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5/2 Dee Snider’s planned performance during the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade in late June is canceled by San Francisco Pride after the Twisted Sister frontman tweets his support for KISS frontman Paul Stanley’s controversial (4/30) statement criticizing gender-affirming healthcare for children. “We were heartbroken and angry,” writes San Francisco Pride in a statement. 5/3 Ghost takes the…
4/1 Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg debuts a new mask. Weinberg worked with Japanese artist Solid Blackline to create a new mask specially for Knotfest Japan shows. 4/2 The CMT (Country Music Television) Music Awards pay tribute to Southern Rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd and the band’s late guitarist Gary Rossington with a multi-genre salute that includes Slash (Guns N’ Roses),…
6/1 Linkin Park’s video for “Numb” is the band’s first t reach two billion views on YouTube. The “Meteora” track was released in ’03 and uploaded to YouTube in ’07. 6/1 Also, No Doubt joins YouTube’s Billion Views Club with “Don’t Speak” their first to cross the threshold. The track is from the ‘95 album…
Here’s a review of what happened…. 7/1 Queens Of The Stone Age (pictured above) sit at #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock and Top Alternative charts with “In Times New Roman…” 7/5 Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensk tells CNN that listening to AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses and Eric Clapton helps him get through Ukraine’s war with Russia. “AC/DC, I…
8/1 COVID-19 sidelines Sevendust guitarist John Connolly. The tour’s opening dates (in Buffalo and Asbury Park) are the first shows he misses in his entire career with the band. 8/1 Heavy rains turn Germany’s Wacken Open Air into a mudfest. Initially, cars and trucks are banned before the expected 85,000 in attendance is limited by organizers to…
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…
Lamb Of God guitarist Mark Morton is celebrating five years of sobriety (12/27). The 51-year-old acknowledged the struggle so many face when it comes to confronting the disease of addiction, expressing that “recovery IS possible.” He vows “it’s so worth it.”
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…
Bring Me The Horizon have parted ways with Jordan Fish, who was with the band since ’12. Fish performed on the band’s ’13 album, “Sempiternal,” which he helped co-write. “That’s The Spirit,” “Amo” and “Post Human: Survival Horror” followed with Fish contributing programming, backing vocals and percussion. “I’m really grateful for my 11 years with the band, and extremely…