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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…
Tour success despite setbacks proves the band is “Unstoppable.” 5/8 Disturbed’s David Draiman dumps Tinder, the dating app, less than a week after he announced he was using the service to find “the right woman” following his divorce. He deletes his account, calling it “an absolute shitshow” where “scammers, grifters, fakes and phonies abound.” …
They have a #1 album, get trash, then nominated. 7/1 Queens Of The Stone Age (QOTSA) are #1 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Rock and Top Alternative charts with “In Times New Roman…” 8/24 QOTSA announce – via social media – the cancellation of their appearance at upcoming The Town Festival in São Paulo,…
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…
Black Flag has announced the 2024 leg of its “My War” tour. The two-set concert will open with their ’84 album “My War” played in its entirety with the second set drawing primarily from the band’s ’79 – ’81 period. Black Flag‘s ’24 lineup has founding guitarist Greg Ginn (pictured above), singer Mike Vallely, the band’s fifth vocalist who joined in ’14,…
The Tom. Mark and Travis Show gets rolling again. Blink 182‘s “One More Time,” the first album with the complete trio of Travis Barker (drums), Mark Hoppus (bass/vocals) and Tom DeLonge (guitar/vocals) since ’11, is #1 on the Billboard 200 (dated 11/4) – the only Rock album to top that chart in ’23. The album held “Fell In Love,” “One More…
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…
Greta Van Fleet singer Josh Kiszka came out as a member of the LGBTQ community in a 6/20 Instagram post. The frontman described his decision in light of recent laws in his home state of Tennessee targeting the state’s LGBTQ citizens. The band’s third studio album, “Starcatcher,” went to #1 on Top Rock Albums, Top Hard…
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…