I was just a fan of Twitter for so many years going back to…what, 2006? Yeah, it could get noisy and messy, but at least there were some guardrails and rules. It wasn’t
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Er, wow. Here’s Claudio Sanchez, Bill Kelliher, Les Claypool, Danny Carey, and Steve Brodsky covering Rush. And any proceeds from this video will be donated to the Cancer Research Institute. (Via Brent)
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Before anyone starts asking “#MWE, WTF?”, the hashtag stands for Music Writing Exercise, and is the brainchild of Gary Suarez, freelancer about the Internet who hatched this idea five years ago. As a
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I’m now somewhere in the Far East, which means it’s actually Tuesday for me (damn dateline time travel), but for everyone back home, this is your regular music news dispatch for Monday, September
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This was the first day of the Great Blizzard of 1977. People in the Great Lakes still talk about how bad it was. Unreleased Prince music is coming “very soon.” SONOS is fighting
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If you saw the premiere of season 7 of Game of Thrones last night, you probably noticed that Arya Stark stopped to eat a little wild game after she slaughtered a couple hundred
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The producers of Game of Thrones have a thing for casting musicians as extras. Seasons 1-2: Wilko Johnson of Dr. Feelgood was cast as the role of executioner Ser Illyn Payne–the guy who
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Halfway through April. Done your taxes yet? Ponder that whilst you browse through today’s music news. It was 14 years ago today that Joey Ramone died. Yeah, it’s been that long. (Via Tom)
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When William DuVall (Alice in Chains), Brent Hinds (Mastodon), Ben Weinman (Dillinger Escape Plan), Pete Griffin (Dethlok), Thomas Pridgen (ex-Mars Volta) and briefly Juliette Lewis decided to form a band together, the first
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Funny, but I thought metal was as healthy as it’s always been. Not according to this article in the New York Observer. These are strange days for classic heavy metal. Many godfathers of
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Dan Weiss, the creator of Game of Thrones and the show’s executive produced, likes his metal. When he asked Mastodon–one of his favourite bands–if they’d be interested in a cameo on an episode
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