Imagine Dragons will help Fox ring in the New Year.
Dan Reynolds and company are among several artists who will featured in pre-recorded performances on Fox’s New Year’s Eve Toast & Roast 2022, which airs live Friday, December 31, beginning at 8 p.m. ET.
Ken Jeong and Joel McHale will host the special live from Times Square, while Kelly Osbourne, daughter of Ozzy Osbourne, will also be on hand as a special correspondent.
Other performers set to perform on the show, albeit in pre-recorded footage, include Billy Idol, Maroon 5, Pink and more. Country star Trace Adkins will appear live to ring in 2022.
Imagine Dragons’ 2022 plans include touring in support of their new album, Mercury — Act 1.
Metallica has announced announced livestreams for the band’s upcoming 40th anniversary concerts, taking place December 17 and 19 in San Francisco.
You’ll be able to watch both shows for free via Amazon Music, the Amazon Music Twitch channel and Amazon Prime Video, even if you don’t have an on-demand Prime membership. Following their live premiere, the concerts will be available for later viewings via the Coda Collection, a music-themed channel on Amazon Prime Video.
The livestreams also mark the first entry in a newly announced partnership between Metallica and the Coda Collection, which is set to include a “full slate of concert films, documentaries, and additional content” premiering in 2022.
Dave Grohl & Gene Simmons in 2015; Michael Tran/FilmMagic
KISS‘ Gene Simmons showed up on stage while Foo Fighters were rocking and rolling all nite during a recent concert in Las Vegas.
During the show, guitarist Chris Shiflett started playing the riff to a KISS song when Dave Grohl interrupted him to reveal that Simmons was actually backstage.
“We can’t do that in front of Gene Simmons!” Grohl said. He then started begging Simmons to come on stage and show the crowd his “punim” — Yiddish for “face.” Simmons finally obliged and walked out briefly while wearing a face mask, and handed Grohl what appeared to be a dollar bill.
“I had posters of that motherf***er on my wall when I was a kid,” Grohl exclaimed as Simmons returned backstage. “Let me rephrase that — I still have posters of Gene Simmons on my f***ing wall at home.”
You can watch fan-shot footage of the interaction streaming now on YouTube.
Simmons also tweeted a video of him palling around with the Foos before the show.
Grohl, by the way, just covered KISS’ “Rock and Roll All Nite” with producer Greg Kurstin for the final night of their Hanukkah Sessions series.
The Italian rockers’ cover of the Four Seasons song has been one of the biggest rock hits of 2021 — it’s this year’s longest-running number-one single on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart, having led the ranking for 10 weeks and counting.
Speaking with ABC Audio, bassist Victoria De Angelis ponders what keeps the fans beggin’ for “Beggin’.”
“I think maybe just the way we reinterpreted it and we made it like it was our own song,” De Angelis says.
“We tried to not think about the original, and just felt free to change it however we liked,” she adds. “I think this shines through the song.”
If you were lucky enough to catch one of Måneskin’s sold-out, debut U.S. headlining shows in New York City and Los Angeles over the fall, you would’ve also heard one of the band’s other covers: a mash-up of Franz Ferdinand‘s “Take Me Out” and The Killers‘ “Somebody Told Me.”
“I think it’s fun to give different interpretations to a song that already exists,” De Angelis says of Måneskin’s penchant for covers. “It’s just a way of sharing the music.”
Of course, Måneskin writes originals, too. Their latest single, “MAMMAMIA,” is very much not a cover of the ABBA song, though judging by its video’s over 14 million YouTube views, it’s following in the viral footsteps of “Beggin.'”
“We couldn’t wait to release new music with all of this big new audience that we have,” De Angelis says of premiering “MAMMAMIA.”
“Of course, it’s the most important thing for us to share the music that we’re writing,” she continues. “So every time that we release a song, it’s a very, very important moment.”
A previously unreleased collaboration between Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor and film composer Danny Elfman is included in the upcoming deluxe collector’s edition of the latter’s album Big Mess.
The box set, which is due out in February 2022, includes a new version of the Big Mess song “Native Intelligence,” with vocals by Reznor.
