Today's Day in Rock Stories

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She first shared the news with fans on Tuesday morning with this post, "Thank you for your many, many prayers! Surgery went well and he looks good. Now the recovery begins."

A couple of hours later this shared, "I feel like I was carried by your prayers over the last twelve hours. I didn't worry for one second while HR was in surgery. Thank you. We certainly have cause for celebration.

"Music is such a necessity. It touches people's souls," the guitarist told CNN this week. "Music is the universal language to me. It transcends everything. My whole life has been music. I could not imagine anything else," he continued. "It's a must. It has to be taught."

Van Halen appeared on CNN alongside Felice Mancini, CEO of the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, a program that provides musical instruments to students in low-income schools. A few years back, Van Halen donated 75 guitars from his personal collection to the foundation to help with the cause. "It was very difficult at first to find a charity that [takes guitars]," he explained. "They all just wanted money."

Hetfield was interviewed Red Bulletin and was asked "You're a band that has often worn its heart on its sleeve. Looking at your back catalogue, are there any periods where you now think, 'What the hell were we thinking?""

He responded, There are things I would like to change on some of the records, but it gives them so much character that you can't change them. I find it a little frustrating when bands re-record classic albums with pretty much the same songs and have it replace the original. It erases that piece of history. These records are a product of a certain time in life; they're snapshots of history and they're part of our story.

The new song comes from the group's forthcoming album, which will be entitled "You Are We" and is set to be released on April 2nd following a successful crowdfunding effort.

Guitarist Sean Long had this to say (via TeamRock) about going directly to fans to fund the album instead of via a label, "Now more than ever, our fans know that it's them making all of this possible for us. The divide between artist and fan is ridiculous, because there are no fans without the artist and there's no artist without the fans.

"No control over anything I'm dying to learn, I'm dying to forget" the band wrote via their announcement of the new clip on their official Facebook page on Thursday (Feb 23).

The new album is set to hit stores on March 24th and is the group's first effort to feature Creed frontman Scott Stapp on lead vocals. Their debut featured the late Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver.

Stapp had this to say about the new song, "In 'No Surrender,' I addressed those moments in life where you've reached a personal crossroads or crisis. That place where your back is against the wall and your left with two choices; cave in and crumble allowing whatever circumstance to break you forever, or to rise up and fight through holding on to that never give up spirit that lies deep within.

The actor, who is best known for the role of the title character of the series Dexter, gave a speech that was funny, sincere and paid tribute to Ziggy Stardust's personal and professional integrity.

'If David Bowie could be here tonight, he probably wouldn't be here tonight," said the Dexter star. "But since he can't be here tonight, I'm here tonight on his behalf and behalf of his family to accept this testament to a man beholden to nothing but his own boundless imagination and daring, who's ever expanding artistic vitality simultaneously soothes us and sears us and astonishes us."

Watch the new video here. The clip comes as the band prepares to hit the road in support of the album with tour dates this spring in Europe and the U.S.

They will be kicking things off with a string of UK shows beginning on March 1st in Birmingham at the O2 Institute and concluding with a two night stand at the O2 Academy Islington in London on the 3rd and 4th.

From there they will travel to Germany for a series of dates that will kick off on March 6th in Cologne at the Gloria Theatre and includes stops in Munich at Technikum and Berlin at Huxley's Neue Welt

The band will return home to launch the first leg of their The Heart Go Bang Tour of the U.S. on March 16th in Chicago at the House Of Blues and will wrap things up on April 1st Philadelphia Electric Factory, PA

The album will see the seasoned bluegrass covers act rework (and rejig, if you will) eleven Nirvana classics, twenty-six years after the release of Cobain and Co.'s groundbreaking grunge document Nevermind.

The tune is one of eight songs captured in concert at The Matrix in San Francisco, CA on March 6, 1967 from recently rediscovered original master tapes.

The live set joins remastered stereo and mono mixes of the original record in the 3CD/1LP 50th Anniversary reissue, which is packaged in a 12 x 12 hardcover book.

