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ANTHRAX’S “FOR ALL KINGS” MAKES TOP TEN DEBUT ON BILLBOARD’S TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART

Multi-Grammy nominee Anthrax have blasted into Billboard’s Top 10 with their 11th studio album, For All Kings, bowing at #9-bullet on the Top 200 Albums Chart and selling 34,000 units. This debut eclipses the #12 debut made by the band’s 2011 Grammy-nominated, critically-acclaimed Worship Music. The album also topped the Hard Rock Albums chart in […]

GUITARIST TONY IOMMI PLANS TO WORK WITH FORMER FRONTMAN TONY MARTIN AGAIN

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has revealed plans to record with former frontman Tony Martin. He sang with the band for two stints between 1987 and 1997, appearing on their albums The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, Tyr, Cross Purposes, Cross Purposes Live and Forbidden. His time with Sabbath ended after they settled their differences with […]

3/6: BACK FROM THE CRUISES, UFO, BACK LIVE ON SIRIUSXM, TMS, MORE

Back from the latest cruise I hosted called The Lebrewski. The music was a bit outside my core world of hard rock but it was a great change of pace and I saw so many cool new young rock bands and some old ones as well. I was also made very aware of how wide […]

THE NEW AGE OF GOLD RECORDS

Steve Knopper of Rolling Stone reports: For 58 years, going gold was a simple matter: Sell 500,000 copies of your album or single, get a shiny record to hang on your wall. But thanks to new guidelines the Recording Industry Association of America introduced in early February, it just got easier — and more complicated. […]

FAMED L.A. MANAGER VICKY HAMILTON RELEASES “APPETITE FOR DYSFUNCTION”

At 22, Vicky Hamilton left her hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and arrived on the Sunset Strip as a wide-eyed blonde with an ear for rock & roll, “I was back home interviewing Tom Petty for Three Rivers Review,” says Hamilton, “He told me I was a ‘real California girl,’ and that’s all it took.” […]