Help Alice Cooper Find A Great Garage Band

Alice Cooper has teamed up with Cooper Tires (cute, right?) to find the next great garage band in America. There are three bands competing for the title - and the winner will get the chance to open for Evanescence during a livestream concert. Alice Cooper will preside over the show. Check out the new bands and vote by visiting the contest website. Each is performing a cover of "Under My Wheels."

I'll just point out that South of Eden, from Columbus, Ohio, is one of the three and they are great!

Help me find the best garage band in the country! Meet the three bands competing to open for @evanescence at the upcoming @CooperTire Driven To Perform Livestream Concert hosted by yours truly. #GoWithTheCoopers #CooperTire
Listen to the bands and vote - > https://t.co/vsSrnnQxSf pic.twitter.com/SiXXiVb4Rv

— Alice Cooper (@alicecooper) April 19, 2021

Steel Panther Announce New Livestream Event

Just in time to kickoff the first unofficial weekend of summer, Steel Panther will return with a livestream. Dubbed "Fans Come First," Steel Panther will perform from the Viper Room in Los Angeles at 5:00 p.m. eastern. Tickets are $15. Fans can choose which songs the bands will play - click through the social post below to add your vote.

Buckcherry Releases New Video, Song

Buckcherry has a new song called "So Hott" from the upcoming album Hellbound. I have to say, sadly, that "So Hott" didn't do much for me and I hate the video too. Maybe I dislike the video so much because I despise Instagram. Maybe the rest of the tracks on Hellbound will be better. What do you think?

Inkcarceration Festival Lineup Announced

Here's a festival that is apparently really happening this year! Inkcarceration 2021 just announced the lineup for the early September festival. The show happens September 10 - 12 in Ohio featuring Slipknot, a reunited Mudvayne, Rob Zombie, Steel Panther, Escape the Fate, Asking Alexandria and many more. A 3-day general admission pass is $159. VIP experiences are available (of course).

YOUR 2021 LINEUP IS HERE! 🤘

Celebrate the return of live music September 10-12, 2021 with @slipknot, Mudvayne, @RobZombie, @adtr, @mastodonmusic, @Halestorm, @ChevelleInc, @kseofficial, and MANY more.

Buy passes now @ https://t.co/pgZEyWF2IO pic.twitter.com/taUlEe414U

— Inkcarceration Festival (@InkcarFestival) April 20, 2021

Skid Row Working On New Album

It's all happening! We are getting new Skid Row music - just no word yet when that album will be available. I have high hopes for this new music - and I wish the band well in their creative endeavors in making us all some new rocking tunes.

Psyched to be joining @earMUSICedel and @primarywave 🙏🤘 https://t.co/y3CifYyxtr

— OfficialSkidRow (@OfficialSkidRow) April 19, 2021

News Of The Week Roundup: Week 15, 2021

Prince Philip was laid to rest yesterday in a grand funeral that was sparsely attended because of COVID-19 protocols. Seeing the Queen alone was sad on many levels.

She was utterly alone. For many watching the proceedings from home, the sight of the newly widowed Queen Elizabeth II, who will turn 95 next week, was perhaps the saddest image of the day. https://t.co/afjqGsf3Rv

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 17, 2021

There have been 47 mass shootings in just the last month in America. Other countries do not have this problem.

Breaking News: At least eight people were killed in a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, the police said. The gunman was believed to have taken his own life. https://t.co/OdzN1Jbl1k

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2021

The Indianapolis gunman bought his weapons legally - after having a weapon seized because of his mental state. He should have never been allowed to purchase more weapons. But here we are.

Breaking News: The gunman in the FedEx shooting legally bought two semiautomatic rifles months after a gun was seized from him over his mental state, officials said. https://t.co/V1khDJ9JAL

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 18, 2021

This might be the most horrifying story I have read from the COVID-19 pandemic and boy, that's saying something:

Some Brazilian hospitals have run out of sedatives, forcing doctors to use restraints while coronavirus patients are intubated

"I never thought I would be living through something like this," a doctor says. "The patient is submitted to a form of torture" https://t.co/WbbfqupnnK

— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) April 15, 2021

Are you fully vaxxed and ready to travel during the pandemic? I am! In fact, I am going to Disney World in mid-June. I have not flown since the pandemic was declared in America (well, I haven't traveled anywhere, actually) and I am very excited for my trip. I am glad my flight is a short one at around two hours. Eric and I were not ready to tackle a long-haul flight wearing masks and seeing this story below, I am glad we settled on one domestic trip this year.

I thought this was interesting - and not surprising:

By nearly all measures, the religiously unaffiliated now represent at least a fifth of all American adults, rivaling Catholics and evangelical Christians as the nation’s largest cohort in terms of religious faith (or lack thereof). https://t.co/YT0KBgnzLb

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) April 17, 2021

And I leave you with this:

Jon Bon Jovi Jealous Of Former Classmate Who Made It Out Of Jersey https://t.co/xMg9qqn9Zt pic.twitter.com/z87ML8zII6

— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 17, 2021

'Chokehold' -- Official Video

The other day I posted that P.J. Farley of Trixter was releasing a new video. Here is the full track called "Chokehold" from the album Accent The Change. Say what you want, the chorus is catchy as hell. The solo at 2:50 is great too.