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Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Festival has released its 2020 lineup with The Black Keys, Smashing Pumpkins and The Strokes headlining.. ...Read Full Story

The Doobie Brothers have announced that they are reuniting with former singer Michael McDonald for a North American 50th anniversary tour next summer.  The tour will be the first time that this lineup of the band, McDonald, Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons and John McFee, have toured together in almost 25 years.. ...Read Full Story

The Hollywood Vampires have announced dates for a summer 2020 tour of Europe, and also released a video for the track, “I Want My Now”, off their latest album, “Rise.”. ...Read Full Story

TESLA has announced several new concerts in early 2020, kicking off a run of dates on February 14 in Pensacola, Florida and wrap things up on February 26 in Houston, Texas. They will also play three dates in late April.  The band is continuing to tour in support of “Shock”, which was released in March and is the follow-up to 2014’s “Simplicity.”. ...Read Full Story

Eddie Van Halen was released from the hospital over the weekend, this after being admitted last week suffering from intestinal issues and abdominal pains. The reaction is believed to have been caused by drugs Van Halen, 64, is taking to treat his throat cancer.. ...Read Full Story

Ozzy Osbourne is set to return to the stage for a special live television performance at the American Music Awards. Osbourne will perform his duet with Post Malone “Take What You Want” along with Travis Scott and Andrew Watt during the broadcast on November 24th at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.. ...Read Full Story

Eagles bassist Timothy B. Schmit has released a new song titled “The Good Fight” featuring Sheryl Crow.. ...Read Full Story

Ozzy Osbourne relaunches his No More Tours 2 in 2020, and he’ll be joined by special guest Marilyn Manson for the North American shows.. ...Read Full Story

Rocker Bryan Adams has just released his “Christmas EP” just in time for the holiday season. The 5-track release features Adams’ original “Joe And Mary”, a new recording of “Must Be Santa,” made famous by Bob Dylan, along with “Christmas Time,” “Reggae Christmas” and “Merry Christmas.”. ...Read Full Story

Last week, rumors of a Motley Crue, Def Leppard and Poison tour was sparked — and comments by  the manager of The Black Crowes and the gang from the Crue helped fuel the rumors with a tweet.. ...Read Full Story

Following the success of 16 sold-out shows this year during three residency runs, Robbie Williams is returning to Wynn Las Vegas’ Encore Theater for eight new dates from March 24 to April 4, 2020. . ...Read Full Story

Bret Michaels has confirmed that POISON will return next year with a “really awesome” tour.. ...Read Full Story

TOOL is currently on the road for its first North American tour in support of its No. 1-charting album “Fear Inoculum” – and now the band has announced a new round of U.S. tour dates, kicking off on January 10 in San Diego.. ...Read Full Story

UFO just wrapped the initial North American leg of their “Last Orders” tour, but the band has announced new North American tour dates for 2020. . ...Read Full Story

Kiss has postponed the launch of the Australian leg of their End of the Road tour due to band illness.. ...Read Full Story

Lynyrd Skynyrd have apologized for the technical issues at some of the movie theaters that took part in the theatrical screening of their “Last Of The Street Survivors Farewell Tour” concert film last week.. ...Read Full Story

Iron Maiden revealed some new tour dates in Australia and New Zealand, with Killswitch Engage providing direct support. Now the band have expanded those dates to include tour stops all around the world. . ...Read Full Story

Ozzy Osbourne has released his new single, “Under the Graveyard,” off his upcoming solo album, Ordinary Man. The track is Osbourne’s first new solo song in nearly 10 years; his last full-length solo effort was Scream, which came out in June 2010. . ...Read Full Story

The Allman Betts Band have confirmed the lineup for their third annual Allman Family Revival shows in celebration of Gregg Allman’s Birthday.  The Allman Family Reunion will be make stops on Dec. 8 at The Mission Ballroom in Denver, finishing up on Dec. 28 at The Beacon Theater in New York City. Led by Devon Allman and Duane Betts, the band has expanded the celebratory event from just one show in San Francisco (Dec. 7) to three shows.. ...Read Full Story

The Black Crowes are reuniting to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1990 debut album ‘Shake Your Money Maker.”  Posters advertising an upcoming reunion tour next year have begun circulating on electronic billboards in New York, showing dates for shows at New Jersey’s PNC Bank Arts Center on July 17 and New York’s Jones Beach Theater on July 18.. ...Read Full Story

My Chemical Romance revealed at the end of October that they would be reuniting for a December 20 performance at Los Angeles’ Shrine Expo Hall. Now it turns out that the Los Angeles show isn’t the only one My Chemical Romance has planned: The group has announced a handful of international tour dates for 2020. In March, the group will perform three dates in Australia (including two at the Download Festival), as well as a date at Tokyo’s Download Festival.. ...Read Full Story

