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Eddie Vedder took a swipe at Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker during Pearl Jam’s Saturday performance in Las Vegas, calling him a “pussy” for the retrograde comments he made during last week’s commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. You can watch Vedder make his comments below. During his controversial speech, Butker congratulated the women graduates, whom he claimed had been fed “diabolical lies” about their future. “Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your...
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Scorpions singer Klaus Meine lost his voice at a very crucial time in the band’s career – but luckily the group got a helping hand from a future fellow rock star. As the German rockers were heading into the studio to record the follow-up to 1980’s Animal Magnetism, they were poised for a long-awaited breakthrough in America. Unfortunately, the decade of hard work which had gotten them to that crucial point had also taken a big toll on Meine’s voice. “I think the heavy touring and studio schedule finally got me,” he told Noisecreep. “My voice was in bad shape. I couldn’t sing and I thought my c...
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Since launching in 1991, Lollapalooza has established itself as one of the preeminent music festivals in the world. It was Perry Farrell, the Jane’s Addiction frontman and an influential leader in the alt rock movement, who envisioned an event where talented artists from “fringe” genres – alternative, rap, punk, industrial, electronic, pretty much anything except pop or country – could assemble and perform. Everyone would be welcomed – in fact, the more of a “weirdo” or “freak” you were, the more you would be embraced. “I thought about all the amazing, wonderful people that I would bring toget...
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Rock ‘n’ roll is supposed to offer an escape from the mundanity of everyday life. So it only makes sense that the genre would be rife with songs about teenagers. But as our list of Top 30 Teenage Songs — written to commemorate UCR’s 13th birthday in 2024 — proves, the age bracket is the only common denominator across these tunes. Some of the songs on this list are snot-nosed punk anthems about adolescent angst and rebellion. Others provide more wistful reflections on the turbulence and fleeting nature of youth. Some of the songwriters on this list couldn’t wait to grow up. Others wanted to sav...
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Especially as the years go by, the value of rock artifacts from previous decades steadily rises. Things that were at one point mere tools — guitars, drum skins, notebooks for scribbling down lyrics — have now become treasured tokens worth tens of thousands of dollars. In some cases, we’re talking millions. Sometimes items are purposefully brought forth in an effort to raise funds for something. Like in 2005, when Bryan Adams arranged for a white Fender Stratocaster — worth a few hundred dollars — to be signed by the following: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, D...
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According to Slash, Guns N’ Roses are at work on a new album and he’s involved in the process. “Guns N’ Roses are trying to make their own record,” the guitarist recently explained to the Daily Star (via NME) when asked about why people like Axl Rose or his Conspirators collaborator Myles Kennedy did not appear on his new solo album, Orgy of the Damned, released on May 17. “And I’m working with them in that capacity, but this [solo album] didn’t involve anyone else. It was my own side thing, so I wasn’t dragging my own guys in.” Orgy of the Damned did, however, feature a number of other guests...
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Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard recalled the stressful experience of recording for Neil Young while fighting a flu infection. Impressed by the Seattle band in the years just after their arrival and having interacted with them live on several occasions, Young – sometimes referred to as the “godfather of grunge” – invited them to back him on his 1995 album Mirror Ball. They were delighted to accept, despite feeling apprehensive about the challenge. “It was four days of recording the Neil songs. I had the flu for two days,” Gossard told the Broken Record Podcast in a recent episode (audio below...
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Skid Row played their first of four dates with Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale on vocals on Friday at Carterville, Illinois’ Walker’s Bluff Casino Resort. You can see video from the performance below. The band stuck mostly to classics off its first two albums, Skid Row and Slave to the Grind, according to setlist.fm. If Hale was feeling nervous or uncertain about her cold open with the rockers, she didn’t show it. She strutted across the stage, playing off both her bandmates and the audience, and nailed Sebastian Bach‘s piercing high notes with ease. (Incidentally, the band’s classic-era singer is curre...
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Pearl Jam may not showcase much of a heavy metal influence, but guitarist Stone Gossard did indeed love metal growing up and shouted out some of his favorite metal albums as a kid during a recent interview. Gossard’s response came in a wide-ranging interview with KLOS DJ Matt Pinfield (who also co-hosts The Power Hour on AXS TV) on his “New and Approved” radio show. The two chatted about Eddie Vedder‘s lyrics on the title track of Pearl Jam’s new album, Dark Matter, and how there’s some ambiguity in the meaning of some of the lines. As the guitarist notes, “Dark Matter” features the lyric “Kin...
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AC/DC launched their European Power Up tour with a performance in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on May 17. The European trek marks the legendary hard rock group’s first full tour since 2016, though they did perform at the Power Trip festival in 2023. AC/DC certainly got things started with a bang during the Germany gig, delivering a fiery set full of their most celebrated hits. After a video introduction, the band began their set with “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It),” an emphatic opener that got the crowd cheering. “Wonderful to see you all again!” frontman Brian Johnson declared as the tune came ...
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