Most iconic bands have an amazing and recognizable name. Before having a great name, sometimes they are known as something ridiculous. This video looks at 20 famous bands’ original names.
0:00 – Intro 0:35 – Van Halen 1:20 – Black Sabbath 2:07 – Barenaked Ladies 2:50 – Nirvana 3:30 – Finger Eleven 4:15 – Red Hot Chili Peppers 5:05 – Def Leppard 5:51 – Sugar Ray 6:36 – Pearl Jam 7:19 – U2 8:01 – Creedence Clearwater Revival 8:44 – Kiss 9:29 – Radiohead 10:11 – Green Day 10:50 – Blink-182 11:36 – Beastie Boys 12:24 – The Cure 13:03 – Pink Floyd 13:49 – Doobie Brothers 14:31 – Creed 15:26 – Thank you, Patrons!
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The Podcast That Rocked for 2/1/22. Talk on the passing of Jon Zazula, Machine Gun Kelly changed his album title, Corey Taylor’s explanation on MGK, and more.
MGK The Mainstream Sellout
The Podcast That Rocked on Spotify
Discussion Topics: -Jon Zazula, founder of Megaforce Records, passes at age 69. -Machine Gun Kelly changes the name of his upcoming album to Mainstream Sellout, after getting a tattoo of the previous name Born With Horns. -Corey Taylor explains the situation with MGK on Shiprocked. -Three Days Grace now ties Shinedown with most #1 Billboard Rock songs. -Billboard Top 3, More
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New video coming on the YouTube channel this week for 20 Famous Bands’ Original Names. In an attempt to learn more about rock history, I learned how Van Halen was at one time called Rat Salad, and Green Day was once called Sweet Children. There are a lot of weird choices when bands were younger and I’m glad many of them realized that a new band name was going to be needed if they wanted to succeed.
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Streamed on New Music Night and voted on by Rocked viewers, this is a playlist of songs allgiven the highest percentage of positive votes through January of 2022. Each song was played to a live audience and voted on with a thumbs up or thumbs down by each viewer on Twitch.
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Best New Music January 2022 – Spotify Playlist
Featuring: Muse – “Won’t Stand Down” Slash ft. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators – “Call Off The Dogs” Rolo Tomassi – “Closer” Blacktop Mojo – “Strike Me” Scorpions – “Rock Believer” Loathe – “Dimorphous Display” Ghost – “Call Me Little Sunshine” Loathe, Teenage Wrist – “Is It Really You?” Bad Omens – “Like A Villain” Deaf Havana – “Going Clear” Undeath – “Rise From The Grave” Placebo – “Try Better Next Time” Moodring – “Disintegrate” Bloodywood – “Aaj” Battle Beast – “Wings Of Light” Shinedown – “Planet Zero” Light The Torch – “Death Of Me” Jethro Tull – “The Zealot Gene” Kailee Morgue – “Another Day In Paradise” Whitechapel – “Anticure”
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Rising indie-alt-pop ingénue Kailee Morgue has today dropped her new single and music video for track “Another Day In Paradise”, out via Thriller Records. Speaking on today’s release, Kailee shares:
“I wrote ‘Another Day in Paradise’ on the couch with my boyfriend talking about how hard it is to feel normal in a place like Los Angeles. I’m never one to make a song that’s as sad as it might seem so I approached it with a sarcastic point of view and some of that 90s attitude, using repetition in the bridge to mirror how it feels waking up every morning in a city where everything and nothing is happening all the time.”
Kailee previously shared the music video for “Butterflies”, the first release from Kailee after signing with Thriller Records that has already totaled over 107,000 views on YouTube. Watch the music video for “Another Day In Paradise” here or below:
Kailee Morgue delivers a delightful dichotomy between saccharine songstress and a dabble with the dark side on new single “Butterflies”. Her first track with new label Thriller Records, the music video marks the start of an incredible new era for the Phoenix-born LA resident who has already amassed a rabid core fan base with fast-rising TikTok followers since her 2018 breakout track “Medusa” via Republic Records. Be sure to stay tuned for more Kailee Morgue news coming soon.
