Tri-State Rock - Latest Updates

Punk rockers turned world's-biggest-rock-band Green Day announced a few weeks back that they'd be releasing not one, not two but THREE full-length records in a 4 month period starting this September. 

The Contortionist have released a new music video today for "Causality" off their new record, "Intrinsic" which hits stores tomorrow. The much anticipated album has received rave reviews from both critics and fans alike and is expected to hold its ground as one of the most celebrated progressive metal releases of the year. 

When we spoke to Dan Briggs, bassist of North Carolina progressive-metal masters Between The Buried And Me, about his new jazz-fusion side project "Trioscapes" in March - it was remarkably difficult NOT to ask a barrage of questions about the new BTBAM record. At the time, all that we were able to get out of Briggs was that we could expect a release date that would fall sometime around the group’s European tour, which allowed us to deduce that we’d be looking at yet another October release.

Slipknot guitarist Jim Root reunited with the band on Friday, July 13 at the Tampa, Florida stop of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival.  Root missed several dates of the tour due to a burst appendix, that could have potentially been life threatening. A statement issued by the rest of the group said that Root had been seriously ill for the past few weeks, before he discovered that he had a major appendicitis, and would have to miss several tour dates to recover.

On Wednesday night, Knoxville, Tennessee’s 10 Years brought their “Minus The Machine” tour to the Starland Ballroom in Sayrevile, NJ. This string of North American headlining dates features Fair To Midland & Kyng as support and finds the band touring in support of their 4^th record and independent label debut.