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On their upcoming second album, Buckle Up, DD Verni & The Cadillac Band make big band music more accessible and relatable than ever before, marrying rock ‘n roll’s visceral energy and succinct songwriting to suave, swinging throwback arrangements and aesthetics. Out September 19th through DEKO, the 14-track album launches today (July 18th) with the first […]

According to Billboard, Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath‘s Back to the Beginning raised more money than any charity concert since George Harrison and Ravi Shankar‘s 1971 Concert for Bangladesh popularized the very idea of an all-star benefit show. The heavy metal show, billed as Osbourne’s final stage performance, raised roughly $190 million in charitable donations […]

For me, the “creators” of Heavy Metal, would be Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Hard Rock? That is far more difficult to answer, but maybe The Beatles? Check out George Harrison‘s riff on I Feel Fine (1964), which can then be followed by Paperback Writer (1966), the opening riff in Revolution (1968) and Harrison’s playing […]

Greg Prato for Ultimate Guitar spoke with The Kinks‘ Dave Davies, the segment appears in its entirety, below. Ultimate Guitar: I think I recall once in an interview that producer Eddie Kramer claimed that Jimmy Page actually recorded guitars on You Really Got Me. Is that true or false? Dave Davies: No, it’s not true. […]

Ronnie James Dio, the heavy metal music icon who succumbed to gastric cancer in 2010, was honored today – on what would have been his 83rd birthday – by the non-profit founded in his memory with the dedication of a room in the UCLA Center for Oral/Head & Neck Oncology Research (COOR), embedded within the […]

The New York Post’s Page Six reports: After Sharon Osbourne revealed she had disinvited a band from Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath farewell concert, fans took to social media to speculate which one it was. “My guess is Mötley Crüe,” wrote one user via Reddit. “I’m thinking KISS. The most greedy band on the planet,” a second person […]

I was thinking of asking you all, a weekly question, for audience participation. Thoughts? Thanks!

Broadcasting from Toronto, Eddie Trunk sits down with Triumph bassist Mike Levine and legendary producer Mike Clink to explore the making of the new tribute album Magic Power. They share behind-the-scenes stories about getting over 40 artists to participate, including Sebastian Bach, Nancy Wilson, and Slash. Meanwhile, Rik Emmett and Gil Moore check in from […]

Please note effective today going forward my daily rock talk show Trunk Nation, previously heard on Volume SiriusXM 106 has moved to channel 103 Faction Talk. Also a new time of 3-5P ET daily. Same show, same call in number. Nightly replay info TBA. Everything on the app as usual. Please note this change. Thanks!

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If in LA I’ll see you this weekend. This Friday I host Shark Island at The Whiskey and this Sunday I host The Rainbow’s 50th anniversary! Also looking forward to hosting Megadeth/Lamb Of God/In Flames in Tulsa at BOK 4/30. In addition I will be appearing at the annual Dallas International Guitar Fest 5/1 only […]