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15-08-2010
UK metal royalty Iron Maiden will headline the festival....
read more11-05-2010
Heavy metal rockers Metallica have announced more concert...
read more04-05-2010
Metallica's World Magnetic Tour finally hits Australia...
read more20-04-2010
The new lineup of JANE'S ADDICTION — featuring the...
read more03-04-2010
Slash To Be Honored At 3rd Annual Sunset Strip Music...
read more25-03-2010
The song "Watch This" from legendary guitarist Slash's...
read more06-01-2010
Revolver magazine will present the "Dean Guitars 2010 NAMM...
read more17-11-2009
Edguy embark on their 3rd Australian tour this time they...
read more05-11-2009
Ace Frehley has CONFIRMED tour dates for Australia,...
read more31-10-2009
QUEENSRÿCHE and Ford have teamed up for over two dozen...
read more14-09-2009
Talk about a mind-blowing double-header. Slayer and...
read more14-09-2009
After waiting for more than 20 years for them to tour,...
read more05-06-2009
British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST will headline this...
read more28-04-2009
Alice Cooper Touring Australia August 18 - September...
read more28-04-2009
Australian Heavy Metal Awards Are Coming KILLRAZER,...
read more21-04-2009
America's first-ever hard rock and heavy metal music award...
read more04-04-2009
Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted will apparently...
read more03-03-2009
AC/DC's 'Black Ice' world tour 2009 is taking the globe...
read more03-03-2009
Arguably THE greatest live band ever The Who will make an...
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Namm 2009 Jan18 to Jan 21 Anaheim L.A . The...
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17.08.2010
Slash is Double Nominee in ‘Classic Rock’ Hall of Honour Awards
Classic Rock magazine in the U.K. has announced the nominees for this year’s Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards. Slash, Rage Against the Machine, KISS and AC/DC are all up for two awards each. They will also face off against Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and the Jeff Beck Band for the prestigious Band of the Year award.
Alice Cooper will host the ceremony, which will be held at London’s Roundhouse on November 10.
Nominees are:
Best New Band
The Union
Taking Dawn
Reckless Love
Urban Voodoo Machine
White Wizzard
Alberta Cross
Album of the Year
Cheap Trick: The Latest
Bigelf: Cheat the Gallows
Slash: Slash
KISS: Sonic Boom
Wolfmother: Cosmic Egg
Iron Maiden: The Final Frontier
Pearl Jam: Backspacer
Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue
Lynyrd Skynyrd: God & Guns
Gaslight Anthem: American Slang
The Scorpions: Sting in the Tail
Europe: Last Look at Eden
Ratt: Infestation
Foreigner: Can’t Slow Down
Black Crowes: Before the Frost…
Steve Hackett: Out of the Tunnel’s Mouth
Band of the Year
Aerosmith
AC/DC
Rage Against The Machine
Kiss
Bon Jovi
Slash & Friends
Jeff Beck Band
Event of the Year
High Voltage
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Mott The Hoople reunion
Rage Against The Machine’s Christmas No. 1 and free concert
The Stooges’ reunion
Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” entering the Top Ten
Reissue of the Year
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St
Judas Priest: British Steel
The Beatles: Reissues
Black Sabbath: The Dio Years
AC/DC: Backtracks
Jimi Hendrix: Reissues
Nazareth: Reissues
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Where the Action Is: LA Nuggets 1965-1968
David Bowie: Station to Station
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07.08.2010
Reunited SOUNDGARDEN Plays Intimate Club Show In Chicago
The reunited SOUNDGARDEN played last night (Thursday, August 5) at the intimate Vic Theatre in Chicago, just three days before it headlines the third day of the Lollapalooza festival in the Windy City's Grant Park on Sunday, August 8. -
04.08.2010
Dave Navarro Releases Signature Epiphone
Dave Navarro Signature
With his six-string skills best described as a merger between heavy metal, psychedelia and modern rock, Dave Navarro became one of alternative rock’s first true guitar heroes. Throughout his seminal work with Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers, his guest spots on Nine Inch Nails’ Further Down the Spiral and Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill – all alongside acclaimed solo releases and his Camp Freddy covers project – Navarro has proven himself one of the most versatile guitarists on the alt-rock scene of the past 25 years. And while his incendiary electric chops are usually front and center, he has long been recognized as an acoustic player of enormous impact, a fact that Epiphone now celebrates with the new Dave Navarro Signature Acoustic/Electric model.
