Sting’s solo demo for “Every Breath You Take” has finally been released
It’s taken 42 years but thanks to a new Synchronicity box set, Police fans finally have a chance to hear Sting’s original solo demo for “Every Breath You Take,” the
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Billie Joe Armstrong has shared his “embarrassingly bad” demo of a Green Day demo he wrote on meth
Billie Joe Armstrong has had his struggles with drugs and alcohol that required at least one band hiatus so he could seek treatment. But back when he was younger, he
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A Smiths demo cassette just sold for $21,000
Rock memorabilia continues to be big business. The original demo cassette from The Smiths, complete with a letter from the band dated February 4, 1983, just sold through Bonhams for
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This is cool: A demo of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”
This demo, officially released in 2014, is making the rounds again. It’s certainly different from what we’ve come to know. No mention of Mom’s spaghetti?
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Random music news for Friday, July 16, 2021
That is one DEEP pool! Now let’s get deep with music news for July 16, 2021. This isn’t good: 954 people got COVID at an outdoor festival in The Netherlands
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Cool! The demo that became Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”
When we hear a new song, it’s the final product of what is often a long and agonizing process of writing and recording. Demo versions give us a chance to
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Listen to Bruce Dickinson’s 1981 demo tape for Iron Maiden
All Iron Maiden fans know that Bruce Dickinson wasn’t the band’s first vocalist. The group began with a dude named Paul Day out front, who lasted for a short period
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How you heard this bare-bones version of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance?”
Nile Rodgers, the producer for David Bowie’s Let’s Dance album, recently posted this demo version of the title track. It offers some insight into how a song comes together through
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One day in the spring of 1993 as I was preparing for my afternoon shift at 102.1 the Edge, I was paged to reception. Waiting for me was an awkward-looking
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Whoa! An Absolutely Ancient Depeche Mode Demo Has Been Uncovered!
Before they were Depeche Mode, they were Composition of Sound. And in the summer of 1980, they recorded a three-song demo after a new singer named Dave Gahan joined up.
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So Dave Grohl Has Been Busy Doing More Cool Stuff
As if everything he’s doing with the Foo Fighters isn’t enough–and it never is–he’s part of a new supergroup featuring Nick Oliveri (the exiled guy from Queens of the Stone
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