Fortnite Dance on Water Tower, Giant Rock Man and ALL Week 5 challenges map locations

Fortnite players are working their way through the Week 5 challenges for Season 7. Epic Games releases seven Battle Royale challenges each week. Three of the weekly challenges are available for free and the other four challenges are exclusive to Battle Pass users. The challenges are also separated into hard and regular tiers of difficulty. The […]

Fortnite week 5 challenges COUNTDOWN: Search between a giant rock man, dance water tower

Fortnite week 5 challenges will be going live soon and it looks like the big Battle Pass tasks will be search between a giant rock man as well as dance water tower. It’s that time of the week when new Fortnite challenges are set to go live on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, […]

Grand Slam proves curling is as popular as ever on the Rock

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. — A small piece of curling history was made Sunday at the Grand Slam of Curling event in Newfoundland and Labrador. For the first time ever at a Grand Slam, the men's final was played between two Scottish teams. Bruce Mouat and Ross Paterson took to the ice in Conception Bay South […]

Team Gushue: Still kings of the Rock

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. — For nearly two decades, Brad Gushue and his teams out of Newfoundland and Labrador have been a source of provincial pride in a place sometimes overlooked in Canada.  The people of Newfoundland and Labrador love curling and their curlers.  This week, the local team of Gushue, Mark Nichols, Brett Gallant […]

Hollywood Idol Rock Hudson Getting a Biopic from ‘Arrowverse’ Executive Producer Greg Berlanti

Right now, rock legend Freddie Mercury is making waves at the box office in the form of the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, telling the story about how his band Queen rose to fame and would make an impact on music for generations. More importantly, the film shines a light on Freddie Mercury’s sexuality, though the frontman […]

A cheesemaker is Switzerland is playing hip-hop and rock to his Emmental to make it taste better

schuetz-mediendesign / Pixabay Cheesemaker Beat Wampfler has teamed up with researchers from the University of the Arts in Bern to see if music can change the taste of cheese. His Emmentals are being blasted with a mixture of rock, classical, and hip-hop music. They will be tested in the new year to see if the […]

REVIEW: The best new rock albums – including releases by Saxon, Martin Barre, Nazareth

SaxonThe Eagle Has Landed(BMG)★★★★★ Considered the cornerstone of live albums from the NWOBHM era upon its release in 1982, this expanded re-release buttresses the original recording with six extra bonus tracks. From the roar of the chanting Saxon crowd and the revving intro to Motorcycle Man, this essential live document from Saxon’s classic Denim and […]

The week's best rock album releases from Nick Mason, The Pineapple Thief and Gryphon

Nick Mason. Fictitious Sports. (Warners). **** 4 Stars. Roping in the avant-garde talents of Carla Bley and Robert Wyatt, with the rock talent of Chris Spedding, Mason delivers an abstract yet tuneful underpinning to these whip-smart songs. Where on occasion the musical path might veer off into the abstruse for some, it’s the deadpan delivery […]

Book Excerpt: Teen Rock Drummer Laura Davis-Chanin on Meeting David Bowie

In her new memoir The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer’s Life with Bowie, Blondie, and the ’70s Rock Scene (out now from Backbeat Books), Laura Davis-Chanin tells the fascinating story of her journey through the late-‘70s NYC punk scene, where the drummer (then a mere 17 years old) immersed herself in the now-fabled world […]