Rock

You don’t need loads of creative contrast to create provocative harmonies in rock n’ roll anymore, and if there’s an American who can illustrate this rather flawlessly this season, it’s none other than greenhorn recording artist Kristen Capolino. Capolino’s new Independence Day single, titled “Freedom,” is one of the most straightforward progressive pop songs I’ve
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Here’s a mind-blowing thought: Even after a lifetime of single-minded preparation, one of the world’s most elite athletes comes in last place in every Olympic competition. Similarly, even the best Kiss albums must have a worst song. Sometimes the choice is obvious, sometimes it’s a matter of “least great” and sometimes it’s a race to
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Foreigner kicked off their farewell tour Thursday night with a hit-packed, 13-song set at Atlanta’s Ameris Bank Amphitheatre. “It was fabulous, a sold-out crowd in Atlanta for our first night – it couldn’t have gone better,” bassist Jeff Pilson tells UCR. “The show went off without a hitch. We had done a couple of days of production
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Poison mastered the art of escapist party metal on their first two albums, but they took care to revisit their hardscrabble roots on “Fallen Angel,” released as a single on July 6, 1988. The Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, quartet — singer Bret Michaels, guitarist C.C. DeVille, drummer Rikki Rockett and bassist Bobby Dall — had graduated from hand-to-mouth hustle to
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Charlie Watts wasn’t the first Stone to go solo – that honour goes to Bill Wyman in 1975. But, two years later, in an event that seems to have gone largely unrecorded in Stones folklore, Watts found himself in front of 200 punters at the Swindon Arts Centre, playing blues and jazz standards with a
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When PJ Harvey announced the release of I Inside The Old Year Dying, her sense of relief was palpable. The seven-year gap from Harvey’s last record, The Hope Six Demolition Project, was due to a number of factors. One of them was a matter of will. She felt distant from music. The new album was
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MSG Sphere, the massive $2.3 billion entertainment space in Las Vegas, lit up its exosphere for the first time on Tuesday. The first message displayed on the giant venue said, “Hello World.” From there, the Sphere showed off an incredible array of eye-catching visuals, including fireworks, the American Flag and a rotating planet Earth on
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The Armed have announced their forthcoming album ‘Perfect Saviours’ along with sharing the video for its lead single ‘Sport Of Form’. ‘Perfect Saviors’ is set for release on August 25 via Sargent House. The LP features contributions from Sarah Tudzin (illuminati hotties), Mark Guiliana, Patrick Shiroishi, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and more. Speaking about the album, Vocalist
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