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2009 – The official Roadrunner Records web site has been updated Read more

2009 – The official Roadrunner Records web site has been updated

2009 – The official Roadrunner Records web site has been updated with top-album picks for 2008 from a number of artists that are signed to the label, including members of MACHINE HEAD, MEGADETH, DEVILDRIVER, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and TRIVIUM. A few of the selections follow below. The entire list can be found at this location. Shawn […]

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1955 – Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony…FEATURED Read more

1955 – Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony…FEATURED

1955 – Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony is born in Chicago. Michael Anthony Sobolewski (born June 20, 1954) is an American musician. He is best known as the former bassist and a founding member of the hard rock band Van Halen. Anthony joined the band in 1974 and was their official recording and performing bassist […]

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1942 – Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, Englan… Read more

1942 – Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, Englan…

1942 – Paul McCartney is born in Liverpool, England. The Beatles have 20 No. 1 songs, more than any other recording act, and McCartney by himself or in duets has another nine. His biggest post-Beatles hits are “Ebony and Ivory,” a duet with Stevie Wonder that stays at No. 1 for seven weeks, and “Say […]

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2008 – Velvet Revolver:The exit door had no sooner hit Scott Weiland… Read more

2008 – Velvet Revolver:The exit door had no sooner hit Scott Weiland…

2008 – Velvet Revolver:The exit door had no sooner hit Scott Weiland on the backside when his ex-bandmates in Velvet Revolver opened the door to the studio. They’re already hard at work on new music. Blabbermouth has the story: Duff McKagan has posted a message on the web site of his side project Loaded stating […]

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2008 – Heath Ledger dies and mirrors death of mysterious musician… Read more

2008 – Heath Ledger dies and mirrors death of mysterious musician…

2008 – Heath Ledger dies from suspected drug use. Reported by MTV news. Appearing at a news conference at the Venice Film Festival in September to promote the Bob Dylan biopic “I’m Not There,” Heath Ledger, who died on Tuesday, spoke of his “obsession with an artist by the name of Nick Drake,” an English-born […]

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2007 – Quiet Riot Singer Kevin DuBrow Died Of Cocaine Overdose: Report Read more

2007 – Quiet Riot Singer Kevin DuBrow Died Of Cocaine Overdose: Report

2007 – Quiet Riot Singer Kevin DuBrow Died Of Cocaine Overdose: Report Coroner said toxicology results, which were released Monday, show that musician died of accidental drug overdose. Two weeks after news of his death first made headlines, the autopsy results on late Quiet Riot frontman Kevin DuBrow — who was found in his Las […]

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2006 – Evanescence’s Amy Lee reveals that bassist William Boyd Read more

2006 – Evanescence’s Amy Lee reveals that bassist William Boyd

2006 – Evanescence’s Amy Lee reveals that bassist William Boyd is the latest musician to leave her multi-platinum band, telling their Web site. “He just can’t go through with another huge tour right now.” With her.

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2006 – Sex Pistols singer John Lydon posts… Read more

2006 – Sex Pistols singer John Lydon posts…

2006 – Sex Pistols singer John Lydon posts a missive on his Web site claiming the band will not attend their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. “We’re not coming,” he writes, “You’re not paying attention.” World goes back to ignoring him.

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2005 – Already battling an injured knee, Queens Of… Read more

2005 – Already battling an injured knee, Queens Of…

2005 – Already battling an injured knee, Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme collapses after a show in Hamburg, forcing the cancellation of the next evening’s concert in Stuttgart. According to QOTSA’s Web site, Homme “was diagnosed with exhaustion and ordered to bed by a local doctor.

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2004 – Black Sabbath remove images from a film that plays during their Ozzfest Read more

2004 – Black Sabbath remove images from a film that plays during their Ozzfest

2004 – Black Sabbath remove images from a film that plays during their Ozzfest set associating George W. Bush with Hitler after drummer Bill Ward posts his disapproval on his Web site.

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2004 – A statement appears on Dave Navarro’s Web site claiming Jane’s… Read more

2004 – A statement appears on Dave Navarro’s Web site claiming Jane’s…

2004 – A statement appears on Dave Navarro’s Web site claiming Jane’s Addiction have split for good. “The deal is that it simply didn’t work out,” it says in part. “In all honesty, we have broken up and rejoined roughly four times over the years. Perhaps that should shed some light as to where we […]

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2003 – The Who’s Pete Townshend tells a London newspaper he Read more

2003 – The Who’s Pete Townshend tells a London newspaper he

2003 – The Who’s Pete Townshend tells a London newspaper he contemplated suicide after police arrested him for accessing a kiddie porn Web site. Charges were later dropped.

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