Bon Jovi has the number one album this week. Alicia Keys is at number two, the Trolls Soundtrack is at three.
Bon Jovi’s new album This House Is Not for Sale debuts atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving the rock band its sixth No. 1. The set earned 129,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 10, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 128,000 were in traditional album sales.
Death Cab for Cutie have issued a statement saying their shows will always be a safe place. You can find that below.
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Bon Iver’s special 22, A Million newspaper has been sent out to local record shops for purchase.
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Apparently back in 1996, the Sex Pistols considered releasing new music. NME reports that the lone dissenter was John Lydon.
Matlock went on to reveal that he had been keen to write new music during their first reunion: “Back in 1996, there was a bit of talk about it. Me, Steve [Jones] and Paul [Cook] [wanted to] but John thought shy of it. I don’t know why, maybe he thought stuff that he’d written didn’t match up to [the past] and that [the band’s legacy] might be diminished by it somehow.”
Season nine of Curb Your Enthusiasm has begun shooting.
The first trailer for the live action Beauty and the Beast movie has been released. The movie will be in theaters March 17th, 2017.
New Found Glory have finished recording their new album with Aaron Sprinkle. Now they’re onto the mixing stage.
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Frightened Rabbit have released a video for “I Wish I Was Sober.”
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day has given his support to the anti-Donald Trump protests that have risen up across the country:
“I don’t think any of us were prepared for Donald Trump to be president,” singer Billie Joe Armstrong told the BBC. “I think there’s going to come a time when the protests get larger and larger – and that I fully support.”
badXchannels has released their new song “dottedXlines.”
AFI’s Davey Havok recently did an interview with PETA about wearing leather.
The Flaming Lips have released the new video for “How??.”