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Slayer Unleashes New Online Museum 'Slaytanic Verses'
by Josh Sharpe - October 09, 2024 Thrash metal icons Slayer pulls back the curtain on over four decades of brutal, malevolent, and inhumanly fast thrash and invites their fans to take the plunge into the abyss with the official launch of their new online museum, Slaytanic Verses. ...
Authority Zero to Play 30th Anniversary Tour
by Josh Sharpe - June 17, 2024 Long-running Arizona punks Authority Zero are hitting the road to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The tour is currently making its way through Canada and will head to Europe through July 20th, with several festival dates along the way. The US leg kicks off in September, culminating in a performanc...
Giovannie and The Hired Guns to Release New Album 'Land of the Lost'
by Josh Sharpe - April 22, 2024 Giovannie and The Hired Guns have announced the September 13 release of their new album Land of the Lost via Tejano Punk Boyz/Crush South/Warner Music Nashville. Along with the announcement, the band shares their blissed-out new single “Chiquita,” a Latin-meets-disco banger that sets the tone for a ...
The Anti-Groupies Announce January Shows & Upcoming New Single 'Read The Room'
by Michael Major - January 16, 2024 The Anti-Groupies, an all-female rock group from South Bay (CA), have announced their upcoming January shows and the release of their new single 'Read The Room.' Produced by Matt McJunkins of A Perfect Circle/Puscifer, the group has quickly been building up a solid fanbase and carefully aligned indu...
Aftershock & GoldenSky Country Music Festival Brings Guns N' Roses, Maren Morris & More to Sacramento
by Michael Major - October 19, 2023 Aftershock & GoldenSky Country Music Festival welcomed over 220,000 people for two massive back-to-back music weekends in Sacramento. Aftershock's sold-out crowd topped 160,000 music fans, retaining its title as the West Coast's biggest rock festival....
Alice Cooper Shares New Single 'White Frankenstein' & Announces New Tour Dates
by Michael Major - July 19, 2023 Alice Cooper releases his new single “White Line Frankenstein” from his upcoming album Road on earMUSIC. Produced by Bob Ezrin, the album hit worldwide top positions on Amazon within 24 hours of the announcement. “White Line Frankenstein” is built on a rocking riff as it goes into a memorable chorus...
Gibson Brands Appoints Cesar Gueikian as Permanent CEO
by Michael Major - July 10, 2023 An accomplished musician, guitarist and songwriter, Cesar has performed with and recorded alongside artists spanning an eclectic range of music genres, such as Mana, Kirk Hammett, and Rob Trujillo (Metallica), Rex Brown (Pantera), Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Snake Sabo (Skid Row), Jared James Nichols,...
Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival Schedule & On-Site Experiences Announced
by Michael Major - June 27, 2023 Inkcarceration will feature an all-star rock and metal lineup led by headliners Slipknot, Pantera and Limp Bizkit, plus more than 65 tattoo artists and haunted attractions at the historic grounds of the Ohio State Reformatory (made famous by the movie The Shawshank Redemption), located in Mansfield,...
Guns N' Roses, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Korn & 90+ More Bands Announced For Aftershock 2023
by Michael Major - March 14, 2023 The West Coast’s Biggest Rock Festival, Aftershock, grows even more in 2023 with its most packed lineup yet offering 95-plus bands over four full days, led by headliners Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold and Korn. The destination event, held at Discovery Park in Sacramento, CA, builds on last y...
Supreme Beings of Leisure Release New Single 'Body'
by Michael Major - November 11, 2022 Supreme Beings of Leisure (SBL)—consisting of original members Geri Soriano, Ramin Sakurai and Rick Torres—reintroduced themselves after a 14-year hiatus with “Full Circle” followed by “Contender.” The band is synonymous with retro-future West Coast Chill vibe, a sound they helped create in the heyd...
ShipRocked 2023 Sells Out as New Lineup Additions Are Announced
by Michael Major - October 25, 2022 ShipRocked 2023 is sold out and producers ASK4 Entertainment have announced lineup additions for the cruise which features nearly 80 performances over 6 days. ShipRocked 2023 sails on Carnival Magic from Port Canaveral, Florida, with stops at Half Moon Cay in The Bahamas, Grand Turk in Turks & Caico...
Quicksand Share New Single 'Felíz'
by Michael Major - October 25, 2022 Recorded at Studio 4 Recording in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Distant Populations was produced and engineered by Will Yip (The Menzingers, Code Orange, Defeater), and mixed by Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God, Megadeth, Avenged Sevenfold). The album is the follow-up to the critically lauded 2017 release Int...
