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When Yes released Drama in 1980, it took some fans by surprise. Vocalist Jon Anderson and keyboard legend Rick Wakeman were gone. In their place, Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes of the Buggles stepped in on vocals and keyboards respectively. As jarring as it might have been at the time, the Drama album turned out to be a fascinating listen and over time became both a fan favorite and a cult classic. It was also Horn and Downes’ only album with that configuration of the group. In classic Yes fashion, the lineup shifted again though Horn would remain in a different capacity as producer to help craf...
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Though Testament just released remastered versions of their first two albums and are working on a new record, singer Chuck Billy has reiterated his desire to do a solo album at some point, and he’s actually spoken to a hardcore icon about the possibility of collaborating or producing. Billy told Full Metal Jackie during her weekend radio show that he recently reached out to Hatebreed‘s Jamey Jasta at the Milwaukee Metal Fest, discussing the idea of Jasta either producing or collaborating on songs. “I want to do something more really simple, old school sounding like the old records we used to l...
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Sammy Hagar will kick off his Best of All Worlds tour with Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham this week, promising to focus on a mix of classics and deep cuts from his time with Van Halen. Despite the nature of the tour, fans shouldn’t expect to see any guest appearances from Alex Van Halen along the way — but it isn’t for a lack of trying on Hagar’s part. “Mike and I reached out to Alex before we did this,” Hagar tells UCR. “We reached out to him a dozen times before this tour, in every way. Email, text message, phone call, message on the machine, okay? No response. No response. I...
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Ever since the first time Tim Montana was a special guest on Loudwire Nights, he was crystal clear on his love for rock and roll. Yes, he cut his teeth in the country world in Nashville for a decade and grew as a songwriter in ways he could have never imagined, but at the root of everything he did was always a burning love for rock. After releasing his first official rock single “Devil You Know” in 2023 and seeing the response to it, he was encouraged by those around him to keep writing that kind of music. Subscribe to Loudwire on Youtube For Montana, that was an easy task to take on. “Everybo...
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Sammy Hagar knows it can be frustrating being a Van Halen fan. That’s why he’s offering up this summer’s Best of All Worlds trek as a reward for their patience. “This is the ‘thank you’ tour, for all of the fans who followed us for all of those years and have been waiting 20 years for some other kind of a reunion — my era, anyway, for sure,” he tells UCR. Hagar and his longtime Van Halen compadre, bassist Michael Anthony, are leading the charge with their Chickenfoot bandmate Joe Satriani taking on the monumental task of playing Eddie Van Halen’s legendary riffs. Alex Van Halen was invited, bu...
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Ahead of the October release of his memoir, Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has launched a video series packed full of stories that didn’t make the book. While talking with Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights Thursday (July 11), Whibley shared a story that not only didn’t make it into Walking Disaster, but that won’t be featured in the new video series, either. “I remember being on the Motley tour in 2005 and I used to hang out with Tommy [Lee] on his bus a lot,” he said. “We would end up just partying and I would stay on his bus through the nig...
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As he prepares to pay tribute to his old band with this summer’s Best of All Worlds Tour, Sammy Hagar says he’s over the PTSD from the 2004 Van Halen reunion trek — a nightmare experience that he documented in detail in his memoir Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock. It was, in fact, the 20th anniversary of that outing — a commercially successful endeavor that played 80 shows over four legs between June and November of that year — that inspired this year’s tour. “Mike and I were in Cabo (Wabo), sitting the dressing room drinking some tequila, getting ready to go play some music,” Hagar tells UCR. ...
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On July 10 — right in the middle of the week — Budderside celebrated the release of their latest full-length album, White Flame. With some of the best music the band has ever released, White Flame stands out as a testament to Budderside’s work ethic and commitment to releasing original, unique rock and roll. This is the same work ethic and commitment that caught the ear of Lemmy Kilmister, who originally signed Budderside to his record label, Motorhead Music. “When we go into record, nobody holds back,” frontman Patrick Stone said on Wednesday’s Loudwire Nights (July 10). “If it’s not complete...
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Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony had already assembled one hell of a band for this summer’s Best of All Worlds tour, which will celebrate their decade-long run together in Van Halen. In addition to their Circle partner Jason Bonham on drums, the duo recruited guitar wizard Joe Satriani – another former bandmate, this time from Chickenfoot – to tackle Eddie Van Halen‘s famous and challenging guitar parts. The tour kicks off this Saturday in West Palm Beach. But a fifth band member has been present in the social media video previews Hagar’s been posting from tour rehearsals: multi-instrumentalist...
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On Friday, July 12, Devour the Day will release their latest collection of new songs, Fragments of Us. Ahead of that, founding members Joey “Chicago” Walser and Blake Allison joined Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights to celebrate all that is happening in the life of the band. “When you’re young, you dream of all the different things like being onstage and having music on the radio and those things,” Walser told Chuck on Tuesday night (July 9). “But I think for us, there was always this lifestyle that we would be able to get up and make music every day and then watch cool movies and eat good fo...
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