Jefferson Airplane’s legacy may be intertwined with peace, love and the hippie counterculture, but the vibes were far from serene on Aug. 21, 1972, during the group’s performance at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. A crowd of roughly 20,000 fans filled the stadium that day, but the trouble started among the hundreds more who […]
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee recently sparked controversy with his post on social media. He shocked the fans when he posted a full-frontal nude photo on his social media account. The 59-year-old Motley Crue member went on to share a picture of his tattooed body sitting down on what appeared to be the edge of […]
Machine Head‘s Robb Flynn posted a tribute to his band on their 30th anniversary to his Instagram recently, and the story is nothing short of insane. The post details Machine Head‘s first-ever show at a house party that got a little out of control thanks to the hatred of a shitty landlord. Then the cops […]
Fifty years ago, the Doobie Brothers‘ Tom Johnston urged people to “Listen to the Music.” Fifteen years later, he helped them do some dirty dancing. Johnston was, at least on paper, an outlier on the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing, the hit 1987 film about Catskills summer-resort life that grossed more than $214 million at the […]
Beauty School Dropout’s new album ‘We Made Plans & God Laughed’ is out now! Beauty School Dropout have taken a big step into the world with the release of their new album ‘We Made Plans & God Laughed’. A collection of summer-ready and insanely catchy modern pop-rock bangers, it’s a record that we think you’re […]
Genocide Pact will hit the road this November with No/Más and Vomit Forth for a completely devastating tour across North America. And by “North America” I mean the eastern half of the United States and a few Canadian dates, as usual. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Anyway, get the dates below. 11/10 Baltimore, MD @ […]
Writing about his heroin addiction inadvertently led Motley Crue‘s Nikki Sixx to another musical habit. Six years after the release of the band’s best-selling 2001 memoir The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band in 2001, Sixx decided to dig a little deeper into his own story with The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life […]
A Motley Crue fan recently was involved in a mishap at Lucas Oil Stadium as part of “The Stadium Tour” with co-headliners Def Leppard and support from Poison and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. TMZ reported that the fan apparently fell from the upper level of the band’s concert in Indianapolis Tuesday night, August 16. […]
When publications feature a group with attaching tag-lines that read “believe the hype” and “the band that everyone is talking about,” there’s bound to be lovers and haters. Haters gonna hate, as they say. But where there’s smoke there’s fire, and Canada’s Spiritbox have been burning up stages across the globe to live up to […]
Sammy Hagar has released a cover of Elvis Costello‘s “Pump It Up” as the second single from his forthcoming album with the Circle. He says the Top 25 U.K. hit from 1978 “has been a Circle go-to backstage jam before shows.” Hagar first mentioned possibly recording it last year in a post that also featured […]