The Week In Rock: Producer Honored, Lalapalooza Hybrid & Metallica Boots
July 28th – August 2nd
7/29 Legendary producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies PJ Harvey) is honored with a street in his longtime hometown of Chicago. He died on May 8th, ’24 of a heart attack at the age of 61.
7/30 “Celebrity Family Feud” airs on ABC featuring Papa Roach and Daughtry. Both bands try to win money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Papa Roach (pictured) raises $25,000 for the charity. The episode was taped in April.
8/1 Megadeth, in collaboration with headphone manufacturer Valco Oy, offer limited-edition Megadeth VMK25 headphones through Valco’s online store.
8/1 Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation partners again with Wolverine Boots & Apparel to create a unique, high-quality boot to benefit the Metallica Scholars Initiative which supports the enhancement of community colleges’ career and technical education programs.
Wolverine x Metallica Scholars Rancher Boot is a classic Western silhouette with an edgy blackened style. To order, go to Wolverine/Metallica Scholars.
8/1 Lollapalooza kicks off with the Main Stage in Chicago’s Grant Park powered by a hybrid battery system, including all audio, lighting, video and stage production. The four-day event is the first major U.S. festival to accomplish this.
8/2 Smashing Pumpkins release “Aghori Mhori Mei.” Frontman Billy Corgan sees the set “as a means to move forward; to see if in the balance of success and failure that our ways of making music circa 1990-1996 would still inspire something revelatory.”
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