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PRPhotos.comFunko and Walmart have teamed to create a new edition “Metallica” Pop! Albums figure for their Black Album. You can pre-order it now at Walmart.com. It is expected to ship in December Funko’s Pop! Albums line features music albums using the Pop! figure. The box is oversized and contains a standard Pop! to recreate the…

Getty ImagesDave Grohl has once again lent his throne to another in-need fellow musician. Loudwire reported that after Greyhawk bassist Darin Wall was shot in the thigh by an assailant outside the Seattle venue El Corazon while protecting a crowd full of fans back on September 5th — Grohl reached out and offered up the…

Getty ImagesRingo Starr has been out on the press trail promoting his latest EP, Change The World, and took time out to talk about the Beatles and Peter Jackson’s upcoming six-part documentary, The Beatles – Get Back. The doc will roll out over three days, November 25th, 26th, and 27th, 2021, exclusively on Disney+. Each…

Getty ImagesThe Rolling Stones’ “No Filter Tour” rolls on tonight (September 30th) hitting Charlotte, North Carolina’s Bank Of America Stadium. Mick Jagger appeared on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, and shed light on how the band feels to carrying on without their late-drummer — the great, Charlie Watts, according to Rolling Stone. Jagger explained, “Charlie…

PRPhotos.comDavid Bowie’s unreleased 2001 album, Toy will finally be released on January 7th — a day before what would’ve been the “Thin White Duke’s” 75th birthday. The oft-bootlegged Toy — now renamed Toy:Box — will be available in three-CD or six-by-ten-inch vinyl versions. Included in Toy:Box is a second CD/set of 10-inches of alternative mixes…

Getty ImagesBruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp’s first collaboration, “Wasted Days” is out now, with a new video shot on Springsteen’s New Jersey farm. Back on September 16th, Springsteen and Mellencamp were spotted together in Bay Head, New Jersey. The two legends posed for a picture with a fan on a boardwalk and were seen enjoying…

PRPhotos.comDave Grohl dishes on some interesting interactions with other musicians over the years in his upcoming book, The Storyteller, due out October 5th. One such instance was with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo, he told Rolling Stone magazine, where he learned that when it comes to songwriting, the two musicians are “sort of on opposite ends of…

Getty ImagesIt was 44 years ago today (September 29th, 1977) that Billy Joel released his breakthrough fifth album, 1977’s The Stranger. The album didn’t enter the Top 10 until nearly four months after its release, finally appearing on January 21st, 1978 when it took a four-spot jump to enter at Number 10 under The Grand…

Getty ImagesKurt Cobain’s widow Courtney Love spoke candidly about Cobain on the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s blockbuster album, Nervermind. During a chat with biographer Charles R. Cross for The Los Angeles Times, she surmised how Cobain’s trajectory, which led to him committing suicide in 1994 at the age of 27, could’ve been changed, explaining, “I’m…