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ANTHRAX's CHARLIE BENANTE Set For 'Late Night With Seth Meyers' Guest Stint

ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante will hold down the drum chair on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" from Monday, March 20 through Thursday, March 23. His guest stint in THE 8G BAND, the show's house group led by "Portlandia" star Fred Armisen, follows briefs residencies by other leading rock drummers, in...

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IRON MAIDEN's NICKO MCBRAIN Set For 'Late Night With Seth Meyers' Guest Stint

IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain will hold down the drum chair on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" from Monday, March 13 through Thursday, March 16. His guest stint in THE 8G BAND, the show's house group led by "Portlandia" star Fred Armisen, follows briefs residencies by other leading rock drummers,...

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POISON Announces First Headlining Tour Dates In Over A Decade

POISON, one of rock's most high-energy and iconic bands, will perform all its greatest hits as they headline select dates for the first time in over a decade. This spring will see all four original members — Bret Michaels, Bobby Dall, Rikki Rockett and C.C. DeVille — join together to play these limi...

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BRET MICHAELS Wants POISON To Embark On Headlining Tour In 2018, Says He Is Open To Making New Music With Band

During last week's appearance on "Trunk Nation", Eddie Trunk's show on SiriusXM channel Volume (106),POISON singer Bret Michaels spoke about the band's upcoming North American tour with DEF LEPPARD and TESLA. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On why now was the right time to...

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Former Members Of MALEVOLENT CREATION, SUFFOCATION, PESTILENCE Join Forces In New Project

Former members of MALEVOLENT CREATION, SUFFOCATION and PESTILENCE have joined forces with guitarist and songwriter Gio Geraca (MALEVOLENT CREATION, ASHES OF ARES) on an as-yet-unnamed new project. The new band is in the process of recording songs for an upcoming release to hand in to interested labe...

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DEF LEPPARD Announces North American Tour With POISON And TESLA

Fresh off winning the fan-voted Classic Rock magazine "Album Of The Year" award, DEF LEPPARD announce they will return to the road this spring for a three-month run across North America. The Live Nation-promoted outing will storm through cities across parts of the U.S. and Canada. This new leg of da...

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BRET MICHAELS On Possibility Of POISON Tour: 'We're Close To Making It Happen'

Bret Michaels has told Tampa Bay Times in a new interview that he is hopeful POISON will hit the road again in 2017. "It'd be great for Bobby [Dall, bass] and C.C. [DeVille, guitar] and Rikki [Rockett, drums] and I to just be out there and have three months," he said. "It's on ...

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POISON's BRET MICHAELS To Launch Emoji And Lyric Keyboard

On Wednesday, December 21, POISON frontman Bret Michaels, along with New York-based developers Echelon Creative Inc., is set to launch a limited holiday edition first look at a game-changing app: the Bret Michaels emoji and lyric keyboard with ground breaking lyric-centric technology. The Bret Micha...

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ERIC BRITTINGHAM 'Would Love To Go Out And Do Another CINDERELLA Tour'

Eric Brittingham says that he "would love to go out and do another CINDERELLA tour" provided that Jeff LaBar can get well enough to return to the road. LaBar recently accepted blame for the group's prolonged period of inactivity, explaining that his "drinking problem" caused a rift between him and h...

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Former SLAYER Drummer DAVE LOMBARDO Set For 'Late Night With Seth Meyers' Guest Stint

Former SLAYER and current SUICIDAL TENDENCIES drummer Dave Lombardo will hold down the drum chair on "Late Night With Seth Meyers" from Monday, December 12 through Thursday, December 15. His guest stint in THE 8G BAND, the show's house group led by "Portlandia" star Fred Armisen, follows briefs resi...

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BOBBY BLOTZER's RATT Performs In Spokane (Video)

Drummer Bobby Blotzer's version of RATT performed last night (Saturday, December 3) at the Star Theatre at Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington as the support act for POISON singer Bret Michaels. The concert marked Blotzer's first appearance with his version of RATT since he was expelled from the pa...

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POISON's RIKKI ROCKETT Discusses Cancer Battle: 'No One Is Safe'

POISON drummer Rikki Rockett spoke to RiseUpEight.org about his revelation last year that his tongue cancer diagnosis was caused by HPV, the human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted infection. He said: "HPV is a virus that is usually, but not always, sexually transmitted. You can t...

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ERIC BRITTINGHAM On CINDERELLA: 'There's A Problem We're Having With Somebody Who Doesn't Wanna Change'

Eric Brittingham says that the "internal problems" that are preventing CINDERELLA from reuniting and hitting the road together are unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. Although CINDERELLA hasn't released a new studio album since 1994's "Still Climbing", the band started playing sporadic shows again...

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POISON's Debut Album Released As Limited-Edition Picture Disc To Commemorate 30th Anniversary

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of POISON's debut album, "Look What The Cat Dragged In", Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) has created an exclusive picture disc LP featuring the classic album cover printed on white vinyl. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide and packaged in a heavy-weight clear plas...

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Video: BRET MICHAELS Performs At Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival

Fan-filmed video footage of POISON singer Bret Michaels and his solo band performing on October 1 at the Downtown Jonesboro BBQ Festival in Jonesboro, Arkansas can be seen below. Bret recently said that he is hopeful POISON will tour with DEF LEPPARD in 2017. The multi-platinum "hair metal" rockers...