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Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich will host Beats 1 weekly radio show, "It's Electric!" Iggy Pop will be interviewed by Ulrich on the show's inaugural episode, which will launch on Sunday, May 7 at 3:00 P.M. Pacific. So What! Metallica fan magazine editor Steffan Chirazi has been appointed as co-host.
"We go all over the world," Ulrich explained. "We look at international bands for an international audience. I'm gonna play you lots of really cool music by mostly bands you don't know; a lot of bands I've just been introduced to. We don't believe in boundaries, and we're open to everything. I have some guests call in on the phone, and they promise me I'm gonna have this show every week."
A trailer for "It's Electric!" can be viewed here. Who would you like to see Ulrich interview? Tell us in the comments!
Linkin Park will embark on a North American tour this year with support from Machine Gun Kelly and One OK Rock. The trek kicks off on July 27 in Boston, M.A. and will conclude on October 22 in Los Angeles. The current itinerary, which will add New York and Pennsylvania stops at a later date, can be seen below.
"Our fans know how much love we put into our live show," commented guitarist, Brad Delson. "They know how much we enjoy the connection when we play a fan favorite on stage. The emotional and sonic content of this new batch of songs is going to bring a whole new dimension to the show."
The ticket pre-sale starts on May 9 while the general on-sale will begin on May 12. In an effort to ensure that fans will have fair access to tickets, the sales will be powered by Ticketmaster Verified Fan, which utilizes unique technology to prevent sales to bots. Fans can register for the pre-sale at this location. Each ticket purchase will also include either a physical copy or digital download of the band's forthcoming release, 'One More Light,' which is due on May 19 via Warner Bros. Music.
$1.00 from every ticket purchase will be donated towards Music for Relief, Linkin Park's own charity which benefits survivors of natural disasters.
Linkin Park 'One More Light' Tour:
07/27 Boston, MA – Xfinity Center*
08/01 Philadelphia, PA – BB&T Pavilion*
08/02 Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live*
08/05 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena*
08/07 Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
08/08 Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
08/10 Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
08/12 Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
08/14 Chicago, IL – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
08/15 St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center
08/17 Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
08/19 Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Ampitheatre
08/20 West Palm Beach, FL – Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre
08/22 Houston, TX – Toyota Center
08/23 San Antonio, TX – AT&T Center
08/25 Dallas, TX – Starplex Pavilion
08/26 Oklahoma City, OK – Chesapeake Energy Arena
08/28 Denver, CO – Pepsi Center Arena
08/30 Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort Arena
09/01 Lake Tahoe, NV – Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys
09/02 Las Vegas, NV – MGM Grand Garden Arena
10/14 Seattle, WA – KeyArena **
10/15 Vancouver, BC Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena **
10/17 Fresno, CA – Save Mart Center at Fresno State **
10/18 San Jose, CA – SAP Center at San Jose **
10/20 San Diego, CA -Mattress Firm Amphitheatre **
10/22 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl **
* Dates also with One OK Rock
** Support To Be Announced
Metallica will broadcast a live rehearsal special from M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, M.D. via Facebook Live on Tuesday, May 9 at 9:00 P.M. Eastern. The "Now that We're Live" special will broadcast a day ahead of the band's first show on the North American leg of their 'Worldwired' tour. The full itinerary for the trek is available at this location.
During the event, the band will perform four songs, including "Now that We're Dead," which appears on their latest release, 'Hardwired… to Self-Destruct.' Fans will also be given a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the band's production.
"We are psyched to share some of our rehearsals and final pre-production run-through with our friends around the world, and we hope you'll come hang with us as we fire up the engines for the North American summer run," commented drummer Lars Ulrich.
Fifth Club members can enter to win an opportunity to attend the event in person at Metallica.com. Only a very limited number of winners will be selected.
Motörhead have partnered up with Amplified Ale Works to release two new signature beers this year. Born to Lose IPA, the first of the brews, was released on Friday, April 28 and can be purchased at thebeerconnect.com as well as select retailers in San Diego, C.A.
Born to Lose IPA is described as "a boldly aggressive West Coast-style IPA, befitting of the band's loud, aggressive style. The 6.5% IPA is brewed with Cascade, Simcoe and Citra hops that provide an earthy, resinous aroma with notes of fresh citrus. In an ode to Motörhead's British roots, the beer was also brewed with Maris Otter, a premium British malt that brings a sweet balance to the beer's bold bitterness. "
No details on the second beer have been announced yet.
In This Moment have announced extensive tour plans for the summer of 2017. After concluding their current dates with Motionless in White and Avatar, the band will kick off their next trek by supporting Avenged Sevenfold on their June 19 show in Mount Pleasant, M.I. In This Moment will then carry onward with Motionless in White, VIMIC and Little Miss Nasty until August 5 in Lincoln, N.E. The current itinerary is available below. More dates are expected to be added.
Additionally, the band will also support Papa Roach for a one-off on June 23 in El Paso, T.X.
