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VAN HALEN To Perform At BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS

Billboard and Dick Clark Productions have announced that one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time, VAN HALEN, will perform on the 2015 Billboard Music Awards, marking the band's first-ever performance on an awards show with Eddie, Alex, Wolfgang Van Halen and David Lee Roth. VAN HALEN joi...

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RUSH's ALEX LIFESON: If This Is The Last Major Tour That We Do, I Want To Go Out With Flying Colors

RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson says that he has "mixed feelings" about the band's upcoming "R40 Live" tour, which will likely be RUSH's last trek of such significant magnitude. Celebrating 40 years, RUSH confirmed in January that "R40 Live" will visit 34 cities throughout North America this summer begi...

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Video: RUSH Guitarist ALEX LIFESON Guests On 'Renman Live'

Legendary RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson was a guest on the April 22 episode of the "Renman Live" web show from Renman Music & Business, the music industry mentoring web site founded by longtime industry veteran Steve Rennie (a.k.a. Renman). You can now watch video footage of the chat below. "Peopl...

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ATREYU To Release 'Long Live' Album In September

Reactivated Southern California metallers ATREYU have set "Long Live" as the title of their comeback album, due in September through the Search And Destroy imprint as part of the newly announced joint venture between Raw Power Management and Spinefarm. ATREYU drummer and clean vocalist Brandon Salle...

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LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY: Lyric Video For New Song 'Rosenkreuz (The Rose And The Cross)'

Italian "cinematic" metallers LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY will release a new album, "Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus", on June 19 in Europe and June 30 in the U.S. via Nuclear Blast. The CD was composed and produced once again by Luca Turilli, responsible as always of all the orchestral and choral a...

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MIKE PORTNOY On His Rumored Project With DAVID ELLEFSON, ALEX SKOLNICK: 'It's A Great, Great Metal Album'

Drummer Mike Portnoy (THE WINERY DOGS, DREAM THEATER, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, ADRENALINE MOB) spoke to Loudwire about his recently announced metal project in which he is collaborating with a couple of other well-known musicians — rumored to be Alex Skolnick (TESTAMENT) and David Ellefson (MEGADETH). He s...

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ZAKK WYLDE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, MICHAEL SCHENKER, ALEX SKOLNICK And More Set For 'Axes & Anchors' Cruise

In an age where heavy metal music cruises with high-profile lineups are becoming a dime a dozen, it's about time that true guitar pros, gearheads, theorists and hobbyists have a voyage of their own. Imagine a cruise exclusively planned for guitarists and instrumentalists, featuring performances and...

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TESTAMENT Guitarist's DRAGONLORD Mixing Third Album

DRAGONLORD, the California-based black metal band led by TESTAMENT guitarist Eric Peterson, is mixing its third album, "Dominion", for a tentative early 2016 release. Peterson told "Robb's Metalworks" about the CD: "It's gonna be really killer. I'm excited about that." The new DRAGONLORD CD will fea...

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RUSH's ALEX LIFESON To Guest On 'Renman Live'

Renman Music & Business, the music industry mentoring web site founded by longtime industry veteran Steve Rennie (a.k.a. Renman),will broadcast another episode of its "Renman Live" web show on Wednesday, April 22 with special guest, legendary RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson. The show will air live...

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THE DEAD DAISIES Featuring GUNS N' ROSES, Ex-MÖTLEY CRÜE Members: 'Midnight Moses' Song Premiere

Back in February 2015, THE DEAD DAISIES got the chance to play some rock'n'roll in Cuba and it proved a revelation. The revelation became a revolution as the boys started conceiving their next album. The passion they'd experienced in Cuba was confirmation — the world needs to be reminded that classi...

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LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY: First 'Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus' Trailer

Italian "cinematic" metallers LUCA TURILLI'S RHAPSODY will release a new album, "Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus", on June 19 in Europe and June 30 in the U.S. via Nuclear Blast. The CD was composed and produced once again by Luca Turilli, responsible as always of all the orchestral and choral a...

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SAMMY HAGAR Says VAN HALEN's New Live Album Features 'Some Pretty Rough Vocals' From DAVID LEE ROTH

Former VAN HALEN singer Sammy Hagar says that the band's new live album, "Tokyo Dome In Concert", contains "some pretty rough vocals" from David Lee Roth. Released last week, "Tokyo Dome In Concert" is VAN HALEN's first live album with Roth and it reportedly features no vocal overdubs. Speaking to t...

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ACCEPT's PETER BALTES Interviewed By CANNIBAL CORPSE's ALEX WEBSTER In U.K.'s BASS GUITAR MAGAZINE

Bass Guitar Magazine, the U.K.’s only print magazine devoted to the world of bass, is delighted to announce an extensive interview with ACCEPT bassist Peter Baltes in its April issue, available from April 7. The interviewer is none other than CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist Alex Webster, an internationally...

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VAN HALEN Abandoned 'Demo', 'Bootleg' Release Ideas Before Deciding To Issue New Concert Album

In a new interview with The Washington Times, VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen revealed that the band came up with the idea of issuing a new live album after his first two ideas for a release didn't come to fruition. "We were trying to figure out what to do since we didn't ...

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QUIET RIOT's FRANKIE BANALI: 'The Lineup Right Now Is As Solid As I Can Remember It'

Jacky BamBam of Philadelphia's 93.3 WMMR radio station recently conducted an interview with QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali. You can now listen to the chat at this location. Speaking about QUIET RIOT's current lineup, which includes singer Jizzy Pearl (LOVE/HATE, L.A. GUNS, ADLER'S APPETITE, RATT)...