Michael Angelakos was a student at Boston’s Emerson College when he started writing the songs that would become his band Passion Pit’s 2008 debut EP Chunk Of Change. Since Angelakos actually started Passion Pit at Emerson in 2006, he’s now celebrating Passion Pit’s 20th anniversary. He’s not the only one celebrating the anniversary; the city of Boston has officially declared today, July 24th, to be Passion Pit Day.
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This Boz Scaggs A-to-Z songs list follows his long musical route through original songs, standards, blues interpretations, soundtrack recordings, anthology exclusives, and the late-career albums that kept opening new doors. William Royce “Boz” Scaggs grew up in Plano, Texas, after arriving there by way of Canton, Ohio, and McAlester, Oklahoma. Lessons on cello at age nine yielded to a guitar by twelve, thanks to schoolmate Steve Miller, with whom Scaggs fronted the Marksmen while attending Dallas’s St. Mark’s School. The pair carried their partnership to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gigging in blues combos such as the Ardells before Scaggs dropped
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Bronx-based metallic hardcore band XTINGUISH THE CODE has issued a new video for “Falling Down,” the track found on the band’s second album, The Conflict, out now on Grey Matter Records.
A band with NYHC running through their DNA, XTINGUISH THE CODE formed in 2019, currently uniting bassist Dusty Onita (Apparition, 4 In Tha Chamber), drummer Nate Boogie (Lake Lanier, No Weapon, MAAFA), guitarist The Professor G Flava (Apparition, No Weapon, Waist In Flesh, Gemini Method), and vocalist BJ Allen (Zero Trust, Full Scale Riot, GMK).
Delivering streetwise, energetic, beatdown-driven and groove-based hardcore, infused with elements of metal, hip-hop, and more, the band has played with D.R.I., Sworn Enemy, Downset, Madball, Life Of Agony, Sick Of It All, and many others. Following their Step To My World debut (2021) and subsequent Matter Of Fact EP (2023), (both through 1054 Records), XTINGUISH THE CODE hooked up with Grey Matter Records for the release of their second album, The Conflict.
XTINGUISH THE CODE’s explosive hybrid of rabid antagonism culminates on The Conflict, which not only marks the band’s first release with new drummer Nate Boogie and vocalist BJ Allen, it’s also the band’s first time creating a conceptual release, crafting a story that touches on working-class solidarity and global awakening.
Each song is meant to portray a person’s transformation from an ordinary resident to a radicalized citizen. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joe Kusak at Amplitude Recording, former vocalist Kevin Lugo provides additional guest vocals on the track “Safe Space.” XTINGUISH THE CODE’s The Conflict is prime listening for fans of Incendiary, Burn, E-Town Concrete, Backtrack, Merauder, Bulldoze, Sworn Enemy, Downset, and Madball.
The new video for the record’s tense, succinct closing track “Falling Down” was filmed by Jojo Moran. Vocalist BJ Allen writes, “‘Falling Down’ is about a citizen, reaching their final breaking point.”
Watch XTINGUISH THE CODE’s “Falling Down” video now playing on YouTube HERE.
The Conflict is out now on LP, CD, and digitally via Grey Matter Records’ webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. The previously released “Despair” lyric video is playing HERE.
XTINGUISH THE CODE continues to play nonstop across the NYC metropolitan area. With new activities booked into the Fall, including shows in Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and across New York, more widespread touring is in the works.
XTINGUISH THE CODE Live:
8/07/2026 Upstage Music Fest @ Clearfield Events Building – Clearfield, PA
8/15/2026 Tribute To Kevin Scondotto @ Lucky 13 Saloon – Brooklyn, NY
9/12/2026 Polish Community Center – Herkimer, NY
10/10/2026 The Congress Hardcore Community – San Juan, PR
10/31/2026 TV Eye – Queens, NY
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Once upon a time, U2 tried to make dance music. After successfully reinventing themselves as ironic aesthetes on Achtung Baby and Zooropa, U2 steered all the way into the late-’90s electronica hype wave on their 1997 album Pop, and the result was not what they wanted. U2 quickly abandoned that aesthetic path, leaning into classic sounds and elder-statesman status on later records. So it’s interesting to hear U2 teaming up with the Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix now — not just after the electronica thing became a distant memory, but also after the boom of festival-ready EDM that Garrix represents became old news.
