Kurt Deimer isn’t interested in playing by the new rules of rock collaboration. While most modern pairings happen through file transfers and text messages, Deimer’s latest single “In Deep,” featuring Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd, was born the old-school way — on the road, in a casino bar, between tour stops and late-night smokes. “I’d really […]
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Tom Morello has never stopped turning outrage into electricity. His new single, “Pretend You Remember Me,” is protest rock stripped to its emotional core — a song born from the immigration raids that scarred Los Angeles during the Trump years. “Music is one piece on a chessboard with many pieces,” Morello says. “Each of us
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By the time Fat Mike handed Sam King and Ceschi Ramos a NOFX song to reimagine, the world was still deep in the chaos of the pandemic. QAnon conspiracies were spreading like wildfire, disinformation was mainstream currency, and punk rock itself was staring down a new era of corporate homogenization. Out of that moment came
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Kurt Deimer doesn’t want to be boxed in. On his debut double album “And So It Begins…”, the Cincinnati-born rocker lays out a sprawling introduction that blends storytelling, collaboration, and a refusal to stay in one lane. It’s a record built to be consumed as a journey, not as a collection of singles shuffled in
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Ten years into their career, I Prevail still feel like underdogs. That chip on their shoulder powers Violent Nature, the band’s heaviest and most ambitious record yet — and according to frontman Eric Vanlerberghe, it’s their way of planting a flag. “Our story has always been a bit of an underdog story,” Vanlerberghe says. “From
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Chris Daughtry has already fulfilled his rock star dream, scoring chart-topping hits and multi-platinum albums. Still, the singer – who is also long time comic book fan – has another goal on his list: appearing in a superhero film. During a recent conversation with SNSMix, Daughtry admitted he was “always obsessed with superheroes.” “It started
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For Joe Cotela, frontman of Arizona heavy hitters DED, the last few years felt like limbo. Legal and label hang-ups left the band unable to release music just as the pandemic crushed momentum. “We weren’t really allowed to release music, and it was rough,” Cotela says. “It felt like something was taken away from us.
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Daughtry just dropped a new EP called Shock to the System: Part Two, a sequel to last year’s Part One. A standout track on the new EP is The Bottom,” a tune that had been several years in the making. “We just kind of put it on the back burner,” Chris Daughtry admitted during a
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Del Water Gap isn’t so much a band as it is the unfiltered psyche of Samuel Holden Jaffe—equal parts confession, comedy, and catharsis. His music feels tailor-made for late-night subway rides or hazy after-parties, where the lines between laughter and longing blur. Since recording his first songs in a high school closet, Jaffe has built
By the time the first show happens, Shavo Odadjian will have been waiting months for this moment — stepping out in front of tens of thousands of roaring fans, bass slung low, as System of a Down barrels into a two-hour set that spans their entire, unpredictable career. “It’s a lot of music, bro. A
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