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After he woke up on Sunday, Feb. 1, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine got out of bed and went into the kitchen of his home in ...

Music history is littered with close calls. Songs that nearly died in a drawer, were almost erased from a tape, or were flat-out rejected by the very people paid to recognize genius.It's honestly a ...

Youbet is a New York rock band of two music teachers, with students including a member of Geese. They talk about their awesome new album.

In addition to so much timeless music, 1991 also boasts a staggering list of debut albums from rock bands that are now considered classics. The year saw the dawn of trip-hop and shoegaze, as well as ...

The Carolina Band's entry was a recording of the performance during the halftime show at the Carolina vs. Oklahoma football ...

Contemporaries of L.A. Guns and Guns N’ Roses, Faster Pussycat were as brassy and sleazy as the Russ Meyer skinflick from which they took their name. Their singer Taime Downe was at the centre of the ...

Escape from Ride the Lightning was played live only once and remains one of Metallica’s most criticized songs.

The rock musicians who walked away – or were pushed out – just before their bands exploded into global superstardom ...

Every metalhead knows the feeling. You put on a new album from one of your favorite bands, expecting the same fire that made ...

“And then he played me the whole Mercyful Fate medley down the phone. He said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘Are you kidding?!’ This was really, really an amazing take on those songs; it just sounded ...