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Alter Bridge has released the official video for “Tested And Able,” a song from its self-titled eighth studio album, just ahead of the last U.S. leg of the What Lies Within tour. The clip is built around the band’s live show and aims to drop viewers into the same wall of energy that Myles Kennedy (vocals, guitar), Mark Tremonti (guitar, vocals), Brian Marshall (bass) and Scott Phillips (drums) have been delivering on stages for more than 20 years.

The final run of U.S. dates, with support from Big Wreck and Tim Montana, starts Nov. 5 in Philadelphia and ends Dec. 5 in Reno, Nev. Stops in between include Cleveland, San Antonio, Anaheim, Calif., and Denver. The setlist mixes material from across the catalog with songs from the new album, and it is the band’s last chance to play U.S. stages this year.

Tour dates:

11/05 – Philadelphia – Franklin Music Hall
11/10 – Cleveland
11/19 – San Antonio
11/22 – Anaheim, Calif.
11/30 – Denver
12/05 – Reno, Nev. – Silver Legacy Grande Exposition Hall

Alter Bridge formed in Florida in 2004 around four players with a shared history, and the band has since become one of modern hard rock’s most durable acts. Kennedy, Tremonti, Marshall and Phillips have spent two decades building a catalog known for smart songwriting and serious chops, backed by a loyal worldwide fan base. The debut, One Day Remains, landed in the Billboard 200 Top 5, went gold and started a streak of six straight Top 20 debuts.

The résumé is long. Alter Bridge has sold out London’s O2 Arena and Royal Albert Hall and piled up nearly one billion streams. Guitarist named the “Blackbird” solo the “Greatest Guitar Solo Of All Time,” and “Isolation,” from AB III, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The 2013 album Fortress earned rare perfect scores from Kerrang! and Total Guitar, and Walk The Sky topped the Top Rock Albums chart. In 2022, Pawns & Kings got 4.5 stars out of five from Classic Rock, which called it “the Rolls-Royce of Alter Bridge records,” and picked up praise from American Songwriter, Guitar World and Loudwire. Billboard has called the band “one of America’s premiere hard rock quartets.”

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Posted on October 6th 2026, 5:06pm

We last heard from Joe Stevens’ oft-morphing musical project Peel Dream Magazine about a year ago with the release of the mini-album Taurus. Today he’s announced an expanded edition, which I guess brings it to regular album size. This will mark the first time Taurus is released on vinyl. Along with the announcement comes “Blind Faith,” a skittering electronic pop track that once again reframes my understanding of Peel Dream Magazine.

The post Peel Dream Magazine Announce Expanded <em>Taurus</em>: Hear “Blind Faith” appeared first on Stereogum.

If you caught Dazy’s opening set on Militarie Gun’s recent tour, then you probably got a good look at Andrew Madore, the guy who plays guitar for James Goodson on tour. He’s hard to miss. I met Madore at the Charlottesville show on that tour a couple of weeks ago. Nice guy. Really tall — like 6’7″ — but not quite as tall as me. Whenever I meet someone just a tiny bit shorter than me, I feel like I’m fucking their whole day up. When you think of yourself as “the tall guy” and you meet someone even taller, it scrambles your brain a little bit. This doesn’t happen to me very often, but it’s always a real headfuck.

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Where they from?
Dallas, Texas. The New York Jets have lost three in a row but the New York Rangers are 3-1, you gotta take what you can get. New York’s goaltender, the legendary Igor Shesterkin, even scored a goal! That surely makes up for the fact that Aaron Glenn has no idea what he’s doing, right? RIGHT?!

Why the hype?
The state of Texas right now is home to a thriving mince/grindcore scene that rivals anywhere else in the world currently, and Bladda remain at the heart of the movement. The band churns out a putrid whirlwind of slimy west coast-influenced crusty grindcore that knows when to stop and take a moment to pound you into submission with some seriously tasty OOMPA-OOMPA beats. Combine that with some off-putting samples and a delightfully absurdist name and WA LA, we have a winner.

Latest release?
Heinous Methods of Cranial Disposal, self-released. This is low IQ-music in the best way possible: just all blasts and then lumbering crust breakdowns, all mixed together in a putrid stew of down-shifted vocals. This is the sort of stuff cavemen would bash each other’s skulls into after killing a whale. Were they alive at the same time? IDK, DOESN’T MATTER!

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I am always a sucker for live music, and live music recordings just seem to make my heart and ears smile. They are raw and provide listeners with a realistic and honest way to enjoy what an artist or band is all about and how much talent that artist or band actually possesses.

