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Former Van Halen / Extreme singer Gary Cherone’s band HURTSMILE returned in full force with their second album, “Retrogranade“, in this Japanese edition including a bonus track. Following up their 2011 self-titled debut, on this album the band pays homage to almost every Rock genre Cherone has presented in the past and still finds room to give you something new....
It’s been a busy couple of years for Gary Cherone – and not just with Extreme. There’s also new music in the making from Cherone’s other band HURTSMILE, which he jokingly referred to as his “mistress” in a recent conversation. This band self-titled debut rocks, and we have as well the new song released for the last holiday season /...
To complete the recent EXTREME posts, here we have some of the out of print, hard to find CD singles issued for their ‘III Sides To Every Story’ album. “Rest In Peace CDs” includes the ‘Rest In Peace (Radio edit)’, different from the Album version, plus the exclusive, non album track ‘Monica’ recorded ’91 in a hotel while Extreme was...
As requested, here’s the Japanese edition of EXTREME third album “III Sides To Every Story”, as part of the band’s first three albums reissue series appeared some time ago. This is the only release on high-fidelity SHM-CD format, now out of print. For many – including me – the most complete Extreme album ever, plenty of deliciously elaborated songs full...
As requested, here’s the Japanese edition of EXTREME self-titled debut “Extreme”, as part of the band’s first three albums reissue series appeared some time ago. This is the only release on high-fidelity SHM-CD format, now out of print. By the time they came to record their self-titled debut album in the winter of 1988 (released in March ’89), Bostonian hard...
When you figure out that an album like EXTREME‘s ‘Pornograffitti’ – which for many of us defined one of our teenage Summers – turned more than 25 years, doesn’t make you think time flies?It happened two years ago when the band celebrated the event with “Pornograffitti Live 25: Metal Meltdown”, a CD / DVD concert capturing the Boston band performing...
Last year marked the 25th anniversary of EXTREME‘s classic multi-platinum Grammy-nominated Pornograffitti, the definitive album of the band’s career. To celebrate the event, “Pornograffitti Live 25: Metal Meltdown” is the concert capturing the Boston band performing the album ‘Pornograffitti’ in its entirety recorded & filmed on May 30, 2015 at The Joint at the world famous Hard Rock Casino in...
EXTREME was one of the later arrivals on the US Melodic Hard Rock / Hair Metal scene to achieve massive success, so are among the latest to receive the 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition re-release treatment for their second album, the successful “Pornograffitti“. By the time the album hit the shelves in 1990, a little (nasty) thing called grunge was starting...
