Reuters/Hollywood Reporter reports that Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”) is set to portray Joan Jett in “The Runaways”, the rock ‘n’ roll biopic of the 1970s all-girl band.
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Norway’s Metal Express Radio has issued the following update. “The band that gave you The Right To Rock: KEEL, are back in action for the first…
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As previously reported, ex-WARLOCK vocalist Doro Pesch will celebrate her 25 year career on December 13th at the ISS Dome in her home town of…
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Swedish heavy rockers BULLET will have their sophomore album, “Bite The Bullet”, released on vinyl on January 30, 2009.
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Rayner Coss (oratory/bass) of UK’s psychedelic brutal death metal masters MITHRAS has issued the following update: “I have some sad news for all our MITHRAS fans; the Zero Tolerance Christmas bash on the 14th of December will be my last show with MITHRAS as I am leaving the band.
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Coinciding with the November 25th release of the WHITE ZOMBIE box set Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Morgan Y. Evans at CrusherMagazine.comrecently spoke with former bassist…
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The original lineup of the legendary punk band BAD BRAINS has scheduled the following dates: Dec.
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Heavy metal funk bassist TM Stevens has checked in with the following update: “What’s up y’all?!? I’m just starting to get back to normal now that I’m…
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GUNS N’ ROSES’ long-awaited new album, “Chinese Democracy”, sold 261,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release (including a reported 25,000 downloads at iTunes on November 23 not counted towards the opening week) to debut at position No.
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Tinna Karlsdotter, vocalist for Sweden?s ALL ENDS, has checked in from the OOMPH support tour with the following update: December 1st – Erlangen, Germany: “Started our drive…
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QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali has issued the following update: “The three part drum clinic video has now been added by Sabian to my artist page….
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PUSCIFER, the side-project from TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan, will make its live debut in Las vegas, NV on February 13th at the Pearl at…
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As previously reported, LOUDNESS drummer Munetaka Higuchi passed away on November 30th following a long battle with liver cancer. He was 49 years old. Ex-Loudness…
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