Linkin Park’s “Heavy Is The Crown” Tops Mainstream Rock

Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler (pictured) will release a charity single on March 15th to raise funds for the British charity Teenage Cancer Trust. The track is a version of Knopfler’s ’83 song “Going Home (Theme From ‘Local Hero’).” Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Brian May (Queen), Tom Morello (Rage Against…

Lacuna Coil, with guest vocals by Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe, have released “Hosting The Shadow.” “(The song) is a trip through light and dark, where silence reveals its hidden secrets,” stated Lacuna Coil. “Obscure moments can become occasions to evolve, to learn to master one’s own shadow — which is crucial in order to prevail.” “Randy…

A Kurt Cobain plaque at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle has generated a debate over the wording describing the late Nirvana frontman’s death in ’94. The exhibit on the “27 Club,” covering musicians who perished at the young age, stated Cobain had “un-alived himself” at 27. The term is an alternative to using…