Month: May 2021

Boston Calling tells music fans to mark their calendars for next spring. The acclaimed three-day festival is excited to announce its return to Allston, Massachusetts next Memorial Day Weekend, May 27-29, 2022. As the only major U.S. music festival to officially announce its headliners for next year, Boston Calling shares that FOO FIGHTERS and RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE are slated to top the bill. The two globally iconic rock acts will join a lineup of over 60 […]

The iconic band KISS return to comics in a haunting new tale, "Phantom Obsession", by writer Ian Edginton. As a young man in 1978, Darius Cho attended a concert of his favorite band, a memory that has stuck with him to this day. Now he is a massively wealthy tech giant, but mysteriously reclusive. Some even believe he may not exist at all, simply serving as a ghostly facade for an endless consortium of corporations. At […]

Knotfest, the music and counterculture experience created by the multi-platinum sonic phenomenon and nine-piece force of nature SLIPKNOT has today confirmed the return of Knotfest Iowa for 2021. The event will be the biggest heavy music festival to ever hit the mid-western state and will be held at National Balloon Classic Field in Indianola, Iowa on Saturday, September 25, with SLIPKNOT headlining. The full lineup features FAITH NO MORE, MEGADETH, LAMB OF GOD, $UICIDE BOY$, GOJIRA, TRIVIUM, TECH N9NE, FEVER 333, KNOCKED LOOSE, TURNSTILE, GATECREEPER and VENDED. Tickets will […]

Julien's Auctions has announced the marquee lineup of "Music Icons", the world-record breaking auction house to the stars' annual music extravaganza on Friday, June 11; Saturday, June 12; and Sunday, June 13 2021 live at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com. A canon of over 1,000 music iconography featuring instruments, memorabilia, wardrobe and personal property owned and used by the greatest 20th- and 21st-century's pop culture icons representing the genres […]

FOZZY will release a new single, "Sane", on Friday, May 28. The track is taken from the band's upcoming album, to be made available later in the year. A short teaser for the "Sane" music video is available below. This past February, FOZZY singer Chris Jericho told Detroit's WRIF radio station that the follow-up to 2017's "Judas" album would "continue with the momentum that 'Judas' started for us three years ago." Last summer, Chris revealed that FOZZY's next LP will contain 12 songs, including one cover. In […]

Mainstream rock titans POP EVIL will embark on a headlining tour this summer in support of their new album, "Versatile", out now via Entertainment One (eOne). The "Versatile" tour will kick off on July 14 with an outdoor show in Lake County, Illinois and run across the U.S. until September 23 including stops at several of the major rock festivals — Rocklahoma, Aftershock and Inkcarceration — as well as supporting SHINEDOWN. Support on the trek will come from special guests ZERO 9:36, BRKN LOVE and LIKE MACHINES (on […]

Jacoby Shaddix has revealed to the FM99 WNOR radio station that PAPA ROACH will release the first single and video from its upcoming album in late July. "We're going down the middle of this month to shoot two music videos and get that part of it rolling," the singer said in an interview which was streamed live on Monday (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). Shaddix also confirmed once again that PAPA ROACH's next album will be released through band's […]

Former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent spoke to The Rock Experience with Mike Brunn about his plans to finally release some of his previously unheard music that was recorded over the course of the last three decades. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "This is my crowning moment of joy that I've been waiting for many, mant, many years, just to be able to say to everybody in truth and reality, but we are finally mixing the two-inch […]

MEGADETH has officially parted ways with bassist David Ellefson. The band's leader Dave Mustaine announced Ellefson's exit in a statement earlier today (Monday, May 24). He wrote: "We are informing our fans that David Ellefson is no longer playing with MEGADETH and that we are officially parting ways with him. "We do not take this decision lightly. While we do not know every detail of what occurred, with an already strained relationship, what has already been revealed now is […]