Today's Day in Rock Stories

The Eagles' Don Henley Reveals Glenn Frey's Replacement

They song debut happened at the Acoustic 4 a Cure benefit show in San Francisco and Grohl told the crown, "I figured on the way up here, I thought we would play a new song. We've never played this before to anybody."

Roth donated $10,000 after learning that Anthony would be participating in the in the Walk L.A. benefit event on June 17th to raise money for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, which treated Rex.

Richard 'Stitch' Thomas broke the news to fans via his Facebook page on Sunday with the following post, "Never a boring moment on tour! 2 cars collided in front of us on the highway just outside of Houston,Tx. We couldn't stop and slammed into them at about 60mph. Everyone is ok, including the people in the vehicle we hit.

The Tour Two is scheduled to kick off on September 6th in Jacksonville, FL at the Moran Theater and will wrap up on October 17th in Nashville, TN at the famed Ryman Auditorium.

Taylor explained the title during an interview on WRIF's Meltdown of the Detroit radio program. He revealed (via Blabbermouth), "I'm running through this airport in Eastern Europe. This was only a few years ago. No offense to the airport - it was kind of antiquated; they hadn't really upgraded anything. So the gate info was all on those old-school '80s block-letter, number, digital horrible Timex watch kind of readers.

"This would have been top of the line in Times Square in, like, 1968, let's put it that way. So not only is it impossible to read, it's also scrolling back and forth between Cyrillic and regular English letters. It's also scrolling back and forth between different languages. So my brain is trying to do geometry while also at a sprint, 'cause I don't wanna miss my plane. I pass one, and I look up and I could have swore it said 'Hydrograd.' And I kept running for a second, and I was, like, 'Hydrograd? Where the hell is Hydrograd? What?'

The rockers recently released a new mix of The Joshua Tree track in celebration of the album's 30th anniversary. While in Vancouver, U2 performed the record in full at the tour kickoff, marking the first-ever live performance of "Red Hill Mining Town." As @U2 notes, Bono revealed why the band have yet to play the song live during an interview with BBC Radio 2.

"I used to write songs that I couldn't sing," Bono confessed. "And sometimes that was OK because the strains of the notes I couldn't reach was part of the drama, but occasionally they would really just wreck the next show. So I just left 'Red Hill Mining Town' off. But since then, I sing a bit better -- or at least I've learned how to sing."

Singer Mikee W Goodman directed the new clip and had the following to say about the theme, "When I wrote the lyrics for Golden Cufflinks they were initially inspired by the amount of live music venues that are being closed and a feeling that rock culture is in decline. The venue which sticks out to me the most is the famous London Astoria.

"Some of the best Sikth shows were in the LA2 and main Astoria. I went a lot as a fan as well. So when that was closed and knocked down to make way for Crossrail it really was a sad and defining moment in rock history for me and many others.

"I think places of such rich history and cultural importance should be protected and preserved. I see this happening across the country and world - so many other venues being shut down and how scenes and golden eras come and go.

The appearance landed the day after the band played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ as part of a North American tour in support of "Hardwired�To Self-Destruct."

The trek - which opened in Baltimore, MD on May 10 - sees Metallica joined by Avenged Sevenfold and Volbeat, with Gojira on board for select dates.

The label will be reissuing Thal's 2015 album "Little Brother Is Watching" on CD and vinyl Double LP August 25th, 2017. One highlight of the album is the single "Don't Know Who To Pray To Anymore".

The former Beatle shared his scraggly new appearance on social media with the simple caption, #PiratesLife. In the image, normally clean-cut McCartney sports a braided beard, rugged pirate's hat and gaudy rings.

Directed by Amir Bar-Lev and produced by Martin Scorsese, the expansive, four-hour long documentary contains new interviews, never-before-seen footage, performances and more.

This film promises to reveal the intense, untold story of the Grateful Dead, from the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia in 1995 to the band's disdain for authority and convention.

Directed by Ben Lowe, the track follows the lead single, "Lights Out", as the second preview of the project, which was recorded in Brussels, Belgium with producer Joylon Thomas and London, UK with co-producer Tom Dalgety.

