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Kiki Wong Joins The Smashing Pumpkins After Global Casting Call

When Billy Corgan put the call out for a new guitarist for The Smashing Pumpkins in January he was overwhelmed with applicants.

Tagged as: 90s, Billy Morgan, grunge, Kiki Wong, metal, rock, Smashing Pumpkins, USA

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Motley Crue Release ‘Dogs of War’ Single and Video

by Paul Cashmere

Motley Crue have a new song ‘Dogs of War’ and a video to go with it. The video was directed by Nick DenBoer based on a concept by Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee.

Tagged as: 80s, Dogs of War, metal, Motley Crue, Nick DenBoer, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, USA

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Alice Cooper Plays First Show Of 2024 For Pandemonium In Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Alice Cooper is back touring with his first shows for 2024 now underway in Australia headlining the Pandemonium Rocks music festival.

Tagged as: 70s, Alice Cooper, metal, Pandemonium, rock, USA

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Bring Me The Horizon’s Lee Malia To Miss Australian Tour

by Music-News.com

Bring Me The Horizon’s guitarist Lee Malia is skipping the band’s Australian leg of their ‘NeX GEn Tour’ to spend time with his newborn.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, Bring Me The Horizon, metal, rock, USA

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Living Colour Have No Plans To Record ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’

by Paul Cashmere

On their most recent tour (and in Australia) Living Colour occasionally performed the Prince song made famous by Sinead O’Connor ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’. Living Colour and Sonic Universe singer Corey Glover says Living Colour have no plans to record the song.

Tagged as: 20s, Corey Glover, It Is What It Is, Living Colour, metal, Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince, Sinead O'Connor, Sonic Universe, USA

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Glenn Hughes To Perform 50th Anniversary Burn Tour For Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Glenn Hughes will return to Australia for the Burn tour in October to mark the 50th anniversary of his classic album induction into Deep Purple.

Tagged as: 70s, Burn, Deep Purple, Glenn Hughes, metal, rock, UK

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New Kurt Cobain Documentary Marks 30th Anniversary of His Death

by Music-News.com

A new BBC documentary aims to “demystify” the tragic death of Kurt Cobain – 30 years after his death rocked the world.

Tagged as: 90s, Courtney Love, grunge, Kurt Cobain, metal, Nirvana, rock, USA

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David Draiman Disturbed at Margaret Court Arena on Saturday 12 November 2016 photo by Ros O'Gorman

Lzzy Hale Joins Disturbed As The Ann Wilson Fill-in At Knotfest

by Paul Cashmere

Disturbed are touring Australia on Knotfest and while the Ann Wilson duet ‘Don’t Tell Me’ is in the setlist, Ann Wilson is not. In her place, Lzzy Hale of Halestorm stepped in at Knotfest Melbourne.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, Ann Wilson, Disturbed, Hailstorm, Heart, Knotfest, Lzzy Hale, metal, rock, USA

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Deep Purple Reveal UK Dates For End of 2024

by Music-News.com

Deep Purple are hitting the road this November.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, Deep Purple, metal, Pandemonium, Reef, UK tour

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Josh Homme Suggest Them Crooked Vultures Could Reform

by Music-News.com

Josh Homme wants Them Crooked Vultures to reunite.

Tagged as: 10s, Dave Growl, Foo Fighters, John Paul Jones, Josh Homme, Led Zeppelin, metal, Queens Of The Stone Age, rock, Them Crooked Vultures, UK, USA

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Ian Paice of Deep Purple Reveals The Two Bands He Would Never Follow

by Paul Cashmere

When Deep Purple tour Australia for the Pandemonium Festival in April, there will go on before Alice Cooper and they are fine with that.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Deep Purple, Ian Paice, metal, music festival, Pandemonium, rock, UK

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Slipknot Will Headline Knotfest In Australia In 2025

by Paul Cashmere

Slipknot will return to Australia in 2025 for Knotfest.

Tagged as: 2025, 90s, Knotfest, metal, Slipknot, USA

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Bruce Dickinson Solo Album ‘The Mandrake Project’ Debut Top 10 Physical In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Dickinson fans in Australia have chosen the physical disc over streaming with Bruce’s ‘The Mandrake Project’ debuting at no 6 on the Physical album chart and at no 17 on the Vinyl chart.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, metal, The Mandrake Project, UK

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Infectious Grooves To Release First New Music Since 2000

by Paul Cashmere

Infectious Grooves will have a new album soon, their first since ‘Mas Borracho’ in 2000.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Infectious Grooves, Jay Weinberg, metal, punk, Suicidal Tendencies, USA

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Slash To Release Blues Album

by Music-News.com

Slash is seemingly set to release his blues rock solo album imminently.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, blues, Guns n Roses, metal, rock, Slash, USA

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Deep Purple’s Ian Paice Is The Only Member To Play On Every Album

by Paul Cashmere

Ian Paice of Deep Purple was right there at the very start of the band, from the first album ‘Shades of Deep Purple’ (1968) to the most recent ‘Turning To Crime’ (2021). He formed the band with Ritchie Blackmore, Jon Lord, Rod Evans and Nick Simper in 1969.

