Insane Clown Posse are back with two new albums on the horizon. The duo will release their new album Fearless Fred Fury on Feb. 15. Fans that buy a physical copy of the effort will be rewarded with a one-time use promo code to download another LP Flip the Rat. Fearless Fred Fury is two years in the making and is the follow-up to 2015’s The Marvelous Missing Link: Found. . ...Read Full Story
A restaurant owned by musician and New Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi provided free meals to local government workers and their families during the federal government shutdown. The restaurant, called JBJ Soul Kitchen in Red Bank, N.J., provided the free meals to furloughed workers on Monday, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. . ...Read Full Story
It’s confirmed: Pearl Jam are working on a new album. Though the legendary band haven’t been hitting the studio just yet, the band have been slowly working on studio album No. 11.. ...Read Full Story
Soundgarden reunited last week for a tribute concert called “I Am The Highway: A Tribute To Chris Cornell.” The concert was held at The Forum in Los Angeles, and now video of the band’s full performance from the show is now streaming online.. ...Read Full Story
Huey Lewis and the News just announced a new record deal for their 10th studio album, which is scheduled for release this spring.. ...Read Full Story
Foo Fighters will be holding a concert from Atlanta’s Atlantic Station the night before the Super Bowl, and the show will be streamed live as part of “DirecTV Super Saturday Night”on February 2nd.. ...Read Full Story
Tesla are preparing to release their new studio album, Shock, worldwide on March 8. The album is produced and co-written by Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen.. ...Read Full Story
Red Hot Chili Peppers announced they are playing a show at Egypt’s iconic Pyramids of Giza. The show will take place on March 15th, with tickets will scheduled to go on sale today, January 18.. ...Read Full Story
Back in November, Corey Taylor said that Slipknot would be back in the studio in January to work on their successor to 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter — and now he’s confirmed on Instagram that it has indeed, happened. . ...Read Full Story
Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx and his wife, blogger Courtney Sixx, are expecting their first child together.. ...Read Full Story
GIBSON announced on Tuesday, January 15, the release of a limited-edition Chris Cornell Tribute ES-335 guitar. The guitar was officially unveiled at “I Am The Highway: A Tribute To Chris Cornell” the star-studded concert event honoring Chris Cornell’s legacy.. ...Read Full Story
The Steve Miller Band just unveiled plans to tour the U.S. in 2019, revealing the first set of dates will take place in early spring.. ...Read Full Story
Metallica announced that their new pilsner beer, named “Enter Night” — after their classic song “Enter Sandman” — would go on general sale across the U.S., with launches in other parts of the world to follow. The beer had been available since September in venues during the band’s recent tour dates, and also at outlets nearby. “Enter Night” was created in collaboration with brewers Arrogant Consortia.. ...Read Full Story
Ozzy Osbourne, Disturbed and Shinedown lead this year’s Rocklahoma annual three-day music festival. Now in its 13th year, Rocklahoma will take place over Memorial Day weekend — May 24-26 — at the “Catch the Fever” festival grounds in Pryor, Oklahoma.. ...Read Full Story
After months of speculation and rumors, the NFL announced that Maroon 5 will be headlining the Super Bowl LIII halftime show in Atlanta. Maroon 5 had been the widely reported halftime show act since September, but the NFL didn’t confirm the band as its headliner until Sunday.. ...Read Full Story
The Who are coming together to record their first new album in 13 years.. ...Read Full Story
Patty Griffin has announced the release of her self-titled new album. The singer-songwriter’s 10th studio recording, called PATTY GRIFFIN arrives Friday, March 8. . ...Read Full Story
Metallica frontman James Hetfield is starring opposite Zac Efron in the upcoming biopic on serial killer Ted Bundy, titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile.. ...Read Full Story
Last year, California rock band Buckcherry spoke about some of their 2019 plans, revealing their next album, Warpaint, would be released on March 8. The also released the video for a cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Head Like a Hole. ...Read Full Story
Def Leppard have announced they will tour this July for 11-dates in Canada, with support from Tesla. Def Leppard previously announced a European festival tour from June 6 to July 5, while Tesla plans to launch their U.S. tour on February 1st-through April. . ...Read Full Story
Greta Van Fleet will perform January 19 on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” as the shows musical guest. The episode will be “SNL’s” first live show of the new year, and will be hosted by Golden Globe Award-winning Rachel Brosnahan of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”. ...Read Full Story
Three years ago, Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton surprised fans with his solo song “SnowBound,” and he later broke news that he was in the studio with Linkin Park‘s Chester Bennington,. ...Read Full Story
Rockers Amon Amarth are confirming they just finished recording their new album. Lead singer Johan Hegg has offered some information on the new music, saying the band worked with producer Jay Ruston. . ...Read Full Story
