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Black Crowes' members Chris and Rich Robinson had to take matters in their own hands on Sunday (November 20th) during a show in Melbourne when an audience member ran onstage during a performance of "Stare It Cold."

When the man ran on stage, Chris attempted to slow him down by swinging his microphone stand in the man's direction. The man is then chased by security over towards Rich Robinson's side of the stage and Rich smashed his guitar into his chest. As security removed the man, Rich said, "Hey, you throw that motherf**ker out, right? You get the f**k out of here." The Crowes then restarted "Stare It Cold" and performed without further incident.

On December 16th, Metallica will stream its 2022 Helping Hands Concert in benefit of the band's All Within My Hands foundation, live on Paramount+. The show will take place at L.A.'s Microsoft Theater and feature the third edition of the Helping Hands Concert & Auction with an opening set by Greta Van Fleet.

Variety reported, "The concert will be available to stream in the UK, Latin America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France on Saturday, December 17th; Australia on Sunday, December 18th; and South Korea in 2023. The concert will also be simulcast on Pluto TV globally and on YouTube."

Paramore weighed in on the Club Q shooting Tuesday (November 22nd).

The band tweeted, "The hatred and the prejudice against any marginalized group is historically political. And did you think these prejudices stop at the polls?"

They continued to take politicians to task adding, "You're either perpetuating love or perpetuating hatred. Anti-LGBYTQIA+ rhetoric is hatred, be it in policy or a locker room conversation. Politicians and other powerful people have a choice."

Five people were killed and 18 others were injured at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado Saturday when alleged gunman, Anderson Lee Aldrich, opened fire.

Jack White has decided to leave Twitter after Donald Trump was reinstated onto the social media site. White called out Twitter's new owner Elon Musk, saying, "So you gave trump his twitter platform back. Absolutely disgusting, Elon. That is officially an **hole move."

He continued, "Why dont you be truthful? Tell it like it is; people like you and Joe Rogan (who gives platforms to liars like alex jones etc.); you come into a ton of money, see the tax bill, despise paying your fair share, and then think moving to Texas and supporting whatever republican you can is going to help you keep more of your money (How else could trump possibly interest you?)."

He added, "You intend to give platforms to known liars and wash your hands like pontius pilate and claim no responsibility? trump was removed from twitter because he incited violence multiple times, people died and were injured as a result of his lies and his ego, (let alone what his coup did to attempt to destroy democracy and our Capitol)."

Maneskin has opened up about their upcoming album Rush. The band reflected on the past year, with Victoria saying, "It's been amazing. It's been a crazy year. We've done so many crazy things.The most important thing is of course the music. Now are getting closer and closer to releasing the record and that's the most important thing . . . We can't wait to finally share it . . ."

When asked why they chose to name their album Rush, Victoria said, "It was made in a rush and this whole year has been in a rush. . . we had five hours to decide the title. . . . We thought this is like literally on point, so accurate. It's like what's happening right now. I think its the best word to sum of the last year two years of our lives . . . we always make such a huge amount of decision in a short amount of time . . . so we kind of live in a rush, we wake up in a rush, we eat in a rush, we wash in a rush . . . so, I think it's the right word to sum up our life."

Rush is due out in January.

The reunited Jane's Addiction welcomed ousted Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on stage for a mini-set of their classics. Klinghoffer, who has jumped stage with the band previously -- and as recently as last month -- was on hand this past November 12th during the band's joint gig with Smashing Pumpkins at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena.

Ultimate-Guitar.com posted Klinghoffer -- who now serves as a touring member of both Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder's solo outfit, the Earthlings -- performed on "Ocean Size," "Three Days," and "Mountain Song."

Willow Smith joined Smashing Pumpkins onstage during the finale of their Spirits on Fire Tour Saturday (November 19th) night.

Smith, who performs as WILLOW joined the band for their 1993 hit "Cherub Rock" at the Hollywood Bowl."

According to Consequence, the 22-year-old rocker showcased her guitar-playing skills while lead-singer Billy Corgan handled the lyrics.

Last night (November 20th) was filled with music, fun and laughs at the 50th annual American Music Awards, which took place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Wayne Brady brought the funny and impromptu freestyles while hosting the night in celebration of music of all genres. Taking his job quite seriously, he even broke into a freestyle rap in honor of the award show and later did a quick dance number with professional dancer and choreographer Witney Carson, his partner on Dancing With the Stars.

