Dolly Parton has released a cover of Queen‘s “We Are the Champions,” the latest cut off her upcoming Rockstar album, due in November. You can hear the song below. “We Are the Champions” marks the fourth song released off Parton’s star-studded Rockstar, which she made in response to her 2022 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall […]
Mr. Big played the opening concert of The Big Finish farewell world tour on Sunday at the Yongging Youth Sports Park in Yongqing, China. The band’s first performance since 2018 was also their first without founding drummer Pat Torpey, who died of complications related to Parkinson’s Disease that same year. Performing in his place was Nick […]
Green Day fans who caught the band’s headlining performance at Festival d’ete de Quebec on Sunday received a special surprise, as the pop-punk stalwarts debuted a new, unreleased song called “1981.” You can see footage of the performance below. The song is a rapid-fire, two-minute blitzkrieg that harks back to ’90s Green Day albums such as Dookie, Insomniac and […]
With Dead & Company having recently wrapped their final tour, the band’s manager, Irving Azoff, has revealed why the group decided to retire from the road. “Touring is physically hard and nobody wants anybody to get really sick out there,” Azoff explained to Pollstar. “Billy (Kreutzmann) got really sick last year, and I think that […]
From its humble beginnings to its multigenerational success, Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has endured a long and winding journey. Chapman was an anthropology student at Massachusetts’ Tufts University when she recorded her first demo. Fellow student Brian Koppelman heard Chapman’s work and was impressed by her talent. He took the demo to his father, music […]
Many of rock music’s biggest names weren’t even born in 1942, when the Manhattan Project, a top-secret government initiative approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was designed to develop nuclear research during World War II. At the helm of the project was J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who became known as the “father of the atomic bomb” after several years of working […]
On July 18, 1993, thousands of fans turned out to see rock’s hottest new act, the powerful Los Angeles quartet Rage Against the Machine. What they got instead was full-frontal nudity. At the time, Rage had been on mainstream music fans’ radar for about six months. The band released its self-titled debut album in November […]
There are more than two albums’ worth of unreleased Van Halen songs waiting to be heard on YouTube. Below, we chronologically break down 25 demos and live cuts that never found their way to one of the group’s 12 studio albums. We also include information about an additional 16 tracks that have never been bootlegged. And we conclude by rounding up […]
Mammoth WVH will hit the road this fall for a North American headlining tour with support from Nita Strauss. The trek begins on Nov. 4 in Milwaukee and concludes on Dec. 9 in Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday. You can find more information on the band’s website and […]
Dead & Company played their final show on Sunday night, delivering a sprawling performance across two sets at San Francisco’s Oracle Park. The night began with “Bertha,” the opening track from the Grateful Dead‘s 1971 album Skull and Roses. From there, the group — made up of former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey […]