Tony Iommi confirmed that Black Sabbath turned down an offer to perform as part of Power Trip, taking place in October. The festival’s lineup features some of the biggest names in hard rock and heavy metal history, including Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, Metallica and Iron Maiden. In an interview with SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation, Iommi explained […]
The Cure often keeps fans guessing about what they might do musically. Now the band’s frontman Robert Smith is adding a new layer of intrigue as he wears a different T-shirt each night on the Cure’s ongoing 2023 tour. There are Easter eggs to be found each time. Sometimes, it’s as simple as a local angle: Smith wore […]
At their best, Pink Floyd was many things: whimsical psychedelic pranksters, agitprop moralizers, weirdo experimenters, space-rock bluesmen and album-length social commentators. Traveling such a broad musical expanse inevitably led to a few blind alleys. A few of their albums went further still, with songs that flew right past the warning signs only to smack into […]
A posthumous live box set from Jeff Beck, Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice titled Live in Japan 1973, Live in London 1974 will arrive on Sept. 15. The collection is available to preorder now in four-CD and four-LP configurations, with the options of black or purple vinyl. You can see the full track listing and preview the […]
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s final concert with founding guitarist Gary Rossington will screen in movie theaters across the U.S. in July. The concert film, titled The 50th Anniversary of Lynyrd Skynyrd, will celebrate the band’s enduring legacy, while also honoring Rossington, who died on March 5. “We are excited to share this special night and celebrate 50 […]
Art is just a reflection of life, and that includes love and all its incarnations. So it makes sense that artists would write and sing about the love in their lives and their sexual orientations. There’s no one way to define or categorize a song as “LGBTQ.” To do so could be counterintuitive to the very idea of […]
Elton John has criticized U.S. lawmakers, claiming that recent decisions have reversed LGBTQ progress in America. “We seem to be going backwards,” the rock legend told the Radio Times (as relayed by the Washington Post). “And that spreads. It’s like a virus that the LGBTQ+ movement is suffering.” John specifically pointed to “laws enacted in […]
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox took their popular home video series to the stage with a recent performance at the annual Isle of Wight festival. The show also doubled as a preview of the couple’s upcoming U.K. tour. The married pair performed several covers, including Billy Idol‘s “Rebel Yell” and David Bowie‘s “Heroes.” Fripp memorably played lead guitar on Bowie’s […]
If there’s one thing Aerosmith knows how to do, it’s drugs. If there’s another thing Aerosmith knows how to do, it’s writing a killer power ballad. Weepy, lovesick mega-ballads became the band’s stock-in-trade when they launched their miraculous comeback in the late ’80s, spearheaded by the No. 3 hit “Angel” from 1987’s Permanent Vacation. A slew of supersized […]
When Def Leppard’s Pyromania was released in 1983, the Sheffield band was still playing club-sized venues in the U.K. As radio and MTV leaned heavily into the album’s singles, the band’s popularity exploded, and, in turn, the venues they played expanded, too. Four decades years later, the group is looking back at its career, starting with its earliest […]