Credit: Daveed BenitoNew music isn't the only thing The Offspring will be sharing this month.
The SoCal punks have announced a "how-to" video series, during which frontman Dexter Holland and guitarist Noodles will share the "vast amount of useless knowledge" they've accumulated in their lives.
"Get ready to learn about a whole bunch of stuff that you'll probably never really need to know," the duo promises.
The first installment teaches you "how to catch a wave," and features Holland and Noodles sharing their surfing tips. You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.
Meanwhile, you can look forward to The Offspring's long-awaited new album, Let the Bad Times Roll, to arrive April 16. It's the band's first record since 2012's Days Go By.
Credit: Dan WintersKaleo has released a new song called "Skinny," a track off the Icelandic band's upcoming album, Surface Sounds.
"Skinny," which is available now for digital download, is the fifth Surface Sounds cut to be released, following "Break My Baby," "Alter Ego," "I Want More" and "Backbone."
Surface Sounds, the follow-up to Kaleo's breakout 2016 album A/B, was originally supposed to be released in June 2020 before being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's now set to arrive on April 23.
Kaleo had been scheduled to tour behind Surface Sounds on their North American Fight or Flight tour last summer, but that was postponed as well. The trek is currently scheduled to launch in February 2022.
ABCFoo Fighters, Tame Impala and Billie Eilish are among the nominees for the 2021 Brit Awards, the U.K.'s equivalent of the Grammys.
Dave Grohl and company will compete in the International Group category, which they've won four times previously. HAIM and Run the Jewels are also nominated for International Group, as well as K-pop sensation BTS and post-punk band Fontaines D.C.
Tame Impala, aka Australian musician Kevin Parker, is up for the International Male Solo Artist prize, as is Bruce Springsteen. Their competition includes The Weeknd, Childish Gambino and Burna Boy.
Eilish is nominated in the International Female Solo Artist category alongside Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande. The "bad guy" singer previously won that title at the 2020 ceremony, during which she also gave her James Bond song "No Time to Die" its live debut.
Other nominees this year include Biffy Clyro and The 1975 for British Group, and Yungblud for British Male Solo Artist.
The 2021 Brit Awards will take place May 11. Visit Brits.co.uk for more info.
ABCBonnaroo is coming back in 2021, and Foo Fighters are along for the ride.
Dave Grohl and company are among the headliners for this year's edition of the Tennessee festival, which will be held September 2-5. The Foos are scheduled to hit the main stage on Friday, September 3.
Other artists on the lineup include Tame Impala, Lana Del Rey, Deftones, Glass Animals, Incubus, Phoebe Bridgers, Primus, My Morning Jacket, Brittany Howard, Young the Giant, Run the Jewels, Grace Potter, Dashboard Confessional, Oliver Tree and The Struts. In addition, ex-Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison will team up with one-time Talking Heads touring guitarist Adrian Belew and Brooklyn-based group Turkuaz for a set celebrating his old band's 1980 album Remain in Light.
Tickets go on sale Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET. Visit Bonnaroo.com for the full lineup and all ticket info.
Bonnaroo is usually held in June, but was postponed to the fall this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 edition was canceled.
Tara Ziemba/Getty ImagesThe intense legal battle between Vicky Cornell, the widow of late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, and the band heated up again on Tuesday when new claims were filed in court.
According to Billboard, the band claims Cornell's widow locked them out of their social media accounts and are demanding she fork over the passwords.
Soundgarden's surviving members -- Matt Cameron, Ben Shepherd and Kim Thayil -- alongside business manager Rit Venerus, submitted the complaint to a judge last Thursday and requested the courts to intervene.
The band accused Vicky Cornell of changing the passwords to all their social media accounts -- Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and others -- alongside their official website without their permission. The Grammy winning band adds that they have essentially been locked out of their accounts and are hoping that a judge can convince Cornell to hand over the keys.
Soundgarden also offered another solution, asking that a disclaimer that reads, "Soundgarden has temporarily suspended its official social media accounts due to pending litigation" be added to their accounts.
The band submitted a December 2019 email stating Cornell gained access to the band's passwords when the band's former management company, Patriot Management, granted her access to the band's login information that October.
The email alleges "Vicky [Cornell] has since changed all the social media passwords for the band accounts and will not share them with [Patriot] as she wants the band, and I quote, 'to sue her for them'."
The band furthers their website and social media handles have been "in a state of neglect," resulting in broken links, confusion among fans and the accounts being stripped of the "verified blue badge."
Brian Rasic/WireImagePearl Jam has been the top artist of the last year when it comes to streaming concerts, according to a Bandsintown survey.
The live music discovery and recommendation platform used its data of "fan RSVPs to livestreams and archival concert performances" to determine which acts people have been tuning in to watch the most since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020. According to that metric, the number-one spot belongs to Eddie Vedder and company.
Metallica was second on the ranking, followed by Billie Eilish. Other artists who made the top 20 include Tedeschi Trucks Band, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews Band, Coldplay, Radiohead, The Lumineers, The Rolling Stones, Five Finger Death Punch and Death Cab for Cutie.
