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Jelly Roll (Jason Bradley DeFord) has the #1 song on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart (dated July 15th) with “Need A Favor.” He knocked off Metallica‘s “72 Seasons” which had a two-week run at the top. The Country-Rock ballad has also scored on both Country and Billboard 200 (#17) charts. The track is from “Whitsitt…
Iron Maiden were presented with a gold disc at the first of their two sold-out shows at London’s O2 Arena (on 7/7) in recognition of their studio album “Senjutsu” selling over 100,000 physical copies in the U.K. “Senjutsu” (loosely translated from Japanese as “tactics and strategy”), released in September of 2021, was Iron Maiden’s seventeenth studio album. Two singles,…
Ghost made an immediate impression. Papa Emeritus wore a skull mask and dressed like a “demonic anti-Pope. He was backed by the Nameless Ghouls who were hidden behind silver masks with horns, satanic symbols and full-length hooded robes. It was a visual borne from a “love of horror films and the traditions of Scandinavian Metal.”…
If you are spending sleepless nights trying to figure why “Hair Metal” died an unceremonious death in the early ’90s there is an answer…. maybe a couple. It’s generally accepted that Grunge (Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, among others) killed Hair Metal. That obviously had something to do with it but according to Ratt‘s Stephen…
The Beach Boys featured three talented brothers, Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, a cousin, Mike Love and a friend, Al Jardine. Of them all, the most talented and sensitive was Brian. Their first hit was “Surfin’ U.S.A.” which put new lyrics to a Chuck Berry riff. The Beach Boys were soon on a roll with…
Metallica’s “72 Seasons,” the title track from their most recent album, is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated 7/1). The song is the second from the “72 “Seasons” album to top the chart. “Lux Æterna” was the first. Metallica now has twelve Mainstream Rock chart-toppers, which puts them in a three-way tie…
“In Times New Roman…” sits at #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock and Top Alternative charts for the current week. Queens Of The Stone Age‘s first album in six years is their eighth full-length effort. The set contains the tracks “Emotion Sickness,” “Paper Machete” and “Carnavoyeur.” “In Times New Roman…” Track…