June 18th, 1984: Judas Priest Gets Banned

June 18th, 1984: Judas Priest Gets Banned

On this day, Judas Priest played New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Rowdy concert goers trashed the venue doing over $250,000 in damage. As a result, Priest was banned for life. Here’s what happened… Before the show even began, the crowd was hurling beer bottles, lighting firecrackers and tossing lit M-80s onto the stage. Several…

“You Give Love A Bad Name” Surpasses A Billion Streams

“You Give Love A Bad Name” Surpasses A Billion Streams

Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love A Bad Name“ has joined Spotify’s Billions Club. It’s the band’s second song to have a billion streams on the platform. “Livin’ On A Prayer” reached that milestone last year. “You Give Love A Bad Name,” written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child, was the first single from the ’86 album “Slippery When Wet.” The song…

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New Music: Dragonforce, Kittie, The Ravonettes, A Day To Remember & More

Dragonforce: The Draco Tale The band has teamed with ‘Brawl Stars’, a hit multiplayer mobile game with over one billion downloads, to celebrate a new character entering the game. Kittie: One Foot In The Grave The new track is the fourth single to be released from the band’s studio album, “Fire,“ their first in over 13 years, due…

John Lennon Guitar Auctioned For $2.9 Million

John Lennon Guitar Auctioned For $2.9 Million

A long-lost acoustic guitar used by the late John Lennon sold for $2.9 million at auction on Wednesday (5/29), becoming the highest grossing auctioned guitar in Beatles history. The 12-string guitar, used in the recording of The Beatles’ ’65 “Help!” album and film (notably on “You Got To Hide Your Love Away“) was found in an attic having not…

Hillhaven’s “The God You Think You Are”

Hillhaven’s “The God You Think You Are”

Hillhaven, a band comprised of members of Ice Nine Kills and From Ashes To New, have released a second single “The God You Think You Are.” The song “is a frontal assault on the manipulative narcissist,” the band stated. “It’s an aggressive, forward, unapologetic ego killer of a song.” The first single was “Damned To Dream.” “We’ve…

“Routine Medical Procedure” Cancels Heart’s European Tour

“Routine Medical Procedure” Cancels Heart’s European Tour

Heart has canceled a planned summer European tour so that singer Ann Wilson can recover from what is described as a “time-sensitive but routine medical procedure.” The minimum recovery time is six weeks.  The European leg of the “Royal Flush” tour was scheduled to kick off next month and run through mid-July, with several festival appearances.  “I’m okay! Please…

Disturbed Surpass A Billion Views for “Sound Of Silence”

Disturbed Surpass A Billion Views for “Sound Of Silence”

The official music video for Disturbed’s cover of “The Sound Of Silence” has officially topped a billion views on YouTube. “The Sound Of Silence,” originally appeared on Disturbed’s sixth studio album “Immortalized,” was uploaded to YouTube in ’15, and marks Disturbed’s first song to reach the milestone. Disturbed’s “The Sound Of Silence“ went to #1 on Billboard‘s Hard Rock and Mainstream Rock charts. Written by Paul…

Ed Sheeran Joins The Offspring At BottleRock

Ed Sheeran Joins The Offspring At BottleRock

The Offspring was joined by pop maven Ed Sheeran on stage during the band’s performance during Sunday’s BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. They performed a “Million Miles Away” from The Offspring’s ’00 album “Conspiracy Of One,” which the band hadn’t played live since ’16. “Ed told us that one of our records was his first CD that he ever bought…

Vixen Splits With Vocalist Lorraine Lewis

Vixen Splits With Vocalist Lorraine Lewis

Vixen has parted ways with singer Lorraine Lewis (pictured above), who joined the band in ’19 following the departure of founding member, Janet Gardner. In a statement via her social media Lewis noted that “the band has taken a different direction.” Vixen’s most commercially viable period was in the late-80s/early-90s with the albums “Vixen” (’88),”Rev It Up” (’90) which featured…