A year after being canceled due to severe weather causing "unsafe conditions" at the festival grounds, Louder Than Life, the "World’s Largest Rock ‘N’ Roll Whiskey Festival," will return to Louisville, Kentucky, with a loaded lineup featuring Guns N' Roses, Slipknot, Disturbed, a reunited Staind (in its first public performance in five years), Godsmack, Rob... Continue Reading →
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Sons of Apollo—former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force)—have released the Vicente Cordero-directed video today for “Alive” from their debut album, Psychotic Symphony. In touring news, the band launched its first-ever world tour last week in Tampa,... Continue Reading →
Last week saw the announcement of Sons of Apollo, the new band featuring former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses), Billy Sheehan (The Winery Dogs, Mr. Big, David Lee Roth) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-Journey, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force). Their debut album, "Psychotic Symphony," is due for release... Continue Reading →
Since forming in 2004, Alter Bridge has seen its stock steadily rise in the hard rock realm, its prominence emphasized by a full-fledged arena tour of Europe to close out 2016. On Jan. 20, the band--vocalist/guitarist Myles Kennedy, guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips--will kick off its first North American headlining... Continue Reading →
Zakk Wylde passed the point of needing an introduction a long time ago. All hard rock and metal fans (and even American Idol viewers) know him from his long stint as Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist and as the main man in his own band, Black Label Society. It’s been business as usual of late for Zakk,... Continue Reading →
On the strength of its self-titled debut album, Halestorm has been touring the world nonstop for the past two years. But before heading out on the Avalanche Tour with Stone Sour, Theory of a Deadman, Skillet and Art of Dying, the hard-rocking quartet from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, found time to slip into the studio to... Continue Reading →
