Art Garfunkel made a surprise appearance on the Madison Square Garden stage Friday night, joining Charlie Puth for a performance of “The Boxer.” “He learned how to make his records from me and Paul [Simon],” Garfunkel said that evening (via Billboard). “You’re my student.” And Puth heartily agreed: “I am your student. I’m not just saying […]
The Beatles wrote a lot of love songs, and at one point, according to Paul McCartney, someone had just about enough of it. “Years ago, my Auntie Lil said to me, ‘Why do you always write songs about love all the time? Can’t you ever write about a horse or the summit conference or something […]
Toto guitarist Steve Lukather has offered some clarity on his in-progress recording project with Alex Van Halen, confirming that it will feature substantial archival work from Eddie Van Halen — and none of his own playing. “I’m telling you, this is not throwaway shit,” Lukather told Guitar Player of the recordings left by the late Van Halen guitarist, who died […]
Rod Stewart has abruptly canceled a pair of Las Vegas performances scheduled for this weekend. The shows were originally supposed to take place tonight (May 29) and tomorrow night (May 30), but the plug was pulled just hours before the 81-year-old singer was scheduled to hit the stage. The concerts were part of Stewart’s Encore Shows, the latest […]
Greta Van Fleet has released a new song. “Play Your Games” marks the Michigan quartet’s first new music since their Starcatcher album was released in 2023. You can hear “Play Your Games” below. The band played New York’s Bowery Ballroom earlier this week, their first live performance since September 2024. READ MORE: Top 100 Rock […]
Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain shed some light on the band’s “grueling” farewell tour and explained why he’s looking forward to pursuing different musical ventures at its conclusion. “It’s a grind. This is a ‘one off, two on, one off, two on,’ so there’s a lot of that,” Cain said in a new episode of the Rock […]
When Tom Petty released his debut album, the self-titled Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, he was confident but not cocky. “It is not really like anything you’re going to hear,” he said to the Gainesville Sun (via thepettyarchives.com) — referred to in the article as “Tommy” — in December of 1976, the month after the album was […]
Like many of their contemporaries, Jethro Tull embraced new technology and the changing tone of music as they continued making music at the dawn of the ’80s. But as the band’s mastermind, flautist and vocalist Ian Anderson lays out in the conversation below, their evolution had begun long before that and in fact, was a […]
Down have announced plans for a late summer headlining tour of North America. The long-running metal supergroup, which features Pantera singer Phil Anselmo, Corrosion of Conformity guitarist Pepper Keenan, Crowbar guitarist Kirk Windstein, Eyehategod drummer Jimmy Bower and bassist Pat Bruders, will kick off the ‘Strap It Down’ tour on Aug. 15 in Atlanta. You […]
Paul McCartney has an idea for a posthumous collaboration with Prince. During a recent appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks of My Years, the Beatles legend shared high praise for the Purple One, specifically naming his 1986 single “Kiss” as a favorite. “He took a lot from Hendrix, but he was a great player,” McCartney […]