This Week in Rock

Fozzy Fozzy, with Chris Jericho, has announced its “2025th Anniversary Tour.” The trek will kick off in Springfield, MO on April 17th and conclude in Wyandotte, MI on May 12th. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, December 19th at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets/Tour Information Static-X Static-X’s original “Wisconsin Death Trip” lineup of Tony Campos (bass), Koichi Fukuda (guitar) and Ken Jay (drums) along with…

“Spider Lilly” is the first single/video from King Diamond’s forthcoming horror trilogy. Part one is titled “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920.“ The “Spider Lilly” video was filmed at the very haunted Pennhurst Asylum outside of Philadelphia. The filming occurred two days before Halloween. But only King Diamond (the person) and actress Jodi Cachia could participate on that specific day. On the song, King…

Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1977 album, “Rumours.” is the best-selling Rock album on Billboard’s 2024 year-end chart, landing at #34… one spot ahead of Elton John’s 2017 “Diamonds” collection. Only 23 albums on the 200 were by Rock artists and only one, Linkin Park’s “Papercuts,” was released this year. Only 6 albums were not a compilation – Fleetwood Mac,…

5/1 Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) keyboardist Richard Tandy dies at the age of 76.  5/2 Creed plays a seven-song acoustic set at guitarist Mark Tremonti’s charity golf event for the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) at Champions Gate golf club in Orlando, FL.  5/3 Hall Aflame, a band led by Metal Church guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof, releases sophomore album, “Amplifire.” The…

Pink Floyd is the #1 Rock band inspiring the most tattoo related searches with Guns N’ Roses coming in second,  That’s according to a study by tattoo artists at LLTattoo in Switzerland who identified Rock bands that inspire the most tattoo searches worldwide. LLTattoo examined Google Keyword Planner to reach their conclusions. Pink Floyd, the band with…

UFO enthusiast/expert and Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge has weighed in on the rash of mystery drones recently seen in the New Jersey sky. “The drones that are being discussed, can hover for six hours, and then disappear once they are spotted,” DeLonge wrote on social media. “This is why it’s been hard to get facts from…

4/1 It’s “Punk Rock Day” in Las Vegas in celebration of The Punk Rock Museum’s first anniversary. The Museum is “the world’s most comprehensive attraction dedicated to the music, the culture and the absurdity of Punk Rock.”  4/1 Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Greta Van Fleet, R.E.M, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and Jon Bon Jovi are among the…

3/1 “Half Black Heart,” the fifth album from New Years Day, drops. The album features the previously released tracks “Half Black Heart,” “Vampyre,” “Hurts Like Hell,” “Secrets” and “I Still Believe.” 3/1 Bruce Dickinson‘s “The Mandrake Project” arrives. It is the Iron Maiden frontman’s seventh solo album and his first since “Tyranny Of Souls“ in ’05. 3/1 Mercyful Fate bassist Becky Baldwin takes to social…

Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd performed under the anagram alias Nudedragons, for a special (12/14) performance in Seattle at the 13th annual SMooCH (Seattle Musicians for Children’s Hospital) concert benefiting Seattle Children’s Hospital’s uncompensated care fund. They were joined at the Nordstrom-backed benefit by singer-songwriter Shaina Shepherd and Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, among others. Featured Songs: Hunted Down (with Shaina…