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‘Tis the season to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and a whole lot of rockin’ birthdays. As you’re decorating the tree, wrapping presents and building gingerbread houses, you can see if you share a birthday with these rockers celebrating their birthdays this month.Tons of rock stars are turning a year older, and a year wiser this month from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder to Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and also Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx. Some rockers have more candles on…

It can be challenging figuring out what to buy the special people in your life as a gift for the holidays, but if you’re close with any rock and metal fans, we’ve got you covered.Life certainly still isn’t back to pre-COVID normalcy, but chances are, the holidays will feel a little less lonely for a lot of people this year. So whether you’re spending them with your family and friends or on your own, at…

There are stories sometimes so rewarding and full that they can’t be completely told in just one song. Luckily a number of acts in music history have revisited characters and tales of a multiple songs. One such band is up-and-comers The Black Moods, who turned heads last year with their single “Sunshine” and are building up to their new album with “She Gets Out,” a song that carries over a narrative.The band tells us, “‘She…

For over a decade, thrash metal fans have had a definitive – if debatable – list of the top four bands in the field: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. (There has been some recent speculation, though, about expanding the group to include Exodus, so we’ll have to wait and see.)But what about the rest of the genre? After all, metal has become immeasurably varied and vital over the last 50-plus years, with many other superb…

As the year winds down, Incubus vocalist Brandon Boyd is turning his focus to his solo music, announcing that his latest solo effort, Echoes and Cocoons, is set to arrive next spring. Coinciding with that announcement, we’ve also got new music with the song and video for “Pocket Knife” arriving, complete with artwork for the single done by Boyd himself. And it’s the artistic single artwork that inspired us to reach out to Boyd to…