The Cure performed a three-hour set on Friday night in London, celebrating the release of their new album, Songs of a Lost World. Appearing at Troxy, the band played the new album in full before launching into various fan favorites and other Cure classics, plus a mini set of five songs from their 1980 album, Seventeen Seconds. […]
No one is quite sure what to make of Bob Dylan‘s recent Twitter usage – not even his own son Jakob Dylan. The elder Dylan, a notoriously private figure, has seemingly tweeted on his own accord six times in the last month or so, with no apparent rhyme or reason to the subjects. In one […]
Poison drummer Rikki Rockett will release a memoir on July 15, 2025. Ghost Notes will be a collaboration with writers Leif Eriksson and Martin Svensson. He confirmed the book during a Thursday appearance on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk. “I was working on it all year last year,” Rockett said. “I was gonna launch it at the […]
Before producer David Foster completed their transformation into pop stars, Chicago had built an early reputation as a tough jazz-rocking outfit. Peter Cetera was just one of their vocalists, rather than the honey-sweet ballad-singing frontman. He actually played bass. Robert Lamm, one of Chicago’s other prominent singer-songwriters, served as principal pianist. Foster changed all of […]
Who’s Bruce Springsteen gonna call when he needs an opening number for his 2024 Halloween show? That’s right… Ghostbusters. Springsteen opened up his Thursday night concert in Montreal with a loving, unironic take on Ray Parker Jr.’s chart-topping theme song to 1984’s second-highest grossing film. In a year that’s already been filled with surprises, it’s […]
At the height of their fame, Toto was forced to fire their lead singer — a decision that cofounder Steve Porcaro describes today as “really traumatic.” Though 1982’s Toto IV had put the band in a new stratosphere of commercial success, things were strained behind the scenes, most notably with frontman Bobby Kimball, who was in […]
Bruce Springsteen explained how he dealt with drug issues among members of the E Street Band. He said he was proud of how he and his colleagues had survived the music industry, describing its negative extremes as a “death cult.” He added that their concerts were about honoring late members Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici […]
Heart has announced the opening acts for its Royal Flush Tour 2025. The band has tapped Squeeze, Cheap Trick and Lucinda Williams as special guests for most of the shows. Last month, Heart added more concerts to their tour itinerary for next year, bringing the total number of dates for 2025 to two dozen. The concerts […]
Primus is dealing with an unexpected change in their lineup. Tim “Herb” Alexander, the band’s longtime drummer, has quit the group. His departure brings an abrupt end to the rocker’s third run with Primus. Alexander originally joined the band in 1989 before leaving in 1996. He returned when the band reformed in 2003, then left […]
Muscle of Love, the seventh and final album from the original Alice Cooper Band, received a deluxe edition reissue this week, complete with early versions and alternate mixes of all of its tracks. You can see the track listing and listen to “Teenage Lament ’74 (Acoustic Diversion)” below. Muscle of Love (Deluxe) is available in 2-LP pink vinyl […]
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