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Train has released their new single, "Running Back (Trying To Talk To You)" from their upcoming album, AM Gold.

The multi-Grammy Award-winning band also revealed the album's track list of 11 new songs. Jewel is featured on a track called "Turn The Radio Up" and Sofia Reyes sings on "Cleopatra."

The album, which will be their 11^th, will be released on May 20 with their tour to kick off June 8, in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

TL;DR:

• Train has released their new single, "Running Back (Trying To Talk To You)"
• The album, AM Gold will be released May 20.
• Jewel and Sofia Reyes are both featured on songs.

Arcade Fire is set to replace Foo Fighters as the headliners of the Osheaga Music and Arts festival. According to Billboard, the festival will take place from July 29th-31st in Montreal, Canada. Other headliners of the three-day event are A$AP Rocky and Dua Lipa.

Foo Fighters canceled their planned tour and festival appearances following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins last month.

The wait is over for Rush fans with today's (April 15th) release of the 40th Anniversary edition of the band's breakthrough 1981 album, Moving Pictures. The new anniversary package has been issued in six distinct configurations, including the Super Deluxe Edition, three-CD Deluxe Edition, five-LP Deluxe Edition, one-LP Edition, Digital Deluxe Edition, and Dolby Atmos Digital Edition.

According to the original press release for the box set:

The Super Deluxe Edition includes three CD's, one Blu-ray Audio disc, and five high-quality 180-gram black vinyl LP's. The set encompasses the Abbey Road Mastering Studios 2015 remastered edition of the album for the first time on CD, along with two discs of previously unreleased and newly restored bonus live content newly mixed from the original analog live multi-tracks by Rush's original producer, Terry Brown, featuring the band's complete, unreleased Toronto concert from Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, on March 25th, 1981 -- titled Live In YYZ 1981.

The fourth bonus disc is a Blu-ray Audio disc with the core album newly mixed from the original multi-tracks in Dolby Atmos (a Rush catalog first!), Dolby TrueHD 5.1, and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround sound as done by noted producer/engineer Richard Chycki, alongside the previously available PCM Stereo mix.

Also included on the Blu-ray are four bonus videos: a brand-new video for "YYZ" plus three remastered vintage promo videos for "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight," and "Vital Signs." All of the vinyl in the Super Deluxe Edition has been cut via half-speed Direct to Metal Mastering (DMM) (another Rush catalog first!) on five 180-gram audiophile LP's.

Moving Pictures was originally released on February 12th, 1981. The set, which followed the previous year's Permanent Waves, peaked at Number Three on the Billboard 200 albums chart, stayed in the Top 10 for 13 weeks, and remains the trio's most popular and commercially successful outing to date. To date, Moving Pictures has sold over four million copies in the U.S. alone.

The album's third track, "YYZ," was nominated for a Best Rock Instrumental Performance Grammy. The title is the IATA Airport Code for Toronto Pearson International Airport. It is played repeatedly in Morse code at the beginning of the song.

The track "The Camera Eye" was the last Rush song to clock in at over 10 minutes. Until it was brought back on the 2010/2011 "Time Machine" tour, it had not been played live since 1983. The "Time Machine" tour saw Rush perform Moving Pictures in its entirety.

1981's Moving Pictures remains Rush's biggest album to date, while "Tom Sawyer" remains their best-known song. Alex Lifeson recalled for us the impact the record had on the Canadian band's career at the time: "That took us up to the next level. After the release of that album, we were headlining everywhere we were going, and, y'know, our audiences increased by a large percentage. And it just gave us that much of a push forward into what was coming."

Not too long ago, Rush's late, great drummer and lyricist Neil Peart spoke with George Stroumboulopoulos and shed light on the importance of the Moving Pictures sessions: "We had been together for six years and had had enough success that the industry wasn't leaning on us anymore about what we were going to do. And there was a real maturity (and) coming of age for us as a band, because we had been doing so much experimenting of all kinds as individual instrumentalists and as a group of instrumentalists. . . There was nothing self-indulgent, or so-called pretentiousness about it. It was true boyish enthusiasm that was involved in creating all those things."

