There has been a lot going on with the band Black Sabbath, involving both past and present members. Some of the news has been good, some has been quite unfortunate.
Cancer has hit founding member, guitarist Tony Iommi. Reunion tour dates for 2012 have been cancelled or changed to "Ozzy and Friends" events. There was a contractual disagreement between band and founding member, drummer Bill Ward.
On to the good news. Deluxe album reissues (import only for North America) are coming on March 19th from the band Dio, which featured former Sabbath lead vocalist, the late Ronnie James Dio. Former lead singer Tony Martin has apparently got his Tony Martin era Black Sabbath music playing band, Tony Martin’s Headless Cross, gearing up to tour.
To get all the details on these happenings and more, you should visit the fan site run by Joe Siegler. It's called Black Sabbath Online, and I post links to his updates on a fairly regular basis, because he makes sure he gets the story straight. If you want unbiased, factual and accurate information on Black Sabbath, and the group's family tree, you go to Joe.
I've realized that anxiety is like wearing a good pair of prescription glasses. Everything is tack-sharp and my focus on life is there. I see all the details.
Meds are like taking those glasses off and being forced to look at the world when you're near-sighted. Everything is still there yet it's out of focus and blurry...
...It happens on September 13, when the Jets play the Baltimore Ravens. The guitarist will be joined by vocalists Myles Kennedy and Nicole Scherzinger and drummer Jason Bonham...
We have installed free, unrestricted wireless Internet access at Verizon Center, and it’s currently available for Mystics games and will be available for the upcoming Capitals and Wizards seasons. Our new FanAccess Wi-Fi network allows fans with wireless devises the ability to connect to the web from their seats...
And so, we return to the city of the Black Gate. It sounds like something out of Lord of the Rings, doesn’t it?
Frodo Baggins’ quest for the ‘One Ring’ is, however, a mere stroll in the park compared with this year’s Rallye Deutschland. The Dark Lord Sauron would likely be a more sympathetic foe than Panzerplatte...
Citroen Total World Rally Team principal Olivier Quesnel has described his two-Sebastien driver liver line up as like winning the lottery twice.
The Frenchman is delighted with the way Sebastien Ogier has slotted in to the factory team alongside legend Sebastien Loeb and Quesnel is confident there will be more pace on the two remaining gravel rallies of the season where the two Sebs will drive alongside each other again. Next season they will be Citroen stable-mates for the entire year...
Deep Purple are to release a documentary next year, chronicling the year leading up the band splitting up in 1976.
Titled Getting’ Tighter, the Blu-Ray/DVD will include new interviews with both Glenn Hughes and Jon Lord, plus previously unreleased footage of the MkIV line-up – also featuring David Coverdale, Tommy Bolin and Ian Paice – playing live.
I've never liked August much. The lull in the NHL's offseason combined with rising temperatures and humidity make this month seem the most removed from hockey. For those who enjoy the sport, it can result in a restless time waiting for the start of training camp, a fresh sheet of ice and the buzz of a new season. Are we there yet?
As most of you know by now, I'll be taking over the Capitals beat at the Post as the tireless Tarik El-Bashir moves on to other reporting ventures. Now that there's a new banner on Capitals Insider, I wanted to introduce myself...
Richard Burns, the 2001 world rally champion, will be remembered by a national-level rally being held in his honour in Norfolk, UK, this weekend (August 14/15).
The Richard Burns Memorial Rally, which was first run in 2008, is an annual event organised to raise funds for the Richard Burns Foundation and the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund...
UFO are to release a new compilation on September 20.
It’s called The Best Of A Decade, and will be on the SPV/Steamhammer label, concentrating on tracks released since 2000. Here’s the full track listing:...
...How do you rest here in Krasnoyarsk? I am meeting with my friends. We go to the Krasnoyarsk Sea, I was at the lake Bele.
Do you come every year in Krasnoyarsk, do you feel the home attraction? I was born here. I left when I was fifteen. Here I have relatives, friends and acquaintances. I like to come here...
I haven't decided how I feel about director Sohel Afgani Rana's "HALKa" movie trailer quite yet. On one hand, it's so full of surreal, so-bad-it's-good awesomeness that it's hard not to love it. On the other hand...
I've received a request from Tony's management to post a news story.
