Dave Grohl has always been a bit reluctant to play songs from Nirvana, even though he’s essentially reunited with Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear onstage numerous times now in support of his Sound City documentary. However, it turns out that they came pretty close to pulling out a Nirvana tune for The Sound City Players’ [...]
Thursday, February 14, 2013
There are few current musicians that could direct a documentary, make an album with some of their musical idols, and then get them play shows to promote the film and subsequent soundtrack: Jay Z. His wife. Taylor Swift. Mumford. His Sons. And of course Dave Grohl, who brought his Sound City Players to New York’s Hammerstein [...]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
When we saw the first NYC screening of Sound City, a rep from Variance Films (who was on hand to introduce the film) joked how disappointed we likely were that Dave Grohl wasn’t there. In fact, Grohl was in L.A. for both a separate screening and for a show with his “Sound City Players,” who [...]
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Last month, Dave Grohl revealed plans to perform at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18 with a band of “Sound City Players” in support of his new documentary. It was already a safe bet that the band and guest appearances would be made up of appear in the film and soundtrack. But now we [...]
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Yesterday, rumors circulated that Paul McCartney would be performing with the surviving members of Nirvana (Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and touring guitarist Pat Smear) at the 12.12.12 Concert in Madison Square Garden. A few hours later, Novoselic not only confirmed the performance, but also revealed that they would be performing a new song. And sure [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tonight (12) is the Concert for Sandy Relief at New York’s Madison Square Garden. And it’s going to have one of the strangest lineups in recent history, namely Sir Paul McCartney playing with the remainder of Nirvana. According to UK newspaper The Sun, McCartney called Dave Grohl to help out for the concert for hurricane [...]
Friday, April 13, 2012
Butch Vig was the producer behind Nevermind, the game changing album for Nirvana and the 90’s rock scene. And now it looks like Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are once in the studio again with Vig. In the early hours of April 12, the producer (and Garbage drummer) tweeted the following: “The last 24 hours [...]
Friday, March 9, 2012
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. Motörhead was confirmed for Mayhem Fest (though we didn’t need any press release to tell us that). Rush sent a cease-and-desist order to some [...]
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Dave Grohl has revealed that his former Nirvana band mate Krist Novoselic will be making a special appearance on the Foo Fighters’ new album. Tweet
Thursday, January 7, 2010
I found it odd that the much-publicized alleged Soundgarden came from nothing more than a cryptic two lines from Chris Cornell and a new website. The Pulse of Radio (subscription required) does some digging, only to come up with more questions than answers: The post reads, “The 12-year break is over and school is back [...]
Did you love hearing Anvil’s new song “Mankind Machine”? Then stream the Canadian thrashers’ new album Hope In Hell in its entirety before it’s released on May 28 over at Loudwire.
Kylesa’s new album, Ultraviolet, is streaming online at Pitchfork. Check out the album, as well as some pretty awesome visuals, here. The album will come out on May 28 on Season of Mist.
Unsigned & Streamed vets Anciients, who’s Season of Mist debut Heart of Oak is out now, have landed the opening slot on the Lamb of God tour. They’ll be playing from May 16 – June 10. Check out the dates here.
Sinestra Studios (who very often provides Metal Insider with some killer live photos) is hosting its very first art galleria and metal show on Saturday, May 25, at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets for the event are onsale now.
Louna has premiered a new music video for the song “Business” with Crave Online. The extravagant and politically themed music video comes in support of the Russian hard rock group’s new album, Behind The Mask, available now via Red Decade Records and MEG/RED.
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