The station's featured story this week, plus your week in Active Rock. Every item links to where we read it.
Out Oct 9 via Republic, co-produced by the band and Mike Elizondo. The 59-city 2027 Into The Beginning tour opens Feb 3 in Savannah, GA and wraps July 31 in Grand Rapids, with Arc De Soleil, The Kooks and Portugal. The Man on select dates.
Source: Universal Music CanadaThe album lands at the end of October; the tour hits North America Feb–May 2027, then UK/Europe and Australia, with Don Broco. Artist presale Oct 13, general sale Oct 16.
Produced by Josh Wilbur and the first album with drummer Alex Rüdinger. The headlining run with In Flames, Orbit Culture, Fit for an Autopsy and Frozen Soul plays The Sylvee, Madison, Nov 22.
Source: KnotfestSlash ft. Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators' fifth album arrives Feb 26, 2027 via Gibson Records. The title track is out now, and North American dates start April 23.
Source: All Music Magazine, Oct 3The Swedish band's seventh album is out on Nuclear Blast, with a Scandinavian co-headline run with Blues Pills and European/UK dates in March 2027.
Source: Nuclear BlastThe ex-Foreigner singer replaces John Corabi, and ex-Quireboys bassist Jimi Crutchley replaces Michael Devin. The new single is "Lift Me Up." A US spring 2027 tour runs April 30 to May 15, with BulletBoys and The Fell.
Source: Louder ConsequenceSwedish bassist Tobias Cristiansson (Grave, Necrophobic) joins. The single "Pound of Flesh" arrives Oct 16.
Source: Chaoszine Metalhead ZoneColton Westerman joins on bass and vocals. The new album Rise is due Jan 8, and the single "Something in the Water" is out now.
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Andy Biersack on the new album Vindicate, co-producing with Jake Pitts, and the single "Cut" featuring Lillith Czar.
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Bobby Amaru on Breaking Through, honoring the late Wayne Swinny, and collaborations with Trevor McNevan, Austin John Winkler and Johnny Van Zant.
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Brann Dailor on the ninth album Marrow Deep, made after the death of former founding member Brent Hinds.
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The debut album Can't Cry, the story behind its artwork, and an upcoming tour with Daughtry.
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Chris Motionless on the seventh album Decades, their "Sunglasses At Night" cover, and producer Drew Fulk.
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JJO's weekly guide to concerts. Its picks include Our Lady Peace with The Verve Pipe (The Sylvee, Oct 5), Beck's first Milwaukee show in nine years (Oct 6), and Weezer with The Shins and Silversun Pickups at Fiserv Forum (Oct 7).
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Shinedown's "Young Again" gave the band its 26th No. 1 on the Mediabase Active Rock chart. Nickelback's "Rattle the Cage" (ft. John 5) topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. The Oct 2 album releases included Dead Poet Society, Butcher Babies, Escape The Fate, Imminence and Miss May I.
wjjo.comAt Denver's Ogden Theatre on Oct 9, Frank Carter had security remove a man who objected to a women-only mosh pit. Carter later shared a message from the man's father apologizing for "my idiotic son."
Source: Louder NMENoel Gallagher's signed guitar from the 1996 MTV Unplugged show set an auction record for an Oasis acoustic at Propstore. That same week, Oasis went to the High Court to stop a separate sale of "The Desk Tapes."
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Aged 18 months in a Monroe cave. They SQUEAK on every bend, just like fresh curds!
"My solos finally have mouthfeel." —Dale K., Sun Prairie
*Bends may go back to curd. **Strings may set up as a brick of Colby. Do not deep-fry before a gig. Not intended for dairy-intolerant bassists.
THE ROCK OF AGES TAPE CLUB • NO OBLIGATION!* • NO RETURNS EVER**
*You agree to buy 47 more tapes at "regular club price" ($38.99 + $12 shipping each) over the next 9 years. **Tapes will arrive pre-unspooled. The club is not responsible for tapes eaten by your 1987 Buick's deck.
Shown on a brave styrofoam volunteer. Results in 6 weeks!
Business in the front, STAGE DIVE in the back. Just wear it 23 hours a day for 6 weeks!
"My wife says I look like 1991. She means it as a threat." —Gary P., Fitchburg
Results not typical. Results not possible. The helmet hums at a frequency only drummers can hear. May cause spontaneous air guitar.
Are you TIRED of losing feeling in your fingers at the January tailgate? There's GOT to be a better way!
Order in the next 10 minutes and get the Brat-Warmer Cupholder and a Snowplow Fog Machine ABSOLUTELY FREE!
OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY (they're wearing two pairs of socks)
Chair rated to 11 and to −40°. Do not operate during lake-ice season unless the ice is "probably fine." Not compatible with sitting.
WANTED: Drummer. Must own van, have dad's permission, and know "all the fast parts." Can't pay, but there's a cooler of Northwoods lager in the garage.
FOR SALE: Haunted half-stack. Only plays Southern-rock jams at 3 AM. $200 OBO, or swap for a snowblower.
LOST: Our bassist, last seen at Brat Fest near the condiments. Answers to "Hey, Bass Guy." Reward: one cheese curd.
SERVICES: Will yell "FREEBIRD" at your event. Hourly rates. Wedding packages available.
PERSONALS: SWM, 52, long hair (some of it), seeks someone to hold my jacket in the pit. No time-wasters, no smooth jazz.
Classifieds are 100% fictional. Any resemblance to your actual band is a cry for help.
JUST ADD BEER! WATCH THEM COIL CABLES!
Hatch your OWN tiny road crew! They set up a drum riser in 4 minutes. They live on gas-station jerky. They'll "be right back."
Roadies will unionize. Roadies will NOT carry your bass cabinet. "Crowd surfing" is not a habitat.
Keep the mustard off the band shirt you paid $55 for.
"I took a stage-diver to the chest and a brat to the face. The shirt survived." —Brenda T., Middleton
Not a flotation device. Not a security barrier. Do not wear to a funeral unless it's a really good funeral.