2025 Metal Hall Of Fame Gala And Metallica Each Giving To Wildfire Relief.
Rockers are coming together to help Los Angeles. Metallica’s charitable foundation, All Within My Hands, has donated $500-thousand to relief efforts carried out by the California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Recovery Fund and the Pasadena Community Foundation’s Eason Canyon Fire Relief and Recovery Fund. Also, the Ninth Annual Metal Hall of Fame Gala is doing its part too and has announced that the 2025 edition of the event will be a fundraising telethon to raise money for families displaced by the Los Angeles wildfires. The Gala is coming up next Wednesday at the Grand Theater in Anaheim, with the aim to help raise money for the victims.
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Science Has Determined Who Was More Influential, the Beatles or the Stones
The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones. It's the eternal rock and roll debate. But maybe that debate has been SETTLED.
An indie rocker named Chris Dalla Riva decided to investigate which band has been more influential. He used Wikipedia's list of 479 mainstream rock performers to see which artists they named as influences.
And the Beatles WON. But the Stones didn't even come in second . . . Led Zeppelin did.
Here are the results:
1. The Beatles: 210 mentions
2. Led Zeppelin: 151
3. The Rolling Stones: 146
4. U2: 139
5. David Bowie: 127
6. Bob Dylan: 125
7. Elton John: 114
8. Queen: 114
9. Jimi Hendrix: 112
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers: 112
The list actually goes to 15. The last five, in this order, are Bruce Springsteen, Green Day, Aerosmith, The Who, and Metallica.
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Coheed And Cambria Announces Album, Tour, And Drops New Single
Coheed and Cambria have released a new single from their upcoming album “The Father of Make Believe,” which is set to release on March 14th. Not only have they released a video for the single, “Someone Who Can,” but they’ve also announced a co-headlining North American tour with Taking Back Sunday. The tour kicks off on August 16th in St. Louis and runs through September 21st in Seattle. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 am local time.
Coheed and Cambria with Taking Back Sunday on September 8th at 713 Music Hall. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 am at Ticketmaster dot com.
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Rod Stewart Was Once Served Divorce Papers by David Schwimmer
Here's some crazy celebrity trivia: The summer after David Schwimmer finished his freshman year of college, he went to work as a process server for his mother, who was a divorce lawyer.
His job was to, quote, "pop out of the bushes and serve you divorce papers."
And one of those people he had to serve was ROD STEWART. This would have been around 1984, so Rod was probably being served by his first wife Alana Stewart, whom he'd married in 1979.
David said, quote, "Thank goodness I've never run into him since . . . I don't even know if he knows. I don't think he knows."
But David told this story on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", so there's a good chance he knows now. Colbert said, quote, "You could theoretically run into Rod Stewart sometime! Now he knows to punch you."
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