That being the case, I can honestly attest that Dan Patlansky is killing it on his brand-new live album release, Live at the Daisy Jones. There’s no “white out” used on this recording. It’s just like it was played live.

One thing is obvious from the outset: Dan Patlansky can play. In a world full of exceptional guitarists, he stands out among the very best. His three-piece band includes Andy Maritz on drums and Greg van Kerkhof on bass, and this backing band is just as great as Patlansky.

For curiosity’s sake, The Daisy Jones Bar is a live music and entertainment venue in Stellenbosch, South Africa, and typically can accommodate 150 to 200 people. So, The Daisy Jones Bar is an intimate setting, which is another thing that I love about this recording.

Patlansky is a South African native who was born in Johannesburg. He grew up being exposed to all kinds of music through his parents’ record collection and was a fan of Pink Floyd before gaining an appreciation for Stevie Ray Vaughan’s music. He was in his first band at around age sixteen and released his first album at age nineteen. Ten other albums followed.

Along the way, he has shared stages with the likes of Joe Satriani, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Walter Trout, and others. He has been nominated for many awards for his music and guitar skills and has also been the recipient of awards such as #1 album of the year in 2014 and 2016 from Blues Rock Review.

This live recording is the latest step in Dan Patlansky’s already amazing career, and it’s a step that he has wanted to take for a long time.

If grabbing a listening audience’s attention with the first few notes played is important so that they’ll be tuned in throughout a concert, Dan Patlansky and the band can check the block that reads “mission accomplished.”

“Red Velvet Suit” is a rocking little number that just had to have gotten the Daisy Jones crowd up, moving and grooving. There’s some really great guitar work on this one and a funky little break about midway through the song before returning to the musical theme of the song.

This song is a tribute to Patlansky’s greatest influence, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and you can hear a lot of “SRV” in this song. The actual title of the song is about an outfit that Vaughan wore to his 30th birthday concert at Carnegie Hall. I can just about guarantee that he would be pleased with this opening number and smiling at the band’s performance here.

Cut number three of Live at the Daisy Jones is “Baby’s Packin’ Heat,” and it’s firing away right out of the gate with some searing six-string heat of its own. “Love how you make me croon. Set me on fire girl. Let’s make all your petals bloom.” Whew, it’s getting a little warm in this one.

Then, a little more than halfway through, this song takes a little jazzy-sounding detour before returning to its blues roots. Patlansky sings, “Got a deadly weapon, baby you’re packing heat.”

“Born Under a Bad Sign” pays tribute to the great Albert King, and I’ll make this risky statement as honestly as I can: Dan Patlansky could stand right beside Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan on this one, and they’d create one of the greatest blues trios ever created in the blues music world. Dan Patlansky’s playing is really that skilled and expressive.

Please allow me to just mention here that you should check out “At the Roof of the Boat” (track five) just so you can understand what a skilled guitarist Patlansky really is.

The last song on Live at the Daisy Jones is “Movin’ On,” and this one seems to be about past mistakes and dealing with them. Patlansky sings, “Looking for answers; searching for truth; in all the wrong places, wasted my youth.”

This cut offers a look and listen to a softer side of Patlansky as he sings, “Tears might fall, bones might crack. Got to carry on, past is gone. Wounds won’t scar. You keep movin’ on. Gotta keep movin’ on.” What a perfect way to end this live recording.

If you want the true measurement of an artist or band, listen to them live. While many of us may struggle with catching our favorites at a concert venue, many times because of our personal logistics, it is rewarding to discover well-done live albums. This is one of those albums.

Patlansky and his band will be playing dates in October through November in Europe. After that, make sure to check social media for upcoming concert opportunities. And, in the meantime, grab this new album, Live at the Daisy Jones, and remember to crank that volume up.

The Review: 9.5/10

Can’t Miss Tracks

– Red Velvet Suit
– Baby’s Packin’ Heat
– Born Under a Bad Sign
– Movin’ On

The Big Hit

– Born Under A Bad Sign

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(written by Islander) Earlier today my friend and NCS comrade DGR made an observation about certain kinds of brutal death metal that coincidentally turns out to be quite relevant to the song from Australia’s Caution that we’re about to premiere. In the context of reviewing an album by New York’s Thaetas, he pointed to “a […]

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Get ready for a taste of winter early, as snow and cold are heading to certain areas of the country this week.

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By Greg Prato

Few radio personalities have changed the medium as dramatically as Howard Stern. Long before he became the nationally syndicated “King of All Media” and eventually made the leap to SiriusXM, Stern was already making an impression on listeners with an approach that seemed almost completely foreign to traditional radio. He didn’t simply introduce records or play the role of a polished disc jockey — he spoke his mind, challenged the conventions of the format, and made listeners feel as though they were hearing a real person rather than a carefully constructed radio personality. For many aspiring broadcasters, that honesty and unpredictability proved enormously influential.

