Author: Logan Rocker

The Rolling Stones have teamed up with coffee-maker Keurig to release a limited edition Start Me Up iced coffee kit.

Along with the K-Iced coffee machine, the rock’n’roll icons have also put their name to a medium roast coffee blend and tumbler, complete with the band’s famous Hot Lips logo. And as if that wasn’t enough to drink in, the Stones and Keurig have also devised a curated Spotify playlist featuring artists including Led Zeppelin, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley and, of course, the Rolling Stones themselves.

The Rolling Stones tell uDiscoverMusic: “We’re thrilled to be branching into the iced coffee space with Keurig. We’ve collaborated to bring this limited-edition product to life and give fans a new way to fuel their day.”

Becky Opdyke, senior vice president of coffee marketing at Keurig Dr. Pepper, adds: “The Rolling Stones is a household name and widely considered as one of the most definitive bands in history. As their first-ever coffee collaboration, we’re excited to bring their lively spirit to life through our limited edition Start Me Up iced coffee kit.

“Whether you’re a routine iced coffee drinker, a long-time Rolling Stones fan, or want to simply amplify your coffee drinking habits, we invite consumers to infuse a little rock and roll energy into their iced coffee experience.”

You can buy the Start Me Up kit, coffee and tumbler direct from the Keurig website.

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Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott joined our news desk in the summer of 2014 before moving to the e-commerce team in 2020. Scott maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He’s written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald, covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott’s favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, Marillion and Rush.

Rob Trujillo says if he could pick one band to cover a song from Metallica‘s recently-released 72 Seasons album it would be Slayer.

Despite choosing a group who are now defunct (Slayer went their separate ways in 2019), Metallica’s bassist notes how the hypothetical cover would delight him based on the fact that the two ‘Big Four’ thrash bands were once considered rivals, and with 72 Seasons channelling much of their earlier, thrashier sound. 

Speaking to Mexican radio station Alfa 91.3 FM, after being asked what covers he’d like to hear lifted from the new album, Trujillo says: “What would be a really powerful song? I mean, I would love to hear, like, . . . this is gonna sound crazy. What if 72 Seasons was covered by Slayer? I mean, that would be pretty cool [laughs]. You know?”.

Explaining his choice, he adds: “No one would expect that, but I would love it. ‘Cause I always feel like . . . some people say there’s a competition [between us]. Maybe it’s because I came into the band later, [but] I view it as more as two signature sort of icon powerhouses, you know, that had this energy back in the early ’80s, you know? Really strong. But, like, what if, what if the classic Slayer lineup covered a song like 72 Seasons? That would be pretty cool.”

Listen to the full interview below:

Following its release back in April, 72 Seasons scored Metallica their first UK number one album since 2008’s Death Magnetic.

In response, they told the Official Charts: “Number 1 in the UK? “Spectacular! We’re grateful. Thank you, UK – we can’t wait to see you!”.

Despite their success in the British Isles, the album fell short in the US, becoming their first studio album not to hit #1 on US chart since …And Justice For All, which was released in 1988.

Last week, Metallica announced that they would be streaming their August performances at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas for worldwide viewing.

Presented by Trafalgar Releasing, Metallica: M72 World Tour Live From Arlington, TX – A Two Night Event will stream the Californian band’s August 18 and August 20 shows to a global audience in America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania.

Liz works on keeping the Louder sites up to date with the latest news from the world of rock and metal. Prior to joining Louder as a full time staff writer, she completed a Diploma with the National Council for the Training of Journalists and received a First Class Honours Degree in Popular Music Journalism. She enjoys writing about anything from neo-glam rock to stoner, doom and progressive metal, and loves celebrating women in music.

With the advent of another full moon, here is the latest single from Peter Gabriel – Road To Joy – you can listen to the new Bright Side mix in full below.

The new single was one of the last pieces completed for Gabriel’s upcoming solo album i/o, which he is expected to release later this year, and was written by Gabriel and produced by Gabriel along with Brian Eno.

“It was actually very late in the record that we got to this,” Gabriel explains. “There had been a song that musically I’d started, I think, around the OVO project called Pukka. It was very different to this, but it was actually the starting point for coming back to this song. I just felt there was a good groove there, and I wanted something else with rhythm and so we tried a few things when I was working with Brian Eno. The excitement and energy in the song was something that I was getting off on. I felt we didn’t have enough of that for this record.”

Eno, who first worked with Gabriel on 1992’s Us also features on the first single released, Panopticom.

Gabriel has this far streamed new songs Four Kinds Of Horses, i/o, Panopticom, The Court and Playing For Time.

Gabriel is currently on tour throughout Europe and will tour the US later in the year. You can see the dates below.

