Cheap Trick is in the throes of a monthslong North American tour, and they show no signs of stopping. The road warriors just announced new headlining dates that will keep them on the move through late October. The newly announced tour leg begins on Oct. 2 in Springfield, Missouri, and ends on Oct. 22 in Reno, […]
The Barbie movie is poised to do big numbers at the box office later this month, and it’s got a star-studded soundtrack to boot. While the track listing features plenty of pop and hip-hop stars, there are at least two rockers in the mix: Slash and Wolfgang Van Halen. The top-hatted Guns N’ Roses guitarist lends his talents to […]
Ozzy Osbourne will no longer perform at the inaugural Power Trip festival taking place in Indio, California, this fall. “As painful as this is, I’ve had to make the decision to bow out of performing on Power Trip in October,” the Prince of Darkness shared in a statement. “My original plan was to return to the stage in the […]
Billy White Jr., the artist best known for creating the cover image for Guns N’ Roses 1987 debut album Appetite for Destruction, has reportedly died. White, who was an art student in Long Beach, California in the mid-’80s, became friends with the guys in Guns N’ Roses as the band was cutting its teeth on the […]
Flea has always been known for his off-the-wall fashion sense, but he recently revealed that one of his signature items of clothing met a tragic fate when he moved into a new house. The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist played on Young MC’s 1989 song “Bust a Move” and appeared in the music video, where he wore a pair of baggy […]
Elton John thanked his fans, band and family during an emotional speech just before the last song of the final show of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour tonight in Stockholm, Sweden. “It’s the Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour show, and the last one,” he noted just before the set-closing “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.” “We’re […]
Here’s a mind-blowing thought: Even after a lifetime of single-minded preparation, one of the world’s most elite athletes comes in last place in every Olympic competition. Similarly, even the best Kiss albums must have a worst song. Sometimes the choice is obvious, sometimes it’s a matter of “least great” and sometimes it’s a race to […]
“Sometimes getting onstage is the thing that makes you realize it’s not for you,” the Darkness‘ Justin Hawkins concedes during a recent chat. He’s not speaking from experience. “I had the opposite feeling, actually,” the frontman remembers. “Our first gig was in August 2000. It was that long ago. And we were opening a night — I […]
Foreigner kicked off their farewell tour Thursday night with a hit-packed, 13-song set at Atlanta’s Ameris Bank Amphitheatre. “It was fabulous, a sold-out crowd in Atlanta for our first night – it couldn’t have gone better,” bassist Jeff Pilson tells UCR. “The show went off without a hitch. We had done a couple of days of production […]
Poison mastered the art of escapist party metal on their first two albums, but they took care to revisit their hardscrabble roots on “Fallen Angel,” released as a single on July 6, 1988. The Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, quartet — singer Bret Michaels, guitarist C.C. DeVille, drummer Rikki Rockett and bassist Bobby Dall — had graduated from hand-to-mouth hustle to […]