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At his May 24 gig in Philadelphia, Billy Joel invited Jason Bonham to add drums to two Led Zeppelin covers: “Whole Lotta Love” and “Good Times Bad Times.”. ...Read Full Story

Sheryl Crow has shared a video of her new collaborative track “Live Wire” which features Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples. The single is off of Crow’s forthcoming album “Threads.”. ...Read Full Story

Adam Lambert has no interest in recording new material with Queen.. ...Read Full Story

The Rolling Stones are back in the studio working on their new album. The band – consisting of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts – are working on their first record of new material since 2005’s ‘A Bigger Bang.’  A spokesperson for the band said: “the album is moving ahead but no release date as yet.” . ...Read Full Story

ZZ Top announced that they are working on a musical show titled Sharp Dressed Man that’s set to open in Las Vegas in 2020.. ...Read Full Story

The Who recently kicked off their North American Moving On! tour, and now the band has added to their upcoming schedule with a third show in Los Angeles, along with announcing the acts that will join them for the fall leg of the tour.. ...Read Full Story

Tesla latest album Shock is out and the band has just released the video for their single “Taste Like.”. ...Read Full Story

David Lee Roth is considering the possibility of a new Las Vegas residency.  The Van Halen frontman is refocusing his attention on his own projects, including a collaboration with D.J. Armin Van Buuren on his remix of the classic Van Halen track “Jump.”. ...Read Full Story

After evacuations due to high winds, the Sonic Temple Festival at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, was able to resume. Though some acts were cancelled due to the postponement, acts such as the Foo Fighters And Joan Jett and the Blackhearts were able to perform.. ...Read Full Story

Slipknot shared sad news that the percussionist M. Shawn Crahan (a.k.a. Clown)’s daughter Gabrielle died on Saturday, May 18th at the age of 22. A cause of death was not revealed for Gabrielle, who was the youngest of Crahan’s four children. The band shared the following message from Shawn on social media:. ...Read Full Story

The Melvins have announced a 10-week U.S. tour starting in the Fall. The tour kicks off September 3rd in San Diego, California, and runs all the way through a November 5th show in Las Vegas, with the dates listed below below.. ...Read Full Story

Bruce Springsteen is streaming a lyric video for “There Goes My Miracle”, the latest single from his forthcoming album, “Western Stars.” . ...Read Full Story

Former Police drummer Stewart Copeland said he recently reunited with frontman Sting to record a conversation about their love of music for a new documentary. Their two-hour conversation will appear in a BBC documentary that’s part of a project called What Is Music and Why?, scheduled to be released next year.. ...Read Full Story

The Rolling Stones have announced rescheduled dates for their “No Filter” North American tour, which was postponed after lead singer Mick Jagger required heart surgery. All of the postponed shows have been rescheduled, just two months later than originally planned.. ...Read Full Story

Greta Van Fleet have announced a series of fall US concert dates for their March of the Peaceful Army Tour in support of their debut album, “Anthem Of The Peaceful Army.”. ...Read Full Story

3 of the 4 original Black Sabbath lineup reunited to receive their Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award during the “Grammy Salute To Music Legends” awards ceremony and live tribute concert at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on May 11.. ...Read Full Story

Two new video clips released by the band Slipknot is alluding to the debut of their new masks. . ...Read Full Story

Hellyeah have just announced their first new album and tour since the death of legendary drummer Vinnie Paul. The album, Welcome Home, will be released on September 27 and a video for the title track off the album will be available May 17.. ...Read Full Story

Amy Lee, the frontwoman of the rock band Evanescence, said in a recent interview that the band are aiming to release a new album in 2020. The group formed back in 1995 and released their debut full-length album Fallen in 2003, and are set to record a follow-up to their 2011 eponymous record. . ...Read Full Story

Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain, and Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are being called to court in the legal battle with Marc Jacobs over Kurt Cobain’s iconic Nirvana logo. According to court documents, “Marc Jacobs is planning on calling all four of them as witnesses in the case.”  Legal documents also reveal Nirvana L.L.C. believes the damages by Jacobs “total in excess of $1 million.”. ...Read Full Story

The Hollywood Vampires —  a side project of Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and actor Johnny Depp — began a brief tour at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend.. ...Read Full Story

A newly-released video for the Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers track, “For Real” is taken off the late rock star’s latest collection, “The Best Of Everything.”. ...Read Full Story

The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey announced the release of a live album, The Who’s Tommy Orchestral, on June 14.. ...Read Full Story

Blink-182 have released a brand new digital single entitled “Blame It On My Youth” as they gear up to hit the road this summer with rapper Lil Wayne for a North American co-headlining tour. The outing will be kicking off on June 27th in Columbus, OH at the Nationwide Arena.. ...Read Full Story

Led Zeppelin have announced a documentary movie to mark their 50th anniversary is in post-production, The documentary will feature new interviews with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, making it the “first and only time the band have participated” in such a project.. ...Read Full Story

Incubus have announced that they will be hitting the road this fall to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their hit album “Make Yourself” with a tour across the U.S.. ...Read Full Story

Journey have announced a brief tour of the Northeast for later this year. The band will play six shows in the fall, prior to its upcoming residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.. ...Read Full Story

Deep Purple have announced dates for a fall tour of the U.S. The 7-week series is part of the band’s The Long Goodbye Tour  and will begin in Riverside, CA on September 3, with shows wrapping up in Minneapolis, MN on October 19.. ...Read Full Story

A new lineup of the classic rock band Ratt confirmed a 17-date North American tour which kicked off over the weekend, running until October. The first show took place at the Domination Festival in Mexico City, Mexico on May 4 and will wrap up at the Fronterizo Festival III in Tijuana, Mexico. In between are 14 concerts in the U.S. and another in Canada.. ...Read Full Story

Tool debuted two new songs presumably from their long-awaited fifth album during a the opening stop of their latest U.S. tour in Jacksonville, Fla., over the weekend.. ...Read Full Story

Alice In Chains are streaming a newly-released episode in their ongoing science-fiction series “Black Antenna.” Entitled “Deaf Ears Blind Eyes.” The 6th installment follows the footage of the fifth of ten episodic segments that will combine to create a 90-minute movie with each element set to a different song from the band’s latest album, “Rainier Fog.”. ...Read Full Story

Stone Temple Pilots and Rival Sons have announced that they will be teaming up later this year for a short intimate co-headlining tour across the U.S.. ...Read Full Story

Organizers have announced that Guns N’ Roses, Mumford & Sons and The Cure lead the lineup for 18th annual Austin City Limits Music Festival this fall at Zilker Park in Austin, TX.. ...Read Full Story

The Rolling Stones will release a new box set on June 7, devoted to their Rock and Roll Circus special that was filmed for the BBC in 1968, but remained unreleased until 1996.  The show contained performances by the Stones, the Who, Jethro Tull, Marianne Faithfull, Taj Mahal, Yoko Ono and a one-off supergroup of John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchell called the Dirty Mac.. ...Read Full Story

After conflicting reports this week which created confusion surrounding the upcoming Woodstock 50 festival, the festival’s promoter, Michael Lang, shed light on the situation while promising that the event will continue as planned. . ...Read Full Story

Bob Dylan has announced a new box set chronicling his 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. The 14-CD set will be released on June 7, five days before the documentary regarding the famed tour, directed by Martin Scorcese, arrives on Netflix.. ...Read Full Story

It’s official: Woodstock 50 has been cancelled. Officials with Dentsu Aegis Network, which was funding the festival, released the following statement:. ...Read Full Story

Ozzy Osbourne has now officially announced new dates for the European leg of his “No More Tours 2” farewell run after postponing them all earlier this year.. ...Read Full Story

