Pulse – Rock Music News

Rage Against The Machine have announced the rescheduled dates for the first leg of their North American Public Service Announcement reunion tour. The band postponed the trek, which was supposed to happen in 2020, but will now launch on February 22nd of 2023 in Las Cruces, NM.

The first leg of the tour will still feature opening act Run The Jewels.

The second leg of the tour is still scheduled as planned for 2022, kicking off on July 9th in East Troy, WI.

Third Eye Blind has tapped Taking Back Sunday to be their direct support the headliners' Summer Gods: 25 Years In The Blind Tour. The run will also feature opening act Hockey Dad.

Taking Back Sunday's John Nolan told theprp.com, "In the early days of Taking Back Sunday, Adam (Lazzara) and I used to drive around in his old Honda listening to Third Eye Blind's second album, Blue; windows down, smoking cigarettes and singing along. If someone had told us back then that one day we'd tour together, it would've blown our minds. We're so excited to be out with Third Eye Blind this summer, singing our songs and singing along with theirs."

The tour kicks off on June 22nd in Troutdale, OR.

Tool took part in their tradition of tour pranking during their recent final stop of the first leg of their U.S. tour. Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan and friends wore blonde and red wigs to crash the stage during Blonde Redhead's performance.

The prank took place last week at the FTX Arena in Miami, Florida.

Tool is set to hit the road with The Acid Helps this weekend. Check out the dates below

02/19 Boston, MA – TD Garden
02/20 Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center
02/22 Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
02/23 Belmont Park, NY – UBS Arena
02/26 Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
02/27 Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center
03/01 Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
03/03 Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
03/04 Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
03/06 Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena
03/08 Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena
03/10 Chicago, IL – United Center
03/12 Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center Arena
03/13 Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
03/15 Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center
03/17 Moline, IL – TaxSlayer Center
03/18 St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center
03/20 Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

Ed Sheeran will be dropping his collaboration with Bring Me the Horizon on Friday (Feb. 18th).

Sheeran and the British rock band opened up the Brit Awards last week (Feb. 8th) with a rock version of the singer's 2021 track "Bad Habits." Bring Me the Horizon shared the pre-save link for the studio version of the song on their social media accounts Monday (Feb. 14th).

The post included a videotaped conversation with Sheeran in which he says, "It's just a joy to be able to play electric guitar and actually rock out properly."

Corey Taylor will release a new EP of cover songs and acoustic tracks, called CMFB…Sides, on February 25th. The nine-song project features the just-releasednewly-released first single "On the Dark Side."

The CMFB…Sides EP is the followup to Taylor's 2020 debut album, CMFT. The new project includes acoustic versions of two songs from that LP -- "Halfway Down" and "Kansas."

Cover songs featured on the EP include Metallica's "Holier Than Thou," Dead Boys' "All This and More," and KISS' "Got to Choose."

Jack White released the video for the title track of his Fear Of The Dawn album on Friday (February 11th). The clip was directed by White. "Fear Of The Dawn" is the b-side to the recently-released "Love Is Selfish," which appears on White's second album of the year, Entering Heaven Alive, due out on July 22nd. The "Love Is Selfish" b/w "Fear Of The Dawn" limited edition tri-color 7" was available exclusively at Third Man Records Nashville & Cass Corridor Detroit on Saturday (February 12th), as well as at Third Man London this Saturday (February 19th).

White recently announced the first dates of The Supply Chain Issues Tour, with shows in North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. These are White's first headline shows in four years, beginning with two sold out Fear of the Dawn album release shows, set for April 8 and 9 at Detroit's Masonic Temple Theatre.

Slash made it clear that Guns N' Roses will remain an active concern for its band members with plenty more studio tracks still to come. Slash is currently out on the road with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators in support of their new album, 4.

Coming on February 25th is Guns N' Roses' four-track EP, titled Hard Skool, marking the first set to feature Axl Rose, Duff McKagan, and Slash since the band's 1993 covers album "The Spaghetti Incident?" When pressed about the news proper Guns album, Slash told Rolling Stone, "There's a bunch of new stuff also coming, maybe a little bit more complex, but it's just as much fun. . . I know we've got some songs and we're releasing another one at some point soon, and there'll be another one after that. As far as the record is concerned, that remains to be seen as far as a whole package, but I feel pretty confident that at some point down the road, there will be (one)."

Slash went on to talk candidly about how it feels for the three principal members of Guns N' Roses to be working together again: "I think the biggest thing was getting past this horrible black cloud that was perpetuating, having to do with me and Axl. We had a lot of issues born out of third-party stuff. It was very insidious, and the longer we didn't talk, the more it got blown out of proportion. But the more significant part was, when Axl and Duff and I first got into a room playing, it was just like this f***ing thing that I can't even really verbally describe. It was like, 'Whoa, that's what that is.' Then, just to go out and play together, it's like, I wonder how the f*** we got into that mess that we were in in the '90s."

When we last caught up with Slash, we asked him how he knows when he's got the right "chemistry" in whatever band he's playing with: "I think the most important thing about chemistry is just connecting people together. You can have great musicians and not be able to get a spark very easily. It's really about people connecting and music being the conduit, and I think that's probably what it is about chemistry that makes it work for some people and not for others."

Tobias Forge has opened up about his songwriting process. During an interview with the Pittsburg Post Gazette, he said, "When you're writing, you just wanna make a really good record, drenched in as many hooks as you can possibly muster. The only problem with trying to create records for me, besides ability, is trying not to repeat myself."

He continued, "I always try to write songs that I have never written before. I always try to add songs to our repertoire that we don't have already and, lyrically, I also try to not use the rhymes that were done in the past."

He added, "That's probably the hardest because you sort of run out of rhymes and words and phrases and, thus, you need to really sharpen up. Sometimes it comes out really good and sometimes I can look back on lyrics and I'm like 'yecch.'"