Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

I'm in the studio with Andy Green.

We'll be joined shortly by Brittany Spanos. and we thought that today we would talk

about reunions a lot of reunions going on rage against the machine is getting back

together my chemical romance is getting back together.

The black crows in some form are getting back together.

It's interesting to me for a lot of reasons.

One thing is that rocks present basically doesn't exist, but there's so much of rocks past.

Right and we live in a world that is not producing a lot of big new rock bands

But there's such a hunger that's for live rock music, and that's especially true at the festival level.

So the money that you get offered, if you're a former rock band to reform, every year you're gone, it gets higher and higher and even

harder to say no to.

And you were saying that there's, especially in Europe, there's all these festivals, the

download festival etc that they're built around

rock for better or worse they can't book Drake as a headline or it wouldn't work right

but they can't also have Metallica every single year,

which is the current situation.

Yeah, I was talking to a good friend of mine

who's a manager of some big rock acts

that talks a lot to the European festival bookers,

and they were telling him there's this desperate hunger

for fresh bands and there's just very few of them that every summer it's the same

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