16 of the most beloved holiday songs are vying for your votes in our Best Rock Christmas Songs bracket. The Kinks, the Pretenders, Bruce Springsteen and of course, both Paul McCartney and John Lennon are among the artists paired off into eight first-round battles below. Voting for round one ends Friday, Dec. 19 at 11:59PM […]
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Peter Wolf is finally making plans to get back out on the concert stage after an absence of more than a year. The former J. Geils Band frontman has revealed two dates so far, Feb. 13 at the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, Massachusetts and the Greenwich Odeum in Greenwich, Rhode Island on […]
Cheap Trick has issued a statement in response to criticism they received for performing at last week’s Kennedy Center Honors in support of Kiss. The Rockford, Illinois-based rockers paid tribute to their longtime musical compatriots and 2025 Kennedy Center honorees, covering the face-painted band’s signature hit “Rock and Roll All Nite” at the Dec. 7 ceremony. Surviving classic-era Kiss […]
Beat, the all-star collective honoring the music of ’80s King Crimson, will hit the road again this summer on an extensive European tour. The supergroup — featuring King Crimson alumni Adrian Belew and Tony Levin plus guitarist Steve Vai and Tool drummer Danny Carey — will launch its tour on June 8 in London. They’ll visit Paris, Munich, Prague, […]
Rick Springfield is starting to fill in his 2026 tour schedule. The “Jessie’s Girl” singer has eight dates lined up so far, which are all listed below. It’s reasonable to guess this is just the beginning of Springfield’s plans for the year, as he performed 61 shows in 2025 and 44 in 2024. Before hitting […]
Styx and Cheap Trick are teaming up for a week-long series of dates in the Midwest next May. Their joint tour kicks off May 16 in Little Rock and concludes a week later in Lincoln. You can see the complete schedule below. Both of the Illinois-born acts have already lined up large solo tours for […]
Foreigner and Lou Gramm have shared new dates for 2026, adding to their ongoing occasional reunion performances with the singer. The shows are set to kick off April 17 in St. Augustine, Florida and will continue through April 23 in Key West. The six new concerts featuring Gramm beef up what is already a heavy […]
Rob Reiner, the acclaimed actor and director known for helming such classic films as This Is Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally, has died at the age of 78. According to CNN, citing law enforcement, “a family member of Reiner’s went to the house today and discovered two people dead.” Around 3:30PM local time, […]
With 2025 coming to a close, that means we’ve reached the halfway point for this decade. Difficult as that may be to believe, it is true, and it technically marks six full years of music, counting from Jan. 1, 2020. In that time, we’ve seen some spectacular releases. There was the triumphant return of Robert Plant and […]
Christmas came early for Slash fans who attended the guitarist’s star-studded show in New York on Thursday, where he delivered an eclectic covers set with help from Yungblud, Bruno Mars, Eddie Vedder and more. The show, which took place at the Capitol Theatre, was reportedly a private event for the holding company Eldridge Industries. Slash, Duff McKagan, Chad […]










