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Hot Topic have launched a new video series showcasing bands performing in one of their stores, and they have kicked off with none other than Pierce The Veil.

Fresh off the back of huge slots at Louder Than Life and Aftershock, as well as a triumphant hometown show at San Diego’s Petco Park, it feels fitting for the band to return to a place with its roots planted deep within the scene.

And more than anything, they sound absolutely sensational. From the driving rendition of viral hit ‘So Far, So Fake’ to a rallying display of classic pit-spinner ‘Bulls In The Bronx’, before closing with the grunge-soaked ‘Pass The Nirvana’, it is a gutsy, gritty and grand display from the band.

A showcase of everything that they have picked up over the years, delivered in a way that signals why they are at the very peak right now.

Truly seminal stuff.

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Scotty McCreery introduced himself to millions of country music fans when he won the tenth season of American Idol in 2011. Raised in Garner, North Carolina, he was only 17 when his deep baritone voice and affection for traditional country music carried him to victory. He released his debut single, “I Love You This Big,” almost immediately and followed it with Clear as Day, an album that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. His early recordings combined youthful stories of hometown life with the warm country vocals that had made him a television favorite. McCreery followed that debut

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The Offspring‘s guitarist Noodles has announced that he is to step back from touring with the band as he deals with a health matter.

The 63-year-old guitarist, real name Kevin Wasserman, shared his statement in social media post yesterday, October 21.

“It is with deep sadness that I have to announce that I need to step away from live performances for a while to deal with a sudden and fairly serious health issue,” the post reads.

“The rest of the band has my back, is super supportive, and will keep rocking you all in my absence. I hope to be back on stage sooner rather than later. Until then, I will miss all of you with all of my heart.

“Thanks for keeping me in your thoughts,” Noodles concluded. “I really appreciate it.”

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The Offspring currently have four live shows lined up.

They’re set to play The Wiltern in Los Angeles on October 24, SEMA fest in Las Vegas on November 6, the Corona Capital 2026 festival in Mexico City on November 21, and the iHeartRadioALTerEgo 2027 festival at the KIA Forum on Los Angeles on January 16.

It has not yet been announced who will deputise for Noodles in his absence.

The Californian punk quartet are currently touring 2024’s Supercharged album.

“It’s hard to think of another multi-platinum rock band who are as consistently under-rated as The Offspring,” Louder wrote when the album was released. “Back when ‘Music Television’ actually held the attention of teenagers for hours and hours on end, heavy rotation of the videos for hit singles Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) and the admittedly pretty awful Original Prankster, helped foster an unfair impression of the Orange County quartet as a novelty act, and in 2024, The Offspring’s aren’t even afforded the misty-eyed nostalgia granted to their hugely inferior successors Blink-182 or Sum 41, nevermind the bewildering acclaim bestowed upon the likes of Neck Deep or Magnolia Park. And it’s fair to say that, following on from 2021’s inessential Let The Bad Times Roll, the world isn’t awaiting a new Offspring album with the same anticipation as say, The Cure’s upcoming Songs Of A Lost World.

“Regardless, Supercharged, produced by Bob Rock, who has worked with the band on every album from 2008’s Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace onwards, is a triumph, and a late-career highlight.”

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Canadian metal maverick Devin Townsend released his long-awaited, ambitious, orchestral-metal opus The Moth, earlier this year in May. A new stand-alone live version of the album, titled “The Moth (The War-Live in Groningen)”, is set for release as a CD & Blu-ray edition, as well as digital audio, on 6th November 2026.

‘War Beyond Words’ typifies the immensely broad palette that is The Moth. From the delicate opening stringed melodic motif through cinematic grandeur to pounding polyrhythms, not to mention Townsend’s unique combination of operatic grace and dexterous screams.

An album over a decade in the making, it existed in the back of Devin Townsend’s mind as his “life’s work”. Then, about six years ago, after an acoustic show in Amsterdam, Townsend was approached by the head of the North Netherlands’ Orchestra and Choir with an offer; and with that moment The Moth stopped being an idea and began to become a reality.

Featuring the full orchestra and choir conducted by Jukka Isakilla, principal conductor of the Metropole Orchestra and long-time collaborator with mutual friend Steve Vai, on the 27th & 28th March 2025, The Moth was premiered live in its entirety. It is this performance documented on “The Moth (The War – Live in Groningen)”. Originally included as part of the deluxe artbook edition, this is now available as a standalone CD & Blu-ray Digipak version and can be pre-order here.

If The Moth has a central gravitational theme, Townsend names it plainly: true self-acceptance. Something sturdier than slogans, closer to a practiced willingness to face what is uncomfortable without turning away. As Devin explains: “The most obvious metaphor for change within the concept of this project was a moth: from caterpillar to an entirely different creature—one so drawn to the light that it burns itself away. What remains is immutable—only the spirit.”

At the hardest moments, when abandoning the project might have seemed rational, Townsend points to the team as the decisive factor. A host of incredible musicians and contributors participated throughout the course of this process, as well as the North Netherlands Orchestra & Choir and orchestrators Joseph Stevenson and Niels Bye Nielsen. Long time band members, that are well established names in their own right; Darby Todd (drums), Mike Keneally (guitars/keys) and James Leach (bass) all played a huge part in this performance, as well as vocal guests Anneke van Giersbergen and Lynn Wu (Ou). Even Steve Vai is credited with co-writing the delicate ‘Intermission’. Devin himself freely pays tribute to the substantial team that helped him land this behemoth of a plane at this special, and so far singular, performance from Groningen.

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