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ALBUM REVIEW: Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida

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Bands rarely take risks anymore. Many times bands stick to an established formula and fear of change or reprisal from fans keeps the sounds regurgitating and prevents real growth. Then you have a band like Stone Temple Pilots, themselves riding the crest of their major 2019 comeback album, self-titled album, and a triumphant world tour that preceded and followed the release. You couldn’t blame them with all the past tumult if they played it safe and made another mostly rocking album to appease the fans. However, on their surprising unplugged album Perdida (Rhino), they did anything but play it safe. Continue reading →


Stone Temple Pilots Share New Unplugged Single – “Three Wishes”

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Stone Temple Pilots has shared another new single from their upcoming unplugged album, Perdida, due out on February 10th via Atlantic Records. The band recorded the disc at drummer Eric Kretz’s Bomb Shelter Studios. STP utilized a variety of instruments that haven’t been associated with the group in the past, including flute, alto saxophone, guitarrón, viola, cello, and vintage keyboards. The band will also launch an acoustic tour next month. Check out the new single ‘Three Wishes’ right now!Continue reading →


Stone Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots

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One of the hardest things for veteran bands to do is overcome expectations. Especially if you have reached legend status, it’s tough to live up to the hype your own fan base can hang on you. Tougher still is when you have to overcome adversity to do it, and honestly, a lot of acts don’t recover. Stone Temple Pilots have remained musically consistent in their career, even when things didn’t go a planned. If you can name a major rock band that has had two iconic lead singers pass away and recover, let me know. In the end, it’s all about how you battle back. And in that regard STP have proven they have a real punchers temperament on their new self-titled album (Rhino).Continue reading →


Stone Temple Pilots To Play First Show With New Singer

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Stone Temple Pilots, long rumored to be ready to return with a new singer, will officially play their first live show with that new singer Tuesday, November 14 at a special invitation-only concert for SiriusXM listeners at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California.Continue reading →


Stone Temple Pilots Close To Naming New Singer

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In an interview Stone Temple Pilots co-founders Dean and Robert DeLeo revealed that the band has chosen a new singer and are close to naming him. The announcement comes just a few months after the death of the previous singer Chester Bennington, also of Linkin Park. Original singer Scott Weiland died on December 5th, 2015. Continue reading →


Stone Temple Pilots ‘Core’ Album Turns 25 Today

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Released on the same day in 1992 as Alice In Chains’ Dirt, Stone Temple Pilots burst on the scene with Core (Atlantic), an album that immediately vaulted the band from a virtual unknown to a buzz band. Although there had been a bidding war to sign the band in their pre-Core days, a name change from Mighty Joe Young had kept the band off of some critics radar, but not the fans. Once they heard the first strains of this great new hard rock band, they would be hard to resist. With the untimely deaths of original singer Scott Weiland, and more recently Chester Bennington in the rearview, but keeping this important band in our hearts, let’s look back at this iconic early 90s album and band. Continue reading →