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9/1 Travis Barker‘s “urgent family matter” forces Blink-182 to postpone U.K. and Ireland tour dates as the drummer returns to the U.S. Barker’s wife, the “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star Kourtney Kardashian, has a “brief” hospital stay. 9/2 Avatar’s “The Dirt I’m Buried In” is #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. The song is the lead single…
10/2 Stevie Nicks states, in a published interview, that she sees “no reason” to continue Fleetwood Mac without keyboardist and co-vocalist Christine McVie, who passed away the previous year. 10/5 Play ball! A scheduling conflict forces a change of venue for a Guns N’ Roses concert in Phoenix. The show was originally scheduled to take…
11/1 Five Finger Death Punch announce they will donate a portion of their upcoming tour ticket revenue to Covenant House’s programs to house, feed, educate, provide job assistance, mental health services and healthcare to homeless youth across the Americas. 11/2 “Now And Then,” called “the last Beatles song,” is released. Based on a John Lennon demo from…
The rumors of his death have been greatly exaggerated… “(They have YouTube clips reporting on) ‘People who have died… and they put it on that I died,” Ozzy Osbourne explained on a newly released episode of the revived “The Osbournes” podcast. “I’m not dead. I’m not really dead. Just a little flesh wound.” Ozzy has struggled with a number…
Slipknot, KoЯn, Nickelback and Smashing Pumpkins are among the artists included in Kentucky senator Rand Paul’s (12/23) annual report on wasteful government spending. The report identified $900 billion in federal waste this year, including monies provided to “dozens of famous music artists” under the Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant designed to “provide a lifeline to small entertainment…
The Slipknot frontman had an impressive year as a solo artist. Corey Taylor scored a solo #1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, with “Beyond.” Released his sophomore solo album, “CMF2” containing the singles “Talk Sick,” “Beyond,” “Post Traumatic Blues” and “We Are The Rest.” Both Taylor and Slipknot announced tours slated for 2024. Taylor will launch…
Spencer Elden, who appeared as a naked 4-month-old baby swimming toward a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana’s iconic ‘91 “Nevermind” album, can proceed with his legal claim of child pornography against the band following a federal appeals court ruling (on 12/21). The Ninth Circuit wrote “this conclusion is consistent with the Supreme Court’s…
A signed Eddie Van Halen Peavey EVH Wolfgang guitar that went on the auction block December 14th has sold for $110,000 by Guernsey’s auction house in New York City. The guitar formerly belonged to Jason Becker, a rising guitar phenom who recorded two albums and had stints with David Lee Roth, before being diagnosed with ALS…
Swedish Metalcore band Imminence will embark on a U.S. tour in April. This year alone the band issued a series of singles, the most recent of which is “Death By A Thousand Cuts.” They plan to include those singles on their upcoming album (no release date has been announced). The group consists of vocalist Eddie…
Huntley (Michael Huntley) is the Season 24 winner of “The Voice.” Over the years it has been very rare that a Rock oriented singer has made the finals much less prevail in the singing competition. Huntley, with Blues/Country leanings and known for his signature “Viking” look sang a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s…