This Week in Rock

“A Night Of Mellon Collie And Infinite Sadness,” an opera based on the Smashing Pumpkins album, ‘Mellon Collie And Infinite Sadness,” will be staged across seven nights only In Chicago, November 21st – 30th. Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, with the help of Chicago’s Lyric Opera, blends opera, Rock, and performance art. There are new commissioned arrangements…

Jack White: You Got Me Searchin’ This track by the former White Stripes frontman is a non-album B-side to “That’s How I’m Feeling,” a featured track on White recent “No Name” album. Hinder: Everything Is A Cult “While most people in America have much more in common than they might want to admit, we all…

Jack White has announced the “No Name” world tour, The tour supports White’s album of the same name which dropped last July. There will stops in Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City before the trek plays a run of shows in Australia. White returns to North America for a set of east coast dates before…

Linkin Park, largely inactive since ’17’s “One More Light,” – the last album before lead vocalist Chester Bennington’s suicide, the band introduced Emily Armstrong, co-founder of Dead Sara, as their new co-vocalist (with Mike Shinoda) and Colin Brittain, a songwriter and producer, as drummer Rob Bourdon’s replacement, during a ‘24 live performance event. Linkin Park band…

Poppy has released her sixth album, “Negative Spaces.” The set features the track “They’re All Around Us.” It was produced and co-written by former Bring Me The Horizon member Jordan Fish. Earlier this year, Bad Omens and Poppy issued a collaborative single “V.A.N.” She was also featured on the Knocked Loose single “Suffocate.”  Last June, Poppy released “New Way Out,” which was produced by…

As I Lay Dying’s eighth full-length studio album “Through Storms Ahead,” is out. The album was finished before four bandmembers – bassist Ryan Neff, guitarist Ken Susi, guitarist Phil Sgrosso and drummer Nick Pierce – announced their departures. Perhaps the title was prophetic. From the album, the band released the single “We Are The Dead” featuring…

Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees/Mad Season), Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes) and singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur are the Silverlites.  The band’s self-titled debut, featuring the lead single, “Don’t Go, Don’t Stay,” has arrived. “We used a classic songwriting form, which is often forgotten in this day and age,” explained Martin regarding the lead track and the album….

Nickelback has unfurled “Live From Nashville.” The set was recorded in Nashville in August ’23 as part of Nickelback’s “Get Rollin’” tour. There are guest appearances by Chris Daughtry, Country Rock’s Josh Ross and Brantley Gilbert (for a cover of Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road”) and Hardy (“Sold Out”). The lead single was “San Quentin.” “Live From Nashville” Tracks: 01. San Quentin02. Savin’ Me (with Chris Daughtry)03. Far Away04. Animals05. Someday06. Worthy To Say07. Figured…

The Funeral Portrait is #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated November 16th) with “Suffocate City,” featuring Spencer Chamas, the lead vocalist for the Heavy Metal band Ice Nine Kills.   The Funeral Portrait formed in ’14 and currently consists of Lee Jennings (vocals), Cody Weissinger (guitar), Caleb Freihaut (guitar), Robert Weston (bass) and…

Next year’s edition of the “Welcome To Rockville” festival will return to the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, May 15th-18th.  The headliners for the 14th edition of Welcome To Rockville are: Thursday (15th): Shinedown, Rob Zombie & 3 Doors Down Friday (16th): Green Day, Alice In Chains (pictured above) & Good Charolette Saturday (17th): Linkin Park, Incubus…