Dayseeker have released a video for the acoustic version of their track "Neon Grave". The song comes from their forthcoming album "Replica", which will be released April 19th and physically on June 14th and will feature stripped down versions of tracks from their catalog.
Vocalist Rory Rodriguez had this to say about the song, "'Neon Grave' is about my father's battle and passing from cancer. Getting to reimagine this one in a slower setting has a completely different emotion to it now." (continue)
Southtowne Lanes have released a music video for their brand new single "Go Cold", which is their first new music single 2016 and comes from their forthcoming album, "Take Care" that will be hitting stores on May 10th.
The new album was largely inspired by the unexpected passing of vocalist amd guitarist Matt Kupka's father. He explained, "The album, song by song, dissects the stages of grief: how they relate, how they changed me, how I dealt with them, and how they led me down to the depths of my own mortality, where it seemed there could be no light. (continue)
Grunge rockers The Suicide Disease have announced that they will be releasing a brand new single entitled "Descent" on April 12th via Zodhiac Records.
Lead vocalist Jay Francis shared this about the upcoming track, "Descent is the dark path we take when we are constantly thinking about the macabre. Wanting someone back from the dead and not moving forward with your life because of it. (continue)
King Crimson's Jakko M. Jakszyk and Mel Collins have shared a brand new studio recording of the band's classic track "I Talk To The Wind". The track comes from the forthcoming 'Reimagining In The Court Of The Crimson King ' that will be released on April 19th.
Glass Onyon sent over these details: The music world has been buzzing ever since it was announced that an extraordinary collection of musicians would be recreating in its entirety King Crimson's 1969 prog rock classic In The Court Of The Crimson King, including such luminaries as Todd Rundgren, Megadeth's Chris Poland, Deep Purple's Ian Paice, Rainbow's Joe Lynn Turner, Dream Theater's James LaBrie, Cactus's Carmine Appice and others! (continue)
Lords Of Acid have announced that they will be hitting the road for a new North American Tour dubbed the Make Acid Great Again Tour that will feature their brand new vocalist Gigi Ricci.
The band had this to say, "The upcoming Lords of Acid 'Make Acid Great Again' tour, starting on April 26 in the US and including several dates in Canada, marks our long-awaited return to the stage after the cancellation of our previous tour due to the global pandemic. (continue)
Hall & Oates icon John Oates has shared his brand new song "Reunion", which is the title track to his forthcoming new solo album that will be hitting stores on May 17th.
Oates had this to say about the track,, "The idea for writing a song about a 'Reunion' came to me when I began to think about the true definition of the word. It came together when my 100-year-old father told me that he was making ready to be together with my mother, who had passed away some time ago. (continue)
Transatlantic, the Prog Supergroup of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Roine Stolt & Pete Trewavas, have shared a live video for 'Lay Down Your Life', as a preview to their forthcoming release "Live at Morsefest 2022: The Absolute Whirlwind".
This mammoth Limited 5CD + 2 Blu-ray Artbook set will be released on April 26th and features both sets from Morsefest in their entirety, with nearly 4 and a half hours of music in total. (continue)
"You never know what's going to happen when you hand over creative control to someone you've never met, but I'm a big fan of surprises--both good and bad," says Jack Grisham, vocalist for legendary SoCal punks T.S.O.L. about the new video for "Sweet Transvestite" from their ninth studio album A-Side Graffiti (released February 27, 2024 via Kitten Robot Records).
"Gavin [Holmes, director] came through with a good one!" Resembling a mashup of Tim Burton's unique stop-action animated films (The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie) and the visual flair of Jim Sharman's cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show (from whence this cover song was culled), the video for "Sweet Transvestite" is a hyper-realistic visualization of the song's campy source material. (continue)
Better Lovers have released a new single called "The Flowering" as they prepare to hit the road for numerous North American, and European tour dates and festival performances.
"'The Flowering" is a song we've been playing live since day one," Greg Puciato explains. "It came from the same batch as the God Made Me An Animal EP, so it's nice to finally have it recorded and out there. (continue)
Forum Auctions is to offer an original watercolour by British artist Gerald Scarfe (b. 1936), the artist commissioned to create the artwork for the legendary rock band Pink Floyd's iconic album The Wall, which included the legendary song "We Don't Need No Education". The album would become one of the band's most successful albums when it was released in November 1979.
Devised by the band's bassist Roger Waters (b. 1943), the album was a rock opera centred around the character of Pink, a disillusioned rock star who builds a psychological 'wall' of social isolation to protect himself. Waters based the character of Pink on himself and former Pink Floyd member, guitarist and song-writer Syd Barrett (1946-2006). The album was a huge commercial success, topping the US charts for 15 weeks and reaching number three in the UK. It would later be dubbed one of the greatest albums of all time. (continue)
Glass Animals announce their 2024 global headline tour-Human Music Group Sensations Glass Animals: TOUR OF EARTH. The news follows the announcement of their highly anticipated, fourth studio album I Love You So F***Ing Much, out July 19th, and release of the first single from the record "Creatures in Heaven".
