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SICK PUPPIES have teamed up with ESPN/ESPN+ to promote their new single “Ready Steady Go”, a cover of the Paul Oakenfold hit song. The music will be used to launch the new National Hockey League (NHL) season on ESPN with promos using the song on all their platforms through the end of 2022. Watch th…

Australian music and lifestyle company Love Police will release a new children’s picture book titled “The AC/DC AB/CD High-Voltage Alphabet” on Friday, November 11.
The book, which is aimed at pre-schoolers, was designed and produced by Paul McNeil. It is the fourth release in a series of children’s…

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH has launched not one but two official videos simultaneously for the first time ever: the official clip for current No. 1 single “Times Like These”, along with a video for part two of the story, “Welcome To The Circus”. Both songs are taken from FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH’s ninth…

PRONG leader Tommy Victor has confirmed to Heavy New York that he and his bandmates are hard at work on the long-awaited follow-up to 2017’s “Zero Days” album. “I can tell you the single will be out, the digital single, in January,” he said at this past weekend’s Aftershock festival in Sacramento, C…

The first thing to notice about “Comalies XX” is that it seems to imply, quite heavily, that 2002 was 20 years ago. Ridiculous, I know. Nonetheless, all that time seems to have passed and LACUNA COIL’s most beloved record is as ripe for reassessment and, as is the case here, reconstruction as any fr…

In a new interview with Highway 81 Revisited, JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner, who joined the band in 2011 as the replacement for K.K. Downing, was asked about singer Rob Halford’s comment in 2015 that Faulkner “saved” PRIEST. Richie said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “That’s incredib…

French progressive metallers GOJIRA have shared a teaser for their new song titled “Our Time Is Now”. The track will appear on the soundtrack to EA Sports’ long-running NHL video game franchise “NHL 23”, which is due out this Friday, October 14.
A total of 42 songs are featured in the 2023 edition…

WHITESNAKE bassist Tanya O’Callaghan spoke to Ampeg’s “SVT Time Live” about the band’s decision to pull out of its previously announced North American tour with the SCORPIONS due to singer David Coverdale’s “continued treatment for a persistent upper respiratory infection.” SCORPIONS has gone ahead…

Introducing the Gibson Pickup Shop, which offers a variety of pickup styles in Historic, Original and Modern Collections in configurations intended for all types of players.The Gibson Pickup Shop offers a variety of pickup styles and configurations every player. Gibson’s hand-assembled pickups feature specially made magnets, maple wood spacers, high-quality cover materials, and four-conductor or vintage two-conductor wiring. Each pickup magnet is magnetized at the Gibson Pickup Shop to ensure peak performance. The use of maple spacers (not plastic) helps to reduce unwanted vibrations. The Gibson Pickup Shop uses Swiss-made Meteor ME-301 coil winding machine, a historical winding machine that Gibson has been using since the 50s. The Meteor ME-301 coil winding machines are highly accurate, precision winders that can handle winding a larger quantity of coils simultaneously.The Gibson Pickup Shop Original Collection pays tribute to the past, housing the coveted ‘57 Classics, P-90s, Burstbuckers, and more that have shaped sound across all generations and genres of music. The Gibson Pickup Shop Modern Collection includes such pickups as the 490R, 498T and 500T.“Our updated lineup has been categorized into Original, Modern, and Historic collections to be in harmony with our Original, Modern, and Historic guitar collections,” says Jason Davidson, Director, Product Development and Gibson Archives Curator at Gibson Brands. “The Original collection includes pickups based on our original designs from the classic P-90 Dogear single coil to the Dirty Fingers humbucker. The Modern Collection includes pickups built for more modern tones and includes 4-conductor wiring to allow a variety of switching options, and our Historic Collection launches with the aftermarket debut of the Custombucker, previously available exclusively on Gibson Custom Shop guitars.”The Gibson Pickup ShopFor more information, please visit gibson.com.