Bandsintown also surveyed 7,688 fans and artists, and found that 86 percent of fans have watched a concert livestream over the past year, while 85 percent of artists plan to make streaming a "permanent part of their performing plans," even after the return of in-person shows.
It looks as though streaming Pearl Jam shows will be the only way to watch the band perform for some time, as the grunge icons just postponed their summer 2021 European tour to 2022. To help soften the blow of that news, Pearl Jam will be streaming their 2010 Hard Rock Calling Festival set in London for free starting April 2 via Nugs.net.
Here's Bandsintown's list of the top 20 concert streaming artists of the past year:
1. Pearl Jam 2. Metallica 3. Billie Eilish 4. Snow Patrol 5. Tedeschi Trucks Band 6. Elton John 7. Bruce Springsteen 8. Dave Matthews Band 9. Radiohead 10. Coldplay 11. The Lumineers 12. The Rolling Stones 13. Taylor Swift 14. Five Finger Death Punch 15. Dropkick Murphys 16. Death Cab for Cutie 17. Lady Gaga 18. Jason Mraz 19. Zac Brown Band 20. Third Eye Blind
Stunvolume/Infections Music Garbage has announced a new album called No Gods No Masters.
The seventh studio effort from Shirley Manson and company will arrive June 11. You can listen to the lead single "The Men Who Rule the World" now via digital outlets.
"This is our seventh record, the significant numerology of which affected the DNA of its content: the seven virtues, the seven sorrows, and the seven deadly sins," Garbage explains. "It was our way of trying to make sense of how f***ing nuts the world is and the astounding chaos we find ourselves in."
The band adds, "It's the record we felt that we had to make at this time."
A deluxe version of the album includes collaborations with Silversun Pickups' Brian Aubert and Brody Dalle of The Distillers.
No Gods No Masters is the follow-up to 2016's Strange Little Birds, which includes the single "Empty."
Here's the No Gods No Masters track list:
"The Men Who Rule the World" "The Creeps" "Uncomfortably Me" "Wolves" "Waiting for God" "Godhead" "Antonymous XXX" "A Woman Destroyed" "Flipping the Bird" "No Gods No Masters" "This City Will Kill You" "No Horses"* "Starman"* "Girls Talk" feat Brody Dalle* "Because the Night" feat. Screaming Females* "On Fire"* "The Chemicals" feat. Brian Aubert* "Destroying Angels" feat. John Doe & Exene Cervenka* "Time Will Destroy Everything"*
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for FireflyThe Firefly Festival has announced its dates for 2021.
The annual Deleware event, which usually takes place in June, will be held this year in the fall, from September 23-26.
Firefly 2020 was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill included the reunited Rage Against the Machine, as well as Blink-182, Billie Eilish, Cage the Elephant and David Lee Roth, among many others.
There's no word yet on the lineup for Firefly 2021.
Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty ImagesNandi Bushell's got another axe with which to rock, courtesy of Matt Bellamy.
The Muse frontman sent the 10-year-old viral music prodigy a model of his signature guitar, made by the company Manson. The gift comes after Bushell caught the attention of Muse with her covers of songs including "Hysteria" and "Plug In Baby."
Bushell shared a video of her unwrapping the guitar and reading a note from Bellamy via her YouTube page.
By the way, Bellamy isn't the first famous rocker to send Bushell a guitar. Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello also gifted her one of his Fender "Soul Power" Stratocaster guitars in response to her cover of "Guerilla Radio."
Bushell also made headlines last year with her viral drum battle with Dave Grohl.
Credit: Daveed BenitoThe Offspring's upcoming album Let the Bad Times Roll has been in the works for some time now, but its title track feels right on time.
The song "Let the Bad Times Roll," which was released as the record's lead single in February, seems to reflect the state of the world over the past year, though guitarist Noodles tells ABC Audio it was written "right before" the COVID-19 pandemic.
"[The] pandemic just kinda brought those lyrics into sharper focus, I think," he says.
Noodles describes "Let the Bad Times Roll" as being about "world leaders that seem to want to make things worse by dividing us rather than keeping us together."
"Not just here in the U.S., but really all over the world we're seeing that," Noodles says. "So we're kind of looking at all the social unrest coming from that, from world leaders that want to make problems worse rather than bring people together."
Musically, Noodles feels that the "dark" verses contrasted with the "dance-y" choruses, reflecting the song's message.
"We kinda wanted to look at what's going on in the world around us, but then also kinda go, 'Oh, well, what are you gonna do? Might as well dance!'" he says.
Overall, Noodles wanted "Let the Bad Times Roll" to be a song of hope.
"We're pretty hopeful as human beings," Noodles says of himself and his band mates. "So even while we're pointing out that things are really messed up in the world right now, we're still hopeful that they're gonna get better."
"There's things that we can change, and then when you can't change, you gotta roll with the punches, you know?" he adds. "Let the bad times roll."
Let the Bad Times Roll the album is due out April 16.
Credit: Daveed BenitoNew music isn't the only thing The Offspring will be sharing this month.
