Motley Crue took to social media on Monday (September 23) to celebrate the 41st anniversary of their sophomore album, "Shout At The Devil", hitting the top 20 on the U.S. album charts.
The band shared, "#onthisday in 1983 SHOUT AT THE DEVIL catapulted the Crüe to superstardom. Delivering on the promise of the PLATINUM debut, 'Too Fast For Love', SHOUT AT THE DEVIL hit the US Top 20 and was certified 4X PLATINUM. (continue)
Slipknot's return home to Iowa this weekend to stage an edition of their Knotfest festival did not go as planned, with the band forced to play an abbreviated set due to the threat of severe weather in the area.
Organizers first adjusted the set times in hopes of avoiding the bad weather. They advised via social media, "Attention: Due to the threat of incoming severe weather, set times have been adjusted to accommodate all acts for the best possible experience. Dying Wish - 6pm; Till Lindemann - 630pm; Gwar - 7pm; Slipknot - 8pm". (continue)
Traffic legend Dave Manson shared the bad news on Monday (September 23rd) that he has been forced to cancel his Traffic Jam 2024 tour dates after doctors discovered a "a serious heart condition during a routine appointment that requires immediate medical attention.
Mason's official Facebook page also shared these details, "His team of doctors expect a full and successful recovery, and Mason plans to resume his touring plans in 2025." (continue)
I Prevail are having a banner 2024. The band has just dropped the expanded edition of their latest album. TRUE POWER (EXPANDED) comes armed with a new song and three reimagined tracks. Get it here.
The updated version includes the recently released new single "Hate This Song," an arena-sized collab track with alt-pop royalty All Time Low, while album singles "Bad Things, "There's Fear in Letting Go," and "Deep End" are all stripped back. These familiar, fan favorites get quiet yet beautiful reimagined makeovers. "Deep End" is softly lush, while "Bad Things" brings the beats. Elsewhere, "There's Fear In Letting Go" will haunt you with its simple instrumentation. The reworkings retain the power of the originals and still land with incredible impact. (continue)
Snow Patrol announce their first North American tour since 2019. The first date is on March 21, 2025 in Vancouver, after which the band will work down to the Wiltern in Los Angeles on March 25, and venture eastward through April. Fans can register for artist presale access by signing up for the band's mailing list on their website. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 27 at 10am local time.
"We're so excited to get back to tour in North America again! For the first ten years of our career, we didn't get to play in the US or Canada and even though, now, we have been touring there for twenty years we still feel like we're making up for lost time. We grew up listening to so much music from the US and Canada so we feel like it's in our blood. We can't wait to come back again next year and discover more of the continent and have new adventures with a brand-new album" - Gary Lightbody (continue)
Billy Idol, Corey Feldman, Gilby Clarke, Steve-O, Tommy Thayer (KISS), and Kevin Martin (Candlebox) were among the 300 guests who packed Motor Cars LA Showroom in Hollywood, CA on September 19 for the VIP opening of the "A Moment In Time" photography/art exhibition in Hollywood, CA.
Recording artist and contemporary fine artist Billy Morrison and world-renowned photographer Mark "Weissguy" Weiss came together for one weekend only-September 19, 20, and 21-to showcase a series of unique paintings by Morrison, based on the iconic images photographed by Weiss of such artists as Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Petty, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS, and more. The event was presented by X5 Podcast and Motor Cars LA. (continue)
After wrapping their massively successful nationwide co-headlining "Slightly Dirty Summer Tour" with Slightly Stoopid, Dirty Heads are set to bring their signature blend of reggae, rock, and hip-hop to Los Angeles with a headlining show at Kia Forum on Friday, November 22 for the Alt 98.7 Presents Friendsgiving concert.
The event marks the farewell performance of Sublime with Rome as it will be their final LA show and their last concert with Dirty Heads. Both bands have collaborated and toured together frequently over the span of their careers; single "Lay Me Down" featuring ROME reached #1 on Billboard's Alternative chart and is RIAA certified gold. The show will also include performances from LA-based ska-punk group The Interrupters and alternative trio Beach Weather. (continue)
Megadeth have revealed the reason why they were forced to cancel their Richmond, Va concert last week was due to safety concerns with the venue, after Peter Frampton alleged that the trash metal legends damaged the venue.
As we reported last week, Megadeth pulled the plug on their show at the Virginia Credit Union Live on September 15h just hours before they were scheduled to take the stage. They told fans at the time, "Due to unexpected and unpredictable circumstances, our show TONIGHT, Sunday, September 15th, in Richmond, Virginia, has been canceled and will not be rescheduled.... We deeply regret this cancellation and hope to see you at another venue soon." (continue)
Iron Maiden took to social media last week to reassure fans in the UK and Ireland that they would not be using the controversial "dynamic pricing" for tickets to their upcoming 50th anniversary Run For Your Lives Tour.
"Dynamic pricing" caused an uproar in the UK recently when it was used for tickets to the Oasis reunion shows and ticket prices reached thousand of dollars. The shows went on to sell out, but fans expressed outrage online about the prices. (continue)
(hennemusic) Metallica is streaming pro-shot video of a performance of "Master Of Puppets", from an August 30 show in Seattle, WA. The title track from the 1986 project was featured during the first of two shows at the city's Lumen Field as part of a recently-completed run of North American series dates on the group's M72 World Tour.
Metallica's major label debut, "Master Of Puppets" became thrash metal's first platinum album on its way to US sales of more than 6 million copies. The California band will wrap up its two-year tour in support of the band's latest release, "72 Seasons", in Mexico City later this month. (continue)
The 30th anniversary of R.E.M.'s "Monster" album is being celebrated by the syndicated radio show In The Studio With Redbeard: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands.
Redbeard shared this synopsis for the episode: When R.E.M.'s Monster album, already the alterna-band's ninth (!), came out in September 1994, most casual rock fans didn't know that lead singer Michael Stipe was friends with actor River Phoenix and Nirvana singer/songwriter Kurt Cobain, both of whom died while R.E.M. was making Monster. Also it was unknown at the time that R.E.M. had actually broken up and walked out at one point during recording it. All we knew when we heard Monster was that, unlike its predecessors Out of Time and Automatic for the People, Monster rocked, and it felt right. (read more)
Matty Frank just released his new album, "Dooda", and to celebrate we asked him to tell us about the album and the single "Moth". Here is the story: The idea for Dooda was truly conceived when I decided to move to North Carolina from NYC to live with my then partner. While writing music about our long distance relationship before the move, I was thinking about all the logistics keeping us apart: jobs, finances, career opportunity and development, all artificial things that could be argued as trivial in the grand grand grand scheme. This idea melded with thinking about the contrast between New York City and Durham, NC, which I guess is still a small city, but to me at the time, in my big city britches, might as well have been the woods.
I tearfully yet gladly fled NYC and its growing subway violence and stagnant trash air with a couple folky protest songs about how all these artificial things have distanced us from our planet and ourselves, and how we could have easily enjoyed everything without money, jobs, aspartame, cars, sludge, guns, etc etc. One of my favorite artists, Mitski, said that a guilty pleasure of hers is young adult romance because silly little trifles like insurance and mortgages are completely irrelevant to the characters; the relationship is the only thing. A lot of Dooda discusses how we do very much let trivia get in the way of our relationships with each other and our environment. Apples grow on trees, yet somehow we now have Stop & Shop. (continue)
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