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Eddie Van Halen‘s ex-wife Valerie Bertinelli discussed her new book, “Enough Already: Learning To Love The Way I Am Today”, in a recent interview with Terrie Carr of the Morristown, New Jersey radio station 105.5 WDHA. Bertinelli reflected on the special relationship she had with her late ex-husband, saying: “I loved Ed from the deepest part of my soul. It may not have been the kind of love that two married people feel for one another any longer, but I had a great love for him. “We weren’t gonna get back together,” she clarified. “Yes, he was living alone, Janie [his second wife] moved out and I was separated from my husband, but that didn’t mean that we were getting back together. It just was what it was. We had a love for one another....

RATING: 8.5/10 A consistently enlightened force for creative good in the UK’s populous heavy music scene, ROLO TOMASSI have made a virtue of ignoring what everyone else is doing and following a singular path. Ostensibly borne of the hardcore scene, the Sheffield quintet embraced a liberated, come-one-come-all musical philosophy from the start. Early albums like “Hysterics” and “Cosmology” were rightly praised for their genre-slicing audacity, but it has been in more recent times that ROLO TOMASSI have evolved into the band they long promised to be. Both 2015’s “Grievances” and 2018’s “Time Will Die and Love Will Bury it” were widely acclaimed, both for the band’s seamless and symbiotic, post-everything approach to song...

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS have released the official Deborah Chow-directed music video for their new single “Black Summer”. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming album, “Unlimited Love”, which will arrive on April 1 via Warner. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS‘s first new LP with guitarist John Frusciante since 2006’s “Stadium Arcadium” was once again produced by Rick Rubin who previously worked on “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” (1991), “Californication” (1999), “By The Way” (2002) and the aforementioned “Stadium Arcadium”. The band stated about the new record: “Our only goal is to get lost in the music. We (John, Anthony, Chad and Flea) spent thousands of hours, collectively and individually, honing...

Super7 will release a ReAction figure of late METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton on Thursday, February 10. Cliff was asked to join METALLICA in 1982 after the band saw him perform with his group at the time, TRAUMA. The bassist was not willing to move to Los Angeles, where METALLICA was based, so they decided to move to the San Francisco area so that he would join. Burton played on METALLICA‘s first three studio albums — “Kill ‘Em All”, “Ride The Lightning” and “Master Of Puppets” — and co-wrote classic songs like “Ride The Lightning”, “For Whom The Bell Tolls”, “Fade To Black”, “Creeping Death” and “Master Of Puppets”. His life was tragically cut short at the age of 24 in a tour bus cra...

Animal Collective navigated their first decade as if lost in some surreal and splendorous dream. From 2000’s Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished to 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, the quartet functioned like a perpetually mutating organism, reshaping their sound and character not just album-to-album, but occasionally mid-sentence. But in response to Merriweather’s crossover success, they would spend much of the following decade acclimatizing to the waking world as a festival-ready force that had to concern itself with hitting the back rows. Their records became more over-the-top and in-your-face, and felt less like drifting through a dream than listening to someone manically reenact theirs. Through a combination of solo projects, familial obligations, and transatlantic living, ...