The best summer 2022 reissues included an appetizing mix of career box sets, unreleased recordings, lost albums and forgotten demos tucked away on shelves. Surveying the archival releases found in the below Reissue Roundup, it’s safe to say some of them were expected: more remastered Kinks albums celebrating silver anniversaries, another volume of jazz great Miles Davis‘ Bootleg […]
Ozzy Osbourne has released a video of his full performance from last week’s halftime show during the Los Angeles Rams’ season opener at SoFi Stadium. You can watch the footage below. Flanked by guitarists Zakk Wylde and Andrew Watt, bassist Chris Cheney (of Jane’s Addiction) and drummer Tommy Clufetos, the Prince of Darkness opened his […]
“It’s a labyrinth kind of existence in which we live,” David Bowie once mused. There are wrong turns, dead ends, curious corners and at the conclusion, hopefully, achievement. Few artists more precisely embodied this metaphor for life than Bowie, whose highly individual career sometimes falls prey to the reductive nature of retrospection, nostalgia and flat-out […]
Writers and fans alike have tried to get a grasp on David Bowie, an artist who was always in search of his next big thing, since his 2016 death. He’d be 75 today, and a new book, Bowie at 75, fittingly aims to unpack Bowie’s “extraordinary life through the lens of 75 significant career achievements and life events.” Penned by Martin Popoff, the book […]
Radio K.A.O.S. had an often-impenetrable theme, but Roger Waters – and his label – clearly thought a shift to more era-friendly sequencer- and synth-based sounds would pay chart dividends. “CBS Records is saying there are three potential hit singles on it – which would be very weird for me, since I’ve only had two hits […]
“I’m not saying we’re better than everybody else,” Scott Weiland told RIP magazine in 1994, “but we’re a completely different entity than anyone else.” It may sound like a bit of chest-puffing self-promotion — what band doesn’t want to think they’re unique? But Stone Temple Pilots needed this sort of instinct to survive. Starting with their multiplatinum […]
The Last Waltz Tour is scheduled to return this fall. The concerts celebrating the Band’s legendary 1976 farewell concert will include Warren Haynes, Jamey Johnson and Don Was, among others, this year. The trek will begin with a pair of performances on Nov. 3 and 4 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y., then continue through November. The final show will take place […]
Ozzy Osbourne worried that no one would know who he was when he guested at the Commonwealth Games finale in his hometown of Birmingham last month. His onstage reunion with Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi was a triumphant moment in the singer’s battle back from severe health issues. He’s determined to become fit enough to complete […]
Poison drummer Rikki Rockett argued that the success of the Stadium Tour with Motley Crue, Def Leppard and Joan Jett proved rock music wasn’t dead. The road trip ended on Sept. 9, with plans for similar performances to take place in other parts of the world next year. The North American run is reported to […]
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee has lashed back at a fan who complained about nudity at the band’s Stadium Tour concert in San Francisco. Lee called Juan Alvarez a “pussy” after a TV news report covered his shock over what had happened at the Oracle Park performance also featuring Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett […]