Alkaline Trio has officially announced Tosh Peterson as their new drummer. Replacing Atom Willard who left earlier this year, Peterson has a long resume including drumming for the likes of Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Machine Gun Kelly, and even filling in for Fall Out Boy.

Matt Skiba posted the news with the statement below.

“I met Tosh at Swingers a few months back for lunch to meet up and discuss the possibility of him playing in Alkaline Trio. Tosh’s mom was also there who turned out to be a fellow history buff so her and I spent half the lunch talking about Churchill and the Miracle of Dunkirk while Tosh politely ate his fries. He later told Dan Andriano [of Alkaline Trio] that if we had had a problem with his mom coming to lunch he probably didn’t want to play with us anyway.

“Apart from the absolute monster he is behind a drum kit he is just a lovely guy: kind, polite, enthusiastic, driven and hilarious. I told Dan I wouldn’t want Tosh to play with us if he hadn’t brought his mom. Tosh is a beautiful human being we’re very excited to travel and play music with and a drummer we couldn’t be more thankful to be able to welcome into our family.”

Foo Fighters are back with their third single from their upcoming 12th full length record ‘Your Favorite Toy’. ‘Caught In The Echo’. A straight no chaser rock hit this continues Foo Fighters going back to a garage rock no BS sound.

Your Favorite Toy will be released April 24th via Roswell Records/RCA Records. Recorded at home, the album was co-produced by Foo Fighters and Oliver Roman, engineered by Oliver Roman and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, and consists of the following songs:

Caught In The Echo
Of All People
Window
Your Favorite Toy
If You Only Knew
Spit Shine
Unconditional
Child Actor
Amen, Caveman
Asking For A Friend

Your Favorite Toy’s release heralds Foo Fighters’ massive Take Cover world tour, which just added an already SOLD OUT April 28 show at the Total Mortgage Arena in Bridgeport, CT.  For more information on the rock ’n’ roll stadium tour of the summer, go to https://foofighters.lnk.to/ShowsPR

Influential genre favorites Failure have dropped another song from their upcoming album ‘Location Lost’, this time with ‘A Way Down’. The nine song LP is set to drop just over a month from now on April 24th.

FAILURE TOUR DATES 

Apr 21 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon (Album Release Show) *SOLD OUT

Apr 25 Las Vegas – Sick New World Festival

May 02 Chicago, IL – SPACE ECHO @ Radius

May 03 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop *SOLD OUT

May 05 Nashville, TN – Basement East 

May 06 Atlanta, GA Masquerade – Hell

May 08 Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville Festival 

May 09 Asheville, NC – Eulogy *SOLD OUT

May 10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle

May 12 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge *SOLD OUT

May 13 Cambridge, MA – Sinclair   

May 14 Hamden, CT – Space *SOLD OUT

May 15 Washington, DC – Union Stage 

May 16 Harrisburg, PA – Arrow at Archer Music Hall

May 17 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts 

May 19 Detroit, MI – Shelter *SOLD OUT

May 20 Toronto, ON – Opera House

Cherry Bomb, the Los Angeles-based solo project of MisterWives’ Mandy Lee throws a Y2K party with a confessional, pop-drenched tune “Digital Girl”.

With a reference to Madonna’s “Material Girl,” made for 2026 on the bubbling Y2K earworm, the track details the real struggles of being both a musician and a person today. Speaking on the contrived displays of perfection on social media and pressures of constant self-promotion, Lee explains, “‘Digital Girl’ asks how far are you willing to go for your dreams and at what cost? In this Information Age where the pressures of perfection and an unsustainable quantity over quality are constantly burning out not just artists but everyone who is plugged in, it’s impossible to not romanticize unplugging entirely.”

Torn between keeping up and giving up on the broken system, but ultimately choosing to chase her passion and find love within, Lee continues, “Remembering a time when you could tour without social media to adapting to social media now becoming an algorithmic gatekeeper for musicians while the charts are riddled with AI-generated songs leaves you at a crossroads of having to partake in the systems you hate for the sake of what you love.”

Earlier this year, Lee unveiled Cherry Bomb with the splashy, upbeat banger “Never Be Me (M★ther★cker).” PAPER Magazine, who debuted the video, wrote, “The track is pop perfection, chronicling her departure from her old life and excitement for the road ahead. Her fluttering vocals that earworm synths define this genre she’s calling “popera.” Adding, the video, “highlights bright, DIY-ed costumes and the feminine energy-filled community that’s helped her reach these new heights.” 

Cherry Bomb brings her own flair to Y2K nostalgia with the infectious “Digital Girl” out now. Join all the fun via Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.

Blue Medusa, featuring Aliisa White-Gluz, are at it with their new song ‘Checkmate’. Heavy and melodic just as fans would expect this is a sure fire way to kick off her new band.

The crushing new single was written by Alissa White-Gluz, Alyssa Day and Dani Sophia, and mixed and mastered by Kile Odell.

“I know what every frame is for,” jokes White-Gluz. “I’ll share that someday, but for now, I welcome fans to dive deeper into the meaning and develop their own interpretations. That’s what makes videos and movies fun and interesting, in my opinion.”

Blue Medusa will also appear at major U.S. festivals this year, including Louder Than Life and Aftershock Festival.

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Ice Nine Kills, or Grave Diggler, are back with a new song for the film Ready Or Not 2 which drops this weekend. The band re-recorded the 1987 hit ‘Hell Or High Slaughter’ by Grave Diggler for the film with a NSFW video to go with it.

When the directing duo behind Scream (2022) and Scream VI, began work on the sequel to their 2019 black comedy horror hit Ready or Not, they desperately wanted to include one of Grave Diggler’s forgotten classic anthems. But even after Radio Silence Productions deduced the connection with Spencer Charnas, securing the rights was no mean feat. 

The ensuing legal battle between fathers and sons resulted in Ice Nine Kills re-recording “Hell or High Slaughter (Grave Diggler: Pt. 2)” for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come and the long-banned 1987 music video for the song seeing the light of day. 

“I’ve been estranged from my father for a long time,” Spencer explains. “But this movie, and this song, while bringing a lot of complicated feelings to the surface, also brought us back together.” 

“Ice Nine Kills Presents Hell or High Slaughter (Grave Diggler: Pt 2)” and it’s NSFW music video are only available on YouTube. Watch and listen HERE.