9/3: BACK FROM VACATION, BACK LIVE TOMORROW ON VOLUME, SIRIUSXM NOW FREE TO ALL!
Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend/week. I had a week off from my SiriusXM show which was nice. A little family time, a little work. I was in Ohio where I shot the first episode of TrunkFest for AXS TV at a country event. Season 2 won’t air until next year, but i’ll already […]
ATLANTIC RECORDS FIRST FEMALE A&R EXECUTIVE DETAILS THE 80’S MUSIC SCENE IN NEW MEMOIR
Michael Kaplan of the New York Post reports: Dorothy Carvello remembers the first time she was sexually battered by music-industry legend Ahmet Ertegun, the then-chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records, the company he founded in 1947. The man who discovered Ray Charles, palled around with Mick Jagger and signed an emerging Led Zeppelin had accompanied […]
GENE SIMMONS SAYS FORMER KISS GUITARIST, VINNIE VINCENT, IS “HIS OWN WORST ENEMY”
KISS frontman/bassist, Gene Simmons, took part in a Q&A in Adelaide, Australia, where he is currently on tour with his solo band, supported by original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley. When asked about former guitarist Vinnie Vincent, Simmons said, “He’s about to get into some more legal problems, because he tried to trademark the makeup and […]
GHOST TO PLAY SHOW IN MILWAUKEE ON OCTOBER 31ST TO HONOR FALLEN FAN
Ghost will return to Milwaukee on Halloween to honor its fan who passed away this past spring after attending one of the band’s shows, reports blabbermouth.net. The Swedish metal act’s sold-out concert at the Riverside Theater on May 31st came to an abrupt and tragic end when fan Jeff Fortune collapsed at the venue, and […]
GUITARIST K.K. DOWNING DISCUSSES HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND WHY HE LEFT JUST PRIEST, SAYING “I LIKE TO THINK THAT DEMOCRACY IS ALWAYS THE BEST POLICY AND THERE WASN’T ENOUGH OF IT”
Greg Prato for Vintagerock.com spoke with former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing about his autobiography, Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest. his favorite Priest album, and other topics. The interview appears in its entirety below. Vintagerock.com: What made you decide to write your autobiography now? K.K. Downing: Lots and lots of people were […]
ANTHRAX TO RELEASE “STATE OF EUPHORIA” 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON OCTOBER 5TH
On October 5th, Island Records/Ume/Universal Music will release the 30th-anniversary, 2CD deluxe edition of Anthrax’s fourth studio album, State Of Euphoria. The package will consist of two discs: Disc One is the fully remastered album, all of the B-sides originally released in conjunction with the album, and Antisocial recorded live in London at the Hammersmith […]