Today's Day in Rock Stories

Metallica Star Was Joking About Making Lady Gaga 'Co-Singer'

The new show will be taking place at the Barclays Center on July 22nd and will mark the final stop for the North American tour leg which will be kicking off on June 3rd in Bristow, VA.

The band also announced something special for fans that attend the newly announced show "To mark the very end of the tour Maiden have used their coveted city specific event shirt art upfront of the show.

The website Vintage Vinyl News reported late last week that the successful Rock Or Bust World Tour dates with Rose have "inspired Young to start planning another AC/DC record."

The report goes on to say that the new effort is not likely this year because "Guns N' Roses touring commitments throughout 2017 will make it difficult to finalize the project."

The Beatles legend will be releasing the reissue of the 1989 album on March 24th, and will be offering it in various formats including a special edition, and a deluxe edition box set. Track details are available on the preorder pagehere.

McCartney co-wrote a third of songs on the album with Elvis Costello, including "My Brave Face." Paul has this to say about the demo, "Because we were working above the studio, we'd just go downstairs and make the record, just the two of us singing exactly what we had made up. So there were a few recordings that haven't been released. We keep saying to each other that they're good because they are raw, it's hot off the skillet'.

Eight shows have been added to the previously-announced spring leg, which openned in Louisville, KY on February 24. The opening 4-week run will be followed by a second leg in May that will begin with four nights in the trio's home state of Texas.

"The run is Tex-centric, just like ourselves, and the band is looking forward to getting our heads in Mississippi, and points beyond," says guitarist Billy Gibbons. "After 4 decades, we believe we're beginning to get the hang of it, so a mighty good time will be enjoyed by all."

Billing himself as a solo trio, Dominic plays guitar, drums and sings simultaneously, his latest online video release shows him taking on the Led Zeppelin classic "Black Dog".

The U.S. summer leg of Young Renegades Tour will feature support from SWMRS, Waterparks and The Wrecks and is set to kick off on June 30th in Houston and will conclude on August 6th in Buena Vista, FL.

The band will be launching their world tour with a European leg that will begin on March 10th at the Apollo Hammersmith in London and will wrap on April 10th in Milan, Italy.

According to the announcement, the limited edition box set will feature an exclusive 7" vinyl single recorded at The Zoo at Planet Rock Radio's London fan-only gig in November 2016, along with the Digipak with CD & DVD, double 180g 12" vinyl, poster, sticker, button, patch and Photocard.

The Digipak will include a CD and DVD, along with photo booklet, the "Live & Louder" documentary, the "Make Some Noise World Tour" documentary, all music videos of the "Make Some Noise" album cycle and a picture gallery.

The band was forced to cancel the remaining dates on their winter European tour after a truck smashed into their tour bus in Poland on February 11th, destroying all of their gear.

The spring tour is scheduled to kick off on March 4th in Melbourne, FL at the King Center and will be wrapping up on July 7th in Atlantic City, NJ at Resorts Casino.

The song comes from the group's forthcoming album "Scatterbrain" which is schedule to hit stores on March 17th. The new visual is also the third video that the band has released from the record.

"The Night Siren" is scheduled to hit stores on March 24th and the new interview clip where Hackett discusses the new effort in detail can be streamed here.

The Temple Of The Morning Star: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is set to be released by The End Records on March 24th in various formats including digitally and CD/DVD and double vinyl LP versions.

"Blindspot" can be streamed here. The CD/DVD edition will include the newly re-mastered album plus bonus tracks on the first disc and a live 1997 recording captured during a concert at the Whiskey A Go-Go in Hollywood on the second disc.

She was just 24, but soon became one of the most successful female independent label chiefs of all time. She not only administered the rich Bang and Shout catalogs with recordings by Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, The McCoys, Strangeloves, Freddie Scott and Erma Franklin but, after Bert Berns's passing, she added to Bang's legacy and kept the label running and relevant for another eleven years.

