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Is this Axl Rose singing a new song on an episode of “New Looney Tunes”?

December 26, 2018 – 5:30 pm

Mark Horton/Getty ImagesAxl Rose hasn't released any new music in over 10 years, but did he sneak a new track into an episode of New Looney Tunes?

The Guns N' Roses frontman -- or, at least, an animated likeness of him -- appeared on a recent installment of the show, which continues the adventures of the Looney Tunes gang on the Boomerang streaming service.

In the episode, Bugs Bunny and company run into Rose, who's planning to play a concert later that day. However, the show's been canceled due to a massive asteroid hurtling towards the Earth. In order to save the day, Axl and the Looney Tunes start playing a new song called "Rock the Rock," Rose's first new material since 2008's Chinese Democracy, which turns the asteroid into a little pebble.

Also in the clip, Rose pokes fun at his past sartorial choices and suggests at one point that he should "go back to wearing a mesh jersey and a kilt on stage."

While it does sounds like Axl is talking and singing in the episode, it's unclear whether it's actually his voice. ABC Radio has reached out for confirmation.

Rose is certainly a fan of Looney Tunes -- Guns N' Roses used the original show's iconic theme song as intro music during their Not in This Lifetime reunion tour.

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U2’s Bono and The Edge take part in Christmas Eve charity busking session in Dublin

December 24, 2018 – 8:30 pm

Mark Horton/Getty ImagesU2's Bono and The Edge hit the streets of their hometown of Dublin, Ireland, Monday to perform along with some of their fellow Irish musicians to raise money for charities to help the city's homeless population.

According to Entertainment.ie, this marks the first time Bono has taken part in the one-time annual Christmas Eve tradition of busking on Dublin's Grafton Street since 2015.

The website posted Twitter messages from a variety of people who attended the event, which showed Bono and The Edge performing "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way," from U2's latest studio album, Songs of Experience, and the Christmas carol "O Holy Night."

Other musicians who performed at the busking session were Glen Hansard, Damien Rice and Mundy. In addition, the Twitter feed of the usually reliable U2 fan forum AtU2.com reported that Bono and The Edge were joined by all of the other performers for a version of Darlene Love's soulful holiday classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." You can check out fan-shot video of some of the performances on YouTube posted by a user named ronandonnelly1.

Among the charities that receive money raised by the performances are Dublin Simon Community and Inner City Helping Homeless.

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61st annual Grammy Awards: The nominees

December 7, 2018 – 2:43 pm

GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty ImagesHere's the complete list of nominees in key categories for the 61st annual Grammy Awards. Winners will be revealed on music's biggest night Sunday, February 10, live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS.

Album of the Year
Invasion of Privacy -- Cardi B
By the Way I Forgive You -- Brandi Carlile
Scorpion -- Drake
beerbongs & bentleys -- Post Malone
H.E.R. -- H.E.R.
Dirty Computer -- Janelle Monae
Golden Hour -- Kacey Musgraves
Black Panther: The Album -- Kendrick Lamar

Record of the Year
“I Like It” -- Cardi B
“The Joke” -- Brandi Carlile
“This Is America” -- Childish Gambino
“Shallow” -- Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
“All the Stars” -- Kendrick Lamar
“Rock Star” -- Post Malone
“God’s Plan” -- Drake
“The Middle” -- Zedd, Maren Morris

Song of the Year
“All the Stars” -- Kendrick Lamar, SZA
“Boo’d Up” -- Ella Mai
“God’s Plan” -- Drake
“In My Blood” -- Shawn Mendes
“The Joke” -- Brandi Carlile
“The Middle” -- Zedd, Maren Morris
“Shallow” -- Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
“This Is America” -- Childish Gambino

Best New Artist
Chloe x Halle
Luke Combs
Greta Van Fleet
H.E.R.
Dua Lipa
Bebe Rexha
Margo Price
Jorja Smith

POP FIELD

Best Pop Solo Performance
“Colors” — Beck
“Havana (Live)” — Camila Cabello
“God Is A Woman” — Ariana Grande
“Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)” — Lady Gaga
“Better Now” — Post Malone

