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On this day…The National Football League (NFL) officially announce that Maroon 5, a three-time Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum band, would headline the Pepsi Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show on 02/03 in Atlanta. A handful of pop performers passed on the show in solidarity with former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who while with the San Francisco 49ers, started…
An Australian construction company, Burwood Square Pty Ltd., has apologized to AC/DC fans after mistakenly demolishing the childhood home of guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young (pictured above). The house in the Sydney suburb of Burwood — where the Young brothers lived from 1965 to AC/DC’s formation in 1973 — was previously listed on the National Trust…
Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie) spent a large chunk of the early ’90s recording and performing in semi-obscurity. Just well-known enough to build a small but loyal fan base, while at the same time, getting a heap of flak/criticism from the local music community. In the mid-90s, Kid Rock formed a backing band dubbed Twisted…
7/2 Heart postpones its “Royal Flush” tour so that singer Ann Wilson can undergo cancer treatment. She had undergone an operation to remove “something that, as it turns out, was cancerous.” 7/4 System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian continues his criticism of Imagine Dragons for playing a show in Baku, Azerbaijan because it helped “whitewash the dictatorial regime’s image.”…
5/1 Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) keyboardist Richard Tandy dies at the age of 76. 5/2 Creed plays a seven-song acoustic set at guitarist Mark Tremonti’s charity golf event for the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) at Champions Gate golf club in Orlando, FL. 5/3 Hall Aflame, a band led by Metal Church guitarist Kurdt Vanderhoof, releases sophomore album, “Amplifire.” The…
The Rolling Stones launch of their first-ever fine fragrance, RS No. 9 Eau De Parfum, limited to 999 numbered 100m bottles priced at $99.99, was an immediate success quickly selling out online and at Stones stores in London and Tokyo. The fragrance was created by perfumer Catherine Selig who said, “I wanted to capture the Rolling…
Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer has closed his Rockin’ & Roastin‘ organic coffee line after more than a decade in business. “After the years of working to recover from the devastation to our business from the impact of Covid, significant increases in the cost of doing business and the tragic, painful loss of my wife, Linda, there just is no realistic alternative…
Gibson Guitars has confirmed that it has issued a cease and desist order to Trump Guitars over the use of its single-cut electric guitar model, “as the design infringes upon Gibson’s exclusive trademarks, particularly the iconic Les Paul body shape.” The incoming 47th American President has endorsed a series of guitars – as part of…
Transgender singer Mina Caputo, the vocalist for Life Of Agony, says that she has “cured” her gender dysphoria and will change her name back to Keith Caputo after being “physically completely detransitioned” next year. Caputo broke the news of her plans to detransition in a 13-minute video posted to her Instagram account on the 19th. “Yes. I’m off of hormones six,…
Japanese supergroup The Last Rockstars, led by the legendary Yoshik (pictured), has released the video for “Mastery.” The song was chosen as the official image song for “Tekken 8,“ the latest installment of the 3D fighting game series and was first previewed last August in Riyadh, which was the venue for the world’s largest e-sports tournament, “Esports World Cup…