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Late Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog frontman Chris Cornell was posthumously awarded with The inaugural Promise Award, given by the Los Angeles Committee of Human Rights Watch, at an event in Los Angeles this week. Cornell’s widow Vicky was given The Promise award in honor of her late husband by System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian. At the event, Vicky was joined…
What defines “pop-punk?” If you ask Rolling Stone, they’ll tell you it’s Green Day’s 1994 breakthrough album “Dookie.” The magazine recently ranked the 50 greatest pop-punk albums of all time, and they put “Dookie” as their No. 1 pick. “Green Day’s third LP is a pop-punk gut-punch, perfectly marrying tight melody with a get-bent mentality,” Rolling Stone states. “After the grunge-dominated early Nineties, that irreverence was a…
Get out the tissue, because the Warped Tour is ending its run in 2018. How can that be, right? Well, it’s true. The longstanding punk, emo, pop and rock festival – which was responsible for helping kick off the careers of blockbuster bands such as Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Blink-182 and AFI – will tour the U.S. for one final time in 2018. “I…
Before the White Stripes, there was the Hentchmen, a Detroit band that rocked in out sometime around 1998. The group released an album, named “Hentch-Forth,” with Jack White playing bass. Now, the folks at Jack White’s record label, Third Man Records, are gearing up to release an extended version of that album on vinyl. “Hentch-Forth” will bring together the original album with a handful of bonus tracks, including…
Chatting in a recent interview with Red Bull, Foo Fighters frontman and Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl was asked about the time Grohl interviewed then-President Obama at the White House. So, was it intense? “Here’s the thing: The White House is a really relaxed and comfortable place, because you can’t get in there unless they know that you’re cool. So once you’re in, you’re in and it’s…