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
“Fall In Line” — Christina Aguilera Featuring Demi Lovato
“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” — Backstreet Boys
“‘S Wonderful” — Tony Bennett & Diana Krall
“Shallow” — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
“Girls I Like You” — Maroon 5 Featuring Cardi B
“Say Something” — Justin Timberlake Featuring Chris Stapleton
“The Middle” — Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Love Is Here to Stay —Tony Bennett & Diana Krall
My Way — Willie Nelson
Nat “King” Cole & Me — Gregory Porter
Standards (DELUXE) —Seal
THE MUSIC…THE MEM’RIES…THE MAGIC! — Barbra Streisand

Best Pop Vocal Album
Camila — Camila Cabello
Meaning of Life — Kelly Clarkson
Sweetener — Ariana Grande
Shawn Mendes — Shawn Mendes
Beautiful Trauma — Pink
Reputation — Taylor Swift

DANCE/ELECTRONIC FIELD

Best Dance Recording
“Northern Soul” — Above & Beyond Featuring Richard Bedford
“Ultimatum” — Disclosure (Featuring Fatoumata Diawara)
“Losing It” — Fisher
“Electricity” — Silk City & Dua Lipa Featuring Diplo & Mark Ronson
“Ghost Voices” — Virtual Self

Best Dance/Electronic Album
Singularity — Jon Hopkins
Woman Worldwide — Justice
Treehouse — Sofi Tukker
Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides — SOPHIE
Lune Rouge — TOKiMONSTA

ROCK FIELD

Best Rock Performance
“Four Out of Five” —Arctic Monkeys
“When Bad Does Good” — Chris Cornell
“Made An America” — The Fever 333
“Highway Tune” — Greta Van Fleet
“Uncomfortable” — Halestorm

Best Metal Performance
“Condemned to the Gallows “— Between The Buried And Me
“Honeycomb” — Deafheaven
“Electric Messiah” — High On Fire
“Betrayer” — Trivium
“On My Teeth — Underoath

Best Rock Song
“Black Smoke Rising” — Jacob Thomas Kiszka, Joshua Michael Kiszka, Samuel Francis Kiszka & Daniel
Robert Wagner, songwriters (Greta Van Fleet)
“Jumpsuit” — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots)
“MANTRA” — Jordan Fish, Matthew Kean, Lee Malia, Matthew Nicholls & Oliver Sykes, songwriters (Bring Me the Horizon)
“Masseduction” — Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent)
“Rats” — Tom Dalgety & A Ghoul Writer, songwriters (Ghost)

Best Rock Album
Rainier Fog — Alice In Chains
M A N I A — Fall Out Boy
Prequelle — Ghost
From the Fires — Greta Van Fleet
Pacific Daydream — Weezer

ALTERNATIVE FIELD

Best Alternative Music Album
Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino —Arctic Monkeys
Colors — Beck
Utopia — Björk
American Utopia — David Byrne
Masseduction — St. Vincent

R&B FIELD

Best R&B Performance
“Long As I Live” — Toni Braxton
“Summer” — The Carters
“Y O Y” — Lalah Hathaway
“Best Part” — H.E.R. Featuring Daniel Caesar
“First Began” — PJ Morton

Best Traditional R&B Performance
“Bet Ain’t Worth the Hand” — Leon Bridges
“Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight” — Bettye LaVette
“Honest” — MAJOR.
“How Deep Is Your Love” — PJ Morton Featuring Yebba
“Made for Love” — Charlie Wilson Featuring Lalah Hathaway

Best R&B Song
“Boo’d Up” — Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai & Dijon McFarlane, songwriters (Ella Mai)
“Come Through And Chill” — Jermaine Cole, Miguel Pimentel & Salaam Remi, songwriters (Miguel Featuring J. Cole & Salaam Remi)
“Feels Like Summer” — Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino)
“Focus” — Darhyl Camper Jr, H.E.R. & Justin Love, songwriters (H.E.R.)
“Long As I Live” — Paul Boutin, Toni Braxton & Antonio Dixon, songwriters (Toni Braxton)

