Panic! At The Disco and blink-182 will headline the fourth edition of When We Were Young at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on October 18, 2025. The massive lineup includes additional performances from Weezer, Avril Lavigne, The Offspring, The Used, All Time Low, Knocked Loose, plus rare performances from Never Shout Never, The Cab, The Rocket Summer, Jack's Mannequin, and many more.
Panic! At The Disco will return home to Las Vegas to celebrate the 20th anniversary of A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by performing the album in its entirety along with more fan-favorite songs. As the saying goes, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, so their When We Were Young appearance will be the only chance to see Panic! back on stage. blink-182 will perform songs from Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, their self-titled album, and more. (continue)
Schiffer Publishing have announced that they will be releasing Martin Popoff's "Hallowed Be Thy Name: The Unofficial Iron Maiden Bible" on April 28, 2025. CWPR sent over the following details: Embark on a thrilling journey through the superlative recorded canon of one of the world's most legendary heavy metal bands.
Music journalist Martin Popoff provides an intimate and scholarly look into the life and times of Iron Maiden. From their humble beginnings in the dingy clubs of East London to headlining arenas and festivals worldwide, the band's story is one of resilience, creativity, and unrelenting dedication to remaining prolific and vital in the present day. (continue)
With less than three months until the release of their sixth studio album The End Will Show Us How, Tremonti is back with another track for fans. "One More Time" is a driving track backed by Mark's dark and brooding lyrics as he sings about the madness in the world brought upon so many differing opinions. Backed by Eric Friedman (guitars), Tanner Keegan (bass) and Ryan Bennett (drums), world-renowned guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Mark Tremonti delivers one of the most-memorable songs in the Tremonti catalog.
"It started with the pre-chorus and chorus idea. When I came up with the opening riff, it really solidified the song. Now, it's one of the heaviest tracks on the record. It's going to be one of those songs that translates well live. Thematically, it's based on all of the madness in the world. There's so much hatred and violence going on as well as so many polarizing ideologies. That led me to those lyrics," explains Mark Tremonti. (continue)
2025 is shaping up to be a great year for The Plot In You fans! The quartet has today announced their stacked Spring 2025 North American headlining tour coming to a city near you with Holding Absence, Boundaries and Acres as support.
VIP, advance tickets and Spotify pre-sales are on now, with promoter pre-sales beginning today at 2 pm ET. Knotfest.com pre-sales begin tomorrow, Wednesday, October 30 at 2 pm ET. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, November 1 at 10 am local time. (continue)
Venamoris unveil "Spiderweb", a haunting track and accompanying video conjured just in time for spooky season, giving fans a mesmerizing second glimpse into the spellbinding world created by husband-and-wife duo Paula and Dave Lombardo on their forthcoming album.
"'Spiderweb" is a cinematic song that serves up the cathartic fantasy of pulling a thread from the sticky, cruel web of a narcissist and using it to choke the sound of their lunacy," Paula Lombardo shares. (continue)
Wicked is ready to raise some hell this Halloween with their latest single, "Hellraiser"! Digging into their sleazy, hard rock roots; the single feeds off a dark hard hitting arena vibe laced with punk rock intensity.
Twin harmony guitars will put you in a trance for haunting and Chad Michael will command head banging till the bitter end. And catch WICKED emerging from the depths of darkness in the "Hellraiser" music video as they summon red hot rock n roll mischief! (continue)
US doom metal titans Pentagram announce the release of "Lightning in a Bottle", their first studio album in a decade to be issued on January 31st through Heavy Psych Sounds Records.