Geddy Lee told us that having a legion of fans following you is still a pretty heady experience: "It's a tremendous compliment to be told that you've inspired someone or influenced someone musically, or in any aspect of life -- and beyond that, y'know, you really don't know what to say. Y'know, it's a nice thing, and it makes you feel like whatever you're doing has a little more validity, I guess."

Machine Gun Kelly is already making a list of groomsmen he wants in his upcoming wedding ceremony to Megan Fox and one of them is Pete Davidson.

Kelly and the Saturday Night Live star are longtime friends. In fact Kelly calls their friendship a "bromance." In an interview with Howard Stern, he joked that during the wedding, they should give Davidson a microphone for commentary.

A wedding date has not been announced, but since Machine Gunn Kelly is on tour through October, speculation is that it will be sometime after that.

TL;DR:

• Machine Gun Kelly says Pete Davidson will be a groomsmen in his wedding.
• Calls their friendship a bromance.
• He joked that they should give Davidson a microphone for commentary.

Slipknot's Corey Taylor brought the band's set to a halt while performing in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada on Monday (April 11th) after he noticed a fan who had been injured in the pit and he alerted medical personnel. Fan videos show Taylor instructing the crowd to "back up" and "give them room," adding, "They can't breathe if everybody's around them."

Loudwire.com reports that the band were performing the 14th song of the set, the Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses cut "Vermillion," when the incident happened.

After the concertgoer was attended to, Taylor said, "Make some noise for the medics. Let's make sure they get out. We've got a clear path right here. As soon as they're safe, we're starting this f**king thing again . . . "

Slipknot continue on their Knotfest Roadshow Tour with a show tonight (Thursday, April 14th) in Saskatoon, SK.

Volbeat have debuted the music video for their song "Temple Of Ekur." That song is included on the band's latest album, Servant Of The Mind, which was released last year.

"Temple Of Ekur" is the fifth single from Servant Of The Mind.

Metallica's Kirk Hammett is but one of the many rock legends interviewed for Classic Rock magazine's 300th issue, and shed light on his love for both the publication -- along with his favorite musicians the publication covers.

Hammett explained, "I don't read articles about myself! I read about what Jeff Beck was doing in 1971 with Carmine Appice and Tim Bogert, what David Bowie was doing in 1976 in L.A. I read to find out about Spooky Tooth, what was going on with Mountain when they were at Woodstock. I'm a product of the '70s. The foundation of all Metallica music is '70s hard rock. It stops at the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal."

He went on to say, "I'm a fan of so much '60, '70s stuff. I love reading about Tangerine Dream, Neu!. I read Prog, also. I only discovered prog about five years ago. I was never into it. I spent a lot of time listening to jazz, bossa nova, blues, classical, soul, and reggae."

Hammett touched upon the pros and cons of being a budding rock musician in 2022: "It is harder for these younger bands to get their music out there. I'll tell you one thing: because of covid there's upwards of half a billion new guitar players in the world, bro. That bodes very well for the future of music. It was inspirational for me just knowing there's gonna be that many more musicians in the world trying to make great music. There's so much disorganization in the world right now, so much division. Music brings people together. Music organizes people and their thoughts. Maybe because there's more musicians it'll make for a better future for everyone. I'm just being optimistic (laughs)."

Kirk Hammett was always amazed when his heroes actually became his friends. Not too long ago he shed light on his unique friendship with the Ramones' late-guitarist Johnny Ramone: "Johnny was a big influence early in my life, and later in my life too. Y'know, I became pretty good friends with Johnny about, I don't know, 1996 or something, and, yeah, it's hard to articulate, but I just wish he was still around. I mean, 'cause later on he was a really big influence in my life too, just hanging out with him."

Metallica next performs on April 27th in Santiago, Chile.

The band's next North American date is set for May 27th in Napa, California at BottleRock at Napa Valley Expo.

A 2007 Amy Winehouse concert performance will soon be released on vinyl. Live at Glastonbury, from Pyramid Stage will be out on June 3rd.

