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Nov 17, 2024 | 
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
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Amyl and the Sniffers have always appreciated any small bit of good news. Even when the Australian punk rock quartet recorded its charmingly raw debut EP, “Giddy Up,” in a single night and released it online in 2016, the initial 100 streams were reward enough. “To us, that was massive,” says singer Amy Taylor, aka “Amyl,” with a grin. “We get one play on local community radio and we’re like, ‘We’re massive.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
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Rapper-producer Erick the Architect thinks a lot about New York City. Born Erick Arc Elliott, he grew up there and learned to love music and how to create it, first as part of the acclaimed hip-hop trio Flatbush Zombies.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
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Jimmy Fallon has been obsessed with comedy and music since he was a Brooklyn kid staying up to record the Dr. Demento radio show on reel-to-reel tape. “Dr. Demento was how I got my start,” says the Tonight Show host, who combined comedy and music earlier in his career as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998 – 2004. “I would listen to [Dr. Demento] on Sunday nights… Those novelty records inspired me to write comedy songs and put that in my comedy act.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
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On the road this summer with Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid, the young ladies of the Linda Lindas had important questions for their elders. So, at one tour stop, they sat in on a Pumpkins VIP experience, where fans dropped questions for the band into a basket. One of them was, “Did you ever dream that you would tour with the Linda Lindas?”“They saw us sitting there and we were like, ‘That wasn’t us!'” insists Linda Lindas drummer Mila de la Garza, 14, with a laugh.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
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As a teen growing up in Orange County in the early ‘80s, Kerry Brown’s immediate career goal was simple. He wanted to work at his favorite record store, Licorice Pizza. Years later, Brown would embark on life as a musician and busy producer-engineer, working on records by the Smashing Pumpkins, Afghan Whigs, Miley Cyrus and his own indie rock band Catherine, but a stint behind the counter always eluded him.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
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Some partnerships are built to last. Take Neil Young and Stephen Stills, who have been making music together for nearly 60 years, all the way back to their first band together, Buffalo Springfield. On Saturday afternoon, they were together again headlining Harvest Moon — a Gathering, a benefit concert for the Painted Turtle camp in Lake Hughes for children with chronic illnesses, making music in the blazing sunshine an hour north of Los Angeles.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
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Seven years after tragedy silenced the raging platinum-selling rock band Linkin Park, the group took a major step toward its resurrection at the Kia Forum on Wednesday night, launching a tour with new singer, Emily Armstrong. Following 17 years of radio hits and major touring success, the band’s original run ended abruptly with the of singer Chester Bennington, who had long been the roaring counterpoint to Mike Shinoda’s rapped vocals.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
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As the final moments approached, Kerry King faced the end of Slayer's supposed last performance with an epic heavy metal gesture. During the band’s closing minutes the night of Nov. 30, 2019, the guitarist stood onstage at the Forum in Inglewood and removed the heavy chains he’d worn for years as a weighty symbol of his metal fervor. He then dropped them loudly to the floor.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Kittie spent a lot of years trying to avoid a moment quite like this one. As a band of teenagers hitting the club scene at the beginning of the new millennium, the four-piece exploded out of London, Ontario, with metal that was raw and raging, while dodging excruciating puns about cats and kittens and their furry brethren.