Between records like Relentless and Show 'Em How, Pentagram have never wanted for self-awareness in terms of album titles. The gauntlet thrown down by Lightning in a Bottle is very much in this tradition. The 10th Pentagram album sees founding frontman and doom figurehead Bobby Liebling leading a new cast of players that includes guitarist/producer Tony Reed (Mos Generator, Big Scenic Nowhere, etc.), drummer Henry Vasquez (Legions of Doom, Saint Vitus, Blood of the Sun, etc.) and bassist Scooter Haslip (Mos Generator, Saltine). It would be hard to overstate the energy the new band brings to songs like "Live Again," "Solve the Puzzle" or "In the Panic Room," but Lightning in a Bottle is unmistakably a Pentagram record, of course in Liebling's unremittingly charismatic performance and the groove conjured to back it. (continue)
CARSEX have released their ferocious new track "Sitting Ducks". It's the follow-up to the Long Beach, CA based band's successful single & video "Crooked Canvas". Both were produced by Steve Evetts (Sepultura, Alesana, Poison the Well, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Butcher Babies). The track is a deep dive into current human-interest stories, and the shape of the human condition in 2024.
"Sitting Ducks" is a frenetic, all-out barrage of sound with distorted guitars & a menacing rhythm line that explodes into a supersonic metal/punk mashup. It's a mix of Henry Rollins/Black Flag, with a bit of Danzig mixed in for good measure. It's an unrelenting anthem of angst. (continue)
Grammy Award-winning and longtime music industry executive, personal manager, and author Vicky Hamilton-who garnered acclaim for her Appetite For Dysfunction memoir (recently optioned by Electric Panda which is working with a prominent writer to develop the book for television)-has set her sights on a new medium with her forthcoming book VEILED ALLUSIONS. It's a collection of poetry set for release via Ingram Spark on November 21, 2024. The 50-plus poems in VICKY's second book represent "me at 15 through me at 66," she says.
"Poetry was my first love," VICKY adds. "I started writing poetry in junior high school and continue to write poems today. I tried to pick the best poetry I had written over my lifetime for this book and included a few of my early poems to show my growth." (continue)
"I specifically covered songs by men because I wanted to take a bigger risk creatively," says Carre Kwong Callaway-aka Queen Kwong about her new EP STRANGERS which is released today, October 29, 2024 via Sonic Ritual. "I'm always down to take risks and stick my neck out."
The four-song EP contains unconventional and thoroughly enjoyable reimaginings of classic songs from The Rolling Stones ("Sympathy for the Devil"), Bruce Springsteen ("State Trooper"), Chris Isaak ("Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing") and The Velvet Underground ("I Found A Reason"). Shining a feminine light on songs by CIS-male identified bands and artists, Carré turns each song on its head and returns equity to the normally male-dominated music world. "This EP serves as both a personal reconciliation and a way to honor the complicated legacy of rock n roll, even as I continue to push for a future where women have equal footing in the genre. (continue)
Killswitch Engage are returning to the road this winter and spring. The tour features support from Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King and Frozen Soul, and kicks off on March 5 in Nashville and runs through April 12 in Portland, Maine.
Fresh off a 25th anniversary performance headlining the vaunted New England Metal & Hardcore Fest last month, the band will embark on a headline run in March. It's their first tour of North America since late 2022, as the band has been busy working on new material. (continue)
Tool, who recently announced their first-ever South American dates as well as the band's debut Caribbean outing with "Tool Live in the Sand," have added two additional Mexican performances to the 2025 trek: March 12 at Explanada del Estadio Mobil Super in Monterrey and March 18 at Calle 2 in Guadalajara.
Tickets for the newly added Mexican shows are on-sale Monday, Nov. 4, at 12 noon cst with an exclusive, 24-hour pre-sale for Tool Army members starting Thursday, Oct. 31, at 12 noon cst. More information about TOOL Army memberships can be found at Toolband.com/join. VIP packages for the March 15 Mexico City show are available via Toolband.com/VIP. The Cult and Seven Hours After Violet open on both dates. (continue)
Iron Maiden founder Steve Harris' British Lion have announced new tour dates in November and December with their first ever shows in Mexico and Colombia as well as returning to Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Tony Moore's Awake will be the special guest on all dates.
"We're really excited to be able to play our first ever shows in Mexico and Colombia, as well as returning to Chile, Argentina and Brazil" says Steve Harris of the historic shows. (continue)
The Night Flight Orchestra's new album and Napalm Records debut Give Us The Moon is set for release on January 31, 2025, and today the band offers a first taste of what's to come with "Shooting Velvet"! The beautifully nostalgic new single arrives with an official music video. Founded in 2007, The Night Flight Orchestra already have six albums and three Swedish Grammis nominations as well as millions of streams and countless exciting live shows under their belts.
