Today's Day in Rock Stories

David Lee Roth Helps Former Van Halen Star Following Tragedy

Sony music filed a lawsuit against Applebee's for using that song and C+C Music Factory's 1990 hit "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" in a TV ad campaign, according to TMZ.

"Days Of Self Destruction" is first single from CKY's new studio album, which will be entitled The Phoenix" and set to be released on June 16th and was engineered and mixed at the famed Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, CA.

The band will be promoting the new album release by taking part in this year's Warped Tour as well as playing a series of shows across Canada and a mostly sold out UK tour.

Jess Margera shared his excitement about the release of the first new music since the band ended their long time away from the music scene. He says, "We're stoked to get a new album out after an 8 year hiatus.

The new clip was filmed in Dubai with director Joseph Kahn. "Thunder" is the second track revealed from the group's forthcoming studio album, which is expected later this year.

"This is like my 16-year-old self's wet dream: doing a radio show to a worldwide audience," says Ulrich in a new video announcing the program. "We go all over the world - we look at international bands for an international audience. I'm gonna play you lots of really cool music by mostly bands you don't know; a lot of bands I've just been introduced to.

"We don't believe in boundaries, and we're open to everything. I have some guests call in on the phone, and they promise me I'm gonna have this show every week."

The new song follows the release of the lead single "Hard Times" which the group has announced that they will be performing during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live's outdoor stage on May 17th.

The tune follows the lead single, "In My World", as the second track issued ahead of the June 9 release of the project. "We were exploring a creative process, and the identity of the project took on a life organically," explains Buckingham. "The body of work felt like it was meant to be a duet album. We acknowledged that to each other on many occasions, and said to ourselves, 'What took us so long?!'"

The new album is billed as a return to the sound of the group's self-titled debut album, which was released in 1990. Campbell had this to say, "when my friends at Frontiers suggested a Riverdogs album in the spirit of the original debut record, I jumped at the chance to make it. In my opinion, 'Riverdogs' was a highlight of my career with some of my best guitar playing and definitely a record that flew under the radar.

The band, which includes Deen Castronovo (Journey, Bad English), Doug Aldrich (The Dead Daisies, Whitesnake, Dio), and Jack Blades (Night Ranger, Damn Yankees), played their first live show together during a VIP event at the Frontiers Rock Festival in Milan last Friday (April 28th).

The Beatles Channel will showcase all-things-Beatles with regular and special programming spanning the history-making careers of the band. The channel will explore the band's entire career - including their hits and deeper tracks, live recordings, rarities, and solo albums, while also spotlighting musicians who have inspired, and have drawn inspiration from The Beatles.

"I still remember the thrill of when we first heard our music on the radio," says Paul McCartney, "but I don't think any of us would have imagined that we'd have our very own Beatles radio channel more than 50 years later. The SiriusXM channel will have it all, 8 Days a Week."

The Billy Milano led group will be releasing the new album on July 7th and Billy shared these details on the long delay between releases, "I had taken off time with M.O.D. in 2009.

The footage features four songs from the show, which was streamed live as part of a promotion by Samsung UK to celebrate the launch of the recently announced Galaxy S8.

The duo of bassist/singer Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher can be seen rocking new songs "Lights Out" and "Where Are You Now?" alongside favorites "Figure It Out" and "Little Monster" from their 2014 self-titled debut.

After eight studio albums in 10 years Whitesnake had managed to keep hard rock relevant, in an ever-changing '80s rock market in the UK, while America had yet to fully embrace the band. Bandleader, singer, songwriter David Coverdale was sidelined with a potentially career-ending chronic sinus infection midway through this project. Coverdale reveals to IN THE STUDIO producer and host Redbeard just how serious his health scare was.

"He (the doctor) put a small flashlight into my mouth... and said, 'This is the worst sinus infection I've ever seen, I'm surprised you could even talk'," remembers Coverdale. " I came back and prepared for surgery and a 50% chance I would never be able to perform again."

The new Brooklyn show is scheduled for August 5th and will also be taking place at the Warsaw. The band is hitting the road in support of their 2016 album "Fires Within Fires."

"Judas" is the first single from the group's forthcoming album. Jericho had this to say about the new clip, "For such a dark and sexy song like 'Judas', we wanted a dark and sexy video to match...and we got that and more!

Every now and then, I will have a moment that is similar to Trent Lane from Daria, where I have to stop everything I am doing and write the song I am hearing in my head. For Cicada Arcade, it was one of those moments. It was the middle of the night, and I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep, and all of a sudden I start to hear a Dick Dale surfer rock riff in my head. Now, I am not a guitar player, but I knew if I didn't pick up a guitar and try to figure it out right then and there, it would be lost forever. So I grabbed the out of tune guitar I have sitting in the corner of my room, which is literally there for moments like these, and I hummed out the notes and then matched them on the guitar. I recorded it on my phone very quietly so as not to wake up my girlfriend. I had the riff. It wasn't flashy, and I wasn't sure if it was of any worth, but I had it. The next day, I woke up and re-recorded it onto Logic. I then figured out the main progression and vocal melodies and essentially demo-ed the song. Typically one of us will demo a song on Garageband, and then bring it to the rehearsal space to work on together.

Often times, I will create a song title before actually writing the lyrics. It can be a counterproductive element to our song writing, but sometimes it can make for some really interesting lyrics. I gave the title "Cicada Arcade" just because the buzzing guitar sounds in the beginning reminded me of the sounds of a cicada. I had no intention of actually calling the song that, but the rest of the guys really liked that title, so I kept it. I then was presented with the task of somehow making a full coherent song that connects to that title. I was stuck for a while. But it wasn't until Colin told me his interpretation of what a "Cicada Arcade" is that I was able to really find the lyrics. He asked me, "What would it sound like if a bunch cicadas were confined in a room? It would be extremely loud, and distracting, and just overall mayhem". To him, that sounded like our culture centered around social media. That statement was the jumping-off point for the lyrics.

Cicada Arcade took a very long time to solidify just because it was such an ambitious song for us as far as the different genres we were incorporating. The song moves at a very fast pace: changing styles drastically and abruptly. We blend rock and roll with reggae and hip-hop and add an aggressive breakdown with a Middle Eastern synth line rolled in. It's chaos, a lot like the subject of the lyrics. We really felt that this song was the best representation of what we have set out to achieve with this album.

Then we sent the song over to Ali to create a music video. Ali is a close friend of the band. This is the second music video he has created for us. The first was for our single "Super Unnatural". When he did that video we felt that he really understood what we were trying to say in our lyrics, and elevated the message visually. So we knew right away with Cicada Arcade, that we wanted him to do another one for us.

Ali on the idea behind the music Video for Cicada Arcade: It's about wanting to get away from the constant noise and distractions that everyone is making in order to create and project their own false realities. And none of the false realities that are being thrown out there are original or unique, but are just based on recycled thoughts and beliefs that are being fed to them. Then the main character goes through a thought process that eventually ends up with him recognizing that he's not any different and his own existence and reality is based on those very same noises an distractions. But as he's coming to this realization, it's too late as he's actually fully immersed and drowning in the waste from his own false reality.