The Week In Rock: May 10th – 17th

Crossfade

5/10 Crossfade Returns

Crossfade play their first show since 2012. The Alternative Metal/Post-Grunge band delivers a 45-minute set on the Citadel Stage at the Sonic Temple Arts & Music Festival.

Despite the lengthy spell oof inactivity the band denies they ever broke up. But have reunited.

Kid Rock & Trump

5/10 Kid Rock Shuts It Down

Kid Rock’s Big A– Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Nashville is shuttered after employees unauthorized to work in the U.S. fail to show up for work and those who turned up are told any undocumented workers should leave the premises to avoid being caught by ICE.

Kid Rock is a strong supporter of Trump’s immigration policies.

Scott Shriner & Jillian Lauren Shriner

5/13 Jillian Lauren Shriner, Wife Of Weezer’s Scott Shriner Faces Felony Gun Charges

Shriner – a bestselling author – pleads not guilty to discharge of a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm while police were chasing a person fleeing an auto accident. If convicted, she faces up to 19 years in prison.

Candice Night & Ritchie Balckmore

5/13 Blackmore’s Night Is Inducted Into The Long Island Music And Entertainment Hall Of Fame

The former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Balckmore and his wife Candice Night are honored. Night, a Long Island native, accepts the induction on behalf of Blackmore’s Night. Blackmore, who moved to Long Island in the ’80s is unable to attend for health reasons.

Bruce Springsteen

5/14 Bruce Springsteen Kicks Off Tour Slamming Trump

The Boss tells a Manchester, England audience that President Trump is “incompetent and treasonous.”

“Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring,” Springsteen tells the crowd.

Andy Bell

5/15 Oasis Tour Announces Addition

The first confirmation of a band member joining the Oasis reunion tour is Andy Bell who was in the band from ’99 to ’09 playing bass, rhythm guitar and finally keyboards.

The tour will launch in July in England, Scotland and Ireland. U.S. tour dates begin in late August.

Brian Burkheiser

5/15 I Prevail Lose Brian Burkheiser

I Prevail announce the “mutual” parting of ways with vocalist Brian Burkheiser.

Burkheiser handled the clean vocals since the band’s formation but was forced to step away from the group’s touring activities due to his battle with Eagle’s syndrome (characterized by pain in the face, neck, and throat).

Sleep Theory’s “Afterglow” 

5/16 Sleep Theory: Afterglow 

The Memphis band’s debut album contains “Stuck In My Head” their first #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. It was their third song to land on the chart following “Fallout” (#2 last August) and “Numb” (#9) in January ’24).

Sleep Theory formed in ’20 with vocalist Cullen Moore, guitarist Daniel Pruitt, bassist Paolo Vergara, and drummer Ben Pruitt. 

Volbeat

5/17 Volbeat Rules

“By A Monster’s Hand” is at the top of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. It’s the band’s eleventh song to reach #1 on the chart.

“By A Monster’s Hand” is the lead single from “Gods Of Angels Trust,” Volbeat’s ninth studio album.