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Shocker alert! Frontman Adam Gontier has resigned from Three Days Grace just weeks prior to their upcoming co-headlining tour with Shinedown. The band has replaced Gontier with My Darkest Days singer Matt Walst for the trek.
A brief posting at the band’s website reveals that Gontier has left the group effective immediately citing a health issue for his exit. The band’s bassist, Brad Walst, stated in a press release, “We were surprised and distressed by Adam’s sudden departure. We are however very excited for this upcoming tour and to have my brother Matt stepping in as lead singer.”
The news comes as a major surprise, as Three Days Grace are one of rock radio’s most successful bands over the past decade, and recently scored a chart-topping single with ‘Chalk Outline’ off their latest album ‘Transit of Venus.’ They’re currently heating up radio again with their new single ‘The High Road.’
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Source: http://loudwire.com/adam-gontier-leaves-three-days-grace-replaced-by-my-darkest-days-matt-walst/
The New Year could bring a new U2 album – that is if, you listen to longtime manager Paul McGuinness, who told The Irish Independent “to certainly expect a new record.”
U2 has not released a studio album since 2009′s No Line on the Horizon, an album that garnered the band a slew of number one chart positions all across the globe. The album has also been certified platinum around the world.
Source: http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/musicnews/article/2956/Possible-New-U2-Album-Coming-in-2013
Chris Taylor Brown knows how to write adrenaline pumping songs. He knows how to incorporate a melodic hook along with amped-up guitars that ends up being the trademark Trapt sound. On Reborn Chris Taylor Brown’s vocals have been recorded differently than they have been in the past. It might be his voice naturally evolving or it could be an effort to make things sound more organic in the mixing process. Brown and the rest of the band reflect their live sound on this record more than previous albums too.
Take a listen to “Bring It” by TRAPT:
Source: http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/newmusic/exec/albumreviews.asp?id=1308
Avenged Sevenfold says that they plan to enter the studio next month to begin recording the follow-up to 2010′s Nightmare.
“This album’s a little more groove orientated,” frontman M. Shadows told NME. “There’s a little bit more groove to it, a little bit more focused on bigger riffs. So that’s where it’s headed – every song has gotta have a huge riff and every song has to have a groove to it.”
Source: http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/musicnews/article/2946/Avenged-Sevenfold-Hit-Studio-To-Record-Follow-Up-To-Nightmare
Serj Tankian has announced that he has written the full musical score for the upcoming video game Morning Star. Industrial Toys, the studio producing the game, is set to release Morning Star in Spring of 2013, initially for iOS devices.
“I’m really enjoying working on Morning Star because it gives me the ability to create new musical worlds to complement the new visual worlds in the game,” explains Tankian. “Though most of the gameplay will be action oriented cues, the stunning artwork and static scenes have inspired unique sounds unheard before.”
Source: http://www.alternativeaddiction.com/musicnews/article/2950/Serj-Tankian-Composes-Music-For-Video-Game
In a move that could make some diehard fans cringe, Mumford and Sons leader and namesake Marcus Mumford has revealed that the neo-folk rock band may replace some of the banjos on their next album with synthesizers.
“We’ve always done what feels good, rather than what we’ve thought long and hard about, and we’ll do whatever feels soulful next, whether that’s with an electric guitar or a synthesizer,” Mumford said.
Ben Lovett concurred, saying that the group doesn’t want to wave the flag for just one style of music, namely alt folk. “It’s dangerous for us to talk about what we’ve been discussing for the third album, but we do have greater ambitions not to just stay within certain sonic,” he said. “We’re not going to be the band that stands for folk music or organic music.”
Source: http://diffuser.fm/mumford-and-sons-synthesizers/
Mike Scaccia, the guitarist for Ministry and Rigor Mortis, died on Saturday night at the age of 47. Scaccia was performing onstage at the Rail Club in Fort Worth, Texas, as part of a 50th birthday celebration for Rigor Mortis singer Bruce Corbitt, when he collapsed. Shortly afterwards, he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Scaccia appeared on recordings by a host of Ministry offshoot bands, including the Revolting Cocks, Lard, and Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters. The most recent Ministry album that Scaccia appeared on was this year’s Relapse.
On Corbitt’s Facebook page, the singer posted the following statement shortly after Scaccia’s passing: “My brother is gone! The only reason I am who I am is because of this man. If it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t even be in a band. RIP Mike Scaccia! The greatest guitar player I ever knew!”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ministry-guitarist-mike-scaccia-dies-after-onstage-collapse-20121223
Earlier this year, when Beck announced plans to release his ‘Song Reader’ book, which features sheet music for 20 songs he wrote but hasn’t recorded, he hoped other musicians would take on the challenge of piecing together the tunes and maybe even try recording them. Now that ‘Reader’ is out — it hit shelves earlier this month — some musicians are doing just that, and Beck has started a website, songreader.net, which features videos of various musicians — most of them amateurs — trying their hand at interpreting the songs.
“It’s something that was part of what brought people together,” Beck tells the AP, recalling the era of the ’20s and ’30s when families would sit around a pianist playing off sheet music and sing along. “Playing music in the home is another aspect of that that’s been lost. I’m not on a campaign to get people to take up songs and play music in their home or anything. But it is interesting to me, the loss of that, what it means.”
Source: http://diffuser.fm/beck-song-reader-fan-interpretations/
Chicago’s own I Fight Dragons combines pop/rock with chiptune, and features electronic sounds made using Nintendo Gameboy and Nintendo Entertainment Systems. I Fight Dragons appeared on the entire 2012 Vans Warped Tour in the US and Canada.
I Fight Dragons will be appearing with Protomen, MC Lars, and Skyfox at Metro on December 14. Gitcher tix quick, here.
http://event.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSale.do?performance_id=1659280&cobrand=metrochicago&method=restoreToken
No lounging about backstage for these guys. Stick To Your Guns are launching a new video series about keeping healthy while touring. Learn some of their fitness routines and watch them resist food temptation in this health-on-the-road video.
Come see the payoff at the Infamous tour in CHICAGO December 13 at the Bottom Lounge. Tickets still available here! Take a peek at Kids Can’t Fly.
http://www.altpress.com/aptv/video/video_premiere_stick_to_your_guns_workout_video
http://www.bottomlounge.com/shows/motionless-white-chelsea-grin-stick-your-guns-witch-was-right-upon-dawning
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