Brady also gave a tribute to Takeoff of the Migos who was tragically shot and killed in Houston earlier this month.

As far as awards go, Taylor Swift took home top honors, winning Artist of the Year, as well as Favorite Pop Album for Red (Taylor's Version), Favorite Music Video for "All Too Well: The Short Film" and several others.

Dove Cameron won the award for New Artist of the Year while Dan + Shay walked away with the nod for Favorite Country Duo or Group.

And despite there being controversy surrounding Chris Brown's abruptly canceled performance in tribute of the 40th anniversary of Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Brown won the award for Favorite Male R&B Artist. The nod was presented by R&B singer Kelly Rowland, who gathered audience members who chose to boo following Breezy's win. Rowland honored Chris and thanked him for his contributions to R&B music.

Closing out the night, Smokey Robinson introduced Lionel Richie and presented him with the Icon Award. Stevie Wonder and Charlie Puth then put on a tribute performance for Icon Award winner.

WINNERS

ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Taylor Swift
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Dove Cameron
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR: Elton John & Dua Lipa - "Cold Heart - PNAU Remix"
FAVORITE TOURING ARTIST: Coldplay
FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO: Taylor Swift - "All Too Well: The Short Film"
FAVORITE MALE POP ARTIST: Harry Styles
FAVORITE FEMALE POP ARTIST: Taylor Swift
FAVORITE POP DUO OR GROUP: BTS
FAVORITE POP ALBUM: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
FAVORITE POP SONG: Harry Styles - "As It Was"
FAVORITE MALE COUNTRY ARTIST: Morgan Wallen
FAVORITE FEMALE COUNTRY ARTIST: Taylor Swift
FAVORITE COUNTRY DUO OR GROUP: Dan + Shay
FAVORITE COUNTRY ALBUM: Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)
FAVORITE COUNTRY SONG: Morgan Wallen - "Wasted on You"
FAVORITE MALE HIP-HOP ARTIST: Kendrick Lamar
FAVORITE FEMALE HIP-HOP ARTIST: Nicki Minaj
FAVORITE HIP-HOP ALBUM: Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
FAVORITE HIP-HOP SONG: Future featuring Drake & Tems - "Wait for You"
FAVORITE MALE R&B ARTIST: Chris Brown
FAVORITE FEMALE R&B ARTIST: Beyoncé
FAVORITE R&B ALBUM: Beyoncé - Renaissance
FAVORITE R&B SONG: Wizkid featuring Tems "Essence"
FAVORITE MALE LATIN ARTIST: Bad Bunny
FAVORITE FEMALE LATIN ARTIST: Anitta
FAVORITE LATIN DUO OR GROUP: Yahritza Y Su Esencia
FAVORITE LATIN ALBUM: Bad Bunny - Un Verano Sin Ti
FAVORITE LATIN SONG: Sebastián Yatra - "Dos Oruguitas"
FAVORITE ROCK ARTIST: Machine Gun Kelly
FAVORITE ROCK SONG: Måneskin - "Beggin'"
FAVORITE ROCK ALBUM: Ghost - Impera
FAVORITE INSPIRATIONAL ARTIST: for KING & COUNTRY
FAVORITE GOSPEL ARTIST: Tamela Mann
FAVORITE DANCE/ELECTRONIC ARTIST: Marshmello
FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK: Elvis
FAVORITE AFROBEATS ARTIST: Wizkid
FAVORITE K-POP ARTIST: BTS

PERFORMANCES

Pink opened the show, showing off her rollerskating skills while simultaneously performing "Never Not Gonna Dance Again."

Bebe Rexha hit the stage to perform her smash "I'm Good (Blue)" featuring David Guetta.

Brazilian artist Anitta made her American performance debut with Missy Eliott and performed "Envolver."

Carrie Underwood performed "Crazy Angels."

GloRilla performed her hit single "Tomorrow 2" and was joined by Cardi B.

Wayne Brady performed a freestyle on the spot, using the words/phrases "Owes You Money," "Loofah," "Sex," "Hip-Hop" and "Tracks," all of which were chosen by audience members.

