【"Are KISS fans in a way crazier than The Beatles?!" Mötley Crüe's John 5 passionately argues! From upstarts Cascade Effect's lightning-fast signing to Night In Gales' 10th album, the fires of metal refuse to go out this week either!】 My ears won't stop ringing. Because I went and stuck my head right in front of Marshall's wall of sound in the front row of the live house last night, there's a permanent background music in my ears called "eeeeee." But hey, super-sized news has come crashing in one after another to blow that ringing right away! Headbangers across the country who love rock and metal so much that their closets are packed with pitch-black band tees (90% of which are faded with stretched-out collars), are you ready? Once again, yours truly, Johnny Thunderstone, is here to deliver a cry from the soul! --- …

【Hips Can't Stop! From Haruomi Hosono to a Neil Young Tribute, This Week's Heavyweight Groove Encirclement Shaking the World!】 Hey, 10 million beat addicts nationwide! How are you gracefully shaking your hips on the upbeat of beat one today?! It’s your writer, Funky Dave Monroe! Let me confess the honest truth. This morning, mental funk sparked right in the middle of a packed commuter train, and just as I was using a hanging strap as a slap bass and moving my thumb vigorously up and down, the salaryman next to me gave me a trembling notification saying, "Um... your elbow is hitting me." But I can't stop! Because this week's music world is overflowing with intense news that makes you naturally start stepping! Open your ears wide, crank the bass knob on your speakers all the way to the right, and give a listen! …

【From the Muddy Waters Mural to Soldier Field! The Gritty Love Behind Chicago Bluesman's Killer Football Anthem "We Love Da Bears"】 Pouring cheap bourbon into a glass in the middle of the night, every time an ice cube clinks, my weary heart starts beating in a 12-bar rhythm. Hello there, I'm Memphis Ray, a guy who just can't escape the curse of the blues every single night. People tend to think the blues is a genre exclusively about life's pitfalls—"my baby left me," "there's a hole at the bottom of my pocket," "even my dog ignored me when I woke up this morning." Truth is, my daily life is pretty much like that; just last week, I dropped some coins under a vending machine, got my arm stuck, and seriously felt like crying out like a slide guitar. But hey, the folks back in the birthplace of the blues, Chicago, aren't just sitting around weeping. Sometimes, they slam an unbelievable amount of eager enthusiasm right into their guitars. Today, I want to talk about Brant Buckley, a Chicago blues musician and contributor to American Blues Scene. The music video he dropped for "We Love Da Bears" has been turning heads locally in Chicago, closing in on a cool 18,000 views. …

【【BLAST-VOLUME BREAKING NEWS】Why the Lineup for ProgPower USA 2027 Is Way Too Hype! Is the New PRIMUS Drummer a 1-in-6,100 Superhuman?! A Torrent of News from the HR/HM Scene】 What's up, metalheads! I'm Johnny Thunderstone, self-proclaimed number-one ear-abusing rock nerd who dreams of tossing and turning in front of a wall of Marshalls every night only to wake up with ringing ears! Out of nowhere, I want you all to take a look in your closets. My dresser is 95% filled with black band T-shirts, and the other day I almost accidentally wore my Judas Priest "Screaming for Vengeance" shirt to a relative's memorial service. I almost got Painkiller'd right there by my own family! While living this high-stakes, everyday life, brain-rattling news has been coming at us from all over the world like an avalanche. Turn your amp volume up to 11 and read on! …

【From Smashing Hardcore Walls to Exquisite Pop's Bittersweet Steps! This Week's Fire New Releases Reviewed by a Groove Addict】 Hey party people! You breathing? Moving those hips with some funk!? It’s Funky Dave Monroe, JOCOLLA Music News’ resident baseline junkie, coming at you! Let’s be honest. This morning, right in the middle of a packed rush-hour train, the breakdown coming through my earphones made me unconsciously bust out some air slap-bass, earning me a pitying look from the salaryman next to me that said, "What on earth is this guy fighting at 8 AM?" But hey, don't sweat it! If your hips start moving, that's nothing less than a blessing from the sacred beat! Looking over the latest news this week, a crazy wave of sound is crashing down, effortlessly leaping across genre lines—from hardcore, punk, shoegaze, and UK pop to the intense attitude of an overseas rapper—to send our pulses racing. My antenna, finely tuned to sniff out the groove living in every beat, is going wild, so I'm gonna drop these sizzling topics right onto the floor, non-stop! …

