Join Gunner as he goes over all the important Rock dates in history weekdays at 3:50. Relive all the chart-topping moments, milestones, bad breakups and first times again.
There will be no hall pass today. Here’s what happened today in Rock N’ Roll.
1994 Hole releases its second album, Live Through This.
2000 Metallica files suit against Napster, Inc, Yale University, the University of Southern California, and Indiana University for copyright infringement. Yale and Indiana are dropped from the suit after they block access to Napster on campus servers.
2002 Ozzy Osbourne is given a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
2003 House Of 1000 Corpses, the directorial debut from rocker Rob Zombie, finally opens in theatres after a nearly two-year delay.
2004 “Slither” by Velvet Revolver is released.
2005 “Speed Of Sound,” the first single from Coldplay‘s X&Y album, makes its exclusive debut as a 30-second cell phone ringtone from Cingular Wireless, nearly a week before the full song will be heard on the radio.
2005 Mudvayne releases its third album, Lost And Found, which also marks the band’s first appearance without makeup or costumes.
2006 Blue October‘s fourth studio album, Foiled, enters the Billboard album chart at Number 29 with sales of nearly 33,000 copies.
2006 Korn enters a Los Angeles studio with hot rap act Dem Franchize Boys to create a mash-up of “Coming Undone,” the second single from Korn’s See You On The Other Side, and “Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It,” the Number One urban hit from the Boyz’ debut album, On Top Of Our Game.
2007 Nickelback announces that it has raised almost $400,000 for Amnesty International and International Children’s Awareness Canada through digital sales of the band’s single and video, “If Everyone Cared.”
Birthdays
John Kay (lead singer, Steppenwolf) (74)
Guy Berryman (bassist, Coldplay) (40)
Brendon Urie (frontman, Panic at the Disco) (31)
Art Alexakis (singer/guitarist, Everclear) (56)
Nicholas Hexum (singer/guitarist, 311) (48)