Ride for Dime is an annual charity ride and concert held in remembrance for the victims of the 2004 shooting at Alrosa Villa in Columbus, OH, where “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, Erin Halk, Nathan Bray and Jeff  “Mayhem” Thompson were killed.
The ride starts this year at 2:30pm at the Longhorn Harley-Davidson/Buell located at 2830 W. Interstate 20, Grand Prairie, TX. This ride will be 38 miles long, with a special trip past Dimebag’s house and studio, and end up at The Palladium Ballroom, located at 1135 S. Lamar in Dallas, TX.
At 6:00pm, the BBQ & Bash All Star Jam begins, hosted …read more

Just a few things real quick and I’m off to see if I can find a driving range that is open on this beautiful Labor day.

Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone has landed at number 2 on the UK charts and number 1 on the Australian charts. So how’s it hitting on the Billboard Charts? Who gives a crap because the Billboards have their genres and stuff all screwed up. On a side note this album has started to grow on me a bit. I still feel it’s not their best work and there are still a few songs that …read more

What? One lousy update yesterday? Yeah, I know. That’s not like me but I had a few things in order that I had to take care of last night. So let’s go over June really quick.
I went to see Dark Tranquility, Divine Heresy, Firewind and Soldiers Of Scrape on the Tyranny And Bloodshred tour…minus the tyranny. That was a bad ass show. I’ll announce the winner of the autographed Bleed The Fifth CD tonight.
Withered’s new album Folie Circulaire came out on the 17th, an extremely heavy and noisy album to say the least, but it’s one of those that just grows …read more

Want to win 4 free cd’s? Of course you do! Everyone wants free cd’s. Well here is what I have over at my other blog The Rock Dose. I have Aerosmith’s Toys In The Attic, Alice In Chains’ Dirt, Kiss Destroyer, and Ozzy’s Blizzard Of Oz. Want to learn how easy it is to enter? Head on over to The Rock Dose. Click on the picture to go to The Rock Dose!

OK, so it’s getting kind of late and I have a lot of work to do. I bought a few CD’s tonight. Shadows Fall Of One Blood Remasterd, The Acacia Strain- The Dead Walk and Emmure- The Respect Issue. I had a chance to go watch Emmure tonight…but I didn’t. I chose to go to dinner and just buy the damn CD. I’ll do a quick review of it and the other sometime this weekend.
One last thing for tonight. I just want to let everyone know that I will no longer poke and prod at the band KISS. even though …read more

Axl Rosenburg over at Metalsucks.net One-Upped me. Last night I was so blown away with the stupidity of it all that I didn’t feel like going into depth of my hate for what has become a retarded concept of music marketing and what was once “The Hottest Band In The World” …should change their name to “The Richest Band In The World“. Anyway, check out Axl’s run of it on Metal Sucks.:
KI$$ Finally Go Too Far

OK, this ha$ got to be the $tupide$t thing I have ever heard…now we can officially call Ki$$ a manufactured band like a boy band or a brand name. Read one from blabbermouth:
During a familiar rant by Simmons about how KISS could go on forever, Roy Hilmar Svendsen of Norway’s NRK asked jokingly if the band would consider looking for replacements for Simmons and Stanley in a TV show, similar to programs like “Rock Star” and “American Idol“.
“The answer is yes. The deal has just been signed,” Simmons replied. “It’s coming soon.”

STURGIS, S.D. — May 22, 2008 — In what is destined to become “the night that rocked Sturgis,” legendary superstars KISS will perform at Glencoe Nation’s Rock’n the Rally on August 4th. Recognized as one of the biggest and best bike rallies in the world, Sturgis Bike Week celebrates its 68th year this August 4-10, 2008. Also scheduled to perform at Rock’n the Rally is Kenny Chesney on Aug. 6, with more acts soon to be announced.
Currently in the midst of a sold-out European arena and stadium tour, KISS will make a stateside detour to thrill Sturgis with …read more

Iron Maiden’s Somewhere Back In Time , The Best Of 1980-1989 is released today. While it has a really cool cover I just have to say that this track list is getting old. On almost every Iron Maiden best of CD there are always the same tracks. This time there are a few more live ones on there than usual but still. It’s starting to be a little “Kiss-ish” to me. Honeslty how many times can you make the same cd with a new cover and sell it? Track list after the fold.

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Gene Simmons and a group of young ladies arrived in a limo at a San Diego 7-Eleven yesterday to promote Frank’s Energy Drink.
You may recall the controversial sex tape of Gene and a model from Frank’s Energy drink that he claimed could be decades old…so that would make Frank’s Energy Drink decades old and the model also decades older than she was then. I’m glad Franks Energy Drink is an equal opportunity employer that allows older models to be a part of their product. I wonder if he downed a can of Frank’s before his sexual …read more