Good morning Radicals! Here’s what’s happening in the world of Music News:
Korn has shared an official live video for the song “You’ll Never Find Me.” The clip was filmed on Korn’s 2019 North American summer tour.
The song is taken from the band’s new album, The Nothing, and drummer Ray Luzier told us that the tune came together almost by accident: “The verse groove for this started with me checking my drums in the studio. I was doing this snare kind of marching thing and Munky (James “Munky” Shaffer, guitar) runs in the room. ‘What is that?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m just messing around.’ And he goes, ‘Wait a minute,’ and he starts hitting these harmonics on the guitar. I love when stuff just kind of magically happens, ’cause it’s from the heart and it’s just something we were kind of making up.”
The Nothing is Korn’s 13th album and was released on September 13th. The group recently wrapped a North American headlining tour and will next take the stage at Sacramento’s Aftershock festival on October 13th.
Meanwhile, Shinedown has shared the music video for the title track of its latest album, 2018’s Attention Attention.
Singer Brent Smith recently told New York radio station Q104.3 that a full-length film based on the album’s storyline will come out next year. He explained, “(It) is the entire story of Attention Attention told on the big screen. It doesn’t look like a music video. It looks like cinema, because it’s a part of a bigger story. We don’t want people to come into the theater and sit down and go, ‘This is going to be like watching 14 music videos.’ This is not what this is.”
Halestorm singer Lzzy Hale has praised teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg as “our modern-day Joan of Arc,” saying that Thunberg is “sitting at a round table of young women who have inspired and shaped humanity.”
The Swedish teenager has gained international media attention in recent months for her outspoken activism on climate change. She delivered an impassioned speech to the United Nations Climate Action Summit this week, calling out world leaders for not responding to the climate crisis with more urgency.
Hale shared a photo of Thunberg at the U.N. podium, writing, “Our modern day Joan of Arc. @gretathunberg Thank you for your candor, grace, logic and beautiful anger. Wield your sword. You are sitting at a round table of young women who have inspired and shaped humanity.”
Hale then named several other young women who made a positive difference in the world through words and actions, including Ruby Bridges, Anne Frank, Malala Yousafzai, Claudette Colvin, Audrey Faye Hendricks and Mary Shelley.
Halestorm is currently on the road with Godsmack and next plays tonight in Wichita, Kansas.
Out now is a new book that chronicles the story of legendary Seattle band Soundgarden. Titled Dark Black And Blue: The Soundgarden Story, the tome by author Greg Prato will begin with the band members’ pre-Soundgarden days and follow their history all the way to the present, including the tragic 2017 death of singer Chris Cornell.
Drummer Matt Cameron told us a while back that when Soundgarden first started out, their musical influences were vast and diverse: “In our scene up here in the Northwest in the ’80s and ’90s, we were sometimes considered to be the Rush of Seattle, just because we could sort of play our instruments maybe better than most bands (laughs). We never really tried to flaunt any musical chops, but we always had pretty diverse tastes. We had a lot of really cool influences amongst ourselves that we tried to infuse in the music.”
The book will include all-new interviews with Matt Pinfield, Philip Anselmo and Marky Ramone and others, rarely seen photos from throughout the band’s history, and analysis of all the band’s albums and classic songs.
The 453-page paperback book is priced at $19.99 and the Kindle digital version is $9.99. Prato said in a statement, “For some odd reason, there have been few books written about Soundgarden’s career . . . despite quite a few fans such as myself strongly feeling that not only was Soundgarden the greatest grunge band of them all, but also, one of the greatest rock bands ever.”
Revel Young Ian, the eight-year-old son of Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, joined Foo Fighters on stage last Friday, September 20th at the Bourbon & Beyond festival in Louisville, Kentucky to perform “Everlong” on guitar. Scott shared footage of the performance on Instagram, writing, “Proudest dad moment ever? How about when your son gets to join his favorite band on stage to play Everlong in front of 40,000 people and NAILS IT!” Watch it on Instagram.
Today Dave Grohl crashed a Squeeze set and it was fabulous! #squeeze #Dave Grohl #bourbonandbeyond #kentucky pic.twitter.com/QqpaFMJeTi
— Dawn Pardo (@DawnSPardo) September 22, 2019
Meanwhile, Foos frontman Dave Grohl joined Squeeze onstage at the same festival to perform one of the legendary band’s most iconic hits. playing percussion on “Black Coffee In Bed.” Grohl was also seen rocking out in the audience during a set by Hall & Oates and later posed for a photo with the duo.
Red Hot Chili Peppers paid homage on Sunday night (September 22nd) to late Cars frontman Ric Ocasek with a live cover of “Just What I Needed,” the Cars’ classic 1978 debut single. The band broke out the song in Marina Bay, Singapore, during a set that also included covers of Prince‘s “Purple Rain” and Stevie Wonder‘s “Higher Ground.” Ocasek passed away on September 15th from heart disease at the age of 75.
Finally, we want to wish a happy birthday to guitar virtuoso Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, and Through Fire singer Grant Kendrick! Have a great day!
