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The Jagermeister Fall Music Tour is coming, and heavy metal icons, Slayer, will lead the assault! Produced and promoted by Clear Channel Entertainment, the tour will let loose on October 8th in Minneapolis, MN and finish up in Los Angeles on November 29th. Slayer’s recent release of their live DVD, War at the Warfield (American Recordings/UME), debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts in its first week. Their highly anticipated box set, Soundtrack to the Apocalypse (American Recordings/UME), due out on November 18, 2003, commemorates Slayer’s 20th anniversary as the undisputed thrash/punk/metal kings and will include classic Slayer tracks taken… Read more »

The Jagermeister Music Tour, Fall 2003, is shaping up to be a heavy metal fest of the highest caliber: Universal Records’ Hatebreed has just been confirmed as the main support act for Slayer. Hatebreed has sharpened its teeth at Tattoo the Earth 2000; toured with Earth Crisis, Agnostic Front, Entombed, Soulfly, Motorhead, and Danzig; and inspired mosh pits that consumed thousands of fans at OZZfest 2001. Now the Connecticut-based band, with its decibel-defying mix of metal and hardcore is taking on the Jagermeister Music Tour, set to go off on October 9th. Their latest album, Perseverance, is a testament to… Read more »

Recently returning from a private showcase in Los Angeles prior to the release of their third full-length effort Chemical Vacation (The Music Cartel), stoner/riff rockers Sea Of Green let bassist Eric Kuthe spill some of the beans on what’s going down with this Toronto-based power trio. I suppose one of the biggest changes with Chemical Vacation is that you’ve introduced new drummer Matt Dowd into the fold. How has that altered the Sea Of Green sound? Eric Kuthe: It’s had a big impact to be honest. Our old drummer was like Ginger Baker with big rolls and shit like that,… Read more »

Los Angeles rap-rockers Crazy Town return November 12 with Darkhorse, the follow-up to the band’s 2000 multi-platinum Columbia debut, The Gift of Game, The first single from the sophomore set, “Drowning,” has already been serviced to radio, with a video directed by Brendan and Emmett Malloy, whose credits include clips for Foo Fighters, Blink-182, 311, and the Used. Crazy Town co-frontman Bret “Epic” Mazur, who shares the mic with Seth “Shifty Shellshock” Binzer, says the song was written on a tour bus while the group was on this year’s Ozzfest trek across the U.S. Previously announced as Nothing Comes From… Read more »

After The Ramones hung up their jackets in 1996, Joey Ramone continued to work diligently writing and recording songs. Don’t Worry About Me, the result of these solo efforts, is already garnering recognition as his best work to date. Sadly, Joey succumbed to cancer in April 2001 at the age of 49. Producer, guitarist and long-time friend Daniel Rey worked alongside Joey on Don’t Worry About Me from day one. He recently completed final mixes on songs that hadn’t been mixed prior to Joey’s passing. Joey recruited world-class bassist Andy Shernoff (The Dictators) and split the drumming between Frank Funaro… Read more »

Former Nirvana men Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic played together recently in a Los Angeles studio. The duo – recently united in a legal battle against their late band mate Kurt Cobain’s wife Courtney Love over a proposed Nirvana box set – were joined by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, L7’s singer/guitarist Donita Sparks, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and legendary session drummer Jim Keltner ( John Lennon, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan ). Although the impromptu supergroup laid down tracks, there are at present no plans to release them. The jam was the latest in superstar collaborations… Read more »

Despite admitting they are anxious to take a break, the Foo Fighters are preparing to record the follow up to 1999’s Nothing Left to Lose. “As much as we’d like to take a vacation and enjoy life outside of the band, I think we’ve finally realized that the best part about life is this band, and there’s nothing we’d rather do,” writes Foos frontman Dave Grohl in a post on the band’s Web site, www.foofighters.com. “So, we’ve been demo-ing a bunch of new songs and it looks like it won’t be too long before we really start in on the… Read more »