According to the Winnipeg Free Press, the current mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada paid tribute to British rockers DEF LEPPARD by quoting several of the band's songtitles during a city council meeting earlier today (Wednesday, April 29). "I am going to my opening statements on a lighter note," he told council. "If you'll ...
STONE SOUR will release two more EPs of cover songs following the arrival of its first one, "Meanwhile In Burbank…", on April 18 as a Record Store Day exclusive. STONE SOUR vocalist Corey Taylor revealed that the next two will be titled "Straight Out Of Burbank" and "No Sleep 'Till Burbank" and will feature five ...
Independent hip-hop powerhouse TECH N9NE will drop his highly-anticipated new album, "Special Effects", on May 4 via Strange Music. Today, TECH N9NE unleashes the metallic side of his persona with the brand new anthem, titled "Wither", featuring none other than SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor. Corey Taylor has often publicly praised Tech and ...
Mascot Label Group's Music Theories Recordings and Neal Schon have announced the release of "Vortex" on June 23. The 2-CD all-instrumental album utilizes rock as its foundation, while also embracing elements of jazz, classical and world music in an 18-track stunning, sonically explosive collection of original compositions. The release is dedicated to Schon's best friend ...
As he gears up for the May 12 release of his much-buzzed-about new book, "How To Be A Man (And Other Illusions)" (Da Capo Press), former GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan will issue a three-song companion EP, "How To Be A Man". Due on the same day as the book, the disc features former ...
SUPREMACY, the new band featuring singers Claus Lessmann (BONFIRE) and Michael Voss (CASANOVA, MAD MAX), guitarist Robby Boebel (FRONTLINE, EVIDENCE ONE), drummer Axel Kruse (JADED HEART) and bassist Francis Buchholz (SCORPIONS, MICHAEL SCHENKER'S TEMPLE OF ROCK), is working on material for its debut album, due in late 2015 or early 2016 via Frontiers. Says Voss: ...
GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose has taken to social media to react to the executions of the two Australians who were sentenced to death in 2006 for trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia. Rose posted a series of tweets after it was announced that Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the ...
Massacre Records will release the two-CD album "A Light In The Black - A Tribute To Ronnie James Dio" on May 22. The label states in a press release: "Ronnie James Dio was a hero and inspiration to many musicians, such as Lars Ulrich (METALLICA), Doro Pesch and Axel Rudi Pell, and rumor has it ...
In a brand new interview with Classic Rock Revisited, former DEEP PURPLE and current WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale was asked how close a PURPLE-and-Coverdale reunion came to being a reality. He responded: "Glenn Hughes [former DEEP PURPLE bassist/vocalist] and I are very close, and Glenn's been after me to do some sort of ...