In This Moment frontwoman Maria Brink is featured as one of the "25 Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock" in the April/May 2017 issue of Revolver. Check out a preview at this location!
In This Moment Tour Dates:
6/19 — Mt Pleasant, MI @ Soaring Eagle Casino *
6/20 — Peoria, IL @ Limelight %
6/21 — Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall #
6/23 — El Paso, TX @ Streetfest &
6/24 — Lubbock, TX @ Lonestar Pavilion #
6/25 — Abilene, TX @ Abilene Civic Center #
6/27 — Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom %
6/28 — St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
7/1 — North Myrtle Beach, SC @ House Of Blues
7/2 — Norfolk, VA @ The Norva
7/3 — Lancaster, PA @ Freedom Hall %
7/5 — Portland, ME @ State Theatre
7/7 — Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Park Convention Hall
7/11 — Rockford, IL @ Coronado Theatre
7/12 — Cedar Rapids, IA @ McGrath Amphitheater
7/14 — Mansfield, OH @ Ink in the Clink
7/15 — Inwood, WV @ Shiley Acres Farm ^
7/19 — Little Rock, AR @ Metroplex %
7/21 — Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Amphitheatre
7/22 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
7/23 — Midland, TX @ La Hacienda Center
7/25 — Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion
7/26 — Des Moines, IA @ 7 Flags Event Center
7/28 — Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theater
7/29 — Rochester, MN @ Mayo Civic Auditorium
7/30 — Fargo, ND @ Fargo Civic Auditorium
8/1 — Bismarck, ND @ Bismarck Event Center
8/3 — Billings, MT @ Shrine Auditorium
8/4 — Sturgis, SD @ Ironhorse Saloon
8/5 — Lincoln, NE @ Centennial Mall & M Street
*Supporting Avenged Sevenfold
#Starset Direct Support, No MIW
&Supporting Papa Roach
%With Vimic, LMN
^No Vimic, No LMN
$No Vimic
You may recall on Friday, April 21, Revolver published a story that Five Finger Death Punch singer Ivan Moody claimed to be departing from the band in an interview with The Morning Show on KBPI Rocks in Denver, C.O. During the interview, which was his first since he unexpectedly left the band's tour back in December, he said: "To be completely honest with you, Death Punch and I have kind of come to a crossroads. We're very proud of what we've done - years and years and years of work… It's time for us to take our way and go do something else, so after this year... my new band, Villain... I'm so excited."
Moody has since released a statement in which he clarified his statements and explained that he is not leaving the band. The statement said:
"It's no secret that this has been a tough year for me and for my bandmates in Five Finger Death Punch. When you put everything you have into making music, both on and off the stage, it can be very frustrating when the music you work so hard to create is not allowed to see the light of day. I know we share this frustration with our fans too, who have come to expect new music from us — fans who mean everything to us.
"It is true that Five Finger Death Punch has come to a crossroads — and that crossroads is we're all at a place where we will never again let someone or something hold us back from making music for our fans.
"The lawsuit by Prospect Park holding our new album hostage has taken a toll on me. I was in a rehabilitation facility when Prospect Park decided to sue the band last year, and that was very difficult for me to handle all at once.
"Yesterday I made a statement that was taken out of context by the media — a media always looking to create headlines that will make people click them. The truth is, I want to start a side-project like Corey Taylor has with Stone Sour or Maynard has with A Perfect Circle and I want to do it when Five Finger Death Punch's deal with Prospect Park is over and we are out of this lawsuit.
"THIS DOES NOT MEAN I PLAN ON LEAVING FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH!
"The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus. I learned this watching people like Corey and Maynard and I think their fans are glad they've put more music out into the world. I hope my fans are, too.
"All that said, Five Finger Death Punch fans can expect our next album via Prospect Park and we are geared up to tour all throughout 2017. We are about to leave for South America and Europe and we have other dates [to be announced].
"All of us in the band have worked incredibly hard over the last ten years to build this band and none of us are going to let that go just because our record company is trying to sabotage us. I am sorry if the media took my statement as a resignation, but I assure you it wasn't."
Internal Bleeding drummer and FDNY firefighter William Tolley has died. While battling an extra-alarm fire in Queens, N.Y. on Thursday, April 20, he fell from a five-story roof. He was 42 years old. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and eight-year-old daughter.
Tolley, a 14-year FDNY veteran, was attempting to move from the roof into a basket on the end of a ladder when the basket shook, causing him to fall out and plummet downward. The blaze had been brought under control by that point.
According to CBS2, construction worker Michael Lewis witnessed the accident. "I seen the fireman go up the ladder, go in the white thing — the bucket — and then the ladder shakes," he said. "I don't know why it jerks or why it shakes. After it shakes, then he fall out. He was already up there on top of the roof in the bucket. There was like two or three firemen already on the roof, and then it shakes, and he fall out."
"It looked like it jerked a little bit, and the door on the side was open, and he was standing over there and he fell out," stated another witness.
FDNY Commissioner Nigro, who called Tolley's death "a terrible tragedy," explained: "The fire was on the second floor. Firefighter Tolley was operating on the roof. That was his position as the outside ventilation firefighter, operating around the area where Ladder 135's bucket was located. Firefighter Tolley fell five stories from the roof and he perished about 20 minutes into fighting that fire. The circumstances of the tragedy and the fall are right now under investigation.
"It was nothing about the fire that really had anything to do with the accident that occurred. It was really in the operation that he was performing on the roof — which is a routine operation for us, and somehow he fell from the roof."
His Internal Bleeding bandmates issued the following statement via Facebook:
"Our drummer, the heartbeat of the band, William Tolley died today. There are ZERO WORDS to describe the loss. He was a good, decent and honorable man who loved his friends, his family and the people he served. There will never be another like him. There are no words to describe the utter sadness and despair we feel right now. We love you Bill."
Revolver sends condolences to Tolley's family, friends and bandmates. R.I.P.
Since Pantera disbanded, fans have only seen one never-before-heard track surface. While "Piss" seemed to be the only "lost" track from the band, vocalist Phil Anselmo has revealed in an interview with Capitol Chaos TV that he uncovered a second unreleased Pantera song. According to the frontman, the track is all instrumental.
During the interview, Anselmo explained: "I did find a track I cannot make heads or tails out of and I know it's the guys… But I never did vocals over the top of it, and I'm sure back in the day there was good reason for it. It doesn't really do much — it's like riffs back and forth and that's that — so it must've been just a… I guess, a mulling type of idea that had gone on. Either we put it to bed or just moved on, because, truthfully, [with] Pantera there really was not that much [unreleased material] laying [around], there really wasn't. We used almost everything that we… um, would come up with, I guess, you know."
There is no word on whether or not the band plan on ever releasing the material. Do you think the unreleased track will ever see the light of day? Leave your theories in the comments!
Chicago's Riot Fest will take place this year at Douglas Park from September 15-17. With headlining sets from Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age and Jawbreaker, the fest will feature over 100 bands, including an exclusive anniversary set from Bad Brains as well as appearances from New Order, Ministry, Gwar, A Day to Remember, and many others. The current lineup is listed below. Over 25 more bands have yet to be announced.
Tomorrow, April 20, artists who will be performing their respective seminal albums will be revealed.
In addition to the performances, the festival will feature carnival rides, games and a Hellzapoppin' Sideshow Revue freak show. There will also be over 40 food and drink vendors on site.
Tickets and passes will go on sale today, April 19, at 12:00 P.M. CDT via Ticketfly.
Nine Inch Nails (Friday)
Queens of the Stone Age (Saturday)
Jawbreaker (Sunday)
New Order
Paramore
Prophets of Rage
M.I.A.
Wu-Tang Clan
Mike D (DJ Set)
A Day To Remember
Gogol Bordello
Taking Back Sunday
Vic Mensa
Dirty Heads
TV on the Radio
Ministry
Dinosaur Jr.
New Found Glory
FIDLAR
Bad Brains
Death From Above 1979
Action Bronson
Pennywise
Built to Spill
X
Peaches
The Lawrence Arms
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The Orwells
Bayside
Say Anything
Mayday Parade
Streetlight Manifesto
Dead Cross
Minus the Bear
The Menzingers
LIARS
GWAR
Buzzcocks
GBH
Real Friends
Hot Water Music
Shabazz Palaces
Andrew W.K.
Fishbone
The Story So Far
State Champs
Four Year Strong
Beach Slang
The Cribs
that dog.
Knuckle Puck
Chon
Slaves
The Hotelier
The Flatliners
Dessa
Saul Williams
Engine 88
Nothing More
Alice Bag
Tobacco
Sleep On It
Downtown Boys
The Smith Street Band
The Regrettes
HDBeenDope
Gazebos
Kitten Forever
Hellzapoppin' Circus Sideshow Revue
Ramones T-Shirt
Meat Is Burger
Ughh My Kids Are Here
The Port-A-Parties
Former Nothingface singer Matt Holt has died after a battle with an undisclosed illness. He was 39 years old.
Holt's family shared the following statement:
"Matt Holt, former singer of Nothingface, passed away at home in Maryland on April 15. He had been battling a degenerative illness for several years. He is survived by his parents and his younger brother.
"While he had not been active musically in recent years, Holt, who toured the world several times over with his band in the early '00s, is remembered as being an unparalleled talent and as one of most skilled vocalists of his generation, thanks to his incredibly impressive range, which shifted from terrifically brutal to beautifully melodic."
Holt was with Nothingface from its inception in 1993 until 2009. He last appeared on the band's final studio album, 'Skeletons,' which was released in 2003.
Revolver sends condolences to Holt's family and friends. R.I.P.