Bon Jovi
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Bon Jovi

The song “Runaway,” recorded in ’84 by Jon Bon Jovi, was included in radio station W-D-H-A’s compilation of un-signed acts. Technically, Bon Jovi didn’t really qualify. Less than a year earlier, Bon Jovi (the group) had been signed by Mercury Records after building a solid reputation as a live act. In the process, John Francis…

Metallica Contributes To Hurricane Relief

Metallica Contributes To Hurricane Relief

Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation has donated $100,000 for immediate Hurricane Helene disaster relief, All Within My Hands is donating $50,000 each to World Central Kitchen and Team Rubicon. World Central Kitchen has partnered with 35 food trucks across Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee, and 16 restaurants across North Carolina and Tennessee, already providing tens of thousands of hot meals and sandwiches…

Linkin Park’s “The Emptiness Machine” Tops Rock Charts

Linkin Park’s “The Emptiness Machine” Tops Rock Charts

Linkin Park’s “The Emptiness Machine” is #1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock charts, dated October 5th. Linkin Park now has thirteen #1s on Alternative Airplay, tying Green Day for the second-most in chart history. Red Hot Chili Peppers have fifteen #1s on the chart. “The Emptiness Machine” is also the band’s eleventh #1 on Mainstream Rock…

Mötley Crüe’s EP Is “Cancelled”

Mötley Crüe’s EP Is “Cancelled”

Mötley Crüe has released the “Cancelled” EP. The three-song effort features the title track, “Dogs Of War,” a Top 5 Rock Radio hit, and a cover of the Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!),” which quickly became a concert favorite. “What started out as a couple demo ideas turned into this EP produced by Bob Rock,”…

U2’s Top 10
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U2’s Top 10

The Irish band formed in Dublin and has released fifteen studio albums to date. The first was “Boy” in ’80 and the most recent was “Songs Of Surrender in ’23. According to Pollstar, U2 were the second highest grossing musical act (behind the Rolling Stones) from ’80 to ’22, earning $2.127 billion in revenue from 26.178 million tickets…

Fever 333: “Darker White” Has Dropped

Fever 333: “Darker White” Has Dropped

Fever 333 have issued “Darker White.” The set features “No Hostages” and “Higher Power.”  “(The album) is the intersection we will all find ourselves in at some point in our lives,” noted frontman Jason Aalon Butler. “It is the struggle we will inevitably face when identifying our metric for good or bad. Wrong or right. Dark and light….

Pink Floyd Rights Go For $400 Million

Pink Floyd Rights Go For $400 Million

Pink Floyd reportedly have sold the rights to their recorded music, name and likeness to Sony for $400 million. A number of parties, including Warner Music, Hipgnosis and BMG, were interested in doing a deal that would expand the use of Floyd’s catalog through licensing agreements in movies, TV shows, gaming and other media. The deal…

Motley Crue

Mötley Crüe Announces Another Vegas Residency

Mötley Crüe will return to Las Vegas next spring with “The Las Vegas Residency,” an exclusive limited run of eleven shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM, running March 28nd through April 19th. “You can go to Vegas and cut loose,” bassist Nikki Sixx told USA Today. “See your favorite band, go to other shows, gamble and…

Adam Gontier Returns To Three Days Grace

Adam Gontier Returns To Three Days Grace

Three Days Grace have announced the return of original frontman Adam Gontier (pictured). He will share lead vocals with Matt Walst, who has fronted Three Days Grace for over decade. “I feel like it’s been seamless, better than we were expecting,” stated Gontier. “It’s like we got back in a room together and picked up where we left off. We…