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KIALLA is releasing a coronavirus album created in real time

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments Coronavirus, Epidemic Music Group, KIALLA, Kovid-19 Marathon, Music, New Album

We’ve all seen the artists live-streaming performances in the past week, an effort to remain sharp and creative while providing

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Stoked for Ozzy’s new album? Prove it with ink

February 8, 2020February 7, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments Montreal, New Album, Ozzy Osbourne, Tattoo, Toronto

It’s the kind of media stunt that’s so obvious and so good, you wonder why it didn’t happen earlier.  Ozzy

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UPDATE: Pearl Jam tap Canadian photographer for artwork for new album, GIGATON (Oh, and the tour will start in Toronto)

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 Gilles LeBlanc 0 Comments Augmented Reality, Climate Change, Concert Tour, Gigaton, New Album, Pearl Jam, Toronto

For a band that’s been around for 30 years and is one of the foundational building blocks of alternative rock,

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It looks like the Foo Fighters have started work on their new album with this picture of a bathtub

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Foo Fighters, New Album

We’re due for another Foo Fighters album in 2020 and it looks like Dave and Co. are only too happy

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Thanks For The Dance – New Leonard Cohen

September 21, 2019September 21, 2019 Larry Lootsteen 0 Comments Leonard Cohen, New Album, Thanks For The Dance, The Goal

When word started coming down about a new Leonard Cohen album there was real buzz. Since his death in 2016

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24 hours after announcing a jump from one label to another, blink-182 drops a new single

September 6, 2019September 6, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Blink-182, BMG, New Album, Sony

On Thursday, word came down that blink-182 was jumping from BMG (an indie label these days) to Columbia (part of

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And the name of the new Tool album will be…

July 30, 2019July 30, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments New Album

…Fear Inoculum. And it’s coming August 30. Seriously. View this post on Instagram FEAR INOCULUM, Aug 30th, 2019 Album Art,

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Tool has a new logo. This bodes well.

July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment New Album

Even though Tool has been pretty clear that the new album will be out August 30, there are still people

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Check out this excellent footage of new Tool songs

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments New Album, Tool

As Tool rolls through Europe, they’ve been playing new material from an album that will (allegedly, hopefully, amazingly) be released

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This is what we know about the new Tool album coming August 30.

May 11, 2019May 10, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments New Album, Tool

I’ll just say it: unless an extinction-level asteroid hits the planet in the next few months, we are going to

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Tool’s website is down for “maintenance.” Should we read anything into this?

April 24, 2019May 10, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments New Album, Tool

Reader Matt got this email from Toolband.com yesterday. Maintenance? Or are they, er, tooling up for the release of the

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Each week, the podcast looks at something from the alt-rock universe, from artist profiles to various thematic explorations. Whatever the episode, you’re definitely going to learn something that you might not find anywhere else. Trust us on this.

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The Backstage Project Podcast with Mark Silver focuses on the stories behind the biggest and best entertainment products, events, and companies. We go behind the scenes with amazing people who have done or are doing extraordinary things to entertain you, the audience. From sporting events to concerts, from cable tv to music apps; if it’s made an impact on the entertainment world, we cover it.

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