ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons Loves Keith Richards [Interview]
ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons talks about his recent collaboration with blues player Leslie West, his love for Keith Richards and ZZ Top’s simple secret to success.Read More
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Former Korn Guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch Announces ‘Over My Head’ Tour
Former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch just announced a North American tour with fellow faith-based rockers Project 86, the Letter Black and the Wedding.Read More
Evanescence ‘What You Want’ is Dance-y Hard Rock – Song Review [Audio]
Evanescence just released the first single off their upcoming, self-titled album, and the track “What You Want,” brings a stormy blast of hard rock and anguish pop, with Evanescence’s typical layers of symphonic chords. Move towards the bottom of the page and click on the player to hear the song.Read More
Skillet’s ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You,’ the Perfect Breakup Song – Song Review
Hard rock band Skillet’s latest album, Awake, has been out is over 100 weeks, but it’s not slowing down one bit. The collection has scored a third RIAA Gold certified No. 1 active rock single in, “Awake and Alive,” and the band’s hoping to tally a fourth with their new track, “It’s Not Me It’s You.”Read More
Black Stone Cherry: Carnival of Madness is ‘a Big Family Reunion’ [Interview]
The 2011 Carnival of Madness tour kicks off this Saturday, Aug. 13, in Twin Lakes, Wis., featuring Theory of a Deadman, Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry, Adelitas Way and Emphatic. Black Stone Cherry are stoked for the tour, saying it’s ‘a big family reunion.’Read More
Seether Drummer John Humphrey: New Single ‘Tonight’ Almost ‘Didn’t Make the Album’ [Interview]
Drummer John Humphrey checked in with Audio Ink Radio to talk about Seether’s new album (“It was like a Christmas present for me”), their new single ‘Tonight’ (which almost didn’t make the album) and why the 2011 Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival will be one big reunion.Read More
Anberlin and Switchfoot ‘Excited’ to Pair Up for North American Tour
Alternative pop-rock band Switchfoot are due for a cross-country tour, so why not team up with fellow Christian rockers Anberlin and make it one big party? The duo recently announced just that: a full-fledged, North American tour together, which kicks off Sept. 25 in New York City.Read More
RED’s ‘Lie to Me (Denial)’ Brings the Heavy – Song Review
Nashville hard rock band RED’s new single, “Lie To Me (Denial),” opens with an eerie instrumental passage, pierced with subtle electronic beats and warm guitar tones, before exploding into crushing riffs and towering melodies.Read More
Five Finger Death Punch’s ‘Under and Over It’ Scores on Rock Radio
Five Finger Death Punch’s new song, “Under and Over It,” is the most added new song at active rock radio this week and the No. 1 song on the iTunes rock chart.Read More
Switchfoot Frontman Jon Foreman: New Album is ‘About the Duality of Existence’
Just under two years have passed since alternative pop-rock band Switchfoot released their Grammy-winning album Hello Hurricane, and the guys are right on target to drop the follow-up, Vice Verses, on Sept. 27 via Atlantic Records.Read More