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Skratch N’ Sniff Radio’s New Years Eve Special Airs Wednesday with exclusive content from Sublime, Metallica, 311, Five Finger Death Punch and more

As the clock ticks toward midnight, Skratch N’ Sniff Radio is turning New Year’s Eve into a three-hour detonation — a full-throttle celebration of rock, alternative, and everything that rattles the walls between. From 9 p.m. to midnight (check local listings), the long-running renegade radio institution will broadcast a New Year’s Eve 3 Hour Special […]

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How Ice Nine Kills Turn Restriction Into Cinema: Blood, Celluloid, and the Algorithm

Ice Nine Kills don’t make music videos so much as short films—violent, darkly funny, and meticulously staged mini-movies that owe as much to VHS-era horror as they do to modern metal. For frontman Spencer Charnas, the goal has always been immersion: take a song and build a world around it, complete with characters, lore, and

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Sublime Closed 2025 the Hard Way — And Jakob Nowell Never Let It Show

The water was black, cold, and crowded with bodies when Jakob Nowell felt his leg extend just a little too straight. Just moments earlier, fresh off his set with Sublime’s at Bayfest in San Diego last October, Jakob had done what he always does: skipped the backstage victory lap and headed straight for the fans.

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MEGADETH Release New Single/Video “Let There Be Shred!”

As anticipation continues to build for MEGADETH’s final studio album—out January 23, 2026 via DAVE MUSTAINE’s Tradecraft imprint in partnership with Frontiers Label Group’s new BLKIIBLK label)—the metal titans have today (December 19) released the latest single and video for “Let There Be Shred!” The track is a rapid-fire manifesto with jaw-dropping riffs and “a tsunami of sound,” to quote a lyric

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How Tye Trujillo from OTTTO Helped Bring Metal Back to the Mainstream on Stranger Things

When Stranger Things detonated Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” into the cultural bloodstream, it didn’t just spark nostalgia—it reignited a global conversation about heavy music. Behind that now-iconic moment was Tye Trujillo, whose contributions helped translate a metal classic into a scene that felt both timeless and immediate, bridging generations in the process. “It was really

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Shock Rock Legends GWAR Announce 2026 Tour With Soulfly

Intergalactic shock rock legends GWAR are returning to destroy stages across the United States with the announcement of The Gor Gor Strikes Back Tour, a massive spring run featuring Soulfly as direct support and King Parrot opening every night. The carnage kicks off March 19th in their adopted hometown of Richmond, VA, and rampages through April 29th, ending in Charlotte, NC. A complete list of dates is

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Amyl And The Sniffers Announce New Concert Film, “Live At Ally Pally 2025”

Amyl And The Sniffers have always felt like a band best understood in motion — loud, unfiltered, and just a little bit unhinged. Now, the Australian punk juggernauts are bottling that chaos with Live At Ally Pally 2025, a new concert film documenting their biggest headline show to date at London’s historic Alexandra Palace. The

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Amigo The Devil Embodies Solitude and Gives Depression a Soundtrack with New Song “New Kind of Lonely”

Amigo the Devil returns on December 19 with “New Kind of Lonely,” his first official new single since the release of Yours Until The War Is Over in February 2024. A Message from Amigo The Devil: “Recorded in a hotel conference room while on tour in Tasmania, “New Kind of Lonely” gives birth to a

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Joybomb Dive Into America’s Addictive Chaos on New Single “Everything Is Drugs”

Memphis alt-rock mischief-makers Joybomb are back with a full-color freakout of a single. Their new track and video, “Everything Is Drugs,” out today, takes a sharp, satirical hit off America’s endless appetite for stimulation — from politics and social media to the everyday dopamine traps we scroll past without thinking twice. Frontman Grant Beatty lays

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Al Pitrelli on Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Legacy, and the Art of Never Standing Still

When Al Pitrelli talks about Trans-Siberian Orchestra, he doesn’t speak like someone riding a three-decade victory lap. He talks like a craftsman still chasing the next idea — still trying to bring a movie playing in someone else’s head to life, night after night. “I was just so happy to be part of something so

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