Promoted by Live Nation, the 41-date tour sees Glass Animals headlining the biggest venues of their career thus far and kicks off on Wednesday, August 7th in Charlotte, NC at PNC Music Pavilion, with stops across North America, Europe, and the UK in Toronto, New York, Nashville, Chicago, Vancouver, Inglewood, Paris, Milan, Amsterdam, Glasgow, and more before wrapping up with an epic hometown performance in London, UK at The O2. The band will be joined by special guests Kevin Abstract, Eyedress, and Blondshell on select dates throughout the North America leg. The Big Moon will join on all dates across Europe and the UK. The tour will see Glass Animals playing many iconic venues around the world for the first time, including Madison Square Garden in New York, Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, The Gorge Amphitheatre in Seattle, Kia Forum in Inglewood, 3Arena in Dublin, The O2 in London, and many more. (continue)
Enterprise Earth have released the official music video for their song "I, Divine" which was directed by Nick Chance. The track comes from their latest album 'Death: An Anthology'.
Gabe Mangold said of the song and video, "'I, Divine' was one of the tracks written during our Tahoe Cabin writing session that quite literally started out as an inebriated mock of a Juicy J style trap beat, which is the piano melody you hear in the intro. (continue)
Guster have released their new song, "Maybe We're Alright." The track comes from the band's forthcoming album "Ooh La La", which will arrive on May 17th.
"Maybe We're Alright" is the closing track of the album, which was produced by Josh Kaufman (The National, The Hold Steady) and was recorded at Woodstock, NY's Isokon Studio. (continue)
Dokken's One Live Night will be released for the first time on 180g vinyl through Deko Entertainment in June. The album features the original lineup in a special semi-acoustic performance and will be limited to only 250 copies of each variation.
Glass Onyon shared these details: Dokken, formed in Los Angeles in 1978, had several hit singles which charted on the Billboard Hot 100, such as "Alone Again", "In My Dreams", and "Burning Like a Flame", and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. The classic Dokken line-up consisted of founder Don Dokken on vocals, George Lynch on lead guitar, Mick Brown on drums and Jeff Pilson on bass. (continue)
Jeff Kollman is best known for his heavy, melodic electric guitar playing, fusing elements of Jazz harmony and creating his own brand of Rock with his long running prog fusion trio, Cosmosquad, and as a member of Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats. You can also catch him live with famed producer Alan Parsons (Pink Floyd, Beatles) with The Alan Parsons Live Project and in the studio or on stage with the likes of Japanese legend Eikichi Yazawa, Asia F.J.P., Steel Pulse, Chris Isaak, Jason Mraz, Lou Gramm (Foreigner), and producing rock legends Phil Mogg (UFO), Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple), and Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow).
Now Jeff is set to release his latest album 2023 A.D. on May 17th which features a guest appearance by Red Hot Chili Peppers and fellow Bombastic Meatbats drummer Chad Smith on the first single "Tongs & Thongs". As Kollman explains, "Well I wrote this song originally for our group Bombastic Meatbats. I decided to record it and feature the band including Chad Smith on drums for this recording. Chad has some great solo highlights on this tune. I told Chad to fill the holes." (continue)
The End Machine, the supergroup featuring Dokken alumni George Lynch, Steve Brown, and Jeff Pilson, along with new vocalist Girish Pradhan, have released a video for their new single "Hell or Highwater".
The track is the third single from their latest album 'The Quantum Phase'. Pradhan had this to say about the song, "I still remember how excited I got when I first heard this riff. I imagined that this could be our way of paying homage to the legendary Deep Purple, musically. (continue)
Kittie have released a music video for their new single of "We Are Shadows", which is the second comeback song from the band that recently ended their 13-year hiatus.
Frontwoman and guitarist Morgan Lander said of the track, "We Are Shadows is about the uncertainty of a future that we can no longer control. We have come to a critical place in life and in our world, and much like an eclipse overtaking the sun, we are losing the light. (continue)
Boston Manor have shared a music video for their new single 'Sliding Doors', their second new song of 2024, which arrives as the band launch UK headline tour dates this week.
Frontman Henry Cox had this to say about the track, "Sliding Doors is named after that movie of the same name. I called it that because when we were writing it I started thinking about all of the decisions that I've made that have led me to the life I have and how circumstantial a lot of it is. It got me thinking about how Boston Manor started. I'd had a few conversations with Dan [Cunniff, bass] and Mike [Cunniff, lead guitar] (who I barely knew at the time) about starting a band. But at that time I was in art school in a different city and I had a bunch of other stuff going on. I was also starting like two other bands with different people so I figured it was just something that you talk about. (continue)
Four Year Strong have revealed a music video for their latest single, "daddy of mine" as they prepare to hits the road with A Day To Remember and The Story So Far on The Least Anticipated Album Tour.