The follow-up to "Curse of the Damned" is being released in various formats including Limited Edition Digipak, LP, and a Deluxe Digital Edition (featuring bonus tracks). The vinyl version will be released in the following colors: Dark Green - European Exclusive - Limited to 2000 copies and Silver - US Exclusive - Limited to 500 copies.

The group's new album will be entitled "Experience" and is set to be released on May 19th. They recorded the effort at The Pipeyard Studio in Plymouth, MI.

Frontman Zach Constable had this to say about the song, "Six Feet of Lies can have a very different meaning to a lot of different people. It all comes down to what the person is going through in their life.

"The main relation to the song is getting away from and ridding of whatever you're going through, burying it deep down six feet under to move on. I feel the anthem style of the chorus is what makes it so easy for people to catch on and sing along to.

I must've I given up on "Heaven Knows" a few dozen times while writing and recording it. As with most of my songs, the first seed was sewn while I was banging on my acoustic guitar. I was collecting song ideas for an upcoming recording session. The verse melody and some of the key lyrics, including the phrase "heaven knows," were among them. I'm always reading about politics and social news. It's a form of masochism, these days. I feel like we're being watched all the time and pushed into a group-think vacuum. That was the lyrical inspiration.

Anyway, at the recording session, our goal was to get an idea of which ideas were worthy of developing further. Scotty Kormos was playing drums that day as this was right before Dave Krusen joined the band. With Adam Kury on bass and Brina Kabler engineering and producing, we began working through the ideas, one after the other. "Heaven Knows" was the last one we got to. Immediately after hearing me strum the basic verse-chorus idea, Scotty and Adam came up with the drum and bass groove that became the foundation of the song. Brina suggested an alternate melody for the chorus and the song took shape in minutes. It felt really good. We were excited and spent some more time working on ideas for a bridge. That's when we hit a wall. We couldn't come up with anything that measured up to the verse and chorus melodies.

The band went home and came back a week later to try again on the bridge. Still nothing. I worked on it alone. I worked on it with Brina. I worked on it in my sleep. Nada. I felt like I was banging my head against the wall. I told Brina we needed to back-burner it for a bit. Either that or the song would kill me or I'd kill the song. She wouldn't let it go. Our conversations about the song got slightly heated. I got to a point where I was ready to delete all of the recordings and leave the song to distant memory. Finally, Brina relented and we set it aside.

Fast forward about a year, we were working on the TENDER SOULS album. Brina brought up revisiting the song. I begrudgingly agreed. As a band, we were gaining some confidence and momentum. I didn't want to spoil that with a song that could easily bog us down, but I thought it would be fine to see what Dave and Kevin Haaland (lead guitarist) might do with it. It was worthy of one more try. Not surprisingly, they had some great ideas that rekindled the inspiration for the song for me. The one that hit me the most was to have the band drop out at the top of the bridge and slowly build back up. We were on to something with that. But, we needed more time in the studio that we didn't have. We were about to go on a six week U.S. tour opening for Candlebox.

The tour began. Once we got a few shows under our belt- it was our first large stage tour- we decided to try out the song in front of a crowd. It was a risk since it was unfinished. We could easily crash and burn right in front of a couple thousand eyes, but we decided to go for it. The song was too cool to leave on the sidelines during the tour. Plus, if we were to crash and burn in front of a big audience, we figured we'd have a good laugh about it after. My hope was that we'd catch a bit of inspiration in that moment of do or die. Fortunately, that's exactly what happened. Right away, we caught on to what would be the final version of the song. We kept it in the set and refined it every night. We could see the audience reaction grow stronger with every performance. That was really cool. Two days after the tour was finished we were back in the studio to finish the song. We wasted no time. In fact, all we did was drop the bridge into what we had recorded right before we went on the road. The drums sounds in the bridge are slightly different from the rest of the song, but that adds to the magic of the recording.