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When Aerosmith released “Head First” as a free digital download on June 27, 1994, the fledgling technology team at the band’s label, Geffen, just wanted to prove that it could be done. But it was an important moment in the developing landscape of the World Wide Web which ultimately helped carve a solid path for a new distribution method in the music industry. “It was proof of life for digital music,” Jim Griffin tells UCR now. Growing up as a hard rock fan outside of Chicago in Park Forest, Illinois, he was thrilled to join the label in 1992 as their first Chief Technology Officer, because the...
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Former Motley Crue vocalist John Corabi could easily coast on his past glories. Instead, he’s been very intentional in recent years about the things that he does career-wise. “I’m trying to be my own person, not the guy that sang with Motley 30 years ago,” he tells UCR. The same philosophy carries over to the Dead Daisies, the all-star collective that Corabi been part of off and on for close to a decade. As he details in the below conversation, while they could easily lean on music from the work they’ve all done collectively with bands and artists like Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Ratt, Dio and ...
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“It really was like my first solo record — I just kind of did it to see if I could do it.” Lamb of God founding member and guitarist Mark Morton recently hung out with Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights (June 25) and dove deep into his new book, Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir. “I didn’t know if I could do it or not, but I was willing to see if I could do it.” Morton admitted that writing Desolation was a lot harder than putting together an album — something System of a Down’s Serj Tankian also recently revealed. “It’s just very, very time-consuming,” Morton said. “It’s more difficult than ma...
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Tom Petty’s songwriting output could make any artist or band quite jealous. But for all of the things that did make it to the radio, many compositions just sat on the shelf. Then there were the tracks Petty and his band, the Heartbreakers, recorded numerous times, searching to capture the right feel. “Lazarus songs,” was the term that guitarist Mike Campbell applied to that segment of the results of their working relationship — the ones which always seemed to resurface. But Petty, who died in 2017, also had an unfailing creative vision, as producer George Drakoulias explained to UCR during a r...
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Dennis DeYoung has been out of Styx for 25 years. The band chose to replace him as they prepared to tour in support of 1999’s Brave New World. The singer, as he shares, found himself unexpectedly ill and unable to go on the road immediately, felt helpless. “I was begging for my life and for my job when this happened,” he tells UCR now. “As sick as I was, I didn’t really feel I could fight back.” Both sides eventually carried on with their separate careers. But when Styx began performing “The Best of Times” earlier this year for the first time since 2007, DeYoung felt a fresh twinge of pain and...
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Sebastian Bach‘s still got it. If his crushing new solo album, Child Within the Man, didn’t already make it clear, Bach drove the point home at the Rock Box in San Antonio on Sunday, where he blasted through Skid Row classics and highlights off his new LP with the same gutsy aggression of his youth. You can see UCR’s exclusive photos and the full set list below. Bach came out swinging with Child Within the Man lead single “What Do I Got to Lose?,” a vintage metal anthem that worked the audience into a fast frenzy. Bach kept it old-school on all fronts, noting early in the set that there were “...
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Slash is all good with technology. But he’s seen the negative side of it creeping into how albums are made these days. “You’ve got a lot of bands that don’t even actually go to the studio to record a record,” he tells UCR. “I can name a dozen of them.” But he’s not naming names today. Instead, he’s celebrating the fact that Orgy of the Damned, his first blues album, recently made its debut at No. 1 on the blues album charts in both the U.S. and the U.K. It landed in the Top 10 in five other countries around the world. Even after all of his successes, this latest milestone caught him off guard....
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On Oct. 11, the Offspring will celebrate the release of their latest studio album, Supercharged. Ahead of that day, longtime guitarist Noodles joined Loudwire Nights to discuss the record and reflect on the band’s last 40 years. “I wonder where all the time went,” Noodles admitted to Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong. “I don’t feel 40 years older than I did back then, you know? I haven’t matured much, I’ll tell you that.” As far as Supercharged goes, Noodles is ready for fans to hear it. “I want to get the rest of it out. This is always a really nervous time, a frustrating time in a lot of ...
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By Tom Gott & Ben Jacobs Brighton & Hove Albion could block Stuttgart's attempts to sign striker Deniz Undav permanently because of a buy-back clause in the 27-year-old's contract, 90min understands. Undav joined Stuttgart last summer on a loan deal which includes an option for a permanent transfer worth €20m (£16.9m), and the Bundesliga side are expected to trigger that clause after watching Undav rack up 18 goals and 10 assists in 30 games. However, sources have confirmed to 90min that Brighton also negotiated a buy-back clause which is worth slightly more than the €20m Stuttgart would have ...
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Back in the 70s part of takin’ care of business for Bachman-Turner Overdrive meant performing underneath a large steel replica of the band’s gear-shaped logo, with flashing lights — a visual gimmick as heavy as the opening chords of “Not Fragile” or “Four Wheel Drive.” The quartet used the prop throughout its arena-filling heyday, when it had three albums in the Top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart (BTO II, Not Fragile, Four Wheel Drive) and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” lodged at No. 1. “that thing weighed tons,” Randy Bachman tells UCR. It was tonnage. It was built on one-inch plywood all bolted...
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