Rock History

Following the ’95 demise of his band Kyuss, Homme began recording with a number of Seattle based musicians including Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron and Dinosaur Jr.’s Mike Johnson. This loose collection released a number of EPs as Gamma Ray. Homme then reunited with ex-Kyuss drummer Alfredo Hernandez in ’98 for the Queens Of The Stone Age’s…

Geddy Lee’s memoir “My Effin’ Life” is available. “I’d write and re-write them (chapters), reassessing perspectives in the narrative not just by scouring my memory banks but my diaries and piles of photo albums too,” wrote the Rush bassist/singer. “Writing this book has meant spending so much time living in the past. I’ve never lived my…

Four albums into their career, Warlock began work on what was planned to the be their follow-up to “Triumph And Agony,” which was their highest Billboard charting album, peaking at #80.  The band disintegrated during the ’89 album “Force Majeure” becoming Doro’s solo debut.  A year later, her self-titled sophomore set dropped.  The album however failed to ignite the U.S….

Next year’s “When We Were Young” festival is slated for October 24th at the Las Vegas Festival grounds. The line-up includes My Chemical Romance (pictured above), Fall Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World and All-American Rejects. Many acts will be playing full albums.  Among those who will be going down that road are: My Chemical Romance…

The 14th annual Bowl For Ronnie celebrity bowling party, benefiting the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund, will be this Thursday, November 16th at PINZ Bowling Center in Studio City, CA. The event, designed to raise awareness and funding for cancer research. Additional Information Last year’s bowling event, the first fund-raiser since the pandemic, brought…

Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist DJ Ashba has released “Party Tonight,” featuring guest vocals by DIA, a South Korean singer and former member of the girl group Kiss & Cry. “My fanbase, thank God, has been, throughout my whole career, just very, very accepting,” noted Ashba. “They know me — they know I’m always trying to really push myself as…

According to a recent tally by Kworb.net Linkin Park has two songs that have exceeded the billion streams mark on Spotify. “In The End” (1.7 billion streams) and “Numb” (1.465 billion streams) are the ones. “In The End” is on Linkin Park‘s ’00 debut album, “Hybrid Theory” while “Numb” is from the band’s ’03 set…

Metallica have garnered over 11.5 billion streams on Spotify, and they average more than 5.8 million streams per day. The top songs are: 3. Master Of Puppets – over 750 million total streams 2. Nothing Else Matters – over 1 billion streams 1. Enter Sandman – over 1.2 billion streams Both “Enter Sandman” and “Nothing…

The Beatles have returned to the top of the U.K. music charts with “Now And Then.” Using artificial intelligence, “Now And Then” features the voice of the late John Lennon and guitar parts that were laid down by George Harrison in the ’90s. Those tracks were recently augmented by Paul McCartney (piano/bass) and Ringo Starr…

The Beatles have an incredible catalog but, according to recently released data from kworb.net, they have had only one song cross the billion streams threshold on Spotify. Is it the ballad “Yesterday”? No. It only has 559-million streams. Well then, it has to be The Beatles best-selling single, “Hey Jude.” Wrong again. Obviously, it has…