Depeche Mode kicked off their world tour on Thursday night at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, delivering their first U.S. concert in nearly five years. Excitement for the show was palpable inside arena, even before Depeche Mode took the stage. The performance came just a day before the release of the band’s new album, Memento Mori, the […]
Count Neil Young among those musicians who blame escalating ticket prices for ruining the concert industry. “It’s over. The old days are gone,” Young declared in a message posted to his Neil Young Archives website. “I get letters blaming me for $3,000.00 tickets for a benefit I am doing. That money does not go to […]
Geoff MacCormack first met David Bowie when they were both 8 and students in primary school. They spent several of their formative years together as music-obsessed teens with a penchant for mod fashion and American rock ‘n’ roll. At the time, MacCormack never considered that his childhood pal would go on to become one of the […]
Talking Book became a showcase for Stevie Wonder‘s burgeoning genius, which often revealed itself during the day’s darkest moments. The LP-opening “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” couldn’t have emerged from a place less like its title. “Because he does not have sight, he’s not controlled by daylight,” Talking Book bassist Scott Edwards told […]
Wolfgang Van Halen has unveiled “Another Celebration at the End of the World,” the first single from Mammoth WVH’s upcoming sophomore album Mammoth II. As he did with his band’s self-titled 2021 debut, Van Halen sings and plays every instrument on the lively new single, packing a ton of clever riffs and twists into a […]
After years of being told how awful they were, Alice Cooper decided to prove their critics right on “No More Mr. Nice Guy.” They had been hard at work striking fear in the hearts of fans with their gallows humor, androgynous aesthetic and grisly, theatrical stage shows featuring mock executions by way of hanging and electric chair. Alice Cooper parlayed their […]
Bobbi Kelly Ercoline, the woman who appeared alongside her then-boyfriend and later husband, in one of the best-known photos from Woodstock died on Saturday. According to her husband Nick Ercoline, who announced the news in a Facebook post, Bobbi died after a lengthy illness. “She lived her life well and left this world in a much better place,” […]
Tommy Shaw squashed the prospect of a Damn Yankees reunion, saying he’s too busy with Styx to reassemble the former supergroup. “I think we kind of ran that thing until the wheels fell off of it, and I’d like to just keep it like that,” Shaw told Eddie Trunk last week on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation. “It […]
Mick Slattery, the original guitarist and co-founder of Hawkwind, has died at the age of 77. The band’s vocalist and fellow founder, Dave Brock, confirmed Slattery’s passing in a post to Facebook. “We are sorry to share the sad news that our old friend, and Hawkwind founder member, Mick Slattery passed away peacefully at home […]
Former Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor will be heard on the band’s next album, according to a report. The Mirror quoted bassist John Taylor as saying that singer Simon Le Bon will travel to the cancer-stricken ex-colleague’s studio in Ibiza to record material for an LP set to arrive towards the end of this year. […]