Best Urban Contemporary Album
Everything Is Love — The Carters
The Kids Are Alright— Chloe x Halle
Chris Dave and the Drumhedz — Chris Dave and the Drumhedz
War & Leisure — Miguel
Ventriloquism — Meshell Ndegeocello

Best R&B Album
Sex & Cigarettes — Toni Braxton
Good Thing — Leon Bridges
Honestly — Lalah Hathaway
H.E.R. — H.E.R.
Gumbo Unplugged (Live) — PJ Morton

RAP FIELD

Best Rap Performance
“Be Careful” — Cardi B
“Nice for What” — Drake
“King’s Dead” — Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake
“Bubblin” — Anderson .Paak
“Sicko Mode” — Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee

Best Rap/Sung Performance
“Like I Do” — Christina Aguilera Featuring Goldlink
“Pretty Little Fears” — 6LACK Featuring J. Cole
“This Is America” — Childish Gambino
“All the Stars” — Kendrick Lamar & SZA
“Rockstar” — Post Malone Featuring 21 Savage

Best Rap Song
“God’s Plan” — Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, Ron LaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake)
“King’s Dead” — Kendrick Duckworth, Samuel Gloade, James Litherland, Johnny McKinzie, Mark Spears, Travis Walton, Nayvadius Wilburn & Michael Williams II, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake)
“Lucky You” — R. Fraser, G. Lucas, M. Mathers, M. Samuels & J. Sweet, songwriters (Eminem Featuring Joyner Lucas)
“Sicko Mode” — Khalif Brown, Rogét Chahayed, BryTavious Chambers, Mike Dean, Mirsad Dervic, Kevin Gomringer, Tim Gomringer, Aubrey Graham, John Edward Hawkins, Chauncey Hollis, Jacques Webster, Ozan Yildirim & Cydel Young, songwriters (Travis Scott, Drake, Big Hawk & Swae Lee)
“Win” — K. Duckworth, A. Hernandez, J. McKinzie, M. Samuels & C. Thompson, songwriters (Jay Rock)

Best Rap Album
Invasion of Privacy — Cardi B
Swimming — Mac Miller
Victory Lap — Nipsey Hussle
Daytona — Pusha T
Astroworld — Travis Scott

COUNTRY FIELD

Best Country Solo Performance
“Wouldn’t It Be Great?” — Loretta Lynn
“Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” — Maren Morris
“Butterflies” — Kacey Musgraves
“Millionaire” — Chris Stapleton
“Parallel Line” — Keith Urban

Best Country Duo/Group Performance
“Shoot Me Straight” — Brothers Osborne
“Tequila” — Dan + Shay
”When Someone Stops Loving You” — Little Big Town
“Dear Hate” — Maren Morris Featuring Vince Gill
“Meant to Be” — Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line

Best Country Song
“Break Up in the End” — Jessie Jo Dillon, Chase McGill & Jon Nite, songwriters (Cole Swindell)
“Dear Hate” — Tom Douglas, David Hodges & Maren Morris, songwriters (Maren Morris Featuring Vince Gill)
“I Lived It” — Rhett Akins, Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley & Ben Hayslip, songwriters (Blake Shelton)
“Space Cowboy” — Luke Laird, Shane McAnally & Kacey Musgraves, songwriters (Kacey Musgraves)
“Tequila” — Nicolle Galyon, Jordan Reynolds & Dan Smyers, songwriters (Dan + Shay)
“When Someone Stops Loving You” — Hillary Lindsey, Chase McGill & Lori McKenna, songwriters (Little Big Town)

Best Country Album
Unapologetically — Kelsea Ballerini
Port Saint Joe — Brothers Osborne
Girl Going Nowhere — Ashley McBryde
Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves
From A Room: Volume 2 — Chris Stapleton

AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC FIELD

Best Americana Album
By the Way, I Forgive You — Brandi Carlile
Things Have Changed — Bettye LaVette
The Tree of Forgiveness — John Prine
The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone — Lee Ann Womack
One Drop of Truth — The Wood Brothers

