Motley Crue have announced their first live concert performance of the year. The band is set to kick off the 2024 North Dakota State Fair on Friday, July 19th.
Last Tuesday, group teased an announcement for later this week. The took to their social media accounts with a teaser image that declared "Soon... 1/17/2024." (continue)
Jason Vento (aka Crazy Jay Skin) of the New York hardcore band Warzone has been hospitalized for injuries that he suffered in a house fire in his Queens, NY home.
Vento suffered severe burns, smoke inhalation, and carbon monoxide poisoning while rescuing family members from the blaze and was hospitalized for his injuries. (continue)
Creed frontman Scott Stapp revealed during an appearance on SiriusXM's Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk last week that he has hope that the reunited band will write some new music together.
He said, "Well, yeah, Mark [Tremonti] and I were together a couple days ago doing some secret, secret thing I can't share, but we were hanging out for a couple days. And as we were hanging out, we just began talking about how we wrote 'Human Clay' . And we wrote 'Human Clay' while on the road touring 'My Own Prison'. And we wrote it during soundchecks - 80, 90 percent of that record was written on stage during soundcheck. And you know what we'd do? We'd write a song and we'd get it tight and play it within three or four days of writing it because we didn't have enough material with just that one record to be a headliner, but we were headlining shows. (continue)
The Black Crowes' Chris Robinson was a guest on Audacy Check In with Jason Bailey last week to talk about the band's forthcoming album, "Happiness Bastards", which will arrive on March 15th.
Audacy sent over the following excerpts from the chat: What he tells young artists he works with: "I'm lucky to work with a lot of young [artists] - but that's what I was telling 'em. Like, you never know. Like a few years ago, I never would've thought that Rich and I would've been, you know, back in this band and, you know, making this music and being on a, you know, just having the world of the Black Crowes look and sound and feel the way it does today, you know?" (continue)
Asking Alexandria are kickstarting the new year with a new EP highlighting the debut single, "Dark Void," from their 2023 critically acclaimed album WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? via Better Noise Music. Available now, across digital platforms, the DARK VOID EP features five tracks including the original version of "Dark Void" along with a new radio edit, a stripped-down piano version, and a Sullivan King-remixed version. The emotive and empowering single relates to those battling with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and loneliness, while acknowledging the strength it takes to confront one's inner demons and fight off negative thoughts. (continue)
As a new year comes into focus, Kenny Chesney returns to the thing he loves most: music. With his unparalleled passion for songs, players, the road, the songwriter/superstar from East Tennessee has announced 23 stadium shows for 2024 and is now leaning into what will be his first collection of music since 2020.
"I'm ready," he enthuses from Nashville, where he's recorded across various studios. "Because of the amount of time we've had to work... and not just work, but really just hang out, write, experiment and play with different kinds of music... I got to go places, do some things we wouldn't normally try because we have such a clear vision of what we're trying to do." (continue)
Cattle Decapitation will co-headline this year's edition of the Chaos & Carnage Tour alongside Carnifex. The journey runs from April 30th through May 26th with additional support provided by the band's Metal Blade labelmates, Rivers Of Nihil and The Zenith Passage, as well as Humanity's Last Breath, Vitriol, and Face Yourself.
Comments Cattle Decapitation's Travis Ryan, "Excited to be back out on the road in the good ol' US of A, this time co-headlining the Chaos & Carnage Tour with our hometown homies Carnifex along with a slew of great bands making this one hell of a stacked lineup!" (continue)
Jason Newsted had the top story on this Day in Rock in 2014 when he shared for the first time the story about why he left Metallica, during an interview with ScuzzTV .
"I've never told this story, I'm not sure if I should tell it now, actually," Newsted begins. "There was a lot leading up to it through time � The very upside-down thing that I don't think anybody knows; the management of Metallica was very, very excited about Echobrain [one of Newsted's side projects], wanted to take it out for me, wanted me to do Echobrain also, with Metallica. They felt Echobrain was that good, the singer was that good, and it didn't affect Metallica because it was a totally different kind of thing, and I was in Metallica; that would give it it's pedigree already." (continue)
Opening with a perfectly replicated doo-wop vocal stack, Umphrey's McGee's latest release, a ripping cover of David Bowie's "Let's Dance," finds the Chicago-based veterans of the improv-rock scene sticking closely to the original wax from Bowie's 1983 album of the same name. But this new version has a ringer that could've never been dreamed up those 41 years ago: the incomparable Huey Lewis on lead vocals. Little did the band and Lewis know that it would be his last recording session before Meniere's disease and hearing loss forced him to stop singing after a lengthy, iconic career.
"It was a real thrill to sing this with the Umphrey's guys," says Lewis. "I have been a fan from the first time I heard them, and was keen to join them for this tune." Longtime fans of the band will know Lewis and Umphrey's have an exciting history of their own with Lewis first joining the band on their 2006 album, Safety In Numbers-check them out promoting the album with "Women, Wine, and Song" on Jimmy Kimmel almost two decades ago. (continue)
Being As An Ocean have released new single, "The Fullness of My Being", which is the fourth single to be released off the band's forthcoming album, 'Death Can Wait' (out February 2nd, 2024).
The band shares, "The Fullness Of My Being is a personal reflection on what making music, being a performer, a writer, and an artist has meant to me and the place I, Joel, have allowed it to take in my life; what I have let it mean to me in the past. It was everything. I had let it become what defined me, what drove my decision making, my lifestyle, my whole personality. That sustained me for a time. But what I hadn't realized I was doing was neglecting huge parts of myself and my personal development because I was so hyper focused on that one aspect of my life. Parts of me that I had failed to foster were withering. Placing too much significance on one part of you can be immensely painful, detrimental, and even dangerous, especially when it is taken away from you. (continue)
Max and Igor Cavalera's Go Ahead And Die are kicking off 2024 with their first US tour entitled the 'Unhealthy Mechanisms Tour 2024' on January 19th in Tuscon and will make its way across the U.S. making stops in Dallas, Brooklyn, and Seattle before concluding in Jerome, Arizona on March 24th.
Opening each night will be Florida death metal slam band, Bodybox as well as Second Shooter (Jan. 19-28), Half Heard Voices (Feb. 7-22), Madzilla (Mar. 1-10), and Deep Within (Mar. 11-24). (continue)
Darkest Hour have shared the video for their brand new song "Societal Bile," which was directed by Chad Fjerstad and comes from their forthcoming tenth album Perpetual | Terminal, out February 23 via MNRK Heavy.
"This song is for survivors," says Mike Schleibaum. "While we all have our own special survival story, this song touches on the bile that immerses us as we navigate this modern life. It's also an acknowledgment of the personal responsibility we all share to ourselves to reject all that attempts to consume us and fight each day to find our own space to exist in peace with a world at war. It's dedicated to everyone who's got that survivor's disease and won't ever give up." (continue)
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