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Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil provided a memory for a tribute band that they’ll likely never forget. The vocalist headed out after the band’s performance Thursday night (Sept. 13) to catch a show from Crued, a Motley Crue tribute band, and ended up joining them onstage. The band had been chosen for Neil’s official after-party following the Kiss-Crue date at Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre, and the singer hobbled (he broke his
The Smashing Pumpkins latest disc ‘Oceania’ made its debut this summer (June 19) and now the second single from the disc titled ‘Panopticon’ is primed and ready for radio airwaves. The song, quickly heralded as an ‘Oceania’ favorite by many critics, took a long time to develop, according to Billy Corgan. It started with a riff, but that’s where things got tricky. “It’s similar to ‘Quasar’ in that we had
As fans of Virginia grindcore outfit Pig Destroyer patiently wait out the Oct. 22 release of their new disc ‘Book Burner,’ the band is throwing out a bone in the form of a new lyric video for the tune ‘Burning Palm.’ The video kicks off mixing the weighty lyrics with symbolic images set to a musical montage of blistering Pig Destroyer riffs and grooves. ‘I held my hand steady /
If you’re a My Chemical Romance fan and wonder what might have been with their scrapped pre-’Danger Days’ material, you’re about to find out. My Chemical Romance had all sorts of trouble moving on after the career high point of ‘The Black Parade,’ with singer Gerard Way claiming that they were ready to try something without all the pomp and circumstance that their past albums had. They had gone so
Black Light Burns, ‘How to Look Naked’
What are you doing tonight (Sept. 15)? If you’re a Green Day fan, it might be in your best interest to hop on the computer this evening as the trio will stream the first three songs of their set from New York’s Irving Plaza for viewers to check out. Green Day have been making the rounds in the lead up to their ‘¡Uno!‘ album release, and will play another intimate
It’s no surprise that wherever Deuce goes, the party goes. In the video for ‘I Came to Party,’ Deuce celebrates with a bunch of his fans at a club in L.A. Now, Loudwire offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the video shoot. Director Nathan Cox explains the beginning of the video for ‘I Came to Party,’ which is the latest single off Deuce’s ‘Nine Lives’ album. “Deuce has headphones that