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FOREIGNER Co-Founder Counting Down To Thursday's Reunion

Although their split was among the most bitter in rock, on Thursday night (June 13),FOREIGNER co-founders Mick Jones and Lou Gramm will share a stage to perform at their induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. The Hall's 44th annual induction and awards dinner and gala will be once again be he...
June 11, 2013
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JASON BOHNAM On His Father: 'I'm Honored To Represent Him All These Years After He's Gone'

Joanie Cox-Henry of Sun-Sentinel.com recently conducted an interview with Jason Bonham, son of legendary LED ZEPPELIN drummer John Bonham. Asked about sharing the stage with Ann and Nancy Wilson of HEART to perform "Stairway To Heaven" during the LED ZEPPELIN tribute at the Kennedy Center Honors, Ja...
June 10, 2013
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AVENGED SEVENFOLD Releases Another Teaser For New Studio Album

Another teaser of new music from AVENGED SEVENFOLD has been posted online and can be seen below. The 30-second clip features a snippet of a new song from the sessions with producer Mike Elizondo for the California act's sixth studio album, which is due out this summer. The new disc will follow up 20...
June 10, 2013
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OZZY, DIO, BON SCOTT, LEMMY, SLASH, DIMEBAG Featured In 'Cemetary Gates' Book

Set for release this month via Plexus Publishing is the book "Cemetary Gates: Saints & Survivors Of The Heavy-Metal Scene" by Mick O'Shea. A description of the illustrated paperback reads as follows: "Between genius and madness, this world and the next, there's nothing but the faintest flicker o...
June 7, 2013
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JOHN PAUL JONES Has Time For Opera, Not LED ZEPPELIN

According to The Pulse Of Radio, LED ZEPPELIN bassist John Paul Jones has his sights on a new opera — not a reunion with his former bandmates. The ZEPPELIN fan-base has been drooling over Robert Plant's recent comments to Australia's "60 Minutes", which insinuated that it wasn't him who's holding th...
June 6, 2013
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IRON MAIDEN Drummer Celebrates 61st Birthday On Stage In Paris (Video)

IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain celebrated his 61st birthday during the band's concert last night (Wednesday, June 5) at Bercy in Paris, France. Fan-filmed video footage of MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson's lengthy French-language introduction, along with a crowd sing-along of "Happy Birthday" to Mc...
June 6, 2013
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ROBERT PLANT: 'For The Last Year Or So, I've Been Writing Quite A Lot'

Jason Roche of LA Weekly recently conducted an interview with legendary LED ZEPPELIN singer Robert Plant. An excerpt from from the chat follows below. LA Weekly: What are your reflections on LED ZEPPELIN being honored at last year's Kennedy Center Honors? Plant: I knew we did a lot of damage to peop...
June 4, 2013
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MIKE PORTNOY Quits ADRENALINE MOB

Drummer Mike Portnoy (ADRENALINE MOB, FLYING COLORS, THE WINERY DOGS, DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD) has released the following statement: "It saddens me to announce that the four upcoming shows in Latin America this month supporting HALESTORM will be my last with ADRENALINE MOB. "Unfortunately,...
June 4, 2013
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FOREIGNER's 'Head Games' Remembered In New Ebook

A new one-dollar short ebook tells the story — 34 years on — of the making of FOREIGNER's 1979 album "Head Games". Author Martin Popoff explains: "For all their fame, there really hasn't been much written about FOREIGNER, so I'm particularly proud of this in-depth analysis of the band's biting, dark...
June 3, 2013
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Former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Singer's DEVIL YOU KNOW Preparing To Record Debut Album

Former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE singer Howard Jones has set DEVIL YOU KNOW as the name of his new band, also featuring Francesco Artusato, celebrated solo artist and guitarist with ALL SHALL PERISH and THE FRANCESCO ARTUSATO PROJECT; and John Sankey, drummer for the Australian band DEVOLVED, who has also w...
June 1, 2013
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AVENGED SEVENFOLD: New Studio Clip Posted Online

Another teaser of new music from AVENGED SEVENFOLD has been posted online and can be seen below. The one-and-a-half-minute clip features footage from the sessions with producer Mike Elizondo for the California act's sixth studio album, which is due out this summer. The new disc will follow up 2010's...
May 31, 2013
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TOOL Drummer's VOLTO! To Release 'Incitare' In July

From the very get-go, VOLTO! was an oddity. Here is a band comprised of some of the most accomplished musicians in Los Angeles (including the drummer of Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum-selling band TOOL) who were down right excited about playing cover tunes in a tiny jazz club in the Valley. Th...
May 31, 2013
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Original FATES WARNING Guitarist's FREEDOMS REIGN: 'Up From Down' Video Released

"Up From Down", the new video from FREEDOMS REIGN, the band led by Victor Arduini, original guitarist and founding member of FATES WARNING (having played on 1984's "Night On Brocken" and 1985's "The Spectre Within"),can be seen below. The song comes off FREEDOMS REIGN's self-titled debut album, whi...
May 30, 2013
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Former AC/DC Drummer CHRIS SLADE Continues Riding On His 50-Year Rock Roller Coaster

After a very successful start to their U.K. tour earlier this year, former AC/DC drummer Chris Slade with his band THE CHRIS SLADE TIMELINE is setting off again, this time visiting the Midlands, including the headlining on the Saturday night at the Rock And Blues Old School Weekender Festival in Pen...
May 28, 2013
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FOREIGNER's MICK JONES Recalls Producing VAN HALEN

According to Ultimate Classic Rock, FOREIGNER's Mick Jones (pictured below) recalled producing VAN HALEN's first album without David Lee Roth, 1986's "5150". Jones remembered the first day of sessions at Eddie Van Halen's studio back in 1985, saying, "[Sammy Hagar] picked me up at the hotel and we w...
May 28, 2013