Slipknot and Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor is set to release his first book, Seven Deadly Sins, on July 12 in the U.S. and on July 14 in the U.K. The book is purported to be both a memoir and, according to Taylor’s website, “a candid, outrageous manifesto on the subject and nature of sin.” Recently, That Metal Show’s Jim Florentine conducted an in-depth interview with Taylor about the book, and about Taylor’s life and his music. The three-part interview will premiere at www.thecoreytaylor.com on July 5.

“I’ve been threatening to write a book for a long time, but since every Tom, Dick and Harry writes an autobiography, I didn’t want to just do that,” Taylor said, in a prepared statement. “My approach to writing is the same as my approach to music: I don’t want to do what everybody else is doing.”

On September 13th, the classic line-up of Anthrax will release ‘Worship Music,’ their long-awaited 10th studio album. As a way of saying thank you to their fans, the band — Charlie Benante [drums], Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano [guitars], Frank Bello [bass], and vocalist Joey Belladonna — decided to make the new track ‘Fight’em ’til You Can’t’ available as a free download.

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“There is no question – this is a beginning,” Anthony Kiedis, singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, says in his first interview about the band’s new album, I’m With You, which is released by Warner Bros. on August 30th. “Yeah, the sun is just coming up here.”

Produced by Rick Rubin, I’m With You is the Los Angeles quartet’s first studio album since the 2006 double-disk set, Stadium Arcadium. The 14-song record also marks the debut of the Chili Peppers’ new guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who joined in the fall of 2009 following the departure of John Frusciante. The latter guitarist had been a crucial writer as well as player on the Chili Peppers’ biggest albums, including 1991’s Blood Sugar Sex Magik and 1999’s Californication. But after he quit, Kiedis and bassist Flea “had this intuitive feeling,” the singer says. “We’re not really done. We wanted to maintain the Red Hot Chili Peppers if we could do it in a way that upheld historically what we had accomplished.

“There were some interesting conversations,” Kiedis goes on, “about do we try to find someone we don’t know, or maybe there is somebody right in our own backyard who is the perfect solution.” Klinghoffer, 31, was a veteran sideman who had recorded and toured with Beck, PJ Harvey and Tricky, among many others. He was also a friend of Frusciante’s, working on several of that guitarist’s solo records, and had performed with the Chili Peppers on their last world tour, playing extra guitar and keyboards.

To read the complete interview visit ROLLING STONE

Check out Candlebox in the 2011 JVC Mobile “Turn Me On 4 Decades” Online Viral Video also featuring Lita Ford, Puddle of Mudd, Rev Theory and JVC Mobile.

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*Footage shot by Kenny Howell

Q&A: Candlebox’s Kevin Martin on Rock, Mashups, and Marrying the Flaming Lips

Those who haven’t lent their ears to mainstream rock radio since the heyday of 94.9 Zeta (mid-late ’90s) may think that the Seattle postgrunge act Candlebox’s days in the spotlight are “far behind” them. Actually, though, the band reunited a few years back, released its fourth studio album, 2008’s Into the Sun — its first in ten years — and has been touring extensively. Last summer, its musical journey took it overseas to perform for the troops — an experience that was life-changing for lead singer Kevin Martin — and on Saturday, it will bring the band to Revolution in Fort Lauderdale, an event sponsored by New Times.

The show ought to be a good time for now-aging ’90s rockers as well as for a new generation of fans that the blues-based rock band has attracted thanks in part to 2008’s big single “Stand.” And just as a new generation is getting into Candlebox’s music, lead singer Kevin Martin is getting into the new generation of rock ‘n’ roll. When County Grind chatted with him recently, he had lots to say about the current state of rock music and some of the bands that he considers to be on the cutting edge. Also, he chatted vinyl, hipsters, and Rastafari, and he revealed whom he’d fuck, whom he’d chuck, and whom he’d marry out of three of Candlebox’s former touring companions — the Flaming Lips, Henry Rollins, and Metallica.

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