Rock Report January 27th, 2012
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have released the video for their latest single, "Look Around," from their most recent album, I'm With You. The vid features the band members dancing and playing in different rooms: frontman Anthony Kiedis in a red bedroom, bassist Flea in a living room, drummer Chad Smith in a bathroom equipped with a boxing bag and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer in a spare room accompanied only by a lamp. Director Robert Halas told spinner.com that the video is the result of a true group effort. More
Kenny Olson, Kid Rock’s Twisted Brown Trucker Band’s guitarist, has announced that he is going solo. His debut album, the self-titled Kenny Olson Cartel, will be released February 7th. The albums lead single, "Up All Night," is available for free download at www.kennyolson.com. Olson performed and manned songwriting duties on Kid Rock's biggest albums including Devil Without A Cause, History of Rock, Cocky, Kid Rock and Live Trucker. More
Former WWF champion Hulk Hogan revealed that he almost joined an early version of Metallica. Hulk used to be close friends with drummer Lars Ulrich during his days as a session musician. He told the UK Sun: "I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out." More and more
Meanwhile METALLICA, SOUNDGARDEN, SLAYER, WITHIN TEMPTATION and MASTODON are among the confirmed bands for this year's installment of the Spanish edition of the Sonisphere festival, set to take place May 26 at Getafe Open Air in Madrid. More
METALLICA will also headline this year's installment of the Finnish edition of the Sonisphere festival, set to take place June 4 at Kalasatama in Helsinki. Also scheduled to appear are MACHINE HEAD, AMORPHIS, GOJIRA and GHOST. More
According to a posting on RATT singer Stephen Pearcy's Facebook page, the band is continuing to write material for its new album, tentatively due this summer. Before then, "there could be a few surprise shows." More and more
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EUROPE have set "Bag Of Bones" as the title of their ninth studio album, tentatively due in April. Regarding the new CD title, EUROPE drummer Ian Haugland said, "It's not [called 'Bag Of Bones'] because we all have lost tons of weight or found a new interest in archeology or dogs... It's just because it sounds f*****' cool!" More
MOTÖRHEAD is offering their fans "The Motör-Bag" Available online via www.merchdirect.com/Motorhead, "The Motör-Bag" is limited to 4,000 copies worldwide, and is packed with exclusive items that you will not find anywhere else. Housed in a MOTÖRHEAD messenger bag, inside you will find two double vinyl LPs of stunning MOTÖRHEAD performances (in their entirety), recorded in New York and Manchester — that can only be found in "The Motör-Bag" package. Additionally, a laminate pass is included, and a piece of "The Wörld Is Yours" 2010/2011 stage backdrop, mounted and numbered. More and more and more
A 90-second sample of "China Town", a brand new song from VAN HALEN, can be streamed in the YouTube clip above . The track comes off the band's new album, "A Different Kind Of Truth", which will arrive on February 7 via Interscope.
AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler was interviewed on a recent episode of "Access Hollywood".
LACUNA COIL singer Cristina Scabbia joined MEGADETH on stage last night (Thursday, January 26) at the opening show of this year's Gigantour at the Susquahana Bank Arena, in Camden, New Jersey. Gigantour will be coming to Milwaukee February 12th
Vegas.com recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil. Here
All Axess, the web site property launched by DEVILDRIVER guitarists Jeff Kendrick and Mike Spreitzer, is keeping its promise of "bridging the gap" between professional musician and fan by announcing the segment "My First Guitar".
