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Brian ​‘Head’ Welch: ​“I struggled with my thoughts, I struggled with my looks, so I found things to help me like comedy and music” Brian ​‘Head’ Welch discusses his formative years, his destructive streak at the height of Korn’s fame and how he was saved by spirituality Solo photos: Matt Matheson Growing up in Bakersfield, California, Brian Welch had no idea how his life would turn out. Never fully fitting in at school, bullies gave him the nickname ​‘Head’ becau...

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Tigertastic 50 Pack Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Mister Rogers Meets New Friends Collection The Odd Couple: The Complete Series   The Pretty Reckless “Death By Rock and Roll” (guests: Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron, Tom Morello) Weezer “OK Human” Love and Death (led by KoRn’s Brian “Head” Welch and Breaking Benjamin’s Jasen Rauch) “Perfectly Preserved” (guests: Lacey Sturm, Keith Wallen, Ryan Hayes) Robin Thicke “On Earth, and in Heaven” (his ...

Tribute to New York Dolls’ guitarist Sylvain Sylvain tops this week’s online concerts Updated Feb 10, 2021; Posted Feb 10, 2021 Friends and admirers are gathering for a virtual celebration late New York Dolls’ guitarist Sylvain Sylvain on Sunday, Feb. 14 – on what would have been his 70th birthday. (Photo: Courtesy Rolling Live Studios) Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Just over a month since the New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain passed away at the age of 69, the guitarist’s frien...

Keith Wallen He’s a fixture in the successful rock music scene & you may know him from one of his many gigs in bands like Copper, Adelitas Way & of course Breaking Benjamin. But in his latest venture, he’s on his own. Listen in as Ozz chats with Keith about his past and his new solo project “This World Or The Next”. Keith Wallen (born February 24, 1980) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer from Shady Spring, West Virginia, best known as the rhyt...

Breaking Benjamin are supporters of St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital and you can be too. You may remember one year ago when Breaking Benjamin and Korn were on tour and they made an appearance at Ford Center for a 103 GBF Damn Loud Rock Show. What you may not realize is that both bands donated a portion of their proceeds from that tour to St. Jude and its not the first time that Breaking Benjamin has rallied their support for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.   Breaking Benjamin did an...

A sneak peak of what will be featured for this week's Q Connected on 95.5 KLAQ.

He’s a nu-metal icon, a guitarist and songwriter who has seen the inside of three decades as a professional musician. He’s a pioneer in the heavy music world – a word often misattributed or overused but fitting of the legendary Brian “Head” Welch – a pioneer who crashed into his career with Korn in the early ’90s, and now, at 50 years old, is welcoming some of his most fruitful professional years yet. More specifically, he is welcoming back Love and Death, the side-project-slash-p...

Hes Got a Little Bit of Everything on His New Dangerous Album Just when you think you know a guy, he throws out a list of musical influences that you never saw coming. So thanks, Morgan Wallen, for being a blessedly unpredictable. After his Tuesday night (Jan. 12) album release show at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium to celebrate his new double album Dangerous, Wallen is now revealing his 10 Songs That Made Me on Spotify. And it’s actually kind of refreshing to see his wide-ranging list...

Around the time humans started dipping their fingers in ochre and telling stories on cave walls, a group of shamans forged flutes from bone and drums from animal skin. Those shamans were, by definition, healers, and the sounds they made with their flutes and drums were part of the therapeutic benefits they offered to their fellow early men. Many thousands of years later, after World War I, musicians followed in the shamans’ footsteps by performing for wounded soldiers in military hospitals. H...

A huge congratulations to Breaking Benjamin, whose 2004 single "Blow Me Away," which was part of the  Halo 2 video game soundtrack, has officially been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The band, who formed in 1999 in Pennsylvania and last released their sixth album,  Ember, in 2018, are no strangers to this incredible achievement. This latest feat brings Breaking Benjamins platinum tally to eight, comprised of a mix of album and single certificatio...