Fresh from two recently completed tour runs across the US, first as the headlining act and second alongside Ministry and Gary Numan, EBM legends Front Line Assembly release a brand new single today, a dark electronic reimagining of Rammstein's groundbreaking "Deutschland," a song that came out after a decade of silence from the industrial metal magnates and courted a fair amount of controversy for its centering of Germany's checkered past, fraught with famine, plague, war, and nationalism.
Front Line Assembly's signature blend of dark synth atmospherics, EBM, and heart-pounding, techno-heavy beats breathes new life into Rammstein's chart-topping industrial anthem, and serves as a standout track on the upcoming cover compilation, A Tribute to Rammstein. This star-studded album features both old and new school industrial acts, with veterans of the vanguard, honoring the leather-clad legionnaires of Germany's industrial giants. (continue)
Australian indie-folk groundbreakers The Paper Kites have unveiled the latest insight into their upcoming album 'At The Roadhouse' (out September 1 via Nettwerk Music Group); the stirring and groovy new single "Black & Thunder".
Recorded in the remote Australian village of Campbells Creek (pop. 2,071) during the band's unannounced and unadvertised residency, "Black & Thunder" is a true embodiment of the steadfast DIY ethos that filtered into the five-piece's new album. (continue)
Melodic death metallers Voidfallen have unleashed an intense new single, "Starved Of Martyrs", a first taste of the upcoming album the band is currently working on.
Commenting on the new single, Voidfallen states: "Starved of Martyrs is a fast and relentless track that adds almost a thrashy feeling to the band's otherwise blackened melodeath sound palette. The theme of the song revolves around the toxic glorification of living in misery." (continue)
Antirope just released their new full-length album Amnesia via Eclipse Records on June 30 and earlier today, the band dropped a new music video for the song 'Is This The End'.
The album was produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Patrick Fleischer (Lacrimas Profundere, Darkseed, Alev) at Studio 6.0. 'Is This The End' is the third music video taken from the new album, and it was also directed by Patrick Fleischer. (continue)
Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil revealed in a new interview that the band is planning to launch a new Stadium Tour next year and the band has recorded three new tracks.
Neil made the comments during an appearance on the The Music Universe podcast. He shared, "We have eight shows in the US after [their current UK/European leg].
"Then we go to Australia and Japan, and then I think we're gonna go back in the studio for a couple of more songs. And then we will announce a new stadium tour for next summer. We're not sure who's gonna be on it, but there'll be another tour." (continue)
On the full moon, Monday 3 July, Peter Gabriel releases the seventh track from the album i/o. This month the song is So Much and the first version to be heard is the Dark-Side Mix, by Tchad Blake.
Written and produced by Peter Gabriel, So Much is 'a simple song', that features a string arrangement from John Metcalfe and contributions from Tony Levin on bass, David Rhodes on guitar and backing vocals from Peter's daughter Melanie Gabriel. The song was recorded at Real World Studios, Bath, The Beehive and British Grove, London. (continue)
The 50th anniversary of Queen's debut album is being celebrated by the syndicated radio show In The Studio With Redbeard: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands.
Redbeard had this to say, "We are celebrating an historic milestone in rock history: the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the first Queen album! To mark the occasion, Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen join me here In the Studio to recall the early recordings and London club days with the embryonic quartet, on its way to rewriting the rock record books. (read more)
Spirit of Unicorn Music have shared a trailer to announce the release of Keith Emerson Variations, a 20 CD box set covering the entire career of one of the greatest musicians of all time, which will launch on October 13th, 2023.
"Keith Emerson invented progressive rock. I know because I was there at the time." Lee Jackson (The Nice, Jackson Heights, Refugee), Emerson's long-time friend and one-time bandmate in The Nice, once told Prog Magazine. Keith Emerson (Emerson Lake & Palmer, The Nice, 3) is revered as a genius by both fans and fellow musicians alike. (continue)
This July 7, 2023 Ringo Starr and his wife Barbara Starkey will be joined on his birthday by family and friends, including Joe and Marjorie Walsh, All Starrs (past and present) Edgar Winter and Gregg Bissonette, Sheila E, Richard Marx, Jim Keltner as well as friends Benmont Tench, Mike Campbell, Ed Begley Jr, Diane Warren, Roy Orbison Jr and more.
They will gather together in Los Angeles for Ringo's annual Peace & Love Birthday event, and at Noon give the traditional "Peace and Love" exclamation. NASA continues to support spreading the message to the universe and will send a pre-recorded message from Ringo into the universe at Noon PST from Barstow California based station in the Deep Space Network. (continue)
Los Angeles alt-rockers Charming Liars just released a new single called "Black Cage". To celebrate, we asked Karnig Manoukian to tell us about the track (which he also produced). Here is the story:
There's no procedure or manual or strategy to starting a song.... at least when it comes to us writing, recording and releasing one of our songs. With advances in technology and software, we have so many incredible sounds, textures, noises and instruments at our fingertips and in a matter of seconds, I can have a really cool random sound playing from my keyboard. The start of this song originates from a cool synth sound I stumbled on for another song we were recording. I knew it had a tension and fear aspect to it and instantly took a screenshot of the settings on my synth plugin i was using. I then put a calendar reminder in my phone to create a new session a couple days away and start a song with that specific sound. That's essentially how the first notes of the song were created. (continue)
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