Mick Jones of Foreigner has opened up about being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Foreigner is currently traveling North America on their farewell tour, but Jones has not performed with them since 2022. “Fans will have become very aware that for some time now, I have not been performing onstage with the band. Several years ago, I […]
Peter Frampton has revealed the impressive career achievement that “scared the shit out of” him. It was 1976 when Frampton finally broke through as a solo success on the back of his electrifying live double album, Frampton Comes Alive. During a recent appearance on The Bob Lefsetz Podcast, the guitarist recalled conversations with his manager, […]
The four Beatles members will be the subjects of a quartet of upcoming biopics telling the band’s story from each perspective. The upcoming feature films about John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were conceived by Sam Mendes, who directed American Beauty, 1917 and two James Bond films, Skyfall and Spectre. Mendes will also direct the four […]
Like many long-running bands, Van Halen‘s approach to music videos changed dramatically over the years. After releasing just a handful of low-budget lip-synced or live videos in their pre-MTV years, the group dove into the format headfirst and very successfully with more expansive and humor-laced clips for songs such as “Panama” and “Hot for Teacher.” […]
Roger Waters, a loud and consistent critic of Israel, has thoughts on Bono‘s salute to the victims of the October 7 attack on the Supernova music festival by Hamas. Waters describes Bono’s tribute, which took place during one of U2‘s residency shows at the Sphere in Las Vegas, as “disgusting” while labeling Bono “an enormous […]
Tommy Lee can twirl his drumsticks for the first time in years thanks to a recent hand surgery. The Motley Crue drummer shared about his “debilitating issues” in a Saturday Instagram post, explaining that he dealt with a condition called Dupuytren’s contracture, in which one or more fingers get stuck in a permanently flexed position. He shared one […]
Heavy metal fans will have reason to rejoin next month. The list of March 2024 new music releases includes new albums from Judas Priest and Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, as well as a key reissue from Alice Cooper. Invincible Shield is Judas Priest’s 19th LP, following 2018’s Firepower. Rob Halford said they considered making that the […]
Helix drummer Greg ‘Fritz’ Hinz has died at the age of 68, vocalist Brian Vollmer confirmed. Hinz joined the Canadian hard rock band in 1982 and remained until 1996, then returned in 2009. He’d been diagnosed with cancer in 2023 but didn’t want the news made public, his bandmate revealed. “We’ve known about this since […]
Ozzy Osbourne was the clear leader in this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fan vote after the first week of polling. As of Saturday morning, the Black Sabbath icon had secured 105,115 votes, pushing him ahead of Peter Frampton (87,374), Foreigner (86,916), Dave Matthews Band (85,276), Cher (75,642), Lenny Kravitz (65,162) and Mariah […]
In songwriting, there’s a great deal of fun to be had in the process of crafting characters to appear in songs like actors in a play. Some are entirely fictitious, others are very much real-life people. And that includes themselves. There are plenty of instances of artists casually name-checking another band or fellow musician in a song, […]