You’ll also find a collaboration with FEVER 333 on the song “Kick Me.”
Only 1,500 copies of the box set will be made. You can pre-order yours now via DannyElfmanBigMess.com.
Reznor and Elfman previously linked up for a duet for another Big Mess tune, title “True.” That was released this past August.
We can only assume that the recording sessions between Reznor and Elfman included a lot of movie talk, since they’re both Oscar-nominated film composers. However, Reznor has Elfman beat when it comes to wins — Trent’s won two with his scoring partner and NIN band mate Atticus Ross, for The Social Network and Soul, while Danny’s been nominated four times but has yet to go home with a trophy.
Underoath has released a new song called “Numb,” a track from the band’s upcoming album, Voyeurist.
You can download “Numb,” which spotlights the vocals of drummer/singer Aaron Gillespie, now via digital outlets.
“‘Numb’ feels like a classic They’re Only Chasing Safety song done with adult minds and ideas,” says guitarist Tim McTague, referring to Underoath’s 2004 album.
“It’s the only chorus on [Voyeurist] that is just Aaron singing, which was a massive part of our DNA as a band in the beginning,” he adds. “It’s rad to hear it come full circle.”
Voyeurist, the follow-up to 2018’s Erase Me, is due out January 14, 2022. Underoath previewed the album during a streaming concert earlier this month.
Twenty One Pilots have premiered the video for their original holiday song, “Christmas Saves the Year.”
The animated clip follows Santa as he rides a snowmobile through a winter wonderland filled with creatures adorable and frightening, including a Claymation Ned. We repeat: Claymation Ned!
You can watch the “Christmas Saves the Year” video streaming now on YouTube.
Twenty One Pilots first dropped “Christmas Saves the Year” in December 2020. This year, meanwhile, was saved by a new Twenty One Pilots album, Scaled and Icy, which dropped in May.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Shinedown and Rise Against are among the new additions to the 2022 Welcome to Rockville lineup.
They join the previously announced headliners: Foo Fighters, Guns N’ Roses, KISS and Korn.
Other artists now on the bill include Five Finger Death Punch, Halestorm, Papa Roach, The Pretty Reckless, Jane’s Addiction, Breaking Benjamin, Megadeth, In This Moment, Seether, Mammoth WVH, Bush, Alice in Chains‘ Jerry Cantrell, The Struts, Spiritbox, Dirty Honey, The Hu, Black Label Society, Down, Bad Wolves, Tetrarch, In Flames, Sevendust, Skillet, Parkway Drive and Nothing More.
Welcome to Rockville 2022 takes place May 19-22 in Daytona Beach, Florida. For the full lineup and ticket info, visit WelcometoRockville.com.
Sevendust has announced a deluxe version of the band’s 2020 album, Blood & Stone.
The expanded set is due out this Friday, December 10. It includes a total of five bonus tracks: a trio of remixes, and a pair of newly recorded songs titled “All I Really Know” and “What You Are.”
You can check out the remix of the album cut “What You’ve Become” done by former Ice Nine Kills member Justin deBlieck streaming now on YouTube.
The original Blood & Stone was released October 2020. It includes the single “Dying to Live,” as well as a cover of the Soundgarden song “The Day I Tried to Live.”
Makeshift memorial outside Alrosa Villa, 2004; Mike Simons/Getty Images
The Alrosa Villa music venue in Columbus, Ohio, the site of late Pantera guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott‘s murder in 2004, has now been demolished.
A fan posted footage of the remaining rubble in a YouTube video Tuesday, December 7. Today, December 8, marks the 17th anniversary of Dime’s death.
Dime had been playing Alrosa Villa with his band Damageplan on the night of December 8, 2004, when a man stormed the stage and shot him to death. Three other people were also killed, along with the gunman.
While Alrosa Villa is no more, the land it stood on will soon serve a new purpose as the site of an affordable housing project. As Columbus ABC affiliate WSYX reports, city and state leaders held a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for construction on the development last month.
Scheduled to open in 2023, the complex will include 180 units with rent as low as $350 a month.
