Portugal. The Man is back with a new single called "Dummy." In a statement, John Gourley said about the new song, "Worried about the impending nuclear war? 'Dummy' is an ode to The Cure. For all those hopeless doomers out there waxing poetic on the end times while dancing to Boys Don't Cry. All my troubles seem so far away. Thank you for waiting, it feels good to be back!"
The band's new album CHRIS BLACK CHANGED MY LIFE is due out on June 23rd.
Coldplay will release a special worldwide cinema presentation of their Music Of The Spheres World Tour concert, filmed during their sold out, ten night run at Buenos Aires' River Plate stadium at the end of last year.
The film includes a host of footage which wasn't shown during the live broadcast, including an exclusive behind-the-scenes short film featuring new interviews with the band.
The concert film will be shown in thousands of theaters across the globe on April 19th & 23rd.
Van Halen's first live album -- 1993's Live: Right Here, Right Now -- will make its vinyl debut on Record Store Day (April 22nd) as a limited edition four-LP set. The double-platinum collection will be limited to 7,500 copies on 180-gram translucent red vinyl and available exclusively at select independent music retailers for $99.98.
Live: Right Here, Right Now kicks off a series of upcoming vinyl releases spotlighting Van Halen's time with Sammy Hagar, which will be overseen by the band's long-time engineer Donn Landee. Additional information about those releases will be announced in the near future.
According to the announcement, "The vinyl collection has all 24 songs from the original CD release, plus three additional live recordings. This marks the first time that audio for two of the tracks -- 'The Dream Is Over' and 'Eagles Fly' -- will be released, as they were previously available only on the DVD version of Live Right Here, Right Now. The third track, 'Mine All Mine,' was recorded in the summer of 1993 during the second leg of the tour and was previously released as part of a European CD maxi-single for a live version of 'Jump.' All tracks from the original live album were newly remastered from the 5150 studio master tapes by Bernie Grundman, who also cut the lacquers."
The late-Eddie Van Halen admitted that Van Halen-type music was all he and his brother Alex knew how to play: "We have never conformed to any trend, and I think that most bands that last are bands that are true to themselves. Y'know, look at the (Rolling) Stones -- they don't all of a sudden start doing rap. The great bands, they stick to what they like, and what moves them. And Van Halen is the type of band -- I'm not putting ourselves in any category, saying we're great -- but we are true to ourselves. We don't change, just because that's the flavor of the month."
Foo Fighters are slowly expanding their upcoming 2023 tour, with five new North American stops now on the books. Between May and September, the Foos have just announced shows in Gilford, New Hampshire; Rogers, Arkansas; Pelham, Alabama; Ottawa, Ontario; and Aspen, Colorado. Ticket info is available at FooFighters.com
The Foos have yet to announce who'll sit behind the drumkit following the death of Taylor Hawkins.
Although Dave Grohl is equally at home gigging in a club or an 80,000-seat sports stadium, he told us a while back why he has a soft spot for massive outdoor festivals: "These kind of shows are so much fun, when you open up with a song like 'All My Life' and they hear the (makes guitar sound), the place just kind of goes off. And it's the best feeling in the world to stand there on stage and watch it happen."
UPDATED: Foo Fighters North American tour dates (subject to change):
May 24 - Gilford, NH - Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion
May 26 - Boston, MA - Boston Calling Music Festival
May 28 - Columbus, OH - Sonic Temple Arts & Music Festival
June 14 - Rogers, AR - Walmart AMP
June 16 - Pelham, AL - Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
June 18 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
July 12 - Ottawa, ON - Ottawa Bluesfest
July 15 - Milwaukee, WI - Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival
September 3 - Aspen, CO - Jazz Aspen Snowmass
September 17 - Asbury Park, NJ - Sea.Hear.Now Festival
Ozzy Osbourne is open to touring again. During a recent episode of his Ozzy's Boneyard radio show, he addressed reports that his touring career was over due to his health issues. Ozzy canceled several 2022 tour dates due to his health
Osbourne said, "So, if I can ever get back to where I can tour again, fine. But right now, if you said to me, ‘Can you go on the road in a month?' I couldn't say yes. I mean, if I could tour I'd tour. But right now I can't book tours because right now, I don't think I could pull them off."
