Vocalist Björn 'Speed' Strid from Soilwork and bassist Sharlee D’Angelo from Arch Enemy have formed a band called Night Flight Orchestra – and the musical results are completely unexpected

Prizing: PureGrainAudio and Live Nation have teamed up to offer you a chance to win a trip to Atlantic City to see Styx, REO Speedwagon and Ted Nugent in the Midwest Rock 'N Roll Express tour! Deadline: June 16, 2012

Rock Candy Records 2012 Grand Prix was an English AOR/Pomp Rock group that has come to be associated with the NWOBHM scene. Besides the fact that they were active during the movement, and were therefor lumped in with the genre by default, the band did have some hard rock/progressive leanings. According to Malc Macmillan's excellent resource guide "The N.W.O.B.H.M. Encyclopedia" (a book that I simply cannot live without!) the band's roots can be traced back to sometime in 1978. "Samurai", which was released in 1983, was actually the band's third ...

“I’ll be darn,” guitarist James “JY” Young says with a chuckle when told that Styx garnered praise recently from Rolling Stone, which cited the band’s current Midwest Rock ‘N’ Roll Express tour with REO Speedwagon and Ted Nugent as among “The Ten Hottest Summer Package Tours of 2012.” “That’s a turnaround for Rolling Stone in relation to us, but who [...]

Fun for your Sunday: ► Fresh off a show at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the Weeknd (that’s Abel Tesfaye, pictured at Coachella) plays a sold-out gig at the Fonda Theatre. ► Sacramento rockers Middle Class Rut headline the Troubadour, supported by L.A.’s newest purveyors of Zep-styled blues, Beware of Darkness, who will celebrate the release of [...]

Cover 2 Cover, the latest tribute album from Morse/Portnoy/George, will include songs from prog legends King Crimson, Jethro Tull and Styx. No surprise there, considering the band lineage of those involved. After all, the album (due May 22 via Radiant Records) features Neal Morse (Spock’s Beard), Mike Portnoy (Mob">Adrenaline Mob, Dream Theater) and Randy George. But that’s just the beginning [...]

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While some musicians ponder over albums for years, or even decades, OFF! only needs about three days to cut a masterpiece. Led by punk icon Keith Morris and Dimitri Coates, OFF! cuts violative, explosive music that harkens back to the nascent stage of West Coast hardcore, namely Morris' first band, the legendary Black Flag, all while feeling completely immediate. In 2010, OFF! released their first collection, First Four EPs which gained acclaim from both inside and outside the punk community for being energetic, raw, nasty, and just straight-off-the-hook kick ass. Now, the band is gearing up to release their first ...

Former Journey drummer Steve Smith joins his old bandmate Neal Schon as part of this week’s all-star tribute concert honoring Ronnie Montrose on Friday, April 27, 2012, on a bill that also includes the remaining members of the band Montrose and stars from Styx, Kiss and Chickenfoot. “We are all looking forward to playing together for Ronnie’s memory and helping [...]

Fort Knox has cancelled Ted Nugent's appearance at its annual summer concert following the rocker's incendiary comments about President Obama Nugent had been scheduled to headline the June 23rd concert at the Kentucky military base along with REO Speedwagon and Styx But the controversy he attracted last week when he told...

Filed under: News David Livingston, Getty Images And we thought caribou and moose where the only ones not safe from Ted Nugent 's rifle scope. The outspoken and conservative Motor City Madman made the leader of the free world a verbal target recently when he made some controversial comments about President Obama last weekend, causing him to be removed from a summer concert to be held at Fort Knox Godman Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky on June 23. According to Wave3 , Nugent was set to perform alongside REO Speedwagon and Styx . But Uncle Ted is no longer on the bill ...

Styx is considering a full-length covers project, according to founding guitarist James “J.Y.” Young — and why not? After all, Styx’s 2003 rendition of the Beatles “I Am The Walrus” “was our biggest airplay item of newly recorded music in the new millennium.” This year marks both the 40th anniversary of Styx’s self-titled debut album, and 35 years since the [...]

"Now my heart beats like a drummer" There are just so many minor 80's hits that deserve legendary status, which is the biggest reason I started doing this Flashback Friday feature. Glen Burtnick released one of these should've-been-major-hits in 1987. It sounds quite a bit like Bryan Adams, though (barring Summer of '69 ) it's better than any of his material. In fact, I'd wedge this right between Summer and Journey's Don't Stop Believing and you'd have an epic ten plus minutes of AOR. It just has the classic, carefree singalong melody that's ...

Six years after publishing a collection of reinterpretations of famous rock and pop songs under the title "Cover To Cover", multi-instrumentalist, composer and singer Neal Morse will release a second album of cover songs, "Cover 2 Cover", in May.

The remaining members of Montrose will lead an all-star cast of rock musicians gathering on April 27 to honor the band’s late leader Ronnie Montrose. Sammy Hagar will join fellow original Montrose cohorts Denny Carmassi and Bill Church, along with special guest Joe Satriani — guitarist in Hagar’s current band Chickenfoot. Also scheduled to perform are members of Montrose’s subsequent [...]