Author: Adam Lawton

RATT OUT OF THE CELLAR 40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OUT ON OCTOBER 25th – INCLUDES AN UNRELEASED TRACK FROM THE ORIGINAL SESSIONS!

PRE-ORDER HERE

BMG, in partnership with Rhino Entertainment, announces the release of ‘Out Of The Cellar’ 40th Anniversary, celebrating RATT’s massively successful first studio album with Limited Edition versions which include an UNRELEASED TRACK recorded during the 1983 Out of the Cellar sessions.

Formed in Los Angeles, RATT was featured as an unsigned act on Uncle Joe Benson’s Local Licks Drive Time Show on KLOS-FM. This was their first time on radio and led to their signing to Atlantic Records.

Featuring the classic line up of Stephen Pearcy (vocals), Warren DeMartini (guitars), Robbin Crosby (guitars), Juan Croucier (bass/vocals), and Bobby Blotzer (drums), RATT exploded on to the national scene in 1984 with the release of ‘Out Of The Cellar.’

Featuring an undeniable hook and legendary music video, the lead single “Round And Round” hit #12 on the Billboard Hot 100, while ‘Out Of The Cellar’ reached #7 on the Billboard Top 200 and was certified triple platinum. Two more charting singles followed with “Back For More” and “Wanted Man”.

Out of the Cellar became a huge success, and after the album was released, the band went on a world tour, selling out stadiums and arenas worldwide and sharing a stage with acts such as Ozzy Osborne, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister and more.

This Limited Edition of Out Of The Cellar is being released in red and black splatter vinyl with a lenticular cover and an additional neon orange 7” with the unreleased track ‘Reach for the Sky’, as well as a Limited Edition CD format with lenticular cover and unreleased track.

Out Of The Cellar Tracklisting:

1. Wanted Man (Cristofanilli/Crosby/Pearcy)
2. You’re In Trouble (DeMartini/Pearcy/Crosby)
3. Round And Round (DeMartini/Pearcy/Crosby)
4. In Your Direction (Pearcy)
5. She Wants Money (Croucier)
6. Lack Of Communication (Croucier/Pearcy)
7. Back For More (Pearcy/Crosby)
8. The Morning After (DeMartini/Pearcy/Crosby)
9. I’m Insane (Crosby)
10. Scene Of The Crime (Crosby/Croucier)
11. BONUS TRACK: Reach for the Sky (Crosby/Pearcy/Torien)

Also available are brand new Limited Edition color vinyl versions of the albums Reach for the Sky, Invasion Of Your Privacy, Detonator and Dancing Undercover.

ZAKK SABBATH
announce
US tour in winter 2024/25
and first official digital album
“Greatest Riffs”

ZAKK SABBATH will be coming to a North American town near you this winter! Please find all currently announced live dates below.

It gets even better: ZAKK SABBATH is going digital! The preeminent BLACK SABBATH tribute band on the planet featuring guitarist and singer Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE, PANTERA), ROB ZOMBIE and OZZY bassist Blasko, and drummer Joey “C” Castillo (DANZIG, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE) has heard their fans clamouring for an official digital release, and now the wait is over: “Greatest Riffs” is online today, September 17, 2024.

“Greatest Riffs” features select songs from the chart-storming ZAKK SABBATH albums “Vertigo” (2020) and “Doomed Forever Forever Doomed” (2024). Originally, the tribute band elected to release these albums in physical formats only to hearken back to the originals. Yet their fans kept asking for an official digital release, so at long last the band has agreed to publish a hand-picked collection assembled in homage to one of BLACK SABBATH’s most ubiquitous releases, “We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n Roll”, the ultimate greatest hits album!

This pre-sale link also contains a link to a free YouTube version of “Greatest Riffs”: http://lnk.spkr.media/zakksabbath-riffs

