5/19 Clown, the founding Slipknot percussionist. misses the band’s headlining appearance at the Sonic Temple festival. “Clown, yesterday, broke a tooth and had to have it removed,” frontman Corey Taylor told the audience. “There’s an issue. He had to stay home for medical reasons.” The show goes on. 5/21 Guns N’ Roses’ “Appetite For Destruction” is honored by the Grammy Hall of Fame in L.A. The song was inducted into the Hall of Fame earlier in the year.  5/22 Hoobastank’s “The Reason” surpasses one-billion streams on Spotify. The band’s most commercially successful single “expresses regret and rebirth after hurting a loved one.” 5/23 Bad Omens cancel their U.K. and European summer tour plans. Recording and touring has pushed singer Noah Sebastian “to the limits of my mental bandwidth. Putting my mind and body in conflict with one another.” 5/23 The Department of Justice files an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment accusing the concert and ticketing giant of exerting monopolistic power through its exclusive ticketing agreements, its promotions business and its ownership of many popular amphitheaters, among other claims. DOJ wants to split up Live Nation and Ticketmaster. 5/24 “Blue Electric Light,” the twelfth studio album from Lenny Kravitz, is released. The set, his first since ’18’s “Raise Vibration,” was recorded at his studio in the Bahamas. Kravitz played most of the instruments with contributions from frequent collaborator, guitarist Craig Ross. The lead single was “TK421.” ### The post The Week In Rock: GN’R Honored, Hoobastank Surpasses A Billion & Bad Omens Bail appeared first on RockinTown.