Best Bluegrass Album
Portraits in Fiddles — Mike Barnett
Sister Sadie II — Sister Sadie
Rivers and Roads — Special Consensus
The Travelin’ McCourys — The Travelin’ McCourys
North of Despair — Wood & Wire

Best Folk Album
Whistle Down the Wind — Joan Baez
Black Cowboys — Dom Flemons
Rifles & Rosary Beads — Mary Gauthier
Weed Garden — Iron & Wine
All Ashore — Punch Brothers

REGGAE FIELD

Best Reggae Album
As the World Turns — Black Uhuru
Reggae Forever — Etana
Rebellion Rises — Ziggy Marley
A Matter of Time — Protoje
44/876 — Sting & Shaggy

SPOKEN WORD FIELD

Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)
Accessory to War (Neil Degrasse Tyson & Avis Lang) — Courtney B. Vance
Calypso — David Sedaris
Creative Quest — Questlove
Faith – A Journey for All — Jimmy Carter
The Last Black Unicorn — Tiffany Haddish

COMEDY FIELD

Best Comedy Album
Annihilation — Patton Oswalt
Equanimity & the Bird Revelation — Dave Chappelle
Noble Ape — Jim Gaffigan
Standup for Drummers — Fred Armisen
Tamborine — Chris Rock

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Billie Joe Armstrong pays tribute to late Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley

December 6, 2018 – 10:20 pm

Scott Dudelson/Getty ImagesGreen Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has shared a statement mourning the death of Pete Shelley, frontman of the pioneering British pop-punk band Buzzcocks.

"Rest In Peace Pete Shelley," Armstrong writes in an Instagram post. "You were truly an inspiration to me, [bassist] Mike [Dirnt] and [drummer] Tre [Cool]."

Shelley and Buzzcocks were a big influence on Green Day's sound, as well as punk and alternative rock in general. For Armstrong specifically, the 1979 Buzzcocks compilation Singles Going Steady was "a huge record for me."

"Buzzcocks pretty much invented a style that would influence multiple generations of lonesome hearts and weirdos," Armstrong writes. "Never shy about writing beautiful melodies into loud fast punk. You are the harmony in my head."

Shelley died Thursday at age 63.

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Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley dead at 63

December 6, 2018 – 9:51 pm

Shirlaine Forrest/WireImagePete Shelley, the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter of the pioneering British pop-punk band The Buzzcocks, has died at age 63 after suffering an apparent heart attack, the BBC reports. The group's management told the BBC that Shelley passed away today in Estonia, where he'd been living.

A post on The Buzzcocks' Twitter feed confirms Shelley's death. It reads: "It's with great sadness that we confirm the death of Pete Shelley, one of the UK's most influential and prolific songwriters and co-founder of the seminal original punk band Buzzcocks."

The band formed in 1976 in Manchester, England, and scored a string of top 40 hits on the U.K. charts in 1977 and 1978, including "What Do I Get?," "Love You More," "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)," "Promises" and "Everybody's Happy Nowadays."

After The Buzzcocks broke up in 1981, Shelley launched a solo career and that same year had a #14 hit on the U.S. dance chart with the synth-pop gem "Homosapien."

Fine Young Cannibals covered "Ever Fallen in Love" in the late '80s and their version of the tune appeared on the soundtrack of the 1986 film Something Wild and their own chart-topping 1989 album, The Raw and the Cooked.

The Buzzcocks reunited in 1989 and have continued to tour and record. The band had a December 14 show scheduled in Arnhem, Netherlands, as well as a series of European concerts in the summer of 2019.

Among the many artists influenced by The Buzzcocks were Green Day, Nirvana, R.E.M. and The White Stripes.

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Duff McKagan working on new solo album, due out in 2019

December 5, 2018 – 4:00 pm

Credit: Scott DudelsonGuns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan is releasing a new solo album in 2019.

The album, recorded with producer Shooter Jennings in between GNR's Not in This Lifetime reunion tour dates, is described as the "musical follow-up" to McKagan's 2015 book, How to Be a Man (and Other Illusions), which was accompanied by a three-track EP.

