This Week in Rock

Stevie Nicks says she sees “no reason” to continue Fleetwood Mac without keyboardist and co-vocalist Christine McVie, who passed away last year. The band last performed together four years ago (’19). “When Christine (pictured) died, I felt like you can’t replace her,” Nicks told Vulture. “She was like my soul mate, my musical soul mate, and my…

Heart‘s Ann Wilson and her band Tripsitter have released “Another Door.”   Tripsitter: Ryan Wariner (guitars), Tom Bukovac (guitars), Paul Moak (guitars & keyboards), Tony Lucido (bass) and Sean T Lane (drums). The set features the ballad single “This Is Now.” Black Stone Cherry has released is eighth studio album “Screamin’ At The Sky,” featuring the title track.  “We envisioned standing around a bonfire and just letting…

Foo Fighters have the triple crown as “Under You” simultaneously rules the Rock & Alternative Airplay, Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay charts. “Under You,” the Foo’s eleventh #1 on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, is from their eleventh studio album, “But Here We Are.”  It’s also the second song from the album to…

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards recently offered his unfavorable opinion of Rap. “I don’t really like to hear people yelling at me and telling me it’s music… I can get enough of that without leaving my house.” Richards and his bandmates will release “Hackney Diamonds,” the Rolling Stones first album of original material since ‘05 (“A Bigger…

“Black Sabbath – The Ballet” premiered at Hippodrome theatre in London (on 9/23). The ballet included eight specially reorchestrated Black Sabbath songs, including “Paranoid,” and “Iron Man,” plus other songs from the band’s early 1970s catalog.   Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi came up on stage at the end of the performance to play “Paranoid.”   Bassist Geezer Butler and Sharon Osbourne,…

Corey Taylor has scored his second solo #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, with “Beyond.” The track is from Taylor’s sophomore solo studio album, “CMF2″ which was produced by Jay Ruston. He also worked on ’20’s “CMFT.” “We’re not afraid to tell each other if it’s a good idea, or also a bad one; we have that…

On the day (9/22) Thy Art Is Murder released its sixth album “Godlike,” the band announced the firing of vocalist CJ McMahon (pictured above) having already removed his vocals from the album and re-recorded them with another vocalist. The split was partially due to McMahon’s recent anti-trans comments, which the band noted was only a…

Marilyn Manson was sentenced to 20 hours of community service and fined Monday after pleading no contest to blowing his nose on a videographer during his ‘19 concert in New Hampshire. Manson was charged with two misdemeanor counts of simple assault stemming from the encounter with the videographer during a concert in Gilford, NH. Prosecutors agreed…

“The Surface,” Beartooth’s fifth studio effort, will arrive October 13th. The set features the track “The Better Me,” a collaboration with Country Rock’s Hardy. The accompanying video has frontman Caleb Shomo and Hardy performing the track in a studio, driving and playing golf.   On social media fans liked that the song was positive and…

Guitarist/singer Ayron Jones has the #1 song on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart (dated 9/16) with the power ballad “Blood In The Water.”  The track is from “Chronicles Of The Kid.” Jones’ fourth album dropped earlier this year.