Imagine Dragons performed "Enemy" with Dreamville's JID.

A tribute of "Hopelessly Devoted to You" was performed by Pink in honor of Olivia Newton-John.

Lil Baby performed a medley of his tracks "In a Minute" and "California Breeze" from his latest album It's Only Me.

Yola performed "Break the Bough."

Dove Cameron hit the stage after her win and performed "Boyfriend."

Stevie Wonder and Charlie Puth perform tribute to Lionel Richie, referred to as a "musical tennis match of Lionel Richie copyrights," which included "Three Times a Lady," "Easy (Like Sunday Morning)," "All Night Long," "Say You, Say Me," "Brick House" and "Jesus Is Love." They ended the event with a star-studded performance of "We Are the World" with Ari Lennox, Muni Long, Melissa Etheridge, Jimmie Allen, Yola, Smokey Robinson and more.

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Dove Cameron acceots Artist of the year award

• "Wow. Thank you so much. This is so meaningful to me. I want to start by saying that every award that I ever win will always first and foremost be dedicated to the queer community at large. You guys have carved out such a space for me to be myself and to write music about it, and I've never felt safer or more loved and more supported, and I hope I can give you some semblance of that same feeling in my music. On the heels of what happened in Colorado Springs, I want to remind everyone how important queer visibility is and how important our community is. And I want to direct your attention to organizations like Glad and the Trevor project. I want to remind you that you are made absolutely right and you are so loved and so held, and I want to thank you for supporting me. Thank you for holding the space. I'm holding it for you too. Thanks, guys. Cheers and applause" 1:00 OC...too thanks guys Cheers and applause

Machine Gun Kelly accepts favorite rock artist of the year award

• "Thank you to the fans who got me here. And I love you. I just want to say I'm petitioning for larger mic stands next time. This suit is really uncomfortable to pee in. Speaking of uncomfortable, there have been some people in the rock community who called me a tourist, but they're wrong. I'm a rocket man. I -- we weren't born on the moon, but we looked at it and we were curious, and we went there supposedly. And these last two rock albums to me were me going to the moon." :42 OC....to the moon Cheers and applause

​​Dan and Shay accept Favorite Country Duo or Group

• "Dan: I think this mic stand is a pretty good height for me. I think it's pretty solid. Oh my goodness. My heart is pounding right now. I just want to thank all of you guys. First of all, thank you to the fans. This is a fan-voted award. We country not be up here -- y'all give it up for yourselves one time. We are so grateful to get to make country music. We are proud to represent our community here in L.A. This is unbelievable. I got to give a shoutout to my wife and boys watching at home. This is where daddy was. This is why I'm not home for early thanksgiving but I love you Ash or Ams, momma I love you. Shay: I'm so glad to make music with you. This is a dream come true to stand on this stage with you and accept this award. Thank you to our team: Lisa ray, Kurstin, Amber, Mikey, here tonight and to the fans, we - couldn't do this without you. Thank you so much for voting. You change our lives every single day. Love y'all. Thank you. Cheers and applause" :47 OC...y'all thank you Cheers and applause

Taylor Swift accepts award for Favorite pop Album for Red (Taylor's Version)

• "Wow. This album is a rerecorded album, and I cannot tell you how much my rerecorded albums mean to me, but I never expected or assumed that they would mean anything to you. So I can't thank you enough for caring about this album that I'm so proud of. I have some people who made this happen who I really want to thank. Chris row who coproduced this album with me, hours and hours and hours in the studio recreating red, an album I love so much. I want to thank all the artists who featured on the vault tracks, Chris Stapleton, Phoebe Bridgers. I want to thank my live touring band who played on this album, and I want to take a moment -- there was a music video that I did that I was really happy about, so I want to say thank you to Sadie sink and Dylan Obrian, I also want to take a moment to thank someone who directed the other music video, I bet you think about me, my beautiful, brilliant friend, my director Blake lively. And Mike teller and his beautiful wife Kelly teller for being in the music video. I love you guys for making this a possibilty for me and to the fans, I cannot thank you enough. This is so special. Thank you. Cheers and applause" 1:45 OC...special thank you Cheers and applause

