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Jason Merritt, Getty Images For months, Foo Fighters have teased that their next album Concrete and Gold would feature a huge pop star on the album that would surprise many fans. The identity of said mystery pop singer has finally been revealed to be none other than Justin Timberlake, thanks to a new Rolling Stone interview. According to the article, Justin …

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Suzanne Cordeiro/Corbis via Getty Images Robert Plant performs at ACL Live on March 20, 2016 in Austin, Texas. Led Zeppelin wailer-in-chief Robert Plant continues his run of recent solo records with the release of Carry Fire, his eleventh, on Oct. 13. Previously, we heard “The May Queen,” a rhythmic blues-folk song built on acoustic guitar and hand percussion, and today (Sept. 1), he …

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Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs at The BB&T Pavilion on Aug. 31, 2017 in Camden, N.J. Satellite radio has been promoting relief efforts and Yep Roc Records is pledging money from its Yep Roc 20 shows. Green Day is the latest band to pledge support to those affected by the unprecedented rains and flooding in and …

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David Gilmour has revealed that he had some material left over from most recent solo album, Rattle That Lock, which he plans to use on a follow-up LP. And he’s hoping it won’t take a decade to make this time. You can watch him talk about it in the above video, which promotes his new Live at Pompeii concert movie …

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As reported earlier today, Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell died last night, May 17, in Detroit, just hours after a Soundgarden show at the Fox Theatre. He was 52, and his death was sudden and a complete shock to friends, family—and the rest of the world. Chris Cornell, Soundgarden and Audioslave Frontman, Dead at 52 …

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Allan Holdsworth,  Guitar Virtuoso, Dead at 70 Allan Holdsworth, an influential jazz and prog-rock guitarist who has graced the cover of Guitar World magazine, died Sunday (April 16), according to a touching Facebook post by his daughter, Louise Holdsworth. He was 70. "It is with heavy hearts that we notify everyone of the passing of our beloved …

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Ed Sheeran has a carrot and stick approach to the secondary market. The carrot is Ticketmaster’s new Verified Fan program, requiring concert-goers to register in advance to purchase tickets for his upcoming Divide World Tour. The stick came in the form of 50,000 ticket cancelations aimed at scalpers, whose seats were revoked and then resold to …

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Kevin Mazur/AMA2016/WireImage Green Day attend the 2016 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on Nov. 20, 2016 in Los Angeles. The members of Green Day are none too happy to be losing their home town football team, the Oakland Raiders, to Las Vegas. The group performed in Detroit on Monday night (March 27), just hours after National Football …

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Larry Busacca, Getty Images Aerosmith have postponed their plans for a fall 2017 American tour to work on some new music. The band has spent most of the past five months talking about its Aero-Vederci Baby! tour, which may or may not be the group’s last. But now, plans to bring that tour to North America have been tabled …

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