The double-live album set is a recording of her second Glastonbury appearance and includes irreverent soundbites and songs like "Tears Dry On Their Own," "Rehab," and "You Know I'm No Good," as well as early soul classics like "Monkey Man."

Amy Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, she was 27.

TL;DR:

• A 2007 Amy Winehouse concert, Live at Glastonbury, will be out on June 3rd.
• A double-live album that includes songs like "Tears Dry On Their Own," "Rehab," and "You Know I'm No Good," as well as early soul classics like "Monkey Man."

Five Finger Death Punch have released the title track from their upcoming studio album, AfterLife. The song is available to stream and download at all digital retailers. The band has also announced a North American headlining tour set to kick off in Portland, Oregon on August 19th. The 30-plus date run will also feature Megadeth, The HU and Fire From The Gods. Tickets go on sale starting on Friday (April 15th) at 10 a.m. local time at FiveFingerDeathPunch.com.

5FDP is also launching the official Five Finger Death Punch Fan Club. The Fan Club is available as a stand-alone app in the Apple, Android and Google Play app stores and is both a community for the most diehard fans, as well as the official one-stop shop for the latest 5FDP news. Premium Members of the Fan Club will receive numerous additional perks throughout the year.

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron -- who is also a member of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil have come together to form a new band called 3rd Secret.

The band is led by vocalists Jillian Raye of Giants in the Trees and Jennifer Johnson. Guitarist Bubba Dupree of Void is also a member of the band.

According to Rolling Stone, the new supergroup released a surprise self titled debut album last week.

See the tracklisting for the album below:

1. "Rhythm of the Ride"
2. "I Choose Me"
3. "Last Day of August"
4. "Winter Solstice"
5. "Lies Fade Away"
6. "Live Without You"
7. "Right Stuff"
8. "Dead Sea"
9. "Diamond in the Cold"
10. "Somewhere in Time"
11. "The Yellow Dress"

The Deftones appear to have settled on a new touring bassist in the wake of Sergio Vega's departure in March.

According to The PrP, Fred Sablan is reported to have been hired for their spring touring. He has toured with Marilyn Manson and also serves as a live basist for Chelsea Wolf.

The Deftones tour kicks off Thursday (April 14th) in Portland, Oregon.

Fans have been waiting for new Jimmy Page music since 1998's Walking Into Clarksdale collaboration with Robert Plant. During a new chat with Classic Rock magazine, the Led Zeppelin co-founder was pressed about what he's been doing creatively since lockdown began. Page said, "Archiving, working on various paths and routes of projects, but I'm not going to say what the projects are. There's various things I'm working towards. It's not just one thing, it's multiple things, and I don't want to even give a hint, because if. . . you give a one-sentence sound bite, and then if it doesn't materialize it's like: 'Why didn't you do a solo album?' So I don't want to say what it is that I've got planned, because I don't want to give people the chance to misinterpret it."

Page remained cryptic as he went on to say, "I really can't put on record what the new record is. I'll leave it to your imagination. The thing is there are so many ways I could present myself. . . within a space of time (laughs). I've come across all these various projects I did. And one of the things I did recently is listen to a recording I made of the Marrakesh Folk Festival, with the tribes coming in from all over Morocco, in 1975. It's fascinating. Tribal stuff passed on from father to son and kept alive because of the folk festivals, Essaouira, and all the rest. Where there are people who want to hear the Berbers. I certainly do, it's good for the soul."

Jimmy Page recently explained the benefits of making music in collaboration: "The fact of playing with other, y'know, personalities -- musically, so, to speak -- can be an inspiration and you take it in an organic sense, the same way that we got here at this point. Y'know, working with the Egyptians, the Moroccans, and y'know, the Celtic areas. I mean, you can be inspired my working with these people; and that's basically what it is. If you get in a room and there's a particular, sort of, identity of sound coming from somewhere, and you can get inspired by it, and who knows what comes next? But up till this point, it's been pretty good." SOUNDCDUE

IN OTHER LED ZEPPLELIN-RELATED NEWS

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss have updated their North American itinerary with a string of summer dates set for after the their European run. The duo is touring in support of in support of their second album, Raise The Roof.

