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New Music Releases – April 2012

The April 2012 New Music Releases schedule features what's sure to be one of the more curiously titled releases of the year:'Thick as a Brick 2,' by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson. A follow-up to the...

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Best Twisted Sister Song – Readers Poll

Dee Snider, lead singer for onetime cross-dressing hard rockers Twisted Sister (they retired the makeup in 2009), turns 57 today (March 15). So what do you get for the guy who does everything? A...

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Bruce Springsteen Kicks Off 'Wrecking Ball' Tour in Atlanta

There was some understandable consternation on the eve of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's US tour, their first since the death of Clarence Clemons last June. It would be tough not to notice...

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John Mellencamp, Steven Van Zandt, ZZ Top Among Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

The list of presenters at this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony is arguably as prestigious as the class they're inducting. John Mellencamp, Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill from ZZ Top, and...

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Best Aerosmith Album – Reader's Poll

Let's send a big 'yow yow yow yiggy-yiggy-yiggy YOW' out to Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, who turned 64 this week and also announced another huge summer tour with his famous band. And to him we present a...

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Soundgarden Reveal Preview of 'Avengers' Single 'Live to Rise'

The calendar might say it's spring, but it's time to break out your flannel, because Soundgarden have released a teaser video for 'Live to Rise,' the first single from the soundtrack to the summer...

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George Harrison's Swiss Mansion For Sale

The taxman may have been taking 95% of George Harrison's earnings at one point in time, but that didn't stop the Quiet Beatle from amassing enough money to purchase a gorgeous Swiss estate in 2001,...

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Sonisphere 2012, Set to Feature Queen and Kiss, Cancelled

The 2012 Summer Olympics: concert killer. Following in the footsteps of at least four U.K. and Ireland-based music festivals planned for this summer, Reuters is reporting that the producers of...

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No. 90: Ram Jam, 'Black Betty'– Top 100 Classic Rock Songs

Their lead singer and guitarist played with the Lemon Pipers, of 'Green Tambourine' fame. The rest of the band members never even played on this highly offbeat entry on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs...

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New Music Releases – April 2012

The April 2012 New Music Releases schedule features what's sure to be one of the more curiously titled releases of the year:'Thick as a Brick 2,' by Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson. A follow-up to the...

View Article

Best Twisted Sister Song – Readers Poll

Dee Snider, lead singer for onetime cross-dressing hard rockers Twisted Sister (they retired the makeup in 2009), turns 57 today (March 15). So what do you get for the guy who does everything? A...

View Article

Bruce Springsteen Kicks Off 'Wrecking Ball' Tour in Atlanta

There was some understandable consternation on the eve of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's US tour, their first since the death of Clarence Clemons last June. It would be tough not to notice...

View Article

John Mellencamp, Steven Van Zandt, ZZ Top Among Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

The list of presenters at this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony is arguably as prestigious as the class they're inducting. John Mellencamp, Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill from ZZ Top, and...

View Article


Best Aerosmith Album – Reader's Poll

Let's send a big 'yow yow yow yiggy-yiggy-yiggy YOW' out to Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, who turned 64 this week and also announced another huge summer tour with his famous band. And to him we present a...

View Article

Soundgarden Reveal Preview of 'Avengers' Single 'Live to Rise'

The calendar might say it's spring, but it's time to break out your flannel, because Soundgarden have released a teaser video for 'Live to Rise,' the first single from the soundtrack to the summer...

View Article


George Harrison's Swiss Mansion For Sale

The taxman may have been taking 95% of George Harrison's earnings at one point in time, but that didn't stop the Quiet Beatle from amassing enough money to purchase a gorgeous Swiss estate in 2001,...

View Article

Sonisphere 2012, Set to Feature Queen and Kiss, Cancelled

The 2012 Summer Olympics: concert killer. Following in the footsteps of at least four U.K. and Ireland-based music festivals planned for this summer, Reuters is reporting that the producers of...

View Article


No. 90: Ram Jam, 'Black Betty'– Top 100 Classic Rock Songs

Their lead singer and guitarist played with the Lemon Pipers, of 'Green Tambourine' fame. The rest of the band members never even played on this highly offbeat entry on our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs...

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