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Rush Legend Neil Peart To Receive Honor In His Hometown

The late legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart will be honored by his hometown of St. Catharines, Ontario with the renaming of a pavilion after him. The city council agreed to renaming the Port Dalhousie area after

Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic Deactivates His Twitter Account After Backlash From His Pro-Trump Social Media Post

Krist Novoselic, former founding member and bassist of Nirvana, has deactivated his Twitter account following backlash for a social media post praising Donald Trump. Novoselic’s comments were made in response to a speech Trump gave June 1

Record Store Day Shares New List of Exclusive Releases

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Record Store Day 2020 will look dramatically different this year. Typically a one-day event, this year’s Record Store Day will be spread across three days: Aug. 29, Sept. 26 and Oct. 24. As

Metallica Stream Full “Poor Touring Me” Concert From 1997

This week’s installment of Metallica’s full concert streaming series MetallicaMondays had the band looking to back to early 1997. The band had this to say about their latest installment: “We’ll be rewinding 23 years, for the seventh