Disturbed frontman David Draiman told an Idaho radio station on Wednesday (July 13th) that the band will not headline a sixth Music As A Weapon tour in 2012 -- and is not sure what its plans for the future are. In the interview with Boise's KQXR, Draiman said, "We don't know what we're doing . . . This is gonna be the last tour that the American people get to see us in for awhile, if not indefinitely. We have some things going on internally, we have some personal things going on. So I don't know. It's hard to tell . . . But you're not gonna see a Disturbed tour for awhile."
Draiman did not elaborate on what "personal" or "internal" issues the band was dealing with.
He did say that Disturbed could lease out the Music As A Weapon name for other bands to use.
In an earlier interview with Palm Springs station KCLB, guitarist Dan Donegan made comments similar to Draiman's, saying that the band has nothing set beyond a South American tour this fall. He explained, "We're gonna do South America for the first time . . . And that's really all we talked about. We haven't even discussed anything after that. It's not that we're tired of it, either. We don't know what it's like to take a break."
Donegan added that it might be a "shock to the system" for the band to "go home and then not plan for another tour or plan for the studio."
Disturbed is currently headlining the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival tour, which also features Godsmack, Machine Head, Trivium and others. The show pulls into Cincinnati on Wednesday the 20th
The Red Hot Chili Peppers release a new single called "The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie" to radio stations and digital retailers on Monday (July 18th). It's the first track to be issued from the band's upcoming 10th studio album, I'm With You. Singer Anthony Kiedis gave us a peek into how that song came about: "That's a song that we didn't see coming. We had a lot of weird exercises for writing music on this record. One of them for (bassist) Flea was consciously deciding that he wanted to write classic bass lines. So he'd come and he'd say, 'I think I wrote a classic bass line,' and the first time he did that, we called it 'Classic One.' And 'The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie' was called 'Classic Number One' for about nine months or more."
I'm With You is the band's first album in five years and features new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who makes his recording debut with the group after replacing John Frusciante last year.
I'm With You is the band's first new album since 2006's two-set Stadium Arcadium, which debuted at Number One in 28 countries, including the U.S.
The Chili Peppers have not announced their full world tour plans, but the group has overseas dates booked in October and November.
Blink-182 has released its first new song in eight years, called "Up All Night." Although the band has played the tune live during the two years since it reunited, the studio version of the track was officially unveiled on Friday (July 15th). The song is the first to be heard from the trio's upcoming album, which is now called Neighborhoods and will tentatively arrive on September 27th. Bassist Mark Hoppus announced the CD title and release date on Friday via his Google Plus account.
In a recent conference call, singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge said that he thinks Blink fans will be pleased with the finished album: "It's gonna be everything our fans want it to be. It's gonna be exactly kind of stepping off where the last record was, with sensibilities of all three of us individually and sensibilities of three of us coming together. So it's very diverse, and that's what's taken so long."
Mark Hoppus told MTV News that "Up All Night" was the first song Blink began working on after it reunited in 2009 following a five-year hiatus.
He explained, "The foundation of the song remains largely the same as when we first began, but over the past two years, as we've been recording others songs, coming back to this one, working on something else, coming back to this song, it's gotten harder and heavier than its original incarnation."
Blink-182 will begin the Honda Civic Tour with My Chemical Romance on August 5th in Holmdel, New Jersey and will be in Cincinnati on August 21st at Riverbend