"Sadly, my RED CUSTOM SHOP IOMMI SG was stolen at the tribute show Heaven and Hell performed at High Voltage on July 24th. If you have any information or leads please let us know, we are offering a reward" - Tony
They've also sent over a picture of the guitar that was stolen, too...
The fashion flunkees responsible for creating fan gear for all the fabulous hockey-adoring ladies out there have done it again. Here's the latest "female-friendly" team jersey that's a cross between something a 9-year old girl would wear and an Elvis-impersonation gone very wrong...
...More’s the pity. Come inside to see a selection of stomach-churning photos from Alice Cooper’s recent audition to find support artistes for his upcoming Halloween shows at London’s Roundhouse...
...A bloody fine time was had by all – as you can tell from the gore-splattered pix (taken by Kevin Nixon) below.
Ford team principal Malcolm Wilson is confident the British-based squad can bounce back on Rallye Deutschland next week, after its last outing on asphalt.
The Ford team arrives in Trier knowing that Citroen and Sebastien Loeb have never been beaten on the German event - and that, last time out on asphalt, the Focus RS WRC suffered its heaviest defeat ever to the C4 WRC. That, as far as Wilson is concerned, is history...
Formula One racing has a long and illustrious past in the United States, but one that has been rather sporadic of late. No surprise then that news the US Grand Prix will be back on the calendar for 2012 has been met with universal excitement. For fans, seeing F1 cars battle it out again on American soil is a dream come true, whilst for teams, manufacturers and sponsors the marketing potential of a stateside race is second to none. However, for the two men responsible for the return - Formula One Group CEO Bernie Ecclestone and Tavo Hellmund, managing partner of Full Throttle Productions LP - it’s been a far more personal quest...
For a man who’s made a four-decade career out of slicing his own head off, Alice Cooper veritably squirmed in the face of UK freakdom at the London Dungeon last night, as he auditioned support artistes for his upcoming Halloween Roundhouse shows.
Seated in a blood-spattered throne, Alice selected four winning acts from 12 finalists, themselves hand-picked from a veritable multitude who’d originally enrolled online, crashing Cooper’s website five times in the process...
...In further news, The Coop has a new DVD on the way – and it was filmed in London last year.
Called Theatre Of Death – Live At Hammersmith 2009, it was shot on the last date of the man’s Theatre Of Death World Tour at Hammersmith Apollo. Here’s the full track listing:...
Citroen works team driver Dani Sordo will start Rally Deutschland with a new co-driver after splitting from his partner of five years, Marc Marti.
Sordo has replaced Marti with another Spaniard, Diego Vallejo, 37, in a bid to improve his competitiveness at a time when his place at the factory team is under scrutiny...
...The band features vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes, guitarist Joe Bonamassa, keyboard player Derek Sherinian and drummer Jason Bonham. Their debut album, Black Country, is released by Mascot on September 20. It was produced by Kevin Shirley.
Now you can find out what all the fuss is a out for free, by downloading One Last Soul at www.bccommunion.com...
There’s another burst of Hendrix activity being planned for October, as we close in on the 40th anniversary of his death.
These include the expanded reissues of Jimi Hendrix: Blues, Live At Woodstock and also Jimi Hendrix: BBC Sessions. The latter now features a previously unreleased version of Burning Of The Midnight Lamp...
Hawking is a rock star. I watched him just last night on the Science Channel. He is always challenging and intellectually stimulating. Read this one if you want to have your mind expanded...
*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: Here is the Stephen Hawking audio clip from the original source - Big Think.
Despite suffering from a bout of tonsillitis in the days leading up to the event, McLaren’s Jenson Button put in an impressive performance at Sunday’s London Triathlon. Button is understood to have finished third out of the 500-plus competitors in his group, with a time of 2.14:15...
...“Up to now you haven’t heard much information (other than about my extreme back pain) because there really hasn’t been much until now. I hated leaving you all in the dark but I didn’t want to say anything until there was something conclusive to say. We do have a lot more information now. The number one thing you need to know is that I have cancer. It wasn’t absolutely formally diagnosed until yesterday...
Hockey – at least as much as its major sports brethren – is a “team” sport. And part of that is its lack of tolerance for gaudy statistics among its champions. At least lately. For example, the last time...
...a 50-goal scorer played on a Stanley Cup winner was in 2001. Joe Sakic netted 54 goals in leading the Colorado Avalanche to a Stanley Cup. Only four times in the past 20 years has a Stanley Cup winner featured a 50-goal scorer (Sakic turning the trick twice)...
The following items caught my eye over the first couple days of this month. I thought I'd share them with you. Here's the 'Reading And Viewing List' for April 1 through April 2, 2010.
Since being traded to the Blue Jackets on Dec. 28, Chris Clark has been looking forward to Saturday's game. Unfortunately for him, the only contact he'll make with Alex Ovechkin and Co. is when they shake hands outside the dressing rooms at Nationwide Arena.
That's because Clark suffered a sprained MCL in his left knee earlier this week and he'll be sidelined for the remainder of the season. The injury was the latest blow in a difficult year for the former Caps captain, who told me moments ago that he was stunned by the trade but has moved on.... *Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: I'm still mad about Chris Clark being traded!
The new season of "Doctor Who" kicks off this weekend across the pond, but if you're anything like me, you'll find a way to be watching when the series' new duo debuts on both BBC One this Saturday and BBC America two weeks later.
While "Doctor Who" has a long history in comics, it also occupies the top spot in my personal hierarchy of geekery (yes, even above comics) — which is why I jumped at the chance to interview the series' award-winning lead writer and new showrunner, Steven Moffat, ahead of this weekend's UK premiere. Longtime readers will recall I spoke to former "Doctor Who" star David Tennant during last year's Comic-Con International about his final season as the time-and-space-traveling Timelord,...
Thrashers' winger Colby Armstrong has been suspended two games by the NHL, without pay, for his elbow to the head of Caps' prospect Mathieu Perreault last night, according to Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter Chris Vivlamore...
Aesthetically, it wasn’t pretty last night, and Atlanta played a playoff-style road game — meaning, they were more than content to keep it choppy and ugly — but the Capitals remained patient, received solid if unspectacular netminding from Semyon Varlamov, and eventually wore the Thrashers down enough to get them to succumb. It seemed perfectly scripted that Matt Bradley would provide the game-winner in such a slogging. But for us, there was one standout moment from last night, and it was uglier than the hockey itself:
Last night three of the five Eastern Conference "bubble teams" (Philadelphia, Montreal, Boston, Atlanta and the Rangers) were in action - all three (Philadelphia, Boston, and Atlanta) lost. On Wednesday evening the Canadiens lost to Carolina. On Tuesday evening all three Eastern Conference"bubble teams" in action (the Rangers, Boston and Atlanta) won, but over the last two weeks that's (bubble teams winning) been the exception not the rule...
Tighten Up – It was a 2-1 game, with a total of 44 shots on goal. It looked more like something the Devils and the Bruins would cook up than a game featuring two of the league’s top eight offensive teams, a game that also happened to feature two teams whose goals against averages reside in the bottom half of the league ledger...
Sebastian Stan isn't Steve Rogers, but that's not to say that he won't be Captain America eventually now that the "Gossip Girl" actor has landed the role of James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes in "The First Avenger: Captain America."
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stan will play Bucky in the forthcoming "Captain America" film from director Joe Johnston and Marvel Studios...
Reports of conflict between certain key cast and crew members on the set of "Thor" are completely false, according to both Kenneth Branagh and Anthony Hopkins.
In an interview with Hero Complex, Branagh addressed the widely circulated rumors that Hopkins — who plays Odin in the film — has had trouble working with both the director and leading man Chris Hemsworth...
[Ed. note: The season's not quite done, and the Capitals still have six games left on their schedule before the postseason gets under way, but the reality is that right now most fans - and most of the players - are eagerly anticipating the second season. Naturally, that includes the Japers' Rink contributors, who sat down to discuss Washington's lackluster play of late, the trade deadline, and how they feel about the team heading in to the postseason.]...
Racing alongside seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher isn’t a role all drivers would relish, but Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg has taken up the challenge with gusto. Not only is Rosberg currently 11 points ahead of Schumacher in the championship standings, but he’s enjoying having such an experienced team mate on his side...
As you may have noticed, the Capitals haven't been quite the same juggernaut since the Olympics that the were prior to the mid-February break. They've won eight of 14 games, have allowed 2.85 goals against per game and have successfully killed off just 73.5% of their shorthanded opportunities.