Built to cover all Navarro’s tonal and performance needs, and dressed in a unique package that reflects the star’s distinctive persona, the Dave Navarro Signature Acoustic/Electric is primed as a super-playable, ultra-versatile gigging tool for today’s rocker. Top quality solid tonewoods and first-class Epiphone construction ensure that the Dave Navarro Signature begins with the emphasis on acoustic, while a cutting-edge pickup and preamp system developed by Epiphone in cooperation with Shadow of Germany lets you take it all electric in a big way, in an instant. Wrap it all in an ebony finish with multi-ply binding and abalone soundhole rosette, custom engraved pickguard, and custom mother-of-pearl “unicursal hexigram” inlays on an ebony fingerboard, and the Dave Navarro Signature Acoustic/Electric a guitar that looks like no other, too. -
04.08.2010
Gibson.com’s Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time
Gibson.com’s Top 50 Guitar Albums of All Time
1. Van Halen, Van Halen (1978)
2. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced (1967)
3. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
4. Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
5. Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction (1987)
6. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II (1969)
7. The Allman Brothers Band, At Fillmore East (1971)
8. Cream, Disraeli Gears (1967)
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland (1968)
10. AC/DC, Back in Black (1980)
11. Television, Marquee Moon (1977)
12. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
13. The Who, Live at Leeds (1970)
14. Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)
15. The Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
16. Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow (1975)
17. Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
18. The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St. (1972)
19. The Who, Who’s Next (1971)
20. Black Sabbath, Paranoid (1970)
21. Ozzy Osbourne, Diary of a Madman (1981)
22. The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers (1971)
23. Van Halen, Van Halen II (1979)
24. Chuck Berry, The Great Twenty-Eight (1982)
25. The Stooges, Fun House (1970)
26. AC/DC, Highway to Hell (1979)
27. The Beatles, Revolver (1966)
28. Aerosmith, Rocks (1976)
29. Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin (1969)
30. Oasis, Definitely Maybe (1994)
31. Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Sky is Crying (1991)
32. Lynyrd Skynyrd, One More from the Road (1976)
33. The Beatles, Rubber Soul (1965)
34. The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
35. Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Live (1978)
36. John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966)
37. Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak (1976)
38. Def Leppard, High ’n’ Dry (1981)
39. Roy Buchanan, Roy Buchanan (1972)
40. The Shadows, Dance with the Shadows (1964)
41. Deep Purple, Machine Head (1972)
42. Jeff Beck, Truth (1968)
43. The White Stripes, Elephant (2003)
44. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas Flood (1983)
45. Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry in London (1965)
46. Danny Gatton, 88 Elmira St. (1991)
47. The Wildhearts, Earth vs. The Wildhearts (1993)
48. Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti (1975)
49. Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (1975)
50. David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
What do ya think ?Some great stuff on this list but loads more albums that could have made it.
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10.06.2010
Update on Deftones bassist's coma.
The Deftones’ bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car accident in late 2008 and has since been in a coma, but the band has revealed that his condition is improving.
Lead singer Chino Moreno has explained Cheng’s current health situation in an interview with The Quietus. “He’s been out of his coma for a while now,” Moreno says, “which is great” the singer claimed. He’s still in a minimally conscious state, which means he sleeps a lot, wakes up, opens his eyes and looks around but he’s yet to communicate.
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10.06.2010
Urban wins CMT Music Award
Australian country music star Keith Urban has picked up a gong at the CMT Music Awards, which have been dominated by hot young artists including Carrie Underwood and Lady Antebellum.
Urban won male video of the year for `Till Summer Comes Around, beating off competition from Tim McGraw, Toby Keith, Billy Currington and Jason Aldean.
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25.05.2010
Slipknot bassist found dead in hotel!
Paul Dedrick Gray, 38, of Johnston was found dead at approximately 10:50 a.m. today by an employee at TownePlace Suites (pictured below), 8800 Northpark Drive, police said. There was no evidence of foul play, police said.
According to KCCI.com, the Polk County Medical Examiner's Office is assisting in the death investigation and will perform an autopsy on Tuesday. Toxicology testing will be completed to determine if there were any contributing factors in the death of Gray, police said.
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20.05.2010
Public Memorial Service For Ronnie James Dio
There will be a Public Memorial Service for Ronnie James Dio on Sunday, May 30th at 2:00 PM at The Hall Of Liberty located at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90068.
This will be a celebration of the life and music of Ronnie James Dio and is open to all of his friends and fans from around the world.
For those of you that will be flying in from out of town or out of the country, we have made special rates at various local hotels available to you! Just go to our official Facebook Page for hotel information!
