Now it’s Blink-182 fans’ turn to experience the surprise known as “dynamic ticketing.” The freshly reunited trio announced their 2023 reunion tour last week. But when those who wanted to go logged in for presales, some discovered high prices and low success rates. Billboard reported that some tickets were being sold for $600, with even […]
The iconic photo of Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth standing under the McDonald’s arches on a winter day has been installed in the place where it was taken. Fans have become familiar with Richard Upper’s picture since it was shot during the two Van Halen members’ promotional tour of 1978. Upper had been […]
Mercury Studios has completed work on a documentary about Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett. Titled Have You Got It Yet? after an unreleased Barrett song, the film was started by longtime Floyd collaborator Storm Thorgerson, and taken over by Roddy Bogawa after Thorgerson’s death in 2013. It explores Barrett’s contributions to the band he named, […]
Like many decades-spanning film franchises, Planet of the Apes hasn’t been the most consistent. It started with a hit 1968 movie that was smart, exciting, witty and seemingly closed to further outings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over the decades, that first money-making, ground-shaking sci-fi film (an adaptation of a 1963 French novel in which […]
A dark cloud loomed over a car on the road from LAX to Pasadena in November 1976. Among those inside were David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen, and they believed they’d just missed out on their one chance of making the big time. Days earlier, the future of Van Halen had […]
AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has reflected on the 2014 departure of late guitarist Malcolm Young, saying the band’s heart “stopped beating” when he left. In April 2014, the group announced Young would be “taking a break from the band due to ill health.” At the time, few details were shared about the nature of Young’s condition, and […]
Taylor Hawkins will be featured in an upcoming documentary. It is the last filmed interview before the Foo Fighters drummer’s death in March. He’s one of several musicians to appear in Let There Be Drums!, which also includes appearances by Ringo Starr, Stewart Copeland, Jason Bonham and Chad Smith. It was made by Justin Kreutzmann, son of the Grateful […]
Actor Ralph Macchio has revealed some of the many pitches he received to revive his Karate Kid character Daniel LaRusso, including one idea that would have teamed him with Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa. In an excerpt from his new memoir Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me (shared by EW), Macchio looked back at all the ways […]
Stephen Pearcy revealed that his upcoming solo album would include previously unheard Ratt songs. The singer reported that the recording was completed for the record, which is titled Legacy, although no release date was announced. “It’s coming together, finally picked the songs, finished sequencing, next mix and mastering,” Pearcy wrote in a Facebook post, which included […]
Cindy Williams’ run on Laverne & Shirley came to a seemingly abrupt end in the fall of 1982, when she left the show two episodes into its eighth season. While viewers at home had seen Williams’ Shirley Feeney marry Walter Meeney in the eighth-season premiere (making her Shirley Feeney Meeney), it was a startling development for […]