Here are some quick hits:

Trapt will release a new record on October 12. The album is going to be called No Apologies, but they have a lot to apologize for. Being a shitty band is the first apology I demand. You can see the video for their first single off No Apologies entitled Sound Off...which is how I choose to listen to their new single. Check the band'sFacebook page for the video.

Drowning Pool sent another song to radio. The song called Turn So Cold is off their latest album eponymous. Here is their video for it:



"20 Years of Tall Tales" is the title of the web series THE BLACK CROWES will roll out starting Tuesday, August 3, the street date for CROWEOLOGY (Silver Arrow/Megaforce Records), their first-ever double album of all-acoustic material with new arrangements of their best-loved songs and deep cuts.

In a wide-ranging and freewheeling interview marking the 20th anniversary of their landmark multi-platinum debut, 1990's Shake Your Moneymaker, frontman CHRIS ROBINSON talks about where THE BLACK CROWES—arguably one of the most misunderstood rock bands of all time—have been and where they are now.
 
Throughout the month of August, the band will release one webisode per day via their website, www.blackcrowes.com.  It's all here: the highs, the lows, controversies, the arrests, feuds and more. "20 Years of Tall Tales" was directed and produced by John Vanover and filmed earlier this month at Robinson's Los Angeles home.