Vocalist and guitarist Dan O'Connor had this to say about the song, "Daddy of Mine is about writers block. We had it really bad when we started writing again, and we decided to combat it by writing something heavier and faster than we ever have. Overthinking was hurting us, so we just got out of our own way and stopped dwelling on our own expectations of ourselves." (continue)
Powerwolf - a band that fills the hearts of every heavy metal fan with joy - will release their highly-anticipated new studio album, Wake Up The Wicked, on July 26, 2024 via Napalm Records!
With several #1 chart entries and multiple gold and platinum records, Powerwolf is undoubtedly one of the most successful current heavy metal bands worldwide. Headline and premium slots at premier rock and metal festivals like Wacken, Hellfest or Graspop, as well as massive sold-out arena shows have further solidified the Wolfpack's standing at the very top of the scene. (continue)
Pophouse, the pioneering global entertainment and music investment firm, announces the acquisition of the music catalogue, brand name and likeness - including the world- famous face paint designs - as well as trademarks of the iconic American rock band KISS. This groundbreaking partnership will enable Pophouse to further develop and amplify the unique KISS legacy worldwide: preserving their iconic music, enigmatic personas, and expressive imagery for generations to come. Plans for a biopic, an avatar show, and a KISS themed experience are already in the works. KISS will remain active and play key roles in the development of the projects, working closely together with Pophouse.
Pophouse has today concluded a landmark agreement with the iconic band KISS. Pophouse is the Swedish entertainment and music investment firm renowned for its development of brand-building activities in music and entertainment, such as the groundbreaking ABBA Voyage show in London, in which Pophouse is the founding investor. Pophouse has acquired KISS' artist share of the master recordings and publishing rights.* Financial terms of the transaction are not being disclosed. (continue)
On April 20, 2024, Mercury Studios will exclusively release, on Record Store Day, a 3LP package, pressed on "Towelie-Blue" vinyl, of the South Park 25th Anniversary Concert.
Recorded over two nights on August 9 and 10, 2022 at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, this concert features performances from South Park creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone, along with Primus and Ween. (continue)
Pink Floyd announce the winners of 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' animation competition, championed by YouTube. To tie in with the 50th Anniversary of 'The Dark Side Of The Moon', Pink Floyd invited a new generation of animators to enter a competition to create music videos for any of the 10 songs on the iconic 1973 album. Pink Floyd has a rich history of collaborating with animators from the beginnings of the band (Ian Emes, Gerald Scarfe, etc.), and in some cases the visuals that accompany the songs have become synonymous with the music itself. The 50th Anniversary was no exception. The band gave all animators an opportunity to present a fresh take on these timeless aural works. Animators could enter up to 10 videos, one per song on the album.
The competition was conceived by Pink Floyd's long-time Creative Consultant Aubrey 'Po' Powell. He was overwhelmed by the standard and quantity of entries from all over the globe: "Given that it was the 50th anniversary of the album, and with the band's history of working with animation both in videos and on stage, we felt this needed to be acknowledged. It was a huge success with over 900 films being entered and the process of elimination for the judges was very complex. They eventually came up with the final 10 and I can only say they were brilliant choices and representative of the diverse styles of entries that all gave deep respect to the legacy of the band." (continue)
Evidently Kenny Chesney isn't the only one who's excited about getting the Sun Goes Down 2024Tour on the road. With two-and-a-half weeks until kick-off, No Shoes Nation has rallied to already drive three cities into the sold-out zone. After adding an unprecedented third show at Foxborough, Mass.'s Gillette Stadium, the almost-annual end of summer/end of tour closer two-night outside Boston expanded to three nights - and then sold out, along with the always fever pitch Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field show and tour kick-off at Tampa's Raymond James Stadium.
"I know how hungry I am, and the band is, to get out there and hear No Shoes Nation in full, no holds barred voice," Chesney says. "And that starts not long after they open the parking lots up, and the sounds of all that tailgating starts wafting into our bus compounds. Sometimes I think they love these shows as much as we do. But knowing how much we love playing these songs to No Shoes Nation, it's hard to imagine how that's possible." (continue)
Toronto-based rock trio The Vaniers [van-ee-ays] recently released their new single "Charlie", from their forthcoming sophomore album, and to celebrate we asked Diego Paz (bass/vocals) to tell us about the song. Here is the story:
The inspiration behind the song: The attitude of Charlie comes from some of our underlying influences within the 90's California desert rock scene and early British punk-rock, and attempting to channel that same energy and punchiness into a hard-hitting rock tune. We really wanted the lyrics to tell a story in this one, and although Charlie is a fictional character, the sentiment is still very real to so many of us. At heart, it's about going all in on something you believe in, and getting away from any noise that might stand in the way of that - there's a little Charlie in all of us. (continue)
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