Green Day has unveiled a previously unreleased demo version of Elvis Costello‘s “Alison,” which will appear on their upcoming Nimrod 25th-anniversary box set. The pop-punk trailblazers adhere to the wistful, mellow feel of the original, employing only a clean guitar and Billie Joe Armstrong’s plaintive vocals. You can listen to the performance and see the Nimrod 25 track listing below. […]
Robbie Bachman, founding drummer of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has died at the age of 69. The rocker’s death was confirmed by his brother and former bandmate, Randy Bachman. “Another sad departure,” the frontman tweeted. “The pounding beat behind BTO, my little brother Robbie has joined Mum, Dad and brother Gary on the other side. Maybe Jeff […]
Ringo Starr has announced new tour dates for 2023. The former Beatle and his All Starr Band — which currently consists of Steve Lukather, Colin Hay, Edgar Winter, Warren Ham, Hamish Stuart and Gregg Bissonette — will launch a spring tour on May 19 in Temecula, Calif. The trek contains mostly West Coast dates, including a three-night […]
If, as usual, the death of a rock hero ignites a mad scramble to hear their music, there’s certainly no shortage of Jeff Beck material to be consumed. With a career spanning 60 years, the guitarist’s catalog boasts plenty of unique offerings. Beck’s recordings starting with the single “Dracula’s Daughter”/”Come Back Baby” with Screaming Lord Sutch and […]
U2 has officially announced Songs of Surrender, a new album featuring reinterpretations of 40 classic songs from their catalog. Songs of Surrender arrives on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. You can see the track listing below, along with a lyric video for the song “Pride (In the Name of Love).” “Music allows you to time […]
Foo Fighters have announced their first concerts of 2023. The band will perform at the Boston Calling Music Festival on May 26, the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio, on May 28 and Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn., on June 18. The appearances also mark the first time Foo Fighters will perform live since a pair […]
Few, if any, acts go into their debut album expecting it to also be their last, but that was exactly the case for the artists on the below list of 15 Famous Acts Who Released Only One Album. Various reasons led each of these acts to be one-and-done. Derek & the Dominos could have easily continued riding […]
Ozzy Osbourne will star in the upcoming BBC reality series Home to Roost, but the Black Sabbath singer admitted that returning to TV makes him “deeply nervous.” The 10-part show will focus on Osbourne and his family as they settle back into life in rural Buckinghamshire, England. Last year, Osbourne revealed that after 25 years of living in the […]
Classic rock was hardly the genre du jour in 2003, but several of its biggest names still made impressive statements, while a handful of pioneering younger bands took cues from the masters. Southern rock legends the Allman Brothers Band issued their last studio LP, Hittin’ the Note, their only album without founding guitarist Dickey Betts. Singer-songwriter Warren Zevon also […]
1998 was a year for new beginnings for many rock legends, and also one where some struggled to maintain their status. Kiss made their first new album with the original lineup since 1979’s Dynasty, continuing to capitalize on the reunion that had first begun on stage two years prior with a lucrative tour. But the credits […]