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Second Tier Stories from Ace Frehley
In a recent interview with BackstageAxxess.com, former KISS shred maestro Ace Frehley teased that his new book will include stories that didn’t make his last book No Regrets: A Rock ‘N’ Roll Memoir....
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Skynyrd
On a hoary Christmas morning over thirty years ago, my parents ignited one of the pivotal torches of my life journey: they bought me a boom box. Until then, I had one of those tiny turntable stereos...
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Welcome to Extortionville
She stood at the front door, all nine years and three feet of her, clutching a shiny catalog in one hand and what appeared to be some sort of sign-up sheet in the other. I knew what this was all about...
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Jax Teller vs. Walter White
(SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen all of the episodes of Breaking Band and Sons of Anarchy and want to avoid spoilers, go here.) I’m a hopeless Sons of Anarchy junkie. What’s not to like about a...
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The Most Interesting Clips You’ll Never See
As much as I loathe ad campaigns that carry even the faintest whiff of hispter chic, I’ve always enjoyed Dos Equis beer’s “Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials. Their brilliant melange of...
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LIVE GIGGING: Whitechapel, Emmure, Unearth, The Plot In You—San Diego, CA,...
Although Emmure released their full-length debut in 2007, the Queens-based deathcore purveyors spent five years attracting little notice beyond the tight confines of their increasingly-suffocating...
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VREID—Welcome Farewell
VREID Welcome Farewell (Indie Recordings) 9 Norway’s VREID are back with another swaggering spray of Black N’ Roll (“BNR”)–the incorrigible bastard son of black metal that likes to smoke Marlboros and...
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An Interview with Fenriz from Darkthrone
Darkthrone’s newest release, The Underground Resistance, sees the multi-instrumental duo of Fenriz and Nocturno Culto return with middle fingers firmly extended towards the black metal orthodoxy, or...
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An Interview with Evan Seidlitz of Thrown Into Exile
Last year’s Rockstar Mayhem Festival saw the roving metal tour unleash a jaw-dropping lineup of legends that included the unholy triumvirate of Slayer, Motörhead, and headliners Slipknot presiding over...
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An Interview with George Kosmas of Be’lakor
This week sees the US release of Of Breath and Bone, the blistering third album from Australian melodeath outfit, Be’lakor, and one of the strongest outings in that genre in 2013. Epochal melodies ride...
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Review: The 3rd Annual Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Awards Gala
Monday night in LA, the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Foundation held its third annual awards gala, which included a pre-release listening party for the new Dio tribute album, an all-star jam,...
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The New Metallica- Yay or Nay?
Metallica fans continue to grouse that the band hasn’t been the same since the release of the Black album. In fact, it’s more than just the fans who point to their most commercially successful release...
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Record Store Day: The Grandmother’s Day of the Music Industry
Hatched with the noblest of intentions, Record Store Day remains little more than a vehicle for driving commerce on an arbitrarily-chosen day. With an arcane name celebrating records—a method of...
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