Cutter's RockCast

George Pendergast is the original drummer for the popular 90's alt-rock band Dishwalla. They had numerous top songs like "Counting Blue Cars" and "Charlie Brown's Parents" before disbanding after the turn of the century. Back with new music, George walks us through the journey that is Dishwalla.

On the week of the release of Motionless in White's amazing new album 'Scoring the End of the World', I caught up with singer Chris Motionless. We find out how the fans helped inspire songs on the new album, how mental health was affected by the pandemic, and what song is Chris' current favorite.

There are few bands that have been able to include the creativity and success that Nothing More has over the past decade. After a pandemic that left everyone a little depressed, Nothing More are back with some of their most aggressive music yet. A new album will be out later this year featuring their new songs "Turn it Up Like" and "Tired of Winning." Joining us from backstage is lead singer Jonny...

Eva Maria is the lead singer of the rock band Eva Under Fire. The band in the past couple of years has really begun to win over fans worldwide with their very hard-driving songs and vocals on par with anyone. Their latest single "Blow" features Spencer from Ice Nine Kills and starting to rocket up the mainstream rock charts. On top of that they recently put out a cover of the Journey song "Seperat...

Shane Told is the lead singer of the band Silverstein. A band that has been around since the year 2000 and while that may surprise some people, their extremely dedicated and hardcore fanbase will probably be like, "psh where have you been?" With the release of their 10th studio album 'Misery Made Me' it seems like they are finally posed to play in the mainstream. The beauty is they've gotten here...

Mastodon is a band that's on it's 22nd year of existence and has done nothing but turned heads along the way. Their latest album is called 'Hushed and Grim' and in a day and age where everyone is listening to singles and supposedly doesn't care about albums, they released a double album. Now that it's been out for a while and to celebrate the release of their latest single from it "Peach and Tranq...

On the day that Halestorm's awaited new album 'Back From the Dead' has been released I'm excited for this conversation. Lzzy Hale as the amazing frontwoman of Halestrom has been a trailblazer since their self-titled release debut in 2009. The pandemic though threw a wrench in the fire for most of us, even giant rockstars like Lzzy Hale. (This conversation was prerecorded a couple of weeks before t...

Blues-rock guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd released his debut album when he was a teenager. Then at the old age of 18, he wrote and recorded one of rock's best albums 'Trouble Is' featuring the megahit song "Blue on Black." That was 25 years ago and now Kenny is out on the road playing that album in its entirety and celebrating its anniversary. We relive the album that made him a household name in...

The leader, the frontman, the songwriter, the mastermind, and whatever other titles you can come up with all describe this week's guest. He is Tobias Forge, but better known as Papa from the band Ghost. Their new album 'Impera' is out now and features guitar work from Fredrick Akesson of the band Opeth. The imagery, the music, the history we talk about it all with Tobias Forge of Ghost.

Chris Jericho may already be a legend in the world of wrestling. From ECW to WCW to WWE and now one of the main players in the world of AEW. As time goes Chris is starting to become a legend in the world of hard rock as well. Fozzy started their career as a band 20 years ago playing covers, but Chris and his guitar partner Rich Ward quickly solidified themselves as the real deal. Now with a few to...

Jay Weinberg comes from a lineage of drummers. His dad Max was the drummer for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, plus he played drums for Conon O'Brien's various late-night talk shows. Now that's just the introduction. Jay has been in the rock scene blazing his own path for years. About 8 years ago that path brought him to Des Moines, IA to become the drummer in Slipknot. Could anything pre...

Nita Strauss has spent the past almost decade playing guitar for Alice Cooper, that's a great gig. Well, she also has one of the most anticipated rock albums of 2022 coming out later this year. It'll be her second solo album and this is the first to feature singers. Her first song out was with David Draiman of Disturbed called "Dead Inside" and it gave her her first number one rock song. The first...

The man at this point should need no introduction, but we shall anyway. Munky is one of the founding members and guitarist in the (can we say legendary?) band, Korn. His real name is James Shaffer and he like most of us had a tough time at the beginning of the pandemic. Like every good artist, he took those issues and turned them into art. Last year at the heart of the lockdowns himself and his ba...