The multifaceted new offering continues The Night Flight Orchestra's mission of protecting true AOR and will impress fans and critics alike with its spellbinding storylines, brilliant musicianship and unique sound. To celebrate the album release, THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA will head on a full European tour at the end of January. (continue)
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Punk icons the Dead Boys recorded live in San Francisco, 1977, gets its first ever official release. Another Dead Boys classic, "What Love Is," is out as the band's latest single. From New York out of Cleveland, the Dead Boys were the most incendiary of Manhattan's first wave punk bands.
Louder than the Ramones, faster than Patti Smith, more feral than Television, and fronted by Stiv Bators, an unholy cross between Iggy Pop, David Johansen and all the Sex Pistols put together, the Dead Boys were also responsible for one of the all-defining anthems of the CBGBs era, "Sonic Reducer." Not to mention two full albums that remain untouchable in terms of punk's finest. (continue)
Fresh off a summer of sold-out shows across Europe and North America, acclaimed Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. have unveiled plans to return State-side in 2025.
The tour, in support of their lauded fourth album, Romance, kicks off in Seattle and makes stops in Houston, Atlanta, Nashville, Washington D.C., and more before concluding at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. (continue)
Hot Water Music and Quicksand are excited to announce the release of their brand new, four-song split EP . Featuring classics covered by each band from Quickand's Slip and Hot Water Music's No Division, the new EP also features the unreleased tracks "Supercollider," Quicksand's first new song since 2021's Distant Populations, and "Undertow," a new Hot Water Music song lifted from its Brian McTernan-produced Vows sessions.
"Like many who grew up listening to hardcore and punk rock from early ages on, we were inspired and driven by a lot of work from all the members that make up Quicksand, and of course by Quicksand themselves," Hot Water Music vocalist/guitarist Chuck Ragan said. "Fast forward to 1999 when we had the honor of working with Walter Schreifels as he produced our record 'No Division'. That experience went from surreal and intimidating to completely comforting and empowering. Our respect and admiration grew tenfold until we got the chance to tour with them. We already admired and respected them, now we love them like family." (continue)
Jeff Lynn's ELO have announced that they have added two additional dates to their The Over And Out Farewell Tour of the UK that will be taking place next July leading up to their very last concert.
The new dates are set for July 5th in Birmingham at the Utilita Arena and July 9th at the Co-Op Live in Manchester. They shared via social media, "We've added TWO MORE SHOWS to the Over & Out Tour UK. Starting where it all began... Let's make this one unforgettable." (continue)
(hennemusic) To celebrate the arrival of the "Queen I" box set, the band has released a re-edited and restored video for its debut single, 1973's "Keep Yourself Alive." "Now complete with the stunning new 2024 mix of the song, this video has been created by returning to the original rushes and producing an entirely new edit," says the group. "The footage has then been painstakingly restored so it can be shared with fans in all its glory!"
Written by guitarist Brian May, "Keep Yourself Alive" was originally issued just a week before the band's full debut album was released in its native UK, and surface in North America three months later. (continue)
Billy Morrison and Slipknot/Stone Sour's Corey Taylor recently released their new single and animated video "Incite The Watch" featuring Steve Vai, and to celebrate we asked Billy to tell us about the track. The song appears on Billy's recent release "The Mirrison Project" that features an all-star lineup of contributors including Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Stevens, Tommy Clufetos, Jourgensen, John5, D.M.C., Billy, Idol, Linda Perry and more. Here Billy with the story behind "Incite The Watch" :
This track began life as two completely separate pieces of music. I already had what I call "The Wildhearts" section (if you don't know who The Wildhearts are, I suggest a quick Google...... one of my biggest inspirations!) and this section was always going to be a solo of some kind. It was written one afternoon with Erik (Eldenius - drummer of Billy Idol) and Jeordie White, with all three of us being deliberately obtuse with our chord choices!! (continue)
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