This Week in Rock

Steel Panther’s debut album, “Feel The Steel,” has been certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales in excess of 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. “Just in time for the 15th Anniversary, ‘Feel The Steel’ goes GOLD in the U.K.!! Thank you to all the U.K. fans for the incredible support,” posted the band. “Feel The Steel”…

Creed frontman Scott Stapp will perform at the Grand Ole Opry on October 23rd. He will give the first live performance of “If These Walls Could Talk,” featuring Dorothy Martin, frontwoman of Dorothy. The song is on Stapp’s fourth solo album, “Higher Power.” “I am humbled by this invitation and grateful for the Opry’s tradition of including outliers like me,”…

Oasis sold half a million tickets in just an hour last Friday (10.4) for their North American tour. ‘Oasis Live ’25’ reunion tour tickets with shows in Toronto, Chicago, New Jersey, Los Angeles and Mexico City were rapidly snapped up. The band has already sold out 19 stadium shows across the U.K. and Ireland schedule…

Guitarist Daniele Salomone has confirmed that he has joined Lacuna Coil replacing the band’s longtime guitarist Diego Cavallotti, who joined the band in ’16 and exited last June. Salomone made his live debut with Lacuna Coil on August 4th at the Rockstadt Extreme Fest in Romania. Lacuna Coil will release their tenth studio effort, “Sleepless Empire” on February 14th. “‘Sleepless Empire’ captures, through our eyes, the chaos…

Decide has canceled the last three shows of their North American tour so they can return home to Florida “to protect” their “families and properties” as Floridians prep for Hurricane Milton, the second storm to hit the Gulf Coast in a little over two weeks. “Due to the pending landfall of hurricane Milton on central Florida and the…

Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation has donated $100,000 for immediate Hurricane Helene disaster relief, All Within My Hands is donating $50,000 each to World Central Kitchen and Team Rubicon. World Central Kitchen has partnered with 35 food trucks across Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee, and 16 restaurants across North Carolina and Tennessee, already providing tens of thousands of hot meals and sandwiches…

Linkin Park’s “The Emptiness Machine” is #1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock charts, dated October 5th. Linkin Park now has thirteen #1s on Alternative Airplay, tying Green Day for the second-most in chart history. Red Hot Chili Peppers have fifteen #1s on the chart. “The Emptiness Machine” is also the band’s eleventh #1 on Mainstream Rock…

Mötley Crüe has released the “Cancelled” EP. The three-song effort features the title track, “Dogs Of War,” a Top 5 Rock Radio hit, and a cover of the Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!),” which quickly became a concert favorite. “What started out as a couple demo ideas turned into this EP produced by Bob Rock,”…

Pink Floyd reportedly have sold the rights to their recorded music, name and likeness to Sony for $400 million. A number of parties, including Warner Music, Hipgnosis and BMG, were interested in doing a deal that would expand the use of Floyd’s catalog through licensing agreements in movies, TV shows, gaming and other media. The deal…

Mötley Crüe will return to Las Vegas next spring with “The Las Vegas Residency,” an exclusive limited run of eleven shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM, running March 28nd through April 19th. “You can go to Vegas and cut loose,” bassist Nikki Sixx told USA Today. “See your favorite band, go to other shows, gamble and…