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Big Wreck Frontman Ian Thornley on Their Successful Comeback, How Close He Came to Joining Velvet Revolver
There were high hopes for rock band Big Wreck - formed in 1994 at the esteemed Berklee College of Music in Boston, signed to Atlantic - but then after 1997's In Loving Memory Of... and 2001's The Pleasure and the Greed albums, the four-piece broke up and it was not amicable...
Soundgarden Smoke at Toronto Club Show
Soundgarden's hot-ticket club show at Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre Friday night (Nov. 16) for a capacity-crowd of 1100 wasn't the only thing smokin'. Frontman Chris Cornell even noticed the perpetual waft of weed, enough to mention it onstage, first three songs in at "Spoonman" and again, after another four songs, before "Loud Love...
Our Lady Peace’s Raine Maida on Why They Opened Their Own Fitness Studio
For much of their career, Our Lady Peace had the perfect practice space. Unlike the massive warehouses that house dozens of rehearsal rooms in Toronto, the multi-platinum rock band own a private, 3000-square-foot. two-level building downtown...
10 Charitable Rockers
With Thanksgiving not too far away and then Christmas, Noisecreep felt the time was right to focus on 10 rock musicians that are involved with charitable causes. While they likely support more causes than this, the following are some key ones they put their name and dollars behind: ranging from animal welfare to multiple sclerosis, clean water to epilepsy
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Billy Talent: Canadian Arena Headliners Take Control of Fourth Album
After almost two decades with the same line up - the first eight as the underground indie band Pezz, Canadian arena headliners Billy Talent let guitarist Ian D'sa fully take the reigns for their forthcoming album, Dead Silence, to be released in the States on Sept...
The Story Behind Loverboy’s ‘Working for the Weekend’
What came first the lyric or the catchphrase?
It's part of everyday vernacular now: "What are you up to?" "Working for the weekend."
Originally found on Loverboy's 1981 album Get Lucky, "Working for the Weekend" (the song) has found its way into the pop culture consciousness, making appearances in everything from a Saturday Night Live skit and a 30 Rock episode, to a
Loverboy Frontman Mike Reno on Reuniting With Bob Rock, Touring With Journey Again After 30 Years
Bob Rock has returned to the fold to produce two new songs for a new collection entitled Rock 'N' Roll Revival (due Aug.14), from legendary AOR heroes Loverboy. The album includes nine of the Canadian rockers' classic hits recorded live, primarily at a 2012 Casino Rama concert in Rama, Ontario...
Myles Kennedy on Working With Slash, Drugs and the End of the World
In discussing his 2010 self-titled album that features various singers from Lemmy to Fergie, Slash called Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy "the big discovery of making the record." Now Kennedy is the only singer on Slash's new album, Apocalyptic Love (out this week), which is billed as "Slash with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators...
Love and Death’s Brian ‘Head’ Welch on Playing With a Teenage Guitar Wiz
Guitarist/vocalist Brian "Head" Welch, the co-founder of Korn who left after 12 years after he got sober and chose "the Lord Jesus Christ as his saviour," released 2008's Save Me From Myself under his own name, but has spent the past couple of years assembling a new band called Love and Death, which was finally solidified in 2009...
Art of Dying Frontman on Working With Disturbed’s Dan Donegan (EXCLUSIVE)
Art of Dying
Canadian rockers Art of Dying were just in the studio in Chicago with Disturbed's Dan Donegan cutting an acoustic version of their current single, "Sorry." Donegan and Disturbed singer David Draiman signed the five-piece to their label, Intoxication Records, in 2009, and produced half of their current album, Vices and Virtues...