1/12 Cheap Trick Frontman Sings The National Anthem Robin Zander sings the National Anthem prior the Wild Card play-off game in Tampa between the hometown Buccaneers and the Washington Commanders. He does a great job – tasteful yet moving. 1/12 Tommy Lee Criticizes Fellow Musicians Self-Promotion During The L.A. Wildfires Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee (pictured above) doesn’t think much of musicians who are promoting their tours and album releases while wildfires level areas of Los Angeles. “Makes me f*cking sick to see most people just caring on posting on lame ass social media,” the drummer wrote on Instagram. “Guys right now nobody gives a flying f*ck when your record drops or the next concert is when so many people are in the middle of one of the biggest disasters of all time!” 1/12 Nonpoint Drummer Hospitalized Nonpoint drummer Robb Rivera is taken to the hospital after his heart rate increased significantly during the performance at the Mercury Ballroom in Louisville, KY. At the hospital doctors were able to lower the drummer’s high heart rate and he was released the following day. 1/13 Metallica Announces Major Donation Metallica’s All Within My Hands (AWMH) foundation grants $500,000 for Los Angeles area wildfire relief efforts carried out by the California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the Pasadena Community Foundation’s Eaton Canyon Fire Relief And Recovery Fund. Nearly 100,000 people are under evacuation orders. 40,000 acres have burned, and more than 12,000 structures — commercial and residential —have been destroyed. 1/14 Dave Grohl Stirs The Pot For Fire Relief The Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl celebrates his 56th birthday by stirring a large batch of chili with other volunteers at Feed The Streets, a local nonprofit that distributes meals to displaced families and inmate firefighters in the SoCal area. Grohl, an L.A. resident, is part of the music community’s efforts to raise money through benefit concerts and other activities for people displaced by the wildfires that erupted on January 7th, killing at least 25 people and damaging or destroying more than 12,000 homes and buildings 1/15 Ice Nine Kills Raises Funds For Wildfire Relief Ice Nine Kills announces they have raised over $100,000 for victims for the California Wildfires with their “Heed The Call For California” benefit shirt. ““Most of us live in California, and like many people here, we felt powerless as we watched the devastation unfold.,” offered the Metalcore band’s frontman Spencer Charnas. All proceeds go to the California Fire Foundation Wildfire and Disaster Relief Fund. ### The post The Week In Rock: January 11th – January 18th appeared first on RockinTown.