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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…
At Guns N’ Roses’ gig Friday (Nov. 10) in Houston, the guys were joined on stage by a Texas favorite. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons took to the stage with Guns N’ Roses to perform the band’s epic track “Patience.” Not that the collaboration was a complete surprise. Gibbons and the guys of ZZ Top also joined Guns N’ Roses during performances on earlier stops of the…
Talk about a dream job. According to Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, the metal band has a full-time archivist on its staff. “We actually have a person who works for us, Bob Pfiefer, whose full-time job is to travel the world in solitude and try and unearth Metallica tapes and Metallica first-generation masters, and that type of stuff,” Ulrich said in an interview with Revolver. “That’s literally his…