(hennemusic) A collection of personal items owned by Queen legend Freddie Mercury will be sold via a series of auctions this fall by Sotheby's.
When the music icon passed away in 1991, he left both his London house and its contents to his former girlfriend and lifelong friend Mary Austin; for three decades, Austin kept the house and its contents almost exactly as they were when Mercury died, but she has now decided to sell the collection. (continue)
Due to extraordinary ongoing demand which has seen over one million ticket requests registered, Sphere Entertainment Co. and Live Nation today announced an additional 5 dates for U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere, a first-of-its-kind live music experience which will see the world's biggest rock band launch the world's most cutting-edge venue, Sphere at The Venetian in Las Vegas.
U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At Sphere marks U2's first live shows in four years and Sphere at The Venetian in Las Vegas will be the only place fans can see the show. (continue)
May 29, 1983 will forever be an important day in the history of heavy metal. After all, it was on this date that the world's top metal acts (Van Halen, the Scorpions, Triumph, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, and Quiet Riot) shared the stage on "Heavy Metal Sunday" at the mammoth US Festival. And to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this legendary concert, one of the day's standout performers, Triumph, will be issuing the double-LP, Live at the US Festival. The set will only be available via the official Triumph merch store - officialtriumphmerch.com- and specifics about the set include:
Double-LP, gatefold sleeve including never before seen photos
Etching of the iconic Never Surrender thunderbird logo on the 4th side
Remastered for vinyl at the legendary Metalworks Studios
Limited to 750 copies, comes in either black, red, or blue vinyl
Fans who buy from the official Triumph merch store will receive a US Festival special podcast featuring new interviews with Rik Emmett, Gil Moore, Mike Levine, Mike Primeau, Harry Witz, John Roberts, Wayne Webster and more. (continue)
Sony Pictures Classics announced today they have acquired worldwide rights to CARLOS, a feature-length documentary film about the father of Latin American jazz fusion and global icon, Carlos Santana, directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Rudy Valdez (THE SENTENCE, WE ARE: THE BROOKLYN SAINTS.)
Jointly financed by Imagine Documentaries and Sony Music Entertainment, CARLOS is produced by Sara Bernstein and Justin Wilkes along with Lizz Morhaim and executive produced by Academy Award-winning producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for Imagine Documentaries. Leopoldo Gout, Ashley Kahn and Sam Pollard also serve as Producers. Meredith Kaulfers is the Co-Executive Producer for Imagine Documentaries and Michael Vrionis serves as an Executive Producer. Tom Mackay and Richard Story are Executive Producers for Sony Music Entertainment. (continue)
As Texas death metal juggernaut Creeping Death prepares to release their anxiously anticipated Boundless Domain LP on June 16th via MNRK Heavy, today the band announces the two-part Boundless Domain Summer 2023 tour.
Early 2023 saw Creeping Death travel overseas to the UK and Europe with Revocation and Goatwhore, and the band is currently out on a month-long North American tour supporting Carcass, Municipal Waste, and Sacred Reich which ends this Sunday in Los Angeles, California. (continue)
Attila, Atlanta's most notorious dealers of metalcore brutality have announced the release of their brand new single "Bite Your Tongue" today. In what will be an exciting surprise for fans, a large portion of the new single features clean vocals from frontman, Chris 'Fronz' Fronzak for the first time on an Attila release.
Whilst pushing the boundaries of what has come before, the new song is still an undeniable ATTILA-level banger, maintaining their unique brand of powerful, intricate riffing, driving, ten-ton-heavy drumming and of course, it's fair share of Fronz's signature screaming. (continue)
Bristolian noise-pop three-piece Superlove has today announced their new album follow:noise is set to be released on June 2nd via European label Rude Records. The album features recent singles "GO!", "Something Good," as well as newly released single "Easier."
Speaking on their upcoming album the band shares,"Concept to follow:noise album is a lot of realization and reflection from the journey of our first album. Following up from our debut album we discovered a lot about the sound behind Superlove and what makes us the band we are and when we're at our best, we wanted to challenge ourselves to use less virtual instruments this time round and put the focus back into guitar. Lyrically the album tackles subjects such as reassurance, dependency and mental health." (continue)
Australian garage rock trio Cable Ties have shared "Change," a striking new preview of their upcoming album All Her Plans, due June 23 via Merge Records. A raw, unruly track driven by Nick Brown's insistent bass line and Jenny McKechnie's impressive vocal acrobatics, "Change" casts a lens on the residue of trauma left behind by patriarchal violence.
"['Change'] contrasts the traumatization of victim/survivors by the so-called justice system with the solidarity and hope I have found talking to mothers, friends and strangers who have connected with the songs I've screamed into the abyss," says McKechnie. (continue)
With over 50,000 albums sold, 700,000+ monthly Spotify listeners, and more than 100 million streams, American hard rock experts Throw The Fight have already developed impressive numbers throughout their band history. Three years after the release of their latest album, 'Settle Your Sins', the band marks their return with the upcoming full-length, 'Strangeworld', out June 30 via Long Branch Records.
Produced by Josh Gilbert and Joseph McQueen (As I Lay Dying, Bad Wolves, Light The Torch, Upon A Burning Body), the record is a potent distillation of the strengths of their catalog and a huge step forward to the future. (continue)
Rahway just released a music video for their explosive single "Carry You" and to celebrate we asked bassist Chigger to tell us about the track. Here is the story:
Guitarist David Cardenas brought the opening riff idea to rehearsal, and we attacked it immediately. It was extremely catchy and we felt that it needed an equally catchy hook, which singer Nick Hade and drummer / lyricist Steve Cardenas were able to craft. The main riff was screaming for Chigger's driving bass tone to accompany it, and within one rehearsal, we walked out with a brand new song called Carry You. (continue)
Emerson, Lake and Palmer legend Carl Palmer's team took to social media to share the news that the iconic drummer was recovering from a heart procedure.
