Peter Frampton has revealed details of a debilitating health issue that is behind the timing of his newly-announced farewell tour. The guitarist was diagnosed with inclusion body myositis, a rare and incurable inflammatory condition which causes muscles to weaken slowly.. ...Read Full Story
System of a Down’s Daron Malakian has released a brand new video from Scars On Broadway, for the track “Guns Are Loaded” off the band’s latest album “Dictator.”. ...Read Full Story
The Rolling Stones have announced that they have recruited the Zac Brown Band to support them as special guests during a stop of their No Filter tour. The Zac Brown Band will be taking the stage before the Stones during the April 24th concert at the TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, with will be the Rolling Stones first show in the city in almost three decades.. ...Read Full Story
On Wednesday, Steve Stricker was introduced as the 2020 U.S. Ryder Cup captain. Stricker has been an assistant captain three times and will be leading the United States in his home state of Wisconsin at Whistling Straits.. ...Read Full Story
Ozzy Osbourne announced that he has been forced to cancel the Australia, New Zealand and Japan legs of his final world tour.. ...Read Full Story
Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson have announced the latest leg of their ‘Twins of Evil’ tour, Hell Never Dies.. ...Read Full Story
After releasing a teaser yesterday, the full trailer for the film adaptation of Motley Crue’s The Dirt has just dropped.. ...Read Full Story
Imagine Dragons will perform at the Pro Football Hall of Fame to help kick off the NFL’s 100th season. The Hall announced Tuesday that the band will headline the Concert for Legends on August 4.. ...Read Full Story
Iron Maiden have announced the next round of albums in their digipak CD The Studio Collection – Remastered series will be released on March 22nd.. ...Read Full Story
This Sunday’s Academy Awards could be a big night for Queen. The biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is up for five awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rami Malek. And now it was announced the band, with Adam Lambert, will perform during the telecast.. ...Read Full Story
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers are sharing a previously unreleased song, called “For Real.” The new track will be featured on Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers: The Best Of Everything, a posthumous compilation of four decades of hits by Petty, who passed away in 2017 just one week after finishing the band’s 40th anniversary tour.. ...Read Full Story
Paul McCartney will release a limited deluxe Egypt Station Traveller’s Edition, for release May 10 on Capitol Records. . ...Read Full Story
Def Leppard have announced plans for a second Las Vegas residency, with the band headlining at the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino beginning on August 14 through Sept. 7.. ...Read Full Story
Foo Fighters were forced to reschedule their the two-night grand opening of The Fillmore New Orleans (inside Harrah’s New Orleans casino) due to Dave Grohl’s surgery on his left arm.. ...Read Full Story
Whitesnake have previewed what will be the February 14 video release of “Shut Up & Kiss Me”, the lead single from their forthcoming album “Flesh And Blood.”. ...Read Full Story
Organizers of Record Store Day have announced that they have selected rock veterans Pearl Jam to be the ambassador for the annual event which will be taking place on April 13th.. ...Read Full Story
The Bizarre World of Frank Zappa hologram tour will include new music and former bandmates. The accompanying band will include Ray White, Mike Keneally, Scott Thunes, Robert Martin and Joe “Vaultmeister” Travers, along with guest turns by Steve Vai, Vinnie Colaiuta, Warren Cuccurullo, Ian Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock and others.. ...Read Full Story
Aerosmith have added 17 dates to Las Vegas residency, “Deuces are Wild,” at Park Theater at Park MGM, from Sept. 21 through Dec. 4. The new set of shows brings the total number of Aerosmith dates at the theater this year to 35.. ...Read Full Story
Heart have reunited after three years for a huge summer 2019 tour, featuring Joan Jett and Sheryl Crow. The 39-city Love Alive tour will begin on July 9 in St. Louis, with stops in Chicago, Houston and Atlanta before wrapping up on Sept. 9 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Brandi Carlile will also join Heart on select dates, and Elle King or Lucie Silvas will also serve as opening acts on various dates.. ...Read Full Story
Guns N’ Roses guitarist Richard Fortus said new music from the band was in the works back in December. Now the musician is also revealing a timeline for when work will start on a new GNR album.. ...Read Full Story
At last night’s Grammy Awards, the late Chris Cornell won a posthumous Grammy for Best Rock Performance for his “When Bad Does Good.” Cornell beat out fellow nominees Arctic Monkeys (“Four Out of Five”), The Fever 333 (“Made an America”), Greta Van Fleet (“Highway Tune”) and Halestorm (“Uncomfortable”).. ...Read Full Story
Live Nation has announced the details for their 2019 Ticket to Rock program, confirming tours will be coming this summer from Slipknot, Korn, Breaking Benjamin and various other top-tier rock and metal groups. . ...Read Full Story
