Reckless Love, 'Night On Fire' -- New Video

This has to be the most Glam video I've seen in a very long time. Reckless Love just released their clip for "Night On Fire." The song is from the band's upcoming third album.

The Apex of Stupid

Clearly we've reached the apex of stupid. I was going to post something totally different today, but that can wait. I just came across perhaps the dumbest thing on YouTube (and that's saying a lot). Three Metal guys painting a room... with their hair. Ridiculous.

AOL Music Shuts Down, Noisecreep Is Done

AOL Music is shutting down... and the entire staff found out about it yesterday. Apparently all the full-time music staff (i.e. not freelance writers like me) were gathered in a conference room and let go. This means the end of Spinner, The Boot, The Boombox and yes, Noisecreep. No reason was given for the sudden layoffs. In case you're wondering, I wrote for Noisecreep for four and a half years -- the entire time the site existed.

AOL Radio seems unaffected by the changes.

We're sad to say that our site is shutting down. We'd like to thank EVERYONE for the years of support!

— Noisecreep (@noisecreep) April 26, 2013

Get Ready: RATT Is Going To Tour

I don't have any information on this yet, but RATT sent out a Tweet last night that a tour is imminent. I was beginning to wonder if any of our beloved bands were going out this summer. So far, it seems pretty quiet when it comes to Glam and summer tours. Maybe we'll get some similar announcements in the next couple of weeks.

TELL THE WORLD THE RATT ATTACK IS GEARING UP FOR SOME 25+ SHOWS BOOKED AND COUNTING.... Details soon.

— RATT (@theRATTpack) April 26, 2013

Meet The Beautifully Demolished

The Beautifully Demolished is a new straight-up rock band featuring D.K. Revelle, formally of Jetboy.

The band was formed just over a year ago in Los Angeles. Other band members include Robbi Black (drums), Jamie Moreno (guitar), Jimmy Minj (bass) and Finn Zevo (guitar). The band is actively working on their debut and they plan to tour soon. Their label is High Voltage Music.

Credit: The Beautifully DemolishedAlso, just for fun - let's caption this band photo. I do believe this is the best band photo I've seen in the past decade. There's a lot of trends going on here, no?

The Rolling Stones Bootleg Series

Props to Metalboy! for alerting this to me to something very cool. The Google Play store is celebrating the launch of music. Since Google owns the world, the big wigs there got together and found six unreleased Rolling Stones bootleg concerts. Google made sure to fancy up the mix for us to enjoy, too. And of course, when you have the power of Google, you can actually get members of the Rolling-freaking-Stones to sit down for some interviews too!  

As an aside, the prices in the Google store seem really low. Most of the albums I looked up are less than six bucks. This is very competitive with Amazon.

Here's a half-hour of the series. Enjoy!

A New Supergroup Is Here: Black Star Riders

If you dig Thin Lizzy, then you're going to love Black Star Riders. The new supergroup, featuring Thin Lizzy alumni, will release a debut album on May 28. Here's some information about the new band. The song below is very promising.

BLACK STAR RIDERS - the new band formed by THIN LIZZY alumni Ricky Warwick (vocals), Scott Gorham (guitar), Damon Johnson (guitar) and Marco Mendoza (bass) with new addition Jimmy DeGrasso on drums - will release its debut album, All Hell Breaks Loose on May 28 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. While THIN LIZZY will continue on an occasional basis, BLACK STAR RIDERS is a full-time band described as "the next step in the evolution of the Thin Lizzy story". All Hell Breaks Loose was recorded and mixed by producer Kevin Shirley (LED ZEPPELIN, IRON MAIDEN, AEROSMITH, RUSH) at The Cave studios in Malibu, California. Mastering duties were handled by Bob Ludwig (JIMI HENDRIX, RUSH, KISS, LED ZEPPELIN) at Gateway Mastering Studios in Portland, Maine.