After a stint working in advertising, Frank Zappa realized that modern music had “50 percent” to do with the image. While that quota might be a little bit high, his sagacious mind had, nevertheless, identified a truth universally acknowledged within the industry’s backrooms but rarely amid consumers on the shop floor: that music is a…
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TikTok Blamed For a Rise in Car Thefts
Apparently, the rise is due to a TikTok trend showing how to steal Kias and Hyundais. Car thefts are on the rise across multiple cities nationwide, according to new data, and a recent social media trend may be to blame. Driving the news: Major cities across the U.S., including Milwaukee, Cleveland and Chicago, saw a significant…
A Second New Season Of Beavis And Butt-Head Is Coming
On a certain date in April, of course. Mike Judge is back with more Beavis And Butt-Head this year! The show will premiere its second comeback season on April 20 in the US and Canada, and on April 21 in Australia and the UK, with two brand new episodes. In the meantime, you can check out the first…
The Revivalists are BACK with a new song and an exclusive interview with Ginty.
The Revivalists’ music video for “Kid”. From their upcoming album ‘Pour It Out Into The Night’ out June 2nd! Pre-order the album here: https://found.ee/TR_PourItOut To commemorate the new song from The Revivalists, the band sat down for an interview and livestream with our very own Jason Ginty! Check it out below.
John Dolmayan: System of a Down “Should Have Moved On” Without Serj Tankian in 2006
“If Serj didn’t wanna be in the band at that time, we should have just … done it with somebody else” It’s now been 17 years since System of a Down released a new studio album, and drummer John Dolmayan thinks they may have been better off moving on without singer Serj Tankian at the time the band went on hiatus…
Ever wondered how Linkin Park got their name?
The group that would become Linkin Park was formed by three friends—Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, and Brad Delson —who attended Los Angeles County’s Agoura High School together. Hearty aggressions and hardcore emotions mingled with hip-hop beats and thrashing power chords, created Linkin Park’s brand of nu-metal, alt-rock rap. The six-piece crafted a sound all their…
The band Psychostick has transformed Rob Zombie’s “Dragula” into a terrifying Christmas carol and it’s amazing.
Christmas is coming up fast, but not as fast as Zombie Claus is coming up behind you. At least that’s what Psychostick would have you believe. Watch as the band gives Rob Zombie‘s 1998 Hellbilly Deluxe classic “Dragula” a Christmas makeover, complete with an equally creepy video by Patrick R. Murphy. “Psychostick here with a heavy Christmas parody of the 1998 Rob…
The new blink-182 album will be released “in a few months”
The members of blink-182 are ramping up the teasers for their new album – with Tom DeLonge confirming it’ll be arriving fairly soon… Since Tom DeLonge officially re-joined blink-182 in October and the band released new single Edging, we’ve been waiting on an official release date for their new album. And though we don’t quite have one…
A METAL version of the Home Alone soundtrack? Yes, please.
In the spirit of having a rocking Christmas this year, music video director Jeb Hardwick has taken the music from one of his favorite Home Alone movie scenes and given it a full on metal makeover. For those who need a refresher, Home Alone was the 1990 film in which a young Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is forgotten by…
Sick New World 2023 lineup: System of a Down, Korn, Deftones, Turnstile, Sevendust,, more
After being teased on social media, the lineup for the inaugural 2023 edition of Las Vegas Festival Sick New World is here. The bands teased had leaned heavily on the early-’00s nü-metal scene, including System of a Down, Korn, Deftones, Incubus, Evanescence, and Chevelle, and they’re all here, but the lineup also features goth, industrial, hardcore, and more. It includes Turnstile, The…