Ozzy added that the media exaggerated the original story, saying, "This f*cking press drive you nuts. I mean, I looked in the magazine, ‘Ozzy's on his last legs.' I'm f*cking not dying."
Metallica has taken to social media to tease their new song, "If Darkness Had A Son." The track, which will officially be released today (March 1st), was debuted as a TikTok video with the band all performing remotely and playing a portion of the tune.
"If Darkness Had A Son" will be featured on the band's upcoming album, 72 Seasons, which drops on April 14th.
Guitarist James Hetfield spoke about Metallica taking full charge of their music and career: "Y'know, you want it just right and we kind of got the money now to make sure it's right. And in the long run, but it doesn't really matter -- if you're happy with the work. And in writing the material: I mean we take huge pride in writing that. We can't just churn out, y'know, 30 songs and pick out the 12 best (laughs) or whatever."
Travis Barker is having surgery on his hand Tuesday (March 1st).
The Blink-182 drummer shared a clip to his Instagram stories showing him as he preps for the procedure. He can be heard saying that the examination of his wounded finger is "painful" in the video."
Barker announced early in February that he tore a ligament in his finger while rehearsing for the band's upcoming tour.
Fall Out Boy have landed their first career no. 1 single at Alternative Radio with "Love From The Other Side." The song also marks the band's 7th Billboard Alternative Airplay Top 10.
The song, which was released in January, has amassed 25 million global streams to date.
Fall Out Boy's new album So Much (For) Stardust is due out on March 24th, 2023.
Weezer have announced that they are going on tour this summer for the Indie Rock Roadtrip. The tour will feature alternating support from Tour poster Modest Mouse and Momma, Future Islands and Joyce Manor, Spoon and White Reaper.
Weezer will kick off the 30 city tour in Huntsville, AL on June 4th and will wrap on September 3rd in San Diego, CA.
Check out the tour dates below:
With Modest Mouse and Momma:
06/04 Hunstville, AL - The Orion Amphitheater
06/06 Irving, TX - The Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory
06/08 Austin, TX - Germania Insurance Amphitheater
06/10 Oklahoma City, OK - Zoo Amphitheatre
06/11 Bonner Springs, KS - Azura Amphitheater
06/13 Minneapolis, MN - The Armory
06/14 Madison, WI - Breese Stevens Field
06/16 Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
06/18 Clarkston, MI - Pine Knob Music Theatre
With Future Islands and Joyce Manor:
06/23 Columbia MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
06/24 Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion
06/25 Alpharetta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
06/27 Philadelphia, PA - TD Pavilion at The Mann
06/28 Bridgeport, CT - Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
06/30 Bangor, ME - Maine Savings Amphitheater
07/01 Worcester, MA - The Palladium Outdoors
07/03 Canandaigua, NY - Costellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
07/04 Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage
07/09 Gary, IN - Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana (no Future Islands)
07/11 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
07/13 Queens, NY - Forest Hills Stadium
With Spoon and White Reaper:
08/20 Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre
08/22 Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
08/24 Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre
08/27 Magna, UT - The Great Saltair
08/28 Denver, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
08/30 Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Federal Theatre
09/01 Las Vegas, NV - Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood
09/02 Irvine, CA - FivePoint Amphitheater
09/03 San Diego, CA - Gallagher Square at Petco Park
Pearl Jam is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the band's classic fifth studio collection, Yield, with a series of release events. The band has just dropped a new spatial audio mix of the 1998 Top Two hit.
According to the press release. "The spatial audio release of Yield was produced and mixed by Josh Evans and Nick Rives, who previously collaborated on all of Pearl Jam's previous spatial audio releases. Evans -- who began working with the band as an assistant engineer and tech during the making of the eponymous Pearl Jam (aka the "Avocado" album) in 2006 -- produced 2020's Gigaton, the first new Pearl Jam studio album in seven years."
As part of the commemoration, Pearl Jam has posted high definition versions of their videos "Given To Fly" and "Do The Evolution," two rehearsal clips from the Single Video Theory documentary, directed by Mark Pellington, which chronicled the making of Yield.