ZAKK SABBATH “King of the Monstrous” US Tour 2024/25
+ ZOSO + THE IRON MAIDENS

01 DEC 2024 Phoenix, AZ (US) The Regency Ballroom
02 DEC 2024 Ventura, CA (US) The Majestic Ventura Theater
04 DEC 2024 Las Vegas, NV (US) Brooklyn Bown
05 DEC 2024 Riverside, CA (US) Riverside Municipal Auditorium
06 DEC 2024 Tempe, AZ (US) The Marquee
08 DEC 2024 Denver, CO (US) Ogden Theater
09 DEC 2024 Omaha, NE (US) The Admiral
10 DEC 2024 Lawrence, KS (US) Liberty Hall
12 DEC 2024 Austin, TX (US) Emos
13 DEC 2024 Ft. Worth, TX (US) Tannahill’s Tavern and Music Hall
14 DEC 2024 Little Rock, AR (US) The Hall
15 DEC 2024 New Orleans, LA (US) The Fillmore
17 DEC 2024 Chattanooga, TN (US) The Signal
18 DEC 2024 Cincinnati, OH (US) Bogart’s
19 DEC 2024 Indianapolis, IN (US) The Egyptian Room
20 DEC 2024 Nashville, TN (US) Brooklyn Bowl
27 DEC 2024 Charlotte, NC (US) The Fillmore
28 DEC 2024 Norfolk, VA (US) The NorVa
29 DEC 2024 Wilmington, DE (US) The Queen
30 DEC 2024 Albany, NY (US) Empire Live
31 DEC 2024 Silver Spring, MD (US) The Fillmore
02 JAN 2025 Portland, ME (US) State Theatre
03 JAN 2025 Providence, RI (US) The Strand
04 JAN 2025 Huntington, NY (US) The Paramount
05 JAN 2025 Buffalo, NY (US) Buffalo River Works
07 JAN 2025 Grand Rapids, MI (US) The Intersection
09 JAN 2025 Milwaukee, WI (US) The Rave
10 JAN 2025 East Moline, IN (US) The Rust Belt
11 JAN 2025 Sauget, IL (US) Pop’s
12 JAN 2025 Oklahoma City, OK (US) Diamond Ballroom

Tracklist
1. The Wizard
2. N.I.B.
3. Iron Man
4. Fairies Wear Boots
5. War Pigs
6. Sweet Leaf
7. Into the Void
8. Solitude

Princess Goes (Michael C. Hall) Releases Deluxe LP,
Shares “Armageddon Suite (Re-Armed)” Single

Come Of Age Deluxe LP Out Today via SO In De Goot Recordings

LISTEN/PURCHASE & SHARE: Princess Goes – Come Of Age Deluxe LP
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes – “Armageddon Suite (Re-Armed)”
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes – “Come Of Age (Echo Mountain Sessions)”
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes – “Beija (Live)”
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes – “Take Me Home”
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LISTEN/PURCHASE & SHARE: Princess Goes – Come Of Age LP
Stream / Purchase

Last fall, Princess Goes — the buzzy band led by the charismatic showmanship and signature voice of vocalist, lyricist, musician and actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under, Lazarus) alongside keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen (Blondie, Cyndie Lauper) and drummer Peter Yanowitz (The Wallflowers, Morningwood) — shared their second full-length LP, Come Of Age, via SO In De Goot Recordings.

Today, the band share Come Of Age Deluxe Version, featuring five alternative versions of fan-favorite tracks. Each reimagined song offers a fresh perspective, with unique arrangements and subtle twists, breathing new life into an already captivating album.

Alongside the release of Come Of Age Deluxe Version, the band are highlighting the track “Armageddon Suite (Re-Armed).”

Come Of Age Deluxe Version is available everywhere today via SO In De Goot Recordings.

Following a stint of shows in Europe and a series of U.S. live dates, Princess Goes will be wrapping up their time on the raod with an appearance at Riot Fest in September. Tickets and more information can be found HERE.

PRINCESS GOES LIVE

9/20-9/22 – Bridgeview, IL – Riot Fest – SeatGeek Stadium

Princess Goes – Come of Age – Bio:

“We’re a weird band,” states Princess Goes drummer Peter Yanowitz. He’s not wrong. But weird like David Bowie, Bjork, and Brian Wilson’s Smile might be termed “weird.” In other words: unconventional and quite possibly irresistible.

Princess Goes’ second full-length album, the 12-song Come of Age, is the trio’s most accessible work to date, yet it’s still chock-full of innovative songs that traverse a thrilling and often surprising sonic and lyrical landscape. The first single, “Shimmer,” highlights Michael C. Hall’s powerful, ethereal vocals atop quietly propulsive rhythm lines, and features Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) as guest guitarist. The track’s equally stunning and expansive video was directed by Tim Richardson (Elton John, Billie Eilish, Givenchy). “Take Me Home” serves up a soaring emotive trippiness that morphs into headbanging moments worthy of the heaviest metaller or your favorite Zeppelin album, while the haunting “Jetpack” showcase Hall’s poignant lyrics and penetrative voice, at once bell-clear and diaphanous, as the song builds to a wild and harrowing conclusion.

