The original lineup of Nine Inch Nails staged a surprise reunion this past weekend through the band's show in Ohio last night (September 24th).
Frontman Trent Reznor was joined by Richard Patrick, Chris Vrenna, Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser.
They performed alongside the current members and remained on stage for the last six songs of the set.
According to Theprp.com, the full lineup to Tuesday night's show will be:
Sebastian Bach
Travis Barker (Blink-182)
Tommy Brenneck (Menahan Street Band, Budos Band)
Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath)
Matt Cameron (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam)
Danny Carey (Tool)
Chris Chaney (Jane's Addiction, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders)
Chevy Metal
Phil Collen (Def Leppard)
Stewart Copeland (The Police)
Miley Cyrus
Jon "Juano" Davison (Yes)
Elliot Easton (The Cars)
Joe Elliot (Def Leppard)
Josh Freese (The Vandals, Devo)
Violet Grohl
Omar Hakim
Justin Hawkins (The Darkness)
Shane Hawkins
Joshua Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age)
James Gang
Joan Jett
Alain Johannes
John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin, Them Crooked Vultures)
Kesha
Mark King (Level 42)
Greg Kurstin
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Tommy Lee (Mötley Crüe)
Alex Lifeson (Rush)
Brian May (Queen)
Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless)
Alanis Morissette
Krist Novoselic (Nirvana)
P!nk
Mark Ronson
Rick Savage (Def Leppard)
Nikki Sixx (Mötley Crüe)
Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Luke Spiller (The Struts)
Roger Taylor (Queen)
Rufus Taylor (The Darkness/Queen)
Kim Thayil (Soundgarden)
Jon Theodore (Queens Of The Stone Age)
Lars Ulrich (Metallica)
Wolfgang Van Halen
Brad Wilk (Rage Against The Machine)
Nancy Wilson (Heart)
Pat Wilson (Weezer)
Nate Wood (Taylor Hawkins And The Coattail Riders)
Andrew Wyatt
Travis Barker has announced that his Wellness Company will include a vegan skin care line.
The Blink-182 musician will be expanding with five products infused with CBD. It includes a two-in-one face cleanser and mask, a daily moisturizer, an eye serum, a face serum, and a renewal balm.
Barker doesn't just sell vegan products, he also wears them. In a recent interview with People he said that when you see him wearing leather, it's not real, it's vegan, right down to his Doc Maren boots.
The products he sells are described on his website as "all-natural, vegan, fragrance-free, and non-comedogenic." Prices range from $85 to $130 and are available on the Barker Wellness website.
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Billie Eilish has released a couple of live performance videos of her latest singles "TV" and "The 30th". Filmed at Singapore's famous Cloud Forest at Gardens By The Bay, Eilish and her brother Finneas are seen surrounded by exotic and colorful florals.
In a press statement, she explained the importance of the location and said, "Singapore was one of the first places I ever went on tour. I was only there for a day and absolutely fell in love with it."
She released the singles back in July on her Guitar Songs EP.
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Dropping today (September 23rd) is Red Hot Chili Peppers' new tribute to Eddie Van Halen, titled, "Eddie." Ultimate Classic Rock transcribed some of the song's lyrics featured on the Twitter tease of the track, which include the lines: "Sailing the Sunset Strip, I'm a bit of a king / Granny would take a trip, I'll be bending the strings / Got hammers in both my hands, such a delicate touch / They say I'm from Amsterdam, does that make me Dutch?"
"Eddie" will be featured on the band's upcoming double album, Return Of The Dream Canteen, which drops on October 14th.
Red Hot Chili Peppers perform on Sunday (September 25th) at Louisville, Kentucky's Louder Than Life Festival.
It was 42 years ago Sunday (September 25th, 1980) that Led Zeppelin's John Bonham died of pulmonary edema, which is fluid accumulation in the lungs. The legendary drummer was just 32-years-old, and found dead by Zeppelin sound technician Benji LeFevre and bassist John Paul Jones. The clinical cause of death was asphyxiation from vomit and an autopsy found no other drugs in his body. Bonham was cremated on October 10th, 1980, and his ashes were buried at Rushock Parish Church in Droitwich, Worcestershire.
