Day in Rock Report for 10/20/2022

Following their successful North American Stadium Tour this summer, Motley Crue and Def Leppard have announced that they are teaming up again for another coheadlining trek, dubbed The World Tour.

As the name implies, the tour will visit various markets across the world next year, kicking off on February 18th in Mexico City and wrapping up in Glasgow on July 6th. (read more)

Slash says that Guns N' Roses has some material that should be released in the next few months, and he hopes that the band can record a new studio album following their tour next summer.

The guitarist made the comments during an appearance on the SiriusXM show "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk". He said, "I wanna go in and cut a whole brand new record at some point, probably sooner than later. But other than that, we have stuff that we've still got to come out. (read more)

Rob Zombie and Sammy Hagar will lead the special guest lineup for Alice Cooper's 20th annual Christmas Pudding which will be taking place on Saturday, December 3rd at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona.

Alice will lead the performance festivities for the benefit event that will also include appearances from Gin Blossoms, Sixwire, Wally Palmar of The Romantics, comedian Jim Breuer, Solid Rock Dancers, The Bucket Brigade, and the winners of this year's "Proof Is In The Pudding" music and dance competition. (read more)

(hennemusic) Megadeth has released a video of "Life In Hell", a song from their latest album, "The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!," that also continues the story of Vic Rattlehead

The clip follows "We'll Be Back", "Night Stalkers" and the title track as the fourth and latest video installment from the band's multi-part short film about the origins of the group's mascot Vic Rattlehead. (read more)

(hennemusic) Sammy Hagar And The Circle have released a music video for their new single "Father Time", which is a track from their new album, "Crazy Times."

"When I first wrote Father Time, I kept it from everyone because it was so personal that I'd get too choked up to actually sing it," explains Hagar. "I wrote it just after turning 70 while I was at our then home in Maui. That house was my sanctuary in the middle of the jungle, overlooking the ocean-- it was just paradise. (read more)

The Eagles have once again expanded their popular Hotel California Tour with the addition of five new west coast dates for the trek that will take place next year.

The new 2023 dates include stops in Portland, Phoenix, San Diego, Palm Springs and San Jose, and will feature the band playing their iconic Hotel California album in full, joined by an orchestra and choir, as well as a second set for greatest hits. (read more)

The Kelly Deco Band recently announced their new album, Constellation, (December 2nd), with the release of the track, "Automat Girl," and to celebrate, we asked Kelly to tell us about the song. Here is the story:

With my latest record, Constellation, I wrote music for all the songs first, and then let the songs tell me what to say, thinking specifically with other-worldly points of view. (continue)

To learn about what inspired the theme for Ozzy Osbourne's Patient Number 9 album, look no further than the 26-page comic book available solely in some limited-edition album packages.

Featuring a story by Todd McFarlane and illustrations by Jonathan Glapion (the beautiful haunting interior pages were painted by Glapion with a striking cover provided by McFarlane), the comic book was initially available only in record stores and online. (read more)

UK rockers You Me At Six have shared their brand new track "Mixed Emotions (I Didn't Know How To Tell You What I Was Going Through)," which comes from their forthcoming album, Truth Decay.

Frontman Josh Franceschi had this to say, "The album generally is the band doing all the things that we as a band think we're good at and just embellishing them and finessing those ideas and just trying to do retrospective, quintessential YMAS but in 2022 and give that a new lease of life. (read more)

Daily band lineups have been announced for the inaugural Zona Music Festival- a new two-day boutique music festival taking place December 3 & 4 in Downtown Phoenix at Margaret T. Hance Park--in addition to 15 new acts, including Los Angeles alternative group Phantom Planet, and a fourth stage, "Under The Bridge."

Produced by Psyko Steve Presents (PSP) and Downtown Phoenix, Inc (DPI), Zona Music Festival includes a diverse range of national and local alternative, indie, pop and rock artists. Headlining acts include Beach House, Portugal. The Man and Bleachers with Tegan and Sara and Japanese Breakfast. (read more)

Guitars from Eddie Van Halen, Prince and Jimmy Page, and drums from late Rush legend Neal Peart are all part of Heritage's November 13 Guitars and Musical Instruments Signature Auction.

Here is the official announcement: The Beat Goes On With Neil Peart's Drum Kit, Eddie Van Halen's Bumblebee and Prince's Unmistakable Yellow Cloud. A trove of vintage and rare guitars from Gibson's custom shop takes the stage in Heritage's November 13 Guitars and Musical Instruments Signature Auction (read more)

To celebrate what would have been music legend Tom Petty's 72nd birthday today (October 20th), we are honored to turn things over to another legendary figure in the music business, SRO founder and President, Mitch Schneider, for a very special Singled Out with Tom featuring excerpts from an interview that Mitch conducted with Petty in 1993, where they focused on key lyrics to some of Tom's most beloved songs for the Greatest Hits album.

Mitch had this introduction for this special, "When it came time to create a bio for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 'Greatest Hits' album, a Q&A with Tom talking about each song made the best sense. He invited me to his house in Encino, and as the sun was going down, he lit up a joint and said I could ask him whatever I wanted to. I knew this had to be special, so I chose in advance particular lyrics from each song so I could get his mind laser- focused on each tune. He liked my approach because there's nothing worse than simply asking a songwriter, 'What's the song about?' Tom was really generous with his time and told me some things that he had never revealed before, like how his wife Jane was at a party while he was out on the road and she had a 'scary circumstance' there with Ike Turner. And that gave him the impetus to write 'Listen To Her Heart.' This was one of the best days of my career as a publicist. I floated out of his house that day knowing he gave me a piece of his soul that I could share with the world." (continue)