The following recollections, drawn from The Great American Nightmare: An Oral History Of The Howard Stern Show, capture the impact Stern had on those who heard him, worked alongside him, or found themselves competing against him. Matt Pinfield, Eddie Trunk, Keith Roth, Jimmy Fink, Danny Bonaduce, and others offer firsthand memories of Stern at different stages of his career — from his early days at WNBC to the period when his influence was becoming impossible to ignore. Together, their stories reveal why Stern wasn’t simply another “shock jock,” but a singular radio personality who fundamentally changed what listeners expected from the medium.

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MATT PINFIELD [Radio personality, DJ, former MTV VJ]: I first heard him in the ’80s. And I absolutely liked him. I thought Howard was entertaining, and I was a fan really early on.

EDDIE TRUNK [Radio personality, DJ, co-host of That Metal Show]: One of the things that was really eye-opening to me – and very influential to me growing up and getting into radio – was the fact that you hear somebody on the radio and they present like they love every single song that they’re playing. And I used to always as a kid be like, “Can somebody really like every single song that they’re playing?”

And then I remember clearly one day listening to Howard on WNBC — back in the days when he played records — and he came out of a record, I forget who the artist was. He goes, “Geez, that song really sucked.” I was like, “Oh my God, somebody actually just said how they really felt about something on the radio!” You just didn’t get that at that time.

KEITH ROTH [Radio personality, DJ]: I remember one time, this order came in from that auto parts place. And usually our jurisdiction…this was in Metuchen, New Jersey. So, if people know the area, about as far north as Edison, and maybe as far south as New Brunswick. And an order for some part came in, and it was like, right when it closed. And they’re like, “Who wants to take a ride down to so and so for overtime?” So, I volunteer to do it, because overtime is $3.35 an hour. “Man, I’m going to make five bucks for this trip!”

But I remember Howard was going overtime. And he was doing this whole thing with Peau de Soie, and “You shave that thing.” And he had a woman on the phone. And meanwhile, I got to the destination, and I could see the mechanics and all these people waiting for this part…and I couldn’t drop it off, man. I was circling the block until he finished his schtick. And they were fuming, because that was probably another 20 minutes. But that’s how addicting he was — to at least 17-year-old Keith.

JIMMY FINK [Radio personality, DJ]: I was working the 10am to 2pm shift mid-days when Howard came in. And so, this is how I became “part” of The Howard Stern Show – because my shift started at 10:00 in the morning, even though Howard would keep going until maybe 11:00 some days. Nevertheless, at 10am, I walked into the studio. That was my studio. I walked in, and as a result, I sort of became a character for a while on The Howard Stern Show.

And that was a career-changing experience for me. Because after 15 years of being on the radio in New York, I never had more people coming up to me, telling me that they heard me on the radio than when I was part of The Howard Stern Show.

When you’re in the studio with him and he has this twinkle in his eye, no matter what he says about you or anything, it’s just like a friend busting your balls. It’s not really something that you take personally or take offense to. And I was happy to be part of it. And also it sort of changed the way I approached radio. I had been on the air for 15 years already.

I had a style, but that style changed after being part of Howard’s thing. Because Howard was just a real person on the radio — he wasn’t a disc jockey, in that sense. And I think I just became more real on the air and also freer.

DANNY BONADUCE [Radio personality, actor (Danny Partridge on The Partridge Family)]: I was on against him in Philadelphia. And one of the things Howard complained about from beginning to end is about all these disc jockeys ripping off his material. Well, I was going to a CHR station [WEGX] — that’s contemporary hit radio, top-40. So, I wasn’t going to do any of the kind of things that Howard Stern did.

But just to be smart — because it was my first job, and now I’m against Howard Stern – I actually pulled over while driving to Philadelphia to start the show. I called Howard Stern on the air and said, “Listen, I just want to thank you…because I’m going to rip off all your best bits.” And he said, “Oh, that’s great! If you’re going to steal from me, you’re stealing from the best.” So, I didn’t really steal anything because you couldn’t do it on CHR radio. But it was a smart move — because he never went after me, after that.

MATT PINFIELD: I never really thought of him so much as a “shock jock.” I think that’s when people need a label, and you’re easily lumped in. But I think Howard was definitely in a league of his own. And his longevity and just the reach and audience has always proven that. He’s such a fascinating human being. But I also think there’s that part of him that was self-deprecating, that we loved.

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