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QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Announce 2020 European Tour

Having well and truly rocked North America with 25 giant shows across the summer which drew universally ecstatic reviews and played to sold-out audiences totalling close to 400,000 spectators, QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT have finally announced that they will bring their brand new, hugely anticipated "Rhaps...

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GUNS N' ROSES Plays First Show Of 2019 At Hollywood Palladium (Video)

GUNS N' ROSES performed at the iconic Hollywood Palladium on Saturday, September 21 as part of the Citi Sound Vault series. The concert marked the band's first live appearance of 2019. It was also GUNS N' ROSES' debut performance at the 5,000-capacity venue in nearly a decade. The setlist for the sh...

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ADAM LAMBERT On Late QUEEN Singer FREDDIE MERCURY: 'I Wish He Were Alive So I Didn't Even Have The Gig'

In a recent interview with SiriusXM's Volume, Adam Lambert about how the success of the QUEEN biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" has affected the band's fanbase. "I keep hearing from so many people, who are maybe slightly older than me — original QUEEN fans — that come up to me, especially dads: 'Oh, man, m...

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KORN's JONATHAN DAVIS: How DEF LEPPARD Influenced Recording Process For 'The Nothing' Album

Jonathan Davis says that he turned to acts like ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, QUEEN and DEF LEPPARD for inspiration for the vocals on the latest KORN album, "The Nothing". "They all used to do these crazy, big vocal bits, recording 40 tracks of vocals and harmonies to stack them," Davis told Billboard....

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AEROSMITH, GUNS N' ROSES, BLACK SABBATH Artificats Featured In Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas's Memorabilia Exhibition

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas has announced a specially curated memorabilia exhibition to celebrate the hotel and casino's 25-year history in Las Vegas from 1995 to 2020. The Hard Rock Memorabilia Exhibition will open to the public on Friday, September 27 and is the kick-off of the propert...

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DAVID LEE ROTH Says He Started Preparing For Upcoming Las Vegas Residency Last October

VAN HALEN vocalist David Lee Roth recently spoke with Jackson of the Atlanta radio station Rock 100.5 about his upcoming residency in Las Vegas. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On preparing for the Las Vegas shows: David: "I st...

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DAVID LEE ROTH Hopes To Tour With Las Vegas Band After Completing 2020 Residency

VAN HALEN vocalist David Lee Roth recently discussed his upcoming Las Vegas residency with John and Lern of the St. Louis radio station KSHE 95. The full conversation can be streamed below. A few excerpts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On what to expect from the residency: David: "VAN...

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WITHIN TEMPTATION's SHARON DEN ADEL Supports All Other Female Singers In Metal Scene

Sonic Seducer conducted an interview with frontwoman Sharon Den Adel of Dutch heavy rockers WITHIN TEMPTATION prior to the band's appearance at this year's M'era Luna festival in Hildesheim, Germany. You can watch the entire chat below. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On wha...

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Bands will pay the price for picking a shit name. It may have seemed terribly post-modern and in-jokey at the time, but being lumbered with a name like PET SLIMMERS OF THE YEAR was never a smart move. Sensibly, this UK-based post-metal crew have trimmed that unwieldy tag down to the simpler PSOTY: s...

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AC/DC: 'For Those About To Rock' And 'The Razors Edge' Commemorative Coins Available

The Cook Islands, a nation in the South Pacific with political links to New Zealand, has released new silver coins honoring two classic AC/DC albums: a two-dollar coin commemorating AC/DC's landmark 1981 album "For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)" and a ten-dollar coin celebrating AC/DC's 1990 a...

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PAPA ROACH Frontman: 'We Were Definitely A Nu Metal Band'

In a brand new interview with Bret Vesely of the KUPD radio station, PAPA ROACH frontman Jacoby Shaddix was asked how it felt for the band to be lumped in with all the "nu metal" groups around the time of the release of PAPA ROACH's full-length debut, 2000's "Infest". "It was always a weird thing fo...

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ADAM LAMBERT On Rumored New QUEEN Album: 'I Know Nothing About It'

Adam Lambert says that he knows nothing about a rumored new QUEEN album featuring him on vocals. A few days ago, QUEEN fans were caught by surprise when guitarist Brian May revealed on Instagram that he recently recorded a video message "for an ad for an album, to be announced later." This led to sp...

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FREDDIE MERCURY: 'Never Boring' Solo Box Set Due In October

Iconic. Incomparable. Irreplaceable. But never, ever boring. Freddie Mercury's spirit is every bit as central to the fabric of popular music today as it was during his unforgettable lifetime. The spectacular global success of the biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody", with global box office takings now close t...

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QUEEN Jigsaw Puzzles Due In October

U.K.'s Zee Productions will release four classic QUEEN album covers as 500-piece jigsaws next month. "News Of The World", "A Night At The Opera", "A Day At The Races" and "Queen II" will be made available on October 18. The iconic art of some of rock's most influential and highly regarded albums is...

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LEE AARON To Release 'Power, Soul, Rock N' Roll' Live Album

Canadian rock icon Lee Aaron will release the first official live album of her long career exclusively on September 20 via Metalville Records. "Power, Soul, Rock N' Roll" was recorded during Aaron's 2017 German tour at the concerts in Balingen and Nuremberg and will be released as a CD-DVD set in di...