Month: August 2024

System of a Down’s Serj Tankian has shared a brand new solo single, “Justice Will Shine On,” following the previously released “A-F Day.”

“Justice Will Shine On” was composed by Tankian in the early System of a Down days — it will appear on the upcoming EP from Tankian, FOUNDATIONS, set for release on September 27th. Tankian has also unveiled the cover art for FOUNDATIONS, which features one of his original artworks titled “Sunburst.”

In addition, Tankian’s best-selling new memoir DOWN WITH THE SYSTEM is available in all formats: here.

Watch the official music video for “Justice Will Shine On” – HERE.
Pre-order FOUNDATIONS: here.

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Fleetwood Mac have announced the will release the live album Mirage Tour ’82, which contains recordings from the band’s two concerts at The Forum in Los Angeles in 1982.

Mirage Tour ’82 features 22 songs, with Rhino noting in a press release announcing the set, “In September 1982, Fleetwood Mac embarked on a 31-city U.S. tour in support of Mirage, the band’s fourth consecutive multiplatinum album and third No. 1 in America. Both shows at the Forum were recorded, and Mirage Tour ‘82 combines songs from both into a single concert experience.”  Available in 3xLP vinyl, 2xCD, and digital formats, the collection will be out on September 20th. Pre-orders for the vinyl and CD sets are available:  here.

Among the nearly two dozen tracks on Mirage Tour ’82 are six previously unreleased recordings from the Oct. 21 concert, including “Landslide,” “Don’t Stop” and “Never Going Back Again.” Other songs recorded on Oct. 22 have appeared on other releases over the years, including Live Super Deluxe Edition, Mirage Super Deluxe Edition and the 1983 concert video Mirage Live.

The tour marked the band’s final outing with Lyndsey Buckingham in the fold until 1997. In the liner notes, music journalist Bill DeMain describes Mirage Tour ’82 as a “riveting listen, and a reminder of when rock shows were platforms to expand and reinvent songs for the stage, to let them breathe, to unleash different, wilder sides of a band.”

Take a listen to a previously unreleased live version of “Don’t Stop” from the box set – HERE.

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Ghost’s Rite Here Rite Now is the No. 1 soundtrack in the United States. The original motion picture soundtrack to the highest grossing hard rock cinema event in North American history has officially topped not only the Soundtrack Albums chart, but also debuted at #1 on the Vinyl, Rock and Hard Music Album and Indie Store Album Sales charts—as well as placing top 5 on the Current Albums, Independent Albums and Digital Albums charts.

Rite Here Rite Now: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was recorded over two nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif., in 2023, includes one studio-recorded track: “The Future Is a Foreign Land.”  The Rite Here Rite Now soundtrack arrives with 27,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 1, according to Luminate, with 26,000 of that sum in traditional album sales – supported by its availability across 10 vinyl variants (whose combined sales totaled a little over 16,000). It’s the sixth top 10-charting set for the rock band on the Top Album Sales chart.

The band recently shared the new singles and animated videos in the style of the Scooby Doo Gang animated cartoons, for “The Future is a Foreign Land” and their epic viral hit “Mary On A Cross!” Bundles are available with streaming on all DSPs, as well as a collectible double LP and CD includes a 16-page photo book, official film poster and 18 songs from the band’s debut feature film.

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The Offspring has released the video for “Make It All Right,” the lead single off their upcoming album, SUPERCHARGED, available October 11th.

SUPERCHARGED, the follow-up to 2021’s Let the Bad Times Roll, was recorded in three different locations — Maui, Vancouver, and the band’s home studio in Huntington Beach,  together with producer Bob Rock.

The music video, directed by Margaret Bialis, features an animated punk rocker dreaming of his “partner in crime” and eventually their love sprouts wings and takes them on adventures and across the skies. You can watch it streaming now on YouTube.

The Offspring also released two new official performance videos with a legendary guest star, Queen’s Brian May at the guitarist’s Starmus Festival in Slovakia for a performance of their song “Gone Away” as well as acover of Queen’s “Stone Cold Crazy.”

The band also continues to perform on the road, after appearing at numerous festivals this summer (including Inkcarceration Festival in Mansfield, OH on July 19th) and will be featured at the Louder Than Life Festival on September 26th.

Check out the lyric video for ‘Make It All Right’ – here.

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Bruce Dickinson released the limited edition CD of his new single “Resurrection Men” last week, featuring two live bonus tracks, in addition to the official video for the track which shares a look at life on the road.

The three-track CD comes in a gatefold digi-sleeve and includes the bonus songs, “Afterglow Of Ragnarok” and “Abduction,” both of which were also recorded live at Dickinson’s show in Sao Paulo as part of his world tour for The Mandrake Project.

Said Dickinson of the tour, which started in LA on April 12th and finished in Athens, Greece on July 21st: “The tour was one of the very best. The band was just so pumped and on it every night that it was a joy. The audience reactions everywhere for songs old and new were pretty overwhelming & I already can’t wait to go back out again ! The video is my thank you to everyone who came to see us at festivals, clubs, theatres and arenas. Who said a metal audience can’t appreciate a theremin, bongos and ‘Dick Dale-esque’ surfer guitars? Mine certainly do!!”

See the video for ‘Resurrection Men’: here.

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Eddie Vedder has released a studio version of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ song, “Room at the Top”, which originally appeared on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ 1999 album, Echo.

Members of Vedder’s solo band The Earthlings joined him for the cover of Room At The Top, including bassist Chris Chaney, guitarists Josh Klinghoffer and Andrew Watt, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. In addition, frequent collaborator Glen Hansard played acoustic guitar and added backing vocals, and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ keyboardist Benmont Tench joined on organ.

Vedder’s cover of Room At The Top (which he has been covering live for years) appears on the soundtrack to the upcoming Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey, starring Vince Vaughn and set to premiere on Aug. 14. Vedder also previously performed “Room at the Top” during the ‘in memoriam’ segment of the 2018 Oscars.

The soundtrack to Bad Monkey is due out on Oct. 4, and consists mainly of Petty covers, including Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit covering “You’re Gonna Get It,” Marcus King’s take on “The Waiting,” and Larkin Poe’s version of “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” as well as contributions from Weezer, Nathaniel Rateliff and Fitz and the Tantrums.

Take a listen to Vedder’s version of ‘Room At The Top’ – here.

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