Frontman Alex Gaskarth posted a length message on Instagram along with the cover art, where he discussed the song writing and inspiration for the new album. He wrote, "Who is the Last Young Renegade? After all this time writing music, playing in a band- checking moment after moment off the bucket list- collecting mistakes, making memories, I wondered what it might be like to write about myself if I wasn't the one standing in my shoes. Who am I from the other side of the mirror?

The new summer dates will feature support from Citizen Zero and Letters from the Fire and is scheduled to get underway on May 25th in Houston at the Scout Bar and will include headline dates and music festival appearances.

On the heels of a just-announced spring US trek, shows will begin in Germany with gigs at Bavaria's Rock Im Park on June 3 and Nurburgring's Ram Am Park on June 4.

"With this record in particular, there was a lot going on," singer Myles Kennedy revealed last fall. "It's definitely a snapshot of a short window because the lyrics were put together as we were arranging the record during the first few months of 2016. And there was a lot going on, watching the news, paying attention to campaigns and race relations, and just the environment around us.

in 2017 with their seventh studio album, . The band announced the tracklist, cover art, and release date today (February 23rd), and shared

In the video for "Let Me Down," nightmarish beings run rampant in a forest. A twisted Teletubbie-esque character jumps on abandoned cars and befriends a young girl in a princess party dress while an evil clown holding a scythe edges closer to them.

That first musically ambitious Top 15 single from the original band of Waite, Michael Corby, Tony Brock, and Wally Stocker created enough momentum for the British quartet to inspire The Babys' breakout 1979 album Head First, which itself peaked at # 22 and produced another Top 15 hit single "Every Time I Think of You". But after 1980's Union Jacks album, which delivered "Back on My Feet Again" and the infectious "Midnight Rendezvous", the band stumbled figuratively and, in lead singer John Waite's unfortunate case, quite literally. But how? John Waite and Jonathan Cain share with In The Studio host Redbeard their own personal recollections of life in rock's neo-natal unit trying to grow in America as The Babys.

John Waite: "We went on the road a lot... They (record company) wouldn't let a day go by without us doing something. We'd play in the cafeteria of some college and then go play a major gig at night, or we'd fly to Japan the next morning after a major three week outing playing everywhere in America... It was a real whirlwind. It was a great time."

Gabriel, however, made extremely experimental albums that found him a new, younger, edgier audience, many of whom were unaware of -- or didn't care about -- his days as a prog-rock frontman. He, too, became a lot more popular after the split.

Tony Levin played bass on that album and has been with Gabriel ever since. Levin spoke with Radio.com about his first time working with Gabriel. "My heart going boom, boom, boom!" Peter Gabriel sang on "Solsbury Hill," the breakout track from his self-titled solo debut album. His heart-pounding was understandable; leaving a band on the verge of success can't be an easy decision, even for a visionary artist who was tiring of being part of a democracy.

In my mind, Lesser of Two Evils became more of a "project" than a song. Taking over three years to complete, and originally starting out as two separate songs, they were later combined to make it what you hear today. It was written in our unconventional way of tracking all electronic drums and samples first, writing all the vocal melodies second, followed by bass, guitar, lyrics, and finally live drums.

I wrote what I consider the chorus (spilling your guts) melody one drunk night, sitting at my next door neighbors horribly out of tune piano. I wasn't sure it would work until it was played on a tuned guitar. After arguing for a couple weeks with Catastrofiend (guitars) about the proper tunings, it finally fell into place. Those lyrics were written at that point. Ugly American (vocals), who can write at the speed of light, had already written most of the lyrics for the other half of the song, but we had many gaps to fill. The final chorus lyrics weren't written until shortly before we hit the studio. It seems I can never write anything worth a sh*t when all is "well" in my life.

Although the song title and certain people have related it to the political crap that's happening around the world right now, it certainly was not written with that in mind.

Even though it's our first single released from this EP, we really had no idea if it would even make the cut for the EP. The song never really took shape until we laid down every track in the studio and did a rough mix. It's now my favorite to date, combining all of our writing styles into one song.