Peter Gabriel i/o Tour 2023

Jun 06: Antwerp Sportpaleis, Belgium
Jun 08: Zurich Hallenstadion, Switzerland
Jun 10: Cologne Lanxess Arena, Germany
Jun 12: Hamburg Barclays Arena, Germany
Jun 13: Frankfurt Festhalle, Germany
Jun 15: Bordeaux Arkea Arena, France
Jun 17: Birmingham Utilita Arena, UK
Jun 19: London The O2, UK
Jun 22: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK
Jun 23: Manchester AO Arena, UK
Jun 25: Dublin 3Arena, Ireland

Sep 08: Quebec City Videotron Centre, QC             
Sep 09: Ottawa Canadian Tire Centre, ON                     
Sep 11: Toronto Scotiabank Arena, ON                  
Sep 13: Montreal Bell Centre, QC                  
Sep 14: Boston TD Garden, MA
Sep 16: Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center, PA     
Sep 18: New York Madison Square Garden, NY
Sep 20: Washington Capital One Arena, DC                 
Sep 22: Buffalo KeyBank Center, NY             
Sep 23: Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena, PA
Sep 25: Columbus Nationwide Arena, OH
Sep 27: Cleveland Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, OH                       
Sep 29: Detroit Caesars Arena , MI                
Sep 30: Chicago United Center, IL
Oct 02: Milwaukee Fiserv Forum, WI
Oct 03: St. Paul Excel Energy Center, MN                      
Oct 07: Vancouver Rogers Arena, BC
Oct 08: Seattle Climate Pledge Arena, WA              
Oct 11: San Francisco Chase Center, CA
Oct 13: Los Angeles Kia Forum, CA     
Oct 14: Palm Springs Acrisure Arena, CA
Oct 16: Denver Ball Arena, CO                 
Oct 18: Austin Moody Center, TX                      
Oct 19: Dallas American Airlines Center, TX                       
Oct 21: Houston Toyota Center, TX        

Tickets are on sale now.

Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.

Foo Fighters have added another batch of dates to their schedule. The band, who returned to the road at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, NH, on May 24, have confirmed a run of shows in Australia and New Zealand for late this year and early next year. 

The first of five Australian shows will be at the HBF Stadium in Perth, WA, on November 29, and be followed by shows in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. After breaking for Christmas, the band will return down under for three NZ shows in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in late January.

Tickets go on sale this Thursday, June 15. Full dates below. 

Foo Fighters, who played two shows in Germany this weekend at the Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festivals, return to North America for the next leg of their tour, which kicks off at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion in Rogers, AR, on June 14. 

The band’s new album, But Here We Are, was released on Friday. 

Foo Fighters

Jun 14: Rogers Walmart AMP, AR
Jun 16: Pelham Oak Mountain Amphithea, AL
Jun 18: Manchester Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, TN
Jul 08: Quebec City Festival D’ete De Quebec, QC
Jul 12: Ottawa Bluesfest, ON, Canada
Jul 15: Milwaukee Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival, WI
Jul 29: Naeba Fuji Rock, Japan
Aug 04: Spokane Arena, WA
Aug 06: Big Sky Wildlands Festival, MT
Aug 08: Salt Lake City USANA Amphitheatre, UT
Aug 10: Stateline Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey’s, NV
Aug 12: San Francisco Outside Lands Festival, CA
Sep 03: Aspen Jazz Aspen Snowmnass, CO
Sep 07: Curitiba Estadio Couto Pereia, Brazil
Sep 09: Sao Paulo The Town, Brazil
Sep 15: Chicago Riot Fest, IL
Sep 17: Asbury Park Sea.Hear.Now, NJ
Sep 19: Virginia Beach Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater, CA
Sep 21: Louisville Louder Than Life, KY
Oct 01: Dana Point Ohana Festival, CA
Oct 03: Phoenix Talking Stick Resort Amphitheater, AZ
Oct 05: El Paso Don Haskins CenterV, TX
Oct 07: Austin ACL Festival, TX
Oct 14: Austin ACL Festival, TX
Nov 26: Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix, United Arab Emirates
Nov 29: Perth HBF Stadium, Australia
Dec 02: Adelaide Coopers Stadium, Australia
Dec 04: Melbourne AAMI Park, Australia
Dec 09: Sydney Accor Stadium, Australia
Dec 12: Brisbane Suncorp Stadium, Austalia
Jan 20: Auckland Go Media Stadium, New Zealand
Jan 24: Christchurch Orangetheory Stadium, New Zealand
Jan 27: Wellington Sky Stadium, New Zealand

Tickets to all shows apart from Australia and New Zealand are on sale now.

Online Editor at Louder/Classic Rock magazine since 2014. 37 years in music industry, online for 24. Also bylines for: Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, The Word Magazine, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Saga, Music365. Former Head of Music at Xfm Radio, A&R at Fiction Records, early blogger, ex-roadie, published author. Once appeared in a Cure video dressed as a cowboy, and thinks any situation can be improved by the introduction of cats. Favourite Serbian trumpeter: Dejan Petrović.