“Cancelling isn’t an option. People have purchased tickets and booked travel & lodging, most of which is probably nonrefundable.”
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Texas Headhunters have released “Bigshot,” the latest single from their upcoming album, Rise & Shine, due October 9 via Hardcharger / Blue Élan Records.
The trio of Ian Moore, Johnny Moeller and Jesse Dayton returned last summer with their self-titled debut album. “Bigshot,” written by Moore, offers another preview of the band’s follow-up and blends a Bo Diddley-inspired groove with fuzz-heavy guitars and elements of blues and rock.
“I like telling stories,” Moore says. “I was driving with my wife and saw an overpass that said, ‘Big Shot Cyrus James.’ It sparked this character in my head—a New Orleans guy, kind of like a Mardi Gras Indian. Whenever somebody asks his name, he just says, ‘I’m a big shot.’ There’s a little Bo Diddley and Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson in there.”
Moore also pointed to the trust between the three musicians as an important part of the band’s songwriting process.
“People ask how we know the songs are good. It’s because we all really trust each other’s taste. That gives me confidence in the material.”
Moore, Moeller and Dayton have each spent more than three decades building careers across blues, rock, country and Americana. Texas Headhunters brings the three guitarists together in a collaborative project built around their individual playing and songwriting styles.
“Bigshot” follows the band’s recent single “Cut N’ Run” as Texas Headhunters continue to preview Rise & Shine ahead of its October 9 release.
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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has opened up about collaborating with Queen’s Brian May on his upcoming solo album, From The Dark.
Talking to Loudwire, Iommi, 78, calls May, 79, his best friend, having known him for “56, 58” years. “And of course, Eddie Van Halen was,” he adds. “We always stayed in touch a lot. They were the only two I really did stay in touch with.”
He goes on to describe the process of getting May to contribute to Death Wake, the sixth song on the From The Dark tracklisting. He details a very casual process where May “came to my house, and we always have a little fiddle about”.
“He brings a guitar or I’ve got one here and he’ll use that,” he continues. “I said, ‘Oh, bring your guitar when you come,’ he brought his guitar and I said, ‘You’re going to be playing on this track here.’ He’s great.”
He reveals that he wanted May to play on more From The Dark songs, but that the guitarist politely declined: “I said to him, ‘Play on some other tracks,’ but he went, ‘Oh no, it’s your album.’ That’s the relationship we’ve had with each other for all these years. We’ve played a lot together. He is a great friend.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Iommi looks back at Black Sabbath’s final show, Back To The Beginning, which took place at Villa Park stadium in their hometown of Birmingham on July 2, 2025. The guitarist calls the show a “great honour” but “unusual” due to singer Ozzy Osbourne’s declining health at the time. Ozzy died of a heart attack 17 days later, aged 76.
“For me, it was difficult because seeing Ozzy sitting in a throne is not the way I see him,” says Iommi. “Always [when] we’ve been onstage, he’s been running around and he’d run up to Geezer [Butler, bass] and pull a face jokingly and come over to me and pull a face or the drummer or whatever.
“We always had a little laugh onstage and enjoy when he’d run about. But at Back To The Beginning, of course, he’s in a throne and I couldn’t see him, which felt very unusual.”
From The Dark is set to drop on October 23 and will be Iommi’s first solo album since 2005. Joining the pioneering heavy metal axeman on every song will be singer Jørn Lande (Masterplan, Avantasia, etc.), bassist Becky Baldwin (Mercyful Fate) and drummer Karl Brazil (Robbie Williams). Iommi and his longtime collaborator Mike Exeter co-produce.
Iommi unveiled the album’s details and screened the music video for its lead single, World Alone, at a Birmingham launch event on July 29, where he took part in a Q&A with stand-up comedian Frank Skinner. The guitarist commented: “It’s an album we’ve really enjoyed making. We’re not trying to prove anything – it’s a great album, it rocks!”
Iommi isn’t the only Sabbath member to continue a solo career following the band’s retirement. Drummer Bill Ward said in June last year that he has two new solo albums in the works. He revealed last month that he now needs a wheelchair to get about, but defiantly added, “I’m still a drummer.”
The great Stevie Nicks has returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live to sing her 1983 single Stand Back. The Fleetwood Mac star was last on the show in late 2024, when she performed her protest anthem The Lighthouse.
Nicks, who was introduced on the show by guest host, country musician rapper Jelly Roll, performed Stand Back just days ahead of her appearance at the Olivia Rodrigo-curated Daisy Chain Fields event at Great Park in Irvine, California, this Saturday.
Stand Back, which appeared on Nicks’ Wild Heart album, originally featured the late Prince on synthesisers, who guested on the track after Nicks revealed it was derived from his own Little Red Corvette.
