Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Dave Grohl has got some of the coolest friends in the world. How do I know? Because they're all in his new documentary.
Down below is the trailer for a doc called
Sound City which was directed by the Foo Fighters frontman and focuses on Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, CA. The studio was shut down in 2011 but not before some of the biggest names in rock recorded some legendary albums including Nirvana's
Nevermind.
Grohl said of…
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Tags: Alain Johannes, Barry Manilow, Butch Vig, Cheap Trick, Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Frank Black, Joshua Homme, Krist Novoselic, Lars Ulrich, Mick Fleetwood, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Petty, Trent Reznor, Vinnie Appice
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
The Carolina Rebellion, the hard rock festival that takes place in North Carolina, is back once again boasting yet another line up for you to rock out to.
Shinedown and Korn are headlining this year's installment, which will take place on May 5th at the Rockingham Speedway in Rockingham, NC. Other artists performing include Five Finger Death Punch, Evanescence, Staind, Slash, Chevelle, Halestorm, Adelitas Way, Volbeat, Paper Tongues and more.
Tickets go…
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Tags: Adelita's Way, Carolina Rebellion, Chevelle, Evanescence, Five Finger Death Punch, Halestorm, Korn, Paper Tongues, Shinedown, Slash, Staind, Volbeat
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Gorillaz are coming back in a big way in 2012. The band announced, via the
Twitter feed of Murdoc Niccals, that they would be teaming up with Andre 3000 of Outkast and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem for a brand new track called "Do Ya Thing." The song will be released on February 23rd over at
Converse's website. The song will be released for the show company's "Three…
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Tags: Andre 3000, Gorillaz, James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, Outkast
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who was involved in a car accident in November of 2008 that left him in a vegetative state, is continuing to show signs of improvement and has even awoken from a semi-comatose state. Down below, you can check out a video of Cheng being able to raise his leg on command. It's a hopeful sign but he's not out of the woods yet. He still can't communicate verbally but can open his eyes from time to time and see and hear things around…
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
You guys know the Foo Fighters' single, "Rope," was remixed by Deadmau5, right? Well it looks like we're going to see that remix done live at the Grammy awards this year.
Dave Grohl and the Foos will perform alongside the Mau5 as well as David Guetta and Lil' Wayne in a tribute to electronic music during the ceremony which takes place on CBS on Sunday, February 12. The performance will take place outside of the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Tags: David Guetta, Deadmau5, Foo Fighters, Lil Wayne
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Metallica has done many things in their day but have never curated and headlined their own two-day festival...until now.
Taking place in Atlantic City, New Jersey on June 23rd and 24th at Bader field, the festival will feature 'Tallica headlining both nights and they will be performing both
The Black Album and
Ride The Lightning in its entirety. The festival will include 22 bands hand selected by the band to perform. The line up is quite…
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Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers, Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Best Coast, Cage The Elephant, Fucked Up, Gary Clark Jr., Hot Snakes, Liturgy, Lucero, Metallica, Modest Mouse, Roky Erickson, The Black Angels, The Gaslight Anthem, The Sword, Titus Andronicus
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Awww look at Killswitch Engage. They just look so happy, all smiles and...hey, is that Jesse Leach?!
There it is, everyone. Former KSE frontman Jesse Leach has rejoined the band after the departure of Howard Jones who replaced Leach back in 2002 . The band posted the above picture at their
official website.
So far there's no other news about the reunion of Leach and KSE but we should still expect a brand…
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
The second solo album from Slash is set to be released on May 22nd via his own label, Dik Hayd International. While the album has no title or track listing yet, it will only feature his touring band this time including Alter Bridge guitarist Myles Kennedy, drummer Brent Fitz and bassist Todd Kerns. Down below, you can check out video of the band working together in the recording studio.
Unlike his debut album, which featured a different singer on almost every track, Slash explained…
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Monday, February 6th, 2012
Your indie-rock dreams are coming to fruition with the Shins releasing a brand new album,
Port Of Morrow, on March 20th. So how 'bout we make it a wet dream and throw in some tour dates and new music, eh?
Down below you can check out the dates for the band's forthcoming Summer outing which starts on April 13th in Las Vegas, NV. They'll be hitting up spots including the Coachella festival, the Sasquatch! festival and even traveling to Hawaii.
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Yeah you just read the headline and probably started shaking your fist and screaming. Calm down, son, it's not bad news at all.
Rolling Stone has confirmed that
American Idol alum Adam Lambert will be the new frontman for the legendary rock band Queen. Now I know some young, ignorant rock fans will shriek in horror at this news and will call for Lambert…
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