Paradise Lost has parted ways with drummer Waltteri Väyrynen after six years together. Väyrynen drummed on Paradise Lost‘s Medusa and Obsidian records, as well as a few of their live records. Paradise Lost has recruited Guido Montanarini from Strigoi (Paradise Lost guitarist Gregor Mackintosh’s other band) for immediate touring duties. Väyrynen offered the following as […]
The Goo Goo Dolls recently performed at a show. One of the fans on Reddit, Jgregory99 noted that the band frontman John Rzeznik was playing an acoustic song, Sympathy, by himself and completely stopped and said “oh sh*t, I forgot the words”. It was noted that he played it off well and the audience loved […]
Sentient Ruin Laboratories, the Bay Area-based label who trades in everything from caustic war metal to blackened industrial, has had an absolute deathgrip on my listening habits as of late. I listen to a lot of different music from a lot of different places on a daily/hourly/minute-by-minute basis, but it seems that every other release […]
Billy Joel was about halfway through his eighth studio album, The Nylon Curtain, and sensing the creative strain. He turned that feeling into the album’s lead single. “The pressure I was writing about in this song wasn’t necessarily music business pressure. It was writing pressure,” Joel told MTV’s Night School in 1982. “I said, ‘I […]
If you ever thought “What would be the most Kid Rock fan thing to do?,” then we may have an answer. Recently, in Wheeling, Virginia, a woman was arrested after a Kid Rock concert at the Pavilion at Star Lake. The town’s police said they responded to a fender bender, and multiple people at the […]
This new Counterparts single is killer, man. From the driving verses to the massive choruses, it’s the kind of song that’s going to tear you between wanting to throw down and wanting to stand there and scream the lyrics at the top of your lungs. Maybe try to do both at once? Lyrically, Counterparts vocalist […]
The Cult has released a new song titled “A Cut Inside” and revealed the full track listing for their new album Under the Midnight Sun, which arrives on Oct. 7. You can listen to the new song and see the full track listing below. “A Cut Inside” is the second song released from Under the Midnight […]
If you’re an Alice In Chains fan, you obviously know about ‘Dirt,’ yes, that’s right – arguably Alice’s best album was ‘Dirt’ and the legacy that has been spawned in the music world from that album is severely underrated. One might think that Alice In Chains were not as mainstream successful as bands such as […]
Not long ago, producer Giles Martin wasn’t sure four-track-era Beatles albums like Revolver could be properly remixed. The tech, he said then, wasn’t there yet. “That’s a good example of, ‘How do we do that?’” Martin told Rolling Stone in 2021. “How do I make sure that John [Lennon] or Paul [McCartney]’s vocal isn’t just in […]
Wolfgang Van Halen has posted about playing at Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert, “What an amazing young man Shane Hawkins is. We unfortunately have too much in common. I envy his strength, because I certainly don’t have it. Watching him with tears in my eyes obliterate My Hero just like his father in front […]