Anitta accepts award for Favorite Female Latin Artist

• "Hello, everyone. Thank you so much! Oh, I want to say first of all, thank you so much for all my fans. Second, you guys are amazing. Without this, without you guys and my whole country of Brazil, I wouldn't be here today. It's the first time for a Brazilian here winning, so -- cheers and applause Second I want to say thank you to my team and my family and thank you for myself that I worked so hard too. And also, this award is to all the other nominees that I love so much, and Becky G, my friend, I love her so much and she deserves everything, and all the other nominees, rosalia, everyone else, there are no winners if there are no other people running this path with us and making a great amazing job. Thank you! Cheers and applause" 1:05 OC...job thank you Cheers and applause

Maneskin accepts award for Favorite rock song for "Beggin"

• "Thank you. Thank you very much. This is very nice. I'm going to do like MGK. Thank you. First of all, I want to say that for us as Italians, we have not -- cheers and applause Yeah. Shotout. We have not been told many, many times that one day we were going to be sitting next to some of the greatest artists in the world. For us, this has a double meaning. It's amazing for us. We are still kind of figuring it out. It's very surprising for us, and we never expected to win this category against this huge, huge, huge artists. So thank you once again. Thank you very much. Have a great night. Applause" :56 OC...a great night Applause

Taylor Swift accepts award for Favorite Music Video

• "This short film was ten years in the making, and the only reason I got to write and direct the short film is because you the fans chose the song all too well. You chose it. No one at a record label chose it. You picked it. You said that is the song that matters to us, and it just so happens that it was the song that mattered the most to me. So, I'm very happy we agreed on that. So the people who helped me make this, I really want to say, l will say this forever, Sadie sink and Dylan Obrian, thank you so much for trusting me as a director with your immense, incredible talent. Thank you to my D.P, Marina Yang, I want to say thank you to my producer Sal germane, my production designer Ethan Tobman, my editor Ted guard and the entire crew that worked with us on this. I'm so proud of it. I'm so happy you like it too. This is so special and wonderful and -- ahh, thank you. Thank you for this. Cheers and applause" 1:12 OC...you for this Cheers and applause

Taylor Swift accepts award for Artist of the Year

• "You know, in the past few years, I have released more music than I did in the entire decade preceding that, and I really feel like that's down to the fact that you, the fans, made it clear that you wanted to hear lots of music that I would make. You encouraged me. And so, I found that the more music I made and the more music I put out, the happier I was. The more I just kept that channel open and just kept creating, kept making things, and the more that happened, the more you guys were like, yeah, keep doing it. And the happier I was, so I have the fans to thank, essentially, for my happiness and -- cheers and applause -- And I love you more than I can say. I cannot express how unbelievable it is to me that I still get to do this and that you still care, so thank you underlined with 13 exclamation points. I don't know what to say. I love you. Cheers and applause" 1:23 OC...I love you Cheers and applause

Lionel Richie accepts Icon Award

• "I want to thank my kids and the mothers of my kids for keeping my kids together. Very important. And then of course there's the people along the way. Friends who have supported. Bruce, my manager, who is absolutely a dream manager. Lisa, who is actually more of the adult in the room because she has to deal with me. I'm the kid. I'm the child. But what I want to say and take this time to do is to talk to the young superstars. God has given you a light. That light is special. That light is only given to a few. When you hear the word hip, it means today. When you hear the word inspiring, it means forever. If you get a chance to have that light on you, understand what god has in store. He is not trying to tell you that your car looks great, your clothes look great. He's trying -- he/she, mother, God is trying to tell you that you are chosen to inspire. Take this opportunity. That light is on you. Inspire. God bless you all. Thank you very much. Cheers and applause" 1:49 OC...you very much Cheers and applause

There's a new video out from Disturbed. Along with the clip of "Bad Man, they also shared a behind the scenes look at how it was made.

The band's frontman David Draiman previously told hard Drive of the song's lyrical inspiration: "It could be about any number of bad men or actors in the world that are currently wreaking havoc, but this particular song was inspired by the Russian invasion of Ukraine."

He went on to say, "I feel for the people of Ukraine and everything that they've had to deal with and experience and are continuing to experience. It's horrific to watch the play-by-play of a full-scale war."

Just last week, Disturbed released their 8^th studio album called Divisive, a 10-track album they recorded in Nashville.

