The Week In Rock: December 14th – December 21st

The Week In Rock: December 14th – December 21st

12/14 Blink-182 Guitarist Discusses New Jersey Drones UFO enthusiast/expert (and Blink-182 guitarist) Tom DeLonge weighs in on the rash of mystery drones recently seen in the New Jersey sky. “There is a good chance that these things could potentially be ‘mimicking’ other aircraft,” the guitarist offered.  The White House says “the sightings to date include…

Rock News Review: August 2024

Rock News Review: August 2024

8/1 Metallica Partner Again with Wolverine Boots & Apparel  The band’s’ All Within My Hands and the apparel company create a unique, high-quality boot to benefit the Metallica Scholars Initiative which supports the enhancement of community colleges’ career and technical education programs.  8/1 Megadeth Offers Megadeth VMK25 Headphones The limited-edition headphones are manufactured in collaboration with Valco…

Motörhead’s Lemmy Immortalized In London

Motörhead’s Lemmy Immortalized In London

Motörhead frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister has been enshrined at one of his favorite haunts to relax and socialize — Stringfellows gentlemen’s club in London. A miniature replica of Lemmy’s custom urn containing a portion of his ashes was installed at the club (on 12/18), ensuring Lemmy can permanently hold court at one of his beloved places. Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell…

Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Still Charting

Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Still Charting

Nirvana’s Grunge classic “Nevermind” has become the ninth album to ever spend 700 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. “Nevermind” was released September 24th, 1991. Just weeks later it knocked Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” from the top spot on the Billboard 200. Produced by Butch Vig, Nirvana’s second full-length effort was the band’s first major label release and also…

Arch Enemy’s 2025 North American Tour

Arch Enemy’s 2025 North American Tour

Arch Enemy have announced a spring 2025 North American tour. The trek will kick off on April 14th in San Diego and run through May 16th in Atlanta, with festival appearances at Sonic Temple, Welcome To Rockville and Milwaukee Metal Fest. “We can’t wait to reconnect with our amazing North American fans this spring,” says Arch Enemy’s founding guitarist Michael…

Kid Rock Takes On Concert Ticketing Practices

Kid Rock Takes On Concert Ticketing Practices

Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie) has met with Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi to tackle concert ticketing issues. “I look forward to working with her and the whole administration to help fix the fiasco of buying concert tickets,” wrote Rock on social media. “Gonna open a can of whoop ass on the bots,…

Upcoming Tours: Fozzy, Static-X & Hollywood Undead/Tech N9ne

Upcoming Tours: Fozzy, Static-X & Hollywood Undead/Tech N9ne

Fozzy Fozzy, with Chris Jericho, has announced its “2025th Anniversary Tour.” The trek will kick off in Springfield, MO on April 17th and conclude in Wyandotte, MI on May 12th. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, December 19th at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets/Tour Information Static-X Static-X’s original “Wisconsin Death Trip” lineup of Tony Campos (bass), Koichi Fukuda (guitar) and Ken Jay (drums) along with…

King Diamond’s New Single: Spider Lilly

King Diamond’s New Single: Spider Lilly

“Spider Lilly” is the first single/video from King Diamond’s forthcoming horror trilogy. Part one is titled “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920.“ The “Spider Lilly” video was filmed at the very haunted Pennhurst Asylum outside of Philadelphia. The filming occurred two days before Halloween. But only King Diamond (the person) and actress Jodi Cachia could participate on that specific day. On the song, King…

Rock Oldies Prevail On Year-End Billboard Chart

Rock Oldies Prevail On Year-End Billboard Chart

Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1977 album, “Rumours.” is the best-selling Rock album on Billboard’s 2024 year-end chart, landing at #34… one spot ahead of Elton John’s 2017 “Diamonds” collection. Only 23 albums on the 200 were by Rock artists and only one, Linkin Park’s “Papercuts,” was released this year. Only 6 albums were not a compilation – Fleetwood Mac,…

Tattoo You:  Bands That Inspire The Most Tattoo Searches

Tattoo You: Bands That Inspire The Most Tattoo Searches

Pink Floyd is the #1 Rock band inspiring the most tattoo related searches with Guns N’ Roses coming in second,  That’s according to a study by tattoo artists at LLTattoo in Switzerland who identified Rock bands that inspire the most tattoo searches worldwide. LLTattoo examined Google Keyword Planner to reach their conclusions. Pink Floyd, the band with…