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American Music Awards: Winners List
Altwire Staff
Every year, the biggest names in music gather together to attend one of the biggest award ceremonies in the industry, the American Music Awards. This year, the best of the best gathered over the ...
Fall Out Boy Announce Upcoming Album
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The moment we’ve been waiting for since the release of their hit single ‘Centuries’ is finally here! Fall Out Boy have announced that they will be releasing their 6th studio album on January 19th, ...
Lollapalooza South American Line-Ups Announced
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Lollapalooza will be making it’s way through South America in March of 2015 taking place in Chile, Brasil, and Argentina. South Americans, hold on to you seat, all non South Americans, start looking up ...
Bono Injured In Cycling Accident
Altwire Staff
It seems as though U2’s Bono just can’t catch a break! First, he upset millions of people by working with Apple to give everyone a free album. Then, there was a malfunction with his private ...
Dropkick Murphy’s Tour Bus Involved In Accident
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Dropkick Murphys tour bus was involved in an accident early Sunday morning, causing the band to cancel their show in Tulsa that evening. The band was traveling down Interstate 35 in Round Rock, coming from a show ...
Marilyn Manson Releases Upcoming Album Details
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After releasing his newest single a little over a week ago, Marilyn Manson has revealed the name for his forthcoming album, ‘The Pale Emperor,’ along with a full track list and a release date. ‘The Pale Emperor’ will be a follow-up ...
Twenty One Pilots And Vinyl Theatre Ride Swap
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Last month, Vinyl Theatre was riding in style when Twenty One Pilots gave their decked out tour bus to the guys for a day and rode in the van. It wasn’t that long ago when ...
Fan Catches Meteor On Tape During Modest Mouse Performance
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Just after 8:30 pm on Saturday night (11/8) many Texas residents began reporting that they saw a giant fireball soar across the sky, others reported feeling the ground shake. Although the official Twitter account for ...
SOUNDGARDEN Streams Previously Unreleased Song “Twin Tower”
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SOUNDGARDEN fans are getting a little sneak peek treat today as they await the November 24th release of their 3-CD rarities collection “Echo Of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across The Path”. The band has posted ...
Watch Enter Shikari’s New Video For “The Last Garrison”
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Enter Shikari have just released the video to the “The Last Garrison”, their first single off the new album The Mindsweep due out on January 19, 2015. Enjoy! If you are in Germany, Austria ...
Royal Blood Cover Pharrell’s ‘Happy’
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It’s no secret that the duo known as Royal Blood are awesome and undeniably the best thing to happen to the music world in 2014. With the release of their self-titled album back in August, the guys stole the ...
Rise Against Release Music Video For ‘Tragedy + Time’
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Rise Against are back at it and better than ever before! Before their newest album, ‘The Black Market’, the band took an almost two year break from their normal album-tour-album-tour schedule, and now they’re back as ...
The Strange and Fascinating one and only PPL MVR
Derek Oswald
Picture this: You’ve traveled back in time to a period before mankind walked the earth. A time before Neanderthals, technology, or scientific advancement. Our prehistoric ancestors; the ape, roam the land in search of ...
AC/DC Drummer Phil Rudd Charged In Murder Plot [UPDATED]
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Update 11/06/2014: The ‘attempting to procure murder’ charges have been dropped according to Phil Rudd’s lawyer. Charges related to threatening to kill and possession of drugs still remain. See here for more details: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hit-man-charge-dropped-against-ac-dc-drummer-phil-rudd-n243261 ...
Lorde Releases Music Video For ‘Yellow Flicker Beat’
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Lorde has released an official music video for her hit single ‘Yellow Flicker Beat’, which will be featured in the 3rd Hunger Games Movie: ‘Mockingjay- Part 1’. The single soared to the number 1 ...
Smashing Pumpkins Release New Single ‘One And All’
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Smashing Pumpkins have released a new single, ‘One And All’, off their upcoming album, ‘Monuments To An Elegy’. The new album is set for release on December 9th, and will include both ‘One And ...
Static-X Lead Vocalist Wayne Static Dies at 48 [UPDATED]
Derek Oswald
UPDATE 11/03/14: Wayne Static’s Publicist has released an official statement on the vocalist’s death, denying all rumors that the death was related to a drug overdose. The statement in full can be read below: ...
Angels And Airwaves Release New Single ‘The Wolfpack’
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Angels And Airwaves have recently released a second single entitled, ‘The Wolfpack’, off their upcoming album, ‘The Dream Walker’. Earlier this month, the band announced the release of the album along with the first ...
Marilyn Manson Shares New Single ‘Third Day Of A Seven Day Binge’
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Over the past couple years, Marilyn Manson has been focusing mainly on his acting career, doing small roles in popular TV shows such as ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ and ‘Once Upon A Time’, and hasn’t ...
Kid Rock Fulfills Fan’s 30th Birthday Wish
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Kid Rock recently gave one of his biggest fans the surprise of a lifetime. Dan McGurk, a 30 year old Kid Rock fan with down syndrome, has been writing and sending videos to the ...
