Foo Fighters Streaming New Song Something From Nothing

"Chicago's the place where I saw my first show," explains Dave Grohl. "The first time I ever saw a live band play was at this little bar called the Cubby Bear right across the street from Wrigley Field. It was just like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' So the idea of the song, and the episode, is that once you find that spark and inspiration, that begins your path in life, for whatever it is you want to do."

The Foo Fighters will celebrate the launch of their HBO series, "Sonic Highways", by performing at The Cubby Bear in Chicago and streaming the concert online.

The 8-part HBO series debuts on Friday, October 17 at 11:00 p.m. EST. The program chronicles the making of the band's forthcoming album of the same name, out November 10.

Stream the new song here.

Free Ozzy Osbourne iPad Supplement Released

The supplement contains two in-depth interviews: one in which Ozzy talks about the Blizzard Of Oz and Diary Of A Madman years, and another when worldwide fame was beginning to take its terrible toll. There's also a lengthy Q&A, a buyers guide, and a tribute feature to Ozzy quoting friends, bands and contemporaries.

The supplement is free to anyone downloading the Classic Rock or Metal Hammer apps (also free!) and is available exclusively via TeamRock until October 31.

Check out a preview and grab the download link here.

Sammy Hagar Releases Rehearsal Video For Birthday Bash

The evening will see Sammy Hagar & The Circle featuring Michael Anthony, Jason Bonham and Vic Johnson playing a setlist spanning four decades - including hits from Montrose, Hagar's solo career, Van Halen and beyond - and with Bonham on board, they can also expect a few Led Zeppelin classics. In addition, Joe Satriani and Chad Smith will join Hagar and Anthony for a special encore by Chickenfoot.

"The good news is we are gonna be recording this," says Hagar. "We're gonna film this...we're not gonna let this get away. Not this big bash. I wanna see all your faces out there� I wanna hear your voices singing along with all them hits. The greatest setlist of all time!"

Hagar, who will turn 67 on October 13, was scheduled to perform his annual birthday shows at his Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on October 7, 9, 11 and 13.

The Red Rocker was forced to move the event following recent damage in Cabo caused by Hurricane Odile. Watch the video here.

U2 Perform Acoustic Songs On TV

The duo played the album's lead single, "The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)", as well as "Every Breaking Wave" and video of the appearance has been posted online

"Songs Of Innocence" made headlines last month when it was offered for free via iTunes. The physical CD version of the album was issued this past week. A deluxe, gatefold double album contains an acoustic session of songs from the album and four additional tracks. The album is also be available as a gatefold, double white-vinyl LP with an exclusive remix of "The Crystal Ballroom."

"Songs Of Innocence" was recorded in Dublin, London, New York and Los Angeles and is produced by Danger Mouse, along with Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Declan Gaffney and Flood.

Watch the video of the acoustic performances here.

A Day To Remember Explain What Will Save Rock

The band has garnered respect by more than just fans. ADTR recently announced and sold out their second Self Help Festival, designed to highlight up-and-coming bands of the same genre; the first was held earlier this year in March in San Bernardino, Calif. Frontman Jeremy McKinnon explains the sold out Philadelphia concert is to "have a place for just our style and bands like us." The band created a lineup "that we want to see and that we feel this group of fans want to see." Guitarist Kevin Skaff notes that band realized musicians are treated much better at European festivals and ADTR wanted to bring that level of backstage hospitality to the States.

Living in a dance and hip-hop dominated universe, McKinnon addresses what he thought could be done to keep the rock genre from continuing to shrink. "I would just say it's going to take that next big record, that next big song, to really show the world, this is still alive and well. It's just a matter of time. You have folk music with Mumford & Sons. They had that huge album then all of a sudden pop music is writing folk songs and I think that's really cool. It's just a matter of time."