Led Zeppelin was set to begin its next North American tour on October 17th, 1980 in Montreal. On December 4th, the band issued a formal statement announcing their split, which read: "We wish it to be known that the loss of our dear friend, and the deep sense of undivided harmony felt by ourselves and our manager, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were."
Back in 2018 when pressed about Led Zeppelin's then-upcoming 50th anniversary, a somewhat somber Robert Plant explained to Mojo that Bonham's death still cast a long shadow, saying, "It's 50 years, but it's not 50 years -- it's 38 years of darkness for a family. So all that hullabaloo is great, and I'm sure there'll be some great things to come out of it. . . I really can't wait to hear (the archival releases) -- I might even get a free copy."
Bonham, who is regarded by most as the greatest rock drummer to ever sit behind a kit, got his start playing with Robert Plant in the Band Of Joy, and when invited by Plant to join Zeppelin, then called the New Yardbirds, he was reluctant to do so because he had just landed a steady gig playing with folk singer Tim Rose.
Robert Plant has always reminded fans and followers clamoring for a Led Zeppelin reunion that the loss of John Bonham goes far deeper than a band needing a new drummer in order to play: "Well, Bonzo and I, we'd been through so many things before the 'big time.' We kinda read each other like books -- we were like brothers. But in reality, and physicality, and spiritually, losing John, obviously we. . . everybody got together and said, 'This can never work again.' Our real concern then was to kind of protect (his wife) Pat and the whole family from this kind of surge of media stuff. And it's so debilitating really, and I experienced that a couple of years before that, myself. And to lose John was criminal."
John Paul Jones told us that when he and John Bonham first connected as a rhythm section, he knew immediately that history would be made between them: "When I first played with Bonzo, I immediately knew. 'Cause there's a lot of guitarists, and there's a lot of singers. There are less bass players, and there aren't that many drummers -- who are really good. And when a rhythm section recognizes each other, when you find each other, you go, 'Wow! Right! OK!' And Bonzo and I immediately recognized each other as we knew what we were doing, and we clicked."
Jimmy Page admitted to us that he knew from the beginning that the magic surrounding Led Zeppelin wouldn't last forever: "I said, basically around the time of the first album, it's all a race against time, and I think it is. It still is. It still is a race against time and trying to do good work and improve on what you've done. It's more difficult as you get older because you know your days are numbered, really. Within Zeppelin we had this amazing vehicle that we could continue and continue and just come up with amazing things -- which fortunately we did continue, and we did come up with amazing stuff. But I still thought it was a race against time. I had no idea how prophetic it would be with the loss of John Bonham."
E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg is no stranger to playing with power -- or nowadays, with his big band ensembles, with swing. He feels that John Bonham was capable of many different styles -- not least of which was swing: "Anyone would, I think, be hard pressed to disagree with me to say that John Bonham didn't swing -- incredible! You don't need to be a jazz or a swing drummer to swing. It's really about the lightness with which you play."
Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith told us that he became an instant Bonham acolyte the first time he heard him: "Bonham is the greatest rock drummer. He just is, hands down. Like as when people say Buddy Rich is the greatest drummer, technically, y'know, the greatest drummer ever? John Bonham, hands down, greatest rock drummer ever. Sound, he played those songs, everything he did was just, y'know, just felt good and it's just incredible. So for me, Led Zeppelin is my favorite band."
Jason Bonham has honored his father throughout his career -- not only subbing for him at such high profile Zeppelin reunions as the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert in 1988 and 2007's concert at London's O2 Arena -- but also with his own band, Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening. He says his greatest regret is that he never got to play live with his dad: "We never got to that stage. I mean, I have a teenager now, and time and again, she drives me mad. Y'know, I never got to that point. My dad left me when I was. . . Y'know, my God, he was God to me. Every word he said was the gospel."