The 12 songs on Come of Age are by turns foreboding, mystical and danceable, Ray Bradbury-meets-the-Jetsons in its galactic aural scope. The ominous semi-drone beginning of “Blur” morphs into synthwave spectacularness, the song’s dynamics suiting Hall’s lyrics about “an illicit formative encounter.” Some of Hall’s most pointed writing is on the title track, “Come of Age,” the irresistibly bouncy musicality cut by the singer’s trenchant words: “Godzilla goggles seeing nothing but King Kong makes it hard to get along,” he sings, before deadpanning, “did you really mean it when you told me I was good / or are you just a devil spitting Hollywood.”

“Come of Age,” explains Hall, is neither a command that the audience come of age, nor a suggestion that Princess Goes has reached some adulting milestone. As with much of what the trio does, it just intuitively felt right. It was likewise an easy decision to include a remixed version of a previously released song, the fan favorite “Let It Go.” Princess Goes felt the cut, as originally written, was sort of an outlier. It started with Yanowitz. Matt Katz Bohen took it home, sped it up and it became a little more EDM, but also fun, poppy, and anthemic. The LP’s mixer and frequent collaborator Brandon Bost (HAIM, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga) worked on the song with the Princess Goes (and also plays some bass and keys to the album), and now the band can hardly wait to play the new, slightly more expeditious incarnation of “Let it Go” live.

The New York City-bred trio have been gigging and recording DIY-style for several years, self-producing and releasing a self-titled debut EP in April 2020 and a full-length debut, Thanks for Coming, in 2021. Touring the West Coast as well as the UK and Ireland found new fans clamoring to see the eclectic trio. Fan and press raves followed. The Associated Press lauded the lineup’s “mix of glam, dreamy ‘80s New Wave, acoustic folk, Nine Inch Nails intensity,” while Billboard noted the trio’s “palpable theatricality.” Hall, Katz-Bohen, and Yanowitz are seasoned performers forging new creative ground together in PG: Hall is best known for playing moralistic serial killer Dexter Morgan from Showtime hit Dexter as well as David Fisher from HBO’s revered Six Feet Under. Katz-Bohen has played with Blondie since 2008, while Yanowitz is a veteran of the Wallflowers and his own group, Morningwood.

Though onstage and on paper they’re a keyboards-drums-vocals band, Come of Age is rife with guitar and bass, instruments that play a bigger role than on previous recordings. “I think the original sounds that Matt and Peter first made came about because necessity was the mother of invention,” says Hall. “It’s what was in the studio when they first started making instrumental tracks, electronic drums and a lot of keyboards.”

The musical evolution on Come of Age was organic. “We really fully embraced not limiting ourselves,” says Yanowitz, “and we did embrace the guitar heavily–electric and acoustic–and a lot of bass.”

“We like the fact that a lot of the times you can’t tell instrumentally what’s what,” furthers Katz-Bohen. “People say ‘that sounds like a guitar,’ but it’s actually a keyboard playing through a guitar amp. There’s always that ‘what makes that sound? What is that thing?’” The songs manage to be at once catchy and intoxicating, soundtrack-y musicscapes for the ages, synth- heavy but multi-faceted.

Writing new music since the release of Thanks for Coming, PG recorded Come of Age at the band’s Clubhouse near Manhattan’s Union Square. The central location allowed for stellar guests, including next-door neighbor Maria Peña Paris, a Colombian poet who became the Spanish voice on the Latin-tinged “Whatever Whispers.” “We make a lot of noise at the studio, so she probably gets the brunt of that, and she knows all of our songs,” they recall. One of the lyrics she contributes to “Whatever Whispers” (“what kind of glory are you looking for?” ) came to Hall as he was waiting for coffee before going into the studio. The trio worked up the first version together in the studio, starting with Katz-Bohen jamming on a uniquely tuned 1910 upright piano. Other guests populating Come of Age include singer Chantal Claret (Morningwood) on “Beija,” and Grammy winning opera singer Anthony Roth Costanzo on “Saving Grace.”

Illustrative of Princess Goes’ experimental open-mindedness, the title track came from the street. Literally. “I live in Bushwick, in Brooklyn,” begins Katz-Bohen. “You’ll find a random lot of garbage on the streets. But there was a keyboard, I think from the early to late ‘80s. It’s not great, but it does have this one beautiful sound which became the basis of ‘Come of Age.’ So I sent that around to the guys and everyone put their magic on it.”

Clearly, Come of Age flowed sans any preconceived notions or touchstones. But there’s a clear cohesiveness to the album. “Everything you hear still sounds like it’s ‘in the Museum,’ which is our terminology for something that fits in with our aesthetic,” explains Katz-Bohen. Which leads to the shortened band name: There’s no crazy story behind the original Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum moniker; there are far more interesting things about this trio. But for enquiring minds, they now go by Princess Goes because, in short, it’s shorter. Princess is now free to Go anywhere and everywhere, travelling lighter as PG instead of PGTTBM.

