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Babymetal/Electric Callboy: Ratatata A standalone single from two genre blending bands: Babymetal’s Japanese Dance-Pop + Heavy Metal and Electric Callboy’s Thrash-Dance. Hellacopters: Stay With You This is the band’s first new original song since the release of their ’22 comeback album “Eyes Of Oblivion.” “It was originally intended to be included on the upcoming LP but…
The Struts will perform during a special June 5th edition of the Soho Sessions concert series supporting Everytown for Gun Safety. Actress Julianne Moore, a founding chair of the Everytown Creative Council, and singer Karen Elson will host to raise awareness and support for Everytown’s work combatting and preventing gun violence across the country. The…
Some 600 songs have garnered more than a billion streams on Spotify. Here are the Top 5 Rock acts with the most songs that have crossed the billion threshold. 5. Guns N’ Roses Sweet Child O’ Mine Welcome To The Jungle Paradise City 4. AC/DC Back In Black Thunderstruck Highway To Hell You Shook Me…
Guns N’ Roses’ “Appetite For Destruction” was honored (on 5/21) by the Grammy Hall of Fame at the NOVO Theater in L.A. The song was added to the Hall of Fame earlier this year. This marked a turnaround for the Grammys. When it was released on July 21st, ’87, “Appetite For Destruction” and songs from the album…
The three part “Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza” is exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada (May 22nd in the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria). “Lolla” captures the 30-plus-year relationship between the festival and its cofounder Perry Farrell (pictured), frontman for Jane’s Addiction and Porno For Pyros. The Lollapalooza…
Disney has announced “Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,” a documentary chronicling the group’s preparation for their ’23-’24 world tour. It’s “the most in-depth look ever” at the creation of Springsteen’s concerts,” stated a press release and opens “a new door to Springsteen’s creative process.” Additionally, the documentary will feature “rare archival clips…
Lzzy Hale (Halestorm) played the first of four shows Friday fronting Skid Row. She replaced Erik Grönwall who quit the band to focus on his health. When the pairing of Hale and Skid Row was announced last month, the Halestorm frontwoman took to Instagram. “I started listening to Skid Row when I was a teenager growing up…
On this day… R.E.M.’s seventh album, “Out Of Time” was #1 on the Billboard 200. The album had the songs “Losing My Religion” and “Shiny Happy People.” The melodic idea for “Losing My Religion” originated when guitarist Peter Buck experimented with a mandolin while watching a baseball game. Singer Michael Stipe wrote the lyrics about what…
Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has released the “Blues-oriented” album, “Orgy Of The Damned.” The effort has notable guest vocalists (see the track list below). The lead single was a cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor,” featuring vocals by AC/DC’s Brian Johnson with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler on the harmonica. “It was one of the first songs I learned in my very first band,” shared…
One-time platinum recording artist, Marilyn Manson has signed with Nuclear Blast Records, a major independent Metal label. Following sexual allegations against him, Manson was dropped in ’21 by his record label Loma Vista – after twelve albums. Accusations of sexual assault, civil lawsuits and other incidents (blowing his nose on a videographer to a school…