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, […]
The Bee Gees are still set to receive the biopic treatment, with Ridley Scott in negotiations with Paramount Pictures to direct the film, Deadline reports. The yet-untitled project, which has been in the works since 2019, has already cycled through two other prospective directors, with Kenneth Branagh initially signing on and later being replaced by John Carney. Barry […]
Paul McCartney‘s long lost bass, the famous Hofner 500/1, has finally been returned to the Beatle after being missing for over 50 years. “Following the launch of last year’s Lost Bass project, Paul’s 1961 Hofner 500/1 bass guitar, which was stolen in 1972, has been returned,” a statement on McCartney’s website reads. “The guitar has been authenticated […]
Cat Power performed an evening of Bob Dylan covers at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Wednesday, executing a mesmerizing display of artistic admiration in one of the world’s most famous venues. Power’s show, billed as Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, has now made its way to a handful American cities. The singer-songwriter first […]
Sheila E. says she felt “used” by the creative team behind the 1985 all-star charity single “We Are the World.” She says they promised her a solo verse that never materialized, in an attempt to lure Prince into participating in the project. The singer and percussionist tells her story in the new Netflix documentary The […]
Is there any more gentle genre of music than soft rock? The guitars were acoustic, their harmonies were pop and all breezes were summery. Soft rock is as inoffensive as it gets, all the better to maximize its appeal to a mainstream audience. But while the sound is placid and lyrics full of sunshine and […]