The group’s evolution is ongoing and often unearthly, spacy and provocative in the vein of Bowie’s Blackstar. (Hall played Thomas Newton in the original New York cast of Bowie’s off- Broadway musical swan song, Lazarus). “I think the vibe of the latter third of Come of Age, goes to a place that’s a little more expansive or hopeful or mystically minded,” Hall says. “Though I suppose it starts on that note too. You want some things to have a musical unfolding and flow, but you also want some sort of evolution that makes sense lyrically. I think we managed to do both those things with the sequence.”

And for newbies to the Princess Goes sphere, fair warning: If anyone goes to a PG show to see the “guy from TV,” once Hall is on-stage singing, he says, “that actually sort of takes care of itself. If people have some sort of preconception, it’s pushed aside once we’re up there doing our thing. It’s not unique to this band,” Hall says. “I go to dinner, and people are like, ‘Hey, you’re that guy!?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m not actually that guy.’ It’s just another version of ‘I’m not that guy’.”

Although Come of Age is the group’s second full-length album, Princess Goes are as excited as first-timers. “Until now we’ve been gestating in this small world, being in our own cocoon and working the last bunch of years,” says Yanowitz. “I feel like this group of songs and this sort of statement that we wanted to put out with Come of Age tied in nicely to that. It also felt like we kind of graduated out of that scene the three of had created, and maybe wherever we go next is to the wider world. The making of Come of Age felt like a bookend to the way we were working, a stepping-off point for something new.”

GOZU To Kick Off Tour With Dozer Tonight + More Shows Announced

Boston rock outfit GOZU will kick off their trek supporting Dozer tonight, September 13th! The Endless Void US Tour begins at Widowmaker Brewing in Braintree, Massachusetts and runs through September 21st at Ripple Fest in Austin, Texas. Additional support will be provided by High Desert Queen.

From there, the band will join their comrades in Howling Giant for four more shows in Houston, New Orleans, Atlanta, and Nashville before a performance at Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky. GOZU will appear on Aftershock in October with additional shows to be announced in the weeks to come. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below.

GOZU w/ Dozer, High Desert Queen:

9/13/2024 Widowmaker Brewing – Braintree, MA
9/14/2024 Desertfest NYC – Queens, NY
9/15/2024 Piranha Bar – Montreal, QC
9/16/2024 The Garrison – Toronto, ON
9/17/2024 Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
9/18/2024 Reggies Rock Club – Chicago, IL
9/19/2024 Reverb Lounge – Omaha, NE
9/20/2024 Resonant Head – Oklahoma City, OK
9/21/2024 Ripplefest Texas – Austin, TX
w/ Howling Giant:
9/24/2024 Black Magick Social Club – Houston, TX
9/25/2024 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
9/26/2024 Bogg’s Social & Supply – Atlanta, GA
9/28/2024 The East Room – Nashville, TN
9/29/2024 Louder Than Life @ Highland Festival Grounds – Louisville, KY [tickets]
10/01/2024 Milkboy – Philadelphia, PA * GOZU only
10/13/2024 Aftershock @ Discovery Park – Sacramento, CA [tickets]

GOZU’s most recent full-length album, Remedy, is out now on Blacklight Media/Metal Blade Records. The record seamlessly delivers nine tracks of the band’s signature combination of fuzzy, ’70s-inspired riffs, rich, catchy, grunge-esque vocal melodies, and a touch of old-school psychedelia written and played with the utmost passion and enthusiasm. Denver Westword wrote, “Remedy is a perfect mix of what GOZU does best: spacey psychedelia, fuzzy stoner rock and galloping rock and roll.” Distorted Sound concurred, “…this album has a little bit of everything… it’s gnarly guitar and vocals galore that just oozes with confidence and coolness. Remedy was certainly worth the wait.” Added Sputnik Music, “This is an album that reaches beyond the stoner sphere, expanding the band’s horizons into the metal territory.”

Preview and purchase GOZU’s Remedy at: blacklightmediarecords.com/gozu.

GWAR’s ‘Hell-O! (36th Anniversary Edition)’
Red Splatter on Clear Vinyl With
Expanded Artwork & Never
Before Seen Photos Out Now!

Order HERE

Catch GWAR Live On Tour Now!
Human Scum! Raise Your Horns!

Infamous Lords and Masters of Shock Rock are thrilled to release the re-issue of their landmark masterpiece album, ‘Hell-O!,’ on this, its 36th anniversary. The new release is blood-spattered clear vinyl and includes expanded artwork featuring never-before-seen photos from the time, including the original album release show in Richmond.