“The Abysmal Eye” is the new single from Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers, MESHUGGAH! The song is taken from their upcoming ninth studio offering, Immutable, set for release worldwide via Atomic Fire on April 1st.
Immutable is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated album, The Violent Sleep Of Reason. This band blow minds for a living, and Immutable is their most explosive work of monstrous art yet.
2022 brings the release of the Swedish icons’ most fearlessly creative studio album yet. Full of surprises and yet instantly recognizable as the work of metal’s most idiosyncratic force, Immutable redefines and redesigns the MESHUGGAH sound across more than an hour of the most stimulating and absorbing music the band has ever made. Despite the challenges of the last couple of years, the progressive principles that have always informed their artistic efforts remain as cherished as ever. As we spiral towards a dystopian future, MESHUGGAH still stands alone.
Immutable will be available on CD, exclusive super deluxe liquid vinyl, nine limited vinyl colors, and cassette formats. Find preordering options and merchandise here.
For guitarist Mårten Hagström, the task of embarking on another unprecedented tech-metal odyssey was impossible to resist. “For us, it wasn’t all that clear that we were making a new album. We knew we could do it, but did we want to do it?,” he says. “We had to decide, ‘are we doing this or what else are we doing?’ After a long, long discussion, we agreed on certain things. We would make an album with as few restraints as possible. We would go in and try to make as cool an album as possible, have no anxiety about it and see it as an opportunity. How do we make this a challenge that we feel like accepting and rising up to? Pretty quickly we had a starting point. Everybody started to write, the ball started rolling, and suddenly we were sitting there, discussing how many songs we were going to have to cut!”
Shattering even the highest of expectations, Immutable is simply their wildest and most esoteric sonic adventure yet. The work was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden, mixed by Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson, and mastered by multiple Grammy award winner Vlado Meller (Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System Of A Down). Visionary artist Luminokaya once again created the stunning cover artwork.
MESHUGGAH are still operating on a higher level of metallic consciousness than just about everybody else. Since forming in 1987, the Swedish sound architects developed into one of the most technically complex and virtuosic group of players the metal realm has ever encountered, their distinctly unique brand of progressive groove-infused death metal inadvertently launching an entirely new subgenre.
The most inventive and creative metal band of the last thirty years and one of the most widely revered, MESHUGGAH has held the standard for forward-thinking creativity in heavy music throughout their illustrious career. Over the course of more than three decades and eight studio albums, the widely worshipped progressive mavens have consistently redefined what it means to be heavy while exhibiting a ferocious intelligence that belies the crushing weight of their riffs. From the ground-breaking savagery of 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve, to the psychedelic tech-splorations of CatchyThirtyThree, and on to the streamlined grotesquery of ObZen and Koloss, MESHUGGAH has always been way ahead of the game and plainly without peer.
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Immutable Track Listing: 1. Broken Cog 2. The Abysmal Eye 3. Light The Shortening Fuse 4. Phantoms 5. Ligature Marks 6. God He Sees In Mirrors 7. They Move Below 8. Kaleidoscope 9. Black Cathedral 10. I Am That Thirst 11. The Faultless 12. Armies Of The Preposterous 13. Past Tense
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Coming next on the YouTube channel is a video on famous bands’ original names. Such as Van Halen at one time being called Rat Salad. Yep, that really happened. Some of the early names are hilarious, and some are just flat-out awful. That video will be up sometime next week along with other big things coming. Here’s hoping Rocked can get to 100K subs by the end of 2022.
The Podcast That Rocked for 1/25/22. Talk on the odd statement by Damon Albarn at Taylor Swift, Neil Young standing up to Spotify, an updated look at When We Were Young festival, and more.
Taylor Swift VS Damon Albarn
The Podcast That Rocked on Spotify
Discussion Topics: -Every Time I Die’s breakup was messier than we thought. -Taylor Swift reacts to LATimes interview with Damon Albarn. -Shinedown have new music coming soon. -When We Were Young Festival add more days to the planned festival. -Billboard Top 3, more.
@DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this. I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really fucked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW. https://t.co/t6GyXBU2Jd
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A reminder that Rock Coliseum: Song VS Song II is coming on 1/26 live on the YouTube channel. You can find the direct link below.
