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Happy Birthday to: TV talk show host Dr. Phil (1950) Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman (1984) The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez (1975) INXS singer J.D. Fortune (1973) Cuban si...
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The Mars Volta's fifth studio album, "Octahedron", will be released June 23 by Warner Bros. Records. The record will be preceded by its first single, "Since We've Been Wrong." "Octahedron" follo...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis is to be honored for his charity work by the MusiCares foundation. The rocker, who has battled drug addiction in the past, has been using his exp...
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"The 27s: The Greatest Myth of Rock & Roll," which comes out today, reveals that more rock stars have died at 27 than at any other age. Famous 27s include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Jopl...
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Former Led Zeppelin star Robert Plant and his new performance partner Alison Krauss were the toast of the 51st Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night after claiming a fistful of honors. ...
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(The Learning Curve) Red and the Confession bring the heavy, Driver Side Impact and Fair to Midland bring post-hardcore goodness that we all know and love and Black Light Burns features a familiar ...
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Happy Birthday to Fall Out Boy guitarist Joseph Trohman (1984), The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez (1975), new INXS singer J.D. Fortune (1973), Cuban singer Gloria Estefan (1957), TV talk show...
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A seamless fusion of pounding dance beats and aggressive rock, In Silico features the recent UK smash singles "Propane Nightmares" and "Granite." After a legendary set at last year's Glastonbury Fe...
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Alicia Keys has stormed back to the top of the U.S. albums chart claiming the number one spot for a fourth non-consecutive week. The singer's As I Am sold just 61,000 copies in America in the past ...
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Cult rockers The Mars Volta were haunted by dark forces during the recording of new album "The Bedlam In Goliath" - the band blames a Ouija board for causing power outages and floods. Guitar...
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Edison Glass, the hypothetical collaboration of Thomas Alva Edison and composer Philip Glass, formed in 1999 when Joshua Silverberg (singer/guitar), brothers Joe (drums) and Mountain (singer/bass) ...
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Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha has completed the solo album he started in 2000, when he first quit the group. The as-yet-untitled project, which features former Mars Volta drumm...
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Happy Birthday to Fall Out Boy guitarist Joseph Trohman (1984), The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez (1975), new INXS singer J.D. Fortune (1973), Cuban singer Gloria Estefan (1957), TV talk show...
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Founded in the quiet farm town of Sulphur Springs, Texas—"Where people still say 'please' and 'thank you,'" as its chamber of commerce notes—Fair to Midland have become one of the most idiosyncrati...
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...During July, co-founder and original Pink Floyd guitarist/singer Syd Barrett, who had spent the better part of the last 35 years as a hermit, died at age 60 from diabetic complications... Weezer...
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Few songs in the history of hard rock can whip up a concert frenzy like "The Final Countdown." And Europe, the composers of that anthemic classic, are back for more with a brand new album, Secret S...
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Happy Birthday to Fall Out Boy guitarist Joseph Trohman (1984), The Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez (1975), new INXS singer J.D. Fortune (1973), Cuban singer Gloria Estefan (1957), TV talk show...
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Pure Reason Revolution are british psychedelic rockers that take everything they love about Pink Floyd and wrap it up with layered vocals reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac, with male and female counter ...
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A number of notable new releases this week including new albums from Kenny Chesney, Neil Diamond, Cyndi Lauper, Floetry, Kate Bush and Young Buck; greatest hits collections from the Beastie Boys, L...
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