They shared via Facebook, "This morning, Carl underwent a successful Ablation procedure to restore sinus rhythm as he was previously in Atrial Fibrillation. (continue)
(hennemusic) Metallica is streaming an animated video for the "72 Seasons" track, "Crown Of Barbed Wire." Directed and animated by Corey Daigle, the clip is part of a series of videos for each song on the recently-released album, which was produced by Greg Fidelman and band members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich and recorded at Metallica's HQ in San Rafael, CA in 2021 and 2022.
"72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves," says Hetfield about the album title. "The concept that we were told 'who we are' by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is re-enactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry." (continue)
Loosegroove Records recording artists, Seattle-based band, BRAD, are proud to announce the release today of their new song and the title track from the upcoming LP, In The Moment That You're Born.
SPIN exclusively premiered the video with Jonathan Cohen who noted, "The title track is one of the heavier Brad songs ever, with Smith singing in a lower register than usual atop Gossard and Keith Lowe's swirling guitar attack. Hagar says the song comes from a weekend recording session about five years ago and that Smith's vocal offers almost a gospel vibe. Sonically, it harkens back to Smith and Hagar's other project Satchel, which was often active in parallel with Brad in the '90s." (continue)
After a ten-year hiatus following the tragic death of co-founder and bassist David Z, power rock trio ZO2 has revealed that they are officially reuniting and adding bassist Sean McNabb (Quiet Riot, Dokken) to the lineup. The newly-formed band is already working on new material and a single and video are slated to debut on their recently launched YouTube channel by the end of the year.
According to ZO2 Co-Founder and Vocalist Paulie Z, McNabb was a "natural fit for the band" as he had performed with them on several occasions and that their "chemistry was undeniable." (continue)
(hennemusic) Alice Cooper will release an expanded Deluxe Edition of his 1971 classic, "Killer", on June 9. Produced by Bob Ezrin, the fourth studio album by the founding quintet of Cooper, lead guitarist Glen Buxton, rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith features the classic singles "Under My Wheels" and "Be My Lover", while the project reached No. 21 on the US Billboard 200.
"Killer (Deluxe Edition)" delivers a newly-remastered version of the original release alongside alternate takes for "You Drive Me Nervous," "Under My Wheels," and "Dead Babies", and an unreleased live recording of the band's performance at Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico on April 2, 1972. (continue)
The inaugural season of AXS TV's hit original rock-themed talk show THE POWER HOUR has been extended, with seven additional episodes slated to debut on a new night and time beginning Sunday, May 7 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The series will leadoff the Network's popular "Sunday Night Rocks" lineup each week, which also includes original music series The Top Ten Revealed at 8 p.m. ET and Vinyl Obsession at 8:30 p.m. ET, as well as a classic concert block at 9 p.m. ET. THE POWER HOUR premiered February 15, and quickly gained momentum with the first ten episodes.
THE POWER HOUR is hosted by notable rock experts and enthusiasts Matt Pinfield (MTV, VH1), Josh Bernstein (Revolver Golden Gods, Loudwire), and Caity Babs (SiriusXM's Octane + Turbo), who present star-studded episodes packed with the insider news, latest music videos, and exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in the rock and metal landscapes. Notable guests include shock rock pioneers Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie, Billy Idol, Lzzy Hale, Corey Taylor and many others. THE POWER HOUR is filmed in Los Angeles and produced by music festival powerhouse Danny Wimmer Presents (DWP). (continue)
When the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the Earth from spinning for a few years, several musical projects unfortunately ended up lost in the shuffle. One of those projects was a killer studio album from Finnish superstar Andy McCoy called 21st Century Rocks. As McCoy explains, "the album came out shortly before they closed the borders due to the COVID situation. So we couldn't support the record with a tour, but we're happy to see it being re-released!" This month, in fact, the album is being reissued on all formats to give fans who missed it the first time around their shot at experiencing this magical release.
21st Century Rocks features a dozen pure blasts of whiskey soaked, nicotine-stained rock n' roll, all of which were penned by McCoy himself. The album kicks off with the title track, which blazes forth with one of McCoy's signature hypnotic guitar riffs. "Seven Seas" showcases some of McCoy's flamenco guitar playing and then kicks into a thoroughly modern, electro-tinged groove. Along the way, fellow Hanoi Rocks alumn Sami Yaffa joins in the fun as does The 69 Eyes drummer Jussi 69 and Amorphis's Niclas Etelävuori. This is an album that deserves the fair shot it never got, a soon-to-be classic from a veteran rocker who manages to revive the glory days of his youth while still looking toward the bright future ahead! (continue)
Wesley Adams Cook just release his new single "Bluff". To celebrate the arrival of the new track, we asked him to tell us about the song. Here is the story:
Bluff is a song that I wrote after watching the show Billions, a series that follows the exploits of a major financial mogul.
The idea behind this song is twofold, but at its core it's about destructive addictive tendencies or what I also call avoidance tendencies. On one hand, it shows when the quest for more becomes a never ending mirage that never brings forth the ultimate satisfaction one thinks it might. It also illustrates when that pursuit alters your behavior to where you are doing harm to yourself and others and sacrificing your humanity and morality at the altar of gaining more. It can become a cycle where, as the chorus suggests, keeps thrilling you while it keeps killing you. (continue)
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