‘Hell-O! (36th Anniversary Edition)’ will be available in physical form only with limited runs of both CD and Vinyl. It is out now on the band’s own label: Pit Records.

To help celebrate this momentous release, the iconic heavy metal collective is also reprinting the “GWAR Must Die” t-shirts made oh-so-famous back in their original pillaging days by human rabble everywhere. Get yours HERE!

As some of you may know, the current lead singer of the band, Blóthar the Berserker, once inhabited the earthly form of GWAR’s original bass player, Beefcake the Mighty. We asked Blóthar for his feelings on this momentous occasion:

“It was the 80’s. I was so young and scared. I will always remember wandering around the seedy sex arcades of Times Square, pants around my ankles, tears in my eyes…little did I know, I was working on the most important record in the history of shock rock. We were polishing a turd for the ages…we wanted to call it ‘Beat the Meatles,’ but the record company said no…and ‘Hell-O’ was born.”

Order ‘Hell-O! (36th Anniversary Edition)’ HERE

‘Hell-O! (36th Anniversary Edition)’ Track List:

1. Time For Death
2. AEIOU
3. Americanized
4. I’m In Love (With A Dead Dog)
5. Slutman City
6. World O’ Filth
7. War Toy
8. Captain Crunch
9. Pure As The Arctic Snow
10. Je M’ Appelle J.Cousteau
11. Gwar Theme
12. Bone Meal
13. Ollie North
14. Techno’s Song
15. U Ain’t Shit
16. Rock & Roll Party Town

GWAR Live Dates

GWAR 2024 ‘The Age of Entitlement’ Tour
w/ Brujeria, BRAT, Native Howl

Sep 13 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts
Sep 14 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
Sep 16 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls
Sep 17 – St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
Sep 18 – Little Rock, AR @ The Hall
Sep 20 – Fayetteville, AR @ JJ’s Live

Festivals:

Sep 21 – Des Moines, IA @ Knotfest
Sep 22 – Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
GWAR 2024 ‘The Stoned Age’ Tour
w/ Dark Funeral, Squid Pisser
*Cancer Bats replace Dark Funeral
Oct 17 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
Oct 18 – Tempe/Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
Oct 19 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
Oct 20 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
Oct 22 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Sodo
Oct 23 – Boise, ID @ Revolution Concert House
Oct 24 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
Oct 26 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
Oct 27 – Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
Oct 29 – Lincoln, NE @ The Bourbon Theatre
Oct 30 – Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theatre
Oct 31 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
Nov 1 – Cleveland, OH @ The Agora
Nov 2 – Albany, NY @ Empire Live
Nov 3 – Hampton Beach, NH @ Wally’s
Nov 5 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
Nov 6 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Nov 8 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall*
Nov 9 – Richmond, VA @ The National*
Nov 10 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz*
Nov 11 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel*
Nov 13 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham
Nov 15 – Dallas, TX @ The Studio at The Factory
Nov 16 – San Antonio, TX @ Vibes Event Center
Nov 17 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
Nov 19 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
Nov 20 – Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl

Legendary Swedish Band Refused Officially Call It Quits

Share Last North American Tour Dates Ever

Announce 25th Anniversary Vinyl Re-Issue Of ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come’ Out November 8th Via Epitaph

For a chance to witness the magic of a live Refused show before they disband for good, tickets go on sale this Friday, September 13 @ 10am local at www.officialrefused.com/live.

Refused drummer David Sandström muses: “We were supposed to do this in June. Roll out our modest farewell run, starting with the Rosendal Garden Party in Stockholm and then doing a few shows here and there before calling it quits end of year. The rehearsals had been magnificent, the vibe was great and two days before the show we played a secret show at Kulturhuset Femman in Uppsala. There were no pictures taken and it wasn’t filmed but it was a great show in front of maybe 60 local scenesters.

We hung out afterwards, I had a few beers and me and Dennis, still vegan and basically straight edge, traded stupid stories about bands we love. It was a fine evening. Next morning I get a call from Dennis’ wife and a couple of tumultuous hours later it’s confirmed that he’s had a heart attack at the hotel.

