This Week in Rock

“Bonescraper” is Machine Head’s third single from their upcoming eleventh studio album, “Unatoned,” due April 25th. “This one is for those of us with darkness in our heart, a song about love lost, and a song for those who fail at love… but keep on trying… hence, we scrape our bones to numb the pain,” shared…

“Caramel,” the second track released from Sleep Token’s upcoming fourth album “Even In Arcadia,” has dropped.  It follows “Emergence,” which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Hard Rock chart, and held the top spot on iTunes.  The track garnered 9.9 million official U.S. streams in its first full streaming week and entered the Billboard Hot 100…

3/31 Concert Executive Order Signed President Donald Trump, with Kid Rock in attendance, signs an executive order that takes aim at ticket scalpers using “bots and other means to acquire large quantities of face-value tickets” and reselling them at “an enormous markup on the secondary market.”  4/1 Can Neil Young Return? Canadian-born Neil Young, a Trump critic, is…

 ‘From Me To U,” a collaboration between Babymetal and Poppy, has arrived. “I have been a fan of Babymetal for years and I am so happy for this song to finally be here,” enthused Poppy. “They have inspired me so much.” “Negative Spaces,” Poppy’s sixth studio album, dropped last year. The track will be on Babymetal’s fifth…

“We’re psyched to share that ‘Master Of Puppets’ has just made its way into Spotify’s Billions Club,” Metallica announced (on 4/4). The title track from Metallica’s third album, released in ’86. joins the band’s “Nothing Else Matters” and “Enter Sandman” in the Billions Club, a playlist launched in ’20 with songs that surpassed one billion streams on the…

Guitarists Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) and Richie Kotzen (The Winery Dogs) have rolled out “Black Light/White Noise,” featuring the lead single “White Noise.” “The song is about the rise of social media, how people get addicted to it, the power of it and how we get bombarded with it 24/7,” explained Smith. According to Kotzen the song originated…

L.A. Guns’ album, “Leopard Skin,” has arrived. It is the band’s first effort since their return to Cleopatra Records, the L.A. based indie label.  Cleopatra released “Hollywood Forever” in ’12. The lead track from “Leopard Skin” was “Taste It.” In support of their fifteenth album, L.A. Guns plan to tour extensively this year beginning with a tour that launches…

As the follow-up to the single “Nod,” Rise Against has released “Prizefighter.” “‘Prizefighter’ is about a compulsion to create, that then creates an audience, and then your connection with that audience and your responsibilities to that audience, and how much an artist is obliged to that audience,” shared the band’s vocalist/lyricist Tim McIlrath. “It’s trying to reconcile the shift…

Reba Meyers, Code Orange’s vocalist/guitarist and current Marilyn Manson touring guitarist, has released the ethereal “Got Your Hold On Me,” the follow-up to her debut single, “Certain Uncertainty.“ Got Your Hold On Me Certain Uncertainty “I’m finding that I have the space only now in my life to have a bird’s eye view on my adolescence,…

Canadian-born Neil Young, a Trump critic, posted on his website (om 4/1) that he’s worried he could get barred from reentering the United States after he returns from his upcoming European summer tour. “If I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in…