AC/DC Crosses The Billion Streams Threshold… Again

AC/DC Crosses The Billion Streams Threshold… Again

AC/DC‘s “Back In Black“ video has officially topped a billion views on YouTube. The clip, which was uploaded to YouTube in ’12, is AC/DC’s second song to reach the milestone, after “Thunderstruck” hit one billion views in ’21. “Back In Black,” the title track from the band’s seventh studio album was released ’80 and was the first album to feature Brian Johnson as lead…

Paramore Is “Burning Down The House”

Paramore Is “Burning Down The House”

Paramore have released their take on Talking Heads‘ hit single “Burning Down The House” as part of a forthcoming “Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense” album. The cover features frontwoman Hayley Williams taking on the iconic song that David Byrne once called “an expression of liberation.” Other artists contributing to…

Nita Strauss To Perform At NASCAR Event

Nita Strauss To Perform At NASCAR Event

Nita Strauss will perform the U.S. national anthem prior to the “Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum” on February 4th in L.A. “The Call Of The Void,“ is the guitarist’s most recent album. The single “Dead Inside” with Disturbed’s David Draiman handling vocals went to #1 on Billboard’s Rock Airplay chart, Strauss is also known as…

Biggest Song Of All Time

Biggest Song Of All Time

Journey’s anthem “Don’t Stop Believin‘” has officially been declared the “Biggest Song Of All Time” by Forbes. According to the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA), the18-times platinum-certified single (based on pure sales and other forms of consumption–namely streaming), has been heard on radio, TV (network and cable), in films and at countless sporting events. It’s also a standard…

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Fall Out Boy

Three years after Chicago’s Fall Out Boy formed Island Records provided an advance for the group’s major label debut “Take This To Your Grave.” ’05 release “Under The Cork Tree” led to an extensive tour. F.O.B. even won a Road Woodie (Best Tour) at the student-selected mtvU Woodie Awards held in New York. “Infinity On…

Defunct Band Issue Song To Promote Mental Health

Defunct Band Issue Song To Promote Mental Health

The now-defunct Talisman has released a new song called “Save Our Love” as a way of raising awareness of the mental health crisis. “Marcel Jacob founded Talisman in ’89.  They released several studio and live albums before Jacob Unfortunately, Jacob took his own life on July 21st, ’09. “On January 30th, 2024, Marcel Jacob would have turned 60,” noted the band,

Marilyn Manson Ordered To Pay Legal Fees

Marilyn Manson Ordered To Pay Legal Fees

Marilyn Manson has been ordered to pay Evan Rachel Wood’s legal fees — a sum of $326,956 — after a judge dismissed a large portion of Manson’s defamation lawsuit against his former fiancée. In ‘22, Manson (Brian Warner) filed the defamation suit against Wood and her associate Illma Gore following Wood’s accusation of sexual abuse by the performer.   Los Angeles County…

Ex Hex’s Mary Timony Brings “Summer”

Ex Hex’s Mary Timony Brings “Summer”

“Summer” is the third single from Mary Timony’s upcoming album, “Untame The Tiger,” due February 23rd. “The Guest” and “Dominoes,” from late last year, were the previous singles. “I wanted it (“Summer”) to be a guitar stomper kind of in the vein of The Kinks, Jethro Tull or Elf and have simultaneous guitar solos at…