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Tye Trujillo has been recruited by nu-metallers Korn to cover for Fieldy, their regular bassist, on their latest tour. Tye, who is just 12 years old, is currently the bassist for a band called The Helmets, but is best known for being the son of Metallica's crab-walking four-stringer Rob Trujillo, who replaced Jason Newstead in 2003. Check out a statement from Korn below: You can buy tickets for Korn's April tour here, and check out Tye on TV with The Helmets below.  

EMPLOYED TO SERVE have revealed the video for latest track 'Good For Nothing', with the track getting its world exclusive debut play on the That's Not Metal (podcast) last Friday the 7th April. The single is out now on all streaming and downloading sites. Guitarist Sammy Urwin says: "People have brought up many times that we are a band with a female vocalist, and that’s not a problem but we have been included in articles and other publishings just because of the...

Yesterday, Seattle band Chastity Belt shared "Caught in a Lie," the second single from their highly-anticipated new album I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, out June 2nd on all formats and streaming services. The track, which maintains the reflective, cathartic, and poignant tone of previous single ‘Different Now,’ can be streamed here. Additionally, the band has announced both a UK and EU tour for this coming autumn and a North American summer tour. https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords/chastity-belt-caught-in-a-lie North American tour1st June...

It was 50 years ago this June 1st when The Beatles’ John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr ushered in the Summer of Love with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a groundbreaking masterwork that became popular music’s most universally acclaimed album. To salute the occasion, The Beatles will release a suite of lavishly presented ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Anniversary Edition packages on May 26 (Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music). The album is newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell in stereo and 5.1 surround audio and expanded with early takes from the studio...

PWR BTTM have unveiled the music video for ‘Answer My Text’ from forthcoming LP Pageant (May 12, Big Scary Monsters/Polyvinyl). Directed by H.S. Naji (who also directed ‘West Texas’ taken from Ugly Cherries), the video sees Liv Bruce bring to life the colorful lyrics of ‘Answer My Text’ as the rage, sadness, and anxiety of a text message relationship takes over with escalating internal and external drama. The vid is also accompanied by some pretty snazzy PWR GIFs, available here for...

Knucks has shared his brand new track 'The Jump'. The song, which harks which samples the token sounds of the 70s, is his first song of 2017 following the release of 'Turnover' at the end of 2016. Listen below. Knucks is a musician born and raised in South Kilburn. The North West Londoner has been involved in music for nearly 10 years, dating back to his days at school when he first ever heard Grime. Around this time he earned the...

Maybe it's something to do with the arrival of spring, but March has been pretty chill compared to the big releases of January and February. This month's playlist is all about dream pop, bedroom rock and the softer side of R&B. Kicking us off is Frank Ocean, our cover star this month, returning with another Blonded slow jam in 'Chanel', which contains one of March's most infectious hooks. Elsewhere, the debut album from Jay Som dropped, providing a welcome cut...

Dualtone/Decca Records will release ‘CHUCK,’ the final album and first new recordings in nearly four decades by founding rock and roll legend Chuck Berry, who passed away last week at the age of 90, on 16th June.   Comprised of ten new recordings, eight of which were written by Berry, ‘CHUCK’ is his first new album since 1979’s ‘Rock It.’ It was recorded and produced by Berry in various studios around St. Louis and features his longtime hometown backing group...

By Jay Williams If you like your rock and roll straight up, no chaser, then you’re probably already well acquainted with Blackberry Smoke.  They’re for you if you’re into the real thing and by that I mean Little Feat, Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, George Jones … Like most great bands, the Georgia-based five-piece are true road dogs and their stagecoach pulls into Blighty later this month (a few tickets for London Roundhouse on Tuesday 28th are still available HERE). Jay...