Today's Day in Rock Stories

AC/DC Singer Lines Up Metallica, Led Zeppelin Stars For TV Series

The acclaimed band will now be playing concerts in Nampa, ID at the Idaho Center on June 18th, San Jose, CA at the SAP Center on June 21st and Sacramento, CA at the Golden 1 Center on June 23rd.

The tour is scheduled to kick off on May 24th in Fairfax, VA at the Eaglebank Arena and at this time it is scheduled to wrap up with the newly announced Sacramento date.

The tour is set to begin on July 23rd at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver, Co and will be running until September 10th where it will be finishing up in San Francisco, CA at The Masonic.

Hosted by Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke, "An Artist Confidential with Yes" will air live on SiriusXM's Volume channel (106) on Wednesday, April 5 at 8 PM ET.

The hour-long event will feature a few acoustic performances and an interview with the current Yes line-up of guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, keyboardist Geoff Downes, vocalist Jon Davison and bassist Billy Sherwood.

Classic Rock spoke with the Queen legend about the new song. He told them, "Roll With You is a song we already staged on our last tour. I had the idea for the track as a kind of figurative biography of Kerry, built around her favorite sayings and attitudes. I wanted to give her something to sing which embodied her philosophy and the fun she has with life.

"She liked it, and we worked on it together to complete the track as a kind of anthem. At that point, the working title for the album was Anthems II - but when Sony snapped us up, we felt like it was a new beginning, not just another chapter.

The band is wrapping up the first leg of the trek on April 15th with a sold out show at the Fillmore in San Francisco. They are playing their entire debut album on the outing along with other fan favorites.

the third single from the highly anticipated new album , out May 5th on Rise Records. Listen now: iTunes / Spotify

Cedric Bixler-Zavala had this to say about the new song and third single from the upcoming album, saying it is "like walking through the hallway in some war-torn ghetto and reading the writing on the wall. When you hear things like, 'Raise your nithing pole,' I don't think anyone will know what that is right away, but when you look it up, it's this curse.

"We are going to be victorious. Here's the f***ing head on the stake in front of our army. We're coming back. It's reading the writing on the wall. It's going and keeping your ear to the ground and listening to the heartbeat of young people."

The group features Alex Rosamilia of The Gaslight Anthem and Corey Perez of Bottomfeeder, I Am The Avalanche and Let Me Run fame and the new vinyl release will be comprised of the material from the group's two new digital EPs which are available here.

Rosamilia explains how the new group came together, "I had written and demoed a couple of songs myself but I didn't want it to be a solo-focused project that was called 'Alex Rosamilia'

The tour is scheduled to kick off with a three night stand at New York City's Beacon Theatre on September 20th, 21st and 23rd and will wrap up on December 9th in Biloxi, MS at the IP Casino.

The self-titled full length effort is scheduled to hit stores on May 12th and the group, which features AFI frontman Davey Havok along with No Doubt's- Tony Kanal, Adrian Young and Tom Dumont, will be celebrating the release with a performance on The Late Late Show with James Corden on May 11th.

The new video was directed by Frank Borin and is said to give fans a look into a day in the life of the group with footage that was shot with wearable cameras.

The band will be releasing their new studio effort, entitled "Visuals" on April 28th and Bjerre had this to say about the song featured in the new clip, "This song took shape during a long jam session, like we hadn't done in a long time. It's a joyful song, with dark lyrics.

The four headline dates will feature support from Behemoth and include shows in Grand Rapids on July 17th, Montreal on the 24th, St Louis on the 31st and Salt Lake City on August 18th.

Aside from Ryder, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight & the Pips, the Impressions, Larry Williams, James Brown, Isaac Hayes and Mary Wells will be inducted during the 5th annual ceremony and concert event.

Ryder, who made a name for himself with his signature mix of rock and roll with soul and rhythm and blues, had this to say about the honor, "I looked at the names of some of those who came before me and it became a celebration of joy for me, I mean Aretha Franklin, David Ruffin, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke and so many other voices that brought me great pleasure throughout my life and career. It is still thrilling me and I'm afraid to wake up from the dream!"

The trek is scheduled to get underway on August 2nd in Louisville, KY at The Louisville Palace and will be concluding on September 30th in Houston, TX at the White Oak Music Hall.

The band had the following to say, "Many bands have a song that features the band's name...but it's actually hard to find a song you feel so directly confident with that it can 'wear' the band's name.

Frontman Stephen Shareaux explained the reasoning behind the release from the defunct band, "After all these years. Why a Kik Tracee release now? The timing just felt right.

The new album was produced by Aeraco, recorded and mixed by Bruce "Beast" Smith and mastered by Grammy award winning engineer Brian "BigBass" Gardner.

Guitarist Andre Noel had this to say about the song and video, "The dark reality of major events that took place in the past usually don't show up in your textbooks. Death is so prevalent in history and we have been really intrigued by those events so we decided to write about them. F*** writing about ex-girlfriends and sad sh*t. We just feel like that's played out.

The band had this to say about the track, "Kickin' & Screamin' is a real deal, classic, straight ahead Rock&Roll song. It's the type of rock that we grew up on that makes you want to drive a little faster, scream a little louder and party a little harder with your fists in the air".

"Fire in the Six Foot Hole" had beginnings at the end of "Diggin that Grave. "There was always the fascination with choice. You either dig the grave that you end up in through life or turn your head away from what you become in death.

It should be fun building a life that culminates with death. Why shy away. The fire and Brimstone mythos where religion is the overseeing controller of what happens in that transition is not the most important thing. There is a Joke behind all this. The fun that life should take to the end must be encouraged.

I was listening to the Coal miner's lament of Fire in the Hole and it connected with the Devil end of the shovel. Hazel Dickens had a song that showed the ominous charge of the coal fires. I loved the phrase and immediately equated it to Mister Up and Mister Down (Not her reference) and could see at the end of life's tunnel that there was a choice to make. It happens long before this precipice. It just seems so damn funny to have such a limited choice that the idea turned into the grove. This is Big Fun. Just ask the Side Show Barker!!