January 11th – January 17th

Jay Weinberg

1/11 Jay Weinberg Leaves Suicidal Tendencies

The former Slipknot drummer announces his departure from Suicidal Tendencies after an almost two-year run with the California crossover Thrash/Hardcore Punk band.

“I’d like to thank @suicidaltendencies for bringing me onboard for an incredible year and a half of shows,” posts Weinberg, “What an absolute blast.”

Ken Susi

1/12 All That Remains Lands New Guitarist

Former As I Lay Dying guitarist Ken Susi officially joins All That Remains as the replacement for Jason Richardson.

“My connection to this band (All That Remains) goes back to the late ’90s at underground shows in Western Massachusetts,” says Susi. “Coming back together now truly feels full circle.”

1/12 Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello Rages

In an Instagram post, Morello pictured with a message on his guitar, accuses the Trump Administration of using an alleged Nazi slogan on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s podium during a January 8th press conference.

The presser was held in New York City — the day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old mother of three, in Minneapolis — to address the Administration’s Immigration Enforcement. footage.

Videos of Good’s final moments launched anti-Ice protests across the country.

Photos from the conference show the slogan “One of ours, all of yours,” which is very similar to a Nazi slogan, appears on Noem’s podium.

There is no historical evidence that the phrase itself was used by Nazi forces.

Still, the quote reflects the Nazi policy of collective punishment, which is considered a war crime.

1/14 Foo Fighters Play Charity Concert

Foo Fighters play a special benefit concert at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on frontman Dave Grohl’s 57th birthday.

“This concert… is a statement that it will take all of us working together to end homelessness in our city,” states Rowan Vansleve, president of Hope The Mission.

1/15 Dave Mustaine Says He’s Not A “Right-Winger”

In a New York Times interview the Megadeth frontman says he answers to a higher power.

“I’m a Christian, and I answer to a different set of angels,” notes Mustaine. “I obey the law, but no, I’m not a right-winger.”

The right-winger perception comes from past comments and support expressed for the first Donald Trump presidential election.

Brian May

1/15 Queen’s Brian May Says ‘No To Glastonbury

In an interview with the Daily Mail May says Queen will never perform at the Glastonbury festival due to the band’s political differences with the organizers.

May, a long-time animal rights advocate says, ‘They like killing badgers, and they think it’s for sport and that’s something I cannot support. Unless that changes, I won’t do it.”

Fat Mike

1/16 NOFX Documentary In Post-Production

Fat Mike, a founding member of NOFX, announces that a feature-length documentary, “40 Years Of Fuckin’ Up,” about the legendary Punk band is currently in post-production.

“40 Years Of Fuckin’ Up” was directed by James Buddy Day.

1/16 NOFX’s Fat Mike In Legal Dispute

During roundtable at the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, celebrating the opening of an NOFX exhibit, drummer Erik Sandien tells the audience that frontman Fat Mike is being sued by longtime guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Eric Melvin over alleged financial malfeasance.

“Mike is a complicated person, but he is not a thief,” states Sandien.

Bob Weir

1/17 Bob Weir Remembered

The late Grateful Dead guitarist/vocalist is remembered in San Francisco with a special tribute to his life and career at Civic Center Plaza,

The free public gathering remembers Weir, whose “music, spirit and humanity shaped generation,” reads a statement from organizers.

Weir passed away on 1/10 at age 78.

Nikki Sixx

1/17 Mötley Crüe Celebrates Its 45th Anniversary

Bassist Nikki Sixx takes to his Facebook page to write, “As time rolls on, you forget the little things — the small, throwaway moments that years later turn out to be the birth of something that changes you… and a lot of other people’s lives.”

“Back (in 1981), I showed a 17-year-old (Mötley Crüe drummer) Tommy Lee a pile of songs that would later end up on our debut album,” relays Sixx. “It’s where we first met (Mötley Crüe guitarist) Mick Mars. It’s where we dreamed, jammed, argued, laughed, and tried to turn noise, attitude, and fun into something you could actually explain.”