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Rochester iconoclasts Sulaco are quite possibly one of the best kept secrets in underground metal. Fronted by fret wizard Erik Burke (ex-Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault, Lethargy and many more), this quintet has been busy obliterating genre lines for over 20 years. We’re so enamored by their technical wizardry that the Decibel Flexi Series is proud to present “Curtains,” an exclusive track only available to our subscribers! Ready to open your eyes and, more importantly, ears to these enemies of the sun? Be sure to sign up for a deluxe Decibel subscription by Friday, July 31 to secure your copy of this essential track. Wait too long and it’ll be drapes for you! Or something.
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The fifth and final installment in Bernie Marsden’s Inspirations Series, STAGE, will be released on August 21 through Conquest Music.
Available as a limited edition 2LP gatefold set and a deluxe 2CD digipack featuring a 16-page booklet, STAGE showcases four live performances spanning more than two decades of Marsden’s career.
Each side of the vinyl is dedicated to a different concert, highlighting the variety of Marsden’s live performances. The collection includes an acoustic performance with strings from The Radcliffe Centre in Buckingham in 2008, an electric set with a brass section from Keeping The Blues Alive at Sea in 2019, a 1996 performance at Norway’s Notodden Blues Festival featuring Snowy White, Tony Ashton, David Levy and Henry Spinetti, and a 2020 concert at Under The Bridge in London with a six-piece band and special guest Joe Bonamassa.
Ahead of the album’s release, a digital EP is now available featuring a live version of “Walking By Myself” from the Under The Bridge performance. Bonamassa joins Marsden on the track for an extended guitar duet. The EP also includes four additional live recordings that do not appear on STAGE: “Wheels Within Wheels,” “Hold On (I Feel Our Love Is Changing),” “Working For The CSA,” and “Funny People.” A crowd-shot performance video for “Walking By Myself” has also been released.
Following Marsden’s passing in 2023 at the age of 72, several musicians paid tribute to the legendary guitarist.
Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers):
“He really was a master of his art”
Steve Lukather:
“Tone and touch and taste. That was Bernie.”
Joe Bonamassa:
“He was a superstar in every imaginable way.”
Marsden’s Inspirations Series began in 2021 with KINGS, followed by CHESS, TRIOS, and ICONS, each paying tribute to artists who influenced his guitar playing and songwriting. The series followed the release of his 2023 album of original material, WORKING MAN.
Conquest Music’s Alan Bambrough said the label felt the series would not have been complete without documenting Marsden’s abilities as a live performer.
“Bernie Marsden was such a charismatic and witty person. In his understated way, he would manage to have any audience engaged and involved within a couple of songs.
We felt that his Inspirations Series would be incomplete without including a glimpse of that magic that he conjured up on stage.
There were so many great live recordings in his archive that it was tough to limit the album to just two discs sampling four different shows.”
The accompanying booklet also features sleeve notes from Steelhouse Festival founders Mikey and Max, including the following excerpt:
“A true master of his craft, a lover of music, a Steelhouse legend and above all, the most genuine and gracious of men, Bernie was responsible for making some amazing moments happen on the stage as well as providing humour, encouragement and perspective off it…Thanks so much, Bernie…Your name will always echo across that mountain.”
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Years ago, one of my editors made a point about Jack White that I’ve had in my head ever since: He’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page at the same time. Within the White Stripes, White was more or less forced to play that role. This was a bare-bones duo who wanted to achieve rock-star immortality, so White had to be both frontman and guitarist with mystique. Over a long career, he has excelled at both tasks. But it’s fun to see what can happen on the rare occasions when White allows himself to fall into one of those roles so that someone else can do the other thing — someone like the Black Crowes leader Chris Robinson.
