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Guns N’ Roses Announce North American Stadium Tour This Summer

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Guns N’ Roses have announced a 19-city stadium tour of North America this coming summer, kicking off July 8 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA, and making stops in Boston, Chicago, Detroit and many more before wrapping up at Grizzly Stadium in Missoula, MT on August 26. “The next chapter is about to begin,” the band said in a promotional video that announced the tour.. ...Read Full Story

Guns N’ Roses Add New Dates To 2020 Tour

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Guns N’ Roses have added more new dates to their 2020 tour schedule. The band will play the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, on April 11, and Scotland’s Glasgow Green on June 25. The tour launches at the 2020 Bud Light Super Bowl Fest in Miami, FL on January 31, as part of Super Bowl weekend in the city, with a series of Central and South American dates to follow in March and April.. ...Read Full Story

Aerosmith Announce 50th Anniversary Concert

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Aerosmith have announced their plans to perform a special 50th anniversary stadium concert in their hometown of Boston, MA this fall. The September 18th show will feature guests Extreme.  The band will take the stage at Fenway Park in Boston as part of the milestone celebrations this year marking the 1970 formation of the group.. ...Read Full Story

Sammy Hagar, Whitesnake And Night Ranger To Launch Summer Tour

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Sammy Hagar revealed that the supergroup The Circle will be hitting the road this summer for a tour, featuring Whitesnake and Night Ranger. Hagar broke the news on the Red Carpet at this year’s MusiCares Person Of The Year gala honoring Aerosmith. He said, “We have an announcement of a 39-, 40-city tour coming up in July. The announcement’s being made on Monday [January 27]. I’m very excited about that.. ...Read Full Story

Marilyn Manson/Mars Volta Bassist Juan Alderete In Coma After Bike Accident

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Bassist Juan Alderete, who has worked with Marilyn Manson, Lil Peep, the Mars Volta and more, was involved in a serious bicycle accident near his home. The musician sustained serious head trauma known as Traumatic Brain Injury. His specific type of TBI is Diffuse Axonal Injury, and he has fallen into a coma. Alderete’s wife Anne took to social media to update fans, sharing the accident wasn’t caused by other cars or people. She states they’re currently waiting to see the outcome and “[hoping] for the best.”. ...Read Full Story

Halestorm Frontwoman Lzzy Hale Says Two New EPs Will Be Released

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Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale has revealed that the band has two new EPs coming out. Lzzy discussed Halestorm’s plans after being asked if the band had begun work on the follow-up to 2018’s “Vicious” album.  Lzzy said: “We’ve just been writing for it — we’re demoing and all that stuff. We have a couple of projects coming out during the year that we’ve been recording. I have a couple of collaborations that are gonna be trickled out; you guys are gonna find out about that probably in about a week or so. And we’ve got ShipRocked [cruise] coming up and a small run in April. But other than that, we’re hunkering down and getting some new tunes.”  . ...Read Full Story

Poison’s Bret Michaels To Have Cancer Procedure

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Poison frontman Bret Michaels shared the news with fans that he will be undergoing a procedure to remove skin cancer that was recently discovered. Bret took to his website share news about the skin cancer discovery, writing:  “After a very recent kickoff to the new year, physical & MRI it has been brought to my attention that I have torn my right shoulder rotator cuff which would answer the question why it looks like a lump or bone was sticking out of my right shoulder.. ...Read Full Story

Rammstein Teases North American Tour For 2020

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Rammstein are teasing a North American tour for 2020. The legendary German band shared a map on their Facebook page of North America with highlighted states including California, Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts. As for Canada, the province of Quebec is highlighted, while Mexico City looks to be Rammstein’s destination south of the border.. ...Read Full Story

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2020 Inductees Announced

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On Wednesday, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame announced their Class of 2020, and the Doobie Brothers and T. Rex are among the artists set to be inducted into the institution. They will be joined by Depeche Mode, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails and The Notorious B.I.G. at the upcoming 35th annual Induction event, to be held this spring.. ...Read Full Story

2020 Dimebash Will Feature Members Of Hellyeah, Stone Sour, Lamb of God, Anthrax + More

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The 2020 Dimebash will take place Thursday, Jan. 16 at The Observatory in Santa Ana, California, and in addition to the previously announced Dave Grohl, many new musicians have been added to the lineup. Organizers have revealed that band members from Hellyeah, Stone Sour, Lamb of God, Anthrax and more will be on hand to pay their respects to the late great king of metal groove, Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell. . ...Read Full Story

MÖTLEY CRÜE Release New Music Video For ‘Shout At The Devil’

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MÖTLEY CRÜE has released a new music video for song “Shout At The Devil,” featuring footage from the band’s highly successful biopic “The Dirt.” Bassist Nikki Sixx comments on the movie: “In the film, we show painful examples of domestic violence, DUI, manslaughter, drug overdose and the loss of a child. We couldn’t possibly have crammed everything from a 430-page book into an-hour-and-50-minute movie, but we felt we achieved our objective of showing the downside of sex drugs and rock and roll.”. ...Read Full Story

Neil Young Shares Details Of Two New Archive Releases For 2020

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Neil Young is sharing details on some of the archival projects he promised to release in 2020 via a New Year’s Day letter to his fans. The singer/songwriter plans to release Way Down In The Rust Bucket and Greendale Live this year. The latter 2003 performance with his band Crazy Horse will include a live album and a theatre releas. Not much information was released regarding Way Down In The Rust Bucket. News of the performance was first shared in September. . ...Read Full Story

Rod Stewart Ordered to Court After New Year’s Eve Altercation

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Singer Rod Stewart has been charged with simple battery after punching a security guard at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, on New Year’s Eve. Stewart, 74, told police he and his family were trying to get the children in their group access to a private event at the hotel. The security guard working the event in the children’s area said Stewart’s group was unauthorized to enter and asked them to leave after they “began to get loud and cause a scene,” the affidavit states.. ...Read Full Story

Amid Rumors Of Declining Health, New Video Shows Ozzy Osbourne In Public With Wife Sharon On New Year’s Day

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After gossip magazine Radar Online posted Ozzy Osbourne was on his deathbed, his daughter Kelly Osbourne spoke out, denying the rumors, The article stated that Ozzy “is in such dire straits he didn’t even realize his wife, Sharon, missed the holidays with him for the first time in 40 years” (Sharon was overseas doing some promotional work during the holidays.). ...Read Full Story

Yoshiki And Kiss To Collaborate For New Year’s Eve Television Performance

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Japanese rock star Yoshiki will team up with KISS for a once-in-a-lifetime television performance on Japan’s NHK network. The artists will appear together as “YOSHIKI feat. KISS” (“YOSHIKISS”) during the New Year’s Eve “Red and White Music Battle” (“Kouhaku Uta Gassen”), the most-watched television program in Japan, which will also be broadcast worldwide.. ...Read Full Story

Behemoth Plan Reissue Of Debut EP This May

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Behemoth will re-release its debut EP, “And The Forests Dream Eternally”, in May. The five-track recording was originally released in 1995, and reissued in 2005, with three songs from the band’s 1997 sophomore EP “Bewitching The Pomerania” added as bonus tracks. Last year, “And The Forests Dream Eternally” was re-released on vinyl by the British label Back On Black.. ...Read Full Story