Rock Coliseum: Song VS Song II
I’m currently working on a video talking about famous band’s and their earlier names. Did you know that Van Halen was originally called “Rat Salad”? How about Sugar Ray going by “The Shrinky Dinks”? This will be a lighthearted video on this stuff and I hope to have it out next week.
Shinedown Issues A Dystopian Warning with Lead Single “Planet Zero”
Announces New Studio Album Planet Zero Out April 22 on Atlantic Records
Multi-platinum rock band Shinedown has released their lead single “Planet Zero,” the title track from their newly announced seventh studio album out April 22 on Atlantic Records. Planet Zero serves up an incisive look at the issues at hand: cancel culture run rampant, the corrosive effects of social media on mental health and society, and the increasingly toxic division among those of differing ideologies.
Featuring Shinedown’s explosive yet artfully crafted sound and urgent lyrics, single “Planet Zero” rings the alarm on a dystopian warning of the dangerous consequences to come when it all goes too far, and we begin to lose our respect for those with differing opinions and our compassion for one another.
Says Brent, “If we shut each other down and allow ourselves to be divided by the information we consume and the way we talk to each other, we lose our humanity. When you look outside of your phone, you’ll see there are so many people doing good things and trying to take care of each other. But we’re starting to see parts of society slip into an unknown. Planet Zero was written for all of us. The fact is that we’re all here on this planet no matter what, so it’s time to actually move forward together with empathy, perseverance and strength. With that said….welcome to PLANET ZERO.”
PLANET ZERO TRACKLIST: 2184 No Sleep Tonight Planet Zero Welcome Dysfunctional You Dead Don’t Die Standardized Experiences America Burning Do Not Panic A Symptom Of Being Human Hope A More Utopian Future Clueless And Dramatic Sure Is Fun Daylight This Is A Warning The Saints Of Violence And Innuendo Army Of The Underappreciated Delete What You Wanted
Continuing the musical journey introduced on their fall 2021 album See What’s On The Inside, acclaimed British rock band Asking Alexandria today released a new EP titled Never Gonna Learn via Better Noise Music, titled after the album’s latest single. In addition to the title track, the project features a new collaboration with Maria Brink from In This Moment and additional new music, which continue the band’s renewed energy and drive for creating. See full track listing below. Serving as the second and current single off their latest album, “Never Gonna Learn” and its video, in which the band performs the song in an intimate setting interspersed with polaroid images of the session, received attention from Loudwire, BraveWords, and others upon its release, with many outlets praising the song’s immediate catchiness and declaring it a destined-to-be fan favorite. The EP is available to stream or download across platforms HERE.
The band closed out 2021 by celebrating their first-ever #1 at U.S. active rock radio with hit single “Alone Again,”taken from their seventh full-length studio album See What’s On The Inside. The song had the biggest first streaming day and week in the band’s history, and was a fitting first offering from their latest album, which is a passion project for the band who fell back in love with making music and with being bandmates while writing and recording together in Nashville for the first time in a decade. See What’s On The Inside made a top 10 Spotify debut in both the US and the UK upon release.
As the group is excited to continue connecting with fans on the road in 2022, they’re also eager to share more music, with Ben Bruce stating, “2021 was another strange year for everyone, so we wanted to do something special for our fans and kick the new year off with a bang! We are super excited to release the Never Gonna Learn EP. Instead of just releasing our new single we wanted to give you all something a little extra so we have included two brand new songs on this single EP, one of which we hold near and dear to our hearts, and another that we collaborated with our good friend Maria Brink of In This Moment. To top it all off, we will be going out on our first US headline run since 2018! We cannot wait to see you all soon and we hope you love these new songs as much as we do!”
Maria Brink also commented on her collaboration with the band, “We’ve known Asking Alexandria for years and it’s nice to finally collaborate together. They are incredibly talented and joining forces with them was a lot of fun. I can’t wait for everyone to hear the song & I’m grateful to be a part of it.”
The band announced a spring 2022 UK/European tour last fall, with tour dates set from March 30 to April 15, and will be announcing dates for a North American tour later this year. For tickets, a full list of upcoming live shows, and more information, please visit: https://www.askingalexandria.com/. See a full list of dates of the upcoming UK/European tour below.
