Korn and Faith No More are teaming up for a 26-date joint tour. After kicking off at the Pepsi Center in Denver on August 7th, the bands will hit several cities in California and Texas before heading to the East Coast. They’ll make a stop at Barclays Center in Brooklyn …
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Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman will be auctioning off some of the instruments he used during his stint in the band. Other items in the more than 1,000-lot auction include his awards, concert posters, costumes, photos and correspondence. Everything will hit the auction block at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly …
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Slipknot performed a six-song set for BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show at Maida Vale Studios in London, with videos of two tracks now available online. The set, recorded last month for air on February 9th, included “Unsainted,” “Psychosocial,” “The Devil in I,” “Duality,” “Disasterpiece” and “Wait And Bleed.” “Welcome to …
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Carly Rae Jepsen has kicked off 2020 with break-up post-mortem “Let’s Be Friends.” She released her fourth album, Dedicated, in May. “Let’s be friends/Then never speak again,” she sassily declares with her brush-off lyrics over a strutting guitar melody. “It’s cool, we can just …
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Marc Cohn promotes gun reform in his moving “Work to Do” video, the title track from his new collaborative album with the gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama. Directed by his daughter Emily, the clip features several people writing inspirational messages on Post-its as the folk artist sings with …
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Dave Mustaine said he is “100 percent” cancer-free during Megadeth‘s concert at the SSE Arena in London Friday, January 31st. About halfway through the band’s set, Mustaine told the crowd about his throat cancer diagnosis last year, which he was given right as Megadeth was recording their new album. “At …
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Michael Stipe went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night to discuss his new book, Our Interference Times: A Visual Record. Stipe talked about the inspiration behind the book (the merging of analog and digital technology) as well as about one of his earliest heroes: Quasimodo, the hunchback of …
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Def Leppard have compiled a thorough accounting of their earliest days — when they burst out of their native Sheffield, England, as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal — for a new box set. The Early Years 79-81 collects remastered versions of their first two LPs, On …
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Sammy Hagar and his band the Circle (guitarist Vic Johnson, bassist Michael Anthony, and drummer Jason Bonham) have announced a joint tour with Whitesnake for the summer of 2020. Night Ranger will open for both bands on the tour. “I love some friendly competition onstage and that’s exactly what this …
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Ahead of the 62nd annual Grammys, the Chairman and interim CEO of the Recording Academy Harvey Mason Jr. responded to demands made by the Diversity Task Force for “real and constructive change.” Signed by a mix of artists and task force members, the Tina Tchen-chaired committee, which was created in …
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