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ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Explains Why It Won't Pull DOLLY PARTON From Ballot

The organizers of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame have declined Dolly Parton's request to pull her nomination. On Monday (March 14),the 76-year-old country music legend asked the Hall to withdraw her name from the 2022 ballot, saying "I don't feel that I have earned the right. I really do not want v...

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HEART's ANN WILSON Offered To Front New Band Featuring LED ZEPPELIN Members: 'I Threw My Hat In The Ring'

HEART's Ann Wilson says that she offered to audition to become the vocalist of a new project featuring LED ZEPPELIN members. Back in 2008, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were looking for a way to keep working following LED ZEPPELIN's incredible one-off performance at the O2 Arena in London in Decemb...

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RUSH Guitarist ALEX LIFESON's Iconic Guitars To Be Auctioned

Julien's Auctions, the world-record-breaking auction house to the stars, will honor one of the most influential music icons and guitar heroes of the progressive rock metal genre with "Property From The Archives Of Alex Lifeson", a centerpiece of their premiere music auction event, "Music Icons", tak...

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PRIEST Feat. Former Members Of GHOST: 'Techno Girl' Music Video Released

Following up on the triumphant "A Signal In The Noise", released at the end of 2021, PRIEST, the synthwave act featuring former members of the Grammy Award-winning Swedish rock act GHOST, has just unleashed a follow-up single, "Techno Girl". The track trades the distorted guitars of PRIEST's former...

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Watch GEOFF TATE Perform QUEENSRŸCHE's Entire 'Empire' And 'Rage For Order' Albums In Milan, Italy

Fan-filmed video footage of Geoff Tate's March 11 performance at Legend Club in Milan, Italy can be seen below (courtesy of YouTube user "Andre D. Keaton"). Tate's current tour is celebrating the 30th anniversary of QUEENSRŸCHE's "Empire" and "Rage For Order" albums. The setlist for the Milan show w...

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We Are The Apocalypse

Black metal has undergone so many transformations and mutations over the last few decades that it is sometimes easy to overlook the simple thrill of bands like DARK FUNERAL. Always popular but never quite as critically lauded as some of their less direct contemporaries, the Swedes deal in big, brash...

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DEF LEPPARD's RICK ALLEN: 'Without CHARLIE WATTS, THE ROLLING STONES Wouldn't Have Sounded The Way That They Did'

In a new interview with the "Murray Adventures" podcast and "The MGM Morning Show With Matt Murray" on 103.7 WMGM Rocks in Atlantic City, DEF LEPPARD drummer Rick Allen spoke about his "Legends" art series, which consists of lifelike-yet-impressionistic portraits of musicians who have influenced him...

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See SLIPKNOT's COREY TAYLOR In HO99O9's Music Video For 'Bite My Face'

SLIPKNOT's Corey Taylor makes an appearance in "Bite My Face", the new music video from HO99O9 (pronounced "horror"). The track is taken from HO99O9's new album "Skin", which is being released today (Friday, March 11). The follow-up to 2017's "United States Of Horror" was produced entirely by BLINK-...

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JOE SATRIANI Pushes Back European Tour To Spring 2023

World-renowned guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has made the very tough decision to once again reschedule his European tour. Originally scheduled to take place in 2020, it had been rescheduled to begin in April 2022. However, with the current COVID-19 restrictions and quarantine mandates not yet standar...

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ABSENT IN BODY Feat. Ex-SEPULTURA Drummer IGOR CAVALERA, NEUROSIS's SCOTT KELLY: 'Rise From Ruins' Single Available

ABSENT IN BODY, the new band featuring AMENRA guitarist Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove, AMENRA frontman Colin H. Van Eeckhout, NEUROSIS vocalist/guitarist Scott Kelly and former SEPULTURA drummer Igor Cavalera, will release its debut album, "Plague God", on March 25 via Relapse Records. The LP's third si...

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Skin

It starts with a burst of excoriating, abstract noise. As much as they have been hyped and praised by all kinds of notable people, HO99O9 are clearly not in the business of compromising to make their music more appealing. The first of 12 bewildering but utterly mesmerizing slabs of mutant sonic terr...

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WAYNE KRAMER Brings MC5 Back To Life With New Album And Tour

On the heels of the MC5's nomination to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, legendary Detroit proto-punk/activist/hard-rock innovator Wayne Kramer has released two new songs and announced "The Heavy Lifting" tour in May — all as a reanimation of his pioneering group dubbed WE ARE ALL MC5. The tour begin...

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MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Announces More Summer/Fall 2022 North American Tour Dates

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE has added 14 shows to its previously announced summer/fall 2022 North American tour. The trek will now kick off on August 20 in Oklahoma City and conclude on October 29 at the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas. Support at select dates will come from more than a dozen acts...

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Hell, CA

A great band with terrible timing, LOVE/HATE released two of the finest albums of the whole glam/hair metal movement, just as the world was moving on and embracing the dour slurry of grunge instead. Both "Blackout in the Red Room" and "Wasted in America" stand up just fine today, too: snotty, balls-...

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PORCUPINE TREE Announces Summer/Fall 2022 North American Tour Dates

Grammy Award-nominated British rock band PORCUPINE TREE will celebrate its long-overdue return to the global stage with new dates confirmed in North and South America. The legendary group's first tour since October 2010 in support of its upcoming album "Closure/Continuation" will kick off September...