UPDATED: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss North American tour dates (subject to change):

June 1 - Canandaigua, NY - CMAC
June 3 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 4 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium
June 6 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
June 7 - Chicago, IL - Jay Pritzker Pavilion
June 9 - Indianapolis, IN - TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park
June 11 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 12 - Philadelphia, PA - TD Pavilion at The Mann
June 14 - Cary, NC - Koka Booth Amphitheatre
June 16 - Atlanta, GA - Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
June 17 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
August 15 - San Diego, CA - The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
August17 - Santa Barbara, CA - Santa Barbara Bowl
August 18 - Los Angeles, CA - The Greek Theatre
August 20 - Stateline, NV - Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys
August 21 - Berkeley, CA - Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley
August 23 - Napa, CA - Oxbow RiverStage
August 25 - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater
August 27 - Troutdale, OR - Edgefield Amphitheater
August 28 - Redmond, WA - Marymoor Park
August 30 - Salt Lake City, UT - Sandy Amp
September 1 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre
September 3 - Grand Prairie, TX - Texas Trust CU Theatre at Grand Prairie
September 4 - Austin, TX - Moody Amphitheater

Alice Cooper has just rolled out a 20-city North American fall tour. Cooper -- who plays on Thursday (April 14th) in Calgary with special guests Buckcherry -- kicks off the autumn run on September 7th in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and carries on through October 8th when he wraps the year up in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Alice Cooper told us that the days of blowing an audience's mind with stage theatrics have really changed over the decades: "I don't think you can shock an audience anymore, really. I mean, CNN's more shocking than anything Marilyn Manson or I can do, because (laughs), they used to hang me onstage, now you see people really getting hung on TV. So, the idea is just to bombard the audience with vaudeville-type of burlesque comedy -- but make sure the music is the basis of everything. I mean, you can't put icing on the cake without the cake. So a 10-hour rehearsal is nine hours on the music, and one hour on the theatrics."

UPDATED: Alice Cooper's North American tour dates (subject to change):

April 14 - Calgary, AB - Winsport Arena (with Buckcherry)
April 15 - Penticton, BC -South Okanagan Events Center (with Buckcherry)
April 16 - Abbotsford, BC - Abbotsford Ent & Sports Centre (with Buckcherry)
April 19 - Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (with Buckcherry)
April 20 - Seattle, WA - McCaw Hall (with Buckcherry)
April 22 - Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Resort (with Ace Frehley)
April 23 - Paso Robles, CA - Vina Robles Amphitheatre (with Ace Frehley)
April 24 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre (with Ace Frehley)
September 7 - Bethlehem, PA - Wind Creek Event Center
September 9 - Alton, VA - Blue Ridge Rock Festival
September 11 - Windsor, ON - The Colosseum at Caesar's
September 13 - Buffalo, NY - Shea's Buffalo (with Buckcherry)
September 14 - Binghamton, NY - Visions Arena (with Buckcherry)
September 16 - Albany, NY - The Palace Theater
September 17 - Atlantic City, NJ - Tropicana Casino & Resort
September 18 - Wallingford, CT - Toyota Oakdale Theatre
September 20 - Muncie, IN - Emens Auditorium
September 21 - Grand Rapids, MI - DeVos Hall
September 22 - Hammond, IN - The Venue at Horseshoe Casino
September 24 - Louisville, KY - Louder than Life Festival
September 25 - Chattanooga, TN - Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium
September 27 - Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theater
September 28 - St. Louis, MO - Stifel Theatre
September 30 - Cedar Rapids, IA - Paramount Theater
October 1 - Springfield, IL - Bank of Springfield Center
October 4 - Loveland, CO - Budweiser Event Center
October 6 - Prescott Valley, AZ - Findlay Toyota Center
October 8 - Las Vegas, NV - TBA

As expected, the latest Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album, Unlimited Love, debuted this week at Number One, marking the band's first chart-topper since 2006's Stadium Arcadium. Billboard reported, the album, "bows with 97,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 7th, according to Luminate. . . Of Unlimited Love's 97,500 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 82,500 (it's the top-selling album of the week); SEA units comprise 14,500 (equaling 18.96 million on-demand official streams of the set's songs); and TEA units comprise 500."

