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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Brent smith - The Untold Story

"My bandmates saved my life. Without question. They never judged me." Shinedown frontman Brent Smith opens up about the loss, addiction and rebirth that led to new album EI8HT

Shinedown’s charmed career belies a band that has rolled with the punches

Metal Hammer · Jul 7

Kid Rock’s controversial country music festival suffers another blow as fourth artist exits

Rock band Shinedown said they did not want to ‘participate in something we believe will create further division’

The Independent UK · Feb 6

“BB held one note for 12 bars… I set my guitar down, and I walked off the stage. That was the biggest musical lesson I’ve ever learned”: Zach Myers on Shinedown’s secret weapon, the limitations of shred, and that time he got schooled by BB King

Signing in from Shinedown's epic summer tour, Myers talks about the band's long-awaited studio album, the controversy over his relic'd Silver Sky and why Eric Bass is the band's ace in the hole

MusicRadar · Aug 5, 2025

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How a rural Texas sheriff became a poster child for serving Trump’s immigration goals

Roy Boyd has also become one of the loudest cheerleaders for partnerships between sheriffs and ICE to offer the federal agency unprecedented access to jails and deputies.

The Texas Tribune · Jul 31, 2025

“He talked to me about fly fishing for two hours and never mentioned a guitar”: Shinedown’s Zach Myers on the “genius” Paul Reed Smith, his forthcoming signature model – and THAT relic’d pink Silver Sky

Myers says he caught so much heat for his distressed hot pink John Mayer Silver Sky that he joked with his tech that he was going to torch it onstage

MusicRadar · Jul 16, 2025

“Music is medicine. It can heal you. It really can”: Shinedown’s Brent Smith on finding inspiration in a hurricane, the “genius” Rick Beato, and why you don’t need to be play guitar to write a great rock song

The Shinedown frontman checks in to talk about the beauty of songwriting, the power of a song like Three Six Five, and to share his "most profound" advice for aspiring writers

MusicRadar · Jul 8, 2025

“When you talk about just knowledge of music and of instrumentation, he is a literal genius”: Shinedown frontman Brent Smith on what makes Rick Beato a great producer

Beato co-produced Shinedown's debut album and shared writing credits with Smith, who says the YouTube superstar has a "profound" knowledge of music

MusicRadar · Jun 25, 2025

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Shinedown frontman Brent Smith says he has seen music "cure cancer"

Brent Smith of Shinedown says he's seen songs cure cancer – repeating a claim he made back in 2019

Metal Hammer · Jun 10, 2024

Why I ❤️ Soundgarden's Superunknown, by Shinedown's Brent Smith

Shinedown frontman Brent Smith on the impact of Soundgarden's Superunknown, and how it was influenced by Frank Sinatra

Metal Hammer · Mar 21, 2023

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