Imagine having never gotten a plane in your life, and then suddenly you’re traveling around the world with a metal band as a guitar tech. That was the case for Jake Hobbs, who’s been working with Lamb of God‘s Mark Morton. The pair met at an arcade in Kentucky while Hobbs was simply a fan
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We’ve had two weekends of Couch Lands this year in lieu of Lost Lands, which has been postponed until 2021 due to COVID-19 like all the rest. However, it doesn’t appear that we’re completely out of the festival, yet. SWARM, who should’ve been a shoo-in for Lost Lands this year, posted a creative and hilarious
After months of absurd Twitter battles, vocal Trump support, trying to fight Ice-T and blaming George Floyd for his own death, Chris Taylor Brown finally has the first-week numbers for Trapt’s latest album, Shadow Work. Just 600 copies of Shadow Work were sold in its first week, landing short of Brown’s public predictions for the
ZHU & Bob Moses…. what a combination. After being teased yesterday, their new collaboration “Desire” is out now. “Desire” is a brilliant blend of both artists’ styles with deep synths and pumping bass, meshed with whimsical melody. Contrary to most of his tracks, even collabs, ZHU lends vocal duty over to Bob Moses for this
Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess is putting his talents on display, saluting one of film’s greatest composers, Ennio Morricone, who died at the age of 91 on July 6. Morricone was a legend in the film world, earning an Oscar for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight film. Metal fans most likely recognize
Everyone knows of Brownies & Lemonade’s last two live stream festivals, Digital Mirage, in partnership with Proximity. But the LA-based promoters are going back to their roots with a live stream Open Aux which is made to feature rising artists as opposed to the juggernauts they’ve been featuring in DM. The stream this time is
Former Static-X guitarist Tripp Eisen has received the wrath of Dope frontman Edsel Dope after issuing a press release claiming he was responsible for inviting Dope to be included in Static-X’s reunion and seeking additional attention for songwriting credits on the band’s current Project Regeneration, Vol. 1 album. Eisen, who is credited under his abbreviated
The electro-pop hit “All My Friends” from Madeon has been out for over a year now. At the time of release, it was heralded as the long sought after return of the French producer’s then upcoming music. Since its release, the debut single from Madeon’s sophomore album Good Faith is still a beloved, catchy track.
Gibson Guitar is ponying up to see if than can recover a bit of music history, putting forth a $59,000 reward in hopes of uncovering their missing shipping ledgers from 1959-1960. That period was an especially great one in the 126-year-old history of Gibson, with some of the company’s top guitar models being created during that
A lot of artists have a breakout hit that catapults them to stardom: “Losing It” for Fisher, “Me & You” for Nero, “Faded” for Alan Walker… others have a slower burn, a gradual build up of notoriety until suddenly they’re headlining. For NGHTMRE, “Street” was his breakout hit in 2015 and his quality releases haven’t
David Lee Roth has twisted the knife on an already painful 2020, telling the New York Times that he is uncertain that Van Halen guitarist and co-founder Eddie Van Halen will ever tour again. The singer had already cast doubt in the heart of Van Halen fans over the last year, alluding to the idea
On March 20, 2019, Flume released his Hi This Is Flume mixtape and breathed new life into his career — not that it was waning in any way before that, though. Four months later, he traveled to Red Rocks in Colorado for the first performance since the release and presented an entirely new show that he’d
“Maybe they’re seeing something we don’t darlin.” That line comes from Bonnie Raitt’s Grammy-winning 1991 single “Something to Talk About,” but maybe the folks at Two Minutes to Late Night have heard something we don’t … darlin … turning this bluesy jam into a Guns N’ Roses-styled rocker. Two Minutes to Late Night host Gwarsenio
David Guetta and Morten are gearing up to release their highly anticipated collaboration “Kill Me Slow” forthcoming on their joint New Rave. The track stirred up much buzz when Guetta first premiered it during the #UNITEDATHOME stream live from New York. Now, he’s sharing how it came to be with this raw recording, straight from
As Dorothea Taylor stated in one of her videos earlier this year, “Drummers come in all ages, sizes, shapes, ethnicities. And regardless of how good you are, how old you are, we’re all still part of the drumming family.” Taylor has become a social media favorite, rocking it behind the kit on drum covers of
A 5,000-person event in Nice, France has caught the attention of the local government who are now requiring masks at all major events, even outdoors. The event last night was headlined by The Avener, who is from Nice. It’s unclear how long the event was scheduled for, but gathering 5,000 people out of nowhere isn’t
Veteran rockers Great White took the stage in Dickinson, North Dakota Thursday night (July 9), playing to a crowd where there were no social distancing or masking restrictions in place. The show was held outdoors as part of the “First on First: Dickinson Summer Nights” series, but footage shows many of the concertgoers without masks
We just said how amazing HALIENE is in our coverage of her forthcoming collaboration with Excision and Wooli, but Seven Lions has known it for a long time. Teaming up with her again, as well as Last Heroes, on “Don’t Wanna Fall,” the new single is the follow up collaboration between Seven Lions and HALIENE