Exactly 51 weeks after he performed his last show as Foreigner‘s lead singer, Kelly Hansen has been announced as the new vocalist for the Dead Daisies. “When I left Foreigner after 20 great years, I told everybody I wasn’t ‘retiring’ just moving on to other things,” Hansen explained in a press release. “This project gives […]
Alice Cooper explained his decision to break up the Alice Cooper Group in 1974, and expressed regret that he hadn’t been able to take some of them with him into the next stage of his career. Cooper, guitarists Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce plus bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith had been school friends […]
Metallica dug into the ’90s for two tracks during the second show of their Las Vegas Sphere residency last night (Oct. 3). Their longstanding no-repeat vow means fans will experience a different set list each night of every weekend until the run ends on Nov. 7, after which they’ll return from Jan. 28 to March 13 next […]
AC/DC finished their Power Up tour on Friday with a performance at MetLife Stadium just outside New York City. The show was opened by Foo Fighters, during which frontman Dave Grohl reflected on seeing AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock concert film when he was still a kid. “At 11 years old, I didn’t know that rock and roll could […]
John Lennon put it this way in 1965: “You don’t know us now if you don’t know Rubber Soul.” When the Beatles released their sixth studio album on December 3 of that year, it was apparent just how evolved the Beatles had become and were still becoming as time went on. In a period of […]
Quiet Riot delivered their first concert with new singer John Torra on Friday night, performing a 14-song set. The 23-year-old joined bassist Rudy Sarzo, guitarist Alex Grossi and drummer Johnny Kelly on stage at the Cherokee Event Center, West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma. Reports suggest Torra – who replaced Jizzy Pearl – offered an impressive account […]
Nearly two and a half years after it started, AC/DC‘s ‘Power Up’ tour will end Friday night with a show at MetLife Stadium outside of New York City. Which means it’s once again time to ask the question: Will this be the last time the legendary Australian hard rock band ever performs live? Never the most […]
Metallica became the first metal band to perform at the Sphere in Las Vegas when they launched their Life Burns Faster residency on Thursday night (Oct. 1). The performance began with a furious rendition of “Battery,” the high-octane opening track from Master of Puppets. From there, Metallica rolled into “Creeping Death,” the lead single from […]
Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers is finally reunited with the long-lost son he never had the chance to know, after nearly 60 years. The St. Louis native recalled during a recent interview with KMOV that he was just 14 when the child was initially conceived. He and the mother faced the painful reality of […]
The Smashing Pumpkins kicked off their ‘Rats in a Cage’ tour with a 32-song set in Columbus, Ohio Wednesday night. You can see the complete set list and fan-shot video from the show below. The tour is a slightly belated 30th anniversary celebration of the group’s 1995 double-album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Billy […]