This Week in Rock

Beartooth has shared a five-minute official documentary titled “Below The Surface.” In the film, Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo discusses how the pandemic inspired the band’s ’21 album “Below” (the “darkest record in my life”) and how ’23’s “The Surface” (“bringing some new things in my life to the surface, and thankfully, those turned out to be some pretty cool things.”) reflects his…

The Warning’s a new single and animated video for “S!ck,” has dropped.  According to the band “S!ck“ is “a song about fearing that you never lived out your life and desperately wanting to live it.” The Warning, from Monterrey, was formed in ’13 by the Villarreal Vélez sisters: Daniela (guitar, lead and backing vocals, piano), Alejandra (bass guitar,…

MusiCares Person Of The Year benefit gala honoring Bon Jovi founder, namesake and frontman Jon Bon Jovi (pictured center with the band) featured performances by Sammy Hagar and Orianthi covering Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name” while Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH delivered a version of “Have A Nice Day.” The event is held annually prior Grammy Awards telecast….

The 2024 Grammy Awards are February 4th at Crypto.com Arena in L.A. The following are the lists of the nominees in the Rock/Metal categories: Best Rock Performance For vocal/instrumental, duo/group or collaborative Rock recordings. “Lux Æterna,” Metallica (pictured) “Sculptures Of Anything Goes,” Arctic Monkeys “More Than A Love Song,” Black Pumas “Not Strong Enough,” boygenius “Rescued,” Foo…

Mötley Crüe‘s Nikki Sixx and his wife, Courtney, have been awarded legal fees in an ongoing case involving a woman who allegedly has been stalking them and their four-year-old daughter. “We are asking for three years in jail,” Sixx wrote in a post. “We are using the legal system to hold bad people accountable. When your daughter…

Arch Enemy’s video for “The Eagle Flies Alone,” originally released in 2017, has surpassed 100-million views on YouTube.  The song, written by the Melodic Death Metal band’s founding member and guitarist Michael Amott, is on their tenth album, “Will To Power.”  “It’s a testament to the hard work, creativity, and passion that went into creating something we…

AC/DC‘s “Back In Black“ video has officially topped a billion views on YouTube. The clip, which was uploaded to YouTube in ’12, is AC/DC’s second song to reach the milestone, after “Thunderstruck” hit one billion views in ’21. “Back In Black,” the title track from the band’s seventh studio album was released ’80 and was the first album to feature Brian Johnson as lead…

Paramore have released their take on Talking Heads‘ hit single “Burning Down The House” as part of a forthcoming “Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense” album. The cover features frontwoman Hayley Williams taking on the iconic song that David Byrne once called “an expression of liberation.” Other artists contributing to…

Nita Strauss will perform the U.S. national anthem prior to the “Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum” on February 4th in L.A. “The Call Of The Void,“ is the guitarist’s most recent album. The single “Dead Inside” with Disturbed’s David Draiman handling vocals went to #1 on Billboard’s Rock Airplay chart, Strauss is also known as…

Journey’s anthem “Don’t Stop Believin‘” has officially been declared the “Biggest Song Of All Time” by Forbes. According to the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA), the18-times platinum-certified single (based on pure sales and other forms of consumption–namely streaming), has been heard on radio, TV (network and cable), in films and at countless sporting events. It’s also a standard…