SCOTT WEILAND’S FORMER STP AND VELVET REVOLVER RELEASE SYMPATHY MESSAGES REGARDING THE SINGER’S TRAGIC PASSING
After news of singer Scott Weiland’s passing broke, his former bandmates, in both Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, have released condolence messages. Velvet Revolver band members, guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan, drummer Matt Sorum and guitarist Dave Kushner, wrote: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the loss of our old friend and bandmate, […]
FORMER STONE TEMPLE PILOTS AND VELVET REVOLVER SINGER SCOTT WEILAND DEAD AT AGE 48
Scott Weiland, the former lead singer of a number of rock bands, including Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, died in his sleep Thursday night. He was 48. A message on Weiland’s official Facebook page said he had died in Bloomington, Minn. while on tour a tour stop with his latest band, Scott Weiland and […]
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 […]