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Danish/American rock and rollers VOLBEAT have shared their new music video for "Wait A Minute My Girl". The clip was directed by Sean Donnelly, founder of AWESOME+modest, with collages by Mengqing Yuan, and animation by Steve Yeung. AWESOME+modest is an animation studio based in Los Angeles, California that specializes in mixed media techniques. They most recently created all of the animation in the HBO documentary miniseries "The Lady And The Dale", Marvel's "Behind The Mask" and Showtime's "The One And Only Dick Gregory". The band said of […]

JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE, the band led by former GREAT WHITE singer Jack Russell, will release "Great Zeppelin II: A Tribute To Led Zeppelin" on August 13 via Deadline Music, a subsidiary of Cleopatra Records, Inc. This long-awaited sequel to the 1998 album that became one of GREAT WHITE's best-selling, most loved albums, rocks even harder than its predecessor and includes all-new covers of "Whole Lotta Love", "Kashmir", "Houses Of The Holy", "Misty Mountain Hop" and more. Russell is ably backed by stellar guitarists Robby […]

Dorothy returns today with her powerful, soul-baring new single, "What's Coming To Me". The swampy blues canticle recounts her time spent away since her lauded last record, during which she re-evaluated herself and found strength in her rock and roll roots. The soulful revelation sung through Dorothy's momentous voice "is a story about casting out a demon and getting redeemed — a metaphor for depression or addiction," she reveals. "I think it's something […]

DEFTONES have postponed their previously announced North American tour with GOJIRA until the spring of 2022. The trek was originally scheduled to take place last summer before being pushed back, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to August and September of this year. Earlier today, DEFTONES issued a statement on social media once again announcing the postponement of the tour. The Sacramento, California-based act cited the "uncertainty" related to the coronavirus crisis in "different markets throughout […]

World-renowned guitarist/songwriter Mark Tremonti is back with his fifth album from his solo band TREMONTI. The new album, titled "Marching In Time", is scheduled for global release on September 24, 2021 via Napalm Records and is available for pre-order beginning today. Tremonti is no stranger to storytelling. Throughout his years with top-charting bands ALTER BRIDGE and CREED, and most recently his solo band, Mark has never strayed from his love of writing memorable songs. With "Marching In Time", the band looks to continue […]

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their 1996 LP "Tiny Music…Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop" by releasing a three-disc/one-LP deluxe edition. Due on July 23, it will feature a remastered version of the original album, alternate versions and mixes of several of the songs, and a complete concert taped at the Club La Vela in Panama City Beach, Florida, on March 14, 1997. A previously unreleased live version of […]

FOO FIGHTERS have teamed up with MSG Entertainment to release a mini-documentary chronicling the band's concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City following 466 days without live music. The official description for the nine-minute documentary, which can be seen below, reads as follows: "On June 20, 2021, after 466 days without live music, FOO FIGHTERS reopened Madison Square Garden to a sold-out crowd, marking the first full capacity concert in a New York […]

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has announced the launch of Sixx On Sixx, his first direct-to-fan merchandise line. Says Nikki: "We will be releasing unique and collectable items multiple times a year, so look out for some cool stuff on the way." Currently available for pre-order are three t-shirts, a logo zip hoodie, logo sweatpants and a pocket knife. All items are expected to begin shipping in late August 2021. Sixx's new book, "The First 21: How I […]

YES — consisting of Steve Howe, Alan White, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood — will release its new studio album, "The Quest", on October 1 via InsideOut Music/Sony Music. Containing 11 songs — eight on the main CD with three extra tracks on a bonus CD — "The Quest" will be available on vinyl and 5.1 Blu-ray and CD, all on the day of release. "It is simply an honor for me to have the opportunity to bring together the […]