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The track begins with a cowboy from hell sound and quickly dives into the band's signature screaming guitars and proceeds to take fans on a fantastical adventure. "Musically, 'Dose' was supposed to be a Part 2 to 'Roman Sky. and had a very cinematic feel, but we turned it into more of a tripped-out metal song," says vocalist M. Shadows.

"The lyrics were inspired by an unsolved mystery that dates back to the 1950s about an airline traveler who, if you believe the story, supposedly fell into our dimension from another. According to reports, he showed up in a Tokyo airport with a passport from a country that didn't exist anywhere on a map. He was detained for questioning, but mysteriously vanished from a room guarded by immigration officials, taking with him all evidence of his existence. It ties into the theory that there are infinite possibilities of our lives being played out across space and time. Don't know if the story is true, but I'm fascinated by that kind of stuff and thought it'd be a fun idea for a song."

As a result, lots of high-quality footage from the sessions and discussions hit the cutting room floor. Jones and Laundry Room Studio have begun sharing outtakes from the experience, including some rough cuts of songs that appeared (and didn't appear) on the album.

Rock promised new material as a supplement to his political ambitions, cross-pollinating his message with lyrics and music video visuals. "Like politicians write books during their campaigns, I'm planning on putting out music during mine and IT ALL STARTS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT," Rock promised.

Up first is "Po-Dunk," a country rock track on which he boasts about his "yard full of chickens and barn full of trucks." Bikini-clad women (political supporters, presumably) are pictured firing guns and drinking beer in rural Michigan.

On Friday morning (July 14), the band posted news about the movie on their website. The film is due for release next year, and it will be directed by Bryan Singer, who previously worked on the X-Men series.

"We pride ourselves on putting a really amazing performance," Smith tells podcaster and former That Metal Show host, Eddie Trunk. "We want people to walk about saying, 'wow I've never seen anything like that.'" But with band members' ages passing 50 it begs the question, how long can they continue performing at that level? "When you can't do that anymore you've gotta take some stock and go, we're not gonna be sitting on stools up there playing our songs. We'll just see how it goes?"

"After a very long process of making Album 5, the song 'Rain' came right at the end," the band said in a statement. "It's a summer song so we thought, only The Script can make it Rain in Summer."

Garbage and Blondie will keep appearing together through mid-August, where the tour is set to end in Mexico City. Frontwoman Shirley Manson gave some background on the song in an interview with Variety.

Their 13 night stand will be kicking off on July 21st and will conclude on August 6th. Fans can purchase single-show and full 13-night pass offers all through LivePhish.

When Murphy expressed his apprehension about reforming the group, Bowie suggested he step outside his comfort zone. "I spent a good amount of time with David Bowie, and I was talking about getting the band back together," Murphy told Lauren Laverne on 6 Music. 'He said 'does it make you uncomfortable?' I said 'yeah', and he said 'good, it should, you should be uncomfortable.'"

In Murphy's eyes, it was hard to turn down advice from David Bowie (with whom he was collaborating on material at the time). Murphy lent 'a little percussion" to the icon's final album Blackstar.

Nicki Hurren asked the band (via Twitter) how many re-tweets it would take for them to play her sister's wedding. The band responded, setting 50,000 as the mark to reach. Hurren easily surpassed that number, her original message currently has 75,000+ re-tweets.

Now only did the band perform the album's title track with a youth choir, they also gave Lorde's hit single "Green Light" their own unique spin with frontman Win Butler thanking "our Lorde" for "fighting the good fight."