Rod Stewart may think his “days are numbered,” but that’s not keeping him off stage. He announced 12 new dates for 2025 just as a lengthy Las Vegas residency was set to end. “Vegas, I’m having too much fun for this to end so we are coming back for an encore!” Stewart said in a […]
Jay Jay French discussed Twisted Sister’s trick for preventing fans from heading to the restroom when the band played a new song live. It’s an age-old problem for those who’ve become known as “legacy acts”: Their catalog is so well-loved that crowds want to hear the hits, regardless of how much the artists want to pursue […]
Journey has apparently backed out of the U.K. and Ireland leg of their 50th-anniversary tour. These shows are now listed as canceled on Ticketmaster; their London concert no longer appears on the O2’s website. Meanwhile, ticket holders were also reportedly receiving emails today confirming that the 11-date fall trek has been called off: “Due to […]
Metallica‘s Robert Trujillo and Kirk Hammett gave Boston sports fans a treat Sunday night by leading a “Sweet Caroline” sing-along during the band’s Gillette Stadium concert. For over two decades, Neil Diamond‘s Top 5 1969 hit has been a fixture at Boston’s Fenway Park, with fans singing along with the song in the middle of the eighth […]
Chicago has announced more tour dates for later this year, scheduled for October and November. The band has already been on the road for much of this year, co-headlining the Heart & Soul Tour with Earth, Wind & Fire, which ends Sept. 7. But Chicago is slated to continue touring the U.S. through the rest of the summer into early […]
Sammy Hagar paid tribute to the retiring Aerosmith with a Beatles song on Friday night during his The Best of All Worlds Tour stop in suburban Detroit. And he had a very personal reason for that particular choice. Coming back for the encore at the Pine Knob Music Theatre, Hagar first told the crowd that, […]
Running for president of the United States of America is no small task, but it can help to have some great music behind you. For one thing, utilizing a campaign song (or a couple of them) is a way to give voters a sense of what kind of a candidate you are. Do the song’s lyrics […]
Journey tweaked their North American summer stadium tour set list on Friday, playing the Top 5 hit “Who’s Crying Now” for the first time since their trek with Def Leppard launched nearly a month ago. You can watch the performance below. The set list shakeup took place at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, where Journey’s 18-song set also included a […]
News of Aerosmith‘s retirement from touring reverberated throughout the music world, with several of their peers and acolytes quickly chiming in to pay their respects to the rock ‘n’ roll titans. The Boston legends dominated the stage for more than half a century before they officially called it quits in August 2024, scrapping the rescheduled dates of their Peace Out farewell […]
When Aerosmith walked off the stage at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York on Sept. 9, 2023, they had no idea their touring life had just come to an end. The band had only just launched their Peace Out farewell tour, a goodbye trek which started a week earlier on Sept. 2 in Philadelphia. That […]