Today In Rock: June 21st, 2023 – “Bygones” Is #1

Metallica’s “72 Seasons,” the title track from their most recent album, is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated 7/1).   The song is the second from the “72 “Seasons” album to top the chart.  “Lux Æterna” was the first.  Metallica now has twelve Mainstream Rock chart-toppers, which puts them in a three-way tie…

10/2 Stevie Nicks states, in a published interview, that she sees “no reason” to continue Fleetwood Mac without keyboardist and co-vocalist Christine McVie, who passed away the previous year.  10/5 Play ball! A scheduling conflict forces a change of venue for a Guns N’ Roses concert in Phoenix.   The show was originally scheduled to take…

Sleater-Kinney have issued “Little Rope,” the band’s eleventh studio album containing “Hell,” “Say It Like You Mean It,” and “Untidy Creature.” “It (“Untidy Creature”) became a gift, somewhere to put our darkest fears, and our deepest hopes,” the band explained in a statement. “We sometimes feel trapped or angry, and yet still we breathe.”  ….