Monthly Archives: August 2022

Chloe Moriondo Announces New Album ‘Suckerpunch’ – News

A new batch of sweet pop-rock bangers from Chloe. Chloe Moriondo is back with a new full-length album, and it’s set to be a vibrant one.  It’s going to be called ‘Fruity’ and will be released on October 07. The artwork looks like this: And the tracklisting like this: 01. Popstar02. Fruity03. Trophy04. Knockout05. Hell […]

New Releases From SOILWORK, SPIRIT ADRIFT & More Out Today 8/19

This week’s new heavy metal releases include lots of headbanging, sonic exercises in tension release, that band that “no one likes” yet remains incredibly successful (so what is the truth?), and more! Get ’em here on vinyl at Gimme Metal, and now to the metals… Dawnwalker – House Of Sand Genre: Post-Metal/progressiveOrigin: London, EnglandLabel: Room […]

How Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros Suddenly Came Alive

Both of Perry Farrell’s best-known bands have started making a lot of noise all of a sudden. To be fair, Jane’s Addiction was already set for a busy year. They scheduled a handful of festival dates this summer, including Lollapalooza and Welcome to Rockville, but later had to pull out due to guitarist Dave Navarro’s […]

Van Halen Furious After Foo Fighters Controversy

Wolfgang Van Halen recently responded to Eddie Trunk. The latter sent out a Tweet saying regarding Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins tribute show: “All the Taylor Hawkins tribute stuff looks amazing and well deserved. But every @VanHalen has to be trying to figure out how two massive events in 2 countries could come together in months for […]

Paul Simon Is Apparently Ending His Studio Retirement

Paul Simon‘s surprise July appearance at the Newport Folk Festival might be part of a larger return to music. Sessions are on-going at New York’s Reservoir Studios for a new album that’s tentatively titled The Seven Psalms, according to Spin magazine. In a conversation with Malcolm Gladwell for the Miracle and Wonder audiobook series, Simon […]

Cancer Bats Release New Version Of ‘Friday Night’ Featuring Witch Fever’s Amy Walpole – News

Cancer Bats and Witch Fever are hitting the road together, so why not jump on a song together? Cancer Bats released their latest album, ‘Psychic Jailbreak’ earlier this year, a rip-roaring, relentless and righteously fun collection of head-bangers.  And they have just shared a new version of one of the biggest head-bangers on there, alongside […]

Why the Doobie Brothers Stumbled With ‘Livin’ on the Fault Line’

Michael McDonald had been a key collaborator on the Doobie Brothers‘ platinum-selling Top 10 album Takin’ It to the Streets. He wrote or co-wrote four of the 1976 LP’s nine songs while singing on five. Two of them became Top 40 hits, however, leading to a seismic shift in roles for the follow-up. “By the […]

Eddie Vedder Asked Big Name Drummer To Join Pearl Jam

Matt Cameron discussed Eddie Vedder asking him to join Pearl Jam in a new Rick Beato interview. Cameron joined Pearl Jam to replace drummer Jack Irons in 1998 for the Yield tour just one year after Soundgarden’s 1997 breakup. “Man it was intense, that’s that’s so difficult right, intense, it’s like after I got off […]