On today’s Rock it Out! Blog, I sit down for a talk with Megadeth guitarist Chris Broderick. We talk about Gigantour, The Big Four of Thrash and who he thinks will win the Grammy award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance.
Today on the Rock it Out! Blog, Alex Lopez sits down with Volbeat drummer Jon Larsen. They talk about their love for The Misfits, what the rock scene is like in Copenhagen and when Volbeat will head back into the studio.
Jane’s Addiction continues to roll out the vids. This time Perry Farrell and the crew play house band in a 1920′s club that’s brimming with sin: gambling, drinking, fornicating…the horror!
Down below you can check out the video for the jam called “Underground” from their newest album, The Great Escape Artist. Speaking to Spinner.com, Farrell described the concept of the video. He said, “There are Siamese Gargoyles, séances, card games and a man in a white fedora who was also on the cover of [Led Zeppelin's] In Through the Out Door. People get made love to and murdered in the backrooms while the band plays on.”
In case you still don’t know, Jane’s Addiction is going on tour later this year and will play smaller, more intimate venues. See all the tour dates right here.
Behold a brand new video from Red Hot Chili Peppers for the track “Look Around” from their newest album, I’m With You.
The video features each member of RHCP performing in their own separate rooms that “loosely represented the band members’ personalities, so almost all the props and artwork in the rooms came from their personal collections,” according to the band’s website.
Flea has definitely got the best room which includes a hot punk-rock chick and whipped cream fights while guitarist Josh Klinghoffer looks to be going for the minimalist approach. Drummer Chad Smith is saving time by combining his bedroom and workout area and Anthony Kiedis is just an all around family man.
If you haven’t been paying attention, the band just released a batch of new North American tour dates. Catch up by clicking here to see them.
Well this looks promising! This year’s Mayhem festival, the touring hard rock and metal celebration, has got itself quite a massive line up this year.
Slipknot and Slayer will be headlining the festival while the side stages will boast bands including Anthrax, Asking Alexandria, The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, High On Fire and As I Lay Dying. There’s also a special artist that will be announced on April 6th and the big rumor is that Motörhead will be that band. The festival will kick off on June 30th in San Bernardino, CA. Tickets go on sale starting April 6th at Livenation.com
So for all the American Slipknot fans that have really wanted the band back on home soil, you finally got your wish. Check out all the tour dates down below.
Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2012 tour dates:
6/30 – San Manuel Amphitheater, San Bernardino, CA
7/1 – Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
7/3 – White River Amphitheatre, Auburn, WA
7/4 – TBD, Boise, ID
7/6 – Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ
7/7 – Hard Rock Pavilion, Albuquerque, NM
7/8 – Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, Englewood, CO
7/10 – Gexa Energy Pavilion, Dallas, TX
7/11 – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Spring, TX
7/13 – 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre At the Florida State Fairgrounds, Tampa, FL
7/14 – Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA
7/15 – Klipsch Music Center, Noblesville, IN
7/18 – TBD, Oklahoma City, OK
7/20 – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Maryland Heights, MO
7/21 – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL
7/22 – DTE Energy Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI
7/24 – Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
7/25 – Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
7/27 – Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden, NJ
7/28 – First Niagara Pavilion, Burgettstown, PA
7/29 – Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA
7/31 – Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
8/1 -Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, NY
8/3 – Comcast Center, Mansfield, MA
8/4 – Toyota Pavilion At Montage Mountain, Moosic, PA
8/5 – Comcast Theatre, Hartford, CT
Slipknot’s own Corey Taylor and Shawn “Clown” Crahan have decided to go into the movie business. The first thing they did, like all aspiring film moguls, is create a short film and then, naturally, go to the Sundance Film Festival with it and show it off to all the other Hollywood emperors of film. Now us common folk get to see the film too.
Up top is the short film from Taylor and Crahan’s production company, Living Breathing Films, called Thy Shalt I. Do you think this duo has what it takes to rule Hollywood with their films? Watch and find out.
If you haven’t seen this yet and have been looking for something new to trip balls on then you’re in luck! Up top is the brand new music video from Mastodon for the song “Dry Bone Valley” from The Hunter. It’s a bunch of images thrown in your face nonstop that invite the use of psychedelics to enhance the viewing experience. So you go ahead and start screaming why the bad man won’t get out of your eyeballs after watching this video a couple times.
Remember last year at the Academy Awards when Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the Oscar for Best Original Score for The Social Network? That was fun to see, wasn’t it? Sadly it won’t be happening again this year.
It looks like the Academy is over and done with dark, brooding, digital, industrial scores and is going back to honoring the classic sounding scores. Reznor and Ross didn’t get nominated for their work on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo while legendary composers like John Williams (War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin) and Howard Shore (Hugo) have been nominated.
Furthermore, other artists that the blogosphere holds in high regard were also snubbed of nominations this year as well. The National, Zooey Deschanel and Jónsi of Sigur Rós weren’t nominated even though they made the initial short list of nominees. However, Bret MacKenzie of Flight Of The Conchords did get a nomination for his song “Man or Muppets” from the movie The Muppets.
If at any time you feel like yelling out “Bullshit” to any of this news, please know that you’re not alone.