Unlimited Love marks the return of guitarist John Frusciante, who leaft the band in 2009. Heroin addiction originally took Frusciante out of action in 1993, but he rejoined the Peppers six years later, playing on 1999's massively successful Californication and 2002's By The Way. He left again after 2009's Stadium Arcadium, making some 14 studio LP's during an eclectic solo run.

Drummer Chad Smith told us a while back that he never imagined that his career would go as far as it has: "Never in my wildest dreams if you had come up to me and said, 'Hey, y'know, you're gonna move to California and join the Chili Peppers and then 25 years later you're gonna be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and you're gonna sell millions of records and travel all over the world and blah blah blah blah blah. . .' I'd have just said, 'You are hiiiiiigh.' I can't really comprehend it too much."

The key to the Chili Peppers remains the bond shared by frontman Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea. Not too long ago we asked Kiedis to sum up what it is about his friendship with Flea that has inspired all this incredible music: "Oh, I don't know because I'm a little too deeply in the forest to really see the trees like that. I can tell you how it hasn't changed. We still love each other with all of our hearts. Like with any long-term, intimately close friendship like that, you have a lot of highs and lows and this is just one of those marriages that persists."

Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band have added an 18-show fall leg to their upcoming tour. The new dates kick off on September 23rd at Bridgeport, Connecticut's Hartford Healthcare Amphitheatre, and wind down south of the border with a pair of gigs on October 19th and 20th at Mexico City's Auditorio Nacional.

The 2022 All Starr Band features an all-veteran lineup with Edgar Winter, Toto's Steve Lukather, Men At Work's Colin Hay, along with percussionist Warren Ham, drummer Gregg Bissonette, and Hamish Stuart from the Average White Band -- and a longtime Paul McCartney sideman.

Ringo said in a statement, "It is so great to finally announce all these shows we had planned for 2020, and I am really looking forward to playing them! How great to start at Casino Rama, where we've begun 5 All Starr tours, and then to go back to the Beacon, and to the Greek, which was the last show we played in 2019 on our 30th Anniversary tour. I can't wait to see all our fans and until then I'm sending everyone peace and love and see you soon!"

We caught up with Ringo prior to launching the last string of All Starr summer shows and asked him if he's getting excited to spend another season on the road: "Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It's exciting. Every time I put the All Starr's together, we end up in a room in some country -- we like to call it 'rehearsals' and, we all know what we're supposed to do, we get on with it, and we have a lot of fun. That's the only rule I have; do you wanna have fun in the summer? Then let's go. I'm not here to be tortured."

UPDATED: Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band tour dates (subject to change):

May 27, 28 - Rama, ON - Casino Rama
May 30 - Canandaigua, NY - CMAC
May 31 - Asbury Park, NJ - Paramount Theatre
June 2 - Boston, MA - Boch Center Wang Theatre (with The Avett Brothers)
June 3 - Hanover Theater - Worcester, MA
June 4 - Gilford, NH - Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion (with The Avett Brothers
June 6, 7, 8 - New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
June 10 - Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theater
June 11 - Easton, PA - State Theater
June 12 - Providence, RI - Providence PAC
June 14, 15 - Baltimore, MD - The Modell Lyric
June 17 - Lenox, MA - Tanglewood
June 18 - Pittsburgh, PA - PPG Paints Arena
June 19 - Philadelphia, PA - Metropolitan Theater
Jun 21 - Richmond, VA - Virginia Credit Union Live
June 22 - Atlanta, GA - Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
June 24 - St Augustine, FL - The St. Augustine Amphitheatre
June 25 - Hollywood, FL - Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
June 26 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
September 23 - Bridgeport, CT - Hartford Healthcare Amp
September 24 - Atlantic City, NJ - Hard Rock Etess Arena
September 26 - Montreal, Quebec - Place Bell
September 27 - Kingston, Ontario - Leon's Centre
September 30 - Mt Pleasant, MI - Soaring Eagle Casino
October 1 - New Buffalo, Mi - Four Winds Casino
October 2 - Prior Lake, MN - Mystic Lake Casino
October 4 - Winnipeg, Manitoba - Canada Life Centre
October 5 - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Sasktel Centre
October 6 - Lethbridge, Alberta - Enmax Centre
October 8 - Abbotsford, BC - Abbotsford Centre
October 9 - Penticton, BC - South Okanagon Events Centre
October 11 - Seattle, WA - Benaroya Hall
October 12 - Portland, OR - Arlene Schnitzer Hall
October 14 - San Jose, CA - San Jose Civic Center
October 15 - Paso Robles, CA - Vina Robles Amp
October 16 - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theater
October 19, 20 Mexico City, MX - Auditorio Nacional

