ROCK ICON EDDIE VAN HALEN SAYS HE DOESN’T LISTEN TO MUSIC, DISCUSSES HIS CURRENT RELATIONSHIP WITH SINGER DAVID LEE ROTH AND COMMENTS ON FORMER BASSIST MICHAEL ANTHONY STATING,”EVERY NOTE [HE] EVER PLAYED, I HAD TO SHOW HIM HOW TO PLAY”
Chuck Klosterman of Billboard spoke with iconic guitarist Eddie Van Halen. Highlights from the feature article appear below. Eddie Van Halen does not listen to music. “I don’t listen to anything.” He does not listen to any music he isn’t actively making. The guitarist maintains that the last album he purchased was Peter Gabriel’s So, […]
SLAYER ANNOUNCES FINAL TRACK LISTING FOR UPCOMING ALBUM “REPENTLESS,” VIDEO RELEASED FOR TITLE TRACK
The final track listing for Repentless, Slayer’s first new album in six years, due out 9/11/15 (Nuclear Blast), is announced today, and the album is now available for pre-order through Slayer’s Facebook. Repentless track listing: 1. Delusions Of Saviour 2. Repentless 3. Take Control 4. Vices 5. Cast The First Stone 6. When The Stillness […]
ALICE COOPER 15-CD STUDIO ALBUMS COLLECTION ARRIVES JULY 31ST FROM RHINO
Alice Cooper has rattled the cages of the establishment with his hard-rocking music and theatrical stagecraft for nearly five decades. Since his 1969 debut, Cooper has sold more than 50 million albums, headlined sold-out tours, influenced countless artists, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Because there is no […]
DEF LEPPARD’S “HYSTERIA ON THE HIGH SEAS” INAUGURAL FAN CRUISE GOES ON SALE TODAY JUNE 18TH
Def Leppard’s inaugural fan cruise, Hysteria on the High Seas, a unique, four-day, four-night voyage out of Miami next January 21st-25th, 2016 aboard the MSC Divina, goes June 18th. One of the greatest rock bands of all time, Def Leppard, will sail with their fans aboard the MSC Divina for the entire cruise, as “Hysteria […]
IRON MAIDEN TO RELEASE THEIR NEW DOUBLE ALBUM, “THE BOOK OF SOULS,” ON SEPTEMBER 4TH
Iron Maiden will reportedly release their 16th album The Book Of Souls on September 4th worldwide – and it’s their first-ever double-length studio release. The released was delayed after frontman Bruce Dickinson was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year – but he got the all-clear last month. The follow-up to 2010’s The Final Frontier was […]
DIO MEMORIALIZED BY MUSIC COMMUNITY IN L.A.
Scott Essman of Visionary Cinema reports: To the naked eye, Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010) might have been offhandedly slight of stature, but musically and otherwise, he was most assuredly a mountain of a man, both onstage and off. His thundering operatic voice soared across almost 40 years of songs in numerous prominent bands, but his […]
