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Suzi Quatro, the 70-year-old pioneering female rocker who burst on to the scene in the 1970s, has just released a new Christmas single, “My Heart And Soul (I Need You Home For Christmas)”. Quatro explained the song’s genesis: “So, lockdown had just begun. My son was in the studio working on ideas every day for our next album, a perfect opportunity as neither of us was ‘on the road.’ I was sitting on the patio, relaxing, and heard this absolutely beautiful track coming out of the open studio door. It was a bass line, with a sparse guitar chord, and drums. It was immediate for me. I ran into the studio (mask on, of course), and told my son to set up a microphone, and without thinking, without writing anything down, I sang the first four lines of the song e...

The official lyric/visualizer video for the song “Life Was Here” from Tom Keifer‘s #keiferband can be seen below. The track is taken from #keiferband‘s second album, “Rise”, which came out in September 2019. In addition to Tom, #keiferband consists of Savannah Keifer, Tony Higbee, Billy Mercer, Kendra Chantelle, Jarred Pope and Kory Myers. Produced by Tom, Savannah and Kyle O’Connor, “Rise” scales renewed sonic heights. From the tasty slide work that stamps “Touching The Divine”, the non-traditionally arranged, heavy, dark jam of “Untitled”, the breakneck thrust of “All Amped Up” to the tender coda of “You Believe In Me”, “Rise” signifies the ongoing evolution of the CINDERELLA...

Norwegian rockers LEPROUS have released a new single titled “Castaway Angels” via InsideOut Music. The song was recently tracked at Ocean Sound Recordings in Norway and then mixed by Adam Noble (PLACEBO, BIFFY CLYRO, NOTHING BUT THIEVES). The official video for “Castaway Angels”, directed by Tobias Hole Aasgaarden of South Coast Creative, can be seen below. LEPROUS singer Einar Solberg comments: “This year, we’ve all had to readjust our lives, do new things. Missed out on things we were supposed to do, and find new things to do. “One day in the beginning of the corona outbreak in Norway, I came to TorO‘s [guitarist Tor Oddmund Suhrke] house with a song we were supposed to work on together. The problem was that I was already finished with the ...

AEROSMITH‘s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry will make an appearance during Josh Gad‘s “Wayne’s World” reunion, which will premiere this coming Monday, December 7 at at 9 a.m. PT /12 p.m. ET as part of the actor’s YouTube series. Gad, best-known as the voice of Olaf the snowman in “Frozen”, has been hosting virtual reunions for classic films across lockdown on his “Reunited Apart” series, previously bringing together the cast of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” back in June. “Wayne’s World” turned 28 this year. The Penelope Spheeris comedy based on a Mike Myers/Dana Carvey “Saturday Night Live” skit came out in February 1992, following thirty-four days of shooting with a relatively modest $20 mi...

John Petrucci has announced details of his rescheduled “Guitar Universe 3.0” camp. The event, which was originally scheduled to take place August 1-5, 2020 at Hotel Irvine in Orange County, California, will now take place July 27-31, 2021. The first West Coast iteration of the camp will see the DREAM THEATER guitarist joined by an impressive lineup of electric and acoustic guitar players, including Kiko Loureiro (MEGADETH), Jason Richardson (ALL THAT REMAINS), Tosin Abasi (ANIMALS AS LEADERS), Plini, Andy Wood and others. The camp, which is billed as a four day and night summer shred intensive, is presented by Dreamcatcher Events and boasts master classes, workshops, jams, concerts, lectures, signing sessions and much more. Said Petrucci in a statement: “I’d like to...

Eddie Van Halen‘s son Wolfgang, who recently released the first single from his MAMMOTH WVH solo project, says that his father was actually a pretty lame guitar teacher. “He didn’t teach me” how to play guitar,” Wolfgang told “The Afternoon Program” on the 102.9 The Hog radio station (hear audio below). “He was a terrible teacher. He only taught me how to do power chords on a guitar, and then I taught myself. [Laughs] I would ask him how to play something, and then he would just be himself, which is be a legendary guitar player. He couldn’t really help me connect point A to point B; he would just do it and go, ‘Do this,’ because it’s so easy for him. And I would just laugh and be, like, ‘Okay.’ [Laughs] ...

Singer and songwriter Elise Trouw has teamed up with BLINK-182 drummer Travis Barker, Australian musician Carey Watkins and Paul Raci, co-star of the new Amazon Studios movie “Sound Of Metal”, to reimagine METALLICA‘s classic song “Enter Sandman” in celebration of the film’s release. The official music video for their version of the song can be seen below. Darius Marder‘s “Sound Of Metal” stars British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed as a heavy-metal drummer whose life goes into freefall when he faces the first signs of hearing loss. “Sound Of Metal” premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, with IndieWire‘s Eric Kohn praising Ahmed‘s performance as Ruben and writing that Marder‘s narrative direc...

In a new interview with RadioactiveMike Z, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM radio program “Wired In The Empire”, PUDDLE OF MUDD frontman Wes Scantlin was asked to name his favorite band of the so-called “Flannel Five”: NIRVANA, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, ALICE IN CHAINS, SOUNDGARDEN and PEARL JAM. He responded: “I’m gonna go SOUNDGARDEN on that, dude. They just shred, man; those guys are just amazing. I seriously walk in circles before I go into the studio trying to kind of get a vibe and sing a little bit like Chris Cornell. But he’s got a really insane voice. “All of [those bands] are all wonderful artists and just simplified music, in my opinion,” he added. “And God bless Eddie Van Halen. I appreciate and I celebrate his life, but I could no...