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'Led Zeppelin: The Oral History Of The World's Greatest Rock Band' Book Due In November

John Wiley & Sons has set a November 6 release date for "Led Zeppelin: The Oral History Of The World's Greatest Rock Band", a new book by Barney Hoskyns, a contributing editor at British Vogue who is the author of the bestselling book "Hotel California" and the co-founder of online music-journal...

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SLASH: 'An Intimate Portrait' Book Due In October

Coming this October is "Slash: An Intimate Portrait", a new 144-page hardcover book by Richard Bienstock, with photography by Robert Knight. GUNS N' ROSES' 1987 debut, "Appetite For Destruction", is eighteen times platinum, has sold over twenty-eight million copies, and launched the career of modern...

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SAMMY HAGAR, DAVID COVERDALE, GEOFF TATE Honored At 'Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards'

The third annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards 2012 rocked the Joint on Sunday, August 26 at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Vegas Rocks! Magazine celebrated its eighth anniversary in a big way as the rock 'n' roll royal red carpet was rolled out for some of the biggest stars in the...

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SLASH Talks About His Mother's Relationship with DAVID BOWIE (Audio)

While Slash was in Australia playing shows across the country, he dropped by the studios of Australia's long-running radio station Triple M to share a few stories, including one that involved one of the great frontmen in rock. The GUNS N' ROSES legend told the station about a time when he was a kid...

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RATTENFÄNGER Signs With DARK ESSENCE RECORDS

Norway's Dark Essence Records has announced the signing of the Ukrainian band RATTENFÄNGER. The group's debut album, "Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum", will be released in late October/early November. Although RATTENFÄNGER is a new band, its lineup of Thurios on guitars, Krechet on bass, Vlad on drums...

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METALLICA's LARS ULRICH On His Earliest Musical Memories (Video)

The official YouTube channel of "Sound City", the new feature-length documentary directed and produced by FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl, has been updated with a short clip of METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich talking about his earliest musical memories. Check it out below. "In about '73, when I was n...

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THE CHARIOT: 'One Wing' Teaser Released

Georgia's THE CHARIOT recently inked a European deal with Season Of Mist. The band's fifth album, "One Wing", will be released in Europe on September 21 and in the U.S. on August 28 via eOne Music / Good Fight Music. A two-minute teaser for "One Wing" can be seen below. Regarding THE CHARIOT's new E...

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BON SCOTT Docu-Drama Seeking Producer

After the official press release of an upcoming docu-drama film production about late AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott went viral on the Internet internationally last week, it has been learned that the film project organizers are seeking a producer to back the project. "We have been approached by a number o...

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'Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards 2012' To Be Broadcast Live On AXS TV

Get ready for rock n' roll history as the third annual Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Awards 2012 gets ready to rock the Joint on Sunday, August 26 at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Vegas Rocks! Magazine is proud to be celebrating its eighth anniversary in a big way as the rock 'n' ...

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YUPPICIDE To Release 'American Oblivion' EP

Brooklyn's legendary hardcore punk outfit YUPPICIDE has made the title track from its upcoming EP, "American Oblivion", available for streaming on Bandcamp (see below). The six-track effort is due out September 4 via Dead City Records. Commented vocalist Jesse KFW Jones: "'American Oblivion' was a c...

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WITCHCRAFT: Another New Song Available For Streaming

"Ghosts House", a brand new song from Swedish doom metal kings WITCHCRAFT, is available for streaming via the band's Facebook profile. The track comes off WITCHCRAFT's fourth album, "Legend", which will be released on September 21 via the band's new label home, Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up t...

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'Randy Rhoads' Book Authors Schedule Hollywood Launch Event, Signing Session

Andrew Klein and Steven Rosen, authors of the new book about legendary guitarist Randy Rhoads, simply entitled "Randy Rhoads", will take part in a book signing and question-and-answer session on Saturday, September 8 at Book Soup (8818 Sunset Blvd.) in West Hollywood, California. The schedule for th...

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WINDS OF PLAGUE: New Video Interview With JOHNNY PLAGUE

Sophukd of Rock Hard Live conducted an interview with "Johnny Plague" Cooke of Southern California metallers WINDS OF PLAGUE prior to the band's May 21 concert at Ace Of Spades in Sacramento, California. You can now watch the chat below. Also available is quality footage of the Sacramento performanc...

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'Bon Scott - The Legend of AC/DC' Film In The Works

High Voltage Productions, an American production company, has begun pre-production development of an upcoming proposed docu-drama entitled "Bon Scott - The Legend Of AC/DC" as of March of this year. This announcement comes on the heels of a prior announcement back in 2008 that an Australian producti...

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Reunited LIEGE LORD To Headline Next Year's KEEP IT TRUE XVI Festival

Reunited '80s U.S. metallers LIEGE LORD will be one of the headliners of the Keep It True XVI festival, set to take place April 19-20, 2013 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Koenigshofen, Germany. According to festival organizers, LIEGE LORD members Joe Comeau (vocals),Tony Truglio (guitars) and Matt...