Three Days Grace will bring their headlining Explosions Tour to the U.S. this summer, followed by a string of Canadian dates in November. The stateside trek launches on July 18th in Detroit, MI with special guests Wage War and Zero 9:36, while Three Days Grace get things underway on November 8th in Vancouver with opening acts The Warning and The Standstills. General on-sale for Canada begins on Thursday (April 14th) at 10 a.m. local time followed by the United States dates on Friday (April 15th) at 10 a.m. local time.

The band has partnered with PLUS1 for the U.S. tour dates, and $1 of every ticket will support tornado recovery efforts in Mayfield, Kentucky. The video for their new single, "Lifetime," was filmed in Mayfield. Three Days Grace posted about it yesterday (Monday, April 11th) on social media writing, "(It) is dedicated to the people of Mayfield, where one of the deadliest tornados in recent history devastated the town in December 2021."

Three Days Grace will release their new album, Explosions, on May 6th.

NINE INCH NAILS ADDS PHILLY SHOW TO TOUR: Nine Inch Nails have added a Philadelphia show to their spring tour. The band announced on Instagram that they will play The Met on May 24th. Tickets for the event will go on sale to the general public this Friday (April 15th).

KURT COBAIN'S ‘SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT' GUITAR HITS AUCTION BLOCK: Several items that once belonged to Kurt Cobain, including the guitar he played in the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, will be going up for bid at Julien's Auctions next month. Reuters reports that the left-handed 1969 Fender Mustang in Competition Lake Placid Blue Finish is expected to fetch somewhere between $600,000 and $800,000, at least. The auction, scheduled to take place online and in New York from May 20th to 22nd, will also include an original Kurt Cobain artwork of Michael Jackson and the Nirvana frontman's 1965 Dodge Dart.

The Black Crowes will release a new covers EP on May 4th, via Amazon Music, titled 1972. Glide magazine reported the band tracked the tunes back in January 2022 at L.A.'s famed Sunset Sound, with the project's first single -- a new take on the Temptations' "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone" out now. The other songs on the set are the Rolling Stones' "Rocks Off," T-Rex's "The Slider," Rod Stewart's "You Wear It Well," Little Feat's "Easy To Slip," and David Bowie's "Moonage Daydream."

Crowes frontman Chris Robinson said of the new collection, "The year 1972 was a watershed moment, some of the greatest rock and roll songs ever made came out of that year. To get our band back together in the studio, it had to be a celebration of rock n' roll. This record is about love and devotion to something that makes us feel good. We hope that it makes fans around the world feel the same."

On May 4th at 10:00 pm ET, the Black Crowes will be performing the EP live from the historic Whiskey a Go-Go in Los Angeles via Amazon Music's channel on Twitch. The date also marks the 50th anniversary of a legendary Little Feat performance at the famed venue in 1972.

Contrary to popular belief, Rich Robinson and his older brother, Chris, were not retro-obsessed Southern rock apostles while growing up: "Chris and I never sat down and said, 'We're gonna be in a band.' Like, we just started doin' it. We went through our little punk rock phase for about six months, and then it's easy to grow out of that -- 'cause we grew up in a really rich musical household, 'cause of my dad. So once we started getting into R.E.M., which spoke to us, 'cause we weren't into southern rock. We never associated ourselves with that. R.E.M. spoke to us, more because it was so unique sounding. When I first heard 'Radio Free Europe' on the radio, I was like. . . I'd never heard anything like that."