To be certain, there's plenty of blame to go around, from the coaching staff on down. But when things go bad for this Caps team, eyes tend to turn to one of two places: the defense or the goaltending...
Well as we all know Tuesday evening's outing between the Capitals and the Senators resulted in.... gasp ... the Capitals third loss in a row and a "one point night." To be sure Tuesday evening was a far better outing by the Capitals then Sunday's game against Calgary. The Capitals effort versus the Senators, a team who as Gabby pointed out, was a better effort and more inspired effort than the prior two games. However, it wasn't...
AC/DC have revealed plans for a spectacular performance at this summer’s Download Festival – but, contrary to rumour, it won’t include the band playing their legendary Back In Black album in its entirety.
Instead, to tie in with their involvement in the soon-to-be-released movie Iron Man 2, AC/DC are promising the Download crowd a mix of “super-charged boogie and super-heroic stunts,” according to band spokesman Don Heck...
Just two races into the season and Renault are already back on the podium - not bad going for new team principal Eric Boullier. And thanks to Robert Kubica’s second place in Australia last weekend, the French team now lie fourth in the constructors’ standings. Boullier, however, is determined they won’t sit on their laurels just yet, and is instead aggressively targeting third place in the championship table, as he explains to Formula1.com...
Washington closes out a three-game homestand and attempts to halt a three-game losing streak (0-1-2) on Thursday night when the Atlanta Thrashers visit Verizon Center. The Capitals have four home games remaining this season, two against Atlanta and two against Boston. The Thrashers will return to the District next Friday, April 9.Thursday marks the Capitals’ fourth attempt at nailing down the team’s 50th win of the season. Washington has reached the 50-win plateau twice previously in its history, including last season...
The third month of 2010 is now behind us. This 'Reading And Viewing List' installment covers the last three days of that month. Here is March 29 through March 31, 2010.
When the Capitals have been forced to go without Alex Ovechkin for extended periods of time this season, they've responded by picking up the offense and steamrolling over teams. The leadership is missed, but the lost offensive production is more than made up among the rest of the team. Somehow it doesn't work quite the same way when someone who is more of a role player, a self-described "jack of all trades", gets taken out.
And while it would be stretching it to say that the Capitals' recent troubles - 1-1-2 in their last four games - can be directly linked to the absence of Brooks Laich, being without the stalwart winger for the first time in over four years has definitely left a palpable void in the lineup...
So, there I was – sitting in very nice seats, watching a Capitals game. I literally would have been okay with getting a chance to see my CAPS this season while hanging from the rafters, so a luxury suite is quite the nice upgrade in my book. I got a chance to meet Ted and have him sign a copy of my book...
Elusive 50 – Tuesday’s tilt with Ottawa was the Capitals’ third kick at the can in their bid for just the third 50-win season in franchise history. And for the third time, the Caps were denied. Ottawa got a power play goal from Alexei Kovalev with less than 20 seconds remaining in overtime to get out of town with a 5-4 overtime win...
Among the high points of my time as editor of Splash Page, there are a few specific moments that stick out. My interview with former "Doctor Who" star David Tennant almost made me hyperventilate, and the time I spent talking about ninja movies with Chuck Norris is still a little too unbelievable for me to wrap my head around.
And then there was the time Patton Oswalt complained about me being too geeky...
Force India are a team on the move in 2010. With Adrian Sutil, Vitantonio Liuzzi and the VJM03 they have qualified inside the top ten and scored points at both rounds to date. Experienced drivers and a competitive car means it’s a pattern that team owner Vijay Mallya is confident will continue. All he needs now is to find some positive karma for Sutil, who has had all of the pace but none of the luck thus far, to help them close in on P5 in the constructors’ standings...
Occasionally, I drive past this stalled building project in Orem, Utah. On the main north-south corridor through town, it's a conspicuous example of the popped housing bubble...
The Caps host the Ottawa Senators at Verizon Center on Tuesday night in the middle match of a three-game homestand and the final contest of the March portion of the 2009-10 regular season slate.
Tuesday’s tilt also concludes the season’s series between the Caps and the Sens. The Capitals defeated Ottawa in the previous Verizon Center meeting between the two teams this season, a 5-2 game on Jan. 7...