The band Plush are an all-female band from the east coast who are all teenagers but don't let their age fool you. These girls have the rock and roll gene and their music is as furious as any band's out there. They were handpicked by Amy Lee to open the Evanescence and Halestorm tour. Now they are out with Slash and they have their 2nd top 40 rock single. Oh and their lead singer Moriah Formica was...

Jelly Roll is someone you may know as that Nashville rapper who plays country music. Well it's not just that, there's so much more to the artist Jelly Roll and has now gotten into the rock world. Unlike another rapper who jumped into the rock world, Jelly Roll is very sincere about it. The man has soul in his voice and powerful words in every song he writes. We now get a taste of that as "Dead Man...

Now that the Young Guns tour has kicked off with Mammoth WVH and Dirty Honey. Now after having Wolfgang on last week our old friend Marc Labelle lead singer of Dirty Honey joins us. It's rock and roll and it's all about rock and roll, songs, songwriting, touring, live sound, and covering Prince songs. Oh and hockey, lots of hockey.

The name Van Halen and rock and roll go hand in hand. Wolfgang is continuing to prove that. With the self-titled release, Mammoth WVH is a piece of just sold hard rock with great songwriting. Featuring number one singles with one of those songs being a dedication to his dad Eddie, Mammoth WVH has definitely gotten people's attention. The album was 100% recorded by Wolfgang and has put together a k...

Bad Omens are getting set to release their 3rd album 'Death of Peace of Mind' on February 25th. The music has grown and has been turned a little on its side since their first album in 2016. Lead singer and principal songwriter for Bad Omens Noah Sebastian joins us to talk about this music and why. Oh and why did he cut his long hair off?

Briton Bond and Cody Quistad of the metalcore band Wage War join us from their tour bus just before wrapping up their mostly sold out with Falling in Reverse. The story of Wage War follows the path of a band that has earned the respect of everyone in the scene and then rises up the ranks. Proving they aren't just pure brute and might Wage War have toyed with a more mainstream sound in the past, bu...

You know Mike Protich as the lead singer of Red Sun Rising. Right before the pandemic had hit Mike along with Pat and Dave from Red Sun decided to start over as a three-piece band and do things a bit differently. They called themselves The Violent and while they have five songs out digitally now, they are ready to unleash themselves onto the world. To do that The Violent have put out a daring cove...

Who would have thought that Falling in Reverse would have had the biggest rock song in the world of the past few years? Yet here we are, Ronnie Radke and company did it. Falling in Reverse in 2019 released "Popular Monster" and while they had already had a big and hardcore fanbase, that song put them on top of the rock world. 3 years and a pandemic later they have released a new song called "Zombi...

Kevin and his son Kane have become two of the most sought-after producers in modern rock. From Five Finger Death Punch to Ozzy, their list of credits is long. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to listen to rock radio in the 21st century, (or a playlist) and not hear songs produced by one or both of the Churkos. Take the album 'Immortalized' by Disturbed for example. That album has the band's biggest...

Trivium have just released their tenth studio album, another metal powerhouse called 'In The Court of the Dragon' So Matt and I dissect songwriting in this episode, plus how they are able to get so intense so quickly. Oh and if you didn't know Matt has become an extremely popular Twitch streamer so get into that as well. In fact he was streaming this interview as it happened. Oh and as if that was...

Of Mice & Men just put out their 7th studio album entitled 'Echo.' The album itself is made up of 3 different E.P.s all put out during the pandemic. Add a few more songs and they had a ready-made album. An album made during a pandemic and done 100 percent remotely. Oh, and parts of it were made while live-streaming on Twitch. Yeah, we thought that was pretty cool too, which is why it's high time t...

Fun Fact: After all these years I've never spoken to Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria in an official forum before. Now we get to find out for sure they are definitely more than just that "comic book band." The stories told within this incredible music though should not be downplayed and with a new album on the way 2022 is looking solid for Coheed and Cambria.