TL;DR:

• Disturbed released a new video for "Bad Man.
• They also shared a behind the scenes look at how it was made.

Florence + The Machine has postponed their tour after frontwoman Florence Welch broke her foot. Florence posted a photo of an empty stage with blood on the floor on her IG page, saying, "I'm so sorry to say that after an X ray it seems I was dancing on a broken foot last night."

She continued, "It is not in my nature to postpone a show, and certainly not a UK tour, but I'm in pain and as dancers know, dancing on an injury is not a good idea. And have been told not to perform to avoid further damage."

Jack White covered Nirvana's 1993's "Heart Shaped Box" during his November 16th concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ultimate-Guitar.com posted video clips of White performing the In Utero favorite while on the road promoting his recent companion albums, Fear Of The Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive.

"Heart Shaped Box" was the lead single from Nirvana's final studio album, In Utero. The song topped Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.

Although he has not spoken about specific artists in the past, Jack White has never been afraid to share his opinions, as when he commented on the state of rock music itself a few years back: "It's changed definitions over the years, y'know? Now it's sort of an energy drink, isn't it? So it's become an iconic sort of T-shirt at Target or something like that. I think that it's gonna be redefined again in the next 10 years. In more of the '60s and '70s, it was such a mystery and untouchable-ness to it. And now like in the age of sort of reality television, so many things are accessible that it's changing."

Jack White performs tonight (November 21st) in Christchurch, New Zealand at Christchurch Town Hall.

His next North American show is set for December 3rd at Fort Lauderdale's Audacy Beach Festival.

In an all new Audible original podcast called Origins, Billie Eilish shared some details about her life. The 20 year old says that she has "never ever, ever, ever" thought of herself as a singer. The seven-time Grammy award winner said, "I have always thought of myself as a dancer, which is a really weird but very stupid thing to say when I am known as a singer."

When she was only 14, Eilish was forced to stop dancing as a result of a hip injury and she still struggles with movement on stage. She says singing brings her the most joy in her life, but dancing was something she really dreamed of doing.

TL;DR:

• She says, singing brings her the most joy in her life, but dancing was something she really dreamed of doing.

Machine Gun Kelly says that when he first heard that he was nominated for a Grammy this week, it gave him closure. In 2021, he vented his frustration with the Academy because he thought he had been snubbed and looked over. He was so irritated, he posted "wtf is wrong with the Grammys."

Explaining how much receiving the nomination means to him now, he told Entertainment Tonight that he was keeping the envelope that his nomination was read from. Adding, "I'm a hoarder, so this is going to stay in my house forever."

Along with being nominated for Best Rock Album for Mainstream Sellout, MGK will also perform at the awards show in February.

TL;DR:

• In 2021, he vented his frustration with the Academy because he thought he had been snubbed and looked over.
• Along with being nominated for Best Rock Album for Mainstream Sellout, MGK will also perform at the awards show in February.

Out today, Nov. 18, is Divisive, the eighth studio album from Disturbed. The 10-song set is the follow-up to 2018's Evolution, which at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. Disturbed recorded the album during February in Nashville with new producer Drew Fulk, who's previously worked with Papa Roach, Motionless in White, Pop Evil, We Came as Romans and others, and Divisive has been advanced by the singles "Hey You," "Unstoppable" and, earlier this week, "Bad Man."

Guitarist Dan Donegan tells us that songwriting for Divisive began during the fall of 2021, while Disturbed was playing some live dates and stopped at producer Fortman's house in Fort Myers, Fla., just to jam and work on some ideas. That got the band -- Donegan, frontman David Draiman, bassist John Moyer and drummer Mike Wengren -- back into the creative mode and ready to record by the time they got to Nashville. Donegan says the goal was to mix classic elements of the Disturbed sound with some of the fresh production techniques Fulk brought to the table: "I thought the marriage between us and him would be a good one, of us trying to bring back those signature Disturbed elements of the guitar riffs and syncopated drums and getting David (Draiman) back into some of the animalistic sounds out of him, combined with some of the newer, fresher production elements and electronic elements that Drew has done with some of his other artists."