Tagged as: 70s, Australia, Deep Purple, Ian Paice, metal, music festival, Pandemonium, rock, UK

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Knotfest Playing Times Revealed

by Paul Cashmere

The playing times for artists on. Knotfest Australia 2024 have been revealed for the three shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Tagged as: Australia, Brisbane, Disturbed, Knottiest, Melbourne, metal, music festival, Pantera, rock, Sydney

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Bring Me The Horizon Album Nears Completion

by Music-News.com

Bring Me The Horizon’s delayed album, ‘POST HUMAN: NeX GEn’, is “nearly finished”.

Tagged as: 00s, Bring Me The Horizon, metal, Post Human Next Gen, UK

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Mick Mars Open To Writing for Motley Crue

by Music-News.com

Mick Mars would be willing to write new music for Mötley Crüe – despite his ousting and legal wrangle with his former bandmates.

Tagged as: 80s, glam, metal, Mick Mars, Motley Crue, rock, USA

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Ozzy Osbourne On His Kanye West Remarks

by Music-News.com

Ozzy Osbourne has reflected on standing up to Kanye West. Earlier this month, Ozzy slammed West for using a sample of the Black Sabbath hit Iron Man without permission.

Tagged as: 00s, 70s, Black Sabbath, Kanye West, metal, Ozzy Osbourne, rock, UK, USA

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Slayer To Reunite

by Paul Cashmere

Slayer will reunite five years after the end of their farewell tour for two festivals in the USA.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Kerry King, metal, Slayer, USA

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Bruce Dickinson Is Enjoying “The Silliness” Away From Iron Maiden

by Music-News.com

Bruce Dickinson has enjoyed “playing like children” away from the strictness of Iron Maiden.

Tagged as: 80s, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, metal, Rain on the Graves, rock, The Mandrake Project, UK

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AC/DC, It’s On – Europe 2024 Announced

by Paul Cashmere

AC/DC will head back on the road for the start of the Power Up World tour in 2024 with the first dates for Europe.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, AC/DC, Australia, Chris Chaney, Cliff Williams, metal, Power Up, rock

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Ozzy Osbourne Denies Antisemite Kanye West Use of Song

by Paul Cashmere

Ozzy Osbourne has rejected a request from Kanye West for use of his Black Sabbath song ‘War Pigs’ on a new album because he says West is an Antisemite but West went ahead and used it regardless.

Tagged as: 00s, 70s, Black Sabbath, Kanye West, metal, Ozzy Osbourne, rap, rock, UK, USA

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Motley Crue The End Live In Los Angeles To Be Released On 4K Ultra HD

by Paul Cashmere

Motley Crue’s December 31, 2015 The End concert from Los Angeles will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray in April.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, metal, Motley Crue, rock, The End, USA

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Marilyn Manson Ordered To Pay Even Rachel Wood’s Legal Fees

by Paul Cashmere

Brian Warner (aka Marilyn Manson) has been ordered to pay $327,000 to ex-girlfriend Even Rachel Wood to cover the legal fees she paid out during his defamation lawsuit.

Tagged as: 90s, Evan Rachel Wood, Marilyn Manson, metal, rock, USA

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Why Deep Purple Stopped Performing ‘Child In Time’

by Paul Cashmere

Deep Purple’s current setlist goes back to 1968 and includes more than half of the classic ‘Machine Head’ album but one song they have not done in years is the epic ‘Child In Time’.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, Australia, Child In Time, Deep Purple, Ian Gillan, metal, music festival, Pandemonium, rock, Roger Glover, UK

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Bruce Dickinson Wrote Very Few Iron Maiden Songs By Himself

by Paul Cashmere

In the 42 years since Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson has only had six songs in total credited to just himself as a songwriter.

Tagged as: 80s, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, metal, rock, The Mandrake Project, UK

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Bruce Dickinson Tells Noise11 The Mandrake Project is Not A Concept Album

by Paul Cashmere

In an all new interview with Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, Bruce discusses ‘The Mandrake Project’, his first solo album in 19 years and says it is not a concert record.

Tagged as: 80s, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, metal, Rain on the Graves, rock, The Mandrake Project, UK

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Bruce Dickinson ‘The Mandrake Project’ Will Not Be A Series or Movie

by Paul Cashmere

Bruce Dickinson’s the first solo album in 19 years ‘The Mandrake Project’ is an epic story that will be a Comic Book series and could be a movie and television series but it won’t be either of those.

Tagged as: 80s, 90s, Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, metal, rock, The Mandrake Project, UK

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