"I wrote a couple of articles about historical places I passed through on this last tour and people kept asking if that was going to be the focus of my next book," McKagan explains. "But an unseen and irrepressible force guided me to write little vignettes of reflective prose...little instant-reactions."

"The heartbreak, anger, fear, confusion and divide I have experienced over the last two and a half years of traveling this globe of ours coerced these words into songs that tell my truth, and one that I hope will spread and help us all," he continues. "I do this for my daughters...I do this for my love of where I grew up...I do this, because I truly feel it must be done and said right now."

McKagan previously recorded two solo albums, though his 1999 effort Beautiful Disease was shelved and never released. He also did three albums with his solo band Loaded, the most recent of which was 2011's The Taking.

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Duff McKagan working on new solo album, due out in 2019

December 5, 2018 – 4:00 pm

Credit: Scott DudelsonGuns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan is releasing a new solo album in 2019.

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Bono returning to ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for fourth annual (RED) benefit show

November 15, 2018 – 8:45 pm

ABC/Adam TaylorBono will return to ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the show's fourth annual (RED) benefit episode, airing Monday, November 19.

The U2 frontman, who co-founded (RED) in 2006, will join host Jimmy Kimmel and celebrities including Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Kristen Bell, Channing Tatum, Snoop Dogg, Mila Kunis and Pharrell to support the charity, which raises funds for the fight against AIDS.

As with previous years, the special will include a QVC-like Shopathon, offering many different (RED) products and unique celebrity experiences.

Previous specials have featured performances from Coldplay's Chris Martin and The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers.

The show will air ahead of World AIDS Day, December 1.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs weekdays at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.

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U2’s Bono: “We’re going away now”

November 14, 2018 – 3:35 pm

ABC/Adam TaylorU2 closed out their extensive eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE tour Tuesday and Berlin, and it would be hard to argue that the Irish rockers don't deserve a break. However, that break might be an extended one.

During the Berlin show, Bono announced that the band is "going away now."

"We've been on the road for quite some time now, just going on 40 years," Bono says in footage posted by the U2gigs fan account.

"This last four years have been really something very special for us," he continues. "We're going away now."

While that could mean a variety of things, some are fearing that the end is near for U2, while more optimistic fans are hoping the band simply needs some rest. Perhaps they just need a bit to dream it all up again once more.

Over the last four years, U2 released two albums: 2014's Songs of Innocence and 2017's Songs of Experience. In 2017, they also launched a tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their classic 1987 album The Joshua Tree.

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Axl Rose blasts President Trump for playing GN’R music at political rallies without the band’s permission

November 5, 2018 – 11:00 pm

Credit: Katarina BenzovaAxl Rose took to Twitter on Sunday to express his extreme displeasure that President Donald Trump has been using Guns N' Roses' music at recent political rallies without the band's permission. The singer also reveals, in no uncertain terms, how he feels about the president.

"GNR like a lot of artists opposed to the unauthorized use of their music at political events has formally requested r music not b used at Trump rallies or Trump associated events," Rose writes in the first of a series of tweets.

He then explains that the campaign is taking advantage of what are called "blanket performance licenses." These licenses allow venues to play whatever music they like at various events, without an artists' permission.

While Axl insists that he's fine with anyone listening to Guns N' Roses' music "4 whatever reason," despite their political stance, he notes, "My personal position is that the Trump administration along w/the majority of Republicans in Congress n' their donors that support him 4 their own agendas r doing r nation a disservice."

Rose then labels Trump someone who "will say n' do anything w/no regard for truth, ethics, morals or empathy of any kind, who says what's real is fake n' what's fake is real…Who will stop at nothing 4 power feeding off the anger n' resentment he sows 24/7 while constantly whining how whatever doesn't go his way is unfair."

Rose concludes, "Most of us in America have never experienced anything this obscene at this level in r lifetimes n' if we as a country don't wake up n' put an end 2 this nonsense now it's something we definitely will all pay hard 4 as time goes on."

GN'R continue their Not in This Lifetime Tour on Thursday in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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