Global superstar and recent Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Dolly Parton, has joined forces with some of Rock music's most legendary artists along with today's biggest stars for her first-ever Rock album, Rockstar. The ever-evolving Parton teamed up with an all-star roster of musicians for the 30-song collection which includes 9 original tracks and 21 iconic Rock anthems.
Rockstar is set for global release on November 17th via Butterfly Records with distribution by Big Machine Label Group and will be available as a 4 LP set, a 2 CD set, digital download and on all streaming services. (continue)
The legendary Austin City Limits Music Festival returns in 2023 with an incredible lineup featuring headliners Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, Mumford & Sons, Shania Twain (Weekend One only), The Lumineers, ODESZA, Alanis Morissette and The 1975 (Weekend Two only), along with Hozier, Kali Uchis, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Maggie Rogers, Labrinth, Cigarettes After Sex, Niall Horan, Tove Lo, Thirty Seconds to Mars and many more.
The nine-stage, two-weekend extravaganza will take place October 6-8 and October 13-15, 2023, at Zilker Park. 3-Day Tickets for both weekends will go on sale today at 12pm CT at www.aclfestival.com. New in 2023: No surprises at checkout - all fees and shipping costs are included upfront. Layaway Plans are available starting at only $25 down. (continue)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Award-winning band Chicago will celebrate their 56th consecutive year of touring this year on the road, where the 10-piece has been since the world returned from the pandemic. The legendary and astoundingly enduring band is the first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six consecutive decades. With unparalleled longevity, the band has never missed a year.
After an incredible 38 albums Chicago's uniquely timely and timeless music unites multiple generations of fans. The now 10-man band is touring for the duration of 2023 and continues to sell out venues night after night. After 56 years, the founding members Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane and James Pankow continue to drive the band into new territory - while staying true to the hits (so many hits) their fans come again and again to see. They released their 38th studio album Born For This Moment last year, as well as The Last Band On Stage, a documentary film about the never-not-touring band's experience during the pandemic (and onstage the night the world shut down). (continue)
(hennemusic) Metallica is streaming pro-shot video of the live debut performance of the "72 Seasons" track "Screaming Suicide" from an April 27 show in Amsterdam, NL.
The first of two concerts at the city's Johan Cruijff Arena also marked the launch of Metallica's M72 World Tour in support of the recently-released eleventh album. (continue)
Industrial metal pioneers Fear Factory have solidified their importance and have become champions of the Metal community. On June 23rd, the band's albums Re-Industrialized and Mechanize will be available as re-issues via Nuclear Blast Records.
Today, Fear Factory offers fans the single, "Deprived Mind Murder", from Re-Industrialized. Check out the stream and visualizer video for the track (continue)
The Winery Dogs released their latest video today for "Breakthrough." It's from their critically acclaimed and aptly named third album, III, which was released February 3 on the band's Three Dog Music label (via Burnside Distribution/The Orchard) and is available on all digital formats. The first two videos from III, "Mad World" and "Xanadu," were filmed in Los Angeles last November.
"We wanted to release a third video for the album and honestly, it wasn't easy to decide," declares Richie Kotzen. "We went with our song 'Breakthrough,' because it's already in the live set and is a song our fans have been talking about with us during our meet and greet sessions. Particularly the lyrics and the storyline, 'Because we're who we are, we'll never be what we were,' feels like it is resonating with folks. Rather than do a full-blown script video with actors, we went with a performance style video of the song. Our longtime friend and videographer, Vicente Cordero, came out to visit us on the road and we told him to 'shoot it all. Get as much footage as you can and we shall put something together.' Here it is...we hope you dig it." (continue)
Australia's extreme metal titans Thy Art Is Murder have announced their long-awaited new album, Godlike, arriving September 15. Godlike marks Thy Art Is Murder's first 100% independently released record, out worldwide via their own label Human Warfare. Pre-order Godlike here.
The band has also shared the devastating new single, "Join Me In Armageddon." Opening with a foreboding riff that feels like you're being marched into the arms of evil, heed the warning of Thy Art when they advise to "dress warm for nuclear winter." (continue)
Progressive legends Yes have announced UK dates for the Classic Tales of Yes Tour 2024. The 9 UK dates includes a visit to London's Royal Albert Hall and the Bristol Beacon together with 7 dates rescheduled from the 2023 UK tour, for which all tickets remain valid.
Yes are delighted to include the Royal Albert Hall among their 2024 UK tour dates having first played this prestige venue in 1968 and many times since through their illustrious career. Tickets for the Royal Albert Hall show (Tuesday 4 June 2024) and Bristol Beacon (Friday 31 May 2024) go on sale on at 12noon on Friday 12th May 2023. (continue)
Louise Post - of seminal band Veruca Salt - is sharing the video for her first debut solo track "Guilty," a perfect reverie of guitar haze. Directed by Meeno and written and produced by Post, the video showcases a married couple's relationship on the fritz with no one person more guilty than the other in their wrongdoings.
About the song, Post reflected, "I wrote this on a Tuesday and recorded it on Thursday, writing most of the lyrics on the drive from my house over to the studio. This song literally poured out of me. I was sleeping when it woke me up and demanded to be written. The first verse and chorus landed as an accusation, but then I realized it was far more interesting, and much more true to life, to have everyone in the song be guilty of something. To have the narrator own up to her own guilt, and then acknowledge the universality of it all. I mean, what would we be without our secrets? The song is ultimately about not taking ourselves so seriously." (continue)
Ghost Work (featuring members / ex-members of Seaweed, Snapcase, Milemarker, and Minus The Bear) has signed with Spartan Records.
Ahead of releasing a brand new sophomore record this fall, the label has re-issued the band's 2020 debut album 'You'll Be Buried With' which has been remastered (continue)
LA rock duo Teenage Wrist share their new single "Diorama" today. Following the bright nostalgia of their latest music video, "Sunshine," the new song is led by the muddy resonance of a down-tuned acoustic guitar with haunting vocals severed for a moment of grating distortion. As "Diorama" unfolds, an electronic drumbeat is joined by psychedelic synths and a soaring melody, marrying alternative rock with the band's signature shoegaze sound.
On its existential lyricism, vocalist, guitarist and bassist Marshall Gallagher explains: "It's about seeing the world through your own microscopic lens, and how all the insignificance, irony and existential dread are magnified by the technology we've become dependent on. We all know this feeling, looking at your phone for hours, watching everything unfold and crumble. All the tragedy and injustice outside your walls, and the feeling of utter uselessness against it. Yet life goes on and you continue existing." (continue)
Australian band Big Words are gearing up to release their debut album, "Nightmares of a Stardom Dream," on May 26th. To celebrate we asked Will to tell us about the single, "Summer Never Felt This Sad". Here is the story:
"Summer Never Felt This Sad" is a song about a secret relationship. I fell in love with a friend, it was a beautiful but treacherous romance that came crashing down in the summer. Nobody knew about us, although it was fun, the severity of our feelings soon became impossible to ignore. I wrote the song about feeling like a fake person, unable to admit my love, I was hurt and sadly we never spoke again. (continue)
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