Warner Music Group Corp. announced today that it has launched the initial public offering of 70,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The initial public offering price is expected to be between $23.00 and $26.00 per share. The ...
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Former DEEP PURPLE and current WHITESNAKE singer David Coverdale has dropped $2.2 million from the asking price of his Lake Tahoe estate. Coverdale put the home on the market in April 2019 for for $9.85 million, but that price came down last month to $7.65 million. Found in Incline Village, a community on the north ...
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Canadian guitarist, vocalist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer Aldo Nova will release a new single, "When All Is Said And Done", this Friday, May 29. A teaser for the track is available below. "When All Is Said And Done" is taken from Aldo's forthcoming rock opera, "The Life And Times Of Eddie Gage", which will reportedly ...
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QUEEN guitarist Brian May has revealed that he recently suffered a "small heart attack." The episode left him "very near death," but says he's now feeling remarkably well after being fitted with three stents — tiny tubes that can hold open blocked arteries. Earlier in the month, the 72-year-old musician injured his buttocks and assumed ...
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DEATH ANGEL drummer Will Carroll says that too much has been made of the fact that he had dreams of visiting the afterlife before waking up from a 12-day coma after testing positive for coronavirus. The 47-year-old musician was hospitalized at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco after catching the virus on a ...
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WHITESNAKE will bring together some of its hardest-hitting songs of its multi-platinum career on "The Rock Album", a new collection that features revisited, remixed and remastered versions of the group's best rock songs. The album is the first release in the band's "Red, White And Blues" trilogy, a series of fresh, new collections organized by ...
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SKUNK ANANSIE frontwoman Skin will release her memoir, "It Takes Blood And Guts", on September 24 via Simon & Schuster. Skin is a global female icon. As an incendiary live performer, she shatters preconceptions about race and gender. As an activist and inspirational role model she has been smashing through stereotypes for over twenty-five years. ...
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Former DIO keyboardist Claude Schnell has criticized the way he was fired from LAST IN LINE, saying it "was a little disingenuous for guys that I had been friends with for three decades." LAST IN LINE was formed in 2012 by founding DIO guitarist Vivian Campbell, drummer Vinny Appice and bassist Jimmy Bain, along with ...
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DEATH ANGEL drummer Will Carroll says that he "strongly" believes "everyone's collective prayers and positive energy" played a big part in his recovery when he recently woke up from a 12-day coma after testing positive for coronavirus. The 47-year-old musician was hospitalized at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco after catching the virus ...
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Six albums into an avowedly spotlight-shunning career, REVENGE have earned themselves a formidable reputation. Admittedly, it's a reputation for making records that sound like all the hatred in the world, condensed down to an unstoppable tornado of harrowing, blackened noise. But that still counts. And the truth about REVENGE is that while the Canadians could ...
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BUSH frontman Gavin Rossdale spoke to Marci Wiser of the 95.5 KLOS radio station about the lyrical inspiration for the band's upcoming studio album, "The Kingdom", due on July 17 via Zuma Rock Records under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management. "I think it really goes hand in hand with everyone's important issues in their ...
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KING'S X frontman Doug Pinnick is mourning the death of his mother. The 69-year-old rocker announced his mom's passing in a social media post earlier today. He tweeted: "my beautiful wonderful mother passed away this morning. The sky is crying." On Sunday, Pinnick revealed that his mother had suffered a stroked a few days earlier. ...
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RAINBOW frontman Ronnie Romero paid tribute to Ronnie James Dio on the tenth anniversary of the legendary singer's death by releasing a cover version of RAINBOW's "Rainbow Eyes", recorded with Romero's LORDS OF BLACK bandmate Tony Hernando. Check out the video below. Romero, originally from Chile but now settled in Madrid, Spain, made his live ...
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QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali, who has been battling stage IV pancreatic cancer for the past year, has thanked everybody who has contributed to the GoFundMe campaign to help with his medical expenses. Earlier tonight, Banali shared a new photo of him via social media and included the following message: "Thank ...
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Swiss avant-garde extreme metal band TRIPTYKON has just released "Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019)" on May 15 via Prowling Death Records/Century Media Records. "Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019)" marks the bombastic conclusion of a project over 30 years in the making: The legendary CELTIC FROST/TRIPTYKON "Requiem" performed for the first time in its entirety and ...
