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Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee and JOURNEY bandmember Jonathan Cain has just released “Christmas Is Love” from Identity Records with The Fuel Music distribution. The EP is available now at digital and streaming outlets everywhere.
Produced and written by Cain with all but one track recorded, mi…

TAIPEI HOUSTON, the new band featuring Myles and Layne Ulrich, sons of METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich, has released the music video for the song “Respecter”. The track is taken from TAIPEI HOUSTON’s debut album, “Once Bit Never Bored”, which has just been made available via C3 Records.
Formed in the…

HIM mastermind Ville Valo (VV) will release his debut solo album, “Neon Noir”, on January 13 via Heartagram Records, distributed by UMG/Spinefarm. The LP’s latest single, “The Foreverlost”, can be streamed below.
“‘The Foreverlost’ is yet another loud love song depicting the burlesque butoh between…

GUNS N’ ROSES has released a new version of the song “November Rain” featuring a 50-piece orchestra.
The reworked version of the epic track was arranged and conducted by film and television composer Christopher Lennertz. It was remixed by progressive rock icon Steven Wilson, who previously said of h…

The doom device’s third iteration includes a thorough circuit tweak designed to capture the band’s shattering, front-end saturation felt throughout 2019’s Life Metal.Sunn O))) are pleased to present an enhanced version of the Sunn O))) Life Pedal Octave Distortion + Booster, in collaboration with their comrades at EarthQuaker Devices. The Sunn O))) Life Pedal circuit has been meticulously tweaked from the original to squeeze every last drop of heavy crushing tone available. The octave section has been fine tuned to make it more pronounced without losing the bottom end and we added a third footswitch, utilizing Flexi-Switch Technology®, for the octave to allow an additional method of quick and radical tone shaping. “I’m super stoked to have this pedal back in our line!” says EarthQuaker founder, president and designer Jamie Stillman. “We put in a lot of hours dialing this one in and I’m very proud of the final product. Sunn O))) is such an iconic band and I’m thrilled to be part of their legacy.” EarthQuaker CEO Julie Robbins agrees.“It has been an honor and privilege to collaborate with Greg and Stephen on the SUNN O))) Life Pedal. We are so excited to give this special pedal a permanent place in our line.” In the writing sessions for Life Metal, Stephen & Greg worked extensively shearing their tones toward a broader energy spectrum over high powered saturation and across planes of sonic character, with the ambition to take full advantage of recording engineer Steve Albini’s exacting capture skills. The results are astounding: there is breadth and luminosity of colour, vast sonic cosmoses, flashes of abstract colour (synthetic and objective) through resulting themes which emerged from the mastered depths of saturation and circuits between the two players and their mountains of gear. “We set out to create something that was unique and had its own distinct character to it. The result combines different distortions and achieves different shades of saturation that we were actually doing in the studio,” says Greg Anderson. “I’m extremely happy with this pedal. It’s an integral part of my tone and it holds an important place in my pedal chain.”“Working on this new version has been a great continuity of this collaboration which feels so right, and sounds so right,” says Stephen O’Malley. “It’s a really beautiful pedal and it’s also a beautiful art collaboration. I think we made something really interesting that people can enjoy to use for their own music, but also, it makes a lot of sense to release a piece of distortion as a release for our band. We’re really happy that this is a trilogy now.”Learn more about the pedal here.

BAD RELIGION frontman, solo artist, professor and author Greg Graffin will release a new book, “Punk Paradox: A Memoir”, on November 8 via Hachette Books. It is described in a press release as a “historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution.”
In a new interview with “The Chuck S…

In September 2021, Screaming Butterfly Entertainment announced a partnership with former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson and his Ellefson Films on the upcoming feature-length documentary “This Was My Life: The Story Of Nick Menza”. Ellefson signed on as a co-producer of the film, and also will provi…

CHEAP TRICK guitarist Rick Nielsen will miss the band’s shows this weekend after recently undergoing a “minor” medical procedure. He will be temporarily replaced by Robin Taylor Zander, the 28-year-old son of CHEAP TRICK’s frontman Robin Wayne Zander.
Earlier today, the legendary rockers released th…

NONPOINT has released the official lyric video for its latest single, “Paper Tigers”. The song, which was originally made available in September via the band’s independent label 361 Degrees Records, was helmed by Chris Collier, the producer, engineer, mixer, and multi-instrumentalist who has worked…