The lineup for the 2019 Governors Ball Music Festival was just announced. The 9th annual edition of the New York City festival will be held from May 31 to June 2 on Randall’s Island Park, and this year’s lineup includes Florence + The Machine, Tyler, The Creator, The Strokes, Lil Wayne, SZA, NAS, The 1975, Kacey Musgraves, Major Lazer, Brockhampton, Louis The Child, Mitski and more.. ...Read Full Story
BottleRock has just released their lineup for 2019, announcing that rockers Imagine Dragons are headlining the first night of the May 24-26 festival at the Napa Valley Expo. BottleRock will be headlined Saturday night by Pharrell Williams and Neil Young and his frequent collaborators Promise of the Real, backed by Lukas Nelson, son of country star Willie Nelson. Sunday night will close with Mumford and Sons. This year’s lineup also features two of the greatest living guitarists, Gary Clark Jr. and Carlos Santana.. ...Read Full Story
Earlier this week Pegi Young, the ex-wife of Neil Young, died at the age of 66 following a battle with cancer. Neil, her husband of 36 years prior to their divorce in 2014, shared a touching tribute on his website to his ex-wife and mother of their two children – Ben and Amber. Young posted the following poem on the Neil Young Archives site:. ...Read Full Story
Megadeth is teasing a special announcement that will be delivered on Friday, January 11 via the band’s official web site and social media. A 25-second video featuring Megadeth’s classic track “Take No Prisoners” has been uploaded to the band’s YouTube channel, leading some fans to speculate about the nature of the announcement. Back in November, Mustaine posted footage of drummer Dirk Verbeuren running through a new song, so the debut of the song on the 11th is a possibility.. ...Read Full Story
Ann Wilson has released a music video with her take on Audioslave’s 2002 track I Am The Highway. The song is off Wilson’s new solo album Immortal, which launched in September last year. Immortal also features covers of songs by artists including David Bowie, Tom Petty, Leonard Cohen, Amy Winehouse and George Michael.. ...Read Full Story
Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris recently met up with three of his old Iron Maiden bandmates for the first time in more than four decades. Harris formed the band on Christmas Day 1975, and was pictured with original vocalist Paul Mario Day along with guitarists Dave Sullivan and Terry Rance. The only missing member from the early lineup was drummer Ron ‘Rebel’ Matthews. The picture was taken by Steve ‘Loopy’ Newhouse, and both he and Day uploaded the shot to their Facebook accounts.. ...Read Full Story
All-American Rejects may be back with new music in 2019. The band have been since their 2012 full-length Kids in the Streets, but there is hope for an album thanks to a New Year’s social media posting from the group.. ...Read Full Story
Robert Plant will make a guest appearance on the upcoming album from legendary producer/musician Nile Rodgers. Nile and Robert first worked together more than 30 years ago in “The Honeydrippers,” alongside Jeff Beck and others.. ...Read Full Story
A social media post from New Year’s Eve suggests that rock legends Motley Crue have some sort of trick up their sleeve for Super Bowl Sunday. The unknown surprise — perhaps related to the upcoming film adaptation of The Dirt — will turn up the same day as the SuperBowl next month.. ...Read Full Story
On New Year’s Eve, Ozzy Osbourne hosted a special New Year’s Eve Ozzfest event at Los Angeles venue “The Forum.” . ...Read Full Story
Ex-Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm announced onstage in Schenectady, NY over the weekend that it was time to “walk away” from his solo career. . ...Read Full Story
Members of The Ghost Inside teased a previously unreleased song and hinted at their return on social media recently. . ...Read Full Story
This past November, Dave Mustaine shared a short teaser clip of new Megadeth music — and he’s been giving small updates on the band’s progress (though a targeted release date of their new album hasn’t been determined.) Now Mustaine revealed he’s taking a social media break to focus on the band’s follow-up to their 2016 album Dystopia, which brought them their first Grammy award.. ...Read Full Story
The Dave Matthews Band has donated $5 million dollars to Charlottesville, Virginia, the band’s origin. Singer-songwriter Dave Matthews announced that they will be donating $5 million to help revitalize public housing in Charlottesville, as well as bring assistance to people in need in the community there.. ...Read Full Story
Earlier this week, Axl Rose turned up in animated form on an episode of the Boomerang show New Looney Tunes, and he debuted a new song.. ...Read Full Story
Rumors have been circulating in recent weeks about Van Halen’s return in 2019 after singer David Lee Roth hinted the group might be playing Yankee Stadium in 2019. Now industry sources are saying that former bassist Michael Anthony would be agreeable to join a proposed tour. . ...Read Full Story
Bret Michaels says that Poison will return in 2020 “with some new songs.”. ...Read Full Story
Slipknot’s frontman Corey Taylor has shard a tease of his new mask for Slipknot‘s impending album, via his Instagram account. The post showed the ask he’ll be wearing on the band’s upcoming tour dates in support of their next album, due in 2019.. ...Read Full Story
Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch has given an update on Korn‘s next album, teasing that “fans are going to be pleasantly surprised”.. ...Read Full Story
Queen’s Brian May announced that he’ll release a brand new solo single titled New Horizons on January 1, 2019. The single will mark the guitarist’s first solo work since the single Why Don’t We Try Again from his 1998 album Another World, and will premiere from NASA control headquarters in Maryland at 12.02am ET (5.02am GMT) to be broadcast live.. ...Read Full Story
