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Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis and Flea have been both bandmates and friends for decades now, but when they first met all those years ago, the circumstances were less than friendly.

Rock may not be the dominant force in music today, but according to Dave Grohl, that’ll be changing soon.

In 2007, after about four years of going at it nonstop on tour and in the studio, Evanescence singer Amy Lee called a break.

The idea behind Record Store Day is simple… every third Saturday in April is devoted to the celebration of the culture surrounding independently owned record stores.

Those who hate Nickelback are often very vocal about it, but the band really doesn’t seem bothered by what anyone says.

Nielsen SoundScan, the company that tracks music sales in North America, has issued a press release containing a lot of good news.

A lot of famous musicians recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California before it closed its doors as a commercial studio in May 2011.

When the music streaming service Spotify launched in the U.S. in July 2011, lots of people signed up for six-month free memberships that allowed them to listen to anything they wanted to as often as they wanted to on their desktops.

By far, the rarest full length @SmashingPumpkin album in existence is Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music.

Back in the day, Lookout Records had a lot going for it.