THE HU Release Second Album 'Rumble Of Thunder'
by Michael Major - September 02, 2022 The acclaimed rock outfit haveunleashed their anticipated second official studio album RUMBLE OF THUNDER via Better Noise Music alongside the music video for the track “Bie Biyelegee.” In this lively video, THE HU can be seen dancing in the traditional Mongolian style of “biyelgee.” Watch the new mu...
VIDEO: THE HU Share Part Two of 'Black Thunder'
by Michael Major - August 18, 2022 The videos for “Black Thunder” were filmed in the band’s native country Mongolia and tell a powerful story of battle, faith, and death while celebrating traditional Mongolian values both lyrically and visually. They were directed by Erdenebileg Ganbold and THE HU’s producer Dashka. Watch the new vid...
Kings of Thrash Announce Tour Dates
by Michael Major - July 27, 2022 The band, which also includes drummer Fred Aching as well as guitarist/vocalist Chaz Leon, will perform the classic thrash albums Killing is My Business…and Business is Good and So Far, So Good…So What in their entirety. Joining the band for these four dates will be ex-Megadeth/Ohm guitarist Chris P...
Randy Blythe, Corey Glover & More Join ShipRocked 2023 Lineup
by Michael Major - July 21, 2022 The initial list of guest performers for The Stowaways – ShipRocked’s official all-star band – has also been revealed and includes Alecia 'Mixi” Demner (Stitched Up Heart), Andy Wood, Angela Lese (former The Dead Deads), Carly Smithson (We Are The Fallen), Chad Nicefield (former Wilson), Corey Glove...
Mongolian Rock Sensation THE HU Announce New Album
by Michael Major - July 08, 2022 Mongolian rock act THE HU have announced details of their long-awaited sophomore album RUMBLE OF THUNDER, recorded via Better Noise Music, and released a new single called “Black Thunder” along with an official music video. The album includes “This Is Mongol,” their eco-conscious single released in ...
Dead Kennedys to Release Remixed 'Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables'
by Michael Major - July 06, 2022 The band’s debut album is politically incendiary while also wholly musically adept – provocative and often idiosyncratic agit prop lyrics bouncing off of careening, adrenaline-infused musicianship. So it’s only natural that the 40th anniversary re-release of this classic album is revisited by the GR...
Korn, Five Finger Death Punch & More Announces For Rocklahoma
by Michael Major - June 06, 2022 This year, Rocklahoma will celebrate America’s biggest Labor Day Weekend Party as well as 15 Years of Rocklahoma! The three-day camping festival features some of today’s top rock artists, including Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, Evanescence, Megadeth, Seether, Three Days Grace, Cypress Hi...
Former MEGADETH Members Unite to Honor Drummer Gar Samuelson
by Michael Major - January 31, 2022 Bassist David Ellefson and guitarist Chris Poland have come together to record one final song posthumously with their friend and former MEGADETH drummer Gar Samuelson. The new track 'The Raven' is the latest single from Fatal Opera, part of a new twelve-song collection of demo material compiled as t...
VIDEO: The Lucid Release Debut Video for 'Deaths Of Despair'
by Michael Major - January 12, 2022 The Lucid are a four piece hard rock band featuring vocalist Vinnie Dombroski (Sponge), guitarist Drew Fortier, Grammy Award winning bassist David Ellefson, and drummer Mike Heller (Malignancy, Raven, Fear Factory). The video was directed by Drew Fortier. Plus, check out the group's upcoming tour da...
VIDEO: Shawn Perry Releases 'Hardrock Hillbilly' Music Video
by Michael Major - September 03, 2021 Shawn Perry was previously on the MTV series MADE, and various appearances on VH1, NBC, FOX, several independent films. Since then, he's worked with musicians such as Guns-N-Roses and Poison....
Hawthorne Heights Release New Single 'Thunder In Our Hearts'
by Michael Major - August 31, 2021 Reminiscent of some of their most iconic hit singles with soaring melodies, punching screams and non-stop guitars, “Thunder In Our Hearts” puts words to the feelings that come with panic attacks that front man JT Woodruff experienced while writing the band’s forthcoming studio album....
RED DEVIL VORTEX Releases New Single 'ALIVE'
by TV News Desk - August 17, 2021 From living in an RV on the streets of Hollywood to #16 on the Billboard Charts, Red Devil Vortex is not only the sonic result of life’s chaos and frustrations, but a statement of fighting for what you believe in....
Hawthorne Heights Release New Single 'The Rain Just Follows Me'
by Sarah Jae Leiber - August 10, 2021 The 11 tracks stand as some of Woodruff’s most resonant writing to date, as he unravels themes of both physical and emotional distance from his wife and daughter in Ohio as well as personal identity as the front man of as one of the most iconic emo acts of the new millennium.... |