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FOO FIGHTERS‘ “Shame Shame” has topped Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart. The track marks the band’s ninth Mainstream Rock Songs No. 1 and first since 2017’s “The Sky Is a Neighborhood”. “Shame Shame” is taken from FOO FIGHTERS‘ new album “Medicine At Midnight”, which will be released on February 5, 2021 via Roswell Records/RCA Records. Regarding the track, FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl told Kerrang!: “When we first started recording the record, we were recording songs that were recognizable as the FOO FIGHTERS. Actually, the first song that we recorded is the first song on the record: ‘Making A Fire’. And that really kind of set the tone, like, ‘Okay, this is really up an...

Wolfgang Van Halen has opened up about the passing of his father, legendary VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen. The 29-year-old spoke about his dad while promoting “Distance”, the first single from his solo band MAMMOTH WVH. Wolfgang wrote the song while Eddie battled cancer. “He had been struggling [with his health] over the years,” Wolfgang told Pierre Robert of the Philadelphia radio station 93.3 WMMR (see video below). “It was up and down, but we always had faith that he’d make it through. I’d been working on my album for so long, and it was ready to go, but it was either you wanna go on tour and not be home, or do you wanna spend time with your dad. And I think I made the right choice.” Asked how his dealing with the loss of his father ...

The five principals of THE JUNGLE SHOW are at it again. They are the grouping of like-minded legendary musicians who — quite simply stated — have gotten together after Christmas and in advance of New Year’s Eve for the past five years at Antone’s in Austin to play the blues as the blues should be played. Out of necessity, this year’s version of THE JUNGLE SHOW takes the form of a livestream event with state-of-the-art production values. The stellar performance by guitar greats Billy F Gibbons, Jimmie Vaughan and Sue Foley with drummer Chris Layton and Mike Flanigin transpired at Antone’s last week as a multi-camera HD shoot with multitrack audio mixed to record quality. The show will be uplinked at four different times on New Year’s Eve to coincide with 8 p.m....

RATING: 8/10 A collaboration between Russian death metal band BUICIDE and the Olympic Symphony Orchestra, “Symphony of Death” presents cherished gems from the DEATH back catalogue, embellished with gung-ho orchestral oomph. There are, of course, countless examples of metal bands jamming with violinists and tuba players, but not every such project resounds with the passion and musical eloquence that these relative unknowns display here. Every sensible metalhead knows that Chuck Schuldiner was, particularly towards the end of his tragically short career, an authentic composer, every bit as much as he was a world-class shredder and metal icon. As a result, as the mellifluous, orchestra-augmented strains of elegiac instrumental “Voice of the Soul” ring out, the whole DE...