“We’re moving to that phase with a few guys. We’re gonna bring them in and work for a couple days, see how a live feel to it works.”
— Rachel Bolan / Skid Row
MS NEWS / May 20th 2026 — New Jersey rockers Skid Row are still in the middle of their on-going audition process trying to fill their singer void.
However, it appears the band are making some progress according to the band’s co-founder and bassist Rachel Bolan.
Bolan recently went on record in an interview with the Neil Jones Rock Show on Total Rock, and the bassist addressed the band’s partnership with Sweetwater and how the group are wading through the process.
Bolan spoke out and shared some details during the recent interview and Blabbermouth shared the following: “Well, we got video submissions from over 300 people. And we’ve also had some outside submissions of people telling us, like friends in other bands, ‘Oh, I saw this band. You gotta go check this kid out,’ and stuff like that. So, we’re at the point… We keep doing it in phases. We watch the video, and there’s a lot of really, really good singers out there. A lot of them are great, but they’re not the right fit musically for SKID ROW. But there are a few.”
Bolan continued: “So we’ll get the video submissions. Then we’ll go to, ‘Okay, let’s get in a room with a few people over the course of four days,’ bring in two or three people a day. And that’s where we’re at now. We’re moving to that phase with a few guys. We’re gonna bring them in and work for a couple days, see how a live feel to it works. ‘Cause you’re in the studio — you know how it is; you could do a million takes and make it perfect. But we wanna see what it feels like in a room. And then it’s also — it’s the hangout. It’s the hang. It’s, like, ‘Are you cool?’ And see how the hang is. So we’re at that phase with a few guys. And we have the luxury of time right now. We have no tours booked. We’re not in the middle of making a record, so we don’t have to make any rush decisions. But there’s a few guys that have really piqued our interest, for sure.”
Read the full article at Blabbermouth.
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