Category Archives: Classic Rock

Elvis Costello Gets Creative With Band Lineup Following Illnesses

Elvis Costello is rolling with the punches on his 2024 joint tour with Daryl Hall. After two of his band members, Davey Faragher and Charlie Sexton, recently fell ill, Costello performed with just drummer Pete Thomas and pianist Steve Nieve. “Elvis Costello would like to announce that, as two members of the ensemble are indisposed, Mr. Costello will initially […]

Frank Zappa’s ‘Apostrophe’ Celebrates 50th Anniversary With Box

Frank Zappa‘s only Top 10 album, 1974’s Apostrophe (‘), will be released as a six-disc set for its 50th anniversary later this summer. The expanded reissue – which includes the original album remastered as well as live tracks and session rarities from the era – will be released on Sept. 13. Following the release of […]

Zombies Founder Rod Argent Retires From Touring After Stroke

Rod Argent, a founder and longtime keyboardist for the British Invasion band the Zombies, has announced his retirement from touring following a stroke. The group’s management announced in a statement that said: “We are saddened to report that Rod Argent, founder, keyboardist and primary songwriter of the Zombies, has suffered a stroke. Rod had recently returned home […]

Shelley Duvall, Star of ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 75

One of the most distinctive screen presences in the history of movies has died. Shelley Duvall, best known for a string of films she made with director Robert Altman in the 1970s, and her unforgettable performance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining passed away this week. She was 75 years old. Her longtime partner, Dan Gilroy, told The […]

Bruce Kulick Wouldn’t Have Rejoined Kiss as the Spaceman

Bruce Kulick reflected on his departure from Kiss in a new Guitar World interview and said he was fine with not being invited back into the fold in the early 2000s, as the conditions of his return would have invalidated his tenure with the band. Kulick played in Kiss from 1984 to 1996, holding down lead guitar duties […]

Sammy Hagar Adds Fifth Band Member to 2024 Van Halen Focused Tour

Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony had already assembled one hell of a band for this summer’s Best of All Worlds tour, which will celebrate their decade-long run together in Van Halen. In addition to their Circle partner Jason Bonham on drums, the duo recruited guitar wizard Joe Satriani – another former bandmate, this time from […]

REO Speedwagon and Train Kick Off Summer Tour: Set Lists, Videos

REO Speedwagon delivered on their vow to push out of their comfort zone by touring with Train when the bands played the first show of their Summer Road Trip Monday night. Kevin Cronin’s band delivered a 12-song set of classics at the Somerset Amphitheater, WI, before Train took to the stage and performed 17 numbers, […]

How Studio Executives ‘Destroyed’ the Blues Brothers Sequel

Making a sequel to the beloved 1980 movie The Blues Brothers after costar John Belushi‘s death was already going to be a difficult challenge. Director John Landis says movie executives made it impossible by interfering with the script for 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000. “I was very pissed off by what Universal did to me on […]