Van Halen will revisit their chart-topping 1991 album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge with a new expanded edition featuring rarities, promo videos and previously unreleased live footage. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (Expanded Edition) arrives on July 12 as a two-LP/two-CD/Blu-ray collection and is available to preorder now. Along with a remastered version of the original album, the set includes alternate mixes […]
According to a new report, the U.S. Department of Justice will take legal action in an effort to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster. The move is part of a new antitrust lawsuit the DOJ is set to file in New York. The possibility of such legal action has been building for some time, as federal regulators […]
For many bands, the prospect of replacing a lead singer can be an insurmountable hurdle. But Skid Row isn’t like most bands. The chart-topping rockers have maintained a revolving door of singers since getting their start in Toms River, New Jersey, in 1986. They launched to stardom a few years later thanks to a pair of […]
Josh Freese has marked his first anniversary in the Foo Fighters by paying tribute to the man he replaced, Taylor Hawkins. On May 21, 2023, the band announced their new drummer during a livestream event dubbed Foo Fighters: Preparing Music For Concerts. The Dave Grohl-fronted group had fun with the reveal, chatting on screen with […]
Danielle Riley Keough, granddaughter of Elvis Presley, is fighting the court-approved auction of Presley’s famous Graceland mansion in Tennessee. Keough, an actress, gained control of the mansion, as well as much of her grandfather’s estate, after the 2023 passing of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley. Keough has filed a suit alleging that the creditor behind […]
Randy Bachman hopes that recent legal actions against the current version of the Guess Who will help other key members who’ve lost control of their original groups. Bachman co-founded the band in 1966 just before Burton Cummings joined. They combined to co-write many of the Guess Who’s best-known songs, including the Top 10 hits “These […]
Since launching in 1991, Lollapalooza has established itself as one of the preeminent music festivals in the world. It was Perry Farrell, the Jane’s Addiction frontman and an influential leader in the alt rock movement, who envisioned an event where talented artists from “fringe” genres – alternative, rap, punk, industrial, electronic, pretty much anything except […]
According to Slash, Guns N’ Roses are at work on a new album and he’s involved in the process. “Guns N’ Roses are trying to make their own record,” the guitarist recently explained to the Daily Star (via NME) when asked about why people like Axl Rose or his Conspirators collaborator Myles Kennedy did not appear […]
Especially as the years go by, the value of rock artifacts from previous decades steadily rises. Things that were at one point mere tools — guitars, drum skins, notebooks for scribbling down lyrics — have now become treasured tokens worth tens of thousands of dollars. In some cases, we’re talking millions. Sometimes items are purposefully […]
Skid Row played their first of four dates with Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale on vocals on Friday at Carterville, Illinois’ Walker’s Bluff Casino Resort. You can see video from the performance below. The band stuck mostly to classics off its first two albums, Skid Row and Slave to the Grind, according to setlist.fm. If Hale was feeling nervous or uncertain […]