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Thanks to Blabbermouth for this adorable little tidbit: An online gallery of IRON MAIDEN album cover spoofs featuring an “Eddie”-like Spongebob Squarepants is available online. You can view the gallery (entitled “Visions of the Sponge”) at this location. Created by the animating staff of Kebawe.com, the web site also includes a “Create Your Own SpongeEd” [...]

Whether or not you took the friend test, you may enjoy the answers and explanations of my silly musical past. Question #1, Who was on the bill at my very first concert? Tesla, with Firehouse opening Kiss, with Slaughter and Winger opening New Kids, with Perfect Gentlemen and Sweet Sensation opening Nelson, with Enuff Z’Nuff [...]

Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times reports: For VAN HALEN, the stars seemed aligned for a triumphant 2007. Next month, the group will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the plan was to follow that with a summer reunion tour that would feature David Lee Roth back at the [...]

Holland’s God Dethroned has been around the block a few times, blending in among the European death metal scene as a band with substance. However, previous releases never set off a fireworks display, although their competency was never in question. And so, expectations for The Toxic Touch remained somewhere in the range of adequacy. Surprisingly, [...]

Press release: Los Angeles, CA (February 15, 2007) – Grammy(r)-nominated, Gold-certified, Buckcherry and entertainment website ArtistDirect.com announced today an open call to fans to create their own video for the next single, “Everything” directing them to upload homemade videos to YouTube by March 9th. The band will then choose their favorite submission and the winner [...]

I have been reading Straight Whisky this past week. It’s an odd little book, kind of a history of the Whisky a Go-Go and kind of… well. Each chapter starts out with a fantasy-like recount of some evening or event that happened, with the back half of the chapter being more fact/history-oriented. You know something? [...]

The latest from Blabbermouth: According to The New York Post, Kelly Osbourne — daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne — made a stunning declaration at a London charity gig last night (Sunday, February 18) when she revealed that a member of her family has the AIDS virus. The singer and actress, best known for her [...]

From Blabbermouth: Gary Graff of Billboard.com reports that PAPA ROACH hopes to release some acoustic recordings in the future. But their time has not come yet. “I don’t think our fans are quite ready for this yet,” frontman Jacoby Shaddix told Billboard.com. “So we’ve put it on the back burner, but it’s definitely something we’re [...]

Remember when Kittie was a gimmicky collection of Canadian gothy-looking metal teenaged girls? They were so novel, playing their own instruments and featuring the contrast of pretty-girl vocals and growls? “Brackish” took MTV by storm and they gained a bit of an audience before falling off of the mainstream radar. Since then, it’s only the [...]

Mr. Zakk Wylde almost made me pass out behind the wheel of my car this morning. Over the past week, Minneapolis’ hard rock station, 93x, has been running a contest to win one of Zakk Wylde’s signature Epiphone guitars. Fans called in answering obscure trivia questions and weathering other nonsense for the opportunity. Just for [...]