Rock News - Metallica's Scholars Program Adds More Colleges

Metallica's Scholars Program Adds More Colleges, Five Finger Death Punch back out doing shows, A7X celebrates a new milestone and artists remember Sinead O'Conner.

Episode Transcript

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Danny check In on the Latest RockGossip with Mel Taylor Rock News. Artists
from across the music world are payingtribute to Irish singer Shand O'Connor. Michael
Stipe Vrim said there are no words. After her death was announced yesterday at
the age of fifty six. YoungBilly Korigan and Pumpkins called her fiercely honest
and someone who stands alone as afigure from our generation. Metallica's All Within

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My Hands Foundation announced the big expansein their Metallica's Scholarship initiative. The program,
which turned five yesterday, is addingeleven community colleges to its roster.
That means there are now forty twoschools altogether in thirty three states. Each
of the new schools will receive initialgrant of like one hundred thousand bucks to
help students within career, you know, in technical education programs and pretty cool

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you go through college and you cansay that's you know, Metallica paid for
it. Former five inger Death Punchguitarist Jason Hook launched a new band.
If you want to check it out, It's called Flat Back, and five
Ing or Death Punch made their triumphantreturn to this last weekend after sitting out
for like seven months. They evencanceled some of their Metallica showed dates where
they were opening, but freedman IvanMoody recovering from hernia surgery and he said

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now that he's feeling better than ever