Slash Donates Tour Proceeds To Non-Profits

Slash Donates Tour Proceeds To Non-Profits

Following the conclusion of his 23-date “S.E.R.P.E.N.T.” Festival trek, Slash has donated the full $125,0000 raised to five nonprofit organizations handpicked by the Guns N’ Roses guitarist.   The “S.E.R.P.E.N.T.” festival, which stands for Solidarity, Engagement, Restore, Peace, Equality N’ Tolerance, was created by Slash to use touring proceeds to lift marginalized communities and support mental health initiatives. The non-profits…

Poppy Presents Two New Songs

Poppy Presents Two New Songs

Poppy has shared two lyric videos for “The Cost Of Giving Up” and the synth-driven “Crystallized.” The songs will appear on her upcoming sixth record, “Negative Spaces,” out November 15th. Earlier this year, Poppy released “V.A.N.” in collaboration with Metalcore’s Bad Omens and then was featured on the Knocked Loose single “Suffocate.” Last summer she released the single, “New Way…

Paramore’s Haley Williams Responds To “Toxic Workplace” Complaints

Paramore’s Haley Williams Responds To “Toxic Workplace” Complaints

Paramore’s Haley Williams disputes allegations that a salon she co-founded in Nashville, Fruits Hair Lab, fostered a toxic workplace environment. William made a statement coinciding with World Mental Health Day (10/10 that was posted on one of Williams’ other business ventures, the hair dye company, Good Dye Young. Williams spoke about her own mental health…

Scott Stapp To Debut At The Opry

Scott Stapp To Debut At The Opry

Creed frontman Scott Stapp will perform at the Grand Ole Opry on October 23rd. He will give the first live performance of “If These Walls Could Talk,” featuring Dorothy Martin, frontwoman of Dorothy. The song is on Stapp’s fourth solo album, “Higher Power.” “I am humbled by this invitation and grateful for the Opry’s tradition of including outliers like me,”…

Oasis Sell Out

Oasis Sell Out

Oasis sold half a million tickets in just an hour last Friday (10.4) for their North American tour. ‘Oasis Live ’25’ reunion tour tickets with shows in Toronto, Chicago, New Jersey, Los Angeles and Mexico City were rapidly snapped up. The band has already sold out 19 stadium shows across the U.K. and Ireland schedule…

Pink Floyd Rights Go For $400 Million

Pink Floyd Rights Go For $400 Million

Pink Floyd reportedly have sold the rights to their recorded music, name and likeness to Sony for $400 million. A number of parties, including Warner Music, Hipgnosis and BMG, were interested in doing a deal that would expand the use of Floyd’s catalog through licensing agreements in movies, TV shows, gaming and other media. The deal…

Garbage
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Garbage

Often bands are missing a key element and go looking for it in another band. Drummer Butch Vig, multi-instrumentalist Duke Erikson and guitarist/bassist Steve Marker first saw the Scottish-born Angelfish singer Shirley Manson on MTV’s “120 Minutes.” They hooked up with her when Angelfish toured the States. Manson went through what was termed an “introductory…

Ex-Delain Singer’s Third Solo Effort Has Dropped

Ex-Delain Singer’s Third Solo Effort Has Dropped

Charlotte Wessels has released “The Obsession,” her third studio set. The lead single was “The Exorcism.” “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…

Seether’s “The Surface Seems So Far” Has Arrived

Seether’s “The Surface Seems So Far” Has Arrived

Seether has unfurled their ninth studio effort, “The Surface Seems So Far.” The lead single was set opener “Judas Mind.” “‘Judas Mind‘ is a song about reaching an understanding that there are bad actors in our lives that are trying to force an outcome for us that we don’t see as our destiny,” explained frontman Shaun Morgan. “It’s about…