The lawsuits, the interview insults, the angry pull-quote headlines over all matters Pink Floyd — it’s been depressing to watch Roger Waters and David Gilmour, the onetime yin-yang of an all-time great rock band, constantly butt heads in public. Part of that’s the fan worship talking. Who wouldn’t prefer the fairy tale notion that all ex-bandmates […]
David Lee Roth has released another new “studio live” rendition of a classic Van Halen song, this time taking Van Halen‘s “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love” for a spin. You can hear it below. The newly released performance, which comes less than two weeks after Roth shared his live rendition of “Panama,” features Al Estrada on guitar, Ryan Wheeler […]
One of the more surprising recent classic-rock reunions finds Joe Walsh, drummer Jimmy Fox and bassist Dale Peters playing their first shows together in 16 years as the James Gang. In part, the concerts were inspired by the death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who was a lifelong fan and grew very close with […]
Richard Pryor’s now-legendary 1975 hosting stint on the brand new Saturday Night Live offered up plenty of evidence as to why NBC would never give the brilliant and volatile stand-up comedian a sketch comedy show. Then, two years later, they did anyway. The Richard Pryor Show started as The Richard Pryor Special?, a one-shot sketch and […]
John Mellencamp has announced a deluxe reissue of his classic 1985 album Scarecrow, which he’s previewing with a previously unreleased demo of his Top 10 hit “Small Town.” Scarecrow Deluxe will hit shelves on Nov. 4 as a two-CD box set containing a remastered version of the original album, alternate versions and unreleased bonus tracks, as well as a photo booklet and new […]
The Doors will finally release the previously unheard “Paris Blues” — described as the band’s “last known unissued studio recording” — as part of a new blues-themed compilation of the same name. Paris Blues is out Nov. 25 as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday event. The limited-edition set (10,000 numbered copies) will be […]
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 […]