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Iconic rocker and American Idol judge Steven Tyler is finding himself under heavy fire after his rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” over the weekend. You can see it in full above. Looking ever the rock god, Tyler sang the National Anthem at the New England Patriots vs. Baltimore Ravens game for the ... |
23 January 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Sometimes, the Internet gives us Rebecca Black & Co. Other times, it offers us precious little superstars in the making, as is the case of Juliet. She's just 8 years old but she can rock like no other. “My First Hardcore Song” is Juliet's first foray into rock music. It's done with professi... |
20 January 2012
07:35 GMT |
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The 5,000 year old monument is no longer considered a mystery by scientists, due to a recent discovery. Robert Ixer from University of Leicester and the National Museum of Wales has collaborated with Richard Bevins from the National Museum of Wales to indicate the source of the rocks that are now famous worldwide, th... |
19 December 2011
04:44 GMT |
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You don’t mess with Dave Grohl, especially if you’re at a Foo Fighters concert. During a recent gig in London, the rocker interrupted a song to admonish an unruly fan who was picking up fights with fellow concertgoers.
Video of the incident is below, embedded at the end of the article – and it&rs... |
14 July 2011
08:33 GMT |
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He’s a great actor, a devoted father and lover, and a one of the most handsome men in showbiz, but Johnny Depp’s list of credits doesn’t end here. As he proved the other night in London, he’s also quite a performer – and a very good guitar player. Before he took to the stage in London fo... |
28 June 2011
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Guns N’ Roses are not letting the rather lukewarm reception of their previous album, the much mediated and derided “Chinese Democracy,” put their down: confirmation comes straight from the band that they’re working on a new material. Speaking with media representatives at a recent event, GNR g... |
13 November 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Activision has announced the full track list for the upcoming DJ Hero 2, which is set to arrive on October 22, with a total of 105 songs that players will be able to mix and match however they like using their turntable peripherals. Here are all the songs in DJ Hero 2 listed in alphabetical order:2Pac feat. Dr. ... |
27 August 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Ever since she made up her mind she wanted to be taken seriously as a singer / rocker and consequently reinvented her public persona to be the edgier 17-year-old chick we know today, Taylor Momsen has taken a lot of fire in the media. Clearly, she likes to shock. Also clearly, she says in an interview with the Sun-Se... |
26 July 2010
10:49 GMT |
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Taylor Momsen has slowly but surely become the young singer and actress everybody seems to love to hate. In all fairness, it’s not like she’s doing anything in particular to make herself loved; on the contrary, actually, she constantly says she doesn’t care. In a recent interview with 411Mania, the ... |
20 July 2010
10:33 GMT |
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They’re both 17, have a career in television, are adored by fans their age, and also have music records out there. With all that, comparisons between Taylor Momsen and Miley Cyrus are stupid – and Taylor is the first to say so, in an interview with the UK issue of FHM magazine (story via here). Not only a... |
9 July 2010
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One of the most popular and influential figures in heavy metal, literally the singer and songwriter who popularized the devil’s horns hand gesture, has passed. Ronnie James Dio, who sang with Elf, Black Sabbath and his own band who carried his name, Dio, had been suffering from stomach cancer, which is believed... |
17 May 2010
10:10 GMT |
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Adam Lambert is far from the kind of guy one could pass by on the street and not notice, and that’s not only because he loves eyeliner and everything glittery. Truth be told, Adam is also very good looking, which is why Paper Magazine has decided to include him in a special issue titled Beautiful People of 2010... |
9 April 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Ever since November last year, the rockers from Aerosmith have been having a rather bad time, plagued by reports that they were about to split and looking for a replacement for Steven Tyler, rumors that originated from within the band no less. To set the record straight, the rockers have made an official announcement... |
26 February 2010
05:40 GMT |
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There’s a very good reason why they say Marilyn Manson is the ultimate shock rocker. Not a stranger to featuring blood showers (literally) and, at times, unspeakable acts of cruelty in his videos, together with some of the most unlikely instances, Manson has recently premiered the official video for his latest... |
6 November 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Guitar Hero 5 has stirred a lot of attention lately, but not in the way many might think. Apparently, the feature apparition of Nirvana's late singer and guitarist, Kurt Cobain, in the game may be an unfortunate made compromise. Maybe Activision chose to incorporate the image of a deceased, iconic rock star only... |
18 September 2009
12:31 GMT |
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Apple has placed a huge event-specific banner on the front of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The venue will be used for the company’s press event taking place two days from now. The event, titled “It’s only rock and roll, but we like it,” was indirectly confirmed by Appl... |
7 September 2009
10:39 GMT |
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On Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, two students embarked on a killing spree, taking the lives of 12 students and a teacher, injuring 21 others (other 3 were injured as they were attempting to escape), and then committed suicide. “Dark” music groups, such as Marilyn Manson a... |