Alice Cooper has revealed that he has started work on a brand new studio album.
In his show, which you can catch tomorrow morning from 6am, Alice reveals that he has started work on a new studio record – the follow up to 2008’s Along Came A Spider...
The Hershey Bears on Sunday earned their 56th win on the season, leaving the Chocolate and White just one win short of tying the 1992-93 Binghamton Rangers for the most wins in a single season in AHL history. The Bears are an incredible 56-14-0-3 on the season, boasting a 25-point lead over second place Albany in the AHL’s East division...
A new "Iron Man 2" trailer debuted during this weekend's Kids Choice Awards, and while it offers much of the same footage we've seen previously, there are some new elements fans should be excited about...
The Scorpions recently teamed up with Tarja Turunen on a TV show called Wetten, dass…? in Germany.
The German band and the former Nightwish frontwoman performed the song The Good Die Young from the Scorps’ current – and farewell – album Sting In The Tail.
(Incidentally, Wetten, dass…? is German for Wanna Bet…? – Foreign Language Ed.)
Twice As Nice – The Caps trailed 2-1 after 40 minutes of Wednesday’s game with Pittsburgh, but came back to take a 3-2 third-period lead. A late Pens goal sent the game to overtime and then to a shootout, and Pittsburgh took a 2-0 lead in the skills competition, scoring on each of its first two shots. But the comeback Caps came back again, scoring on three straight shots to send Pittsburgh to a 4-3 shootout setback...
Reams have been written about both Formula One Group CEO Bernie Ecclestone and 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton, usually separately. Interviewed together for the first time at the recent Bahrain Grand Prix, the duo set out to make joint headlines, as they discussed the return of Michael Schumacher, the three new teams joining the grid this year, and each other...
Dave Grohl has been talking about the new Foo Fighters album. What’s he been saying? Read on...As Classic Rock reported, the band are to start work shortly on a new album with producer Butch Vig.
Grohl told BBC Newsbeat: “It’s the first album the two of us have made together in 20 years. There’s something that Butch does that helps a song become a bigger song. At this point I just want to rock”...
Triumph are to have a CD/DVD titled Greatest Hits Remixed through the Frontiers label on May 17.The CD has 14 tracks remixed by Rich Chyki, with the following listing:...
After a three-day breather from the rigors of the condensed NHL schedule, the Capitals climb back into action on Wednesday night when they host the Pittsburgh Penguins. With a victory over the Pens, Washington would eliminate the Pens from any chance of claiming the top spot in the Eastern Conference standings...
While there are still a few roles that need to be cast, yesterday's report that actor Chris Evans will play Captain America provides one of the final pieces in a long-developing puzzle that, when completed, will bring together a host of Marvel Studios superheroes for "The Avengers."...
To commemorate Rush’s imminent induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame, CBC have posted a 55-minute interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.You can check it out here. The ceremony happens on March 28 at the George Weston Recital Hall, inside the Toronto Centre For The Arts...
Renault’s Robert Kubica reviews his first race for the French squad and evaluates the R30’s potential, whilst team mate Vitaly Petrov assesses his debut performance at the Bahrain Grand Prix and describes how Formula One racing is fast becoming his home country Russia’s favourite sport...
When the refuelling ban was first announced for 2010, one of the main concerns was how to make sure brakes could last a Grand Prix distance. A full tank of fuel adds around 150 kg of weight to the car, and it requires considerably more energy to slow down that extra weight. It seemed that the brakes would be in for a tough time in 2010...
Ever wondered what it takes to win five World Rally Championship manufacturers' titles?
Defending champions Citroen know, and they've given wrc.com an EXCLUSIVE look behind the scenes at their state-of-the-art WRC team headquarters at Satory near Paris... *Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: Cool video - Citroen’s PR manager, Marie-Pierre Rossi, shows you around the Citroen WRC factory.
Pirelli's five Star Drivers have got their season off to the best possible start by completing a week of media and fitness training; including a test in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X with which they will contest six rounds of this year's World Rally Championship.
The five drivers, Nick Georgiou (Lebanon), Peter Horsey (Kenya), Hayden Paddon (New Zealand), Alex Raschi (San Marino) and Ott Tanak (Estonia), completed three days of theoretical preparation in Edinburgh together with their co-drivers, before moving onto a two-day test in Tuscany, where they sampled the Mitsubishi Lancer run by Ralliart Italia for the first time...
