“What I like about this is it’s a very creative time,” Alice Cooper tells UCR. And rest assured these are creative days indeed for the king of shock rock. Cooper is just days away from launching his Too Close for Comfort tour on April 28 in Mount Pleasant, Mich., debuting a brand new stage show […]
When President Joe Biden announced his reelection bid this week, he naturally drew his share of supporters and detractors. Those in the latter camp questioned the president’s physical and mental faculties, claiming he’s not fit to occupy the highest office in United States. Those in the former camp argued that Biden is not too old […]
Roger Waters has been permitted to perform in Frankfurt after city officials attempted to have his concert there canceled on the grounds of his alleged antisemitism. He will now be allowed to perform his scheduled show at Frankfurt’s Festhelle on May 28. In an earlier statement, the city council described the Pink Floyd co-founder as “one of the world’s most well-known […]
Those in whom we invest so much of our emotional capital have the greatest capacity to disappoint us. Imagine being a Billy Joel fan in 1989 when the local DJ announced there was a new Billy Joel song he was going to play and you, the Billy Joel fan, felt the anticipation rise within you. It had […]
Micky Dolenz is not sure he has fully grasped the idea of being the last member of the Monkees hanging around after the deaths of his three bandmates, most recently Mike Nesmith at the end of 2021. He’s in the middle of his latest Micky Dolenz Celebrates the Monkees tour, during which he pays tribute to Nesmith, Davy Jones […]
Rock ‘n’ roll has always been rebellious by nature, which is why it’s no surprise that some of the genre’s biggest names have spent time behind bars. In many cases, drugs have played a role. The long list of famous musicians who’ve seen the inside of a jail cell due to drug-related arrests includes Mick […]
Cheap Trick released one of the all-time great debut albums and its terrific follow-up in a span of less than six months. The group then delivered a rock ‘n’ roll triple play with the release of Heaven Tonight in May 1978. Cheap Trick had already hit the road with Kiss, the Kinks, Queen and Be-Bop Deluxe, […]
Sammy Hagar said the double-header tour he staged with David Lee Roth in 2002 multiplied the original Van Halen singer’s income by a factor of six. The road trip saw both vocalists performing on the same stage. Billed as “Song for Song, the Heavyweight Champs of Rock and Roll,” it became better known as the “Sam and […]
Patrick Carney said the Black Keys are preparing an “epic” new album to be released in 2024. The follow-up to their 11th LP Dropout Boogie, which arrived last year, is the result of experiments that continued once the band had completed that album. “We just kept working,” Carney told NME in a new interview. “By the […]
A Beach Boys fan released a version of the band’s abandoned album Smile, using artificial intelligence software to complete the tracks. You can hear the full album below. Creator Mike LeRoy fabricated a backstory for his work before detailing how he brought it to fruition. “In the summer of 2018 I traveled to Japan,” he wrote in the video […]