SLAUGHTER vocalist Mark Slaughter recently appeared on the "Thunder Underground" podcast. The full conversation can be streamed below (interview starts at the 24:30 mark). A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On his goals as a songwriter: Mark: "I've always had a sense of melody to what I do. Even if it's heavy, I ...
Former VIXEN singer Janet Gardner will release a new solo album, "Your Place In The Sun", on May 31 via Pavement Entertainment. Like her 2017 debut self-titled solo album, the new disc is a collaboration with her husband, guitarist/producer Justin James, who has previously worked with STAIND, COLLECTIVE SOUL and TYKETTO. Behind-the-scenes footage from the ...
San Francisco Bay Area thrashers VIO-LENCE played their first comeback show last night (Saturday, April 13) at the Oakland Metro in Oakland, California. Video footage of the concert, as well as the pre-gig soundcheck, can be seen below (courtesy of Capital Chaos TV and Walter Morgan). The VIO-LENCE lineup that appeared at the Metro consisted ...
VILLE VALO & AGENTS, the band led by guitar legend Esa Pulliainen and Ville Valo, the frontman of the recently disbanded Finnish rock act HIM, performed on April 6 at Hullu Poro Areena in Levi, Finland. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. The self-titled album by VILLE VALO & AGENTS, based ...
Fan-filmed video footage of KISS's April 11 concert at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida can be seen below. The first North American leg of KISS's farewell tour, "End Of The Road", launched January 31 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at Rogers Arena and is hitting an additional 43 cities. KISS frontman Paul Stanley recently said ...
WHITESNAKE kicked off its "Flesh & Blood" world tour Friday night (April 12) at 7 Clans First Council Casino Hotel in Newkirk, Oklahoma. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below. The setlist was as follows: 01. Bad Boys 02. Slide It In 03. Gonna Be Alright (live debut) 04. Love Ain't No ...
During an April 4 appearance at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan explained that "Feeling" — a song from his upcoming Shooter Jennings-produced solo album, "Tenderness" — was inspired by the deaths of several of his rock peers. "When I met Shooter," Duff said, "I had these chords, and ...
Steve Riley has recruited Orlando, Florida-based guitarist/vocalist Kurt Frohlich to front his version of L.A. GUNS at next month's M3 Rock Festival. Frohlich's addition to the group was confirmed via a graphic posted on the Facebook page of Riley's L.A. GUNS. In addition to Frohlich and Riley, the L.A. GUNS lineup that will perform at ...
Guitarist George Lynch (LYNCH MOB, DOKKEN, THE END MACHINE, KXM) recently spoke with Clint Switzer of the "Music Mania" podcast. The full conversation can be streamed below. The full conversation can be streamed below (interview starts at the 5:50 mark). A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the recently released self-titled debut album ...
BUCKCHERRY frontman Josh Todd recently spoke with Australia's Silver Tiger Media. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the group's new album, "Warpaint": Josh: "Me and [guitarist] Stevie [D.] labored over the songwriting. We started in November of 2017 and wrote about 30 songs ...
