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For the second year in a row, severe weather wreaked a little havoc on Lollapalooza, but this time organizers were better prepared. The bands and audience were evacuated from the Grant Park grounds Saturday (Aug. 4) in anticipation of a severe thunderstorm expected to hit the area. Our reporter on the scene alerted us that there would be a two-hour break in the festivities. All of the stages were shut
When you’re a starting and struggling musician, you may not be able to land your dream gig right off the bat, so it should come as no surprise that before he was laying down some serious licks with Five Finger Death Punch, guitarist Jason Hook took a number of gigs, including some outside of the metal genre. Hook told the Evansville Courier & Press that he was actually once a
Sometimes reunions work and sometimes they don’t. In Jane’s Addiction‘s case, their second time working with bassist Eric Avery, who was initially the first original member to leave the band, just didn’t pan out. Singer Perry Farrell says that having taken advantage of several opportunities to reunite only to split again after the ‘Strays’ album, it took some convincing to give another run at the band a try. He tells
Shinedown is probably not the first act you think of when it comes to remixes or “the club.” Heck, they’re probably not even in the first hundred or so acts when it comes to that, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past decade, it’s that just about any track can be subject to a remix. As such, Shinedown’s latest chart-topping single ‘Unity’ has been given the remix
After hearing the news that Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe was finally released from a Czech prison, metal titan and legendary Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford discussed the situation in an exclusive interview with Loudwire. “I don’t think anybody has the full story, only Randy does, and I’m sure he’ll be bombarded by press soon to talk about what exactly happened,” Halford said. “My heart was with him, just like
Yesterday (Aug. 3) was a big day for Randy Blythe, who finally got to set foot on American soil late in the afternoon. The Lamb of God vocalist has spent the better part of the last month in a Czech Republic jail after being accused of having a role in the death of a fan at a show in Prague in 2010. The clearly relieved Blythe headed to his Instagram
It was a hot Midwestern night at Lollapalooza in Chicago, but that didn’t deter a frenzied crowd from showing their support for metal legends Black Sabbath, who made their U.S. return Friday night (Aug. 3) at Grant Park. Though the Black Keys, one of the biggest concert draws going these days, were playing opposite Sabbath on the other main stage, the metal godfathers more than held their own with the