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Korn frontman Jonathan Davis is a married man. Davis wed Brittany Parisi on July 3 at the Neighborhood Church of Palos Verdes in Palos Verdes Estates, California, in front of 80 guests — and according to People, who broke the story, every current member of Korn was in the room. The ceremony was built around Sandro Botticelli’s Renaissance masterpiece The Birth Of Venus, the same painting Davis stood in front of when he proposed while on tour last year. And in a detail that belongs to no other frontman in music, a bagpiper with 50 years behind the instrument played him in.
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The wedding took place on July 3 at the Neighborhood Church of Palos Verdes, perched on the Southern California coastline. Eighty guests attended, described by People as a mix of the couple’s band family and blood family — and notably, all four current members of Korn were there.
That’s a small detail with a lot of weight behind it. Korn have been a functioning unit since 1993, and they’ve been through more than most bands survive: lineup departures and returns, addiction and recovery, the loss of longtime bassist Fieldy from the fold. Thirty-plus years in, everyone still shows up. That’s not nothing.
A five-course dinner was prepared by chef Celestino Drago, with cocktail hour running alongside it. Dessert, by all accounts, was not a modest affair.
The Renaissance concept wasn’t a styling choice pulled from a mood board. It came directly from how Davis proposed.
While on tour last year, Davis surprised Parisi with a trip to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy — and asked her to marry him standing in front of Botticelli’s The Birth Of Venus. Parisi told People she has long been fascinated by her Italian ancestry and has a particular interest in the Medici family, who commissioned the painting in the first place.
So the wedding took that moment and built outward from it, aiming to conjure Florence on the California coast. It’s a genuinely thoughtful bit of storytelling, and it says something about a guy whose day job involves screaming into a microphone about his darkest years.
Here’s the detail that made every Korn fan smile.
Aaron Shaw, a bagpiper with 50 years of experience, performed as Davis arrived, then piped guests from the ceremony to cocktail hour, and again from cocktail hour through to the reception, where a jazz ensemble took over.
For the uninitiated: Jonathan Davis plays the bagpipes. He famously opens Korn’s 1994 track “Shoots And Ladders” with them, and it’s been one of the strangest and most enduring signatures in heavy music for over three decades — a nu-metal band from Bakersfield opening a song with Highland pipes and nursery rhymes. Bringing a piper to his own wedding, and letting somebody else handle the honors for once, is about as fitting as it gets.
The couple’s first dance was to Lana Del Rey’s “Young And Beautiful,” the 2013 track written for The Great Gatsby soundtrack.
Davis heads back into a busy stretch. Korn are currently in the middle of the most deliberate recording process of their career, with guitarist Munky revealing earlier this year that the band has written close to 40 songs and torn most of them apart repeatedly to avoid putting out anything mediocre. It will be the first Korn album in the band’s history without founding bassist Fieldy.
Davis has stayed busy outside the band too, including teaming up with his son Nathan on the track “Dark Fantasy” — and he’s never been shy about assessing his own catalogue, once flatly declaring one Korn song the worst thing the band ever recorded.
Congratulations to the couple.
Korn frontman Jonathan Davis married Brittany Parisi on July 3, 2026. The couple became engaged in 2025 while Davis was on tour.
The ceremony took place at the Neighborhood Church of Palos Verdes in Palos Verdes Estates, California, in front of 80 guests.
Yes. According to People, every current member of Korn was among the 80 guests, described as a mix of the couple’s band family and blood family.
Davis surprised Parisi with a trip to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy while on tour last year and proposed in front of Sandro Botticelli’s painting The Birth Of Venus, which went on to become the theme of their wedding.
Yes. Bagpiper Aaron Shaw performed as Davis arrived and again while leading guests between the ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception. Davis himself famously plays bagpipes on Korn’s “Shoots And Ladders.”
Thirty-plus years in and the whole band still shows up for each other — that’s the part of this story worth appreciating. Congratulations to Jonathan and Brittany. What’s your favorite Korn track from the Davis era? Let us know in the comments, and follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.
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