We played our first show in February 1992. That same week George H.W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin held a press conference at Camp David to declare that the cold war was over. That’s how long ago it was. It was so long ago that I can’t quite remember who we were that wintry Saturday when we piled into a car and drove up to Luleå to play 4 Gorilla Biscuits songs, a Shelter song, an AC\DC song and I think 3 original compositions to a crowd of 50-60 blind drunk northerners. I had just turned 17, had never travelled outside of Sweden and by the time the band broke up in 1998 we had played over 500 shows all over Europe and the US. To say that the band changed our lives would be a gross understatement, and to say that we got to know each other in those seven years is as well. A band that tours becomes like a family, especially when you do it in a van, with maps, scrambling to find a squat in Halberstadt where you were supposed to have started playing an hour ago. And family relations can be difficult. So it was with us.

That was partly why we wanted to give it another shot in 2012. We had made a decent splash in the nineties and the breakup had been very sudden and chaotic, there were feelings and they were not aired out and the whole thing had been such a shitshow that it was almost inevitable that we’d get back on the horse at some point. We wanted a do-over, to see what was still there, if anything, and what could be made of it. There’s a Neil Young song called “Buffalo Springfield Again” where he sings:

“I’d like to see those guys again and give it a shot

Maybe now we can show the world what we got But I’d just like to play for the fun we had”

And that was basically it. We gave it several shots between 2012 and 2024. We all have different takes on how it went and what the legacy of the reformed band will be, but personally I felt we couldn’t quite agree on what we were supposed to do musically, and we were still struggling with that when the pandemic hit. Kristofer felt that he’d done what he wanted to do and left the band in august of 2020 and although there was a delayed effect to the death blow, a death blow it was.

So in the beginning of this year we started making plans to have one last big hurrah, to make the end of the band a fun, generous, indulgent affair. And that’s how it felt after the first show, it’s the best we’ve ever sounded and we were really enjoying ourselves, tossing in old songs we haven’t played since the nineties and even a Misfits cover. And then disaster struck. I visited Dennis in the hospital the day after he was admitted and true to form he was not happy about the hospital gown he was forced to wear. Hooked up to all these machines, unshaven with tousled hair, I swear the first thing he said was: (pointing to the gown) “I mean, this is not great”. I guess they don’t let you wear suits or Negative Approach t-shirts in the hospital.

So on to the good news: Dennis is doing great. He’s one of the healthiest dudes I know, he can’t sit still, exercises a lot and it follows that his recuperation would be swift. He’s gotten excellent care and his doctor has run all the physical tests on him and they all indicate he’s making a full recovery. Needless to say, he’s itching to get back on tour to play shows and he even suggested we should keep preliminary dates set up for the late fall and winter, but we decided to postpone those shows and instead start up in the spring. So yeah, that’s where we’re at. We’re coming to the US in March/April 2025 and we’re looking at what else we can do with the rest of the year, all we know is that we want to finish back home in Sweden at the end of the year. Let us know if there are songs you want us to play and we’ll give them a shot. Hope to see you out there.”

Refused Farewell Tour Dates
(2025)
Supported by Quicksand

March 21 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
March 23 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY
March 25 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed
March 27 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
March 28 – Los Angeles, CA – Shrine Expo Hall
March 29 – Del Mar, CA – The Sound
March 30 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theatre
April 1 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
April 2 – Salt Lake City, UT – Union Event Center
April 4 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
April 5 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
April 7 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre
April 8 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
April 10 – Sacramento, CA – Ace Of Spades

In addition, on November 8th Refused will be celebrating 25 years of their groundbreaking record ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come’ with a limited collector’s edition loaded with exclusives, including a 3 LP version of the album on exclusive colored vinyl, unreleased demos and rare alternate versions of songs.

The anniversary package also comes with a 12-song tribute album titled ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come Obliterated’ with covers and remixes by boundary smashing bands like Quicksand, Zulu, Gel, IDLES, Touche Amore and more. Liner notes from Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandstrom alongside written contributions from bands featured on the tribute album provide new context and insight on the album’s legacy.

Limited to just 2000 copies worldwide, you can pre-order HERE

Iconic Lineup of James LaBrie, John Myung, John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy
and Jordan Rudess Return To The Road In The United States And Canada
For The First Time In Fourteen Years

Information on all tickets and VIP Packages can be found at https://dreamtheater.net/tour/

With the worldwide excitement around the recently announced European tour, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater are announcing their 40th Anniversary Tour 2024 – 2025 leg for North America. The tour will be An Evening With Dream Theater and will be the first tour of North America since drummer Mike Portnoy’s return to the lineup joining vocalist James LaBrie, bassist John Myung, guitarist John Petrucci, and keyboardist Jordan Rudess. The tour is scheduled for 30 cities across the United States and Canada and kicks off on February 7 in Philadelphia, PA and runs through March 22 for the band’s hometown show in New York City. The tour will make stops in Nashville, Los Angeles, Toronto and Boston among others. Dream Theater will be performing classics and fan favorites from their catalog in what promises to be an unforgettable evening of music. More information on all tickets and VIP packages can be found at https://dreamtheater.net/tour/.