Ratt drummer Bobby Blotzer is to have his autobiography published next month. It’s titled Tales Of A Ratt – Things You Shouldn’t Know, and is published on April 20 – the same day that the band release new album Infestation...
Bringing forth a mighty brand of blues-rock in the early 1970s, Free was a critical piece of foundation in hard rock’s roots. Today, March 23, Eagle Rock Entertainment will celebrate their career with the release of the Free Forever 2 DVD set...
Paul Kukla asks: "Someone Want To Count The Crosschecks?"
Ok, Paul, I counted three and one more after it was over.
The refs missed all of them since the cross-checks were coming from NHL's poster boy. And what's up with picking on a smaller Zetterberg? Why not to try Todd Bertuzzi? Last year it was Malkin (6'3") who tried to beat up Henrik and he couldn't! Go, Zatta!... *Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: Contains 3 videos of Crosby showing what a dirty player he is.
Steel Panther, Saxon, Cinderella, Ratt and Airbourne head the latest batch of 22 bands just confirmed for the Download Festival, which happens at Donington from June 11-13.The full list of those 22 names is as follows:...
We are down to it now – ten games or so left in the regular season. There is no mystery about where the Caps will finish the year. Absent being spirited away by aliens, they will win the Southeast Division (already clinched), they will win the Eastern Conference (16 points ahead of Pittsburgh with ten games to play), and they will likely win the President’s Trophy (nine points ahead of Chicago and Phoenix with ten games left to play)...
...so it seems like a good time to reflect on the season thus far, and that's what I've did late last night. I figured I'd share some of what I think are the highlights one gets when looking at the current NHL Team Stats in a comparative fashion. So by the numbers the Capitals are the #1team in the NHL in the following categories:...
A 12-minute video studio report on the new self-titled Slash album has been posted.This features interviews with Slash himself, Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, Lemmy, Andrew Stockdale (Wolfmother), Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge), Fergie (Black Eyes Peas), Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Duff McKagan and Dave Grohl.
For further info on the album and also the special Slash fan Pack, go here. *Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: Check out this video! Long list of living legends included.
Seldom if ever have the Capitals had as many games to conclude the regular season that mean so little in the grand scheme of things as they do this spring. The Southeast division title was locked up not long after Valentine’s day, and effectively not long after Washington’s first blizzard this winter. The Caps began seriously pulling away from the rest of the Eastern conference immediately after the Olympic break. There’s still some mild drama related to the President’s trophy, and the Caps have never won that, but that’s almost a curse of sorts — in the 23 times the trophy has been awarded since 1985-86, only seven winners have gone on to claim the Stanley Cup...
No Point – On Thursday night in Ottawa, the Capitals continued their habit of giving up the game’s first goal and coming back from a multiple-goal deficit. But in the end, they also lost their second game in as many nights by the same score. A night after dropping a 6-5 overtime decision to the Canadiens in Montreal, the Capitals absorbed a regulation setback by the same score at the hands of the Senators in Ottawa...
Don't stand too close to Bruce Boudreau right now. He's not thrilled at all with the way his team has abandoned it's defensive structure. The Capitals lost another wide open, full-tilt, free-for-all in Ottawa tonight...
Rock Radio UK is reporting that legendary vocalist Paul Rogers (Free, Bad Company, The Firm) has revealed he recently jammed with Fleetwood Mac veterans Mick Fleetwood and John McVie...
Earlier this week, fans of Marvel's insect-wrangling superhero Ant-Man received word that plans for a movie based on the character were indeed moving along, with Stan Lee announcing the project was a go and that he'd met with director Edgar Wright...
Come inside to watch a brand new video interview with the guitarist.
Slash’s debut solo album Slash is out in the UK in May, but Classic Rock is selling a very special Slash fanpack – containing the album, a special Slash trubite magagzine and a whole lot more – on the newsstands from April 7.
The album that comes with the Classic Rock Slashpack will also be the only version to include two extra bonus tracks: Baby Can’t Drive (with guests Alice Cooper/Nicole Scherzinger) and a wicked cover of the classic Guns N’ Roses track Paradise City (with guests Fergie/Cypress Hill)...