Shot on 16mm film in downtown Seattle in November 1997 over the course of three days, Single Video Theory, was released on VHS and DVD in 1998. The full-length Single Video Theory film will be available in a "newly up-rezzed high-definition edition."
Also coming on Record Store Day (April 22nd), is "Give Way" -- a long sought-after holy grail of Pearl Jam rarities" -- which will be released for the first time ever on vinyl and the first time officially on CD.
Over 30 years after breaking on the national scene, bassist Jeff Ament said that the doors that early fame opened for Pearl Jam were unimaginable: "There were a lot of benefits that came out of getting as big as we did early on. We were stoked to play in front of a couple of hundred people at the local bar, y'know? And so to go from that to a couple of years later, Rolling Stones are asking us to open for them and Neil Young's asking us to be his band and all that kind of stuff. . . it was a trip."
It was 35 years ago this week -- on leap year, February 29th, 1988 -- that Robert Plant released his fourth solo album, Now And Zen. The album, which was a massive hit for the Led Zeppelin frontman, peaked at Number Six on the Billboard 200, featured a trio of MTV hits -- including "Heaven Knows," "Tall Cool One" -- both of which, featured guitar by Jimmy Page -- and the ballad "Ship Of Fools."
The album showed Plant making peace with his Zeppelin past -- not only with the inclusion of Page on the singles, but with "Tall Cool One" sampling liberally from several Zeppelin classics -- along with Plant singing lines from "When The Levee Breaks." On May 14th, 1988 Plant, after performing a solo set, reunited with Led Zeppelin Atlantic Records' 40th Anniversary Concert at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Robert Plant's 1988 tour behind Now And Zen was his first to feature multiple dips into the Zeppelin catalogue. He recalled at the time that he had already established a career away from the band, which allowed him to periodically sing the old favorites without being defined by them: "What I'm going to do on the road, is I'm going to play Led Zeppelin songs occasionally, when I feel like it. I'm gonna try and avoid being one of those, kind of, cabaret artists that has to rely upon a big back catalogue. I think I've distanced myself enough from Led Zeppelin now to bear to actually play Led Zeppelin songs without feeling too bad about it."
Robert Plant explained that by moving forward and experimenting with his music he was staying truer to Led Zeppelin's ideal than just becoming a nostalgia act: "You have to be creative and imaginative and move on. And I think the great essence of Led Zeppelin is the creativity and imagination that developed with each project. And a project is a project. It's not just going back and visiting the past. It's moving forward. I don't see ups being a stadium act or whatever it is, going 'round and 'round, makin' everybody feel great playin' the hits."
Now And Zen's lead single "Heaven Knows" scored Robert Plant a Number One hit on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
Its followup, "Tall Cool One," went on to hit Number One on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
The album's third single, "Ship Of Fools" topped out at Number Three on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
Billie Eilish has been granted a temporary restraining order against a man who was found standing shirtless outside of her living room window las week.
TMZ reports that a Los Angeles judge ordered Raymond Black to stay at least 100 yards away from the "Bad Guy" singer and her house. He must also avoid the home of her parents, Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell.
Eilish first called police on on Monday (February 20th) night when she saw the half-naked intruder staring at her from outside of her window. According to TMZ, she told the authorities that security footage showed showed Black walking around her property, taking off his clothes and even using her outdoor shower.
Corey Taylor has officially recording the follow up to 2002's CMFT. Taylor started recording the album at The Hideout Recording Studio in Las Vegas in early January.
Taylor's bassist Eliot Lorango wrote via IG, "All done recording the new Corey Taylor record out in Vegas. Really awesome 6 weeks with everyone involved! Can't wait for everyone to hear it."
Five Finger Death Punch has earned their 10th straight mainstream rock airplay number one with their single "Welcome to the Circus."
The song is the band's 10th No. 1 in a row, the longest run of leading consecutive entries in the history of Mainstream Rock Airplay, which began in 1981.
According to the announcement GeneSimmonsAbbeyRoadStudios.com:
YOU will spend the day at Abbey Road Studios with Gene. The same studio where the legendary Beatles recorded their albums.
YOU will hear Gene share stories about his career and items in his personal KISS collection that spans 50 years — and he's passing them on to YOU!
