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The world of heavy music was alive and well on late night TV Monday (Sept. 8) as both Spinal Tap and Drowning Pool appeared on competing late night talk shows. And in both cases, there was some extra draw than their usual appeal that made it must see viewing. It’s ...

The pop singer announced additional dates in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Chicago & more. Ariana Grande at the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 held at UBS Arena on September 07, 2025 in New York, New York. Gilbert Flores/Billboard Just when it seemed that the days couldn’t get any brighter for Arianators ...

The past year has seen two major masked bands celebrating the 25th anniversaries of their breakout albums, so we ask you … which is the better band — Slipknot or Mudvayne? That is the battle this week in Chuck’s Fight Club. on the Loudwire Nights radio show. Slipknot’s self-titled major ...

Maná returns to the top of Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart for the first time in nearly nine years, with a new version of the 1992 hit “Vivir Sin Aire,” with Carin León (ranking dated Sept. 13). The reimagined version of “Vivir Sin Aire” rallies 14-1 on the overall Latin Airplay ...

During an interview on the red carpet last night (Sept. 7) at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Nuno Bettencourt revealed the last thing Ozzy Osbourne told him before his death in July. The Extreme guitarist joined Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, longtime Ozzy keyboardist Adam Wakeman and Yungblud ...

The eternal dissonance of the MTV Video Music Awards ostensibly celebrating a form no longer actively promoted on the brand’s flagship channel has long made the show a tricky tightrope to be walked. It’s led to a lot of confusion in category nomenclature, of course — with the nouns disappearing ...

Nu-metal band Vended (co-founded by Griffin Taylor and Simon Crahan, the respective sons of Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Shawn “Clown” Crahan) have announced that they’ve split with guitarist Connor “Grod” Grodzicki for “personal reasons.” The news arrives mere days before the band are scheduled to kick off their upcoming tour in ...

Jessie J‘s two-year-old son got to see his mom perform live for the first time on Saturday (Sept. 6). The singer returned to the stage, and brought Sky along, at BBC Radio 2 in the Park in Essex, England, after undergoing her first round of surgery to treat breast cancer ...

Here are the five best black metal covers of classic rock songs! Due to an abundance of worthy options, however, we have no other choice but to first name some honorable mentions and related picks. Granted, argumentative souls should proceed with caution: Even Nirvana can be viewed as classic rock these days. Readers should check out Dimmu Borgir’s compilation Inspiratio ...

Karol G brought her Tropicoqueta energy to the NFL stage in Brazil, where she headlined the halftime show on Friday night (Sept. 5) during the season opener between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Chargers. The Colombian superstar’s performance was streamed live on the NFL’s YouTube channel from ...