“I actually wrote the lyric on my wedding day, Nicks told Classic Rock. “Me and my husband [Kim Anderson] were driving up to San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara on our honeymoon when Little Red Corvette came on the radio, and I started humming a new melody to it.
“My husband said, ‘That’s great!’ Then we pulled over to buy a portable cassette player to record my idea. Kim actually knew Prince because he worked at Warner Brothers, but I was able to get Prince’s number myself. I am Stevie Nicks, after all.”
Artists performing alongside Nicks at Daisy Chain Fields include Bikini Kill, Die Spitz, Doechii, KATSEYE, Garbage, Chappell Roan, The Breeders and more.
Nicks has also paid tribute to the late Dolly Parton, describing the week she spent in Nashville contributing to Parton’s Rockstar album as the “best week ever.”
“A week with Dolly was like a master class for me,” says Nicks. “I tried to be a sponge – and learn everything I could learn from her – in a very few days. Learning from her was easy because she was a really good teacher. I think she saw me as a really good student; I just tried to listen.
“She said she could become a rock star – and I watched her do it.”
Time To Kill Records is proud to announce the signing of WHIPLASH, welcoming one of American thrash metal’s most enduring underground forces to its roster. Led by true underground warrior Tony Portaro, the New Jersey veterans have spent more than four decades keeping the raw spirit of thrash metal alive, inspiring generations of musicians and fans who still believe in the power of riffs, sweat and genuine passion.
The partnership will see WHIPLASH release their new album, ROAR, on November 27th, 2026. Recorded at Studio Mozart and Concrete Island Studio, produced by Tony Portaro and mixed by Jamie King Audio, the album delivers ten explosive tracks that capture the raw energy of the band’s live performances while reflecting Portaro‘s continued evolution as a songwriter and musician.
Songs such as “Sonic Asylum”, “Bullet Train” and “Who Stole My Whiskey” hit with full-force precision: this is thrash crafted for the mosh pit, not the algorithm. ROAR offers exactly what one should expect from WHIPLASH: real metal built around riffs, songs and attitude, with no interest in unnecessary embellishment or whatever fashionable nonsense happens to be circulating outside the pit.
The album was initially made available in a strictly limited form during WHIPLASH‘s European “Campaign for Musical Destruction Tour” with Napalm Death. A small number of CD promos were distributed independently during the tour under the original title THRASHQUAKE.
The album now receives its official worldwide release through Time To Kill Records, with a new title, brand-new artwork by legendary illustrator Ed Repka, and a global campaign befitting its status.
Tony Portaro comments:
“THRASHQUAKE was the original title, and we made a limited number of copies available independently while we were touring earlier this year. As things developed and we started looking at the bigger picture for the worldwide release, ROAR just felt like a stronger title and a better representation of the album as a whole.
Partnering with Time To Kill Records gives us the opportunity to take this record far beyond that initial tour release and give it the international campaign and worldwide distribution it deserves. With the new title, the new Ed Repka artwork and TTK behind the official release, ROAR represents the definitive version of this album and the beginning of its real worldwide campaign.”
For Time To Kill Records, bringing WHIPLASH into the fold is a genuine pleasure: few bands embody the idea of uncompromising underground metal quite like Portaro’s long-running institution.
Track-list:
1. Thrashquake
2. Bullet Train
3. Can’t Take Back a Bullet
4. Sword Meet Skull
5. Who Stole My Whiskey
6. When the Deadman Calls
7. Red Tape Riot
8. Mother’s Kill Club
9. Sonic Asylum
10. Graveyard of Good and Evil
Current touring lineup:
Tony Portaro | vocals, guitar
William Winton | bass
Mitch Hull | drums
Formed in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1984, WHIPLASH quickly established themselves as one of the defining forces of the 1980s East Coast thrash metal scene. Led by guitarist and vocalist Tony Portaro, their combination of melodic speed metal, vicious riffs and raw energy produced the cult classic Power and Pain (1985), released through Roadrunner’s Road Racer imprint.
Followed by Ticket to Mayhem (1987) and Insult to Injury (1989), the band’s early records helped establish a distinctive identity within a New York scene dominated by punk and hardcore. After further releases, lineup changes and a period of inactivity, WHIPLASH returned with Thrashback (1998) before a long hiatus.
The band re-emerged with Unborn Again in 2009, reconnecting with both old-school devotees and a new generation of thrash fans. Through every incarnation, Tony Portaro has remained the band’s constant driving force, preserving the power-trio spirit at the heart of WHIPLASH.
In 2026, that uncompromising approach continues with ROAR, the band’s eighth studio album and their new worldwide release through Time To Kill Records.
Thrash ’til death.
WHIPLASH:
https://www.instagram.com/whiplash_thrash/
https://www.facebook.com/WhiplashThrash/
https://www.officialwhiplash.com/
Time To Kill Records:
https://timetokillrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/timetokillrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/timetokillrecords/
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