The Sex Pistols' Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols - Super Deluxe Edition Box Set available for preorder

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In the past 26 years, I've purchased and re-purchased this album more times than any other album BY FAR. And if I had £99.99 burning a hole in my pocket, I'd purchase this box set in a heartbeat.

Episode 39 - Bizzaro Covers II

Without question, one of the more popular theme shows the Decibel Geek podcast has ever produced was our Bizzaro Covers episode which featured hard rock and metal bands performing non-hard rock and metal songs.

While original material is always a ...

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The America Rocks Tour...

There's a whole lotta metal out on the road this summer, entitled the "America Rocks Tour". Jack Russell's Great White has hit the road along with Faster Pussycat, the Bullet Boys, Lillian Axe and for the Toronto show added a couple of local acts ...

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AUTOMAN.CA show review

Photos by Wally Norton

Automan.ca rolled into Toronto Friday night (June 22) delivering up a helping of some southern deep fried Rock n Roll Canadian style. Kicking off a summer jaunt in support of the new "Backseat Surprise" album, Darrell "Dwarf" ...

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Bruce Kulick Reflects on AudioDog

Bruce Kulick has been posting some seriously cool stuff on his website and we want to help draw our fellow Decibel Geeks' attention to it.

Recently, Bruce posted a huge look back at the Revenge recording sessions to help celebrate the album's 20th ...

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FRANK’S BACK!

From Zappa.com:

TIME TO FREAK OUT… FRANK’S BACK!

ZAPPA FAMILY TRUST REGAINS CONTROL OF ICONIC MUSICIAN’S EXTENSIVE CATALOG

GLOBAL LICENSE/DISTRIBUTION DEAL SIGNED WITH UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES 

CATALOG OF 60 RECORDINGS TO BE LAUNCHED WITH ...

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A Monstrous Response

For the past 24 hours there’s been a firestorm of emotion amongst the ranks of the KISS Army. Fans are ‘Shouting Out Loud’ and taking to facebook, twitter, and various message boards to express themselves.

Unfortunately, this is not the KISS Army ...

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unbelievably good albums with unbelievably bad album covers: DLR (David Lee Roth) Band - self-titled

Andrew Jacobs here,

I've decided to introduce a new post series to the Decibel Geek website - unbelievably good albums with unbelievably bad album covers.  This series will focus on, well, unbelievably good albums with unbelievably ...

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Episode 38 - 1969 Year in Review Part 2

With so much going on in 1969 there was no way we were going to be able to squeeze all of it in to one episode and we're back this week to give you a second dose of the news, the music, and the personalities of the year of the rooster.

We begin ...

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In Photos - Gene Simmons '78 Pinocchio Re-Release Party

On September 18, 1978 KISS did the unthinkable by releasing four solo albums simultaneously. For fans of the greasepainted superheroes, it's common knowledge that while the albums sold respectably they were marred by the overreaching of Casablanca ...

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The Hatch is Back! My Interview with Carl Dixon

The Hatch is Back! Coney Hatch, a staple of the Canadian rock scene throughout the 80's recently rolled into Toronto for a show at the "Rockpile". Earlier in the day I met up with singer/guitarist Carl Dixon and we headed out in search of some new ...

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Diggin in the Vaults TOP 5 (er 6!) Bass Players.

Recently I went back into the vaults (well actually my hard drive) and listened to a few of the older episodes of the Decibel Geek podcast. One episode in particular get me all "agitated" for lack of a better word.

Episode 18 of the Decibel ...

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NEVER, EVER listen to rock/metal records for the first time on an iPhone

I did that (and with Van Halen's A Different Kind Of Truth, my favorite album of 2012, most likely my favorite rock album of the entire decade and quite possibly my favorite rock album of the entire 21st century).

I wish I had not done that.

Episode 37 - 1969 Year in Review Part 1

After a week exploring the titans of thrash metal, we're ready to take another trip back in time to a time of hippies, war, and some amazing rock music. First though, some new business.

It's been almost a full year since the Decibel Geek podcast ...

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