Dave Grohl is joining Sammy Hagar's Rock & Roll Road Trip. The Foo Fighters frontman will be a guest on the upcoming third season of the former Van Halen singer's AXS TV reality series, which will premiere in early 2018. Rock & Roll Road Trip follows Hagar as he travels to different cities to interview and jam with various well-known musicians. "It's been a cool surprise how much we're all enjoying the interview part of this show because as artists, what happens on stage or in the music studio is the easy/fun stuff, and the interviews often feel like the…

P.O.D. is back with new music. The San Diego rockers have unleashed a new song called "Soundboy Killa," and it's streaming along with a lyric video now on YouTube. "Rock 'n roll has become entertainment that just says what the consumer wants to hear," frontman Sonny Sandoval tells Alternative Press of "Soundboy Killa." "There's no more edge or rebellion that sets it apart from the norm. We choose to be us and write songs that we love playing, rather than trying to keep up with trends or what's hot on the scene." "Lyrically, it's a take off [of] some of the…

Linkin Park and JAY-Z joined forces back in 2004 for the mashup EP Collision Course, and the rapper, performing for the first time since the death of Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington paused to remember Bennington. During a show at the V Festival in Staffordshire, England on Saturday, JAY-Z asked the crowd to "light it up tonight for Chester," adding, "Please make some noise so he can hear you all the way in heaven tonight," before launching into a rendition of the Collision Course mashup of "Encore" from JAY-Z's The Black Album and Linkin Park's "Numb." You can watch the…

Dave Grohl loves playing with his other artists, especially his heroes, though his collaborations are usually in the same zip code, musically. So what happened this weekend might surprise a lot of people. Stereogum reports that at Japan’s Summer Sonic Festival, Foo Fighters played the Marine Stage while '80s phenomenon Rick Astley performed on the Mountain Stage. A more unlikely collaboration could not have been predicted, but leave it to Grohl to come up with something fun on the fly. Having only met two minutes prior, they got together during the Foos’ headlining set to perform a rocked-up version of…

Aerosmith hasn't released any new songs since its 2012 studio album Music from Another Dimension, but that looks like it will be changing soon. In a new interview, guitarist Brad Whitford tells Billboard Argentina that his band recently hit a London studio while they were touring Europe to start recording a new song. "This song is a musical idea of Joe Perry's," Whitford reveals. "We're doing it very much like we did songs back when we started out. It's a very rock 'n' roll [tune]." Aerosmith currently is preparing to kick off a fall tour leg of South America and…

Rob Zombie will host a 13-night TV special leading up to Halloween. HDNet Movies will broadcast Rob Zombie's 13 Nights of Halloween from October 19-31. During each installment of the special, Zombie will introduce a different spooky film and share his thoughts about it.  The movie lineup includes horror classics like 1958's The Blob and 1972's The Last House on the Left, plus modern films like 2009's Case 39 and 2012's The Devil Inside. Zombie, of course, is accomplished filmmaker himself, having directed seven movies, the most recent of which was 2016's 31. In addition to his 13 Nights of…

Evanescence has released a new version of their breakthrough single, "Bring Me to Life," as the first preview of their forthcoming album, Synthesis, which re-imagines songs from the band's discography with electronics and a full orchestra. Frontwoman Amy Lee's vocals are just as powerful as ever on the new track, but just when you expect the crunchy, nu-metal guitars of the original's chorus, a giant string section sweeps in. You can download the Synthesis edition of "Bring Me to Life" now via digital platforms. Along with the reworked tracks, Synthesis also features two brand-new songs. The album is due out…

Mastodon just released their new album Emperor of Sand earlier this year, but there could be another one on the horizon. Guitarist Brent Hinds posted a photo on his Instagram of an album cover featuring Mastodon's name and the title Cold Dark Place. "New jamZ coming soon!" he writes in the caption. Back in 2016, Hinds revealed in an interview with Guitar World that the then-unannounced Emperor of Sand was "shaping up to be a double album," with one of them being a disc called Cold Dark Place, which Hinds recorded himself. "It has to do with a nasty breakup…

Next month, you'll be able to listen to the sounds of the Vietnam War, as imagined by Trent Reznor. The previously reported score to the upcoming 10-part PBS documentary series The Vietnam War, which Reznor composed with his Nine Inch Nails band mate and frequent collaborator, Atticus Ross, will be released as a two-disc and three LP collection on September 15. "[Reznor and Ross'] original score beautifully complements the music from the time," says The Vietnam War directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. "We are absolutely thrilled that our audience will now have the chance to own the original score along with some…

Beartooth spent their summer traveling the country on Warped Tour, and now they're documenting their experience in the video for their song "Rock Is Dead." The nearly eight-minute long clip includes footage of Beartooth performing at Warped and meeting fans, mixed with documentary-style interviews with band members. You can watch the video now on YouTube. "Rock Is Dead," which is actually about rock being very much alive, appears on Beartooth's sophomore album Aggressive, which was released last summer. Now that their off Warped Tour, Beartooth will hit a few festivals this fall, including Denver's High Elevation, Louder than Life in…

When Robert Plant earlier this week posted an unidentified instrumental music lip on his official website and Facebook page, the buzz began that it might be a tease for the new album he's been working on with his current band, The Sensational Space Shifters, over the last couple of years. We didn’t have long to wait for confirmation.  The album’s titled Carry Fire, and it’ll be out October 13, though you can order it now via RobertPlant.com, Nonesuch Records and all the usual digital outlets.  If you order from Nonesuch or Plant’s website, you’ll score an instant download of Carry…

Mike Diamond is trading in vinyl records for wine bottles for his next gig. The musician and DJ -- better known as Mike D of Beastie Boys -- will help curate the wine list for a new restaurant called Hearth & Hound that's opening in Los Angeles. "It's going to be a fun list," Diamond tells Bloomberg. "We are putting together a wine program that will get customers tasting things they might not taste." Diamond adds that the list will be accessible, even if you're not a Sideways-level wine enthusiast. "If you want a glass of wine, you shouldn't have…