FOREIGNER’s Farewell Tour Continues In Fall 2024 With Special Guests LOVERBOY And LITA FORD

“I Want To Know What Love Is”, “Cold As Ice”, “Hot Blooded”, “Juke Box Hero”, “Urgent” and more Top 10 hits than JOURNEY. Today, FOREIGNER, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame-nominated band behind these iconic songs, announced the next leg of their farewell tour this fall, with special guests LOVERBOY a…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Half Living Things – Alpha Wolf

Few bands in the ‘core world have seen their star rise as fast and as high as ALPHA WOLF. From their tumultuous beginnings, the band have never stopped the grind,…

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Cognitive announce new album ‘Abhorrence’

COGNITIVE have announced a new album! Titled Abhorrence, the upcoming album from the New Jersey-based technical death metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Malevolent Thoughts Of A Hastened Extinction, and is scheduled…

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SLIPKNOT, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, EVANESCENCE, DISTURBED, LAMB OF GOD, Others Confirmed For 2024 ROCKLAHOMA

After a record-breaking 2023, Rocklahoma returns Friday, August 30, Saturday, August 31 and Sunday, September 1 to Rockin Red Dirt Ranch in Pryor, Oklahoma — just outside Tulsa — with its biggest lineup yet.
America’s Biggest Labor Day Party will feature headlining performances from AVENGED SEVENFOL…

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ADRIAN BELEW, TONY LEVIN, STEVE VAI And DANNY CAREY On Upcoming BEAT Tour: ‘Sparks Will Fly’

Former KING CRIMSON members Adrian Belew and Tony Levin band together with guitar virtuoso Steve Vai and TOOL drummer Danny Carey for the first time to create BEAT, a creative reinterpretation of the three iconic 1980s KING CRIMSON albums — “Discipline”, “Beat” and “Three Of A Perfect Pair”. They wi…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Rankarumpu – Korpiklaani

KORPIKLAANI are one of those bands that seemed to arrive into the world fully formed. Yes, their progenitor SHAMAN was a bit less metal overall, but by the time Jonne…

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STEVE MORSE Doesn’t Know If There Will Be New DIXIE DREGS Music: ‘We’ll Have To See’

Legendary American rock band DIXIE DREGS will hit the road across the East Coast this spring beginning in April. The lineup of Steve Morse, Andy West, Rod Morgenstein and Allen Sloan will once again be joined by keyboardist Jordan Rudess (DREAM THEATER) for these special shows. Opening the dates wi…

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“I was ill and when I picked the guitar up again, I wasn’t playing Joe Satriani stuff – I was struggling to play Oasis!” Jack J. Hutchinson on how illness changed his playing style and his Black Crowes-inspired pedalboard

British blues guitarist and songwriter Jack J. Hutchinson on pedals, power trios, solos – and the illness that derailed his career

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“Your playing is terrible!” Jack J. Hutchinson spills the beans

On this week’s Pedalpocalypse – the show where we ask guitar players which three effects pedals mean the most to them – we talked to the British blues guitarist and…

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“Now you get to decide when it arrives”: Chibson created an actual pedal for April Fool’s Day – the Priority Delay, which has been 4 years in the making

Styled after a Klon Centaur and, erm, postal service packaging, the Priority Delay might look like a comedy bit, but it promises to provide a proper delay experience to go with its tongue-in-cheek theme

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