For over a decade now, Jake Xerxes Fussell’s records have been making traditional folk music come alive for modern ears. Today he’s announcing his latest, The Old Beloved Path, set for release on Fat Possum this fall. The lead single is out now, a contemporary take on “Rock Island Line” that transforms the American traditional into a tender alt-country ballad.
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We sat down with some of the biggest names on the lineup backstage at 2000trees at Upcote Farm, Cheltenham.
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Asia guitarist John Mitchell has announced what will be the very final Lonely Robot album, aptly titled, An Ending, will be released through White Knight Records on September 11.
Mitchell has shared new video for This World Window, the first track from the upcoming album, which features the sad refrain, “I’m a lonely robot, and I’ve come to say goodbye…”, and which you can watch below.
“With this album, I wanted to close the circle of the Lonely Robot universe and bring back some of the elements that inspired the initial writing process,” Mitchell says. “I hope Lonely Robot fans find this to be a fitting epilogue to the most creative decade of my life.”
Inspired by the single image of Carl Sagan’s now-legendary pale blue dot, Mitchell has released five albums under the Lonely Robot banner since 2015’s Please Come Home debut. The first three looked outward at our species, while the fourth and fifth turned the lens inward, as the same frailties the astronaut had observed in humanity, he began to recognise in himself.
Mitchell handles vocals, guitars, bass guitar and keyboards on the new record, while his Frost* pal Craig Blundell features on drums and Jez Fielder on additional guitar on The River and Rearview.
All songs have been written, recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by John Mitchell, except The River and Rearview, by John Mitchell and Jez Fielder, and bonus track Synthetic was written by Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle (The Midnight).
An Ending will be released on special limited edition coloured double vinyl and CD, with artwork, which you can see below, by Graeme Purdy Bell – Planet Twig.
Lonely Robot: An Ending
1. This World Window
2. Show The Way
3. Back To The Middle
4. An Ocean Light
5. Ad Astra
6. Where In The World
7. Twin Suns
8. The River
9. Rearview
10. Bending Light
11. The Iron Sea
12. Oblique
13. Synthetic (Bonus track – vinyl only)
Nickelback are back with a new single, “Rattle the Cage,” and news that their eleventh studio album, “Everything Under the Sun,” arrives October 30. The song features a guest guitar cameo from Mötley Crüe’s John 5, and marks the band’s first new music since 2022’s “Get Rollin’.”
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“Rattle the Cage” is a straightforward statement of intent — thunderous drumming from Daniel Adair, gritty guitar work, and Chad Kroeger’s unmistakable rasp driving a chorus built around the line “rattle the cage until it falls.” Kroeger described the track as a mission statement for the album’s whole approach: “This album has every side of the band on it.
There are songs that hit as hard as anything we’ve ever done, songs that take chances and songs that remind us why we’ve been doing this together for so long.” On the single specifically, he added: “Rattle The Cage felt like the perfect way to kick the door open. It has the energy we’ve been feeding off every night onstage and we can’t wait for people to hear it.”
A Mötley Crüe guitarist showing up on a Nickelback single might look like an odd pairing at first glance, but John 5 has built a career on exactly this kind of guest spot. Beyond his day job — he’s been Mötley Crüe’s guitarist since stepping in for Mick Mars in 2022 and becoming a full member the following year — John 5 has racked up an almost absurd list of recent collaborations, including guitar work for Dolly Parton, Sebastian Bach, Tommy Lee’s solo project, and the late Peter Criss.
Add in his prior decades-long runs with Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie, plus his own catalog of eleven instrumental solo albums, and “Rattle the Cage” is really just the latest entry in one of the busiest guest-guitarist résumés in rock right now.
Nickelback’s eleventh album follows 2022’s “Get Rollin’,” which — worth noting for context the band’s critics tend to skip — still debuted at No. 2 across Current Rock, Alternative, Hard Music, and Digital Album charts, hit the UK Top 10, and topped the chart outright in Switzerland. “Everything Under the Sun” arrives via Virgin Music Group, a shift from “Get Rollin’”‘s home at BMG — worth watching as the album cycle develops. The 12-track record is led by “Rattle the Cage” and includes songs titled “Bones for the Crows,” “Chasin’ Famous,” and “Technicolor Steamboat.” Pre-orders are live now, with the album due October 30.
Let’s address it directly, because pretending Nickelback doesn’t draw eye-rolls in hard rock and metal circles would be dishonest. Chad Kroeger has told the story himself of Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul defending Nickelback to skeptical metalheads back in the day, telling doubters to actually watch the band play before writing them off. Two members of Pantera — a band with about as much credibility in this genre as exists — vouching for Nickelback isn’t nothing. Add in the fact that “Everything Under the Sun” is arriving with a guest spot from a guy currently touring arenas with Mötley Crüe, and the Venn diagram between “Nickelback fan” and “hard rock fan” is a lot rounder than internet discourse suggests.
“Everything Under the Sun,” Nickelback’s eleventh studio album, arrives October 30, 2026.
Mötley Crüe guitarist John 5 delivers a guest guitar cameo on the track.
Yes. It’s the band’s first new music since their 2022 album “Get Rollin’.”
The album has 12 tracks, led by “Rattle the Cage” featuring John 5.
Yes. John 5 has been Mötley Crüe’s guitarist since 2022, when he stepped in for Mick Mars, becoming a full member the following year.
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Nickelback are back once more with a new album that looks to embody everything that has defined them over the last 25 years.
Titled ‘Everything Under The Sun’, it will be released on October 30 via Virgin Music Group, and serves as the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Get Rollin”.
Vocalist Chad Kroeger had this to say about what the record represents, stating, “This album has every side of the band on it. There are songs that hit as hard as anything we’ve ever done, songs that take chances, and songs that remind us why we’ve been doing this together for so long.”
The artwork looks like this:
And the tracklisting like this:
1. Rattle the Cage (with John 5)
2. Bones for the Crows
3. I Already Know
4. Leave Me Behind
5. If I Don’t Go
6. Make Me Love You
7. Chasin’ Famous
8. Simple Song
9. Technicolor Steamboat
10. Lift Somebody Up
11. Bottled Dreams
12. Last Night Was Fun
The sentiment of what Chad has to say about the record is also reflected in the latest taste of it, ‘Rattle The Cage’. A riff-heavy, arena-made singalong of an anthem, it also features a contribution from John 5.
He had this to add:
“‘Rattle The Cage’ felt like the perfect way to kick the door open – it has the energy we’ve been feeding off every night on stage, and we can’t wait for people to hear it.
You can also hear ‘Bones For The Crows’ right now too:
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