Weekly Music News 16.03.25
After last week's announcement by alternative duo "Nova Twins" of its third album, "Parasites & Butterflies", due August 29, this week brings a video for its new single, "Soprano".
The band "Coheed and Cambria" releases a new single after putting out its tenth album, "The Father Of Make Believe", this week. The next chapter in the ongoing "Amory Wars" saga explores a web of what-ifs.
What if Claudio Sanchez had never formed the band? What if it all ended tomorrow? "Goodbye Sunshine", which tackles that question, feels almost like a eulogy written on a postcard from the future.
Talented, charismatic musician "YUNGBLUD" releases a new single for 2025.
The new single runs an astonishing nine minutes, a real musical roller coaster. The singer admitted: "I was warned not to release a nine-minute-and-six-second song as my first move after a year of silence, because in today's world that is considered a 'risk'. I do not see it that way at all. To me, it is an opportunity. Risk is an artist's most powerful tool: putting everything on the line in pursuit of growth and the best art you can make. Without risk, there is no innovation."
The band "Rise Against" releases its first single in three years!
The new song opens the veteran punk band's next chapter. As its lyrics put it, "they could not extinguish..."
The single follows the band's latest album, 2021's "Nowhere Generation", which was accompanied by "Nowhere Sessions", an EP of live versions of album tracks.
The band "Guns N' Roses" has parted ways with Frank Ferrer, its drummer for more than 19 years, the longest tenure of any drummer in the band (pictured at right). Details were not disclosed, but the band's official statement described an "amicable, mutual departure". The next day it named Isaac Carpenter as its new drummer. Carpenter will officially take over at the band's first show of 2025, in May.
"Iron Maiden" announced a book and documentary this week to mark its 50th anniversary. Both are due in fall 2025. The announcement comes as the metal legends prepare for their 50th-anniversary tour, starting in Hungary in May. It will be their first tour with new drummer Simon Dawson, Steve Harris's bandmate in "British Lion", who joined after Nicko McBrain's retirement.
As a new era begins for Maiden, fans can look back over 50 years through these two intriguing projects.
Tragedy has struck the Peart family again, in the same way.
Writer and poet Danny Peart, brother of legendary drummer Neil Peart, died this week from brain cancer, the same illness that took his brother five years ago.
And since we mentioned the drummer of "Rush", today brings the lavish "R50" box set. This career-spanning, 50-track anthology fills four CDs with selections from every studio, live and deluxe album. It opens with remastered versions of the first two singles, "Not Fade Away" and "You Can't Fight It", released here for the first time in this form. The collection also includes seven previously unreleased tracks: five from a 1974 show, including the non-album songs "Bad Boy" and "Garden Road"; a special version of "The Trees" with an alternate guitar solo; and the final show with Neil Peart in Los Angeles on August 1, 2015, featuring "What You're Doing / Garden Road / Working Man". The box includes a 104-page book with new 50th-anniversary artwork by Hugh Syme.
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More "Rush" news: singer, bassist and keyboardist Geddy Lee has teamed up with Moog for the "Geddy Lee Minimoog Model D", available exclusively in the US and Canada. It is Moog's first artist signature model. Watch him explain how he used the Minimoog to create the distinctive sounds of "Xanadu", "Tom Sawyer", "Subdivisions", "The Trees" and more:
Singer Eddie Vedder released his version of "Needle and the Damage Done" by Neil Young today. It is part of "Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young", due April 25, 2025. One of Young's best-known songs, "Needle and the Damage Done" originally appeared on the 1972 album "Harvest". It addresses heroin addiction's devastating effects, inspired by Young's experiences with musician friends who fell victim to the drug, including Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten. Vedder has played it live before; this is his first released studio version.
They are back in a big way!!! Fictional metal band "Spinal Tap" returns with a new film, 41 years after the original became a cult classic. The original lineup and the first film's director are back.
In the new film, the band reunites after a 15-year break for one show, with famous guests including Elton John, Paul McCartney, country star Garth Brooks and more.
The Royal Mint will honor the memory and legacy of John Lennon with a coin in its Music Legends series. Designed by Henry Gray, it carries a portrait of Lennon photographed on the roof of his New York penthouse, with King Charles on the other side. Silver and gold editions will be available in different sizes and at different prices.
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