This Week in Rock

The former Morrison Hotel, made famous by The Doors and their 1970 album of the same name, burned for nearly two hours on Thursday (12/26) before more than 100 firefighters brought the flames under control. The four-story downtown L.A. building, vacant for more than a decade, was featured on the cover of The Doors’ fifth…

The Lamb Of God guitarist is celebrating six years of sobriety. “I woke up this morning (12/27) with 6 years clean & sober,” Morton wrote on social media. “This comes after decades of drinking nearly every day & with the final 10 years of that compounded by an aggressively progressive opiate addiction that almost killed…

The Bob Dylan biopic, directed by James Mangold, is in U.S. theaters. The film, starring Timothée Chalamet, was based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wood and follows Dylan’s life and career from January 1961, when he moved to New York City to his 1965 concert at the Newport Folk Festival. The film’s title…

11/1 The Cure’s New Album “Songs Of A Lost World” contains the ethereal track “Alone.” Frontman Robert Smith (pictured center) has stated “Alone” “unlocked the record.” “As soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song – and I felt the whole album come into focus,” Smith concluded. 11/2…

10/2 Coal Chamber Cancel Aftershock Festival Appearance Frontman Dez Fafara’s health forces the band to skip the October 10th-13th festival in Sacramento. After becoming ill Fafara went to the hospital five days earlier. 10/2 System Of A Down Drummer Ends Endorsement Deal  John Dolmayan ends his endorsement deal with Tama drums. “It’s time to make a change,” posts Dolmayan….

9/1 Skillet Say They Are Fine With Politicians Using Their Music “I don’t care who plays my song at their political rally, because I believe in America over party.” explained Skillet’s John Cooper. “I believe in the foundations of this country,” explained Cooper during an On The Road To Rock podcast. 9/2 Oasis Want To Shut Down…

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…

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.”…