Don McLean has announced the U.K. & Ireland Farewell Tour for next year. The eight dates will all take place in May 2027, with a final stop at London’s Royal Albert Hall, where McLean made his U.K. debut 55 years ago. “I love these audiences,” the New York singer-songwriter said in a press release announcing the […]
If you were in a band with Ozzy Osbourne, it’s a safe assumption that you had your share of wild times. That’s certainly true for Black Sabbath guitar legend Tony Iommi. But as we learned speaking with him about his upcoming solo album, From the Dark (which will be released Oct. 23), it was Sabbath drummer […]
Footage of David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen sharing the stage for the first time in over a decade has been released online. The event, which took place on July 30, wasn’t a performance by the former Van Halen bandmates, but a conversation. The rockers were joined by artist Robert Vargas for a talk […]
Brit Floyd will return to the road in 2027 with their biggest production to date, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s legendary Animals album. The band has close to 40 concerts on tap for the first leg of their Animals 50 run, starting Feb. 23 in Hamilton, Ontario. Additional dates will follow throughout the […]
Joy Division and New Order drummer Stephen Morris has offered further insight into the ongoing feud with former bandmate Peter Hook. The origins of the discourse goes back nearly 20 years. Hook left New Order — the band he’d helped co-found in 1980 following Joy Division’s demise — in 2007 due to turmoil within the […]
John Lennon had a tragically brief solo career following his split with the Beatles. Just 10 years later, he was murdered on a New York City street by a deranged fan. Still, he scored two No. 1 singles on the Hot 100, “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night” from 1975’s Walls and Bridges and “(Just […]
September 12 is a busier-than-usual day for album anniversaries, with no less than 10 famous or noteworthy titles celebrating their birthdays on this day. Here’s a quick rundown on the highs, lows and everything in between: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here (1975) It took Pink Floyd a bit to figure out how to record […]
Ian Gillan said Ritchie Blackmore’s onstage reunion with Deep Purple proved that the band’s Spinal Tap years were behind them. The singer explained that their long years of disagreements had already been put to bed when the founding guitarist returned to play “Smoke on the Water” with his former colleagues last month. He added that […]
Alice Cooper will have a familiar face joining him for the fall run of his ‘Welcome to Our Nightmare’ Las Vegas show with illusionist Criss Angel. The performances blend Cooper’s famously theatrical concerts with Angel’s distinctive brand of magic. After a successful initial run earlier this year, the Welcome to Our Nightmare shows will return to Las Vegas for two weekends […]
If you’ve spent five minutes on social media lately, you’ve probably seen the trend of people feeding their faces into an AI generator and having it show what they would look like in the ’80s, complete with feathered mullets and laser-beam school-photo backdrops. My first thought was: “Wait, weren’t some of these people actually living […]