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The Recording Academy has announced that Black Sabbath will receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy at a ceremony in May next year. The rock icons, who played their farewell show in February 2017, will be honored along with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Sam and Dave, Dionne Warwick, Julio Iglesias, Donny Hathaway and Billy Eckstine.. ...Read Full Story
Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin last released an album a decade ago, but that’s about to change, and he says a new record will be here soon. Scantlin confirmed the news, stating, “We’re coming out with a new record and it’s really badass. We worked our butt off on it, and I can’t wait to get it out. Coming soon.” Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love and Hate, Puddle of Mudd’s last full length effort containing original material, was released in 2009. . ...Read Full Story
Paul McCartney has released a video for his song “Who Cares,” taken from latest album Egypt Station. In the six-minute clip, McCartney plays the role of Dr. Lorenz, a behavioral hypnotist and meteorologist who tries to help actress Emma Stone with personal problems relating to being bullied. The film was created in association with non-profit organization Creative Visions, who launched the #WhoCaresIDo hashtag as part of their message.. ...Read Full Story
Overkill have released a lyric video for their single, Last Man Standing, taken from the band’s upcoming album The Wings Of War, scheduled to drop on February 22.. ...Read Full Story
Def Leppard have released a video for their holiday single We All Need Christmas. Last month, the band asked fans to submit videos of themselves singing along to the song for inclusion in the video, which the band has incorporated into the video. Check out the video for “We All Need Christmas” below.. ...Read Full Story
In honor of the one-year anniversary of their self-titled album, Asking Alexandria have dropped a cool new animated video for their single, “Vultures.”. ...Read Full Story
The Cure were just inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and they’re also just weeks away from finishing their first new album in over a decade. Frontman Robert Smith said in an interview, “we’re going in about six weeks time to finish up what will be our first album in more than a decade. It’s very exciting times for us all around.”. ...Read Full Story
Just days after announcing a late February + March 2019 tour, the group In Flames has announced another short run preceding those dates. In Flames will headline, sharing stages with All That Remains and All Hail the Yeti, on a tour launching Feb. 12 in Houston and continues through March 7 in Pontiac, Mich., which will overlap the band’s other recently announced tour.. ...Read Full Story
Five Finger Death Punch and Breaking Benjamin teamed up earlier this summer to contribute their earnings towards two organizations, and have now followed up with an additional $60,000 in donations from their Fall tour.. ...Read Full Story
Alice In Chains announced that their latest album, Rainier Fog, will not become a film project. The film Black Antenna will use the 10 tracks from the disc as a backdrop for a 90-minute sci-fi epic, produced and directed by filmmaker Adam Mason. The work will be released early next year in episodes, with each one of the 10 segments soundtracked by a tune from Rainier Fog.. ...Read Full Story
Bad Religion released three new songs in 2018, but no new album. However, it looks like that will change in 2019, as the band confirmed that a new release is definitely in the works.. ...Read Full Story
Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks and the top fan vote-getter, Def Leppard will become members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, earning induction on Thursday morning. Radiohead, the Cure, Roxy Music and the Zombies will also be ushered in next spring at the 34th induction ceremony. It will be held March 29 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.. ...Read Full Story
Greta Van Fleet are planning to work on a new album for 2019. Bassist Sam Kiszka revealed the band’s 2019 plans in an interview, saying, “A lot more writing, getting some stuff recorded and start working on the next thing.” Drummer Danny Wagner added when asked if 2019 included new music, “Oh yeah, absolutely. I’ll quit if we don’t,” and frontman Josh Kiszka said, “We’ll all quit; we’re parting ways if we don’t release new music.”. ...Read Full Story
Def Leppard have topped the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame’s fan vote. Def Leppard gathered 547,647 votes – with the fan vote top five rounded out by Stevie Nicks (427,844), Todd Rundgren (365,370), The Zombies (329,052) and the Cure (264,443). All five artists will now go on a single ballot that will be included in the final voting pool. . ...Read Full Story
The Chicago Open Air Festival is the latest event to reveal its 2019 lineup, with System of a Down and Tool heading up the two-day concert event the weekend of Saturday, May 18 and Sunday, May 19. Chicago Open Air will take place at SeatGeek Stadium (formerly Toyota Park) in Bridgeview, Ill., just outside of Chicago.. ...Read Full Story
Godsmack just announced their 2019 North American headlining tour, with Volbeat serving as their supporting act. The 2019 tour will kick off in Nashville at Bridgestone Arena on April 16 and wrap up on June 11 in Quebec at the Videotron Centre. Tickets are currently scheduled to go on sale at a date to be determined, sometime this month. . ...Read Full Story
