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Last night The Features knocked the champs out with a very close battle. Tonight, the Tennessee outfit may meet one of the greatest challengers in a decade!

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Bassist Flea Balzary and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers joined the multi-genre, multi-dimensional music maker, Damon Albarn, as part of Africa Express.

The music project has helped bring Western musicians to Africian nations and African musicians to perform collaborations in the United Kingdom. Flea and Klinghoffer were two of the lucky musicians who got to perform in Ethiopia because of the “profound” Damon Albarn co-founded initiative.

“Josh [Klinghoffer - guitarist] and I went to Ethiopia as part of Africa Express with Damon, who was so kind to invite us, said Flea in an interview with NME. “What an amazing place it is. We meet all kind of people, artists, poets, intellectuals. It’s like another world.”

“We had such a good time,” Flea continued. “One time me and Josh went to this orphanage and we took these two little amps and we just started rocking and they left just started laughing. Like three hundred kids standing all in this circle, all from this orphanage and we just started rocking. Just the two of us. They thought it was the craziest thing. It was righteous man. It was a really profound experience.”

More on Africa Express.

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Offspring Say New Album “Days Go By” Has “Message Of Hope”

Huntington Beach’s punk rock icons the Offspring, have celebrated almost three decades as a band, from their start as Manic Subsidal to their current status as music industry mainstays.

The four-piece punk powerhouse played an intoxicated, but lively small gig at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach which they followed up with KROQ/Los Angeles’ Weenie Roast y Fiesta where they rocked the main stage.

With a few near-faultless gigs in their system and an upcoming tour, Offspring is now prepping to release their ninth studio album, Days Go By, this June 26th on Columbia Records. Frontman Dexter Holland said in an interview that on this ninth record, the band is going to “dig a little bit deeper, and that’s what we want to do as well.”

Dexter Holland talks ‘Days Go By.’

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This Thursday, May 17th, tune in for an exclusive performance and Q&A session with M83 from the Red Bull Sound Space.

Antony Gonzales and crew will perform their smash single “Midnight City” along with several other exclusives. Those lucky enough to catch the band’s set at Coachella understand just how special this performance will be.

The session will be webcast one-time only, so make sure you’re tuned in to catch every minute. The webcast starts at 11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET.
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Need a little more Incubus in your life?  Check them out at the Joint Hard Rock Hotel & Casino May 25th and 26th.

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The Voodoo Festival has become a thing of legend. For many bands, it’s an absolute must-play on the summer festival circuit.

Watch the band explain the trilogy.

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Chicagoans are doing their best to snatch title of live music capitol of the world from Austin, Texas. With Lollapalooza and today’s announcement of the Riot Festival and Carnival, the Windy City is fast on their way to claiming the crown.

Riot Festival organizers have just unveiled this year’s line-up. To mark the festival’s 8th year, they came correct with major rock and punk acts like Chicago natives Rise Against along with Iggy And The Stooges, The Offspring, Elvis Costello, A Day To Remember,  NOFX, Descendents, Dropkick Murphys and many more.

The three-day festival takes please September 15-16 at Humbolt Park and Congress Theater on Chicago’s West Side. Tickets are as little as $36 for a two-day pass. Click for additional ticket packages.

Chicago is a city that should be on everyone’s bucket list and this may finally be your excuse to buy that plane ticket.View the complete festival line-up.

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Florence and the Machine have been pretty well received so far in the beatdown since last week. Will they continue to gain more fans and wreak more havoc in the ring? Or will tonight be their last?!

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The fairytale of Snow White has always been a white-hot entertainment topic, but lately the cursed young lady with black hair and skin as white as snow has reached even more popularity the renewal of television shows like Once Upon a Time and current movies like Mirror, Mirror and the forthcoming Snow White and the Hunstman starring Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen and Twilight’s Kristen Stewart as Snow White.

The movie comes out on June 1st, but the soundtrack, which includes a song called “Breath of Life” by Florence and the Machine, comes out a few days before on May 29th.

Although the song is already released, a gorgeous music video has appeared featuring Florence and the Machine in the studio with a massive choir and scenes from the film. The clip shows exactly how the soaring chamber pop song fits into the storyline of the magical Snow White and the Huntsman movie.

Watch ‘Breath of Life’ here.

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Although feisty frontman Axl Rose and former guitarist Izzy Stradlin didn’t show up to  Guns N’ Roses’ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in April, bassist Duff McKagen wrote that after an early morning rehearsal the morning before and a talk with Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong about filling in on vocals.

Eventually, the “last minute” performance was supplemented by ex-guitarist Gilby Clarke and Alter Bridge signer Myles Kennedy, but Green Day did have the opportunity to induct their idols into the Hall of Fame.

In Duff McKagen’s Seattle Weekly blog, the musician said he was “honored” to be “included in such an epic class of bands and artists,” recalling the times that “GNR opened for the Peppers” and how the “Beasties” were Guns ‘n’ Roses’ hip-hop East Coast equivalent. McKagen then said that while the Peppers and the Beasties survived the “folly and the nonsense,” GNR didn’t.

Duff McKagen’s induction experiences.