"Hey You," which hit No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart after it was released in July, was one of the first things Disturbed worked on and helped put Divisive on track, according to Donegan: "Definitely 'Hey You' was one of the first ones, the first single off this album. That was one of the riffs that had to be within the first two or three ideas. I think it was actually the first idea. It just came to me. I remember just the groove of the song, the tempo as we were there in Fort Myers...It just came out quit. David can very quickly come up with melodies, too. So it was done very fast."

Divisive also features the first duet ever on a Disturbed album, with Heart's Ann Wilson on the track "Don't Tell Me." Draiman has acknowledged that some of his lyrics are influenced by the current political and social climate, including the title track and "Won't Back Down."

With Divisive out Donegan says Disturbed is looking forward to a busy 2023. The group has a few dates already on the books -- May 4 in Milwaukee, May 6 in St. Paul, Minn., June 7 at Nova Rock in Austria and the weekend of June 8 at the Download Festival in the U.K. -- but he anticipates a Disturbed will be on the road for much of the year, and is looking forward to it: "Right now the band just wants to get back up there on stage....We want to play this new material. We want to have what was taken from us, from the world, having to be put on pause for the pandemic. So we're ready to hit it. On paper we have dates and an idea; now it's kind of up to management and promoters to help us make it happen. We're just excited to know that there's a light at the end of the tunnel here and get back to where we love being, and that's on stage."

The track listing for Divisive includes:

Hey You
Bad Man
Divisive
Unstoppable
Love to Hate
Feeding the Fire
Don't Tell Me (featuring Ann Wilson)
Take Back Your Life
Part of Me
Won't Back Down

Five years after Feed the Machine, Nickelback is back today with its 10th studio album, Get Rollin'. The 11-song set was produced by the band with longtime collaborator Chris Baseford and was preceded by the single "San Quentin," which is the quartet's 20th Top 10 single on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Nickelback toured to promote Feed the Machine and rather than make a new album had decided to put together 2020 tour celebrating the 15th anniversary of its Diamond-certified album All the Right Reasons. The idea was scuttled by the pandemic, and bassist Mike Kroeger tells us that Nickelback gradually worked its way back to a new album during the interim: "When the Earth stopped spinning we had to consider other things, and we thought about moving it the tour forward a year and that looked like pretty much a pie in the sky idea. So we decided to box it up and wait and see, and then so much time passed that it was necessary to make a new album. I guess instead of celebrating the 15th anniversary of All the Right Reasons we'll wait 'til 20, I dunno."

Frontman Chad Kroeger, who wrote or co-wrote all of the songs, tells us that Get Rollin' was put together gradually at different writing and recording sessions rather than in one fell swoop: "At no point in time did we say, "let's make an album.' It was, 'Might as well go in the studio again'...There wasn't this concerted effort to make an album. It was just creativity just sort of creep along, and before we knew it we had enough songs for an album. We sort of looked around and, 'Well, there's a body of work here. We should probably think about releasing a record.'"

Kroeger adds that "San Quentin," inspired by his own visit to the famed state prison in Marin County, Calif., was one of the tracks on the album that took Nickelback the longest to complete: "The slowest climber had to have been 'San Quentin' because the guitar riff was there, and I just went, 'Can somebody please keep me the hell out of San Quentin,' and that was the only thing that was on there. And I'd listen to it once in awhile... So, I mean...it probably took a year and a half to finish that song. It was like, 'Oh, now we need a guitar solo. It's gonna be another couple months here.' But it was nice. It was great to be able to sit back and listen to it and make sure we went in the direction we wanted to go."

Nickelback is currently planning a tour the band members expect to start around June of 2023.

The track listing for Get Rollin' includes:

San Quentin
Skinny Little Missy
Those Days
High Time
Vegas Bomb
Tidal Wave
Does Heaven Even Know You're Missing
Steel Still Rusts
Horizon
Standing in the Dark
Just One More

Chibson USA founder Jason USA has opened up about how Fred Durst feels about the Durst Burst, a guitar with Durst's face in it. Jason revealed the moment that he presented the guitar to Durst, saying, "Taken aback by the iconic instrument, Fred asked me if this was some type of a deeply-layered attempt at trolling. I did not have the heart to tell him that the whole idea had come to me in a dream and that I believe that the concept was something cosmic and bigger than the both f us."