13 June 2009
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At the beginning of the week, the local media in Romania started to run ads for an AC/DC concert, which was supposedly taking place at the end of May as part of a two-day rock festival. More than 8,000 tickets were sold in just a couple of days but, as it turns out, the legendary rock band had not even been told it w... |
16 April 2009
03:42 GMT |
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Recently we've been hearing quite a lot about music games, largely due to the fact that a lot of people like to listen to music, and combining it with a game in which they can play along with friends or family is a guaranteed recipe for profit if you are a video game developer or publisher.That is why Activision... |
12 March 2009
16:01 GMT |
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What is known as the first rock concert ever for the hearing-impaired will be staged in Toronto, Canada, on March 5, NME has announced. The concert will be possible thanks to Ryerson University’s Alternative Sensory Information Displays (ASID) project and its Emoti-Chair, which allows a deaf person to enjoy mus... |
5 February 2009
10:17 GMT |
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Gold has always been a major fuel for humans' imagination, oft-present in their tales, from legends and children's stories to serious novels, stressing on the importance of the glittering material associated with the difference between rich and poor. The Incan, who built vast cities of gold, referred to it ... |
16 December 2008
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Some time ago, we shared a few weird facts about the Earth, but the planet still has many feats in store that never cease to amaze us. The latest is its surface's weird ability to catch fire. Well, not really at random, as the catalysts of the peculiar process seem to be landslides. Following a series of this ty... |
5 December 2008
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Scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been using images provided by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe in order to determine whether there are any distinguishable patterns in the Martian rocks. The photographs... |
5 December 2008
04:47 GMT |
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An old picture taken by the Opportunity rover that has been roaming around on Mars for several years now has recently been the target of much speculation and fueled more conspiracy theories (as if there was not enough of that already). The highly controversial item in the photograph appears to be a plank of wood rest... |
2 December 2008
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A new research performed by a team of geophysicists from the University of California in Berkeley, led by Burkhard Militzer, concluded that the rocky core of the giant gaseous planet in the middle of our solar system is at least twice bigger than previously indicated by computer simulations and studies. The main focu... |
26 November 2008
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Gerard Maynard, a photographer and painter from New York, United States, has managed to obtain a 17-gigapixel photography of the Yosemite National Park, creating, according to his own words, the most impressive available panorama ever stitched together. The artist, formerly known for his photographic description of H... |
30 October 2008
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Canadian researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest chunk of Earth's crust, but the sparks lit by some techniques used in order to date the rocks may cast doubt over the whole finding. For the past four years, Jonathan O'Neill and his colleagues from the McGill University in Canada have been obs... |
26 September 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Pearl Jam fans from all over the US, listen to this: Verizon is offering free mobile bootleg recordings from the band's current US tour that started yesterday, June 11, in West Palm Beach, Florida, and will end on June 30, in Mansfield, Massachusetts. More exactly, during every one of the 12 concerts included in... |
12 June 2008
04:42 GMT |
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It is no longer a secret that the success enjoyed by Guitar Hero and Rock Band means, at the same time, an increase in the sales of the music artists featured in the games. However, it was still unsure whether the same thing happened in case new singles were involved: Motley Crue have decided to test that out and man... |
26 May 2008
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Look at all this technology! Orbiters circling Mars, rovers running on the surface But how many of them are able to say whether or not life was or is present on the Red Planet? None. Of course, the Beagle 2 probe carried by the Mars Express orbiter had such capabilities until contact was lost upon separation. Not mu... |
8 May 2008
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It is the symbol of the American Southwest and western movies. But how old is the Grand Canyon? A new research suggests that it could have started to form during the dinosaur era.The over a mile (1.6 km) deep canyon in Arizona is the work of the Colorado River digging through ancient rock layers when the plateau of ... |
16 April 2008
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United Kingdom-based notebook vendor Rock has just pulled the veil off a new, sleek ultra-portable notebook offering that resembles Apple's MacBook Air and Toshiba's Portg R500. Called the Pegasus P210, the new laptop PC is quite a surprise, given the fact that Rock is mostly known for its huge, desktop-lik... |
3 April 2008
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This is the Turkish World's Wonder. In the residual relief made of tuffs and basalt lava, persecuted Christians carved churches, monasteries and dwellings. Goreme National Park, with a surface of 9,576 hectares, is located in central Anatolia, between the volcanic mountains Hasan and Erciyes, in the Nevsehir Pro... |
20 March 2008
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On the evening of March 5, Wednesday, the Physics and Astronomy Department at Western Ontario University received a number of calls and e-mails from people claiming to have been a bright streak of light crossing the sky sometime around 10:59 p.m. EST. Luckily, the astronomy department is equipped with a network of al... |
