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Nita Strauss is celebrating the sixth anniversary of her getting sober. Earlier today (Sunday, September 5), the 34-year-old guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band Instagrammed an image revealing she had been sober for six years, 72 months, 2,193 days or 52,608 hours. She captioned it simply: “Grateful.” When Nita celebrated the fifth anniversary of her getting sober last year, she credited her longtime boyfriend and manager Josh Villalta with helping her live her life without alcohol. At the time, she wrote: “I thought I needed a drink for just about everything. To be confident on stage. To be social after shows. To celebrate. To mourn. To take the edge off frustration or the sting out of a bad day. To relax and laugh at lunch with girlfriends, or watch football with ...

Ozzy Osbourne and Paul Stanley have reacted on social media to the passing of Dell Furano, CEO of global retail branding, merchandising and artist services company Epic Rights. He was 69. The cause of death was not immediately revealed. Stanley tweeted: “One of my closest friends Dell Furano has died after battling years of health struggles. He fought to the end because he loved his wife, family & friends. He valued life & lived it to the fullest. My love & support to Kym and his entire wonderful family.” Ozzy wrote: “So sad to hear of the passing of Dell Furano. He was a legend in the merchandising business, a great friend. and above all, a true gentleman. Much love and respect to his wife and family.” Ozzy‘s wife and manager Sharon Osbourne added...

RATT singer Stephen Pearcy and his solo band performed on September 3 at Warehouse Live in Houston, Texas. Fan-filmed video footage of the entire concert can be seen below (courtesy of YouTube user “Carlos Live Metal TV”). This past June, Pearcy spoke to Vintage Rock Pod about his upcoming follow-up to 2018’s “View To A Thrill” solo album. He said: “So much time has passed since we started writing, Erik [Ferentinos] and I — my guitar player and co-writer guy [for] most of my solo [stuff]. It was so long ago. And the record was done; we had the songs written, like, six months ago. And that was a year process. Since then, I’ve been writing like a fool and writing with him, and all these new songs [came out]. So I figure let’s do a double record...

WINGER has announced that it has canceled its show tonight (Sunday, September 5) in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota due to members of the touring party contracting COVID-19. The band released the following statement regarding the matter: “Unfortunately, while we have been practicing CDC and locally recommended COVID-19 protocols on tour, members of our touring party tested positive for COVID-19. Thankfully, everyone was vaccinated, so only experienced mild symptoms. However, for the safety of our band, crew members, venue staff and fans, we need to cancel our show in Sauk Rapids, MN tonight. FIREHOUSE will be playing instead and we wish everyone a great show! Thanks to all for your support and we apologize to those fans we won’t be seeing. Can’t wait to be back when it is 100% saf...

Following the release of Certified Lover Boy, fans are now outraged at a writing credit that appears on Drake‘s sixth studio album. Alongside Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, embroiled singer-songwriter R.Kelly is credited as a writer on the eighth track on the project, “TSU.” R. Kelly is acknowledged for his contribution as the opening of the song samples his song “Half on a Baby” released in 1998. Fans are unhappy that the disgraced artist, currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, will be receiving royalties from the success of the track. Drake’s longtime friend and producer Noah “40” Shebib has now addressed the situation in a reply to an Instagram post. “40” notes how the sample came to be on the track produced by Harley Arsenault, Noel and OG Ro...

Drake‘s latest studio effort, Certified Lover Boy, has broken several records over at Apple Music. The OVO head’s 21-track album officially holds the biggest album debut in Apple Music history, overtaking his own record set in 2018 with Scorpion and making him the most streamed artist. Certified Lover Boy also set a new 2021 record for the most-streamed album in less than 24 hours and hit No. 1 on Apple Music’s Top Albums charts in 145 countries on the first day of its release. Meanwhile, Drizzy’s tracks “Girls Want Girls (feat. Lil Baby),” “Champagne Poetry” and “Fair Trade (feat. Travis Scott)” are the three biggest song debuts on the platform — surpassing his own cut “Nonstop” — tracks from the album claimed the No. 1 spot on 51 Daily Top 100 charts and they held the top 21 spots in 18 ...

According to reports, Kendrick Lamar has registered at least 32 new songs with The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Four years after the release of DAMN., it looks as though K-Dot could be gearing up to deliver his fans some new music. Word of the rapper filing for musical copyright with the organization comes after notes of him producing the final TDE album and dropping something in the near future. Tied to publishers Top Dawg Music, WC Music Group and Hardworking Black Folks Inc., sone titles registered include “Before The Hangman’s Noose,” “Director,” “Believe,” “Blow Ya Mind,” “Feel For You,” “End of the Line,” “Erika Kane,” “Driving Down The Darkness,” “Lesson Learned,” “Living My Life,” “Hood Love” and more. ASCAP / BMI são serviços de direitos autorais de músic...

Kanye West is back on top of the Billboard 200 as DONDA opens this week at No. 1. According to Billboard, the 27-track project earned a total of 309,000 equivalent album units — just below its initial 350,000 units forecast — with 272,000 streaming equivalent units, 37,000 in album sales and under 1,000 in track equivalent album units. DONDA garnered 357.39 million on-demand streams in its first week, surpassing the previous record set by J. Cole‘s The Off-Season as 2021’s largest streaming week for an album. Other new debuts on this week’s Billboard 200 are Halsey‘s If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, which opens at No. 2 with 98,000 equivalent album units, and Lil Tecca‘s We Love You Tecca 2 at No. 10 with 30,000 equivalent album units. Elsewhere on the chart, Olivia Rodrigo dips to No. ...

André 3000 has shared a statement in regards to the unreleased Kanye West song “Life of the Party,” a cut that features a verse from him but supposedly did not make it on the final DONDA album. The statement confirmed that Ye had reached out to Three Stacks for a feature on DONDA, adding that it’s “unfortunate” that “Life of the Party” was released in this manner: “A few weeks ago Kanye reached out about me being a part of the Donda album. I was inspired by his idea to make a musical tribute to his mom. It felt appropriate to me to support the Donda concept by referencing my own mother, who passed away in 2013. We both share that loss. I thought it was a beautiful choice to make a clean album but, unfortunately, I didn’t know that was the plan before I wrote and recorded my verse. It was c...