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Rock music legend Ronnie James Dio lost his months-long battle with gastric cancer on May 16, 2010. The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund, founded in his memory shortly thereafter, is commemorating the 10th anniversary of his passing by posting a video on its web site highlighting the work it has done ...
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POISON frontman Bret Michaels spoke to Yahoo! Entertainment about the 10th anniversary of one of his most difficult health years to date when he suffered a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding at the base of his brain stem. "It's called a Thunderclap, so you can't explain it," he said. "It just ...
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Austrian virtuoso drummer David Diepold (BENIGHTED, HATE, BELPHEGOR, GIVE EM BLOOD, COGNIZANCE), known for his highly technical signature playing in extreme metal, has joined the German progressive death metallers OBSCURA as a permanent member. He collaborated internationally with several groups as session player and is also working as drum teacher. Diepold appeared on COGNIZANCE's first ...
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FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl spoke to Los Angeles's ALT 98.7 radio station about the band's upcoming follow-up to 2017's "Concrete And Gold" album. He said (see video below): "I'm supposed to be on tour right now. We were supposed to start the tour in the middle of April, and I was really looking forward ...
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In a recent interview with Glenn Ong, a Singaporean DJ at SPH Radio's One FM 91.3, a Singapore English radio station, WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale was asked about the "secret" to his "beautiful hair." The 68-year-old singer responded (hear audio below): "Oh, God. I'm so follicly blessed, it's not even funny. Last year, my assistant ...
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Swedish metallers SABATON continue their global assault in support of their latest album, "The Great War", with a new live version of the album track "The Attack Of The Dead Men" featuring Radio Tapok. The song was recorded during the band's recent concert in Moscow and is now available on all streaming and digital music ...
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Ernie Ball Music Man, the world's leading manufacturer of musical instruments, guitar strings and accessories, has announced the availability of the all-new 2020 line of John Petrucci (DREAM THEATER) signature guitars. The Ernie Ball Music Man Majesty guitar features a flamed maple shield seated in a lightweight Okoume body. A glossy translucent finish on the ...
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WHITESNAKE will bring together some of its hardest-hitting songs of its multi-platinum career on "The Rock Album", a new collection that features revisited, remixed and remastered versions of the group's best rock songs. The album is the first release in the band's "Red, White And Blues" trilogy, a series of fresh, new collections organized by ...
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A whopping 14 years have passed since GREEN CARNATION's last release. A lot has changed since then, including a lengthy, six-year period during which time they were broken up following 2006's entirely acoustic affair "Acoustic Verses". They are virtually unrecognizable from their initial death metal format, having drifted through periods that touched upon styles as ...
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Former VIXEN singer Janet Gardner has released a "slide show" music video for a new song called "Lonely We Fight". The track is once again a collaboration with her husband, guitarist/producer Justin James, who has previously worked with STAIND, COLLECTIVE SOUL and TYKETTO. "Lonely We Fight" and the previously released song "Talk To Me" will ...
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PAPA ROACH has released the official video for the track "Feel Like Home". The minimalistic, high-energy clip was filmed at home, under quarantine, providing a rare and very entertaining look into the bandmembers and their family at home. The band explains: "We're all home, in quarantine, and decided to try and entertain our families a ...
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Back in late March, it was announced that all of WHITESNAKE's previously announced touring activities, including this summer's U.S. trek with SAMMY HAGAR & THE CIRCLE and NIGHT RANGER, were being canceled so that frontman David Coverdale could undergo surgery for bilateral inguinal hernia. In a new interview with Steve King, Coverdale offered an update ...
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M. Shadows has explained AVENGED SEVENFOLD's recently launched #IncentivizedQuarantine initiative in which he and his bandmates will send fans free merchandise for proving that they're isolating themselves and doing their part to stop the spread of COVID-19 for seven days straight. "We wanted to do something, but we didn't want any agenda in it for ...
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"Man Alive", the new video from legendary hard rockers DEEP PURPLE, can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's upcoming DEEP PURPLE album, "Whoosh!", which will be released on August 7 via earMUSIC. "It's an abstract concept," frontman and lyricist Ian Gillan told Billboard about the song. "There ...
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Sebastian Bach has uploaded video footage of his October 1, 2019 concert at Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia. The show was part of Bach/b>'s fall 2019 tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of SKID ROW's self-titled debut album. Says Sebastian: "I really miss seeing y'all like crazy! I am sharing this footage with you because I ...
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