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VINNIE PAUL, KERRY KING, SCOTT IAN To Perform At LITTLE KIDS ROCK Benefit Concert

Little Kids Rock (LKR),an innovative non-profit music education program that provides free instruments and rock 'n' roll lessons to public schools, celebrated March's "Music in Our Schools" month by announcing today that it will be the sole beneficiary of the Six-String Masterpieces memorial tribut...

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ZAKK WYLDE: 'Without A Doubt, Guitar Solos Are Back Again'

Deb Rao of Glam-Metal.com recently conducted a short interview with BLACK LABEL SOCIETY mainman/OZZY OSBOURNE guitarist Zakk Wylde. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Glam-Metal.com: Zakk, First of all I would like to commend you on your work with St. Jude Hospital. Wylde: BLACK LABEL is don...

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VINNIE PAUL On HELLYEAH Recording: 'It Felt Like DIME Was Watching Over Us And Guiding Us'

Former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott told Billboard.com that the hardest part, emotionally, about launching his new band HELLYEAH was recording the group's debut album at the Chasin' Jason studio in the garage of his late brother "Dimebag" Darrell's Dallas-area home, which was loaded...

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HELLYEAH: 'You Wouldn't Know' Video Posted Online

HELLYEAH, the new band featuring former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott alongside members of MUDVAYNE and NOTHINGFACE, has made the video for its first single, "You Wouldn't Know", available for viewing at Yahoo! Music. The clip was shot on February 25, 2007 with director Nathan Cox in...

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The Blackening

"The Blackening", MACHINE HEAD's sixth studio album, is quite simply the band's best effort since its shattering 1994 debut, "Burn My Eyes", and may even surpass that modern classic. It may also be the best all-out metal recording of 2007. This is a no-holds-barred, brutally heavy, uncompromising al...

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DIMEBAG Book Author Aims To Tell 'The Story That Hasn't Been Told'

Maira Oliveira of All Headline News recently conducted an interview with Chris A., author of the upcoming book about the murder of PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott, "A Vulgar Display Of Power: Courage And Carnage At The Alrosa Villa". Chris told All Headline News that he became...

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AC/DC's ANGUS YOUNG Voted #1 'Rock Icon'

According to Sony BMG, U.K. music magazine Kerrang! has tallied up the hardest, most legendary rockers of this century and crowned AC/DC's Angus Young as the top "Rock Icon," beating some of the biggest names in the business. Young was also awarded the Kerrang! "Legend" award last August after the b...

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MACHINE HEAD: New ROBERT FLYNN Interview To Air On San Jose's 90.5 KSJS

An interview with MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn, conducted on February 24, 2007 at the Santa Cruz, CA stop of the group's U.S. tour with LAMB OF GOD, TRIVIUM and GOJIRA, will air tonight (Thursday, March 15) on the San Jose, California radio station 90.5 KSJS on its weekly underground metal rad...

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DIMEBAG Book 'A Vulgar Display of Power' To Benefit Charitable Causes

MJS Music Publications announced today that it has assigned a portion of the proceeds from its new book, "A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa" by Chris A., to charitable causes. Due on April 14, "A Vulgar Display of Power" chronicles the lives of Jeffery "Mayhem" Thomp...

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NICKELBACK Releasing DIMEBAG Tribute As Next Single

Launch Radio Networks reports: NICKELBACK is releasing one more single from its 2005 album, "All The Right Reasons", and it's "Side Of A Bullet", a song inspired by the death of PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. NICKELBACK frontman Chad Kroeger told Launch about the first ti...

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JIMI HENDRIX, DIMEBAG, TONY IOMMI, EDDIE VAN HALEN Are Among 'Wildest Guitar Heroes'

Jimi Hendrix has been crowned "Wildest Guitar Hero" of all-time in a new poll of music lovers for influential magazine Classic Rock. The poll was compiled by votes from over 3,000 visitors to www.classicrockmagazine.com and a panel of expert music journalists. The guitarist, who made his name in the...

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MACHINE HEAD, STONE SOUR Confirmed For Sweden's METALTOWN Festival

MACHINE HEAD and STONE SOUR are among the confirmed bands for the Metaltown festival, set to take place June 30 at Frihamnen in Gothenburg, Sweden. More information will be made available soon at www.metaltown.se. An e-card for MACHINE HEAD's upcoming album, "The Blackening", has been made available...

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MACHINE HEAD: 'The Blackening' E-Card Available

An e-card for MACHINE HEAD's upcoming album, "The Blackening", has been made available at this location. The third and final part of "The Blackening Sessions", a behind-the-scenes look at MACHINE HEAD as they recorded their new album, "The Blackening", has been posted online at the "Media" page of t...

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TYPE O NEGATIVE Remembers DIMEBAG DARRELL On 'Positive' New LP

TYPE O NEGATIVE frontman Peter Steele recently spoke to MTV.com about the songwriting/recording process for "Dead Again", the Brooklyn metallers' first collection of fresh material since 2003's "Life Is Killing Me". The delay, Steele explained, was partly fueled by the bandmembers' escalating ages a...

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HELLYEAH: 'You Wouldn't Know' Single Available Via iTunes

HELLYEAH, the new band featuring former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott alongside members of MUDVAYNE and NOTHINGFACE, has made its first single, "You Wouldn't Know", available for purchase via the iTunes Music Store. HELLYEAH shot a video for "You Wouldn't Know" this past Sunday (Febr...