Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV’s “Thunder Show” recently visited Arizona and taped an episode with one of the most requested guests to appear on the program ? TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan.
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Crash Music, Inc.
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According to The Guestlist and various Italian media reports, 19-year-old Italian heavy metal singer Cristina Balzano has been arrested for stabbing the guitarist in her band SOUL CRY after he fluffed a guitar riff.
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In this week’s issue of U.K.’s Kerrang! magazine, SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor reveals that the band has been approached to headline next year’s Download festival.
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Audio samples of all the tracks that appear on SEPULTURA’s new album, “A-Lex”, are available at SPV.de.
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KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons sat down with Billboard magazine at its annual Touring Conference on November 20 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York to talk about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, discount tickets at live shows, and a possible tour with QUEEN.
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Legendary rocker Ted Nugent will celebrate his 60th birthday this Saturday, December 13.
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MTV’s HeadbangersBlog.com conducted an interview with bassist Peter Iwers of Swedish metallers IN FLAMES prior to the band’s December 7, 2008 concert in New York City with GOJIRA and 36 CRAZYFISTS.
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“Beautiful Mess”, the new album from the legendary vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (TALISMAN, JOURNEY, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), will receive its European release on February 20, 2009 via Frontiers Records.
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According to a posting on the RUSH fan site Power Windows, the release date of RUSH’s forthcoming “Retrospective 3” CD/DVD has once again been pushed back ? this time to February 24, 2009.
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Floridian black metallers KULT OV AZAZEL have unveiled the cover artwork (see below) of their new album, “Destroying the Sacred”, which will be released in March 2009 via Arctic Music.
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According to the Van Halen News Desk, VAN HALEN guitar legend Edward Van Halen and Guitar World’s Chris Gill discuss the new EVH Wolfgang guitar in a new video (see below) from the CD-ROM included in the February 2009 issue of Guitar World.
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WOODS OF YPRES founder/frontman David Gold has informed BW&BK that the band will play the memorial show being planned for Adrian Bromley, due to take…
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