Dream Theater’s New Single

AC/DC top the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart this week with their ’90 hit “Thunderstruck” (from the band’s “The Razor’s Edge” set). “It started off from a little trick I had on guitar,” explained the band’s Angus Young (pictured). “We built the song up from that. We fiddled about with it for a few…

Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation will hold the fourth “Helping Hands Concert & Auction” December 13th at YouTube Theater in L.A. Once again, the host will be Jimmy Kimmel. The previous “Helping Hands” show in December ’22 raised approximately $3,000,000 — 100% of which went directly to All Within My Hands’ efforts supporting workforce education, the fight against hunger…

7/2 Heart postpones its “Royal Flush” tour so that singer Ann Wilson can undergo cancer treatment. She had undergone an operation to remove “something that, as it turns out, was cancerous.” 7/4 System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian continues his criticism of Imagine Dragons for playing a show in Baku, Azerbaijan because it helped “whitewash the dictatorial regime’s image.”…

Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke (pictured) slammed venues who take a cut of a band’s merchandise sales following a 12/8 show at the Armory in Minneapolis. Radke took to social media to state that the venue’s business practices were so upsetting that he “refused to sell . . .  merch” there. “(They) demanded I…

“My Hero” plays during an event in Arizona on Friday where presidential candidate Donald Trump receives an endorsement from a former indie presidential opponent Robert F. Kennedy. Trump’s campaign says they received a license from BMI’s Songview service to use the song. “Foo Fighters were not asked permission, and if they were, they would not…

Charlotte Wessels has issued her third full-length solo effort, “The Obsession.” “This album is significant, for on the one hand, telling such a deeply personal journey — through its unintended theme of fear and obsessive thoughts — and at the same time, representing the joy of finding the song’s true forms with everyone involved in the making…