Jason Bonham told us that playing drums is what keeps him tied to his father who died when he was only 14: "I have a helluva lot to live up to. A lot of people say, 'What's it like, y'know, you're the son of John Bonham!' And I say, 'Y'know, what? It's kinda cool, 'cause he was such an icon in such an iconic band.' It just gives me enough get up and go to say, 'Y'know what, I just wanna make him happy and prove to him and show him that, Dad, you've handed me down a business.' Y'know, like some fathers they hand them down their work -- even though he wasn't there to hand it down to me himself, to me, I feel -- if anything -- he left me at such an early age, but he gave me a career."
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE TO REISSUE THREE ALBUMS: Queens Of The Stone Age will re-release three of its albums including their self-titled 1998 debut, 2013's Like Clockwork and 2017's Villians. The debut album will be rereleased on vinyl on October 21st and the later work will follow on December 9th.
GODSMACK TEASES NEW SINGLE: Godsmack released a 12-second teaser for their forthcoming single, "Surrender" on Thursday (September 22nd). The new track drops September 28th.
Blink-182's Mark Hoppus released more positive news about his health. On Wednesday (9-21) he shared on Instagram that his most recent scan came back "clean" and he continues to be cancer-free.
He posted, "Thankful for every day I get to be here. Love you all."
Hoppus was diagnosed with lymphoma in April of last year and has been open with fans about his cancer journey, including his struggles with depression and thoughts of suicide.
He went through chemotherapy last year and 5 months following his initial diagnosis, he was declared cancer-free.
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Puscifer have announced two concert film livestreams for Halloween weekend.
The double feature will include V Is For Versatile,a collection of re-worked songs from the V Is For era, and Parole Violator, a live, track-by-track re-imagination of the band's critically-acclaimed 2011 album, Conditions of My Parole.
Both films premiere on October 28th at noon PT and remain on-demand for 72 hours. Tickets are available via puscifertv.com with early bird tickets on sale through October 21st.
Ghost singer Papa Emeritus IV (aka Tobias Forge) announced on Twitter Wednesday (September 21st) that he will throw the ceremonial first pitch at the Chicago White Sox game Thursday (September 22nd) night.
The Sox will be hosting the Cleveland Guardians at The Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois at 7:10 p.m.
Coming on November 11th is Guns N' Roses' massive super deluxe box set for Use Your Illusion I & II. In addition to the two 1991 albums, the new collection features a whopping 97 tracks, 63 of which are previously unreleased.
The Use Your Illusion set will be available in multiple configurations including a Super Deluxe Seven-CD + Blu-ray, a Super Deluxe Twelve-LP + Blu-ray, Two-CD Deluxe Editions of Use Your Illusion I & II separately, standard single-CD and double-LP versions of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II separately.
In all formats, the original studio albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II have been fully remastered for the first-time ever, from high-resolution 96kHz 24-bit transfers from the original stereo 1/2-inch analog masters.
Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II were released simultaneously on September 17th, 1991. Illusion II debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200 and sold 770,000 copies its first week. Illusion I, which came in at Number Two, fell short only selling 685,000 units.
According to the press release:
Super Deluxe Editions include the complete live audio recording Live In New York, taped at the Ritz Theatre on May 16, 1991, with sound newly mixed from original multi-track tapes. This legendary show is one of three warmup shows for the Use Your Illusion Tour and features Izzy Stradlin on guitar, the original version of "Don't Cry" and a special performance of "You Ain't The First" both of which features the late Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon on guest vocals.
Also included is the complete audio recording of Live In Las Vegas taped at Thomas & Mack Center on January 25, 1992, newly mixed from the original multi-track tapes and features the band's new guitarist Gilby Clarke.
The bonus disc is a Blu-ray Video of the complete Live In New York concert film, newly transferred from 35mm film prints to 4K UHD and presented in 1080p 24fps HD, in its entirety, along with audio mixed in Dolby Atmos, Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround, and PCM 48kHz 24-bit stereo.