Aerosmith will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 14, according to an announcement by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. . ...Read Full Story
Ozzy Osbourne has been admitted to hospital due to flu complications. His wife Sharon Osbourne shared an update about the singer’s health on Twitter on Wednesday.. ...Read Full Story
Electro-rock band The Prodigy have announced their first U.S. tour in over 10 years. . ...Read Full Story
Longtime Yes frontman Jon Anderson will release his first solo album since 2011, titled 1,000 Hands, due out on March 31. The album will featuring Yes bandmates Steve Howe, Alan White and the late Chris Squire. . ...Read Full Story
Shinedown spent much of last year on tour with Godsmack in support of their latest studio album “Attention, Attention.” Now, Brent Smith and company have announced a new round of summer amphitheater tour dates, beginning June 21 in The Woodlands, Texas, and running through July 27 in Ridgefield, Virginia. Badflower, Dinosaur Pile-Up and Broken Hands will open for Shinedown on the tour.. ...Read Full Story
Ghost’s Tobias Forge has revealed new album plans for 2020. After the extensive touring scheduled for 2019, Forge wants to get back in the studio by early 2020 and release Ghost’s fifth album before the year is over.. ...Read Full Story
Slash and his bandmates, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, will return to the U.S. for another leg of their “Living the Dream” tour. Slash issued his fourth solo album (and third with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators) last September. Living the Dream has already yielded the singles “Driving Rain,” “Mind Your Manners” and “My Antidote.”. ...Read Full Story
Foo Fighters have postponed a duo of shows this month due to an injury to an undisclosed member of band. The cancelled New Orleans gigs scheduled for Feb. 15 and 16 will be rescheduled to May 15 and 16. Foo Fighters released the following statement on Monday, February 4: . ...Read Full Story
The Beatles officially broke up in 1970; however there were several signs alluding to their impending end, including a harsh letter to Paul’s lawyer signed by John, George and Ringo. That letter can now be yours, for the high price of $325K.. ...Read Full Story
On Saturday, the Foo Fighters performed a special concert in Atlanta as part of the festivities leading up to the Super Bowl. The show saw special guest appearances by among others, Queen’s Roger Taylor.. ...Read Full Story
The Who have announced a July 6th show at London’s Wembley Stadium where they’ll be joined by a lineup that includes Eddie Vedder, the Kaiser Chiefs, and more to be announced.. ...Read Full Story
Rumors of a new AC/DC album have been circulating over the past year, and drummer Phil Rudd and vocalist Brian Johnson were seen together at a studio. Now it seems that Johnson has confirmed there’s a new album and he’s definitely a part of it. When asked about the rumors of him being on the new AC/DC album and he said “Yes” and that he is ” Sick of denying it”. . ...Read Full Story
Black Label Society has also announced that they will be hitting the road for the 20 Years of Sonic Brewtality Tour with two shows in each market. The tour will be launching to support the “reimaged” reissue of their 1999 debut “Sonic Brew” which will include two new bonus tracks, a full band/piano version of “Spoke In The Wheel” and an acoustic version of “Black Pearl.”. ...Read Full Story
John Mayer will be busy this summer. Following a 19-date run as part of Dead & Company, he will be launching a 27-date North American solo tour.. ...Read Full Story
Greta Van Fleet bassist Sam Kiszka revealed that the band are planning to release their second album during 2019, adding that he was certain they would “grow musically” in the process.. ...Read Full Story
Ozzy Osbourne has called off the first four U.K. dates of his European “No More Tours 2” farewell tour due to a case of the flu. The cancellation announcement came from Judas Priest, who were set to open for Ozzy on the tour, scheduled to kick-off January 30 in Dublin, Ireland.. ...Read Full Story
Tool drummer Danny Carey said that the band’s new album will be released in mid-April. At the NAMM show in Anaheim this week, Carey said, “It’s coming out in mid-April. That’s the plan anyways.” . ...Read Full Story
Blink-182 vocalist / bassist Mark Hoppus and All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth have teamed up for a new project that they call “Simple Creatures.”. ...Read Full Story
Last Sunday night, artists gathered at The Forum in Los Angeles to pay tribute to Chris Cornell. Members of Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple Of The Dog, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Jane’s Addiction, Melvins, Queens Of The Stone Age, Black Sabbath and more took to the stage to honor Cornell who died in May 2017 at the age of 52.. ...Read Full Story
Weezer just surprised fans by dropping a new covers album “The Teal Album” on Thursday, ahead of their planned release of their “Black Album” set for March 1.. ...Read Full Story
In This Moment just revealed 10 new tour dates for 2019, and they’ll be bringing along Sevendust, Light the Torch and Hyde on the newly announced May performances. . ...Read Full Story
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