Disturbed seems to have finished work on their next studio album. Yesterday (Sunday, April 10th), David Draiman turned to Instagram to share a photo of a whiteboard which charted the band's recording progress showing 10 song titles along with the caption, "And that's a wrap people. #HolyS*itIsThisGood #epic @disturbed."

The 10 song titles are as follows:
Hey You
Divisive
Love To Hate
Part Of Me
Won't Back Down
Unstoppable
Take Back Your Life
Feeding The Fire
Bad Man
Don't Tell Me

Disturbed's last studio album, Evolution, was released in 2018.

Jack White both proposed to and married his girlfriend on stage in the middle of his concert on Friday (April 8th) at the Masonic Temple in Detroit. He popped the question after asking his now wife, Olivia Jean, to join him on stage for a duet of White Stripes' "Hotel Yorba."

White's parents and bandmates were in attendance, while White's Third Man Record's co-founder Ben Swank served as the officiant, according to People.com. Swank began the ceremony by quoting Prince in saying, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life."

This is White's third marriage.

Elle King tops the Mediabase Country chart this week with "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" featuring Miranda Lambert and is expected to top this week's Billboard chart as well. Elle wrote the song many years ago, and she tells us that seeing this song have such great success is especially meaningful. "It means the world to me, not in like, 'I need everything to go to number one,' but especially 'Drunk,' It's a wonderful feeling and to be still welcomed into the country world and to have a song that I wrote have this success and that I get to sing on it with my friend. It's just it's just unfolded so many beautiful blessings in my life and it means a lot, and I'm very, very proud of it."

Fans can catch Elle singing "Drunk" when she hits the road with Chris Stapleton for a string of dates on his All-American Road Show beginning later this month in Canada.

"Drunk" is nominated for Top Rock Song at the Billboard Music Awards, airing on May 15th on NBC.

Ozzy Osbourne has wrapped production on his latest album and 13th solo set. Ozzy posted a new Ross Halfin photo of him on social media, with a message to fans reading: "I'm so happy to let everyone know that I finished my new album this week and delivered it to my label Epic Records. I'll be sharing all the information about the album and its upcoming release with you in the next several weeks."

The still-untitled new album follows 2020's Ordinary Man, and features guests spots by such legendary players as Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Jeff Beck, Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan, Zakk Wylde, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme, Metallica's Robert Trujillo -- and Black Sabbath co-founder Tony Iommi guesting for the first time on a solo Ozzy project.

Ozzy Osbourne admitted to us a while back he's never been one for conventional lyrics: "I'm not one of these guys that can write about boy-meets-girl and, I mean, it's got to mean something to me. I don't write all the lyrics, but I have to say, 'Well, y'know, isn't that strange that that happened when this happened,' and I'll get going, y'know?"

SLIPKNOT TEASES KNOTVERSE: Slipknot dropped a mysterious teaser Friday (April 8th), but it's "probably nothing." The short Twitter clip, featuring the word, "Knotverse" is soundtracked by a sample from their 1999 track "742617000027." The audio is of a woman saying, "The whole thing, I think it's sick."

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE RELEASES DELUXE ALBUM: Bullet For My Valentine have confirmed the release of a deluxe version of 2021's self-titled album. The expanded version will feature the original ten tracks plus four new ones and the b-side "Stitches." The first of those new tracks "Omen" was released Friday (April 8).

Avril Lavigne is getting married. She posted photos online of the moment her artist/producer boyfriend, Mod Sun proposed to her.

The news comes soon after she was photographed in Los Angeles wearing a diamond engagement ring. However, the couple actually got engaged in late March during a trip to Paris and kept it secret until now.

He wrote on Instagram: "The day we met I knew you were the one. Together forever til our days are done."

The couple met in 2020 while working on music together and began dating that November. Mod Sun co-wrote and co-produced tracks for her new album, Love Sux, and she's featured on his single and video for the song, "Flames."

TL;DR:

• Avril Lavigne is getting married.
• She posted photos online of the moment her boyfriend, Mod Sun proposed.
• The couple met in 2020 while working on music together.