Ringo Starr has announced he will hit the road for a North American spring tour with his current All Starr Band- consisting of Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Gregg Rolie, Warren Ham, Gregg Bissonette, and Hamish Stuar. ...Read Full Story

Whitesnake and Foreigner have announced dates for six shows in the spring of 2020.  The U.K. trek will feature special guests Europe, beginning in London on May 31 and making stops in Cardiff, Birmingham, Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester.. ...Read Full Story

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has revealed he will release his memoir, “Confess”, next year. Written by Halford along with Ian Gittins (who is the co-writer of the New York Times bestseller, “The Heroin Diaries” by Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue), Halford’s project will arrive in stores on October 20, 2020.. ...Read Full Story

Hollywood Undead have released a music video for their new single, “Already Dead,” from their forthcoming album.  This is the first new music from the band since their 2018 EP “Psalms.”. ...Read Full Story

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has announced that he will be releasing a new solo album, entitled “Cotillions”, on November 22nd — and he will release the album under his birth name, William Patrick Corgan.. ...Read Full Story

Axl Rose suffered a nasty fall on stage during Guns N’ Roses concert at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.. ...Read Full Story

Bon Jovi have released a new song entitled “Unbroken” that will be featured in the forthcoming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder focused documentary To Be of Service.. ...Read Full Story

Former Journey frontman Steve Perry has released his own version of the Christmas classic “Silver Bells.”. ...Read Full Story

Rage Against the Machine announced on Twitter that they are reuniting for performances. The band shared five dates on their social media: El Paso, Texas, on March 26; Las Cruces, N.M., on March 28; Phoenix, Ariz., on March 30; and Indio, Calif., on April 10 and 17. Additionally, the Indio dates coincide with the Coachella music festival, making it likely Rage Against the Machine is performing.. ...Read Full Story

Papa Roach and Hollywood Undead are hitting the road for a co-headlining tour for 2020, traveling across Europe together beginning on February 16th, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. The band will be performing tracks from their latest album, Who Do You Trust?. ...Read Full Story

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine is selling some of his iconic gear on Reverb. A massive amount of guitars, amps, recording equipment and drums used by Mustaine over the course of his career will go on sale beginning Monday, November 4th in the Official Dave Mustaine Reverb Shop (linked here).  In the lot are 20 of Mustaine’s signature guitars, including a 1987 Dean Dave Mustaine Signature Holy Grail (No. 1 of 33), a Signature Zero Korina (No. 10 of 50) and a Signature Stealth VMNT used extensively on tour.. ...Read Full Story

Ozzy Osbourne’s new album will be released in January, his wife and manager Sharon Osbourne revealed.  Osbourne recently said he’d been inspired to return to the studio after working with Post Malone on the rapper’s song “Take What You Want,” recorded while Ozzy spent time off the road recovering from health issues that forced the postponement of his farewell tour.. ...Read Full Story

Slipknot have begun work on a video for their track Nero Forte, off of the We Are Not Your Kind album. Percussionist Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan posted a video from the set to tell fans that the band would be “trying something new” on the video shoot.. ...Read Full Story

Korn and Breaking Benjamin have announced a co-headling tour for 2020. Special guests BONES UK will also join the tour on all dates.. ...Read Full Story

Kurt Cobain’s unwashed cardigan sweater from the recording of Nirvana’s famous MTV Unplugged performance went up for auction over the weekend. The sweater previously sold for $137,000, but this time the cardigan went for more than twice that amount, selling for $334,000. The sweater was sold by Julien’s Auctions as part of their Icons & Idols: Rock ‘N’ Roll event at the Hard Rock Cafe New York. Among the 700 items sold were belongings of The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Janis Joplin.. ...Read Full Story

Former Rush frontman Geddy Lee has announced dates during November in the U.S., for a series in-store signing events in support of his latest project, “Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass.” Lee’s week-long series will begin in Seattle, WA on November 1 before the rocker heads to Denver, Phoenix and Austin for more in-store events.. ...Read Full Story

The Doobie Brothers were recently nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and now the band will launch an eight-show residency in Las Vegas next year at the Venetian. . ...Read Full Story

Phil Campbell has released a lyric video for his new single Straight Up. The track includes vocals from Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford and featured on Campbell’s solo album Old Lions Still Roar.  You can take a look at the lyric video here . ...Read Full Story

Just hours before his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour concert in Indianapolis on Saturday, 72-year-old Elton John announced he will be postponing the show due to illness.. ...Read Full Story

The Eagles are expanding their “Hotel California” tour, in which they play their iconic album in its entirety. . ...Read Full Story

Bruce Springsteen surprised moviegoers by introducing his new concert film, “Western Stars,” in his hometown of New Jersey. Springsteen introduced two showings of Western Stars at the AMC Loews Freehold Metroplex Cinema in Freehold, which Springsteen is a native of.. ...Read Full Story

