interviews
On the heels of the release of Black Veil Brides‘ new song and music video, “Bleeders,” and its follow-up, “My Friends,” frontman Andy Biersack joined Loudwire Nights on Thursday (June 6) to dive deep into his love of musicals and theatrical rock and open up about why he doesn’t mind sharing his imperfections publicly. “I’ve always really tried to be honest about my faults and my fears,” Biersack admitted to host Chuck Armstrong. Subscribe to Loudwire on Youtube “The things that I don’t know about are the things that I’m unsure about because I feel like culturally so much of what we deal with ...
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We had the opportunity to interview three of the six CWAJ 2024 scholarship recipients this year. On May 15th, 2024 the College Women’s Association of Japan (CWAJ) celebrated the achievements of six outstanding scholars who received a total of 12 million yen in scholarships at their annual scholarship award ceremony. Two scholarships were awarded in each of the following categories: Graduate Scholarships for Japanese Women to Study Abroad, Graduate Scholarships for Non-Japanese Women to Study in Japan, and CWAJ Scholarship for the Visually Impaired to Study in Japan. Congratulations to the foll...
Savvy Tokyo
Foghat is paying tribute to their original guitarist Rod Price with a new single, “Black Days & Blue Nights.” You can watch a video for the song below. The song comes off of 2023’s Sonic Mojo, which gave the band their first No. 1 album when It debuted on Billboard’s Blues Albums chart in November of last year. In addition to featuring several previously unreleased songs co-written with the late Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown, the group also wanted to offer a musical reflection on Price, their beloved bandmate, who passed away in 2005. Even after nearly 20 years, his presence remains strong in th...
Ultimate Classic Rock
“I went for awhile where I felt like I was just writing songs. I was just writing — this is what a good song sounds like or this is what a hit sounds like.” Chris Daughtry recently joined Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights (June 4) to discuss what changed for him to write more transparent and personal songs. “Even before I lost my daughter and my mom, I just went through this place of feeling like I wasn’t saying anything,” Daughtry admitted. “I felt like I was going through this imposter syndrome…I felt like I needed to cut myself open and really pour out the things that maybe I was not even ...
Loudwire
The Moody Blues have had their time. That’s the sense that one gets when speaking with vocalist and guitarist Justin Hayward. He offered a fairly definitive answer when asked if he’d combine forces with bassist and vocalist John Lodge to play any further concerts together. Hayward and Lodge, the last remaining members of the classic lineup of the group, have each been focused on playing their own solo shows in recent years. Their final tour together happened in 2018, the same year they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. “I think it’s our time now to do what we want to do,” he t...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Comeback Kid have returned with the hard-hitting new EP, Trouble, which serves as a bit of a break from the norm for the band. As frontman Adam Neufeld told Full Metal Jackie on her weekend radio show, this new collection of songs is a bit of some odds and ends where the band took some “leaps of faith” following particular influences rather than trying to have the music fit the construct of an album. “We’re kind of dipping our toes,” says the singer, referring to the album as “a nice little in betweener.” Within the discussion, Neufeld speaks to how he connects onstage to more emotionally char...
Loudwire
Styx has been writing songs for decades. While it’s not unusual to sometimes realize part of a composition sounds like an existing song, singer and guitarist Tommy Shaw was still concerned. That’s one thing that he shared with UCR during a recent conversation as the band was getting ready for their upcoming summer tour with Foreigner that begins June 11 in Grand Rapids. It’s been a busy year already for the group. They’ve been out doing headlining shows, while also breaking in a new bass player, Terry Gowan, who stepped in after longtime bassist Ricky Phillips announced his departure. During a...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Jackson Browne’sRunning on Empty album was one where the music fans got to be part of the process. Because it was recorded live on stage in concert — and at other points along the touring trail, backstage, in hotel rooms and even on the tour bus – it was a unique and often chaotic experience for those involved in the recording. As bassist Leland Sklar told UCR, Running on Empty was unlike anything he had ever been a part of. While bands and artists are very used to the uncomfortable nature of playing new material in front of an audience that’s just there to hear the hits, Running on Empty capt...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Randy Bachman was having severe back pain. His doctor told him that the solution was to stop playing guitar. The main offender was the 1959 Les Paul Standard he’d used to write and record “American Woman” with the Guess Who. “That’s not going to happen,” he immediately shot back. In the decades that followed, the Guess Who guitarist went on to form Bachman-Turner Overdrive and eventually, he also enjoyed a solo career. In that time, he amassed hundreds of additional guitars. The pandemic and the return of his fabled orange 1957 Gretsch guitar in 2022, which had been missing for nearly 50 years...
Ultimate Classic Rock
George Thorogood makes a bold proclamation midway through our interview: “I’m the Indiana Jones of rock ‘n’ roll.” He qualifies it further, adding, “I’m the rock ‘n’ roll archaeologist. I’m digging up these archives that nobody even knows they exist.” In his eyes, “There’s a difference.” While others simply do cover songs in Thorogood’s view, he and his longtime band, the Destroyers, have a different aim. From their earliest days, they wanted to put their own stamp and identity on the songs they were recording. The result is a career spanning more than 50 years, powered by Thorogood’s versions...
Ultimate Classic Rock
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