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MC5 have announced they will release a new album, titled Heavy Lifting, on October 18th via EarMusic. The record will mark the band’s first studio release in 53 years. Bob Ezrin produced the album , which was spearheaded by the late founding guitarist of the band, Wayne Kramer. The album features performances by original MC5…

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss recently shared a new version of “When The Levee Breaks.” The new version of “When the Levee Breaks” is the first release from Plant and Krauss since their 2021 album Raise the Roof. “When the Levee Breaks” is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and…

DMX has earned a posthumous chart-topper on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart thanks to Five Finger Death Punch’s “This Is the Way.” FFDP extended its record streak on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart and now has 11 straight No. 1s on the tally. As for DMX, “This Is the Way” is the late rapper’s first…

Skid Row will release their first-ever live album and a concert film featuring the recording of the band’s live show at 02 Forum in Kentish Town, London, on October 24, 2022. Skid Row – Live in London is set to be released on digital, CD/DVD digipak, and 2 LP vinyl configurations via earMUSIC on September…

Metallica have announced that their Marching Band Competition is returning for a second year. Last year’s response to Metallica’s first-ever marching band competition “completely blew us away,” with over 500 colleges and high schools in the U.S. submitting their truly unique interpretations of Metallica songs, said the band. Year two offers three times as many…

UMR has announced Pete Townshend Live > In Concert 1985-2001, an expanded 14-CD box set and digital set featuring seven long-out-of-print live albums by The Who founder Pete Townshend, will be released on July 26. The set is available for pre-order now at https://petetownshend.lnk.to/liveinconcert Newly remastered by Jon Astley at Close To The Edge, the…

Falling In Reverse have teamed up with country music star Jelly Roll for a new song, “All My Life”. “All my life I’ve f**ked up and I can’t deny / I do my best to get it together / I told you once, I told you a million times I just can’t live like this…

Beck has added a second orchestral show at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Last month, Beck had announced dates for a limited run of orchestral performances, which included shows at venues like the Hollywood Bowl and the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall with a rotating crew of instrumentalists. Now, due to high demand, Beck has added…

An upcoming Jesse Malin tribute album it set to feature Bruce Springsteen, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and many more. In addition to Springsteen and Armstrong, the upcoming tribute album Silver Patron Saints: The Songs of Jesse Malin will also feature Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello and The Hold…

Thom Yorke has announced a solo tour set to take place in October and November. In a statement, the Radiohead and Smile frontman stated, “In the autumn in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Japan I will be alone on stage trying a new kind of solo show thing playing versions of the songs I have…