Axl Rose, Billy Corgan and Alanis Morissette paid tribute to the late Lisa Marie Presley on Sunday at her memorial service. Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, died on Jan. 12 at the age of 54. The public service was held at Graceland, where various family and friends were in attendance, including Austin Butler, who recently […]
David Bowie‘s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars will receive a reggae makeover on a forthcoming tribute album titled Ziggy Stardub, courtesy of the Easy Star All-Stars collective. Helmed by producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and Easy Star Records co-founder Michael Goldwasser, Ziggy Stardub will feature a wide range of guests, including Rush guitarist […]
A campaigner who’s tried three times to have Ozzy Osbourne knighted said she has good reason not to give up after receiving a letter from the U.K. government. Helen Maidiotis is behind the petition to elevate the Black Sabbath icon to the status of “Sir,” which has received nearly 35,000 signatures to date. (She’s been advocating […]
Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain has lodged a countersuit against bandmate and guitarist Neal Schon for allegedly charging over $1 million in personal expenses to the band’s shared American Express card, including a one-month $400,000 shopping spree. Schon and Cain have been embroiled in a bitter, highly publicized legal battle over the past several months, as the guitarist […]
Released on Jan. 20, 1983, Def Leppard‘s Pyromania changed the game for hard-rock acts with pop aspirations by providing a blueprint for how to make metallic music sound huge, not just loud. There were some very specific elements required to build this particular beast. It helped to have, for example, a producer (in this case, […]
James Hetfield hopes to shatter the taboos attached to discussing suicide with Metallica‘s new single. “Screaming Suicide” is the second song released from the band’s upcoming album 72 Seasons. You can watch the song’s official video below. “The intention is to communicate about the darkness we feel inside,” Hetfield said in a statement released with […]
With comedy legend Mel Brooks stubbornly refusing to slow down at the age of 96, the Hulu series sequel History of the World: Part II is set to release on March 6. A long, long time in coming, the series, sees Brooks acting as writer and executive producer alongside Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, Wanda Sykes […]
Van Conner, co-founding bassist of alternative rock band Screaming Trees, has died at 55. Conner’s brother and bandmate, Gary Lee Conner, shared the news in a social media statement. “Van Conner, bassist and songwriter of Screaming Trees, died last night of an extended illness at 55,” he wrote. “It was pneumonia that got him in […]
Robert Plant resisted most forms of reminiscence after the 1980 dissolution of Led Zeppelin. He simply wasn’t interested in looking backward following the sudden death of John Bonham. “I knew that I could never replace Led Zeppelin in the eyes of the public,” Plant told the Chicago Tribune in 1988, “And I knew, also, that I […]
Bruce Gowers, the award-winning director behind a long list of music videos, including Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” has died at the age of 82. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the director’s passing was confirmed by his family. Gowers death was reportedly due to complications from an acute respiratory infection. The English-born director got his start at […]