“The excitement we have felt from the fans since the first tour was announced has been overwhelming! Now we get to bring the show to our home country and play a bunch of cities that we haven’t been together in for more than a decade. We can’t wait to continue this historic celebration of 40 years together with everyone in North America next year. We still have plenty of more exciting Dream Theater news to share in the coming weeks,” explains Dream Theater.

An Evening With Dream Theater 40th Anniversary Tour 2024 – 2025
(North American Dates)

February 7 – Philadelphia, PA – The Met
February 8 – Raleigh, NC – Martin Marietta Center
February 10 – Nashville, TN – Opry House
February 11 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
February 12 – Biloxi, MS – Hard Rock Café
February 14 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall
February 15 – Dallas, TX – Texas Trust CU
February 16 – San Antonio, TX – Majestic
February 18 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Center
February 19 – Highland, CA – Yaamava Theater
February 21 – Las Vegas, NV – The Chelsea
February 22 – Los Angeles, CA – YouTube Theater
February 24 – San Jose, CA – San Jose Civic
February 25 – Sacramento, CA – Safe Credit Union Performing
February 27 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theater
February 28 – Portland, OR – Keller Auditorium
March 2 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra
March 4 – Salt Lake City, UT – Maverik Center
March 6 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
March 8 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre
March 9 – Cleveland, OH – MGM Northfield Park
March 11 – Toronto, ON – Coca-Cola Coliseum
March 12 – Montreal, QC – Place des Arts
March 14 – Wallingford, CT – Oakdale Theater
March 15 – Boston. MA – Boch Center
March 17 – Rochester, NY – Kodak
March 18 – Wheeling, WV – Capitol Theater
March 19 – Cincinnati, OH – Brady Music Center
March 21 – Washington, DC – The Anthem
March 22 – New York, NY – Radio City Music Hall

The European leg of the 40th Anniversary Tour 2024 – 2025 consists of stops in 23 cities and kicks off on October 20th and runs through November 24th. Some dates are already sold out with others about to get there as limited tickets remain across the continent.

An Evening With Dream Theater 40th Anniversary Tour 2024 – 2025
(Previously Announced European/South American Dates)

October 20 – London, England – The O2 (Limited Tickets Remain)
October 22 – Berlin, Germany – Uber Eats Music Hall (Limited Tickets Remain)
October 23 – Koln, Germany – Palladium (Limited Tickets Remain)
October 25 – Milan, Italy – Forum (Limited Tickets Remain)
October 26 – Rome, Italy – Palazzo dello Sport (Limited Tickets Remain)
October 28 – Munich, Germany – Zenith
October 29 – Zagreb, Croatia – Arena Zagreb
November 1 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Arena
November 2 – Prague – Czech Republic – Fortuna Arena
November 3 – Lodz, Poland – Atlas Arena
November 6 – Helsinki, Finland – Metro Areena
November 8 – Stockholm. Sweden – Waterfront (Sold Out)
November 9 – Oslo, Norway – Spektrum (Limited Tickets Remain)
November 10 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Poolen (Limited Tickets Remain)
November 12 – Luxembourg – Rockhal
November 13 – Zurich, Switzerland – The Hall
November 14 – Lyon, France – Halle Tony Garnier
November 16 – Lisbon, Portugal – MEO Arena
November 17 – Madrid, Spain – La Cubierta de Leganés
November 20 – Stuttgart, Germany – Beethovensaal (Limited Tickets Remain)
November 21 – Frankfurt, Germany – Jahrhundderthalle
November 23 – Paris, France – Adidas Arena
November 24 – Amsterdam – AFAS Live (Limited Tickets Remain)
December 7 – Mexico City, Mexico – Explanada Estadio Azteca
December 10 – Belo Horizonte, Brazil – Befly Hall
December 13 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Vivo Rio
December 15 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Vibra (Limited Tickets Remain)
December 16 – Curitiba, Brazil – Live Curitiba
December 17 – Porto Alegre, Brazil – Araújo Vianna
December 19 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Movistar Arena
December 21 – Santiago, Chile – Movistar Arena (Sold Out)
December 22 – Santiago, Chile – Movistar Arena

Dream Theater has been in their DTHQ studio working on their 16th studio album and the first with Portnoy since 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings. More information on the upcoming release will be unveiled in the future.

