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Avatar have announced a spring headline tour of North America. The trek will kick off on April 16th in Sacramento, CA and run through May 20th in Hampton Beach, NH. The run includes stops at the Welcome To Rockville and Sonic Temple festivals. Avatar Tour Dates: Avatar Tour Tickets April 16 – Sacramento, CA – Channel 24April 17 –…
Jimi Hendrix, in his brief but legendary career, was a trailblazing guitarist and showman. The clips below chart his career from an early Beat Club TV appearance in London to his last major festival gig on the Isle of Wright… with the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock in-between. The Animals bassist Chas Chandler saw Jimi…
It’s rare a musician gets bounced from a major group like Metallica for drug abuse and being difficult (the former usually causes the latter) and starts a successful group. Launched in ’83, by former Metallica guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, Megadeth’s debut “Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good” dropped less than two years later. Next,…
Great bands have made their mark this century. Narrowing it down to a Top 10 proved difficult but not impossible. Here are the Top 10 Rock songs (so far) for the 21st century. #10. Heaven Knows – The Pretty Reckless: 2013 Written by frontwoman Taylor Momsen and Ben Phillips, the song from the “Going To Hell”…
The great thing about alcohol is briefly, very briefly in fact, all things seem possible. With a buzz on, drinking away the evening in a Chinese restaurant in Athens, GA, future members of the B-52s, who had little or no prior musical experience, decided to form a group. The name came not from the lethal…
Taking Old School Hip-Hop, Classic Rock and electronic elements into the mix, Linkin Park burst out of the So. Cal music scene. Their debut, “Hybrid Theory” was released in late ’00. Interestingly, the CD’s title was the group’s original name. The aggressive Rap/Rocker “One Step Closer” led the way with Joseph Hahn’s scratching and Brad…
If you had long hair in the late-60s you probably also had pencil arms. So having a gym teacher who hated longhairs was a particular horror. One Leonard Skinner was notorious for putting Jacksonville, FL, longhaired high school boys through the ringer. To Skinner, long hair meant you were a hippie, in cahoots with left…
Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello and Beartooth vocalist Caleb Shomo have teamed for “Everything Burns.” The track made its in-game debut in the latest update to the “Final Fantasy XIV” video game. “‘Everything Burns’ is a high-energy, riff-heavy banger that feels like it’s rising from the streets,” said Morello. “Creating ‘Everything Burns’ was the definition of lightning in a bottle,” added Shomo. “Pressure makes…
The Church, though popular in their native Australia, 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,…
Three Days Grace are only the second act in the forty-four-year history of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart to earn their twentieth #1, “Kill Me Fast” (dated 12/13). Only Shinedown has logged more #1s (21). “Kill Me Fast”is the band’s third #1 in a row, starting with “Mayday,” in January. Kill Me Fast Three Days Grace…