YOU will Record a KISS song and join Gene on lead and background vocals, Live at ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, where decades of legendary performers have stood. NO musical Experience necessary!
And, yes, if you play an instrument, we may use that in the recording.
The day is about having fun with Gene Simmons and going home with a personal copy of the entire recording…with YOU on it. Gene will not release the song. Only YOU will have the copy.
YOU will take home items from Gene's Personal KISS Collection!
YOU will get photos and videos with Gene & he'll sign two of your personal items!
One of Marilyn Manson's sexual assault accusers has recanted her story, alleging that his ex "manipulated" her into making false rape allegations.
Page Six reported Thursday (February 23rd) that Ashley Morgan Smithline revealed in a court filing, "I succumbed to pressure from Evan Rachel Wood and her associates to make accusation and assault against Manson that were not true."
The 38-year-old model previously accused the "Beautiful People" singer of raping her while cutting her with a swastika-emblazoned knife.
Out today (Friday, Feb. 24) is the new Godsmack album Lighting Up the Sky. It's the group's eighth overall and first in five years. It's also going to be Godsmack's last album, according to the band members. Frontman Sully Erna tells us that after 26 Top 10 Billboard Mainstream Rock chart singles -- 12 of which have hit No. 1 (including 'Surrender' from the new album) -- he and his bandmates are satisfied they've done all they can: "We've enjoyed decades of doing this in the studio and sacrificed a lot of time...If you think about it, that's exactly what we've done; maybe we just get to the point where we've pushed so hard for so long... and we just got burned out and we just knew that we had to start, how do I say it, treating ourselves based on the amount of time we've been out there and our ages and we can't kind of grind like that anymore -- nor do we want to, because it's exhausting...At some point, y'know, you got to kind of know you've got to start tailoring this thing so you can also enjoy all these things that we've earned and to be able to enjoy, even if it's just family and time with them. It's just time."
Erna is quick to add, however, that Godsmack is not breaking up. The group will be touring in support of Lighting Up the Sky and then in future years play shows to spotlight its career: "This isn't ending. We're just ending one chapter in our lives but we're opening a whole new chapter for our sunset years, to be able to create now a greatest hits show and enjoy the rest of our career playing live, which his really what the reward is for all the world that we do in the studio... We're gonna build the show as big and beautiful as we can make it and honor the best of the best songs we've written, that had the most success, and the ones the fans have chosen to be their favorites."
Godsmack recorded Lighting Up the Sky in Florida with producer Andrew Murdock who worked on the group's multi-platinum Godsmack and Awake albums as well in 1998 and 2000, respectively. The new album includes several references to Godsmack's past, in fact -- most specifically on the title track, which incorporates a riff from "Moon Baby," the first song on the band's self-titled major label debut. The song "Best of Times," meanwhile, is a "thank you letter" from Erna to his bandmates for their dedication over the years. Making the album, Erna says, "It really got emotional for us. We sat in the studio a few different times and shared tears and just talked about how fulfilling it feels and what a bittersweet it is. But all in all we have no regrets, and we feel pretty complete at this point."
Godsmack hits the road starting April 21 in Santiago, Chile. The group begins a May run of U.S. shows with I Prevail opening, starting May 4 in Denver and including the Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival on May 25 in Columbus, Ohio. Godsmack plans to cover North America primarily this year, then eyeball other territories during 2024.
Motley Crue, Def Leppard, and The Eagles were all honored at the 2023 Pollstar awards this week (February 22nd).
Motley Crue and Def Leppard won Rock Tour of the Year for their joint 2022 Stadium Tour while The Eagles took home the Pollstar Milestone Award.
Don Henley accepted the award on behalf of the band and said in his acceptance speech, "I appreciate this very much, We are three shows into our 51st year as a band and touring entity — and feeling every one of them. But we feel very fortunate."
Dave Grohl also made an appearance at the ceremony to honor Foo Fighters manager John Silva, who won the Personal Manager of the Year award.
Grohl said, "We realized that he was one of us, an avid record collector, a musicologist, and we knew that this person based all of his love of music and his business on integrity, which was something that was very important to us," Grohl added. "And over the years we've had some incredible triumphs and some devastating crises, but the one thing that has kept us together over the years is love. … I truly believe that Silva and I are like family."
Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello has revealed that he wrote a song with Post Malone, and he thinks it could be the next "Beat It."
During an interview on the Allison Hagendorf Show Podcast, he said, "We worked out a pretty sick jam. To me it felt like it could be, for him, like his 'Beat It' by Michael Jackson — a big pop star paired with Eddie Van Halen and made something that no-one had expected. ‘This could be your 'Beat It,' dude!'" He added, "He just won't finish the song."
As to how the collaboration came about, Morello said, "We went into the studio together one night. I had heard that he was a fan of rock and so I went by, and he is a lovely dude. First of all, he's just a lovely, lovely person. He is trippy. You know how some people have guitar techs, or drum techs... he had a Coors Light tech! Laughs There was a guy whose sole job apparently was just make sure there is a stack of cold Coors Light… It took about four hours of sitting around with Coors Light before we did any recording."
Not much progress appears to have been made after that night and Morello still encourages the rapper to finish it up whenever he sees him. He explained, "I'm like, ‘You're still dropping the ball on that one.' He's like, ‘Yeah, man, I'm gonna do that.' I'm like, ‘Okay," he adds with a laugh, enthusing, "It's sick!"
Death Cab For Cutie released an acoustic version of "Foxglove Through The Clearcut." The song represents what the next album is all about. It's a stripped-down take on the band's critically acclaimed 10th studio album Asphalt Meadows, which was released last fall.
The 12-track acoustic LP also includes "Pepper" as well as a moving cover of "The Plan," released in tribute to the late Mimi Parker, their close friend and drummer for the band Low.
The new version of the album will be out on March 10.
Fronted by lead vocalist and guitarist Ben Gibbard, the band has added more tour dates, including a three night stint in Denver, as well as new dates in Austin and Grand Prairie, Texas.
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Thanks to "Ghosts Again," Depeche Mode has become one of two acts to appear on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart in each decade of the list's existence.
The band joins the Red Hot Chili Peppers in having at least one appearance on the list in the 1900s, ‘90s, 2000s, ‘10s and now the ‘20s.
Among its 21 entries, Depeche Mode boasts four No. 1s: 1990's "Enjoy the Silence" and "Policy of Truth," and 1993's "I Feel You" and "Walking in My Shoes."
David Draiman says that Disturbed chose to do a headlining tour so that they can "bring out all their toys."
When asked by Beef Vegan why the band chose not to play festivals this summer like they normally do he said, "We love both, but truth be told is that when you finally decide to headline, you can bring out all your toys, and you don't have to share it with anybody.
"When you're in a festival environment, you have a whole bunch of really high-caliber bands who are performing at the top of their game, and they're trying to bring as much as they can all collectively fit on that deck. And it gets challenging. So when you're doing your thing and that's the primary focus, it really opens up the possibilities."
Disturbed kicks off the Take Back Your Life Tour on April 24th.
Flea is launching a new podcast.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist will discuss music with guests like Rick Rubin, Cynthia Erivo, and Patti Smith on the 15-part series entitled This Little Light.
Flea told Rolling Stone in a statement, "I wanted to do This Little Light to benefit my music school, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. The idea behind it being music education, falling in love with music and embarking on a musical journey for your life. Everybody's path is so different, and it's fascinating to learn how every musician came to music and developed their study of it over time."
The podcast drops on March 30th.
Gavin Rossdale is being sued by Bush's original drummer Robin Goodridge. The former bandmember claims he was kicked out of the group abruptly and without cause.
Blast reports that Goodridge agreed to join Rossdale for Bush's 25th anniversary tour in 2019 but was booted from the band before its first stop. According to the drummer's lawsuit, Rossdale refused to pay him for any of the tour's profits and violated Bush's trademark agreement.
In addition to damages, Goodridge is seeking a permanent injunction enjoining Rossdale and Bush, Inc. from using the trademark Bush.
The band's original lineup, Rossdale, Goodridge, guitarist Nigel Pulsford and bassist Dave Parsons parted ways in 2001, but according to the court filing, each founding member maintains 25% of the registered trademark "Bush."
