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The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed their annual benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music on Saturday night (10/29).
Held in the beautifully-decorated parking lot of the Hollywood Boulevard school for children, the band knocked out 11 songs to the delight of about 400 attendees which included students, their parents, donors and friends.
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On this day in 1981, Iron Maiden replaced its original singer, Paul Di'Anno, with the man who would quickly become the voice of the metal icons - and eventually the pilot of its airliner.
At the Palazzo dello Sport in Bologna, Italy, on 10/26/81, 23 year-old Bruce Dickinson took to the stage and led the group through a 17-song blistering set which concluded with three encores.
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This week Depeche Mode announced a world tour and a forthcoming album, Memento Mori.
It's the first new album by the British electro legends since 2017's Spirit, and the 15th in their hugely successful career. The title seems to be in tribute of and inspired by founding member Andy Fletcher's death in May, but DM's lead songsmith, Martin Gore, says the phrase was always in the works.
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The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction kicked off their Spirits On Fire tour yesterday (10/2/22) in Texas with some surprises, new material, and a stand-in guitarist.
Jane's Addiction found itself on this tour with an unusual lineup. Just days ago, founding Jane's guitarist Dave Navarro announced he would miss the North American tour due to struggles with long COVID.
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The second, and final, official Taylor Hawkins tribute concert took place yesterday (September 27) at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
Much like the first one in England, last night's show in LA was a six-hour emotionally charged epic where members of his bands, as well as rock legends he admired, rocked out in front of a bittersweet audience.
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September 26, 1986 at the Solnahallen in Sweden was supposed to be a celebratory show for Metallica. Sadly it ended up being the final concert with bassist Cliff Burton who died the next morning in a tour bus accident.
Frontman James Hetfield, who had been sidelined after he broke his wrist in a skateboarding accident, had finally recovered and was back on guitar. The band had wowed crowds for six months as Ozzy Osbourne's opener in support of the recently released Master of Puppets.
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The Smashing Pumpkins will be slowly releasing tracks from their forthcoming 33-song rock opera one-at-a-time through spring of next year in an unusually modern way.
Up through the triple-album's 4/23/23 drop date, the band will reveal one song per episode, on their frontman's podcast. Thirty-Three With William Patrick Corgan. The head Pumpkin promises "deep dives" into the new project which has been four years in the making. Expect a special guest on every episode, he says.
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We all make mistakes, but imagine being the Columbia Records executive who dropped a young Katy Perry before releasing her debut secular album... and then watching her meteoric rise to fame?
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born in Santa Barbara, CA, into a Christian household. Even as a teen, her voice was undeniably beautiful. At 16 years old she released her debut album in 2001, Katy Hudson. The masses were not interested in her Christian Rock and only 200 copies were sold.
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Porcupine Tree, the experimental, trippy, powerful prog-rock trio reunited this year and kicked off the first leg of their world tour with an epic performance in Toronto, Canada -- their first live gig in 12 years.
Supporting their first new album in over a decade, the seven-song Closure/Continuation, the two-time Grammy-nominated Brits, live debuted each of the new tracks at the Meridian Hall show on 9/10/22.
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It's been a herky-jerky start to Pavement's second reunion tour, which kicked off 9/7 in San Diego, but it finally happened in a big way. The indie rock darlings delivered 26 songs in their career-spanning set that included a rarity they hadn't rocked in 25 years.
Starting off with the decidedly somber "Grounded," the Stockton quartet followed it up with a quirky b-side, that was never an important part of their set, but will probably now be a staple for the entire tour.
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Dave Grohl organized and hosted an epic six-hour tribute concert to his fallen Foo Fighter drummer and BFF Taylor Hawkins on September 3 which featured surprise legendary guests, a reunion, and many stars who have lost bandmates themselves.
Over 75,000 fans packed Wembley Stadium for a bittersweet celebration of the affable drummer who died this March in Bogota, Columbia of an accidental drug overdose. Being the drummer in a band helmed by one of the most admired drummers in rock, could not have been easy at first, but Hawkins fit in perfectly with the Foo Fighters, and drove the beat behind Grohl for 25 hugely successful years.
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Silverstein, the Canadian emo/screamo band, kicked off its fall tour August 25 in Arizona with a new feature on the tour: a spinning wheel.
About 2/3rds of the way into the show, a band member or crew spins a giant wheel containing the title of a dozen of the group's tunes. As game show music plays, the wheel goes round and round and when it lands on a song, that's what gets rocked out. After the song is over, they repeat the process two more times.
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