Posted by Zenae Zukowski on May 19, 2017
Yesterday, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine paid homage to Chris Cornell during the band’s performance in Tokyo covering the Soundgarden tune “Outshined.” He was the first to honored the late 52-year-old legend. While we have seen all of Seattle mourn about Cornell’s passing, othermusicians are taking the stage paying their tribute. Last night (18), during Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on June 21, 2016
Earlier in the week it came out that Ticketmaster had lost the class action lawsuit against them regarding the service fees that they have been tacking onto the price of tickets for the last twenty years. As part of that settlement, Ticketmaster agreed to give out a whole mess of credits on the future […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 16, 2016
Today, Heart released the title track of their forthcoming album, Beautiful Broken, via Rolling Stone. What makes it worthy of being written about here is that the upbeat, riffy rock song, originally released as a bonus track on the band’s 2012 album, features Metallica’s James Hetfield on background and occasional lead vocals. The 2:30 song is punchy enough that it […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 4, 2015
With Rock Band 4 landing on PS4 and XBox One in October to reboot the guitar-based rhythm game franchise, more bands are starting to be announced for the game. They seem to be doling out the artist and song listings slowly, with last month’s addition of 11 songs added to the initial listing, also of 11 […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 13, 2014
A few weeks ago, website Priceonomics did some number crunching and found out what it would cost to book a number of bands. At the time, we noted that the math was a little bit off, due to the fact that it was through a third party booking agent. We also noted that some of the […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on May 16, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/m9D525NA9FI[/youtube] We already knew that Metallica could play acoustically, in fact, they did it earlier this week. But yesterday, frontman James Hetfield did it solo, enlisting a few friends for the final song. At San Francisco’s Fillmore for the “Acoustic-4-A-Cure” benefit, he came out for a four song set, opening with the band’s own “Nothing […]
Posted by Metal Insider on June 3, 2013
This summer is going to be a big one for Huntress. First, the group is going to release their sophomore album Starbound Beast, which features a single co-written by Lemmy Kilmister himself, on July 2 via Napalm Records. Then they’ll spend the rest of the summer on Mayhem Fest, leading them to launch their own […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 3, 2013
In 2011, Pearl Jam released a documentary about the history of the band. Pearl Jam 20 was directed by Cameron Crowe. Perhaps to take the piss out of that film, Alice In Chains have premiered an 11-minute film on Funny or Die called Alice In Chains 23. While PJ20 is a documentary, AIC20 is more of a mockumentary, where […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 31, 2013
After the relative success of their debut album Omerta, supergroup Adrenaline Mob has announced a U.S. tour and a covers EP. The goofily-named EP, Coverta, will be released on March 12, the same day the tour starts. This will be the most extensively the band has toured since their album came out last year. And given […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on December 11, 2012
When the 15 nominees for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame’s Class Of 2013 were announced, we had our money on Rush being one of the inductees after years of getting ignored. Turns out we were right. It was officially announced today that Rush will be inducted into the Rock And Roll […]