The big picture: Hockey in the National League has been contested since 1917, and in all that time only two clubs have achieved winning streaks longer than the Washington Capitals’ run of 14 — the Islanders’ 15 consecutive wins of 1981-82 and the Penguins’ 17 in a row during the ‘92-’93 season. There’s a strong correlation between such winning and winning Stanley Cups — the Penguins were defending Cup champs in ‘92-’93, and the Islanders won another in ‘81-’82...
The Eastern Conference’s two hottest teams go head-to-head in Ottawa on Thursday when the Washington Capitals make their second and final visit to Canada’s capital region.
Washington had its 14-game winning streak snapped in Montreal on Wednesday night, dropping a 6-5 overtime decision to the Habs. But the Caps went down swinging, roaring back from a 5-2 third-period deficit...
Fifteen Blue – It says a lot about these 2009-10 Washington Capitals that on the night their franchise-record winning streak came to a halt at 14 games, they still managed to come away from the game with a point. Not only that, they came back three separate times to knot the score...
You can't win 'em all, but boy they sure did try. The Caps haven't been anywhere near their best in the last four games, but they've managed to win consistently and they almost pulled victory from the jaws of defeat again this evening...
As the Capitals kept on rolling last weekend, extending their win streak to fourteen games with wins of the Thrashers and the Penguins, fans were treated not only to victories but to some entertaining hockey - and not just from the home town team. Atlanta, in it's first game of the post-Kovalchuk era, put forth a solid team effort and, as unappealing as it may be the admit, both of...
...You can almost see that sort of “generational” effect growing up around the Capitals blogging community. We started our own scribbles back in July 2005, and (he said with all humility) you might think of that “era” of Caps blogging as the Mercury program era. There were a few blogs out there – the pioneers like...
Thankfully, "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" hasn't seemed to deter director Edgar Wright from his long discussed plans for an "Ant-Man" movie — in fact, the filmmaker recently met with a Marvel Comics icon to talk about the project...
Iggy And The Stooges are to release a three-CD box set version of their classic 1973 album Raw Power.
This will be out at the end of April. The first disc will have a remastered version of the David Bowie mix for the original album. The second disc is being titled the Georgia Peaches bootleg. This is a live recording straight off the sound desk of a show in...
A trio of significant streaks will be on the line Wednesday night when the Washington Capitals open a three-game road trip against the Canadiens in Montreal. The Caps have won 14 straight games, the longest in the NHL since the Pittsburgh Penguins set the league mark with 17 consecutive victories in 1992-93...
The following links will take you to what I found worth checking out during the first few days of February 2010. Here's the 'Reading And Viewing List' for February 1 through February 3, 2010. It's not quite as thorough as usual. Sorry, I was behind and running short on time, along with experiencing connection problems. Catch you up within the next couple days.
This One Goes to Eleven – On Tuesday night in Boston, the Caps skated off with their second 4-1 win in as many visits to Beantown this season. Those two 4-1 wins were about as different as they come, but the significance of the second one reverberates historically. Washington’s winning streak is now 11 games, the longest in franchise history, and tied for the longest in the NHL since the lockout...
MusicRadar.com is reporting that when Jimi Hendrix's Valleys Of Neptune CD is released on March 9, the cover will feature watercolor artwork that the late guitarist...
It's a very strange sensation, writing words for a man who's already, for all intents and purposes, dead. To have him do things he'll no longer do, to have him achieve things he'll never be close to achieving any more; all these moments in his now-finished life seem false...
Exactly four months after forging a 4-1 win over the Bruins in Boston to open the 2009-10 season, the Capitals are flying back to Beantown for the second of their two away dates with the B’s this season. Instead of seeking to start the season on a strong note, this time the Caps are looking to carve out their own special place in the franchise’s record books...
The hotly anticipated "Iron Man 2" may only be three months away from theaters, but Robert Downey Jr. is already looking ahead to "The Avengers" as a culmination of the first four years of movies from Marvel Studios...
With "The First Avenger: Captain America" rumored to begin filming later this year, further details about the story have begun to emerge. "Captain America" director Joe Johnston has recently revealed that the film will begin in the 1940s and ignore the influence of the '60s and '70s "Captain America" comics...
