Today's Day in Rock Stories

Alice Cooper and Deep Purple Announce Summer Tour

The show will be taking place following the group's appearance at the Grammy Awards and is part of the special concert series that celebrates the annual music awards program which will also include shows from Sting, The Chainsmokers and Beck.

The new trek, which follows their first leg last fall, is set to kick off on April 28th at the Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, Ca and will conclude on August 26th in Quincy, WA at The Gorge Amphitheatre.

During a fans question and answer session on Reddit, the drummer reflected on what he missed most about the rock scene in the late 1980's. "It was more exciting back then, 'cause you didn't find out everything like you do now. Everything is instantly over people's phones and everything," said Adler. "It was exciting to read magazines and read about your bands and what's going on, and it's just a completely different world now."

He continued: "I think I got to catch the end of when rock was really rock. That's what I miss. I miss going to record stores and hanging out. I miss going to magazine stands and reading magazines and looking at pictures. I miss looking at record albums and reading all the liner notes and looking at the pictures in the sleeves and reading how they did the record and what happened.

Iommi addressed the falling out with Ward in a new interview with Mojo. Ward didn't take part in the band's last album or their farewell tour because he said that he wasn't given a contract that he could sign.

"Bill seemed to feel he was getting a bad deal," Iommi tells Mojo (via BraveWords). "We never dealt with that, we left all that to management. We just wanted to play together and enjoy it. We were playing with Bill for a bit and then he never turned up�"

Iommi then added: "It would have been nicer to have Bill with us but unfortunately it never happened... At some point I wanna call him. I still love him, he's still my brother, but you have arguments.

Clapton had previously announced four shows this year that will be taking place this March; two at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the 19th and 20th and two at the Forum in Los Angeles on the 25th and 26th.

The tour is scheduled to get underway on June 15th at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ and will run until August 13th where it concludes in Murphys, CA at Ironstone Amp.

Steve Miller had this to say, "Peter and I first met at Olympic studios in London in the late sixties when we were both just starting our recording careers, "He was a wonderful guitarist and songwriter then and he is even more so today.

Adams 15th studio album is set to be released on February 17th. The new video was directed by Noah Abrams and is a mix of studio footage and scenes from his 2016 tour. Watch it here.

The new clip pays tribute to a number of late rock and metal legends including David Bowie, Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, Metallica's Cliff Burton, Ronnie James Dio, AC/DC's Bon Scott, Prince, Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott Type O Negative's Peter Steele, as well as late Metal Blade Records European head Michael Trengert.

The music festival event is scheduled to take place on June 30th at Hyde Park in London and is the final stop of Phil Collins' Not Dead Yet comeback tour, according to Prog.

The new group (Pronounced "banquet"), which was conceived by Midlake's Eric Pulido as "a poor man's version of the Traveling Wilburys", also features Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, Fran Healy of Travis, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, as well as Pulido's Midlake bandmates McKenzie Smith, Joey McClellan and Jesse Chandler.

Frontman Ricky Warwick had the following to say about the track, "Only fools would believe that rock n roll can rejuvenate a world in the throes of a collapsing civilization that's coming under heavy fire from all asunder. But what if the would-be fools are right?"

Jordison revealed to Metal Hammer last year that at the time of his firing he was suffering from a rare nervous system disease that made it impossible to play drums.

He reflected on his former bandmates in a new interview on the One On One with Mitch Lafon podcast. He said, "Without Slipknot, I would not necessarily be where I am today.

The new six track EP is set to be released on February 17th but is currently streaming in full on the band's website and on SoundCloud. Check it out here.

The movie featured "Born to be Wild" in its iconic opening sequence. This time around, instead of riding a motorcycle, Fonda drives off in a new AMG GT Roadster.

The two day festival will be taking place on April 21st and 22nd at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center with tickets going on sale this Friday, Feb 3rd at 10 AM PST.

They had the following to say about the new song, "We are incredibly proud of this song. Much like our previous single 570, we feel it embodies the heart and soul of Motionless In White - demonstrating many aspects of the evolution of the band thus far, while standing firm on the foundation we have built with our preceding records. It is collectively one of our favourite tracks of the band's entire discography."

The new album was originally scheduled to be released this coming winter but they have moved up the release date to May 5th, according to Metal Hammer.

The lineup for the Orange County event will also feature performances from Sum 41, Rival Sons, Lit, Unwritten Law, as well as the heavy metal mariachi band Metalachi.

The trek will be kicking off on May 1st at Vinyl in Pensacola, FL and will conclude on May 20th at the Mercury Ballroom in Louisville, KY. Amon Amarth has also announced that they will be taking part in several music festivals including Welcome To Rockville, Carolina Rebellion, Rock On The Range and more.

Young recently said the opposite in an interview with the UK publication MOJO where he said, "I think CSNY has every chance of getting together again. I'm not against it."

Johnny Beauford here, I play bass and sing in the band Bravo Max. Thank you so much for taking the time and interest in our new record. We all appreciate it greatly.

Clean Slate is the first song on the new Bravo Max album and it was one of the last songs we wrote as a band before going into the studio. I believe up to 2 weeks before we headed to Echo Lab to track the Bullfighter Blues album we were rehearsing and still hammering out the final pieces of "Clean Slate." Little did we know it would become such a prominent track on this release. It started with a killer riff Garrett had written on guitar - then I believe we added the juxtaposition of the intro and centered it around our drummer, Jonathan Jackson's idea to play in a different time signature from the top until the first verse comes in.

In writing this, it sounds a little complex as a foundation for a song but like a few of our songs on Bullfighteronce we had the separate parts completed (intro, bridge, extended verse, horns parts, etc.) and set in stone we were able to really stitch them together so that they are as seamless as possible.

Even the lyrics for "Clean Slate" were very fresh going into recording this one. I remember singing them off the cuff straight from a book of lyrics I had on hand. I love hearing the vulnerability and spontaneous results of doing things on the fly in the studio here and there. It really is an audible difference to hear someone playing something they just wrote as opposed to something that is a year or two old and has grown a bit more commonplace for them to perform their parts.

"Clean Slate" could easily have been the title for this album especially considering the band's dramatic change in sound from the first full length to this Sophomore effort. The lyrics are mostly straightforward in talking about a re- birth and a fresh start artistically.

We hope you'll check it out for yourself. We have released both a new music video and a live radio performance for this track in the past month, so it's all as Clean and fresh as you can imagine still.