As the band's chief lyricist, McKinnon is always surprised how fortunate to have fans connect with his words. "It's pretty amazing to see it in a live setting too," he says. "There's some nights you go out there and play and you can just feel the aura around the whole room, like everybody's vibing on the same thing together." Those shows are the ones that set the bar, he explains. "It's amazing that fans actually listen to our music and a meaning in it and more than just, 'oh, we play breakdowns.'"

Varied tastes? McKinnon admits nothing is off-limits. Read more here.

Skyharbor Get Animated For Patience Video

Directed by Jess Cope, the video for Patience is the result of three months of meticulous illustration, photography and stop-motion animation. It's the second tune previewed from the project, following the lead track, Evolution.

Guiding Lights was mixed and mastered by Australian producer Forrester Savell, who has previously worked with Karnivool. Skyharbor funded the follow-up to 2012's Blinding White Noise: Illusion And Chaos via a PledgeMusic campaign.

Watch the video here.

Pain Of Salvation Release Unplugged Version of Linoleum

Singer Daniel Gildenlow says Linoleum was always his first choice to appear on the album. He adds: "I love the versatility of this animal, and I keep dragging it into different contexts to see how it will adapt and respond.

"I have always loved to play around with the emotional spectrum of suppressed rage in music and lyrics, and making this song acoustic called for even higher levels of challenge when it came to finding that perfect balance of dialed-down subtlety and sudden bursts of emotional display. I love how it came out in the end."

Gildenlow says he is relieved the record is finally ready to launch after he spent four months in hospital while working on the release.

He says: "It has been a long time, and the road to release has been very complicated and unexpected, including finding myself in hospital for four months after a close call with flesh eating bacteria." Read more and stream the song here.

Liv Kristine Releases Love Decay Video

Kristine says: "This metal hymn is special to me and Doro's unique voice takes this song to an exceptional emotional level." Check out the new music video here.

Dark Fortress Release Chrysalis Video

The band say: "The video was created by our cover artist Daniel van Nes in collaboration with Sanja Maier-Hasagic, Morean and acclaimed American modern dancer and choreographer Jack Gallagher.

"Our music and lyrics are visually very evocative, so we felt the song calls for an approach that almost feels more like a short movie than a regular metal music video."

The band head out on a European tour later this week and have announced one UK date. They'll London's Underworld on October 20. Watch the new video here.

Dee Snider Shoots The Puck at Chicago Blackhawks Game

The rocker will be in Chicago for the next few months as he performs "Dee Snider's Rock & Roll Christmas Tale" at the Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place from November 4 through January 4, 2015.

"Dee Snider's Rock & Roll Christmas Tale" tells the story of D�isy C�tter, a heavy metal bar band looking to make it big even though the 80s are LONG over.

This year, these four guys are ready to take the ultimate step and, in mythic rock tradition, sell their souls to the devil in exchange for success beyond their wildest metal dreams. But every time they try to seal the infernal pact, their head-banging anthems turn into warm-hearted carols. Soon these rockers are forced to realize their dreams of stardom are no match for the Christmas spirit.

Watch the video here.

Angaleena Presley Shows Her True Colors On New Solo Album

"I got introduced to the world as Holler Annie with these two blondes beside me," she tells Radio.com of her bandmates Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe. "I feel like I had to get in a band, make history and kick down a door so I could walk through it as a solo artist�I'm an older artist and I could sit there and be like, 'Oh this should have happened.' No. If it didn't happen like this, you wouldn't have had this story to write or this song that so many people connect with. I feel like everything happened the way it was supposed to happen for me."

Presley has no trouble speaking her mind and American Middle Class makes that clear. On each of the 12 tracks, she gives an honest portrayal of her life covering the moments that others may want to forget. On "Drunk," which Presley wrote with Sarah Siskind (who has written for Alison Krauss), she details the hurdles she faced during the "most horrific, tumultuous, part of my marriage,"

"I had gotten pregnant three months after knowing my ex-husband," she recalls. "We were both wild, living the artist lifestyle and I got pregnant and I grew up and he really struggled with it. He just couldn't do it. I went to write that day and I just started venting to [Siskind] because a lot of times writing appointments that's like our therapy. We can't really afford therapy at that stage in our career so we are literally each others' therapists."

