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Getting to the top of any chart is difficult but staying there is even harder. The following is a list of songs that stayed at #1 for five weeks or more the on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock chart. Below the title and artist is the date the song reached #1. 5 Weeks: Unforgettable – Godsmack May…
Disney+ is streaming “The Beach Boy, a celebration of the band whose music encapsulated the California sound and lifestyle. The documentary has never-before-seen footage and interviews with The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston plus archival interviews with the late Carl and Dennis Wilson. Their best-known songs include “California Girls,”…
Bruce Springsteen received the Ivors Academy fellowship Thursday (5/23) night in London. He is the first international songwriter, 27th person overall, to be inducted into the fellowship, which is the awards’ highest honor. Sir Paul McCartney led the induction ceremony joking that “unlike Bruce’s concerts” he would “keep this brief.” The Academy is one of…
Iron Butterfly founding member, organist, primary composer and lead vocalist Doug Ingle died on 5/24 at the age of 78. Ingle wrote, sang and played organ on the psychedelic Rock band’s best-known song – the 1968 classic “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Ingle was the last surviving member of Iron Butterfly’s classic “Vida-era” line-up. Following the release of Iron Butterfly’s debut album “Heavy,” the…
Bring Me The Horizon have released its seventh album, “Post Human: Nex Gen.” “It’s a real concept album,” explained BMTH frontman Oli Sykes (pictured above). “For some people it could be like a self-help book. There’s a lot of things in there, some of it’s quite clear, but a lot of it cryptic and hidden. People…
The Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment accusing the concert and ticketing giant of exerting monopolistic power through its exclusive ticketing agreements, its promotions business and its ownership of many popular amphitheaters, among other claims. The lawsuit, joined by 30 states, claims that Live Nation’s 2010 merger with Ticketmaster created a dominant…
Babymetal/Electric Callboy: Ratatata A standalone single from two genre blending bands: Babymetal’s Japanese Dance-Pop + Heavy Metal and Electric Callboy’s Thrash-Dance. Hellacopters: Stay With You This is the band’s first new original song since the release of their ’22 comeback album “Eyes Of Oblivion.” “It was originally intended to be included on the upcoming LP but…
The Struts will perform during a special June 5th edition of the Soho Sessions concert series supporting Everytown for Gun Safety. Actress Julianne Moore, a founding chair of the Everytown Creative Council, and singer Karen Elson will host to raise awareness and support for Everytown’s work combatting and preventing gun violence across the country. The…
Some 600 songs have garnered more than a billion streams on Spotify. Here are the Top 5 Rock acts with the most songs that have crossed the billion threshold. 5. Guns N’ Roses Sweet Child O’ Mine Welcome To The Jungle Paradise City 4. AC/DC Back In Black Thunderstruck Highway To Hell You Shook Me…
The Warning: Keep Me Fed Tour Following the U.S. leg, the band will support Evanescence on a Candian trek. The tour will launch on 9/13 in Boston (following a Rocklahoma Festival appearance two weeks earlier) and will wrap up 10/30 in Toronto. Dates/Locations/Ticket Information Sevendust: “Seasons” 21st Anniversary Tour Note: “Seasons.” released in ’03, was…