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Having already reached the top of the Billboard Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, Linkin Park has scored its 12th #1 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay survey (dated February 15th) with “‘Heavy Is The Crown.” The track is the second #1 from Linkin Park’s eighth studio album, “From Zero.” “The Emptiness Machine” was the first. “Heavy Is The…
Always feeling an outsider, Kurt Cobain deliberately tried to separate himself, or at the very least insulate himself, from the rest of the world. He took up drums but his first musical contribution was hauling gear for the Melvins. That gig led to meeting Krist Novoselic. Their initial effort had Cobain on drums and Novoselic…
Marking the 40th anniversary of Accept’s “Balls To The Wall” album, the band’s founding member and former frontman Udo Dirkschneider has reimaged tracks from the album set to be released on February 28th, A featured track is the recently released “Winter Dreams” with German Metal Queen Doro Pesch. “Doro and I have spent so many years together in the…
Blink-182 is the story of a cancer survivor, UFO enthusiast and a publicity maven. Blink formed in Poway, CA. After releasing an EP and a couple of indie CDs, “Buddha” and “Cheshire Cat,” Blink found there was an Irish band with the same name. On top of that, the Irishmen had lawyers and were ready…
The “Fire Aid” concerts in L.A. (1/30) were an essential step toward recovery from the devastation and cost of the wildfires that raged through SoCal in mid-January. Numerous performers played at two venues to raise money to aid in rebuilding. Performers at the newly opened Intuit Dome included Jelly Roll. Rod Stewart and Stevie Wonder. …
Vocalist Scott Weiland met bassist Robert DeLeo at Black Flag concert in Long Beach, CA. The meeting led to the formation of Mighty Joe Young and Shirley Temple’s Pussy (that was a lawsuit waiting to happen) before becoming Stone Temple Pilots (STP), with Robert’s brother Dean on guitar and drummer Eric Kretz. Also See…Stone…
The Church, though popular in their native land, had a tougher time in the States due in large part to their often diverse, free-form approach. They tended to favor thoughtful and meandering acoustic oriented songs. The Church could be moody and gloomy but also lush and textured. Steven Kilbey (bass, keyboards, vocals), Marty Wilson-Piper (guitar,…
Ardent Donald Trump supporter Kid Rock was one of the musical acts onstage during the “Make America Great Again” Rally (1/19) in Washington D.C. (on the eve of the presidential inauguration). The show also featured Country singers Lee Greenwood and Billy Ray Cyrus plus the Village People doing “Y.M.C. A.” – a Trump favorite. Kid…
The Offspring originally signed with Epitaph Records. “Ignition” rolled out in ’92 and went gold – shipping 500,000 units. Their next recording “Ixnay On The Hombre”” sold over a million copies but “Americana” chalked up three million in sales. “Conspiracy Of One,” the band’s sixth full-length effort arrived in ’00. The album was the last…
When a band’s first albums are titled “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love” (’02) and “Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge” (’04), there’s an obvious skewed world view. No wonder, My Chemical Romance was from New Jersey. The band’s name was procured from cult writer Irvine Walsh’s novel “Ecstasy – Three Tales…