This writing session had Presley venting about her no-good drunk ex with exact words from her complaint finding their way into the song.

"I'm in there and I'm going, 'I don't know. I've read all these books and I bought a nightgown.' He was a drinker. He loved his beer and he just couldn't figure out how to not do it," she explains. "'I buy the groceries, I wear my lipstick.' And [Siskind's] sitting there going, 'You know that's our song.' And I'm like, 'I'm not writing a song, I just came here to talk.'"

While it felt good to get these things off her chest, Presley admits that she's worried to play the song for her seven-year-old son being that it's a "laundry list of how my marriage ended."

"It's so scary to think about the day that he puts two and two together and he's like, 'Oh, daddy did that?'" she says. "I've always tried to be really honest with him."

While sitting with Presley at a French bakery in the heart of Midtown, she even tells a "TMI" story about how she had to explain menstruation to her son after he found a tampon in her car. "He's like, 'What is this?' and I explained to him a woman's cycle," she says. "So I feel like that's how I'm going to handle it. 'Mommy and Daddy were young and wild and you were in Mommy's tummy and Daddy didn't have a baby in his tummy and it took him longer to be a grownup.' I think I just figured it out in this interview. That sounded pretty good to me."

Another song that strikes a chord is "Pain Pills," which Presley says is a protest song about the struggle coal mining communities face with prescription medication, specifically Oxycontin. It's something that hits close to home for the singer.

"I started [that song] as I was on my way home from a funeral," she says. "A friend of mine from high school OD'd [and] at the funeral the mom was walking in going, 'Oh they had a heart problem. It was a heart issue.' We knew what was going on. This is when I realized, this is starting to become a problem."

Presley gets emotional when she talks of the song and the "hush-hush culture" that surrounds prescription drug addiction in her small hometown of Beauty, K.Y., where she says the problem is worse than most other places in the country. It took her four years to finish writing "Pain Pills" and once she did she learned of a family member who was suffering with the same pills she's singing about.

"Addiction has really changed the face of my personal life and a lot of things in my family. That song just haunts me," she says. "If there's anything I would get up on a soapbox for, it's prescription medication. I just think it's a travesty how careless doctors are with that stuff. It still happens. You don't hand a 16-year-old a bottle of heroin and say, 'Here you go. Just quit taking these after 12.' Let's start talking about it, let's get some resources, let's get some help."

Husband, manager and co-producer Jordan Powell says American Middle Class is a project where it feels like they "caught lighting in a bottle." While tracks like "Grocery Store" talk about real life and how "everybody's got something that they're searching for," others like "Surrender" showcase Presley's vulnerability. "I'm hardheaded and it's hard for me to ask for help," she sings on the album closer where she speaks of hitting rock bottom and finally accepting personal weakness, a vulnerability similar to which Powell finds in the Pistol Annies'.

Read more here.

Singled Out: Maskin's Storm

The music for the song Storm (which also is the album name) came up pretty natural with an fusion of some ready riffs were the vocals sort of automatically forced the music to rearrange the rhythms in verses and chorus built on feel and words. Then mixing up some driven heavy riffs with calming, soothing patterns, just like the real thing, gave birth to our Storm.

The creation process was quite a coincidence as it fitted the lyrics with an a subtle reference to many things which is affected by outer force and uncontrollable issues, just like your typical Storm. Add in the words anyone can relate to when they are listening in, and putting their personal "storms" in the centre and you are there.

Unless it's an unsettlement with yourself, a struggle with government issues, sheer force or an disagreement in opinions, your storm changes and takes different shapes, but it will never wait. Just like the stomping weight of Maskin�s sound. Enjoy.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself here and learn more about the album right here!

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