’80s rockers Billy Idol and Bryan Adams will hit the road together for a brief co-headlining tour. The duo announced they’ll play eight shows in the Northeast over two weeks in August, starting at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford, N.H., on Aug. 1 and wrap it all up on Aug. 12 at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Va.. ...Read Full Story

Rock legend Peter Frampton has announced a new album called All Blues, composed entirely of blues covers performed by the Peter Frampton Band. . ...Read Full Story

Bruce Springsteen is streaming the lyric video for “Hello Sunshine”, the lead single from his forthcoming album, “Western Stars.” Due June 14, “Western Stars” will mark the 19th studio set from the singer.. ...Read Full Story

Sting has announced a residency at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas to launch in 2020.. ...Read Full Story

Sum 41 have released the video for their new single Out For Blood.. ...Read Full Story

Creed frontman Scott Stapp has revealed more details for his forthcoming solo album “The Space Between The Shadows.”. ...Read Full Story

Organizers have announced that the Linda Perry & Friends: A Night at the Grammy Museum gala will be taking place on Saturday, June 29th. . ...Read Full Story

Sammy Hagar And The Circle launched their Space Between US tour at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, NV.  The band opened their 19-song set with “Trust Fund Baby”, the lead single from their forthcoming album, alongside classic tunes from Montrose, Van Halen and Led Zeppelin.. ...Read Full Story

Just ahead of his fifth annual Crossroads Guitar Festival this fall, Eric Clapton has announced that he will be playing a handful of U.S. shows in September.  Clapton will be playing the limited shows in San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Phoenix, backed by Doyle Bramhall II, Paul Carrack, Nathan East, Steve Gadd, and Chris Stainton.. ...Read Full Story

Skillet and Sevendust have announced their co-headlining Victorious War Summer 2019 Tour in August and September. Pop Evil will support, while Devour the Day will open the shows. The tour kicks off on August 11 in Memphis. . ...Read Full Story

BABYMETAL have announced an upcoming single and the band’s first-ever U.S. arena headlining show.. ...Read Full Story

An email alerting agents to the postponement of Woodstock 50’s ticket on-sale has started rumors that the 100,000-person anniversary concert will be canceled. . ...Read Full Story

Legendary rock band the Grateful Dead have been immortalized in a new form: a comic book.. ...Read Full Story

A band-authorized graphic novel chronicling the creation of Rush’s A Farewell to Kings album will be released on Sept. 10. The 144-page The Making of A Farewell to Kings was created by the Fantoons animation studio with input from Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson and Kings album producer Terry Brown, who also wrote the book’s forward.  An additional project – a 70-page coloring book “packed with gorgeous Rush artwork and references from Moving Pictures to Clockwork Angels” — is set to arrive in July.. ...Read Full Story

Mastodon released their take on the Led Zeppelin classic “Stairway To Heaven” as a special Record Store Day release. The track is now streaming online, and will be officially released as a digital charity single on May 17th.. ...Read Full Story

Ben Folds and Cake have announced that they will be joining together again for a North American co-headlining tour, following up their hit trek together last summer.. ...Read Full Story

Bryan Adams announced additional fall dates in the U.S. to his ‘Shine A Light’ world tour. which will follow the previously announced dates for the tour kicking off this spring.. ...Read Full Story

James Taylor is getting ready to kick-off his first Las Vegas residency today, Wednesday April 17. The 71-year-old folk rock icon will set up shop for 12 shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. ...Read Full Story

Megadeth, Opeth and Electic Wizard have been tapped to headline this year’s Psycho Las Vegas festival at the Mandalay Bay Resort And Casino on August 16th through 18th.. ...Read Full Story

Journey announced their return to Las Vegas later this year for a new residency. The run will consist of nine shows at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace.. ...Read Full Story

Creedence Clearwater Revisited, which features CCR co-founders, Stu Cook and Doug “Cosmo” Clifford, have announced that they are retiring the group after 25 years.. ...Read Full Story