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Frazer Harrison / Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Gene Simmons Endorses Mitt Romney for President
Kiss bassist Gene Simmons appeared on Fox News Channel’s ‘Fox & Friends’ and the hot topics The Demon touched on included the 2012 election, President Obama, who he supported in 2008, and of course, a Gene business endeavor in the form of his Rock & Brew bar that’s launching near the Los Angeles Airport.
Michael Buckner / Michael Loccisano, Getty Images Yes and Genesis Members Announce Release Date for New Squackett Album
Here’s a riddle, of sorts. What’s a “Squackett?” No, it’s not some hybrid bird created in a lab, unless you want to get metaphorical and consider music a bird and a studio a lab. It’s what you get when you cross Yes bassist Chris Squire (who has played on every one of said band’s records) and onetime Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. The duo will release ‘A Life Within a Day’ on May 29 via Esoteric Antenna.
Jemal Countess, Getty Images Dee Snider To Release Broadway Album and Autobiography
May 8 is a big day for Dee Snider. Not only will the hard rock renaissance man, who sings, dances, acts, appears on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and hosts his own radio show, release ‘Dee Does Broadway’ but he will also release his first autobiography, ‘Shut Up and Give Me the Mic.’ Yes, Dee, whatever you say!
Streeter Lecka, Getty Images San Antonio Couple Names Twins After Spurs’ Tim Duncan and Tony Parker
There are fans and then there are super fans. San Antonio couple John Paul and Crystal Dennison would appear to fall into the latter category, as the new parents have named their identical, newborn twin sons Tony Parker and Tim Duncan after the San Antonio Spurs’ superstars.
Frazer Harrison, Getty Images Sammy Hagar Declares Ronnie Montrose ‘a Pioneer of Hard Rock’
Sammy Hagar has spoken out, this time at more length, about Ronnie Montrose, who died on Saturday, March 3, at the age of 64. Hagar had issued a statement immediately following the news that his former bandmate had passed away, but expounded on his thoughts and feelings a few days later.
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Motley Crue’s Vince Neil Opens Business We Assumed He Owned Years Ago
Vince Neil is putting his money where her g-string is, but not in the expected way.
Jeff Gross / Ethan Miller, Getty Images Black Sabbath, Rush Songs Cited on List of ’10 Badass Fictional Characters in Popular Music’
Is there a fictional character more badass than ‘Iron Man?’ Um, no, there isn’t, according to a new list celebrating musical badasses in lyric form.
Kevin Winter, Getty Images Ozzy Osbourne on Tony Iommi’s Lymphoma – ‘He’s Gonna Beat It’
Ozzy Osbourne‘s ‘Ozzy’s Boneyard’ radio channel has officially launched on SiriusXM. In an interview on the station, the Prince of Darkness wasted no time addressing his Black Sabbath partner Tony Iommi‘s current cancer battle, joking that he told the guitarist “if he dies, I’m gonna kill him.”
Mark Metcalfe, Getty Images Soundgarden Album Pushed to Fall 2012 Release
Soundgarden fans will have to wait a little bit longer for the band’s first album since 1996. The “reunion” album had a spring release date loosely attached to it, and singer Chris Cornell made the press rounds saying so. Now, Cornell has revealed the new album, the band’s first since ‘Down on the Upside,’ has been bumped to fall of this year. We’ve been waiting long enough — what’s a few more months? Patience, young Skywalker, right?
YouTube Adriana Lima Shows Skin, Motley Crue Rocks Out in Kia Optima Commercial
‘Victoria’s Secret’ model Adriana Lima is a hot chick and Motley Crue is a ‘gets-all-the-hot-chicks’ type of hard rock band. What a match, right? These two bastions of dude culture collide in a 2012 Kia Optima commercial (thanks Loudwire) and our heads were about to blow upon watching it.
Ethan Miller / Chris Graythen, Getty Images Steven Tyler and Roger Daltrey Funding Development of Vocal Cord Repair Gel
Scientists working at Boston’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the funding help of hometown hero and Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, are working on a special, almost magical gel that replicates the activity of a human vocal cord. It will be able to help the damaged voices of singers and, more importantly, cancer patients! The Who vocalist Roger Daltrey is also partly funding the endeavor.
'Forest Country Job Fair' is Tuesday May 22nd! May 17, 2012
Robert Plant Performs Led Zeppelin Classics on New Concert Benefit DVD May 17, 2012
National Bicycle Month in May is The Latest Fad [VIDEO] May 16, 2012
Carlos Santana Scores Again in Latest LP Release [VIDEO] May 16, 2012
Lufkin High School Students Get Big Scholarship Money May 16, 2012
