Today's Day in Rock Stories

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Perry explained the evolution of the band's thoughts on retirement to NME. "We thought it was gonna be a good idea when we first started plotting the European run.

"We're gonna do South America and the States for five months and we thought 'well, we're getting near the end here, we don't know when the tour is gonna end but we know there'll be a last gig of this tour. We all have lives outside of the band. We grew up together, went from being kids in the apartment to a long and storied career, so we thought 'it's time.'"

"Then we were in South America doing interviews and we couldn't f**** say it, that there was gonna be a last gig. We were looking at each other going 'really? Are we really gonna say this is the farewell tour?' So we kinda changed our minds.

The band delivered the same 15-song setlist at the city's Jiffy Lube Live as they performed on the recent UK and European leg, starting with 2015's "If Eternity Should Fail" and featuring several classic tracks from throughout their career.

Swedish rockers Ghost are on board for the 7-week North American run, which will wrap up at New York City's Barclays Arena on July 21.

The rocker was be laid to rest on May 26 in Los Angeles in a private ceremony. The singer was found dead in a Detroit hotel room on May 17 following a Soundgarden concert.

They kicked things off with the release of the new "Live Again" video, which was directed by Michael R. Garcia. Watch it here. Guitarist Keith Barney tells Loudwire that the song was originally meant as a tribute for their late bandmate Mick Morris.

"We knew we wanted to do something for him on the record, so yeah, it was a really important song for us to do. I think musically, the lyrics were written for that song afterwards. Musically that song just had a nice, had the right vibe to be the bed for that music, and the end of that song has that just straight f-king breakdown at the end and it just kind of wraps the whole thing up nicely."

The tour will be kicking off with Drowning Pool and Trapt in Sturgis on August 4th and will conclude on August 8th in Lynchburg, VA at the Blue Ridge Rock Fest.

The chronicles the inception and making of Iggy Pop's 2016 album "Post Pop Depression" and the supporting tour from the initial text the rock icon sent to Homme to the recording the effort and beyond.

The new package will be highlighted by live performance footage of 17 song performances from a concert at Teatro Cariola in Santiago, Chile on May 27th, 2016.

The release will also include eight music videos as well as the "Dog Years" EP that features five previously unreleased studio tracks. A preorder for the deluxe edition has been launched here.

The self-titled album is set to hit stores this Friday (June 9th). The new 10 member band is highlighted by former Black Crowes stars Rich Robinson, Marc Ford and Sven Pipien.

The veteran band had originally recorded the effort with departed frontman Seann Nicols (Adler's Appetite) and planed an April release date but then decided to rerecord the album with former American Idol star James Durbin, who was recruited to replace Nicols.

Lizzie Shafer had the following to say, "Even to the four of us in Lane Change, 'Floodwater' means something different each time we play it. We really wanted to write a song that reflected everything we saw going on in the world, but didn't want tell the listener how to feel. In the concept for the video, we set out to capture the energy and message of the song visually to compliment the sonic element.

The new package will include the original studio album, along with six bonus tracks, include two that have previously been unreleased. We were sent the following details: When the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Humble Pie, Dusty Springfield, George Jones & Johnny Paycheck, Bob Dylan, the Bee Gees and countless other artists cover your songs, you must be on to something.

Lead vocalist Erica Barile had the following to say about the song, "Lullaby is about my own experience with spiritual warfare - specifically in the form of evil, demonic dreams.

They are giving fans a first taste of the effort with an online stream of the track "The Day They Took the Music Away" here. We were send the following details about the new project:

When writing "Dias de Los Meurtos" I had a lot of ideas I wanted to write about, but nothing really felt right. The name of the song wasn't even really established yet, but we had a good skeleton to start with. I sat down and thought of some past songs and concepts that we had on our previous album "Death in Motion". One song that on that album that always stuck out was "Daze of the Weak". I wanted a similar title to that. Catchy and a bit off center.

Dia De Los Meurtos or the Day of the day is a day to celebrate loved ones lost or who have passed on. Instead of a single day i wanted it to be like a coming out party. Instead of a single day of celebration. I also wanted to embrace the "zombie apocalypse" culture we were/are in at the same time. The words kinda flowed to me after the concept was becoming clearer.

The song is a spotlight on a strong cultural celebration as well as a way to let out some personal aggression. The lyrics explain that the dead are celebrated, but also, that secrets and wrong doings are never going to stay hidden. "The shadows that the dead expose" is a line I want to be strong and intense to tell the main story of not only the song, but the majority of the album.