DVD Review: The Ramones - It's Alive 1974-1996

As an 1980s teenager growing up in New York City, I got the chance to see The Ramones on a fairly regular basis. The beloved local band played clubs all over the city, including the famed CBGB on Manhattan's lower east side as well as at my hometown haunt, L'amour, a heavy metal club in Brooklyn. Every kid with a token for the subway -- whether they typically listened to hard rock, punk, metal, or hardcore -- flocked to see the local heroes play their signature tunes like "Blitzkrieg Pop," "Pinhead," "Teenager Lobotomy," and "I Wanna Be Sedated."

The mop-topped liked-surnamed band members -- singer Joey, guitarist Johnny, bassist Dee Dee, and original drummer Tommy -- formed the band in 1974 and always donned t-shirts, jeans, Converse sneakers, and leather MC jackets on stage to play their fast-paced punk anthems, getting crowds to shout out catchphrases "Hey, ho, let's go!" and "D.U.M.B. everyone's accusing me!"...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

Megadeth Unveil Its Warchest

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MEGADETH UNVEIL ITS WARCHEST

4-CD+DVD Box Set Is Armed With More Than 6 Hours of Megadeth's Best, Including 33 Previously Unreleased Audio and Video Tracks

Megadeth's Dave Mustaine and Capitol/EMI have collaborated to create and deploy the ultimate Megadeth boxed set: Warchest. The 4-CD+DVD collection features more than six hours of digitally remastered content, hand-selected by Mustaine, including 30 audio and video tracks making their global release debuts, and an additional three tracks that have never before been released in the U.S. Warchest's October 2 release caps Mustaine and Capitol/EMI's in-depth Megadeth catalog remastering and restoration campaign, which has encompassed the band's Capitol studio albums, while also adding new audio and video collections to the band's arsenal...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom!

Manic Rage Joins Dirty Rig Street Team

A USA/UK collaboration/invasion has happened again!

Manic Rage [Sam] has very recently gratefully been included as part of the Dirty Rig Online Street Team Administration! As part of the UK invasion, the band and lead light Buckshot, Rebeccah and Donna [Street Team Admin], gave blessing for Sam to become the UK arm of the Dirty Rig Family!

Please check out the band, and the profiles below!

Dirty Rig Street Team:
www.myspace.com/dirtyrigstreetteam
'Rig Street Admin:
www.myspace.com/chevygirledd
www.myspace.com/godess1d

Band:
www.myspace.com/dirtyrig
www.dirtyrig.com

Also, check out Manic Rage's Geeks of Doom interview with Dirty Rig's Buckshot :
Conversations with GoD: Buckshot of ‘Dirty Rig’

Nikki Sixx 'The Heroin Diaries' Book, CD

ARTIST ON ARTIST
Nikki Sixx Artwork and the Impending Release of Autobiographical Novel and Soundtrack The Heroin Diaries

The release of a new book by Motley Crue’s bassist and chief songwriter Nikki Sixx called The Heroin Diaries with a CD soundtrack including a song Sixx wrote called "Life is Beautiful" (available as a download to accompany the book) marks a positive return and a new chapter in the life of one of the world’s most celebrated and infamous rock stars. When Sixx entered the studio to record with close friends DJ Ashba and James Michael, they took inspiration from the chapters from the book and created the book's soundtrack, and in turn became the band SIXX: AM...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom

Bringin' Down the Metal Hammer

Geeks of Doom has posted a new article called Bringin' Down the Metal Hammer by our UK music GoD Manic_Rage.

You can read the article here.

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