12/3: YEAR IN REVIEW SPECIALS REVEALED, MICHAEL MONROE PODCAST, MORE
My new podcast for the week is up today. New episodes every Thursday as always free worldwide on www.podcastone.com or Itunes. This week my guest is Michael Monroe. Michael has made 3 great albums in a row including the latest Blackout States. He talks about that, Hanoi Rocks and much more. Plus my weekly commentary […]
SLAYER ANNOUNCES FIRST LEG OF 2016 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
In support of Repentless, the band’s 12th studio album and its career-highest chart debut, Slayer will launch 2016 by pillaging and marauding its way across North America, headlining some two-dozen dates over a five-week period. With Special Guests Testament and Carcass on all dates, the tour starts on February 19th in Chicago and wraps up […]
BLACK SABBATH PREPARE DELUXE EDITIONS FOR THE BAND’S FIRST THREE STUDIO ALBUMS AS “THE END” APPROACHES, DELUXE EDITIONS ARRIVE JANUARY 22ND
In January, Black Sabbath will make its triumphant return to North America to launch their highly anticipated The End final tour. That same month, the greatest metal band of all time will also release deluxe editions of its first three studio albums – Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality. Each deluxe edition includes the 2012 […]
VAN HALEN PROUCER TED TEMPLEMAN DISCUSSES THE BAND, SAYS “[EDDIE VAN HALEN IS] ONE OF THE MOST CREATIVE GUYS I’VE EVER MET”
Van Halen producer Ted Templeman says the band’s early material drew on musical influences from outwith the traditional rock genre. He was behind the desk for the band’s first six albums: Van Halen (1978), Van Halen II (1979), Women And Children First (1980), Fair Warning (1981), Diver Down (1982) and 1984 (1984). While attending the […]
SEBASTIAN BACH’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY “18 AND LIFE ON SKID ROW” WILL BE RELEASED ON APRIL 12TH, COVER REVEALED
Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach’s autobiography, 18 And Life On Skid Row, will be released on April 12th, 2016 through HarperCollins Publishers. The book is described as: 18 And Life On Skid Row tells the story of a boy who spent his childhood moving from Freeport, Bahamas to California and finally to Canada and […]
DRUMMER JERRY GASKILL ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW KING’S X ALBUM, “A NEW RECORD WILL MOST LIKELY HAPPEN. I DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN”
Greg Prato of Alternative Nation spoke with King’s X drummer Jerry Gaskill. Excerpts from the interview appear below. Alternative Nation: You have a good singing voice, but I don’t recall you singing on many (any?) King’s X tunes. Why not? Jerry Gaskill: Why thank you! I sing lead on three King’s X songs…Six Broken Soldiers, […]