JELLY ROLL ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN, OUT OCTOBER 11th

New Jelly Roll Track “Get By,” 2024’s ESPN College Football Anthem, Available Everywhere Now

Album Pre-Order Available Here

Award-winning multi-genre phenomenon Jelly Roll revealed the highly-anticipated follow up album to his record-breaking Country debut, Whitsitt Chapel, will be released October 11th. Named Beautifully Broken after his upcoming headlining tour set to launch August 27th, the new album features the reigning CMA New Artist of the Year’s current Top 15 hit “I Am Not Okay,” fan-favorite track “Liar,” and newly released track “Get By,” which was recently selected by ESPN as the 2024 College Football Season anthem and is now available here. Starting today, fans can also pre-order the album here. All net profits from every pre-order of Jelly Roll’s new album Beautifully Broken in his U.S. web store will benefit organizations helping individuals facing challenges with mental health and addiction as part of the album launch. Learn more about the charities HERE.

After teasing initial details about the project earlier this Summer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jelly opened up to New York Times Magazine ahead of today’s announcement, sharing additional details about the album as well as his connection with his fanbase and continued desire to find purpose. His current single, “I Am Not Okay,” debuted on The Howard Stern Show in June and continues to resonate with fans, with Billboard noting the Hot 100 Crossover hit “shines a light on a dark national crisis.” Co-written by Jelly Roll, Taylor Phillips, Ashley Gorley and Casey Brown, “I Am Not Okay” follows the Nashville native’s fourth consecutive #1 at Country radio and 5th career #1, including his Grammy-nominated multi-week #1, “Save Me.”

Jelly’s 2024 Beautifully Broken Tour is set to launch in Salt Lake City on August 27th before heading across the US including Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Center and New York City’s Madison Square Garden. For more information on The Beautifully Broken Tour and album, visit Jellyroll615.com.

JELLY ROLL BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN 2024 TOUR DATES:

8/27/2024 – Salt Lake City, UT – Delta Center #
8/28/2024 – Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center #
8/30/2024 – Spokane, WA – Spokane Arena #
8/31/2024 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena #
9/1/2024 – Portland, OR – Moda Center #
9/3/2024 – San Jose, CA – SAP Center #
9/4/2024 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center #
9/6/2024 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena #
9/7/2024 – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center #
9/9/2024 – El Paso, TX – Don Haskins Center #
9/11/2024 – San Antonio, TX – Frost Bank Center #
9/13/2024 – Lafayette, LA – CAJUNDOME #
9/14/2024 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center #
9/17/2024 – Orlando, FL – Kia Center #
9/19/2024 – Charleston, SC – North Charleston Coliseum #
9/20/2024 – Raleigh, NC – PNC Arena #
9/21/2024 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena #
9/24/2024 – Albany, NY – MVP Arena #
9/26/2024 – Boston, MA – TD Garden #
9/27/2024 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden #
9/28/2024 – Belmont Park, NY – UBS Arena #
9/29/2024 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center #
10/1/2024 – State College, PA – Bryce Jordan Center #
10/2/2024 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center #
10/5/2024 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena #
10/6/2024 – Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center #
10/9/2024 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena #
10/11/2024 – Chicago, IL – United Center #
10/12/2024 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center #
10/15/2024 – Wichita, KS – INTRUST Bank Arena #
10/16/2024 – Springfield, MO – Great Southern Bank Arena #
10/18/2024 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center #
10/20/2024 – Bossier City, LA – Brookshire Grocery Arena #
10/22/2024 – Little Rock, AR – Simmons Bank Arena #
10/23/2024 – St Louis, MO – Enterprise Center #
10/25/2024 – Knoxville, TN – Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center #
10/26/2024 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena #
10/27/2024 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center #
10/30/2024 – Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones Arena *
11/1/2024 – Charleston, WV – Charleston Coliseum *
11/4/2024 – Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Bank Center *
11/6/2024 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena *
11/7/2024 – Indianapolis, IN – Gainbridge Fieldhouse *
11/8/2024 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena *
11/10/2024 – Evansville, IN – Ford Center *
11/12/2024 – Omaha, NE – CHI Health Center Arena *
11/13/2024 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center *
11/14/2024 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center *
11/17/2024 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center *
11/18/2024 – Corpus Christi, TX – American Bank Center *
11/19/2024 – Austin, TX – Moody Center *
11/21/2024 – Birmingham, AL – Legacy Arena at the BJCC
11/22/2024 – Columbia, SC – Colonial Life Arena *
11/23/2024 – Jacksonville, FL – Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena *

#Warren Zeiders & Alexandra Kay
*ERNEST, Shaboozey & Allie Colleen