Month: December 2022

The Strokes will release a new box set, titled ‘The Singles – Volume 01’. The collection is set to drop early next year on February 24, 2023.   According to a press statement from the band, ‘The Singles – Volume 01’ will be comprised of 10 7″ singles, which will include “hits, fan favorites, and rarities.”

In addition, customers will also receive music videos from the band’s first three albums, “delivered in high-definition.” The 10 – 7″ singles are from the band’s first three albums—Is This It (2001), Room on Fire (2003), and First Impressions of Earth (2006). In addition, fans will get rare B-sides from the original single releases. All ten singles will be pressed on black 7” vinyl, with the artwork from each original release replicated in the package.

Fans can pre-order ‘The Singles – Volume 01’ box set HERE.

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The lineup for the 2023 edition of Welcome to Rockville has been revealed, with Pantera, Tool, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Hardy, Godsmack, Alice Cooper, Deftones and Incubus are among the headliners.

The four-day event, running from May 18-May 21 and returning to Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, FL for its third year, will also feature major acts like Evanescence, Deftones, the Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age, Rob Zombie, and others, as well as rising acts worth checking out, including nothing,nowhere. and Nova Twins.

Single-day and weekend passes for Welcome to Rockville 2023 are now on sale at welcometorockville.com. Passes can be purchased as general admission, VIP or Daytona Owners Club, and layaway is available through Dec. 31.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top have announced 22 dates for their first co-headlining tour across North America. The joint tour will mark 50 years since Lynyrd Skynyrd dropped their legendary 1973 debut album, and will feature support from singer and musician Uncle Kracker.

“The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour” will kick off in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s home state at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Fla., on July 21, and continue across the U.S. before wrapping up with a final night in New Jersey at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, N.J. on Sept. 17.

Skynyrd’s Johnny Van Zant said in a press statement: “It’s about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and what it stands for, what the fans are all about. There’s nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music.” Founding guitarist Gary Rossington added:“We’re still standing, Still keeping the music going. We wanted to do the guys who aren’t with us anymore proud, and keep the name proud, too.”

Tickets for the Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top “The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour” are on sale now at the link: – here.

ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd announce first-ever co-headlining tour

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Måneskin announced they have teamed up with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello for a new single titled, “GOSSIP,” set for release on January 13. The song is expected to appear on the Italian rock band’s highly anticipated third album, RUSH!, which will arrive a week later on January 20.

The band also revealed the 17-song tracklist for RUSH!, set to be released on standard, white, red and picture disk vinyl, special box sets, CD and more.  Previously the band shared that the entire album has been inspired by Radiohead. To pre-order/pre-save RUSH!, head here.

Frontman Damiano David said of the upcoming album: “People have got our aesthetic – now we’ve got to show the inside.” Bassist Victoria De Angelis added: “It’s a new side for our new audience, but we’ve always been playing ballads. That’s always been a big part of our music, so with this one we tried to experiment a bit more with the sound. We listened to a lot of Radiohead where they work a lot with pedals.”

Måneskin announces ‘Gossip’ with Tom Morello

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Motörhead have shared their previously unreleased song, Bullet In Your Brain, taken from the band’s forthcoming collection Bad Magic: Serious Bad Magic, which is scheduled to arrive on February 24.  Along with the track is a behind-the-scenes video which shows the iconic rock’n’roll band hard at work in the studio during the making of their final studio album, 2015’s Bad Magic.

The new deluxe edition will feature Bullet In Your Brain as one of two ‘new’ bonus songs, alongside Greedy Bastards. There will also be included a recording of one of Motörhead’s live performances from Japan’s Mt. Fuji Festival in 2015. Bad Magic: Serious Bad Magic will be released on double 12″ vinyl, on a CD Digipak with bonus disc, and as a limited edition box set, which will also be available for digital streaming. You can find details on how to pre-order the collection here; and on streaming services here.

Take a look at the official video for Bullet In Your Brain – on YouTube.

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Ghost have shared a new lyric video for their surprise hit “Mary On A Cross,” which went viral on TikTok earlier this year.  “Mary On A Cross” was originally released as a B-side in 2019, but became the band’s first Billboard Hot 100 charting single earlier this year after it was featured in a TikTok video about Stranger Things, sending it viral on the platform. A special, limited edition physical release of “Mary On A Cross” will also be available to purchase, and is set to be included on a purple vinyl version of the 2019 album Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic, which is available to pre-order now.

The new lyric video sets the song to newly unearthed – and never-before-seen – vintage Super 8 footage of Ghost’s early line-up. According to a press release, the scenes were ‘shot at a gig at Los Angeles’ famed venue Whisky-A-Go-Go in 1969,’  The new video follows several other versions and videos for the song shared this year; in September, Ghost shared a live video for the track, which was filmed at a show in Tampa, Florida, during the summer 2022 leg of the band’s “Imperatour.”  In addition, a “slowed + reverb” version of “Mary On A Cross” was also shared. The new version lent theatrics and a sense of ominous doom to the sneering, sardonic hit and was made available for creators to use on TikTok.

To stream “Mary On A Cross” head here.
Take a look at the new lyric video for “Mary On A Cross” – here.

Ghost releases unearthed 1969 footage

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