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Green Day‘s fourteenth album, “Saviors,” will drop January 19th. The lead single “The American Dream Is Killing Me” topped Billboard’s Mainstream Rock chart… the band’s eighth #1 on the survey. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said he knew “The American Dream Is Killing Me” would be the album’s lead single as soon as the band finished cutting…
The legendary Metal band has been inducted into the RockinTown.com Hall of Fame – Class of 2024 Iron Maiden took its name from a particularly nasty medieval torture device. As a reaction to the U.K.’s rising late-70’s Punk scene Iron Maiden aimed at preserving the Metal ethos and set down a blistering path with chain…
The Classic Rock band is in the RockinTown.com Hall of Fame – Class of 2024 “If I’d know it was going to be such a big hit I think I would have spent a lot more time working on it,” Tom Petty once said of “Refugee,” The quote revealed a self-depreciating nature. Petty, solo or…
10. Within Temptation: Bleed Out For their eighth studio album, the group focused on singles rather than attempting to record an album in one fell swoop. As a result, the album spawned five singles. Key Tracks: Entertain You, The Purge, Shed My Skin. Don’t Pray For Me and Ritual. Awsooooooooome! Masterpiece! Linda Morgan I was 14 when I discovered this band, now…
Green Day will perform an exclusive concert for SiriusXM at New York City’s Irving Plaza on January 18th to commemorate the release of their 14th album, “Saviors,” due January 19th. The album’s lead track, “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” has been #1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Songs chart for five weeks… and counting. Subscribers can enter for a chance…
“Roads To Madness: The Touring History Of Queensrÿche (1981-1997)“ will be published in March. The book covers all the concert dates that feature band’s original lineup. Pre-order at nwmetalworxmusic.com. The progressive heavy metal band formed in the early ’80’s and have sold over 20 million albums worldwide, including over six million albums in the U.S. A limited…
Green Day took the stage during ABC’s broadcast of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest” and called out Donald Trump’s supporters by changing the lyrics to their ‘04 hit “American Idiot.” Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong sings “I’m not part of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) agenda” rather than the original line,…
The groundbreaking vocalist is in the RockinTown Hall of Fame – Class of 2024. According to legend, Tina Turner’s life and career took a dramatic turn for the better as soon as she left her violent husband Ike. Not exactly accurate. Her first two albums after splitting from Ike, “Rough” (’78) and “Love Explosion” (’79) were…
Eric Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times… as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream, and as a solo performer. Clapton’s guitar work was also a focal point in John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers (where he acquired the nickname “Slowhand” and fans were writing “Clapton Is God”…
This is a story of the convoluted and sometimes torturous road taken by drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie. These two Brit Blues vets had been in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers before deciding to strike out on their own. Over the next few years Fleetwood Mac plodded along as guitarists Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, Danny…