The Blu-ray menu features the brand-new live music video "You Could Be Mine." This is the first-time release of any complete audio and video concerts from the Use Your Illusion-era GN'R.
For the first-time ever, the single-CD versions of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, both available separately, have been remastered from high-resolution 96kHz 24-bit transfers from the original stereo 1/2-inch analog master tapes onto 44.1kHz 16-bit CD. Use Your Illusion I includes the newly recorded "November Rain (2022 Version)" with a first-ever real 50-piece orchestra.
Gilby Clarke replaced co-founding guitarist Izzy Stradlin's as the second guitarist in Guns N' Roses in 1991 when the band was knee deep in road dates behind the Use Your Illusion collections. A while back, he recalled how it went down upon scoring one of the most coveted gigs in rock: "It was strange at first because when it all happened, I don't think anyone knew that it was a permanent situation. Y'know, because Izzy left so abruptly, that we really didn't know if I was just filling in temporarily, or if it was going to go on for a long time. And why had happened was that as time went on — it just became a permanent situation."
Slash told us that it's a miracle he and fellow Guns member Duff McKagan are even still around after their hard-partying days in the '90s: "We took it basically to the limit. The fact that we're actually sitting here right now is a hard-pressed thing for anybody that's close to us to even fathom. We shouldn't even be here. They should have had us put away a long time ago, and we managed to get through that."
Ozzy Osbourne's latest album, Prisoner Number 9, has debuted big across the Billboard charts. The set scored "The Prince Of Darkness" his first Number One hit on Billboard's Top Album Sales chart and sailed to the top spot on the magazine's Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock Albums, Top Hard Rock Albums, Top Current Album Sales, Tastemaker Albums, and Vinyl Albums charts.
Patient Number 9 also debuted at Number Three on the Billboard 200, selling 52,000 copies in its first week and hit Number Two in the UK -- marking Ozzy's best-charting solo set to date in Britain.
The Ozz, who turns 74 in December, told us a while back that he never imagined being around this long: "Let me tell you, when I was 20 I was going, I'd go, 'I'm gonna die by 40.' And that was all right until I was 39-and-a-half." (08: OC: . . . and a half)
"Mary on a Cross" has earned Ghost their first ever song on Billboard's Hot 100 Songs chart.
The single dropped in 2019 but began climbing the charts in late July after it was featured in a Stranger Things TikTok.
It currently sits at No. 90 on the chart.
A lawsuit accusing Machine Gun Kelly of elder abuse has been dropped.
According to Radar Online, 49-year-old parking attendant John Martin Tilli claimed that the rocker and Mod Sun threatened and assaulted him in a Studio City parking lot in August 2021.
Kelly and his friend Mod were filming their movie Good Mourning With A U when Tilli approached to let them know he needed a permit to film on the property. According to his account, the two stars and their friends surrounded him and became aggressive.
A police report was not filed for several days and the Los Angeles Police Department closed the case because they were unable to find any evidence of the attack.
According to Radar, Kelly had not responded to the lawsuit and Tilli was attempting to obtain a default judgment. However, the two appear to have made an arrangement which led to the case being dismissed for good.
Gene Simmons admits he simply doesn't have friends. During a long chat with Goldmine, he touched upon his "lone wolf" persona, explaining,"I kept reading about what friends do. They hang out with each other. They call each other, 'Hey, I need a favor.' I never had any of that."
He went on to admit, "Even today, as I sit here, other than Paul (Stanley), and we only get together when we do stuff with the band. How do I say this without sounding inhuman? I don't have friends. Yeah, if friends means, 'Gee, I don't know what I'm going to do this afternoon. Hey, you want to come over and hang out?' I don't hang out. I've never hung out. I'm more interested in what I want to do, and I don't want to pretend that I'm interested in what you want to do because I'm not."
As Kiss winds down its career, Gene Simmons stands by his and Paul Stanley's decision to pack it in they way they are: "Considering we started in '73 and we're in the year 2022 now and probably by 2024 we'll be done. That's enough. 50 years is enough for anybody. And also out of respect and love for the fans, you want to get off the stage while the getting is good; It's 'quit while you're on top.' Of course, everything comes to an end at some point, and you're lucky and blessed if that last lap around the track is your victory lap."
