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Press Release / Los Angeles, CA (October 22, 2009) - Thrash metal pioneers Megadeth are set to be the latest act to “go A.P.E.” on the virtual airwaves. Listeners everywhere should prepare for the debut of the band’s “predictably unpredictable” Artist Personal Experience radio station, “Megadeth Radio.” Band founder and frontman Dave Mustaine has [...]
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Press Release / Kansas delivers unforgettable live performances! Evidenced nowhere better than on their current DVD release, ‘There’s Know Place Like Home’ debuts at #5 on the Billboard DVD top sales chart. Featuring guest appearances by former members Kerry Livgren and Steve Morse, spectacular lighting, and songs previously not recorded with a symphony, this [...]
FROM WWW.CLASSICROCKMAGAZINE.COM:
Jon Bon Jovi has upset The Sun newspaper.
Gordon Smart, who edits The Sun’s Bizarre column, writes this morning:
‘I was excited talking to Jon Bon Jovi yesterday as his band have sold more than 120 million records. So I was gutted to find he’s a knob.
‘I was later told I upset him by not calling [...]
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Chuck Klosterman’s celebrated book Fargo Rock City is to be turned into a film.
The book tells of journalist Klosterman’s experiences being a metal fan at school in North Dakota during the 1980s. The script for this is being co-written by Craig Finn from The Hold Steady, with Klosterman himself acting as producer.
Finn told The [...]
FROM WWW.SPINNER.COM:
U2’s Broadway play, ‘Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark’ has been delayed yet again. The multimillion-dollar musical is now expected to start previews and open this spring later than scheduled, according to the New York Times.
Weeks of production delays and ongoing difficulties recruiting additional investors for the show are being blamed for the holdup, according [...]
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Original Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan has finally offered up his opinion of ‘Chinese Democracy’, the disc his former bandmate Axl Rose delivered under the band’s moniker late last year. McKagan, who left the band in 1994 and is a member of Velvet Revolver, had an interesting, if not amusing, perspective on the [...]
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Guitarist Steve Vai has a new live DVD, ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ that highlights his 25 plus years of performing for sold-out audiences. Vai, who is known for his wild guitar licks onstage, was no match for the backstage antics he experienced on tour with Van Halen’s David Lee Roth.
“Actually, I was never [...]
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Heart’s Nancy Wilson has a cure for insomnia. It’s not pharmaceutical, it’s not herbal and it doesn’t require reading self-help books. The guitarist has made a CD of soothing lullabies, ‘Baby Guitars,’ that initially was designed to woo babies into the land of slumber. “A friend of mine was having a baby a few [...]
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The Faces reunited for a one-time charity show on Oct. 26, but they did it without the help of frontman Rod Stewart, who couldn’t appear due to scheduling conflicts. The ’70s UK rock band played at the Royal Albert Hall in London to support PRS for Music Benevolent Fund, a charity that supports musicians [...]
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David Byrne’s just-ended tour, dubbed ‘Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Getting Around,’ was a little different than his usual road trips. Byrne left his guitar behind and instead was an actual talking head promoting his new book ‘The Bicycle Diaries.’
In his too-brief lecture at Toronto’s International Festival of Authors on Saturday, Byrne ran [...]
