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Dorothy Martin has announced a headlining 2025 tour. The announcement follows the premiere of her video for “Tombstone Town,” featuring Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash. The video made its broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU and MTV Biggest Pop, marking a Dorothy career milestone. “The song (Tombstone”) is an excerpt from my diary — born out of betrayal and heartache,” explained Dorothy. “The…
Saliva has released a music video for “Horizon” featuring Kevin Martin of Candlebox. The “Revelation: Retold” track honors the musical legacy of the band’s guitarist Wayne Swinny (pictured) with never-before-seen clips of the group’s late founder on stage and in the studio. “‘Horizon’ holds the deepest meaning for me on this record,” offered vocalist Bobby Amaru. “Working with Wayne during the writing process was nothing short…
Soundgarden (pictured), Bad Company and The Black Crowes are among the nominees for this year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. 2025 Nominees: BAD COMPANYTHE BLACK CROWESMARIAH CAREYCHUBBY CHECKERJOE COCKERBILLY IDOLJOY DIVISION/NEW ORDERCYNDI LAUPERMANÁOASISOUTKASTPHISHSOUNDGARDENTHE WHITE STRIPES “Continuing in the true spirit of Rock and Roll, these artists have created their own sounds that have impacted generations…
Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. Written by Queen singer Freddie Mercury in ’79, the song originally appeared on Queen’ s ’80 album “The Game.” “‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ took me five or ten minutes,” shared Mercury. “I did that on the guitar, which I can’t play for nuts, and in one way it was…
ZZ Top lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons will be the grand marshal for the upcoming Ambetter Health 400 on February 23rd. As grand marshal Gibbon will kick off the main event of Atlanta’s spring NASCAR weekends and will say, “Drivers, start your engines. Time to roll… fast and faster!” The weekend features races across all three of the sanctioning body’s national…
During their sold-out U.K. tour, Papa Roach presented a check for £20,000 (approximately $24,800) to the suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) before their show at Wembley Arena (on 2/8). “Not only have the band raised vital funds for our life-saving work, but they’ve started a conversation on a global scale about suicide prevention,” noted…
“Becoming Led Zeppelin” had a record-breaking performance for its first weekend at the box office with a $3 million IMAX debut across 16 countries and territories. The film’s $2.6 million domestic start ($7,000 per-screen average) is the biggest opening weekend ever for an IMAX-exclusive music release, Produced by Sony Pictures Classics, the documentary was released exclusively in IMAX last Friday…
Alice Cooper has added more shows to the spring/summer U.S. leg of his “Too Close For Comfort” tour. “I want the audience to get involved in the show,” stated Alice in a KLPX radio interview. “We don’t do a lot of lasers. We don’t do things like that, because I want the emphasis to be on the character Alice,…
Having already reached the top of the Billboard Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, Linkin Park has scored its 12th #1 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay survey (dated February 15th) with “‘Heavy Is The Crown.” The track is the second #1 from Linkin Park’s eighth studio album, “From Zero.” “The Emptiness Machine” was the first. “Heavy Is The…
Jinger have issued their fifth studio album, “Duél.” Three singles dropped from “Duél” prior to the set’s release. The last was “Kafka.” “Being an artist is sometimes beautiful but most of the time it’s brutal… as our art is dissected word for word and ripped apart note by note,” offered vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk talking about the song. ”…