Simmons went on to say, "You celebrate the past. But of course, that thing is going to be over at some point in your life. You've got to leave home. You've got to leave mom and dad and go off on your own and start that next chapter. And by the way, at some point, life itself is going to be over."
A while back we caught up with Paul Stanley and asked him how he feels about Gene Simmons' highly opinionated beliefs and high profile persona apart from the band. Stanley explained that Simmons is free to do whatever he likes -- as long as it doesn't negatively impact Kiss: "I think Gene has earned the right to do whatever he wants to. Gene certainly in all venues has the freedom and the right to do whatever he chooses, as long as it doesn't directly impact on anything that he's only part of. He's come away unscathed 'til now."
Kiss kicks off its latest string of North American dates tonight (September 21st) at West Palm Beach's IThink Financial Amphitheatre.
New York University's Clive Davis Institute will introduce a course on Lana Del Rey this fall.
Variety reports that "Topics In Recorded Music: Lana Del Rey" will be taught by journalist and author Kathy Iandoli from October 20th until December 8th.
A rep for the university says that the course will examine Del Rey's contributions to 21st Century pop stardom, her relationship to feminism, and her connection to varaious social justice movements.
The official course description reads: Over the course of eight critically-acclaimed albums, the six-time Grammy nominated artist has introduced a sad core, melancholic, and baroque version of dream pop that in turn helped shift and reinvent the sound (and mood) of mainstream music beyond the 2010s. Through her arresting visuals and her thematic attention to mental health and tales of toxic, damaged love, Del Rey provided a new platform for artists of all genders to create "anti-pop" works of substance that could live in a mainstream once categorized as bubblegum.
Earlier this year, the university offered a class on Taylor Swift taught by Rolling Stone's Brittany Spanos.
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a three-act rock opera album titled ATUM (pronounced Autumn), which is slated for release in April 2023.
ATUM, which is billed as the sequel to 1995's Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and 2000's Machina/Machines of God, will feature 33-tracks, with each track to be revealed chronologically each week on Corgan's podcast, Thirty-Three with William Patrick Corgan.
Each act of eleven songs will come out every eleven weeks on digital streaming platforms to coincide with the podcast. Act 1 will drop on November 15th. Act 2 will be released on January 31st, 2023, and Act 3, along with a special edition boxset featuring all 33 album tracks plus 10 additional unreleased songs, will be released on April 21st, 2023.
The video for the first single from the collection, "Beguiled," drops today (September 20th).
Mariah Carey has plans to release the alternative rock album titled Someone's Ugly Daughter that she apparently secretly recorded in 1995 under the stage name Chick.
During an interview on Rolling Stone's Rolling Stone Now podcast, Mariah said, "The quest for that version is going great. We actually have it. This was my outlet, and nobody knew about it. Most people, I'd rather they don't even know about it until we decide exactly what happens from that quest of finding those vocals."
She continued, "I think this unearthed version will become something that, yes, we should hear. But also, I'm working on a version of something where there'll be another artist working on this with me as well … Possibly something built around the album. I'm just full of surprises."
The album was recorded while Mariah was making her LP, Daydream.
MARIAH CAREY'S 'HONEY: THE REMIXES' IS BEING RELEASED ON VINYL
In other Mariah news, the singer's Honey: The Remixes album is being released on vinyl for the first time in celebration of the 25th anniversary of her Butterfly album.
She tweeted, "More #Butterfly25 goodies!Pre-Order Honey: The Remixes – for the first time on vinyl! 2LP's on honey colored vinyl."
The vinyl is available exclusively through Urban Outfitters and will ship in February 2023.
With Motley Crue's 'Stadium Tour' now part of the history books, bassist Nikki Sixx recalled to Entertainment Tonight how he happy he is the band decided to sign for the gig. The massively successful North American run featured co-headliners Def Leppard along with Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts.
