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NICKELBACK Announces First Live Shows In Three Years

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Canadian rockers NICKELBACK will play three intimate shows next month to celebrate the release of their new album, “Get Rollin'”.

Earlier today, the band said in a social media post: “You asked for some live shows and here they are! Who are we seeing on the road?”

Nov. 15 – Toronto, ONT, Canada @ History
Nov. 18 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom (WRAT Nutcracker Ball)
Nov. 20 – Mashantucket, CT @ Foxwoods Resort Casino

NICKELBACK‘s long-awaited tenth studio album and first release in five years, “Get Rollin'”, will arrive on November 18 via BMG.

“San Quentin” was inspired after frontman Chad Kroeger met a real-life warden from the notorious high security California prison. The song follows the story as he plots his clever escape.

Regarding why it took so long to produce the follow-up to 2017’s “Feed The Machine”Chad told the WRAT radio station: “Well, we should have been making a record a lot sooner, with all that time off [due to the coronavirus pandemic]. But it’s weird to say this, but for 25 years it feels like someone’s been standing behind us with a cattle prod and telling us, ‘Hey, the record’s gotta be done at this time. We’re gonna tour at this time. We’re gonna do Australia and then we’re gonna go do Europe and then we’re gonna come back. We’ll go across Canada. We’ll hit America.’ Just like every other band that has to do this stuff, you wanna get a chance to see your fans all around the world. But with this, we were, like, ‘We’ll get to it when we get to it.’ [Laughs] And yeah, we took our time with it, which was just a wonderful luxury, to be able to sit back and [go], ‘No. I’m gonna play this guitar solo 40 more times for another three days and make sure it’s just exactly how we want it as opposed to deadline, deadline, deadline.”

Chad also talked about the lyrical inspiration for “San Quentin”, saying: “I met the [San Quentin prison] warden at a party. And I couldn’t believe how young he was. I was, like, ‘There’s just no way that you’re the warden of San Quentin,’ and everyone was, like, ‘Yup. He is.’ Guy Fieri‘s [American restaurateur, author and Emmy Award-winning television presenter] a buddy of mine, and I was at his birthday party a few years back. And the entire time we were talking, I’m, like, [laughs] I’m speaking to this guy, but in my head all I could think about was, ‘I’m gonna write a song called ‘San Quentin’. That’s it.’ And I stuck it in my notes in my phone. And then once the riff was down, I think I screamed out this line, ‘Can somebody please keep me the hell out of San Quentin?’ And we just took it from there.”

“Get Rollin'” and “Get Rollin’ (Deluxe)” will be available via digital platforms and physical CD format. The deluxe edition includes four bonus tracks — acoustic versions of “High Time”“Just One More”“Does Heaven Even Know You’re Missing?” and “Horizon”. Standard and exclusive versions of the album will also be released on vinyl in 2023.

Named the “most successful rock back of the decade” by Billboard in 2009, NICKELBACK is one of the most commercially viable and important rock acts of the past two decades. The four-piece, comprised of Chad KroegerMike KroegerRyan Peake and Daniel Adair, is globally celebrated for its career-defining and award-winning hits, including “How You Remind Me”“Photograph”“Far Away” and “Rockstar”, which all held top spots on the Billboard 100. Their success includes worldwide sales of more than 50 million units, solidifying their status as one of the top-selling acts of all time and the second best-selling foreign act in the USA in the 2000’s decade, behind only THE BEATLES. Their inescapable, irresistible smash “How You Remind Me” was named Billboard‘s “Top Rock Song Of The Decade”. It was the number-one most played song on U.S. radio (any format) in the 2000s decade according to Nielsen Soundscan, with over 1.2 million spins.

Amongst all these accolades, they’ve also been named Billboard‘s “Top Rock Group Of The Decade” and received nine Grammy Award nominations, three American Music Awards, a World Music Award, a People’s Choice Award, twelve JUNO Awards, seven MuchMusic Video Awards, and have been inducted into Canada’s Walk Of Fame (2007). With more than 23 chart-topping singles and fans spanning the globe, NICKELBACK boasts twelve consecutive sold-out world tours, playing to well over 10 million diehard and adoring fans.

Written by: Andy

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