produced RATM's Evil Empire and Battle of Los Angeles.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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