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Iron Maiden have sold a significant portion of their catalog, name exploitation and image rights, including their mascot Eddie.To secure 50% is Pophouse Entertainment, the Swedish company founded by Bjorn Ulvaeus of ABBA which has already signed a similar agreement with Kiss for around 300 million dollars. However, the amount of the agreement stipulated with Maiden is not known. BMG remains the publisher of the group's songs.The sale of the shares to Pophouse, we read in a press release, “will allow Iron Maiden to launch into new creative initiatives that involve existing fans and, at the same time, to introduce…

Beabadoobee has shared a new song, ‘Switchblade’ – you can listen to it below. Read More: Beabadoobee interview: “All my angst and anger was necessary for me to understand who I am” The track serves as the latest preview of the singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album, ‘Pylon’, which is released on September 18 via Dirty Hit and Interscope. ‘Switchblade’ finds Bea pondering on whether “self-defence is to be brave“, asking: “Do you start the fight or take the flight?” The laid-back, fuzzy alt-rock tune gives no clear answers, however, with the artist emphatically past the point where she thought she could ever…

Fair warning: don’t expect Thundercat’s full attention this fall. The musician will be preoccupied with the Distracted AF tour, which will visit a number of American and Canadian cities from October through December. Select dates will have support from a rotating list of openers: Channel Tres, TiaCorine, Fera, 54 Ultra, and Kitty Ca$h. Check out a full itinerary below.The tour arrives on the heels of Thundercat’s most recent album Distracted, which dropped in April on Brainfeeder Records. The LP featured Tame Impala, Lil Yachty, A$AP Rocky, Channel Tres, and Willow, as well as a posthumous verse from longtime collaborator Mac…

Blackberry Smoke are celebrating 25 years as a band with a summer tour that will take them from New York to Nashville and on to Canada. Many of those dates feature a very special opener: Jason Newsted, the former Metallica bassist who now fronts his own Chophouse Band. In a new episode of Rolling Stone's Nashville Now podcast, Blackberry Smoke frontman Charlie Starr and Newsted talk about how they met, why they make sense together on the road, and the struggles they've faced in their respective bands. For Blackberry Smoke, it was the devastating loss of founding drummer Brit Turner…

When it comes to being the next big música mexicana band, Linea Personal is all in. Next month, the Mexican American group will embark on its TODO Ø NADA tour, its first headlining trek of the US — and for the band members, this feels like unlocking a new achievement in their rising careers. “We've been waiting for this moment for the past three years to finally go on tour,” Linea Personal's lead singer Gustavo “Tavo” Raya-Garcia tells Rolling Stone. “We're ready to go to every city and see how many fans we have and really spend time with them.…

It comes out Friday July 17 BOP BOPthe new single by Artie 5ive For Warner Records Italy. It is the second excerpt from Victorythe third studio album by the Milanese rapper expected within a year, and arrives later Swag Music. The song moves on an essential groove with Caribbean influences, and tells of a nocturnal race between urban images and pop references. The meaning of BOP BOP by Artie 5ive The device of the song is declared: hypnotic rhythm, flow always in the foreground, construction designed to stay in your head from the first listen. It is not a ballad…

Nickelback have announced their 11th studio album, ‘Everything Under The Sun’ – listen to new single ‘Rattle The Cage’ below. The Canadian band will release the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Get Rollin” on October 30 via Virgin Music Group. Pre-order/pre-save here. “This album has every side of the band on it,” explained frontman Chad Kroeger. “There are songs that hit as hard as anything we’ve ever done, songs that take chances, and songs that remind us why we’ve been doing this together for so long.” Speaking about the explosive lead track from the forthcoming LP, he continued: “‘Rattle The Cage’ felt…

There’s an old maxim in journalism: When a dog bites a man, that’s not news; but when a man bites a dog, that is news. But sometimes even the most obvious dog-bites-man story cannot be ignored. Like this gem coming out of Noblesville, Indiana, outside Indianapolis: Drug arrests at Phish concerts.  On Monday, the Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued a statement on Facebook announcing the arrests, as well as the seizure of copious amounts of drugs over the course of Phish’s three shows at the Ruoff Music Center. Again, this would be pretty unremarkable stuff in and of itself,…

Bret Easton Ellis’ latest novel about rich, beautiful teens and a killer known as the Trawler gets the Ryan Murphy adaptation treatment A serial killer stalks Los Angeles against a backdrop of adolescent debauchery in the first trailer for The Shards, the upcoming Ryan Murphy-produced adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel of the same name.  The series stars Igby Rigney as Bret, an aspiring young writer and senior at a posh L.A. private school, whose life begins to unravel after an enigmatic new student, Robert Malloy (Homer Gere), shows up. It just so happens, too, that Robert’s arrival on the…

“They’d be trying to find a sound, and you’d randomly hear a drum break that was on a Beastie Boys song,” producer Tyran Donaldson says If you listen closely to Mike D‘s upcoming solo album, Thank You, you might hear familiar sounds. When composing music, the rapper’s sons, Skyler and Davis Diamond, who comprise part of the band Mike D 5D, used an E-mu SP-1200 sampler, whose vintage is from sometime in the Eighties, on loan from Mike D’s Beastie Boys bandmate, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz. The instrument came with floppy disks preloaded with Beastie beats. In a New York Times…