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Don’t Try This At Home: Tim Commerford Goes on Fire For New Band ‘Future User’
Derek Oswald
What do you get when you combine Lance Armstrong, a lit flame and Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford? You get the exciting new video for “Mountain Lion”, the latest single by Commerford’s ...
Linkin Park The Hunting Party Tour Press Conference Transcript 01/09/15
Derek Oswald
This past Friday (01/09/2015), AltWire.net, along with several other online and print publications, were invited to take part in a telephone press conference featuring Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, Rise Against’s Tim McIllrath and Of ...
Funeral For A Friend Release New Video For “Pencil Pusher”
Altwire Staff
With their highly anticipated seventh studio album Chapter and Verse set for release on January 19th, Funeral For A Friend have revealed the music video for new single ‘Pencil Pusher’. The track follows first ...
Death Cab For Cutie Repair Breaks On New Album “KINTSUGI”
Altwire Staff
Death Cab for Cutie’s first album since the departure last year of founding guitarist/keyboardist/producer Chris Walla arrives everywhere on March 31st and will be called “KINTSUGI”. Recorded in Los Angeles with Rich Costey (Franz ...
Halestorm’s Wild Life With The Pretty Reckless
Altwire Staff
Halestorm has announced details of their new album. “INTO THE WILD LIFE” arrives everywhere on April 7th; pre-orders are available now at all DSPs. Exclusive physical bundles are available at the band’s official web ...
Enter Shikari Streaming Complete Album Before Release
Altwire Staff
We were all getting antsy in anticipation. One week. Still one week until Enter Shikari’s new album is due out. One week? Scratch that! The guys have just put their complete new album “The ...
McDonalds Themed Black Sabbath Cover Band?
Altwire Staff
Do you ever find yourself speeding to the McDonald’s drive-thru after jamming out to your favorite Black Sabbath album? Does listening to ‘War Pigs’ make you crave a Big Mac or maybe some McNuggets? ...
Twenty One Pilots Release Music Video For ‘Ode To Sleep’
Altwire Staff
Following the release of their 2013 album ‘Vessel’, 2014 turned out to be a huge year of growing success for schizoid pop duo Twenty One Pilots. After a busy year of interviews, non-stop touring, and performing ...
Lucky Fan Finds Imagine Dragons Hidden Treasure
Altwire Staff
As if the anticipation for Imagine Dragons’ upcoming album, ‘Smoke + Mirrors’, wasn’t already at an all time high, the guys kept the excitement growing by sending one lucky fan on a treasure hunt for a ...
The Prodigy Announce Brand New Single “Nasty, Nasty” For January Release
Derek Oswald
Update: Since the publication of this article, The Prodigy have since announced the name of their new record and it’s forthcoming release date. The album will be titled The Day Is My Enemy and ...
Imagine Dragons Release Smoke + Mirrors Album Trailer
Altwire Staff
Imagine Dragons have a new album in the works and the countdown is officially on! The album, entitled ‘Smoke + Mirrors’, will be a follow-up to their hit 2012 album, ‘Night Visions’, and is ...
The Spark 12/17/14: Hot Tracks
Derek Oswald
The Spark: Wednesday December 17th, 2014 Welcome to The Spark, a feature on AltWire where we put the spotlight on fun, exciting and lesser known bands that we feel deserve your undivided attention (although ...
Pierce The Veil Concert Review – 11/19/2014 – Lancaster, PA
Altwire Staff
On November 19th, I had the amazing opportunity of seeing Pierce The Veil on their world tour with Sleeping With Sirens, Beartooth, and This Wild Life at Freedom Hall in Lancaster, PA. If you’re a ...
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler Announces Solo Tour
Altwire Staff
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler has been working on a solo album, entitled ‘Policy’, that is set to be released on March 10th in the U.S. and March 16th in Europe. Butler has now recently ...
Crown The Empire Release Music Video For ‘Initiation’
Altwire Staff
Crown The Empire have just released an official music video for their song ‘Initiation’. The song is from their most recent album, ‘The Resistance: Rise Of The Runaways’, released in July via Rise Records. Previously, the ...
Slipknot Burns Faces With Fierce Reading, PA Show
Altwire Staff
Recently, the AltWire team had the opportunity to experience Slipknot‘s “Prepare For Hell” tour with Korn and King. Thankfully, the tour invaded our hometown of Reading, PA. This show was so incredible, that in ...
KoRn Triumphs In Unbelievable Reading, PA Show
Altwire Staff
For concert reviews, we usually combine all the bands into one review. However; On December 2, 2014 at the Santander Center in Reading PA, both Slipknot and Korn‘s performances were so strong during the Prepare For Hell ...
2015 Grammy Nominees Announced
Altwire Staff
The 2015 Grammy Nominees have been announced. This year, instead of announcing them all at once, Recording Academy decided to release them slowly throughout the day, category by category, via the official Twitter accounts of ...
Coldplay Reveals ‘Final’ Album: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic…
Altwire Staff
Although it has been less than a year since Coldplay released their sixth album ‘Ghost Stories’, during an interview with British Radio, front-man Chris Martin has confirmed that the band members are back in ...
The Killers Release 2014 Christmas Single
Altwire Staff
The holiday season is upon us, and with all the yule logs and festivities comes yet another super weird, super awesome annual Killer’s Christmas single. Every year, since 2006, The Killers have made Christmas music ...