【The Guitar Goddess Returns to the Nightmare in Las Vegas! Alice Cooper and Nita Strauss Serve Up a Slice of Hard-Rock Old-Man Resilience That's Thicker Than the Blues】 There are nights when I pour myself a cheap glass of bourbon, listen to the ice clink against the glass, and think to myself: "Hey, when on earth is the rock nightmare we used to love finally going to wake us up?" Rest easy, though. Apparently, in this world, there are unflagging monsters who refuse to dry up and age gracefully, dragging themselves out of the graveyard time and time again. That’s right—shock-rock legend Alice Cooper, still going strong at over 70 years old, has announced that he will be welcoming virtuoso guitarist Nita Strauss back into the band for his upcoming autumn Las Vegas show, "Welcome to Our Nightmare." …

【The Emperor of Evil descends on the Holy Land of Emo!? King Diamond "knights" My Chemical Romance and they scream together on the classic track "Mama"!】 Hey, hey, hey, clean out your ears and listen up!! The moment I woke up and checked my phone's timeline this morning, I spat out my intensely bitter black coffee right onto my amp. As a writer (Johnny Thunderstone) whose default state is having ringing ears from sticking his head a little too close to the wall of Marshalls at the very front of the venue, even this news sent a jolt of electricity deep inside my eardrums. The absolute cult hero of the heavy metal world, that Emperor of Corpse Paint, **King Diamond**, descended onto the stage of **My Chemical Romance**...!? …

【【Excavated Groove】A Philly hidden treasure that will knock you off your feet! Drown in the ultimate waves of soul and funk unleashed by The Futures!】 Hey party people! Are you out there shaking your hips and feeling good today!? I'm Funky Dave Monroe, the groove addiction specialist for JOCOLLA Music News! Out of nowhere, let me make a confession. This morning in a packed commuter train, I inadvertently busted out some fancy steps while holding onto a strap, moving to a Philly soul bassline leaking from my earphones. I got showered with cold glares from surrounding passengers thinking, "What is this guy doing during the morning rush hour?", but I have no regrets. Because where funk and soul are playing, the universe's ultimate truth is that your pelvis moves before the law! Just now, staggering with joy and doing a celebratory dance while clutching my head, some huge news (or rather, info on unearthing a buried masterpiece!) has flown in. The overseas media outlet "Soul Tracks" has shone a spotlight on a masterpiece by The Futures, Philadelphia's under-the-radar powerhouse vocal group! …

【The Festival Whose Beach Was Washed Away, and the Whim of the Blues God—Santa Monica’s Ordeal That Even Jack White Wept Over】 There are nights when, swirling a glass of cheap whiskey, I can't help but think: life is just like the moment you carefully restring your guitar and get the tuning utterly perfect, only for the high E string to *snap*. Precisely such a calamity—one that could only be the work of the blues god winking maliciously—struck Santa Monica, a place that was supposed to be bathed in West Coast sunshine. The "Ocean Way Festival," grandly slated to feature Jack White, The Killers, and Olivia Dean, was forced to cancel due to the unprecedented reason that "the beach was eroded by waves and vanished." ### The Beach Disappeared Before the Guitars Could Roar …

[Giant Mammoth x Full-Color Roar! Why Headbanging Won't Stop After Baroness's John Baizley Suddenly Joins Mastodon's Fall Tour] Tinnitus is the badge of honor of rock 'n' roll! What's up, I'm Johnny Thunderstone, a writer who has been suffering from the chronic illness of opening my home closet and finding only black band tees for a quarter of a century! Hey hey hey, take off your earplugs right now (no, wait, keep them on securely for blast-volume protection) and listen to this. While scrolling on my smartphone while gripping a strap on the commuter train, I was about to let out a deep, guttural roar that would have left the surrounding passengers in the dust. Incredible news has just dropped that John Baizley, the frontman of Baroness, is making an emergency entry into the live lineup for the fall tour of Atlanta's homegrown behemoths, Mastodon! Heavy rock's biggest stars merging together?! To put this combination into perspective, it's the heaviness equivalent of dumping a katsu curry onto a ramen bowl with all the toppings at a Jiro-style ramen shop. Another page of deafening noise is about to be carved into the history of sludge and progressive metal! …