Music

FOO FIGHTERS will release a new single, “No Son Of Mine”, on New Year’s Eve. The track, which can be previewed below, will appear on the band’s upcoming 10th studio album, “Medicine At Midnight”, due on February 5, 2021 via Roswell Records/RCA Records. “Medicine At Midnight” is a nine-song, 37-minute effort which was produced by the FOO FIGHTERS and Greg Kurstin. The first single from the disc, “Shame Shame”, was released last month. An accompanying music video for the song was directed by Paola Kudacki and co-stars FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl and Sofia Boutella. “Shame Shame” renders in stunning black and white an interpretation of a recurring dream that’s haunted Grohl since his childhood days. Grohl told ...

SCORPIONS singer Klaus Meine says that the suggestion that the group’s classic ballad “Wind Of Change” was written by the CIA “shows how powerful music can be.” Meine and his bandmates have always maintained that they wrote “Wind Of Change” after performing at 1989’s Moscow Music Peace Festival in Moscow, where they shared the stage with other hard rock acts like BON JOVI and MÖTLEY CRÜE. The theory that “Wind Of Change” was actually penned by the CIA as a piece of late Cold War propaganda was first raised in an eight-part podcast series, also called “Wind Of Change”, which premiered on Spotify in May. Produced by Crooked Media and Pineapple Street Studios, the podcast was hosted by New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden...

DISTURBED frontman David Draiman spoke to “That Jamieson Show” over the summer about how he has been dealing with the coronavirus crisis. In the interview, which has just been uploaded to YouTube, the singer offered his prediction on what the concert industry will look like post-pandemic, saying: “I’m confident as hell that once there is a vaccine of some sort that people will come out in droves; I think people are starving for live experiences and gatherings like never before. But here’s the harsh reality of it: my wife and I, we have friends of ours that they lost their entire family in a week — seven people; all died. And if you go ahead and you buy in to the whole ‘it has something to do with genetics and blood type,’ well, then it makes a whol...

The legendary Danish studio where JUDAS PRIEST recorded parts of its “Ram It Down” album has been destroyed in a fire (see photos from Pressefotos.dk below). According to Foreigner.fi, the Puk Recording Studios complex, located in Gjerlev, north of the city of Randers, in western Denmark, burned down early Monday (December 28). It was not known what caused the fire, and there were no reports of any people being injured. Puk was established in a converted farmhouse in 1978 by John “Puk” Quist, and at one point was considered one of the most technologically advanced studios in the world. Other artists who recorded their albums at Puk include Elton John (“Sleeping With The Past”), George Michael (“Faith”), DEPECHE MODE (“Violator” an...