Crosses ✝✝✝ Release Teaser Video For The Date of Their New EP

 Crosses ✝✝✝ have been teasing us with cryptic YouTube video and twitter pics the last couple weeks of the band in the studio working on new material.  Today they finally released something with a date. On their YouTube channel and facebook page today they posted a video of a woman in a gown and at the end 1✝24✝2012.

   Crosses ✝✝✝ is the side project of Chino Morino of Deftones, and Shaun Lopez of Far. They released their first EP last year for free. A higher quality was available for download for only $5.   It will be interesting to see how they will release the new material this time around.

   Check out the new video 01✝24✝2012 here.
                                             

RATT Recording New Track With Dave Grohl

Pearcy, Grohl, De Martini

  Stephen Pearcy, vocalist for RATT tweeted a picture of him Dave Grohl,  and RATT guitarist Warren De Martini. "Warren and I are recording an original song (Grohl song idea open to RATT madness)," Pearcy Tweeted "Not for a RATT record. We'll let Dave tell you about it when he's ready"

   Well Dave. Explain this one.


                           
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The Black Keys Blame the State of Rock on Nickelback. Update:

  According to The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney "Rock and roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world"  Carney commented "[Musicians] became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit- therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world."

The Black Keys

  "Rock and roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don't like to see it fucking ruined and spoon fed down our throats in this watered- down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit."

  With people like Lady Gaga and Ke$ha threatening to make rock albums in 2012 and "save rock music", Skrillex teaming up with Korn for 'The Path of Totality', and Rap and Hip- Hop mostly dominating the charts over the last 10 years.  What will happen to rock music? Will it continue its current path or will rock again dominate the charts?  With what The Black Keys have been doing, Carney better be careful they could soon enough be lumped in with the biggest bands in the world.

UPDATE: Nickelback has responded on twitter. "thanks to the drummer in The Black Keys calling us the biggest band in the world in Rolling Stone. HEHE". Nickelback I guess chose to ignore the rest of what Carney was saying, that the band was "shit".



   The Black Keys' seventh studio album El Camino is out now.


 Rock music is definitely making a cultural shift,  but is it for the better?  Where will it go?  Let us know what you think.

Killswitch Engage Part Ways With Lead Singer

Killswitch Engage

Killswitch Engage just announced they will be parting ways with their lead singer Howard Jones. They band said in a official press release that Jones will be pursuing other interests outside the band.

The official statement on their Facebook page reads: "To our family, friends and fans: We have decided to continue on without Howard Jones as the singer of Killswitch Engage. We love Howard and are thankful for the nine years that we’ve had him in the band. Out of respect for everyone involved, we will not be discussing the specific reasons behind this decision. Howard is a part of our family and always will be, and we wish him well. He has left big shoes to fill, so we certainly have our work cut out for us to find the next singer of Killswitch, something we plan on making priority #1 going forward. Most importantly, thanks to all of you for all the support throughout the years and for sticking by us for all this time. We really do appreciate it and we very much look forward to having a new record for all of you in the not too distant future that we can all be proud of. Sincerely, Adam, Joel, Mike & Justin."

Do you think Killswitch will be able to continue their success without Jones?
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Blink 182's New Video For 'After Midnight'

Blink 182

  Blink 182 aren't known for taking themselves seriously.  There videos are usually over the top and crazy like in the video for 'All the Small Things' where they make fun of the popular boy bands of the early 2000's.

  In their new video for 'After Midnight' they take a darker turn.  Mark Hoppus told MTV News, "the video takes place in a psychiatric ward, and this guy and this girl escape from their rooms and have a night of romance and passion and fun and wild excistence..."   He also says the video didn't come to them right away.  "We went through probably 30 different treatments for this video, and a lot of them were great, and a lot  of them weren't so great but [director] Isaac Rentz's stuck out as a really cool idea." he says, "We wanted it to be something different than just a bunch of people having fun and having a party; we wanted it to be a little darker, a little more troubled, and Isaac's treatment did that."

   'Neighborhoods' is Blink 182's sixth studio album, their first album of new material in eight years.