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Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN To Tour Europe In April

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman's official web site has been updated with the following message: "As TV Tokyo's weekly 'Rock Fujiyama' [program featuring Marty] continues to score high in the ratings, Marty has now become a regular on Japan's NHK network as well. Aside from often appearing...

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LINKIN PARK Guitarist BRAD DELSON to Visit Los Angeles Middle School

Little Kids Rock (LKR),a program providing free instruments and instruction for public school students, has announced that LINKIN PARK guitarist and Little Kids Rock Honorary Board member, Brad Delson, will be visiting Los Angeles' Nightingale Middle School on Thursday, December 14. During his visi...

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GHOST BRIGADE To Enter Studio In Early January

Finnish band GHOST BRIGADE will enter the studio on Saturday, January 6, 2007 with its "house engineer" Mikko Poikolainen to begin recording the band's debut album, tentatively due next year via Season of Mist. The group's four-song demo that was recorded earlier this year is still available for fre...

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Threshold

Six albums in, and a darker wind seems to be blowing through the HAMMERFALL camp, ruffling the frilliest of shirts and injecting a little minor-chord pomposity into the band's helium odes to how much rocking, well, rocks. Don't get me wrong, the band isn't reinventing their sound, or even trying any...

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SCOTT WEILAND: New Solo Track Posted Online

An audio sample of VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland's (ex-STONE TEMPLE PILOTS) new solo track, "The Man I Didn't Know", has been posted online at the Softdrive Records MySpace page. Weiland is the President and principal owner of Softdrive Records, which just signed a deal with Sony/RED Distri...

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SEBASTIAN BACH: AXL ROSE 'Is Not Motivated By Money, He's Motivated By His Art'

Sandra Sperounes of The Edmonton Journal recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On playing in huge hockey arenas as the opener for Axl Rose's latest version of GUNS N' ROSES: "I'm getting ready to kick Edmonton's ass! I've w...

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JIMI HENDRIX Guitar Auctioned For $168,000

Reuters reports that a Texas bookstore owner won the bidding for one of rock legend Jimi Hendrix's electric guitars — a 1968 Fender Stratocaster — for $168,000, the guitar's strap for $10,800 and a photograph of Hendrix and band members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell framed by two topless blondes f...

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Devour the Power

Something in the Nashville area reservoir? A few too many lead paint chips peeled and eaten off windowsills as babies? The last band from Tennessee to pop up on the radar was the delightfully off-the-wall LOOK WHAT I DID, and now we're graced with the presence of DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY, another irr...

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CANNIBAL CORPSE Drummer To Be Featured On This Weekend's 'The Governor's Ball'

Drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz of CANNIBAL CORPSE will be the featured guest on "The Governor's Ball" on Saturday, December 2 at 3:00 p.m. Tune in on www.myspace.com/thegovernorsball and www.fusionradio.ca to hear a discussion about the band's popularity, extreme violence, and the strange fetishes of lad...

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SLIPKNOT Guitarist JIM ROOT: 'We're Focusing On STONE SOUR For A Few Years'

Christina Fuoco of LiveDaily recently conducted an interview with STONE SOUR/SLIPKNOT guitarist Jim Root. A few excerpts from the chat follow: On SLIPKNOT's immediate future: "We're focusing on [STONE SOUR] for a few years. I haven't talked to or heard from anybody in SLIPKNOT, as far as writing or...

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Black Elk

The self-titled debut from Portland, Oregon's BLACK ELK is one of those albums that seeps into the pores and wreaks havoc with the nervous system. The disc recalls the Amphetamine Reptile sound with a generous helping of bands like THE MELVINS and the JESUS LIZARD, not to mention the raggedy punkish...

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BLACK SABBATH Bassist Remembers Legendary DJ ALAN 'FLUFF' FREEMAN

Former "Pick of the Pops" radio personality Alan "Fluff" Freeman, known on the BBC radio series for his catchphrases, has died in London at the age of 79, according to United Press International. The disc jockey, who had built a loyal following on the 1960s BBC series with his catchphrases like "Gre...

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TESLA's 'Guys Pickin' Appearance To Air Next Month

TESLA's eighth "3 Guys Pickin" episode, which is set to air December 8, features all five members, including new guitarist Dave Rude, as they sit down with the "3 Guys" to discuss their upcoming covers album and box set, the funny story behind "Free For All", departed guitarist Tommy Skeoch, how Dav...

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EAGLES OF DEATH METAL Laugh Off AXL ROSE's Ohio Rant

MTV.com reports that EAGLES OF DEATH METAL have issued a statement in response to being unceremoniously dumped from the GUNS N' ROSES tour after a chilly reception on the first night of what was supposed to be a three-week stint opening up for Axl Rose and Co. Following a well-received set by tour ....

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NIRVANA, GUNS N' ROSES Classics Among Top Songs Of Past Two Decades

ABC News reports that NIRVANA's iconic 1991 single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" beat out hits from MADONNA, BRITNEY SPEARS and U2 to be named the best pop song in 20 years by Britain's Q magazine. In its November issue, which celebrates Q's 20th anniversary, the publication set out to identify the top...