NEVER GONNA LEARN EP Track Listing
Never Gonna Learn
New Devil (feat. Maria Brink of In This Moment)
Find Myself
Miles Away
UPCOMING TOUR & FESTIVAL DATES Mar. 30 – Kiev, Ukraine – Stereoplaza April 1 – Moscow, Russia – Adrenaline Stadium April 3 – St. Petersburg, Russia – A2 April 5 – Munich, Germany – Neue Theaterfabrik April 6 – Berlin, Germany – Huxley’s April 8 – Haarlem, Netherlands – Patronaat April 9 – Cologne, Germany – E-Werk April 11 – Manchester, UK – 02 Ritz April 13 – Birmingham, UK – 02 Institute April 15 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom
Papa Roach are kicking off the new year with a powerful message behind their anthemic single. “’Stand Up’ is inspired by the social unrest of marginalized people throughout the world. It’s about feeling of wanting to give up when you’re backed against the wall. For the ones that have been oppressed for so long that a sense of hopelessness is all they have,” shares front man Jacoby Shaddix. “Stand Up is meant to inspire that whisper, that small voice inside that you are worth standing for. Step into empowerment and shake the world with your voice.”
Produced by Jason Evigan (Dua Lipa, G-Eazy, Maroon 5), the release brings massive energy and unique arrangements to Jacoby Shaddix’s uplifting and motivating lyrics. The track seeks to provide a signature, bouncing anthem for a world that is energized to stand up against injustice, complacency, and opposition, further exercising their agency towards the obstacles in this new year.
“Stand Up” joins previously released singles “Dying To Believe”, “Kill The Noise” (which held the no. 1 position on the Mainstream Rock Charts for over a month) and genre-bending banger of a single “Swerve” featuring Jason Aalon Butler (Fever 333) and Sueco, all pulled from a 2020 writing session with the iconic rock band and a tight-knit creative team including familiar collaborators Colin Brittain and Nick Furlong. What started as an escape and an exercise in keeping the creative juices flowing, in a world that had completely ground to a halt, quickly grew into something bigger. The forthcoming album, expected to drop later this year, will be released via New Noize Records, in partnership with ADA Worldwide (WMG’s independent label and artist services arm).
Papa Roach are also celebrating March 1st’s Anaheim, CA show as the first “SOLD OUT” gig on North American “Kill The Noise Tour” featuring very special guests Hollywood Undead and Bad Wolves. The tour, produced by Live Nation, will make stops in the United States and Canada, marking the band’s first headlining tour in three years. A full list of tour dates is below with more information, tickets and VIP packages available here. Also, the band have announced their return to Mexico City on April 4th at Pepsi Center – a special Co-headline event with Simple Plan, and opening act EMO NITE spinning eclectic nostalgic hits throughout the evening.
Papa Roach + Special Guests Hollywood Undead and Bad Wolves March 1 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues – SOLD OUT March 2 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Federal Theatre March 5 – Salt Lake City – The Great Saltair March 6 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium March 8 – Grand Forks, ND – Alerus Center March 9 – Omaha, NE – Ralston Arena March 11 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory March 12 – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana March 13 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady ICON Music Center March 15 – Cedar Rapids, IA – Alliant Energy Power House March 16 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe March 17 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit March 19 – Toronto, ON – HISTORY March 20 – Laval, QC – Place Bell March 22 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater March 23 – Washington, D.C. – The Theater at MGM National Harbor March 24 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Arena March 26 – Greensboro, NC – Piedmont Hall March 27 – Atlanta, GA – Coca Cola Roxy March 29 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion March 30 – Corpus Christi, TX – Concrete Street Amphitheater April 1 – Monterrey, MX – Tecate Pa’l Norte* April 2 – Monterrey, MX – Tecate Pa’l Norte* April 4 – Mexico City, MX – Pepsi Center ^
* FESTIVAL APPEARANCE – excluding Hollywood Undead and Bad Wolves ^ Special Show with SIMPLE PLAN and Emo Nite
Be sure to follow Papa Roach on social media for more information about their forthcoming release soon.