He continued, "It was in that moment that I felt compelled to give the guitar to Fred as a gift. I remember him staring at the instrument for a moment, and then he confided with me about the image on the Durst Burst, explaining that the baseball cap persona which so many people would both love and hate was simply Fred's take on an antagonistic Andy Kaufman bad guy wrestler persona, mixed with some Tony Clifton-isms for good measure, a secret that not many would know, let alone understand."

Nickelback will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as part of next year's Juno Awards.

Through a press release, frontman Chad Kroeger said, "We take so much pride in our Canadian roots and are extremely humbled by this honor." Since winning their first Juno in 2001 for best new group, Nickelback has amassed a total of 12 awards at the show.

Previous Hall of Fame inductees include bands such as Barenaked Ladies, Rush, and Loverboy.

The show, which is Canada's equivalent of the Grammys will take place in Edmonton, Alberta, on March 13.

Nickelback has even more reason to celebrate this week… Tomorrow (11-18) the band will release Get Rollin', their 10^th studio album.

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Ozzy Osbourne has reacted to being nominated for four Grammys for his new album Patient Number 9. He said in a statement, "I'm honestly overwhelmed. Making this record was a great way to me to get back to work as I continued to heal."

He continued, "It's pretty great to be acknowledged at this point in my career."

He also discussed his mindset while recording the album, saying,"I was thinking about the times we've been living in. There wasn't much good news. It was a f*cking war in Ukraine and the pandemic. The world seemed to be on the brink of a bad thing."

Ozzy Osbourne and Elvis Costello & the Imposter have been nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2023 Grammy Awards. Osbourne is also up for Best Rock Album, Best Metal Performance for "Degradation Rules," Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song.

The 2023 Grammys are scheduled to take place on February 5th in Los Angeles and will air live on CBS and Paramount+.

In new legal docs, Marilyn Manson says the sexual abuse allegations made by Evan Rachel Wood and other women are hurting his career. According to TMZ, Manson says that he thinks his career is being affected by what he says is a false portrayal as a rapist, abuser and child pornographer.

Manson said that as a result of the allegations, he is unable to tour and was dropped by his record label and talent agent. He has also been dropped from two TV shows and his book release and art shows have been indefinitely postpone -- with his paintings being devalued.

Meanwhile, Manson says he's getting death threats online, which is making him feel anxious, distraught, depressed, worried, frantic, sleepless and fearful for not only his own physical safety, but also his wife's.

In addition, Manson says the allegations are causing him to be excluded from countless social and business gatherings.

Smashing Pumpkins just released the first part of their new 33-song, rock opera called ATUM.

So far, 11 tracks are available to stream ahead of the complete three-part set due in April of next year.

About the grand collection of music, frontman Billy Corgan told NME, "Because there's a lot of people who believe less is more these days. I'm on the opposite side – I actually think more is more!"

The band describes the music as serving as a sequel to the classic double records Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness from 1995 and Machina/The Machines Of God from 2000.

Paramore has changed the cover of their 2013 self-titled albums on streaming channels.

The original artwork shows Hayley Williams, Taylor York, and former bassist Jeremy Davis, who left the group in 2015. He later sued the remaining band members over ownership and authorship of the songs and a portion of the royalties from the self-titled album, as well as a share of the band's touring revenue.

Stereogum reports that the new image shows Williams alone, wearing a jean jacket that reads "Grow Up" on the back.

Buckcherry has completed work on their upcoming tenth studio album. Vocalist Josh Todd confirmed the news to Austrailia's Metal Mal, saying, "The tenth record, it's very special for us. To be able to have ten records is crazy, looking back on everything. So I was really excited to get to this effort. And it's a great record."

He continued, "And I know I'm saying that because we just recorded it, but it's really good; I think people are gonna really love it. Yeah, that will be coming next year, sometime probably beginning of summer."

Disturbed has announced a pair of Spring Festival Shows. The band will hit the road to promote their new album Divisive, which is due out this Friday (November 18th).The first show will be on May 4th in Milwaukee at the Fiserv Forum and the second will be on May 6th in St. Paul, Minnesota at the XCEL Energy Center.

05/04 Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum (feat. Falling In Reverse, Beartooth & Dorothy)

05/06 St. Paul, MN – XCEL Energy Center (feat. Falling In Reverse, Beartooth & Dorothy)