DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED: 'Flatline' Video Available

"Flatline", the new video from VELVET REVOLVER bassist Duff McKagan's side band, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED, can be viewed below.

DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED has lined up a fistful of club shows in advance of their appearance at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, Ohio on May 16. The group will perform at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle on April 9, the Cannery in Nashville on April 18, then head back to Seattle for a May 2 gig at the Showbox Market. Following Rock On The Range, LOADED will play at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, New Jersey on May 17 before taking off for a month-long European trek in June with MÖTLEY CRÜE.

The group's first studio album in eight years, "Sick", is due out April 7. McKagan told The Pulse of Radio it's difficult for him to describe LOADED's sound. "It's LOADED," he said. "We definitely have our own quirky sound. We've never written songs to, you know, get played on the radio, but this record happens to be pretty damn radio friendly. And we write songs to go out and play them right immediately in a club, and we're not thinking any bigger than that, so the songs I think reflect a band that's comfortable in its own skin."

"Sick" is LOADED's third album, following 1999's "Live Episode" and 2001's "Dark Days".

The album's first single, "Flatline", is streaming at Playboy.com, where McKagan also writes a financial advice column.

The bassist recently told The Pulse of Radio that he hoped VELVET REVOLVER was just a few weeks away from announcing a new singer. It was revealed not long ago that country rocker Shooter Jennings turned down the gig.