Bring Me The Horizon have released a music video for their track “in the dark” which stars actor Forest Whitaker.. ...Read Full Story

A reinvented version of the Who’s classic rock opera Tommy will return to Broadway in 2021. . ...Read Full Story

After initially being left off the roster of musicians who would be included should the legendary hard rock group Motörhead make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, drummer Mikkey Dee and guitarist Phil Campbell have been added to the list after fan outrage over their exclusion.. ...Read Full Story

Longtime Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali has been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. The musician said he is “on the mend” in a recent update, after a series of treatments.. ...Read Full Story

Toto concluded their current 40th anniversary tour on Sunday, Oct 20th in Philadelphia and Steve Lukather says that the show will mark the end of the group’s current lineup.. ...Read Full Story

Marilyn Manson has released the dark new video for his cover of the iconic American folk song, God’s Gonna Cut You Down.. ...Read Full Story

Iron Maiden have announced details for the fourth and final batch of releases in their album reissue series. A continuation of the band’s remastered Studio Collection project  will present the track listing matching the original UK releases using audio taken from the same remasters as the 2015 hi-res digital releases.. ...Read Full Story

Just a few days ago when Steel Panther made a joke about Vince Neil in an interview, Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx came to the defense of his singer, calling the glam metal jokesters a “wanna be band” and “backstabbers.” Now, Panther drummer Stix Zadinia has fired back at Sixx.. ...Read Full Story

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has announced a new album titled Get the Money, featuring many famous friends and collaborators.. ...Read Full Story

Guns N’ Roses’s Sweet Child O’ Mine has reached over a billion views on YouTube, making not only GN’R’s second billion-view video, but also the first music video of the 1980s to reach a billion views on YouTube. According to official YouTube data, Sweet Child O’ Mine just beat out Aha’s Take On Me, which has 943 million views. The Sweet Child video has been watched approximately 590K times a day in 2019, thanks in part to GN’R’s 6.7 million subscribers on their YouTube artist page. This comes after the band’s song November Rain got over a billion views on YouTube and became the only music video from the ’90s to be in the Club.. ...Read Full Story

The 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees this year covers R&B, rap, hard rock, new wave, ‘90s alt rock, classic rock and electronic music. . ...Read Full Story

Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell underwent spinal surgery earlier this month, as he continues to receive treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. When asked about his healthy, Campbell responded, “My back is the issue at the moment. I did spine surgery last Wednesday, so I’m sitting here with an ice pack and a back brace on. So I’m a little concerned about that. It’s gonna be difficult for me to do these next couple of weeks’ worth of shows. I’m gonna be moving very slowly. But I know that I can get on stage and I can play guitar and I can sing, so that’s all I need to do. It’ll be the travel in between that’s gonna be extremely uncomfortable.”. ...Read Full Story

The title track from TOOL’s chart-topping album has taken the top spot on this week’s Mediabase active rock radio chart.. ...Read Full Story

According to reports, rocker Eddie Van Halen has been flying to Germany in recent years to receive radiation treatments for throat cancer.  Van Halen was first diagnosed with the health issue in 2000, and it even spread into his esophagus. Van Halen underwent surgery to remove a third of his tongue and he was declared cancer-free in 2002. However sources say that Van Halen has flown to Germany for the past five years to get additional treatments that included doctors scraping cancer cells directly out of his throat, which has worked to keep the disease in check.. ...Read Full Story

Neil Young will premiere his new documentary, “Mountaintop”, in North American theaters on October 22nd. The project revolves around the making of Young’s latest album, “Colorado” and is billed as “a raw and extremely unfiltered look at the process of Neil Young with Crazy Horse making their 1st album in 7 years. Witness the laughter, tensions, crusty attitudes & love of a rock & roll band that’s been together for 50 years as they share their passion, first and foremost… for the music.”. ...Read Full Story

The Foo Fighters cover The Pyschedelic Furs and The B-52’s on their newly-released EP, “01020225.” This latest project delivers the band’s version of “Sister Europe”, a track from The Psychedelic Furs’ 1980 self-titled debut, and a live recording of The B52’s classic, “Planet Claire”, from a Halloween 2002 show at the Supper Club in New York City that features the group’s frontman Fred Schneider.. ...Read Full Story

Liz Phair announced last week that a new album will be coming sometime in Spring 2020, her first new project since 2010’s Funstyle. As a teaser, Phair dropped a new single, “Good Side,” which is related to her recent autobiography, Horror Stories, and “captures the optimism and acceptance I feel even in the face of disappointments.”. ...Read Full Story

Record Store Day will again hold a “spin-off” event this year on Black Friday, November 29th.  . ...Read Full Story