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Aerosmith’s “Dream On” has surpassed a billion streams on Spotify.
Aerosmith joins other Rock artists, including Metallica‘s “Nothing Else Matters,” Survivor‘s “Eye Of The Tiger“ and Papa Roach’s “Last Resort“ in Spotify’s Billions Club. Reportedly there are nearly 500 tracks in the club.
Billions Club is a playlist first launched in ’20 which includes all of the songs on Spotify that have surpassed one billion streams on the platform.
A California appeals court has rejected Metallica’s lawsuit demanding that Lloyd’s of London cover more than $3 million in losses stemming from cancelled 2020 South American concerts due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Weeks prior to the tour’s scheduled launch, COVID-19-related travel restrictions were enacted in all parts of the world, giving Metallica no choice but to postpone the…
Pinhead Gunpowder, with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, will release “Unt” on October 18th. The set, the band’s first full-length effort since ’97, features the title track. In the interim, the band issued eight EPs – the most recent was ’08’s “West Side Highway. “A new record was only a matter of time, but between the…
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Approximately 50,000 fans attended the inaugural Golden Gate Park Concerts last Saturday, (August 17th) in San Francisco. The concerts aim to make the City By The Bay a music destination. The show marked System Of A Down’s second live appearance of the year following the Sick New World festival last April in Las Vegas. The band opened…
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson was performing in Brasília last Saturday (April 27th) promoting his recently released solo album, “The Mandrake Project,” when he launched into a tirade over noxious fume wafting over the stage. “I can’t fucking breathe,” an aggravated Dickinson was seen ranting in a now deleted Instagram video. “Somebody down here (in the audience) has been using pepper…
Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd performed under the anagram alias Nudedragons, for a special (12/14) performance in Seattle at the 13th annual SMooCH (Seattle Musicians for Children’s Hospital) concert benefiting Seattle Children’s Hospital’s uncompensated care fund. They were joined at the Nordstrom-backed benefit by singer-songwriter Shaina Shepherd and Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, among others. Featured Songs: Hunted Down (with Shaina…