Forget birthday candles, Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer and former VAN HALEN frontman Sammy Hagar will celebrate his birthday in unique rock ‘n’ roll fashion.
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NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) legends DIAMOND HEAD will release their long-awaited new album, “What’s In Your Head?”, on July 30.
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U.K.’s Northampton Chronicle & Echo reports: A 14-year-old girl was robbed by a group of five people as she walked through St Giles graveyard in Northampton.
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TROUBLE drummer Jeff “Oly” Olson has released two new CDs, but it is not his traditional doom.
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Riverside, CA-based quintet SUICIDE SILENCE has set “The Cleansing” as the title of its much-anticipated debut album, due on September 18 via Century Media.
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Rage Against the Machine and The Smashing Pumpkins are among the acts confirmed for the 2006 Voodoo Music Experience. The event will take place from October 26th through the 28th at City Park in New Orleans. More info is available here.
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Paula Froelich of the New York Post’s “Page Six” reports: David Lee Roth had such an unquenchable thirst for sex during his VAN HALEN days that he invented an ingenious way to score at the band’s concerts ? doling out generous cash rewards to staffers who supplied him with the hottest girls, according to a new, unauthorized bio of the platinum-selling band.
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The new DAVID SHANKLE GROUP album, “Hellborn”, will be previewed exclusively on Dementia Radio’s program “Raise the Horns” on Saturday, June 23.
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Paul Rodgers has told Gary Graff of Billboard.com that he “recorded some nine songs” with QUEEN members Brian May and Roger Taylor, and that there are plans to return to the studio in October to do some more work.
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Video footage of TED NUGENT performing part of a new song, “Lay with Me”, last night (Thursday, June 21) at the Lifestyle Communities Pavillion in Columbus, Ohio has been posted at Google Video.
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Jonathan Cohen of Billboard.com reports that RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and SMASHING PUMPKINS anchor a lineup of rock heavy-hitters and acclaimed New Orleans musicians for the 2007 Voodoo Music Experience, which is expanding to three days and will be held Oct.
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