Due June 16, the duo of bassist/singer Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher will support the album with a North American tour that will begin in Boston, MA on June 2.

The title track and lead single was a US Top 15 hit while the album peaked at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 on its way to US sales of more than 4 million copies.

The sales feat marked "Girls, Girls, Girls" as the Crue's third straight album to go quadruple platinum, after 1983's "Shout At The Devil" and 1985's "Theatre of Pain."

"It's been so much fun seeing everyone across the US and we can't wait to return this Fall for more tour dates!" the band writes on Twitter alongside a live video.

The tour is scheduled to kick off on June 15th in Detroit, MI at The Ritz and will run until July 8th where it will wrap up with a show in Braidwood, IL at Top Fuel.

'What's Ur Damage?' is a song that's been brewing at the core of Omega Swan for a while. Not necessarily the lyrical content or the music that makes up the record, but the energy and sonic palette has been a vision we've had from the start. We started to touch on that sound with the release of 'Hate Love' (2015), and developed it further with 'Autonation' (2017) - but with 'What's Ur Damage?' that vision really starts to show itself.

The vision is an update for Rock n' Roll. Like a new iOS for your phone. Something beyond guitar riffs, raw power and gritty vocals...I want Rock n' Roll with melody, power hooks, and synthesizers, unafraid to embrace modern pop music. Rock n' Roll in the style of Def Leppard, Van Halen, Billy Idol, Prince, AC/DC, etc. Rock n' Roll that's rooted in quality songwriting and decorated in over the top production. It's hard to say if Rock music will ever make it back to mainstream radio, but i think we'd all love to hear a Rock anthem with a fat hook and shredding guitar solo hit #1 on the charts again. I have a feeling the kids do.

So with 'What's Ur Damage?' we were thinking about all of these things, and were trying to find that line between Rock n' Roll and modern Pop music. The initial descending synth line over the main guitar riff came in a jam at Aaron's place. He lives up in the woods of Goodlettsville, TN, in a small little cabin where we write and rehearse. We were rocking out, and I was singing that synth melody over some early version of the guitar part....and we were all like "That sounds like some anthem-type sh*t!". I dug the melody and kept working with it, but originally was just singing "AAH"'s instead of lyrics. Then one night I was watching Mr. Robot, and there's great dream episode where the main family is sitting in a car, and the sister says "What's your damage?" to the brother as to say "what's ur problem"...which in context is pretty meta because that phrase became popular in Heathers (1989) starring Christian Slater, and now it's being pulled in to Mr. Robot (also starring Christian Slater). They knew what they were doing.

Anyways, I LOVED that line. I just thought it had so much attitude, and could be taken in a bunch of different ways. Like "What's your damage, man? Why you gotta do that sh*t?" or "Checking in - What's your damage? Read me your levels." or " What's YOUR damage? Who broke your heart? What'd they do you?". Not to mention it had that throwback 80's thing that we're into right now, in the reference to Heathers. I instantly was looking for somewhere to put that as a lyric, and it just so happened to fit that melody I referenced earlier quite perfectly. It turned into the chorus "What's your damage, baby? AAH! Looking for a fight� tonight?" I was picturing the song being sang by an outcast ring leader, a Joker type character, to a lost, beat down girl, as an invitation to join the gang of damaged goons who run havoc and lead a life of hedonism and chaos. That line set the tone for the rest of the lyrics, which came pretty quickly after that. I brought in Carson Ponce, a great writer and frontman of the band PONCÉ to help put some final touches on the lyrics.

Once the song was put together and rehearsed, we played it live in Nashville a few times with some early versions of the synth parts to get some feedback. People really responded to the chorus, and loved the Heathers reference. When we took it to the studio (Red Fern Recordings - Nashville) with our engineer Edsel Holden it was about 75% of the way there. We re-approached all the synths and built vocal harmony in the studio, and Edsel and I took it back to Redact to mix. We were referencing Bad Romance and Rebel Yell, among other things, when mixing this one. Edsel polished it up, � we sent it off to mastering, and Eureka!