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The last few years have been a roller coaster ride for rock bassist Chuck Wright. A member of Quiet Riot, Wright mourned the loss of his 26-year friend Kevin DuBrow, and this year he is celebrating the birth of Northern Light Orchestra and their CD 'Spirit of Christmas...

Earlier this month, all the original members of Dokken reunited for the first time in over a decade. The long-standing feud between guitarist George Lynch and Don Dokken is pretty well known in metal circles. When Dokken invited Lynch and the rest of the original guys on stage, fans were both excited and hopeful for a possible reunion tour or some sort of package featuring both Lynch Mob and Dokke

This week Kiss released 'Sonic Boom,' the legendary rock institution's 19th studio album. The New York band looked at their past for inspiration on the new material and songs like 'Modern Day Delilah' and 'Hot and Cold' show that in their DNA...

It's a Monday afternoon, just outside Little Rock, Ark., and the members of the Destro are speeding down the highway, blasting the Allman Brothers Band's 'Ramblin' Man.' The band is on tour with It Dies Today and Arsonists Get All the Girls, and as guitarist Nick Emde admits, the Destro's sticking out like a sore thumb on this trek...

This morning, when I woke up at 6 AM to start writing this very column, it was still dark. The sun hadn't even started peaking out over the horizon, and all you could hear was the sound of garbage trucks crawling through my neighborhood and collecting everyone's recyclables...

Whitesnake, the '80s arena rock band that have sold more than 100 million albums since 1977, are back on the road all summer with their "old mates" Judas Priest, as special guests on their 'British Steel' 30th anniversary tour. "We came up on the 'new wave of British heavy metal,'" says frontman David Coverdale...

What a hairy situation. Well over a dozen glam bands gathered in Baltimore on May 30 for the inaugural M3 festival. Twisted Sister, RATT, Extreme, Kix, Dokken, Slaughter, Y&T, Gilby Clarke, Keel, Jetboy, L.A. Guns, Jani Lane, XYZ, BulletBoys, Carmine Appice's SLAMM and Steel Panther wowed the large and very drunk crowd. "E...