Metal / Hard Rock (12/07/2002)
Metallica Offers Auction Winner A Day In The Studio
NEW YORK (Metallica Official Website) - Metallica has teamed up with the T.J. Martell Foundation to offer one deep-pocketed auction bidder a day in the studio with the band. According to the band's official Web site, the winning bidder on eBay will receive airfare and hotel accommodations for two in ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (12/07/2002)
Robert Plant Says Led Zeppelin's Cadillac Ad Is OK By Him
LOS ANGELES (Led Zeppelin Fans Website) - Led Zeppelin raised eyebrows last fall by licensing "Rock And Roll" to Cadillac for a TV commercial campaign for a reportedly "ridiculous" amount of money. It marked the first time that the group entered the ad game and prompted the usual cries of "sellout" ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (11/07/2002)
Eddie Van Halen & Valerie Bertinelli Split
LOS ANGELES (Van Halen Fans Website/LA Times) - After more than 21 years of marriage, guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli have separated. Rumors of marital discord dogged the couple for years, with the One Day At A Time and Touched By An Angel star supposedly threatening to leave ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (10/07/2002)
Styx Gets World Trade Center Memento
NEW YORK (STYX Official Website) - The members of Styx were given a special memento of the World Trade Center by members of the Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) this holiday weekend. Styx has been supporting the PAPD, which lost three percent of its members on September 11, and the band held ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (09/07/2002)
Metallica Hosts 12 Bass Players At Website Kick-Off Party
NEW YORK (Metallica Official Website) - Metallica hosted a re-launch party for its website last week, and it turned out to be part Fanatic, part Gong Show, and part karaoke night. Grand prize winners from a contest held on the website got to take a tour of the band's hometown of San Francisco, dine ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (03/07/2002)
Bon Jovi Wants You! (asks fans to vote for Album title)
NEW YORK (Bon Jovi Official Website) - Bon Jovi is the latest act taking it to the Web and the fans to help make important decisions about a forthcoming release. The band has just posted a poll on www.bonjovi.com with three potential album titles that fans can vote on for its follow-up to 2000's Crush. ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (01/07/2002)
Silverchair Delays 'Diorama' Release
NEW YORK (Silverchair Official Website) - Silverchair's forthcoming album, Diorama, is being delayed due to singer-songwriter Daniel Johns's severe case of reactive arthritis. The album was to have been released on July 30, but Atlantic Records pushed it back to August 30 to give Johns time to recover ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (26/06/2002)
Chad Kroeger Becomes A Record Label Exec
NEW YORK (604 Records) - Everyone's known it for awhile, but finally it's official - Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger has gotten his very own record label. The imprint is called 604 Records, formed when Kroeger joined forces with Nickelback's longtime attorney Jonathan Simkin. According to a release ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (26/06/2002)
Jane's Addiction is recording a studio album in 12 years
LOS ANGELES (Jane's Addiction Fans Website) - Jane's Addiction is recording its first studio album in 12 years, working with veteran producer Bob Ezrin. The Los Angeles band has reportedly completed eight tracks so far, hoping to release the new album by this coming fall or winter, though a label deal ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (26/06/2002)
Megadeth Members Move On After Band's Demise
LOS ANGELES (Megadeth Fans Website) - Megadeth members - old and newer - have reunited to form a new band and are in need of a singer. The band will include the legendary metal group's recent members bassist Dave Ellefson, drummer Jimmy DeGrasso, and guitarist Al Pitrelli, as well as longtime guitarist ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (25/06/2002)
Aerosmith launches tour in August
LOS ANGELES (Aerosmith Official Website) - Veteran rock band Aerosmith will "walk this way" again with a four-month North American tour that hits the road in August in support of the group's upcoming greatest-hits collection. The two-album set, "O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits," is due out July 2, ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (18/06/2002)
David Lee Roth & Sammy Hagar Announce Second Leg Of Tour
NEW YORK (Van Hallen Fans Website) - The tour that most never thought would happen has happened quite successfully and is now heading into a second leg. Former Van Halen singers David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar have announced the next round of dates for their summer tour. The second leg of Song for Song, ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (14/06/2002)
Guns n' Roses: coming up roses?
LOS ANGELES (GnR Fans Website) - Guns n' Roses will begin an overseas tour on August 14th in Hong Kong, which will include the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo and Osaka. The band will then head to Europe to play the Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium, the Carling Festival in Leeds, and two additional shows ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (13/06/2002)
Aerosmith's Tyler Surprises Calling Singer On Stage
MIAMI, Fl. (Calling Fans Website) - Aerosmith frontman Stephen Tyler joined the Calling onstage for a cover of his group's classic, "Walk This Way," earlier this month at a radio show in Miami. The June 7 appearance at the National Car Rental Center was a birthday present of sorts to Calling frontman ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (13/06/2002)
Josey Scott Of Saliva Open To Performing 'Hero'
LOS ANGELES (Nickelback Fans Website) - Josey Scott of Saliva sings with Nickelback's Chad Kroeger on the smash hit "Hero" from the Spider-Man soundtrack, and he tells Saliva might add the song to its set. Nickelback is already inserting "Hero" into its set on occasion, when they feel the need to pull ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (12/06/2002)
Ratt Guitarist Crosby Dead at 42
SAN DIEGO (Ratt Fans Website) - Guitarist Robbin Crosby of the heavy metal rock band Ratt has died of AIDS complications, his brother-in-law said. He was 42. Crosby, who disclosed he had AIDS last July in a radio station interview, died Thursday in Los Angeles. Crosby said that he may have contracted ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (08/06/2002)
Nickelback Sneaking 'Hero' Into Its Own Live Set
NEW YORK (Soundtrack News) - While "Hero" might be one of the hottest songs in the country, the Chad Kroeger/Josey Scott collaboration is hardly the talk of the concert circuit. That's because no actual band exists to take the song on the road. Still, Kroeger tells that there's a chance that fans of ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (08/06/2002)
Moviegoers Can Catch Korn Concert
NEW YORK (Korn Official Website) - Korn will be popping up at movie theaters across the country on Monday night. The multiplatinum rock band is performing a 90-minute concert in New York , which will be digitally broadcast live at more than 40 movie houses in over 30 cities nationwide. "The chance to ...
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Metal / Hard Rock (08/06/2002)
Korn singer has MOJO for murder
DETROIT (Korn Official Website) - The hard rock band Korn is about to release a new album - "Untouchables," in stores June 11 - but frontman Jonathan Davis has his MOJO working on another project. MOJO is the Museum of Justice and Oddities that Davis and two friends hope to open in the Los Angeles ...
| Metal / Hard Rock (06/06/2002)
Metallica Debuts New Song At Hometown Secret Show
LOS ANGELES (Metallica fans website) - Metallica played a secret show on Tuesday (June 4) under the name Spun at Club Kimo in San Francisco. Producer Bob Rock, who filled in on bass for the gig, joined guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, and guitarist Kirk Hammett on stage for the ...
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