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Metallica to Release New Single on Halloween

October 25, 2016 Nerhys 0 Comments Atlas, Hardwired...To Self Destruct, Metallica, New Album, New Single, Rise!

We’re less than a month away from the release of Metallica’s new album Hardwired…To Self-Destruct. The album comes out on

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First Single of Secret Path Released and New Downie Fund Announced

October 14, 2016October 13, 2016 Nerhys 0 Comments Chanie Wenjack, First Nations, Gord Downie, indigenous people, Music Video, New Single, Secret Path, Single

If anyone ever needed proof that Gord Downie is a wonderful human being who cares about real problems in society,

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New Order Releases Their First Song in 10 Years. Listen.

July 28, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment New Order, New Single

Come September, New Order will release the (Hooky-less albeit with a fully complete Gillian Gilbert) Music Complete. The first single

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God Help Me, But I Like the New Single from The Darkness

March 30, 2015March 31, 2015 Alan Cross 4 Comments Darkness, Last of Our Kind, New Single

No falsettos this time, but there are plenty of homages to 80s-era rock. The Cult’s “She Sells Sanctuary” is obvious.

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More New Muse and Blur and Brandon Flowers

March 23, 2015March 23, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Blur, Brandon Flowers, Drones, Killers, Muse, New Single

First, here’s another sample of the upcoming album, Drones, which is due June 8. Now here’s a new one from

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Listen to the New Weezer Song, “Back to the Shack”

July 21, 2014July 21, 2014 Alan Cross 3 Comments New Single, Weezer

This is the first taste of Everything Will Be Alight in the End, which will be out September 30.

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How to See U2’s Super Bowl Commercial

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bank of America, New Single, Product (RED), Super Bowl, TV Commercials, U2

It’s that time of year when Canadians kvetch about not being able to see the big-production Super Bowl commercials because

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