Episode 56: The Sunset Strip On My Birthday, New Records & Rock News Catch-Up

Episode 59: Converge Returns, New Evanescence & Eddie Van Halen Takes That Broke Darby’s Brain

This week on Amplified, Darby dives into another stacked New Music Friday with new releases from Converge, Evanescence, Death Cab For Cutie, Evergrey, Voivod, Modest Mouse, The 69 Eyes, and more. Plus: Mastodon release an emotional new song after Brent Hinds’ exit, Weezer announce The Gold Album, Guns N’ Roses’ lost Perfect Crime documentary surfaces online, and Chris Robinson gets booed in Florida after pushing back on a USA chant. Darby also completely loses patience with the claim that Eddie Van Halen “ruined rock guitar,” talks about Roger Daltrey insisting The Who invented heavy metal, and shares stories from seeing Guns N’ Roses on the Use Your Illusion tour. Also in this episode: * Autumn Kings interview preview * New Taste of Chaos tour details * Metallica playing Rammstein in Berlin * Kiss merch…still somehow expanding * Garth Brooks reportedly shopping a $2 billion catalog deal * Why Love Island is impossible to watch comfortably * New episodes every Tuesday & Friday. Instagram: @darby.amplified TikTok: darby.amplified X: darbyamplified Topics: rock news, metal news, new rock releases, Converge, Evanescence, Mastodon, Eddie Van Halen, Guns N Roses, Weezer, Chris Robinson, Black Crowes, Metallica, new albums 2026, hard rock podcast, alternative music news  All the news, all the noise, all in one place. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Epidsode 58 - Tom Morello, Five Finger Death Punch, Pantera + My Favorite New Releases From Last Friday | Amplified

I run through one hell of a New Music Friday with new albums from All Them Witches, Kurt Vile, Monolord, St. Agnes, Devin Townsend, Violet Grohl, and My Morning Jacket. Plus: Tom Morello launches a new festival, Disturbed teases new music, possible new Pantera material, unreleased Van Halen songs, Avenged Sevenfold teams with Pussy Riot, and I pitch my gloriously low-tech solution to the completely broken concert ticketing system before Jared Leto scans all our eyeballs. Rock news • New music • Loud opinions Instagram: @darby.amplified TikTok: darby.amplified X: darbyamplified Topics: rock news, metal news, new rock albums, All Them Witches, Kurt Vile, Monolord, St Agnes, Devin Townsend, My Morning Jacket, Pantera, Disturbed, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, hard rock podcast, metal podcast All the news, all the noise, all in one place. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 57: Pearl Jam’s Mystery Drummer, AI Ozzy & New Releases

Rock news and massive new releases. I run through one of the strongest release weeks of the year featuring new music from Devin Townsend, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Monolord, All Them Witches, Shinedown and more. Plus: thoughts on the AI Ozzy backlash, Caleb Shomo coming out, Thom Yorke calling out the music industry, Pearl Jam’s mystery drummer, and why CDs are the absolute worst thing to move. New episodes every Tuesday & Friday. Instagram: @darby.amplified TikTok: darby.amplified X: darbyamplified Rock news • New music • Loud opinions Topics: rock news, metal news, new rock releases, Pearl Jam, Ozzy Osbourne, Devin Townsend, Thom Yorke, Paul McCartney, Monolord, All Them Witches, Caleb Shomo, Beartooth, Shinedown, new albums 2026 All the news, all the noise, all in one place. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 56: The Sunset Strip On My Birthday, New Records & Rock News Catch-Up

Back from California and catching up on everything that happened while the show was gone for a week. This episode covers the latest releases from Dimmu Borgir, Armored Saint, Anthrax, Primus, Quicksand and more, plus a deep dive into a fascinating Ted Lucas retrospective from Third Man Records. Also in this episode: the Smashing Pumpkins announce a massive Melon Collie anniversary tour, Avenged Sevenfold goes fully independent, Dave Grohl makes fun of his own lyrics, and Slipknot finally gives Look Outside Your Window a full release. There’s also talk about Sunset Strip history, the Rainbow Bar & Grill, crowd surfing at 99 years old, Black Crowes tension, and why Starcrawler is such a great live band. ri Instagram: @darby.amplified TikTok: darby.amplified X: darbyamplified Topics: rock news, metal news, new rock releases, Anthrax, Avenged Sevenfold, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Primus, Slipknot, Third Man Records, Ted Lucas, Quicksand, alternative rock, hard rock, music podcast All the news, all the noise, all in one place. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 55: New Music Friday Highlighted by Social Distortion + News From Sex Pistols, Van Halen, Five Finger Death Punch & More

Darby runs through the full New Music Friday release slate for May 8, 2026 — including the long-awaited return of Social Distortion, new releases from Black Veil Brides, Basement, Darkthrone and more. There’s also music news on Greta Van Fleet breakup rumors, a new The Rolling Stones album, Between the Buried and Me playing inside a cave, stories from Korn drummer Ray Luzier, and updates involving Mötley Crüe, DragonForce, Quicksand and more. Plus: Crobot recommendations, weird metal album titles, and why Mike Ness is still one of the coolest frontmen in rock. No episodes next week. Returning Tuesday, May 19. Instagram: @darby.amplified TikTok: darby.amplified X: darbyamplified Topics: rock news, metal news, new rock releases, new metal releases, Social Distortion, Mike Ness, Van Halen, Sex Pistols, Greta Van Fleet, Rolling Stones, Korn, Quicksand, Crobot, podcast, music podcast All the news, all the noise, all in one place. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.