Blabbermouth transcribed Sixx's chat and reported him explaining his mindset prior to the tour: "We were friends, and we were fine and everything's good, We're just like, 'No, (a tour's) a lot of work.' When you see the show out there, you're gonna go, 'Wow.' I mean, it's years of work putting it together, and then they were like, 'No, not eight arenas, eight stadiums,' and I was like, 'Let me call Tommy (Lee).' I was like, 'Hey, dude, they're talking about us touring,' and he's like, 'No.' Because we wanted to stand by what we said (about retiring from the road), and then it was 16 (shows) and 36, which we just entered our 36th stadium, and there's, what, another 120 next year and the year after that, so, we're grateful we said yes."
Sixx went on to say, "We're having a blast. I mean, we're all having a blast, everyone's just having a good time. . . it's amazing to be 41 years together? I mean, sometimes it's just like, 'What?' Stepping into some sacred territory there."
Nikki Sixx told us Motley Crue's enduring popularity is based on their history and their reputation as a live act: "When the original band is back together, they're like, 'I know what that is. I know that it's potent. I know that this band -- more than most bands -- is completely over the top and we need to see it, because we never got to see it.' The people that did see it, it's like, 'You've got to go see this. It's the real deal.'''
Goth metal icons Tristania have broken up after 26 years. The band announced the news on social media in a statement, saying, "After 26 years on the international metal scene, the members of Tristania have this week taken the heavy decision to call it a day." They also confirmed that their upcoming scheduled performances and tour dates have been canceled.
The statement continued, "Last week came the news about a serious medical situation in near family within the band, which will make it impossible to pursue both short and long-term plans with the band. This came as a shock to us and we are truly sorry to share this."
The statement added, "Tristania is a band that has never made compromises in our art, and it has never been an option for us to present anything not 100 percent to our fans and followers... We want to thank everyone we have worked together with for almost three decades of writing music, recording, releasing and touring, but especially we would like to give an extra heartful thank you to Continental Concerts that has stood by us in thick and thin through a significant part of the band's career."
John Bonham's grandson -- and the son of Jason Bonham -- Jaeger Henry Bonham -- has just dropped his latest punk-flavored single, titled, "Hate Me."
The tattooed rock royal spoke to Ultimate-Guitar.com about the new single explaining, "I was in the studio one night after a long day, and my producer Omer Biton and I started to make a beat with some drums and bass. All of a sudden the day had just started turning into lyrics."
Bonham -- who only uses his first and middle name for his recording -- shed light on why he's cast aside the famous moniker: "I was always talked about due to my last name, so I thought why not switch it up a little and just basically took my last name and replaced it with my middle name and it had a nice ring to it."
Ozzy Osbourne has unreleased songs featuring Taylor Hawkins in the can. Both Ozzy and producer Andrew Watt spoke with Rolling Stone while promoting the new Prisoner Number 9 album. Watt explained that for the album, they enlisted the help of Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chat Smith along with Hawkins -- with the track "God Only Knows " featuring both drummers. Watt revealed, "There's a bunch of other stuff with Ozzy and Taylor, as well, that's going to be used for another thing." No word yet on what that project might be or when it might see release.
Ozzy also took time out to address the early-'80s Eddie Van Halen - Randy Rhodes feud: "I heard recently that Eddie said he taught Randy all his licks. . . he never (did). To be honest, Randy didn't have a nice thing to say about Eddie. Maybe they had a falling out or whatever, but they were rivals."
New music from Paramore is on the way. The band announced their first new single in five years will be titled "This Is Why," and will be out on September 28.
Earlier this year, singer Hayley Williams confirmed that the band was in the studio working on their 6th album. Their last release was 2017's After Laughter.
As they made the announcement on their socials, there was no hint of what it may sound like. Fans were posting and hoping for at least a snip of the audio before the due date.
The song will drop just in time for of Paramore's upcoming US tour, which launches on October 2nd in Bakersfield and runs through the middle of November.
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