8 March 2008
03:36 GMT |
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Chip manufacturer Intel has announced earlier this week world's first processor to feature two billion transistors on the die. Called "Tukwila", the chip is part of the Itanium family and has a thermal envelope of 170W.The members of Intel's Itanium team yesterday took the floor and came with further juicy ... |
8 February 2008
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Sun Microsystems has announced that it has re-scheduled the launch date for its Rock processor a year later. The next generation of the company's UltraSPARC server chip was delayed to the second half of 2009 in order to allow the company to perform additional, extensive tests. The company's initial estimati... |
8 February 2008
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The ongoing International Solid State Circuits Conference unveiled some extremely juicy details about Intel's products and roadmap, and I'm sure that the party is far from being over. However, Intel may be an important guest, but let's not underestimate the other participants. Sun, for example is less ... |
5 February 2008
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Together with the bighorn sheep, the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is one of the symbols of the Rocky Mountains, inhabiting their rough and barren cliffs and executing amazing stunts amongst the rocks. Today, no more than 5,000 mountain goats are found, about 1,500-2,000 being encountered in the Glacier Nationa... |
4 February 2008
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Hardcore computing specialist Rock has unveiled a new notebook in its Xtreme SL8 series of power laptops. The computer's central piece is the recently announced Nvidia GeForce 8800 SLI graphics card for notebooks, which is the highest graphics combination known to man and laptop.As if this was not enough, the sy... |
1 February 2008
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The theory of the plate tectonics and continental drift was accepted in the '60s, when the proofs came from the ocean. Earth's external layer is called lithosphere. It is a rigid blanket with a thickness of about 100 km (62 mi). It includes both the oceanic platform and the continental crust, but also the u... |
23 January 2008
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1. You may believe that Mount Everest is the tallest in the world, with its 8,848 m (29,450 ft) in altitude. Yet, it was proven that the volcano Mauna Loa from Hawaii is taller by 2,300 m (7,660 ft), if we measure it from its base on the bottom of the ocean. 2. The mapping of the oceanic bottom revealed oceans are ex... |
18 January 2008
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Calcareous rocks, like limestone and marble (a rock modified by heat and pressure), are made mainly by calcite, a mineral form of the calcium carbonate. The calcite is insoluble in pure water, but the rain water contains carbon dioxide, coming from air or soil, and forms a weak acid that react with the calcite, resul... |
14 January 2008
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Ancient cities were usually located on main rivers whose waters were a source of food and sometimes protection. But on the northwestern extremity of the Arabian Desert there was a city renowned for its lack of water: Petra. In the arid areas of the Middle East the caravan routes connected cities located at great dist... |
12 December 2007
08:38 GMT |
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While most of the high-end desktop computer systems are now coming nowadays with HD DVD features, this is not the case on the mobile computing market as only a handful of products from several companies are able to field such claims. Such a product that comes with a HD DVD unit as a standard is the Xtreme 770 laptop ... |
6 October 2007
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How did the Earth form? Astronomers have detected a "cooking" process for an Earth-like planet. The huge ring of hot dust surrounding a sun-size star 424 light-years away could be shaped into an Earth-like planet in a time period of maximum 100 million years.The team investigating the infrared light coming from the s... |
5 October 2007
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As the mobile computer market segment is getting bigger and bigger, more hardware manufacturing companies and system integrators are readying themselves to step up and bring at least one notebook or laptop to consumers. One of the relatively small companies that are now thriving on the mobile computer market expansio... |
4 October 2007
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Russian hunger for land and oil has not ended and now they back their claim on the North Pole with rock samples taken last month from the floor of the Arctic Ocean at the site of the North Pole, as announced by the Russian government. Stone analysis has revealed that the Lomonosov Ridge, a submarine structure spreadi... |
24 September 2007
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For those of you who don't know, Katie "KT" Tunstall is a celebrated Scottish rocker who made a name for herself in British music and got to be known in the States when American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee contacted her asking to use one of her most successful singles, "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" as h... |
21 September 2007
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There is currently an important controversy at NASA, concerning a mission that would return samples from Mars. While many NASA planetary scientists agree, in view of the huge scientific importance of the mission, some disagree, fearing that it will dry up money for other missions.The Mars Sample Return Mission would... |
27 July 2007
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When speaking of rock'n'roll music, a few names pop up in mind, that have reached myth status. Such is the case of Elvis, Queen, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Unfortunately for die-hard rock and roll fans, only the Stones are still alive and kicking, touring and playing wherever they're required,... |
17 July 2007
11:25 GMT |
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