This Week in Rock

It was “Coheed And Cambria Day” on Sunday (4/13) in Nyack, New York, the community that supported the band and gave them their earliest notoriety. Mayor Joe Rand handed the Prog Rock band the key to Nyack during a ceremony that was followed by a brief acoustic set at the Nyack SpringFest Street Fair.  Coheed And…

Green Day made their first Coachella appearance on Saturday (4/12) playing “American Idiot,” “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.” “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” with an audience member on guitar, and “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Wake Me Up When September Ends The day before, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong joined the…

Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton has released “Without The Pain.” “Brother,” written by Morton and Country artists Cody Jinks and Travis Denning, is a featured track from the album. “On a long bus ride, somewhere in the middle of a Lamb Of god tour, I scribbled some lyrics down in my notebook,” recalled Morton. “Sometime after,…

Drowning Pool has released “Madness,” the follow-up to last September’s single, “Revolution (The Final Amen),” which was first new music with vocalist Ryan McCombs (pictured) in 13 years. “We are inspired by the multiple possibilities for millions of conflicting disputes across many schools of thought and ideals across this world” wrote the band regarding “Madness.”. “Embrace…

Ghost have released the official music video for “Lachryma,” the second single from their sixth album, “Skeletá,” which will arrive April 25th. “It opens with more of a riffage. And I guess now comes off as somewhat of a ‘typical’ Ghost mash-up, where it’s heavy on one end and met with a big, bombastic chorus,” Ghost’s Tobias Forge told…

Ex-Butcher Babies vocalist Carla Harvey has released “Sick Ones,” the lead single from her new project The Violent Hour.  The track, co-written by Harvey and her fiancé, Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante, features Mötley Crüe guitarist John 5. “‘Sick Ones’ is a Rock ‘n’ Roll anthem about cutting the toxic people out of your life,” said Harvey. “It was written at a vulnerable time in my life when…

4/6 The Beatles Original Drummer Retires Pete Best (pictured on the far left) announces he is stepping away from public appearances and performances “due to personal circumstances.” He was The Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr. In fact, he was sacked by the band in favor of Ringo, “And at that time, I didn’t think they’d go…

Epica has release its ninth studio album, “Aspiral.” The title, referencing renewal and inspiration, is derived from the eponymous sculpture created in ’65 by Polish sculptor and painter Stanisław Szukalski. “(Producer) Joost Van Den Broek became a little bit like the seventh Epica bandmember,” noted vocalist Simone Simons (pictured above). “And it’s great working with him. Yeah, we were…

Disturbed‘s “I Will Not Break” is #1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated April 12th), giving the band its 13th chart topper. “I Will Not Break,” currently a standalone single, follows the band’s eighth studio album, “Divisive,” which debuted at #1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart in December ’22 and has moved 184,000 equivalent…